Over the weekend, Congressman Steve King (R-IA) hosted the Iowa Freedom Summit, which featured several potential Republican presidential candidates and on Sunday's ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Cokie Roberts, correspondent for NPR, eagerly took a shot at the gathering of influential conservatives.

Speaking during the show’s panel discussion, Roberts slammed the GOP event and insisted that “Republicans should stay out of Iowa altogether. What happens to them is that they get pushed so far to the right in those venues that it gives them a terrible time in the general election.”

Roberts continued to hit the GOPers who attended the Iowa event, and rather than focus on the impressive list of Republicans speaking there, the NPR correspondent focused on the liberal media’s obsession with Steve King “who hosted this, is absolutely toxic in the Hispanic community. And if the Republicans want to get that vote, they shouldn't be showing up at a Steve King event.”

Rather than recognize that Iowa plays a key role in the GOP's presidential nominating process, Cokie Roberts seemed more concerned with playing up how Steve King will give "them a terrible time in the general election."

For his part, Bill Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine, pushed back at Roberts and maintained that “looking at the Iowa event, it cheered me up. If you look at the Republicans in Congress, you get a little depressed honestly, sometimes. But there are a lot of good young candidates there. You know, there are governors like Scott Walker and Bobby Jindal who you talked with.”

Cokie Roberts’ disdain towards the base of the Republican Party is nothing new as she frequently bashes conservatives, specifically the Tea Party wing of the GOP. In September of 2013 Roberts claimed that “some of this Tea Party anger is racist and that having a non-black person on the ticket will diffuse it to some degree.” More recently, on December 1, 2014, the NPR correspondent fantasized about how the GOP-controlled Congress could shut down the government.

See relevant transcript below.