Whatcha say now, Virgil Goode?
You remember Virgil Goode, the knuckledragging Congressman from Virginia who objected to incoming Representative Keith Ellison, a Muslim, using a Koran in his swearing-in ceremony?
Wonder what he has to say about this?
But It’s Thomas Jefferson’s Koran!
Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, found himself under attack last month when he announced he’d take his oath of office on the Koran – especially from Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode, who called it a threat to American values.
Yet the holy book at tomorrow’s ceremony has an unassailably all-American provenance. We’ve learned that the new congressman – in a savvy bit of political symbolism – will hold the personal copy once owned by Thomas Jefferson.</i>
Ha. Game, set, match, Ellison.
