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Mike Huckabee Runs to Bryan Fischer to Hold Hands
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The tale of two bigots...
The other day, we saw Morning Joe (Scarborough) condemning Mike Huckabee’s birtherism as hate speech. You know the old saying that it is adversity that shows the true character of a person – how they behave when the chips are down. So how did Huckabee behave in the face of the lashing his words caused? What was his reaction? Why, he went crying for consolation to a man whose ill-thought words have ignited a few firestorms of their own: the King of Bigots, Bryan Fischer of the hate group known as the American Family Association (AFA).
Yes, he went running to the man who thinks we haven’t done a thorough enough job of exterminating the Native Americans. After all, it takes a bigot to truly understand another bigot, and these two are a match made in heaven, if you’ll forgive the expression. And they have something in common: they both want to exterminate reason and common sense, not to mention engage in a genocide of facts along the way.
Huckabee was supposed to be promoting his new book Simple Government: Twelve Things We Really Need from Washington (and a Trillion That We Don’t), which will be released on George Washington’s birthday, February 22nd, but he spent most of the interview attacking his critics for claiming that President Obama grew up in Kenya.
Try to forget for a moment the fact that Huckabee’s choice of venue is certain proof of where his heart lay, and listen if you can to his tortured whining. Huckabee said he misspoke (I think Republicans have forced us to revise the definition of that word) but when Fischer asserted that Obama’s childhood in Kenya instilled some “fundamentally anti-American ideas” in him, Huckabee was all over it:
Huckabee: And it’s really an indication of just how pathetic some of these folks are who claim to be journalists and reporters and have failed to do a decent job. You know, I admitted that I misspoke on that, but I corrected it. But what I have never done is taken to position that Obama was born in Kenya or Indonesia or anywhere other than Hawaii where he claims to have been born. Frankly Bryan, that is not a popular position with conservatives but it is the position I have consistently taken and I just am very amazed at the firestorm this has caused, especially in light of the fact that the talk show host himself has said there is nothing to it.
Fischer: Well Governor, what got lost in all the shuffle was the legitimate point that you were making which is that we may have a president who has some fundamentally anti-American ideas that may be rooted in a childhood where he had a father who was virulently anti-colonial, hated the British – might have something to do with the President returning the bust of Winston Churchill back to England. You know, I was struck by the fact that when he made his tour to Indonesia, he made a point of going to an Indonesian memorial that celebrated the victory of Indonesians over British troops – again, part of that anti-colonial thing. And so I’d like you to comment on that; you seem to think that there is some validity to the fact that there may be some fundamental anti-Americanism in this president.
Huckabee: Well, that’s exactly the point that I make in the book and I don’t know why these reporters – maybe they can’t read, I guess that’s part of it because it’s clearly spelled out and I’m quoting a British newspaper who really were expressing the outrage of the Brits over that bust being returned and the point was that they felt like that due to Obama’s father and grandfather it could be that his version and view of the Mau Mau Revolution was very different than most of the people who perhaps would grow up in the United States. And I have said many times, publicly, that I do think he has a different worldview and I think it is, in part, molded out of a very different experience. Most of us grew up going to Boy Scout meetings and, you know, our communities were filled with Rotary Clubs, not madrassas.
Yes, I’m sure it’s all the fault of the reporters, Mike. And seriously, the person who has a different worldview is you. You grew up in some fundamentalist la-la land believing that the United States used to be a Christian theocracy founded by liberals like Thomas Jefferson (who wrote a Bible with all the miracles taken out because he thought miracles were outrageous lies) and James Madison, who believed in freedom of religion. The people who stick out as “not like us” are people like you, Mike and Bryan.
Oh, and before Huckabee leaves, he admits he hasn’t made a decision about running yet because FOX News suspended both Rick Santorum and New Gingrich while they decide and that he doesn’t want to lose his free platform and paycheck as well (he’s been accepting Murdoch’s paychecks since 2008).
