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"The dark side of Mike Huckabee"
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The dark side of Mike Huckabee
The national media seems to have a crush on our ex-governor, but here in Arkansas, we know better.
The Pony Express has reached us here in the Arkansas backwoods with the latest journals from the big cities. So the country correspondents have taken a break from hand-setting lines of type to read the Beltway boys and girls rave about our former governor, Mike Huckabee.
"Easy to like," wrote Newsweek's Jonathan Alter. "Who Doesn't Heart Huckabee?" said the headline over Gail Collins' column in the New York Times. And those are restrained commentators. If you Google the names Ronald Reagan and Mike Huckabee in tandem, I understand you get better than 600,000 hits.
OK. I exaggerate. I have a phone and a computer (and it's 208,000 hits). But you'd think from national press comments that our friendly state is unreachable by phone or Internet. Do national commentators do homework? Or is a smiling, shoe-shining parson all it takes to generate such fluff?
Come to Arkansas. You'll have to look hard to find a long-term political analyst who'd subscribe fully to the national media narrative about the latest man from Hope — fresh face, funny, nice.
Mike Huckabee is fresh to you, maybe. Funny? If barnyard humor is your shtick of choice. Nice? Well, he did do some good things in his 10 years as governor, but … read on.
Before we begin, though, a word of warning to any reporters who might want to repeat, on air or in print, any of the facts recounted below. Huckabee does not take kindly to journalists who practice journalism.
Even editorialists and columnists at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, the state's dominant (and Republican-friendly) daily paper, use words like "petty" and "thin-skinned" to describe Huckabee. Then again, he's compared hard-hitting (and accurate) news reporters for the Democrat-Gazette to the press fabulists Jayson Blair and Janet Cooke. He called liberal columnist John Brummett of Stephens Media "constipated" when that early admirer commenced some gentle criticism. His administration paid $15,000 to settle a suit filed by Roby Brock, the host of a public TV news show whom Huckabee's people tried to force off the air for his critical commentary.
Then there's me. I'm the editor of an alternative weekly, but I began covering Huckabee when I was a columnist for the now-defunct daily Arkansas Gazette in 1991, and Mike and I have been on the outs pretty much ever since. He once called me and the Memphis Commercial Appeal bureau chief "junkyard journalists" for our reporting. He also compared me, in print, to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and, I've been told on good authority, has wished aloud for my early and violent demise.
It all began 16 years ago for Mike and me. Huckabee, in his political debut, was preparing to become the Bible-thumping, abortion-decrying Republican challenger to U.S. Sen. Dale Bumpers, the Democratic incumbent. With a playbook straight out of James Dobson, he tried to portray Bumpers as a pornographer for his support of federal grants to the arts.
More important, Huckabee revealed an enduring weakness as glaring as that other Arkansas governor's fondness for women. Huckabee seems to love loot and has a dismissive attitude toward ethics, campaign finance rules and propriety in general. Since that first, failed campaign, the ethical questions have multiplied.
In the 1992 contest with Bumpers, Huckabee used campaign funds to pay himself as his own media consultant. Other payments went to the family babysitter.
In his successful 1994 run for lieutenant governor, he set up a nonprofit curtain known as Action America so he could give speeches for money without having to disclose the names of his benefactors. He failed to report that campaign travel payments were for the use of his own personal plane.
After he became governor in 1996, he raked in tens of thousands of dollars in gifts, including gifts from people he later appointed to prestigious state commissions.
In the governor's office, his grasp never exceeded his reach. Furniture he'd received to doll up his office was carted out with him when he left, after he'd crushed computer hard drives so nobody could ever get a peek behind the curtain of the Huckabee administration.
Until my paper, the Arkansas Times, blew the whistle, he converted a governor's mansion operating account into a personal expense account, claiming public money for a doghouse, dry-cleaning bills, panty hose and meals at Taco Bell. He tried to claim $70,000 in furnishings provided by a wealthy cotton grower for the private part of the residence as his own, until he learned ethics rules prevented it. When a disgruntled former employee disclosed memos revealing all this, the Huckabee camp shut her up by repeatedly suggesting she might be vulnerable to prosecution for theft because she'd shared documents generated by the state's highest official.
