The Huckster had a ploy to steal attention from the Democratic debate: he tweeted a racist joke during the event.
Thank you so much, Mr Huckabee, for so ably highlighting the difference between the two parties.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
American politics is … very interesting …
Quite the thing to say from a man who helped his son cover up the beating to death of a dog by said son.
I looked at the comments on that article, and apparently Huckabee doubled down, and people are defending him. He tried to play it up as a statement against the North Korean dictatorship. Apparently the best way to denounce a brutal totalitarian regime is to insult the citizens it’s oppressing with a stereotype that’s been hurled at almost every east asian country in the world.
The comments tried to insist that North Korean isn’t a race, so it can’t be racist to tar them with a stereotype. The only time I’ve heard this stereotype before, it was talking about all Koreans, or all Asian people in general, not just the North Koreans. It’s like Huckabee had at least some awareness that stereotyping is bad, so he tried to soften it by attaching it exclusively to a group that people are supposed to hate.
emergence @ 3
‘ It’s like Huckabee had at least some awareness that stereotyping is bad, so he tried to soften it by attaching it exclusively to a group that people are supposed to hate.’
I’m going to guess that he’s a darling of Rupert Murdoch?
I assume this’ll garner him a few bonus points in the polls for the Republican primary. :-)
Not that it’ll matter much, considering how distant he is from the idiots leading the pack.
Let me get it straight, did Huckabee just made the claim that him being racist is OK, because some mythological couple ate a magic fruit?
Many people have observed that a North Korean chef is more trustworthy with dogs than any Huckabee boy
It could be the case that I am not paying close enough attention but this seems to be the first time I have seen a Republican bring up Sanders at all. The American right is surprisingly quiet on the guy which is odd, given that, you know he is an ACTUAL socialist. Especially compared to the ridiculous scaremongering that Obama receives when he so much as whispers anything remotely left wing. Is it possible that the right realises that Obama just makes an easier figure to project their fear and hatred onto because according to their base he is perceived as the other? Sanders may be more radical but at least he is an old, white guy? Do they find it much easier to fearmonger about socialism when it is the scary black man discussing it? Also ironic that the only time I have heard of a Republican bring up Sanders is in a racist context as well.
And how many tax dollars would that be?
Hey, just playing Devil’s Advocate here— this is the first time I’ve ever seen a Republican contender admit that racism actually exists and is a real problem, so, baby steps I guess.
#9: you didn’t listen or watch the debate, did you?
Amazing how that knee-jerk reflex action kicks in…All it needs is the minimal trigger. Not the slightest thought or attention to material required.
w00dview
” the ridiculous scaremongering that Obama receives when he so much as whispers anything remotely
left wingcentrist.”FTFY :-)
#10: on the basis of a ‘sin problem’? Oh, how DEEP can an admission get?
#12: And if ‘centrist’ whispers repeatedly elicits that kind of response, you know exactly how the right-wing defines ‘left-wing’, yes?
@6 (yoav):
No, he’s saying North Koreans forced him to make racist commentary about them by being godless commies.
#11: No, I did not.
I was under the impression the Blogpost was about Huckabee’s Twitter stuff.
He’s talking about his tax dollars, but does the guy have a real job; does he do pay taxes?
(answer is probably: Fox is paying him handsomly, which is depressing)
The man who regrets not having an excuse to shower with teenage girls says what?
I know the attribution is spurious, but, as the “ancient Chinese” curse says, “May you live in interesting times.”
Saad @ 17; ugh, there’s something I wish I could unsee … what a vile, puny, man he is. How the hell does someone that clueless get ANY kind of traction with people?
I guess the RWNJs have exhausted their hatreds of the brown peoples and are looking for fresh skin colors on which to levy their inexhaustible predjudices. Korean, it is.
I trust Schmuckee with my country less than I’d trust a hungry dog with a raw steak.
Dogs can’t feel guilt. They do know that if they look a certain way the two-legged pack-master won’t be as mad at them. Dogs are superior to Republicans.
The ‘sin problem’ bullshit tweet doesn’t even actually deflect the racism–instead, it’s just him blaming his racism on his lack of piety, rather than his skin color, which is an odd admission for a Republican, but hey, there it is.
Hey wait, jokes can be fun….
Something like:
“Mike, if you divorce your wife, is she still your sister?”
or
“There was a sharecropper in Mississippi that was so poor he wound up living in an outhouse. He’s doing better these days. He’s making a little money on the side by renting out the basement to a family from Arkansas”
See? Just harmless fun. Why would anyone be offended?
richarddelguru @ 12
Ha, I am fine with that correction. Again, seems to emphasize the point that a black guy´s centrism is a lot scarier to wingnuts than an old white guy´s socialism judging by how they are reacting so far. Might be harder to whip up fear when your ideological opponent looks like you.
Huckabee, pictured above, working hard to win the Tea Party vote.
The Republican primaries are turning into political Limbo: How low can they go?
I can’t fully interpret his second tweet above:
What “sin” is that to which he refers? The PP clients’ “sin”? The TG sin (he fantasized about), the L,G sinners (who Kim Davis opposes and he supports)?
Or is he tweeting, racism is just a symptom of being totally sinful in everything?
I assume he is being vague deliberately, for each to cast their own interp on his vague musings
emergence,
Ah, I see. It’s not a hilarious joke because North Koreans are Asian, it’s hilarious because they’re chronically starved by their government!
Was there never a point in Mike Huckabee’s life where he had to at least pretend to be compassionate? He doesn’t seem to know how.
Don’t read it if you don’t want to fuck up your mood for the day:
The person you really shouldn’t trust with your Labrador is Mike Huckabee’s son.
Long story short, he killed a dog for fun.
Oops, I didn’t realize llewelly had already mentioned it.
Suggested less offensive rewrite:
“I trust Bernie Sanders with my tax dollars like I trust Mitt Romney with my labrador!”
“I trust Bernie Sanders with my tax dollars like I trust Mike Huckabee with my PR campaign!”
Jake Harban (#10)
Ugh, don’t.
He’s not acknowledging jack shit as a real problem, much less that racism is built into the fabric of our society. He’s doing what every other racism denier does and pretending it’s a personal failing. And whose personal failing does he even mean? The victim’s or the perpetrator’s? Because then he goes on to use a blatant example of racism himself (which he later denied was racist).
“Sin”, as it’s constructed by the US religious right, is doublespeak.
On one hand, it’s something that’s wrong and evil and has to be stamped out immediately with disproportionate force by the government – “homosexuality is a sin! abortion is a sin! drug addiction is a sin!”
At the very same time, it’s also a personal failing of little consequence. “We’re all sinners, we all fall short of God’s grace, what’s important is forgiveness, so stop talking about my racism/sexism/bigotry/corruption/malicious negligence/violence/drug addiction/dishonesty/hypocrisy/greed/arrogance/cruelty/etc.”
@33
Thanks, Snoof, that is an excellent encapsulation.