When I heard this story on the evening news I had to admit that I was shocked but not the least bit surprised. After all, Faux News experts and Republican politicians prefer what they want to believe over the history, the science, and the data. This guy also polls high in Republican Presidential Straw Polls and Mike Huckabee thinks President Obama grew up in Keyna. He said so on the radio yesterday. It’s yet another Republican birther conspiracy show.
During a radio appearance yesterday, Mike Huckabee repeatedly falsely claimed that President Obama grew up in Kenya. After questioning Obama’s purported secrecy about the birth certificate, radio host Steve Malzberg asked Huckabee if “we deserve to know more about this man.” Huckabee responded, “I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough.”
Speaking on WOR’s The Steve Malzberg Show, Huckabee — a Fox News host and potential presidential candidate — said that “one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example, very different than the average American … his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different than ours because he probably grew up hearing that the British are a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather.”
Frankly, this is embarrassing in so many ways that it’s hard to pick just one. The guy’s on Fox News all the time as some
kind of expert. He’s held political office and is thought to have presidential aspirations. Would you want to support any one that hasn’t even done his opposition home work enough to know something as simple as the major stump speech of a coulda been and could be political opponent?
Well, that’s just sad.
You can treat this as an open thread because I don’t know how many ways we can call this guy a dim bulb.
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39 responses to “Another Fox News Expert in Action!”
Mike Huckabee lost any respect he could get with his ‘I am a preacher’, and I learned, he is a HEARTLESS PREACHER! So, apparently he doesn’t read and can’t get his stories for the interview straight. I guess he is on the ‘Death Penalty for Women who miscarry’ too hate wagon.
Every time Huckabee opens his mouth something nonsensical tends to fly out. He probably would be jobless if Fox didn’t believe in higher minor republican celebrities to grab solid market segments. And he gets away with saying bat sh!t crazy things all the times!
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A Newt, a HUCK, a goats tongue…some political three day old soup.
A newt? She turned you into a newt?
I got better….
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Doesn’t he also believe that the earth is only 10,000 years old, and it’s flat?
Crickey, a FLAT EARTH…gosh, won’t we fly off the end???
No, Minkoff Minx, that would be silly.
He sensibly believes that the earth is 6,000 years old, and that fossils are a test of our faith put there by God.
Also, dinosaurs and humans co-existed. There was a T-Rex on the ark. Really!
If this is what the GOP is trotting out, then they are lying down for Obama….again.
Obama never knew his father–only met him once, and as I don’t think he went to Kenya as a child. All he ever did during the campaign was talk about his life story.
Let’s face it, these people don’t care about facts. Everything for them is “faith-based.” And ironically, Obama constantly enables them.
OT: Check this out…
Darrell Issa fires press secretary Kurt Bardella in New York Times e-mail flap – Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan – POLITICO.com
Yea, right of course, but no need to bring out a hearing on the actions of the committee who brings on hearings. Sheesh, and to think Ken Star spent years examining Monica’s dress and I recall seeing some very large panties on the news, yet NONE of these GOP EXAMINERS can or won’t look into the Missing 2.3 Trillion from the Pentagon “In One year alone”.
2.3 TRillion $$ of the TAXPAYER’s MONEY IS MISSING
It is the most amazing thing that these people make the alternative, WHICH IS OBUMBLES, HORRIBLE HORRIBLE OBUMBLES, actually seem like a plausable alternative.
We are so f_*^d…..
Asshats.
Hillary 2012
I heard the radio statement earlier today [which, of course, Huckabee is backtracking on–it was all a silly mistake]. I don’t know who these people think they’re kidding. This ties into the Dinesh D’Souza theory that the ‘Dreams of My Father’ is clear evidence that Obama [who I don’t like and did not vote for] has some tribal resentment against colonialism and is playing out his father’s deep-seated, radical, Marxist wet dream. Gingrich [who is touted as an intellectual by the Right] has hopped on the train. And, of course Glenn Beck was jumping with joy that he had a book to underscore his own ignorance and bigotry.
These people are wearisome to the extreme.
Back Tracking he is now defending Michelle Obama’s exercise program, not that she needs help from him… Essentially he is bailing water fast, as more and more people are seeing he is a MEAN Ole Preacher that wants people to die with pre-existing conditions…where is the love???
That squealing huckberry bulb is at it again, somebody ought to give him 20 milligrams and help him out.