He ran the State Police airplane into the ground, many of the miles in pursuit of political ends. Inauguration funds were used to buy clothing for his wife. He once took control of the state Republican Party's campaign account — then swore the account had been somebody else's responsibility when it ran afoul of federal election laws. He repeated the pattern when he claimed in a newspaper story that his staff controlled the account to stage his second inauguration. When I filed a formal ethics complaint over what appeared to be an improper appropriation of donated money, he told a different story, disavowing responsibility for the money. He thus avoided another punishment from an Ethics Commission, which had sanctioned him on five other occasions. He dodged nine other complaints (though none, despite his counter-complaints, was held to be frivolous). In one case, he was saved by the swing vote of a woman who left the chairmanship of the Ethics Commission days later to take a state job. She listed the governor as a reference on the job application. Finally, unbelievably, Huckabee once sued to overturn the ban on gifts to him.
My newspaper chronicled all this and so much more. Since my paper wrote critically about him, I didn't often experience the "nice" Mike Huckabee that so many national commentators have enjoyed. In fact, ultimately Huckabee ended press services, which are publicly financed, to my newspaper. The Arkansas Times received no news releases from the governor's office, no notices of news conferences, no responses to routine questions. He was condemned for this by journalism organizations.
Truth is, we were happy to be thrown into the governor's briar patch. The world is full of disaffected Huckabee campaign workers, former employees and garden-variety Republicans who love to pass on tips about a governor they'd found self-centered and untrustworthy. If you think he left a well of warm feelings in Arkansas, note that Hillary Clinton had raised more money in Arkansas at last report and that a recent University of Arkansas Poll showed her a 35 to 8 percent leader over Huckabee in the presidential preferences of Arkansas residents. Only one-third of 33 Republican legislators have said they will support him for president.
Thanks to such unhappy people, we've broken numerous stories about Huckabee, from the first early word of his destruction of state computer hard drives (more fully reported by the Democrat-Gazette); to the time and place of his announcement for president; to his sale and purchase of homes; to his infamous "wedding registry." About the last: Three decades after the Huckabees' wedding, his wife registered at department stores so their new home, post-governor's mansion, could be stocked with gifts of linens, toasters and other suitable furnishings. In early 2007, our reporting also prompted the former first lady to decline dozens of place settings of governor's mansion china and Irish crystal that had been purchased with tax-deductible contributions to the Governor's Mansion Association, nominally set up to improve the mansion, not to buy going-away presents for former occupants. (Huckabee's governorship ended on Jan. 9, 2007.)
Ironically, I have many good things to say about the governor. The Bush administration would have done well to emulate Mike Huckabee's speedy and successful relief effort for Hurricane Katrina refugees. He raised taxes for schools, highways and children's health. Inevitably, this expanded government. I say bravo on all counts, though the conservative Club for Growth has delighted in quoting my liberal newspaper when it attacks Huckabee's fiscal record.
He was kind to immigrants and favored state help for college-going children of illegal immigrants. He once even briefly departed from Republican dogma to suggest to a newspaper in libertarian New Hampshire that, while he opposed gay marriage, he was open to civil unions. He's since denied he ever intended such apostasy, but the comment is on tape. At the Arkansas Times, we welcomed the governor's conversion to devoted school consolidator. When our state system of school finance was ruled unconstitutional, he initially decried the ruling as a usurpation of local control. But he flip-flopped — and we applauded the somersault — and led his Education Department to a significant reduction in the number of tiny, inefficient school districts and on the path to more demanding graduation standards.
But a paddling administered by a brute who sometimes smiles still hurts. Huckabee insists he's not one of those harsh, punitive, "angry" conservatives, but again, there are witnesses who might say otherwise if anyone's interested.
Ask the retarded Fort Smith teenager, raped by her stepfather, who sought Medicaid funding for an abortion as federal law required. Huckabee stood in the hospital door, at least figuratively, to prevent state funding. Ask the gay people belittled by his cracks about "Adam and Steve." Ask the scientists who've seen evolution virtually disappear from the textbooks and classrooms of Arkansas with his administration's acquiescence.
Social issues alone should give moderates pause. He championed a law in Arkansas making it harder to get a divorce, the so-called covenant marriage law that has been widely ignored except when he and his wife recommitted in a Valentine's Day publicity stunt held in a 17,000-seat arena.
Huckabee's administration worked hard and unapologetically to prevent gay people from being foster parents. He avidly supported the state amendment that bans gay marriage as well as civil unions and bans any equal treatment under the law — such as in health insurance coverage — for same-sex partners. He professed opposition to alcohol and gambling, but he allowed passage of legislation that made it easier for restaurants to obtain private-club mixed-drink permits in dry counties. Over the angry objection of the church lobby, he sped final action on a bill to allow video poker at the state's racetracks, an act followed not long afterward by a $10,000 campaign contribution from the owner of the state's biggest race track, at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs.
