Justin's Political Corner
Former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate and current talk show host Mike Huckabee says Obama won’t finish his term because of the Benghazi “cover-up.”
“I believe that before it’s all over, this president will not fill out his full term. I know that puts me on a limb,” the former Arkansas governor said on “The Mike Huckabee Show.”
Fox News host Mike Huckabee warned on his radio show that the government could be planning to confiscate firearms in order to launch a dictatorship after a caller compared conditions in the United States today to those in Nazi Germany.
On the April 3 edition of The Mike Huckabee Show, Huckabee defended a caller’s claim about firearm confiscation in Nazi Germany as “the truth.” He added, “In every society and culture where dictators take over, one of the things they have to do is get control of the military and the police and ultimately all of the citizens and make sure the citizens are disarmed and can’t fight in the streets. Gosh I hope it doesn’t come to that.”
According to Huckabee, if the government were to confiscate privately owned firearms, ”there’s not a whole lot we can do about it other than just plan to die in the course of resistance.”
The Senate legislative package to reduce gun violence does not involve the confiscation of firearms, instead it calls for expanding background checks, adding missing records to the current background check system, cracking down on gun trafficking, and improving school security.
Huckabee’s acceptance of the caller’s view of what happened in Nazi Germany as “the truth” is also ahistorical. As Salon’s Alex Seitz-Wald noted in a January 11 article, “the notion that Hitler confiscated everyone’s guns is mostly bogus.” In fact, Hitler loosened gun laws for his political allies while banning firearms for the people he wished to oppress, which is an indictment of fascistic policies — not gun violence prevention laws.
“Nutjobs stuck in the thirteenth century” is just one insult used in the parody song showcased by former Arkansas governor turned talk show host Mike Huckabee on his website Monday. Huckabee, an outspoken Islamophobe, is the latest media figure today to embrace anti-Islam rhetoric to explain the violent anti-American protests in the Middle East. The song, a parody to the tune of “We Didn’t Start The Fire” by an unknown group, mocks President Obama, the Arab spring, and employs many racist stereotypes. Here’s a sample verse:
Hot bed Middle East
Not fit for man or beast
Sand dunes, camels
Virgins when you die
Democracy, Arab spring
That doesn’t mean a thing
Culture, freedom, pyramids goodbye
BREAKING: Todd Akin is not dropping out of his Senate race, he tells Huckabee #MOsen
— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) August 21, 2012
Fuckabee’s a racist turd.
(via Huckabee Again Pushes The Conspiracy Theory That Obama Entered College As “ A Foreign Student“)
Huckabee’s a rotten racist.
