In spite of 4 straight nights of being fried on Hardball and The Last Word[/quote]
Just Hardball and The Last Word? That's a little limiting, huh? It's all over the place. Even one of your favorite venues:
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/03/04/mike-huckabee-criticizess-natalie-portmans-pregnancy/He's a politician so it's possible it was a deliberate provocative statement, that he knows isn't true
Do you mean provocative as in his statement that Obama was raised in Kenya and considers the British colonialists? Another misstatement or flat out lie?
Lie. duh.
He is not exactly defending the statement. He just said he misspoke. Either way, I don't think he's running either. But I do think he is trying to sell a book.
It's just more babble, babble, babble. The Republican way. Say one thing and then backtrack. By the time the word's out and all the stupid out there hear it and believe it the fact that it's backtracked means nothing. The damage is done.
Oh. He didn't say he "misspoke". He blamed his words on the Hollywood elite media. duh again.
His defense? He's
really talking about unwed mothers. He may have been in subsequent words, but the words above are specifically about "Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet".
His exact words, in quotes, as reported by everybody, including Fox:
"One of the things that's troubling is that people see a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, 'Hey look, you know, we're having children, we're not married, but we're having these children, and they're doing just fine,'"
"it's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out-of-children wedlock."
http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=14189754On Friday, Huckabee accused the "Hollywood media" of distorting comments that he said were more about society as a whole and not Portman. Huckabee praised Portman as an actress and said he's glad she and Millepied are getting married. Huckabee said he wasn't trying to attack Portman or single mothers.
"My comments were about the statistical reality that most single moms are very poor, under-educated, can't get a job and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death," Huckabee said in a statement posted on his political action committee's website. "That's the story that we're not seeing, and it's unfortunate that society often glorifies and glamorizes the idea of having children out of wedlock."
It's the second time this week that Huckabee has stepped back from comments he's made while promoting his new book. Huckabee suggested in a radio interview on Monday that President Barack Obama's childhood in Kenya shaped his worldview - even though Obama did not visit Kenya until he was in his 20s.
Obama's grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was detained in a 1952 uprising against British colonial rule in Kenya. Huckabee said childhood stories of the Mau Mau rebellion would lead President Obama to want to remove from the Oval Office the bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who ordered a crackdown against that uprising.
The executive director of Huckabee's political action committee later said the former governor misspoke and meant to reference Obama's childhood in Indonesia, where he lived from the ages of 5 to 10. He didn't explain the reason Huckabee mentioned the Mau Mau uprising.
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Here's what I don't understand. Is he so stupid that he doesn't realize his words are being taped? Is he so stupid he doesn't realize, regardless of what he's really meaning, these words are damaging?
Or does he really not care, hoping his lies will convince others?
And why didn't he bring up Bristol Palin when she was preggers?