All this is sometimes done with humor, but rarely the sort of gentle humor the national media has encountered. Huckabee prefers sarcastic putdowns and hyperbole. Because Arkansas Democrats tried to enfranchise more citizens with weekend voting in Arkansas, he called his home state a banana republic on the Don Imus show. He's compared weight loss with a concentration camp. Abortion, even in the earliest microscopic stages, he's called a holocaust. He referred in a Farm Bureau speech to "fruits and nuts" and "wacko environmentalists" in decrying environmentalists as a threat to agriculture. (Yes, this is the same man that gullible mainstream columnists praise for his ringing environmental proclamations.)
But the national press has more to examine than rhetoric when it comes to Huckabee. He is not the man of principle that credulous commentators describe. Though Huckabee doesn't support embryonic stem cell research, he took a hefty honorarium and bulk book sales this year from a diabetes drug maker, Novo Nordisk, which performs embryonic stem cell research. He has lied when there's been no other way around admitting embarrassing missteps, such as his advocacy of freedom for a convicted rapist.
There are also legitimate questions about his skills as a manager. He left Arkansas with a bill of more than $40 million for overcharges of the federal government's Medicaid program. A State Police director left after a tiff over Huckabee's demand that the agency improve his private lake property in the name of security. Troubles dogged both the state's computer services agency and its workforce agency. Youth services have been an unending series of tragedies. The buck never stopped at Huck's desk, you can be sure.
The governor's office records — triumph and tragedy, sage advice and venom-filled screeds about members of the press and Legislature — would tell this tale. But, as I've mentioned, the computer hard drive destruction ensured that would never happen.
If I could resurrect one batch of files, it would be those reflecting the advice of his staff that he not pursue his desire to free convicted rapist Wayne DuMond. By "advice," I mean I think some of them all but pleaded with Huckabee not to do it.
Though DuMond's prior record included a conviction for assault and his alleged involvement in a slaying and one other rape, by the start of Huckabee's governorship DuMond had become a national figure thanks to Republican efforts to depict him as a victim of the Bill Clinton machine. The rape victim was a distant relative of Clinton's.
Huckabee, perhaps persuaded by DuMond's supposed conversion to Christianity, announced his intention to commute DuMond's sentence without talking to the victim. Outraged, she stepped forward to protest publicly. The backlash was swift and powerful. Huckabee backed away from commuting DuMond's sentence, but in a private meeting lobbied the state Parole Board to release him. Huckabee said, in writing, that he supported DuMond's release. DuMond moved to Missouri in 2000, where he molested and killed one woman and was suspected of doing the same to another, but died in prison before he could be charged in the second case.
To this day, Huckabee tries to minimize his responsibility for DuMond's release. Huckabee's 2007 book "From Hope to Higher Ground" also fudges the facts, implying that DuMond died before being convicted of either Missouri murder. In one recent interview, he even suggested that he had fought DuMond's parole, a statement his own writings prove to be a lie.
Speaking of Huckabee's writings: I'd recommend the Huckabee catalog to the national press. It's a ready representation of the man — quip-filled, shallow, factually challenged and full of the chip-on-the-shoulder mentality that has marked so much of his public life. In "Character Is the Issue," published in 1997, he complained bitterly about how some congregants of the Baptist church he left in Texarkana to seek public office didn't want to continue paying his health insurance. Funny, no employer of mine ever kept paying me after I quit work.
I digress. It's easy to do. In 10 years as governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee left a rich and complicated history. It is not without points to praise. But there's so much more, a record that the national media — so ready, since 1992, to plumb the tiniest cranny of Bill Clinton's past — seems uneager to discover. It's a measure of the loving kindness with which he's been treated so far by the coastal punditry that Huckabee has not yet had one of his famous self-pitying public meltdowns about the unfairness of the media.
But then, you don't have to believe me about any of this. After all, I live in Little Rock and, as Huckabee has often said, I'm just the editor of a trashy, throwaway liberal tabloid. Why not look instead to a conservative voice from the national media? At the American Spectator, once home to the anti-Clinton Arkansas Project, senior editor Quin Hillyer, a former Arkansas Democrat-Gazette editorial writer, wrote recently, "National media folks like David Brooks [of the New York Times], dealing in surface appearances only, rave about what a nice guy Huckabee is, and a moral exemplar to boot. If they only did a little homework, they would discover a guy with a thin skin, a nasty vindictive streak, and a long history of imbroglios about questionable ethics."
