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Huckabee Doubles Down, Blaming Contraception Now for Sandy Hook Massacre

Did Huckabee really mean it when he claimed that madmen shoot up schools because his god isn’t being preached from the chalkboard? Short answer: Yes, though he’d rather not be held accountable for it. This is what fundies mean when they call themselves “Bible-believing Christians”. The Bible has lots of…

Gretchen Carlson weeps as Huckabee calls for ‘prayer in schools’

Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson wept openly on Monday as Fox News host Mike Huckabee called for more prayer in schools and to “quit being ashamed that we believe in God” in the wake of last Friday’s slaughter of elementary school children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.…

Huckabee attacks ‘tax-funded abortion pills’ in Newtown monologue

Fox News host Mike Huckabee on Saturday said he never claimed that the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut was linked to the lack of religion in schools. When asked about the massacre of children, the former Arkansas governor on Friday lamented “we’ve systematically removed God…

Huckabee: Biden was like ‘an obnoxious drunk’ at debate

Add Fox News host Mike Huckabee to the list conservatives who are feigning astonishment at Joe Biden’s aggressive demeanor during Thursday night’s vice presidential debate. “I thought that Joe Biden came across as a guy that you meet at a cocktail party or some political event, an obnoxious drunk who…

Huckabee: Republicans who denounced Todd Akin ‘are not rational’

Fox News host and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee urged his fans to support Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO), who recently said it was impossible for a victim of “legitimate rape” to become pregnant. “The Party’s leaders have for reasons that aren’t rational, left [Akin] behind on the political battlefield, wounded…

Huckabee battles ‘militant homosexuals’ with ‘Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day’

Fox News host Mike Huckabee is so outraged that The Muppets and “militant homosexuals” are attacking Christian restaurant chain Chick-fil-A for their stance on LGBT rights that he has calling for “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” on August 1. “I have been incensed at the vitriolic assaults on the Chick Fil-A company…

Huckabee: Boy Scouts’ LGBT ban is ‘right decision’ to prevent sex crimes

Fox News host Mike Huckabee on Wednesday said that the Boy Scouts of America’s policy of discriminating against LGBT Americans was the “right decision” to protect young boys from being molested. After a two-year review, Boy Scouts spokesperson Deron Smith on Tuesday announced that the discriminatory rule was “absolutely the…

Huckabee tells CPAC: ‘We are all Catholics now!’

Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Friday said that President Barack Obama had turned evangelicals into Catholics by requiring private health insurance plans to cover contraception for women. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Huckabee gave “a great big thank you to President Obama.” “You have done more…

Esquire covers Huckabee’s shameless anti-gay bile on his book tour

Failed GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is still on the media circuit, this time he is covered by A.J. Jacobs in a feature piece for Esquire, as the writer says, “flogging his new book (“Do the Right Thing”) on a 56-city tour.” Jacobs describes the very qualities that make Huckabee…

Jon Stewart slays the homophobic Huckabeast without breaking a sweat

And entertains while doing so. Jon Stewart asked serious questions any hard-hitting progressive journalist or political commentator with a talk show is perfectly capable of asking. He made Huckabee explain his positions on LGBT rights and connects it to the messages in his new book about the merits of social…