"that children need to be “under his tutelage” and said that every American should be forced “at gun point” to “listen to every David Barton message”: and then saying "I almost wish that there would be something like a simultaneous telecast and all Americans would be forced, forced — at gun point no less — to listen to every David Barton message. "
Finally. Even though it took 4 pages, you finally told me. The REAL issue is what Huckabee agreed with this guy about.
Ummm...since you like to bold/italicize stuff to make your point...I did the same thing in my very first post:
Iowa played host to two right-wing rodeos last weekend, the Conservative Principles Conference and the Rediscover God in America conference. While many of the GOP 2012 presidential hopefuls graced both stages, only at Rediscover God in America did they offer Americans two revealing facts: “America should be governed by biblical law,” and that discredited historian David Barton is a genius.
A former Texas GOP official, David Barton is a “Christian historical revisionist” who contends that “the United States of America is a Christian nation” and the separation of church and state is a “liberal myth.” He is also one of the most radical Tenthers in the country who believes the federal highway system is unconstitutional. So radical was his view that even the Tenth Amendment Center disavowed his federal highway theory.
Though he “holds no advanced degrees and does not teach at any legitimate institution,” Barton is no small figure in conservative politics. He was invited by Fox News host Glenn Beck and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) to teach as a “scholar” on American history. At the conference, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that “every time he hears Barton speak, he learns something new.” But Right Wing Watch’s Kyle Mantyla captured the most outrageous endorsement yet. Introduced by Barton, Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) insisted that children need to be “under his tutelage” and said that every American should be forced “at gun point” to “listen to every David Barton message”:
HUCKABEE: I don’t know anyone in America who is a more effective communicator [than David Barton.] I just wish that every single young person in America would be able to be under his tutelage and understand something about who we really are as a nation. I almost wish that there would be something like a simultaneous telecast and all Americans would be forced, forced — at gun point no less — to listen to every David Barton message. And I think our country would be better for it. I wish it’d happen.
On the next page, although I didn't bold/italicize it, I made my point very clear - both on your stubborn refusal to get the point and on the
real point of this conversation:
Funny how Mike ignores everything said about Barton...only to declare "But he's not really Huckabee's preacher!"
The guy preaches hate out of every orifice, Huckabee tells his people we should all listen to Barton with shotguns pointed at us...but he's not an influence on Huck?
Sheesh...
You continued this obstinate refusal to get
the point...
So the issue of how crazy or how much of a loon he is is not really relevant to Huckabee unless he's Huck's pastor since there are plenty of crazy preachers running around.
...by naively insuinating that the
only type of person who could influence Huckabee is a preacher...
We would have never talked about Wright in 2008 if he hadn't been Obama's preacher for 20 years.
We may or may not have because we didn't know about Obama or Wright (to a great extent) until then. Of course, you always had
William Ayers to fall back on.
AHA! Hold on...