At last, something the national media and the Arkansas media can agree on.
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Could someone get me the cliff notes on this novel?
If you think Huckabee is the first, last, and only politician to lie, cheat, overpay himself, be greedy, malicious or powerhunger, then you just fell off the turnip truck. Democrat, Republican, Independent, they are all liars, powerhungry, greedy bastards. All of them.
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Re: ianyboy – NOT!!!!!!!
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Blablabla. i dont like huckabee but man, that shit is long!
How flattering for Huckabee, a book on him on a liberal site. I guess the liberals are feeling very threatened.
I wasted my time reading this.I already knew he was a peice of shit
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i hope he doesn't win
i hope he doesn't win
chuck norris approved that he is a weirdo…..loser
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DOG KILLING SON OF HIS OUGHT TO BE CASTRATED AND KICKED IN THE RAISEN NADS REALLY HARD. DICK
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Long winded bastard. What.Ev.Er.
Long winded bastard. What.Ev.Er.
Yeah - the reason the media likes him is because they know what this article says about him and so they think he is very beatable. (Media wants Dem president). Real conservatives like Romney or Thompson.
perezito politics!
he's not good for the world
GO HUCKABEE!!
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I am furst, muthabitches!
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IF YOU LIKE GEORGE W BUSH, VOTE MIKE HUCKABEE!!!!!
HE'S EQUALLY AS STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!
IF YOU LIKE GEORGE W BUSH, VOTE MIKE HUCKABEE!!!!!
HE'S EQUALLY AS STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!
IF YOU LIKE GEORGE W BUSH, VOTE MIKE HUCKABEE!!!!!
HE'S EQUALLY AS STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!
IF YOU LIKE GEORGE W BUSH, VOTE MIKE HUCKABEE!!!!!
HE'S EQUALLY AS STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!
IF YOU LIKE GEORGE W BUSH, VOTE MIKE HUCKABEE!!!!!
HE'S EQUALLY AS STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!
IF ANYONE DISAGREES THEN TELL ME WHY BELOW AND I WILL RESPOND.
what a scumbag dirty politician & religious FREAK!
HUCKABEES A DOUCHEBAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
VOTE KUCINICH!!!!!!!!!!
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im still voting for mike huckabee and so is everyone i know! i don't care what you liars have to say
WOOO!
now i wonder what skeletons are in the clinton's closet??????????
Sounds like this reporter is just mad that huckabee has not given him the time of day and has insulted him. Sounds like this guy is taking something way to personal and blowing it out of proportion. I am not even a huge Huckabee fan and this reporter still irritates me for being so catty!
he's a politician..what do you expect!
Barack Hussein Osama was a no-name senator in the Illinois capital when he ran for US Senate in 2004. He only won the primary because the Demorat frontrunner imploded in a divorce scandal. Then the Republican primary frontrunner imploded in a sex scandal, and the party brought in Alan Keyes from Virgina. Some contest Osama faced. He didn't achieve anything in the Illinois Senate, and hasn't had a single bill with his name on it pass in the US Senate. In the meantime, he's endorsed the corrupt, racist regimes of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and Cook County President Todd "Toddler" Stroger. While Chicago's children, seniors, poor, and minorities suffer, Osama was cutting deals with a corrupt Demorat fundraiser to buy a house and earning one of the most liberal voting records of any presidential candidate. America doesn't need a return to the crime-ridden, economically-depressed malaise days of Jimmy Carter.
thank you.
I'm from arkansas. and I swear if that man gets
any closer to becoming president I will move out of the country.
I am not kidding. I refuse to spend any more of my time with him in charge!!
Sounds like a total douche
Thanks for posting Perez…interesting read indeed.
poor excuse for a human being if you ask me
"the dark side of mike huckabee"
when was there ever a light side?
very, very interesting.
This article is right-on. I'm from Arkansas, and everyone here is just incredulous at the amount of support he is getting. If others knew how much of a screw-up he was they wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole, but people don't seem to care about factual information. Don't ever trust the national media… do your own research and make your own decisions.
I am from AR and it is great to finally see the truth come out. Heaven help us if "The Dope from Hope" is elected president!!
