Apparently he is this dumb.
Via Grabien:
HOST: Meanwhile, we are seeing a battle in Kobani, seeing Baghdad being surrounded, seeing threats on the green zone in Baghdad by isis. What do you think we as a government should be doing and are we doing enough?
RANGEL: Well, one thing, I don’t see where that’s a threat to our national security.
HOST: ISIS in Syria and Iraq?
RANGEL: No, I don’t see it as a threat to our national — this is a cancer in this part of the world and it is true that America and probably Europe — not with standing that, it appears as though there could be overall a threat, not directly to us.