There is a disgusting rant on No Quarter, I won’t even link to of course, but it is a perfect example of just how ignorant these anti-union people really are.
One of the reasons I left there a looong time ago. That and a poster there who used to be at TC kind of suggested I leave when I commented once. I was happy to so, but then I razzed her when she dared show up at John Smart’s site.
They’re terrible there. They complain people think they’re racist WHILE saying overtly racist things too. I don’t think the moderate any comments over there. Some of those people seem like they’d be more comfortable over on Glenn Beck’s site with the rest of the crazy paranoids. The have a few front pagers that should’ve left the building with Elvis too. It’s like a miniBeck site these days.
You’re a better person than I am, Fredster. I was a fairly regular poster at NQ until recently. I finally gave up.
My browser is no longer compatible on the site and my heart and mind are definitely not compatible to what I read there. Often it’s not the essays [although the majority of writers have now made a sharp, vicious right turn] but the posting comments have become more and more contemptible.
Guess I should have left the first time I was called a ‘dirty little pig’ for calling someone on the carpet over an outrageous comment.
Live and learn!
As far as I can tell most of those people are just angry. PERIOD.
Just read the NQ rant. Scott Walker is being heralded as a hero; he’s the man! And, of course, anyone with a union card is spawn of the Devil.
This is just more propaganda to raise the hackles. The comments are as predictable as they are sad. As I’ve said before, it’s not as if the unions are blameless, particularly union leadership that is too often out-of-step with its own membership. But to cheer and thump the chest over losing collective bargaining rights does not make sense because it will ultimately damage everyone. To take away rights from one group, takes away rights from all. And frankly, I’m disgusted by the utter lack of respect for what unions have contributed to this country, things we take for granted–the 40-hour work week, safe working conditions, child labor laws [now being declared unConstitutional] etc., etc., etc. Revisionist history would have us believe that the Age of the Robber Barons never existed and therefore could never return. Anything ‘progressive’ in nature, improving the lives and welfare of our citizenry is therefore a nefarious plot against America.
Anyone with a small modicum of sense can see how stupid that truly is. This is definitely a cut off your nose to spite your face moment. Scott Walker a hero? What a pathetic statement that is. Because it tells me we have no idea what a hero would really look like.
I think a lot of the people over there are just angry period. They’re like a herd of angry bulls over there.
NYTimes: The old Huckabee: “It hardly seems Americans should truly feel threatened by people who pluck chickens, pick tomatoes, make beds, wash dishes or mow lawns. The best solution to the problem … pay a reasonable fine and put them on a path to citizenship.” (From Hope to Higher Ground)
The new “I might run for president if someone will give me the money Huck” : NY Times: “In ‘A Simple Government,’ Huckabee laces into Democrats for suggesting that illegals ‘pay a fine and back taxes’ and then be put on a path to legal citizenship. That’s ‘amnesty!’”.
I don’t think he has a prayer in being the GOP nominee but he certainly is giving it a half-hearted try.
all you need to know about huckabee …
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/06/28/100628fa_fact_levy#ixzz1FU0vRgMT
More Huckabee telltales…
I don’t know why people waste time worrying about Sarah Palin, whose prospects for winning a general election aren’t very good and have not improved over a few years. Huckabee has a trail of creepiness that goes way back, yet the left treats him like the folksy uncle we kindly disagree with. No. He’s not folksy, he’s not kindly. He’s a snake in plain view.
I think the media likes to toy with them like cats and they smart enough mice to know they can get cheese occasionally. I don’t think either of them will ever hold office again.
That’s the media, though, not the left. Forget Palin since she’s a reality show star anyway. Compare the way the left rages at Hillary to the way they rage at Huckabee. Totally disproportionate and odd.
Whatever his chances are, a President Huckabee wouldn’t be funny or charming, even if Colbert were his VP.
Well, this is interesting:
more info at politico
He switched parties. I’m not sure he’ll come out alive when he hits the red meat republicans in the middle of the country.
What a hoot, the ‘techie’ gals are about to take off. 🙂
I got nothin’ when I clicked on the link. 🙁
Obama’s background is troubling, to say the least. His personality and total lack of empathy is even more so. Of course, I’m not crazy about a former preacher being the president either.
Huck Pack has issued a lame statement. He calls it a “slip of the tongue” despite he said Kenya TWICE and he mentioned the Mau Mau revolution which wasn’t in Indonesia. LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE!!!