Re: Sick of Perez –
One of the most asinine statements I've heard. Scared? That is the best you can do.
Huckabee is a hypocrite of the worst kind. I agree about what should happen to his fat-ass, dog-killing son.
Holy crap, he's from Hope? The most ironically named town in America? (Trust me, I've been there - there's nothing "hopeful" about Hope!) Man, I didn't like the guy that much to begin with, but now I kinda feel sorry for him.
About time someone tell it like it really is in regards to this political creature. WEll DONE!
Holy Crap! That article was eye opening!
fine. vote for Osama i mean Obama. he used drugs like woah, right?
look, it doesn't matter who gets elected. as long as the don't start another war with another country. I say vote Giuliani or something. Or Huckabee. Democrats will raise your taxes and then you will have NO. Money.
I went to school in Arkansas when Huckabee was Gov. and it was INSANITY. The man used to be REALLY fat, and once he lost the weight he put all of the schools on this insane strict diet.
All of the students hated him.
Re: I heart Huckabee –
I'M not sure if you meant to put Osama…but if you did it is twisted people like you that even think of calling him after Osama…(a psycho!)
The only republican candidate that COULD (but won't win) is McCain.
OBAMA is one of the best candidates.
Get your shit straight. If you want to vote look UP FACTUAL information.
Politicis is twisted any way you look at it. All politicians are. Live with it or leave.
thanks perez! I'm glad people see how sick and twisted this man is. not many people actually know of his insanity and think he is this superior holier than thou man that will win the extreme christian votes.
Re: courtney – no you won't, you fucking liar. you'll still be in the greatest place on earth, bitching and complianing, and then swearing that "you'll leave the country!" when you know that your fat ass will still be at home in arkansas writing comments on this website like the rest of us…
What a son-of-a-bitch. I hate that cunt of a Hillary also. Nothing much to choose from.
Thank YOu! i have been wondering where the Arkansas population stood on Huckabee. My primary is tommorrow and I swear, I want to help my country. Can't believe I can't find good info on any candidate. Thank you Perez. I really am glad you are an top of things like myself.
We may love some goss, but I have a brain too, and I WILL exercise my right as an american, to vote. AND YOU SHOULD TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MAJORITY OF POLITICANS ARE SELF GREEDY LYING CROOKS , HUCKABEE IS A CLONE BUSH ,AMERICA CERTAINLY DOESN'T NEED ANOTHER BUSH! VOTE DEMOCRAT!
The article is absolutely correct. I live in Arkansas and have known Huckabee for years. I can verify that he has done all the things the writer accuses him of and that he is a shallow, self-serving, vindictive, petty man. I hope the rest of the country soon discovers this for themselves so that no one will make the mistake and vote for him!
Hey Perez, why do you always pick on Hucakbee? If you will email me ill show you the dark past to Barack! It wont let me post it in here because it says its too long!
How about his advocating that AIDS patients be quarantined from the general public?
Don't be fooled, America… this man is a religious fanatic with little knowledge of foreign affairs.
Who is voting for this redneck trash anyways?
he kind of looks like michael lohan too
well, DUH!!!
If anyone had taken the time to listen, we Arkansans have been trying to tell y'all this stuff for ages. Sure, he talks sweet, but the man is a mess! Go ahead, vote him into office…then bend over and kiss your civil liberties good-bye.
Thanks Perez for posting this! This article is right on!!!! I am from Central Arkansas and Mike Huckabee is a joke here!!! He is the last thing this country needs. Just by him getting so much support so far in this race makes me question our system. I beg journalists to come to Arkansas and ask people who live here about ole Huck…I'm in Central Arkansas and I've only seen ONE bumper sticker for the guy….should tell you something.
They are all crooks - the question is, who is the least crooked…… Hard to say, they are all corrupt.
Not that I would ever vote for a Republican anyway, but if all of what this journalist is saying is true, why the hell isn't every media outlet sharing this information? People have a right to know about the sleazy past misdeeds of politicians, and they need to know before some ass clown like Huckabee gets elected into office. KUCINICH FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!
You know, it's one sided, All poloticians are liars, all are cheats, and all are bastards. Mike Huckabee seems to stand for the right things, some of them. And while this was compelling, it was truly one sided.
Re: HUCKABEE ALL THE WAY! –
zac efron? you sound like a winner. way to go.
Who shall we vote for?
Romney, a mormon? Is mormonism a cult?
Obama already played the race card, how will he deal when governing the free world?