For those of you with strong stomachs, here is the entire interview:
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11 Responses to Mike Huckabee Runs to Bryan Fischer to Hold Hands
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Reynardine
Mar. 3rd, 2011 at 8:10 am
Yes, and thanks to the Snyder ruling, they can say anything with premeditation and malice aforethought, can’t they, and get away with it?… Well, let’s try this one on for size: Mike Huckabee picks his nose and pastes the buggers to the wall until they’re good and ripe, and then he invites Mr. Fischer over for lunch. After all, since they’ve made public spectacles (whoops) figures of themselves, that’s protected speech, too.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Mar. 3rd, 2011 at 8:54 am
And just as likely to be true, as are the rumors of Glenn Beck’s rape and murder of a girl back in 1990 or whenever. You just never know in this day and age when rumors share the same ground as facts.
Sarah Jones
Mar. 3rd, 2011 at 9:58 am
He can’t prove he didn’t and you know, he doesn’t love America like we do since he grew up in that kkk area. He doesn’t understand America like we do. I’m not sure he loves liberty like we do. Plus he has that chalkboard.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Mar. 3rd, 2011 at 11:44 am
You said it *whisper* he’s not one of us
Shiva (Moderator)
Mar. 3rd, 2011 at 9:10 am
president Obama was 10 years old when he left Indonesia. I seriously doubt that he came away a British hating person. And even if he did his later college years would’ve dispelled all of that.
but the Mike Huckabee / Bryan Fisher routine is a bit sad. I would like to ask myself if I think that Mike Huckabee doesn’t know about Fisher’s past but I know that he does. And Huckabee’s statements about Obama’sg rowing up with madrassas instead of Boy Scouts is just plain stupid.
and so begins the path of Mike Huckabee. Former Christian and now politician who is making poor choices. Who is now giving his opponents ammunition against him.
Sally
Mar. 3rd, 2011 at 9:32 am
Well, that was an interesting assertion about the Boy Scouts, since we all know that the ‘hood is just packed full of those patriotic scout leaders. In other words, Obama can’t be American because he grew up without the ‘benefit’ of the mind-altering Boy Scouts. Huckabee is about as subtle as Palin. Why not just come out and say you hate blacks, Mike? Then when you are asked about it, you can say you mis-spoke and meant to say, “well, you know, I didn’t say I hated blacks, but the President appears to hate whites.” To quote another GOP liar, “WTF.”
Anne
Mar. 3rd, 2011 at 10:01 am
The whole phony meme is that the president is not a “main-stream, real ‘Merikan” because of his name, his father’s place of birth, and the alleged Muslim influence in his life. Anyone who knows the president’s record knows that he only lived in Indonesia 4 years during his childhood after which he returned to Hawaii to live with his Caucasian maternal grandparents. His father left the family when he was 2, and he only saw him one other time years later when he was 10. Mike Huckabee’s behavior is extremely disgraceful and unprofessional. I believe he is actively pandering, but I also believe that at some level, he actually believes some of the nonsense he is spewing. He and Fischer are cut from the same worthless cloth, which is why he is “running” to him. The more most of these potential Republican presidential candidates expose themselves, the more unappealing they are.
janicket
Mar. 3rd, 2011 at 10:22 am
That whole Kenya riff was astonishing. Even Huckleberry can’t be that jaw-droppingly stupid, can he?
No, he can’t, and here’s the key nugget of the poison he spewed:
“their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different than ours”
Look what that does: Brands Obama as not-us, foreign, alien, a devotee of violent uprisings against the established order, a black revolutionary who approves of slaughtering white folks.
That’s not a dog whistle; it’s a Cunard Liner foghorn.
Shiva (Moderator)
Mar. 3rd, 2011 at 10:37 am
Amen
Eykis
Mar. 3rd, 2011 at 11:49 am
As disgusting as I have found HucktheHick to be for many years, I am wondering if this is Huck’s way out of running for POTUS? This way, he can keep his gazillion dollar job at Faux Noise, live in his new mansion in Florida and be another “GOP victim” of the lamestream media – it is plausible if you look at it from a different angle. Sickening, the lies and hate the Rethugs get away with with zero repercussions.