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Huckabee slams ‘sensationalized’ coverage of comments on Obama, Kenya

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Huckabee slams ‘sensationalized’ coverage of comments on Obama, Kenya

The former Arkansas governor took to his political action committee's blog to issue the following statement late Tuesday:

I'm not surprised the NY Times chose to sensationalize this story. In fact, the New York Times, the AP, and other news organizations ran with the "sensationalized story" despite being specifically told by [WOR radio host] Steve Malzberg himself that they were incorrect in their assessment of the sound bite. You just can't help but laugh when my simple slip of the tongue, becomes a huge story - and a certain Presidential candidate claiming to visit all 57 states, gets widely ignored.
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Does anyone honestly believe he did not say Obama holds a different perspective than most Americans because he was raised in Kenya? I sure don't, because thats exactly what he said.
 
Slip of the tounge is a slip of the tounge dogg.

I don't know and I don't care.

Huckabee ain't gonna be prez, he ain't gonna have any impact on anything, I really don't care what he has to say slip of the tounge or not.

Anyone for real issues?
 
Jetboogieman said:
Slip of the tounge is a slip of the tounge dogg.

I don't know and I don't care.

Huckabee ain't gonna be prez, he ain't gonna have any impact on anything, I really don't care what he has to say slip of the tounge or not.

Anyone for real issues?
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He's not even running.
 
Remember when Obama referred to his "Muslim faith"?
 
Honestly, I think the media's been a bit biased on this. Maybe I haven't been paying close enough attention, but whenever Obama slips up, it's either downplayed or treated as kind of a joke.
 
He didn't simply "misspeak"; because he later went on to say that Obama was influenced by the Mau Mau movement (the Kenyan independence movement). If he meant to say Indonesia, it wouldn't make sense for him to make reference to the Mau Mau Uprising, would it? Because what would the Kenyan independence movement have to do with 4 childhood years spent in Indonesia?

The point he was trying to make is that spending 4 years of his childhood abroad means that somehow Obama's perspective is less American than his would be.

The greater point of the Op-Ed that has Huckabee's panties in a bunch is attacking him for the large number of violent criminals he let out on early release based on the fact that they'd "found Jesus" - many of whom went on to commit further violent crimes and Maurice Clemmons who killed four in Washington state, where the Op-Ed writer is from. Huckabee has a tendency to play this down; especially when he frequently states that Clemmons got 108 years for burglary, but "wasn't violent and wasn't armed". This is patently untrue and if Huckabee had done his research on the guy, he would've realized that this man who'd "found Jesus" committed several assaults in prison - including sexual assault.

Huckabee seems to have a tendency to make things up.
 
mike huckabee aside, this president really does have a real problem with how he is perceived by a broad slice of the american electorate

a majority of americans, including a majority of democrats, do not believe their president's own declaration of his religion

Growing Number of Americans Falsely Believe President Obama is Muslim - Political Punch

they don't know what he is, which is, when you think about it, astonishing

whose fault that may be, whose problem...

that the president of the us could find himself in a position where so many of his people find him something other...

at least other than what he says he is

as a professional politician and as the leader of this country and the free world, y'know, he really must be held responsible at some level for how he got here, how mismanaged must be his image

i don't know, i don't care, mike huckabee all aside

but this president really does have a real problem with how he is accepted or not by the american people

at a much higher level of policy, part of the president's problem is his inexplicable antipathy to the brits who so many once loved him

it's so alien an attitude for most modern americans, this anti union jack animus...

oh well

stay up
 
Every time he has a slip of the tongue like that, his bagger speaker fees increase ten percent.:2wave:
 
FilmFestGuy said:
He didn't simply "misspeak"; because he later went on to say that Obama was influenced by the Mau Mau movement (the Kenyan independence movement). If he meant to say Indonesia, it wouldn't make sense for him to make reference to the Mau Mau Uprising, would it? Because what would the Kenyan independence movement have to do with 4 childhood years spent in Indonesia?

The point he was trying to make is that spending 4 years of his childhood abroad means that somehow Obama's perspective is less American than his would be.

The greater point of the Op-Ed that has Huckabee's panties in a bunch is attacking him for the large number of violent criminals he let out on early release based on the fact that they'd "found Jesus" - many of whom went on to commit further violent crimes and Maurice Clemmons who killed four in Washington state, where the Op-Ed writer is from. Huckabee has a tendency to play this down; especially when he frequently states that Clemmons got 108 years for burglary, but "wasn't violent and wasn't armed". This is patently untrue and if Huckabee had done his research on the guy, he would've realized that this man who'd "found Jesus" committed several assaults in prison - including sexual assault.

Huckabee seems to have a tendency to make things up.
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Thank you. You are one of the few people that seems to get this. He deliberately played to his audience, though he knew better. The preacher should know this was an egregious violation of the ten commandments as it was bearing false witness. Then the guy didn't have the guts to stand-up and admit it when caught, he just covered up his lies with more lies trying to suggest he innocently misspoke. No, he did not.

I had always held Huckabee in great esteem as I thought he was a man of integrity. I was wrong. He is a sewer rat like all other politicians.
 
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