Rep. Peter King Sent Bloody Pig's Foot

...and rambling note
Posted Apr 4, 2011 5:10 PM CDT
Rep. Peter King Sent Bloody Pig's Foot
US Republican Representative Peter King of New York, Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, uses his gavel to begin the first in a series of hearings on radicalization.   (Getty Images)

It's the modern-day version of the horse head in the bed: Rep. Peter King, he of the infamous Muslim radicalization hearings, was sent a bloody pig's foot, reports Luke Russert for MSNBC. It was accompanied by a note full of anti-Semitic language and a reference to King's controversial hearings. The foot never actually made it to King's office; it was intercepted when it was scanned for explosives.

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