Clinton? Proven to take a backseat when her position may be jeapordized. (Achemmm, Monica?)
Mc Cain, laughs when questioed by journalists, stating, ah ha, as I said before, ( I don't care what he said before, I want to know what he wants to say now!)
Huckabee, stealing from the petty funds????????????? LOSER
I am from Arkansas & this guy is a money grubbing lying piece of crap! He should burn for the Wayne Dumand fiasco! People need to do some research before even contemplating voting for him. He did very little for Ark. as the govenor except raise taxes. I am a registered republican & I NEVER voted for this jerk!!! I will vote democrat again if I have to!! That's how bad he is!!!
WHAT!!!??????????????????
You effing censored me PEREZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First, Thank you P for posting this!! I'll keep you updated~
In response to "Huckabee all the way"
You are the typical example of someone who would vote for Huckabee. Someone who is lead blindly. Its sad and honestly I really feel sorry for you. Im sure you are supporting him because your "faith" tells you to. Im sure that if I sat down with you, you wouldnt have a fucking clue what any of his actual policies are.. well except for his policy on cRAAAZZZy baby killing. You probably arent going to read this article because you are too dumb and lazy to read anything that actually challenges rather than appeases your mind. You are exactly what they want you to be, A BLIND CONSUMER. BRAVO. If all you are on here to do is read about Zak Effron, then don't post on the political pages like you actually know something.
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TLDR
HIS SON IS A PSYCHOPATHIC SERIAL KILLER AND HE'S A DISSALUTIONED "PREACHER" WHO HATE ANYONE WHO DISAGREE WITH HIM. HANG HIM AND HIS FAMILY.
Oh, great, a petty, Bible-thumping, bigoted, uneducated, mean-spirited, unethical asshole running for dictator instead of president. Which is worse? Suckabee or the morons who think he'd be a good thing for our nation?
Douche. BTW, my son Tagz a real TEAM PLAYER. Hee. Hee.
HUCK-A-FUCK IS NOTHING BUT A BACKWARDS CHRISTIAN NAZI HATEMONGER…very popular with most of the RETARDS on this site I'm sure…WITH THE MENTAL CAPACITY OF A SECOND GRADER, AND I APOLOGIZE TO ALL SECOND GRADERS INSULTED BY MY REMARK…IF YOU'RE INSULTED, YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY CONSIDERABLY MORE INTELLIGENT THAN HUCK-A-FUCK.
I've never voted Republican, but even I thought he was funny and charismatic on The Tonight Show last week. Not that I would have voted for him, but I did think, "What a nice guy." Then I heard he was an Evangelical. I started thinking of those crazy people in that church in Borat… I am disturbed that we have people like that running the country, and I was raised Baptist in Texas. I turned out fairly liberal if you ask my family (I don't think I'm too far left), but thank you for the insightful post. Albeit long, it was a very interesting read and very telling about his character. What a jerk. I hope he doesn't win the party nomination. I doubt he will, but just in case. At least millions will read this on your site over the coming days. I don't care who you vote for, just VOTE! Make it count!
Sounds like another presidential candidate I know. the national media seemed to love Bill "Scum Bag" Clinton but the good people of Arkansas had a lot of other things to say.
Sounds like another presidential candidate I know. the national media seemed to love Bill "Scum Bag" Clinton but the good people of Arkansas had a lot of other things to say.
Oh, and also… I think it's hilarious that an "Evangelical" wants supporters to use the slogan "I Heart Huckabee" when that movie was about existentialism and nihilism! lololololol ~ I bet they've never even seen it, and if they did, they wouldn't get it.
As an Arkansan, when I first heard that Mike Huckabee wanted to run for president, I thought there was no way ANYONE would pay him any attention. Now that he's getting popular, it's really scary. He was a horrible governor and I can't imagine him having control over the whole country.
Now I know why Bill Clinton said Huckabee was someone to watch out for during an interview long before he polled in the double digits. Clearly he will be the easiest Republican to beat. I can see about 100 tv commercials from the information in this story.
And for all the people on this blog that complained about the length of the story….how odd. This is the future of our country. Not every story can be put in 25 words or less. Thankfully Perez can read long stories and found it important enough to share with all of us.
Perez - get over it, already! You are a soft-core pornography peddler and you profit on invading the privacy of & ruining the lives of celebrities. You, of all people, are going to criticize someone b/c of their ethics! And c'mon, do we honestly think that this "alternative-weekly" editor is a credible source? This person hates Huckabee for the same reason you do (and we all know it has nothing to do with any of the "ethical violations" mentioned in the novel above).
