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Apparently having to deal with blow back from a recent interview in which he compared allowing gay marriage to drug abuse and then totally disrespecting lgbt families, Fox Network personality Mike Huckabee is claiming that he is the victim of an overeager journalist who took him out of context. On his web page, he said the following:
The young college student hopefully will find a career other than journalism. I would ask that he release the unedited tape of our conversation. I believe that what people do as individuals in their private lives is their business, but I do not believe we should change the traditional definition of marriage. Not only did he attempt to sensationalize my well known and hardly unusual views of same-sex marriage, he also inaccurately reported my views on Michael Steele as GOP chairman – I offered my support and didn't “Rip into Steele” as his article asserted. I had a candid and frank conversation with the group about health care, education, the economy and national security while the young journalism student, instead, chose to focus on the issue of same-sex marriage and grossly distort my views.
Is it just me or is Huckabee giving us all the “runaround?” Not only did he say nothing about his crude comments regarding lgbt parenting, but his defense of his statements about gay marriage are confusing. Just how was his views sensationalize?
The College of New Jersey newspaper where Huckabee's interview was published, The Perspective, isn't backing down in the face of Huckabee's charges. It published the following on its site:
It is telling that nowhere in his statement did Huckabee suggest he was misquoted in the article, and rightfully so; we have the audio and transcripts to prove that everything reported is accurate.
Huckabee's problem seems to lie more in the focus of the article, which is centered partially on LGBT issues. We feel that same-sex marriage, laws prohibiting gays and lesbians from adopting children, and 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' are legitimate policy concerns about which to question national political figures. Gov. Huckabee may disagree.
The following is a portion of the interview. You be the judge:
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This controversy is far from over and I'm eager to see how it plays out. But whatever the case may be, someone should tell Huckabee that his phony “aw shucks” image is wearing thin.
Hat tip to the Huffington Post
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No, Mike, we get it.He still thinks “I didn’t insult gays, I just think they really shouldn’t have equal rights with normal people” is some sort of defense. Even his complaint about context reinforces that.
It doesn’t matter how politely you phrase it, asshole. “You aren’t allowed to play, and if you do, we’ll screw you to the best of our ability, because we are the popular people” still sucks, and we can see through it. Because it isn’t about the context, it’s about the content – which you are painfully consistent with.
HE CAN’T BE SERIOUS!!!The media are passing around the just released audio of the interview like chocolate covered crack and he wants to claim its overly hyped and out of context?!? Pulease, stupid is as stupid does and I for one am grateful that more main stream voices are beginning to shout back over this kind of bigotry. And in the same week as the Catholic church tries to trot out their tired little drama about homosexuality being the culprit of all the rampant pedophilia being uncovered. Wow cue the Mormons and Focus on the Family protests over the leftist media agenda and we can have ourselves a real party!
“Its fun to stay at the Y…M…C…A…!”
BONEHEADS!!
Translations“The young college student hopefully will find a career other than journalism.”
Translation #1: “Hopefully, in the future, all journalists will be unswervingly loyal to an authoritarian, theocratic power elite [of which, I trust, God will see fit to make me a member].”
Translation #2: “Hopefully, in the future, there will no unimprisoned journalists left who have any allegiance to such frankly Satanic concepts as ‘truth’ and ‘accuracy.’”
Paraslim Forcerecently according of American law guy are stay with each other . People should think about it that they has also own personal life .
http://www.articlesbase.com/he…
Even if I thought his views were distorted……that only means he’s getting a taste of his own medicine. So either way Mike, you lose.
Well of COURSE they were.
Was there EVER any doubt that this would be Huckabee’s response.
Has there EVER been a homophobic comment made by a homophobe that wasn’t claimed to be taken out of context?
My question is, why does NO ONE in the media DEMAND that the person, right there on the spot, repeat the comment and put it into the proper context.
I have NEVER seen this done.
The “journalist” simply regurgitate the bigots’ “it was taken out of context”, as the response and leave it at that.
I would give my left arm for just ONE real journalist in America.
Get him on Rachel’s showI bet she would tear him a new one.
“Have dinner with our family”Steve McDonough and Dan Smith are a gay couple here in Chicago who, as The Hearty Boys, have run a quite successful restaurant and catering business. They’re also adoptive parents. When Huckabee Hound made his ‘raising puppies’ crack they posted an open letter to him to have dinner some time so he could actually see and talk to a real live gay family.
The story was picked up by NBC Chicago:
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news…
The full text of their letter is here:
http://natespop.wordpress.com/…
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