And Courtney - peace be with you on your trip. Maybe you'll like Canada or France?
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And the games are geting started. This is a just a left wing editor who is trying to stir things up. Everyone can tell by the way this is written that this person wants to destroy HUCKA. I am republican and very proud of that fact. Cant say I would spend my vote on him though.
Dear Perez,
I love your site, but I disagree with this article concerning Huckabee. To begin, I have my own show titled, "Shield of Faith" via www.ontimeradio.com, and on it I talk politics, Islam, and Christianity.
I left Islam three years ago and accepted Christ, therefore I have alot to talk about on my show. A vote for Romney or a vote for Obama is a vote for America becoming a Muslim country. I don't know what religion you are Perez, but if you would like to know just what happens to Christians in an Islamically run country, then visit www.persecution.org. In the last 20 years, 200 million Christians have been killed in other countries, because of their faith in Christ. Yes, 200 million.
As a Christian, I try my best to emulate Christ, which means that I cannot be judgmental. I am a sinner too. Huckabee is only trying to stick to Biblical principles and morals. And to put it quite frankly, abortion is murder.
Again, I really do love your site. I probably visit it four times a day! I also pray for many people on your site, like Britney Spears. Again, I too am a sinner. God bless,
Sophia Smith
If I am looking for a political resource, I don't turn to perezhilton.com
This individual seems to have either gotten his feelings hurt by Huckabee, or is starting to realize he is a threat to the democratic party.
"Huckabee's administration worked hard and unapologetically to prevent gay people from being foster parents. He avidly supported the state amendment that bans gay marriage as well as civil unions and bans any equal treatment under the law — such as in health insurance coverage — for same-sex partners."
And Huckabee has publicly said how he believes everyone is created equally and there should be equality for everyone. Yeah, right he believes that. His mouth must not have met his resume.
If I were American, I would be a Democrat (Liberal, up here in Canada). This being said, we really are focusing on one persons opinion here and not an overall and multi-facetted view. To get up in arms and calling for Huckabee's head seems ludicruous considering he is a politician and would not be the first; republican or democrat to committ such acts. This type of behaviour and double speak and rhetoric are all part and parcel of the job (or at least the type of people who go in for this job). For every idiodic political manuvere a republican makes, a democrat makes an equal and opposite one. It is science, no point in arguing. Go with your gut, not what other people say. Do your own research, otherwise nothing will change.
Thank goodness FANTASTIC people like PEREZ have the guts to put this POS's real record to light. Morons posting that they're going to vote anyway, or that the Arkie journalists are just grandstanding, you are out of your ever freaking mind! Come to the Natural State. Find me a human that likes this asshole. I don't think dogs want to piss on him.
Clinton, Obama, Edwards, hell, ANYONE is better than this pompous piece of racist homophobic animal killing rapist-freeing holier than thou WINDBAG!!!!
GO HOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOO PIG SOOOIEEEE!!!
RAZORBACKS!!!!!
Perez, I've been trying to find a reason to keep reading your site for some time now. Between the Britney saga posted every other minute and your liberal antics, you really do suck. You must feel as if Huckabee is a threat if you keep referencing him on your site. Maybe look at all sides and all candidates…….oh, your a democrate…that's right…. I'm so done with you.
If Arkansas is the deciding state this time (stranger things have happened), Democrats better hope Huckabee gets the nomination. Our entire state hates his smug ass.
Re: AudreyforClinton – I am voting for Huckabee. It's not because my faith is telling me to. It's because I LIKE HIM. I like the fair tax plan. I WOULD LOVE to outlaw abortion. I believe in his environmental and economic ideas. Believe it or not. This is a very one sided article by a pissed off journalist. You can read Star magazine or the National Enquirer if you want to believe everything you read and now I'll have to add Perez as well I guess. BTW, you and I are paying the Clinton's mortgage every month with our tax dollars. That's right, she leases a house on her NY property to the secret service that we pay to protect her and Billy boy. She leases it to the US for $10,000 a month. Guess how much her mortgage payment is for that house she set up in NY to get senate residency requirements met. $10,000. There are a LOT of Dems that are blind followers too.
Re: rachel – YOU ARE FUCKING RETARDED. STOP TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WITH HUMANS!
is that michael lohan? lol