Monday, February 21, 2011
Mike Huckabee gleefully embraces his religious intolerance right out in front of the Fox News viewers.
Huckabee is avidly demonizing Muslims and lumping them all together with those who "attacked" us on 9-11. And don't forget THIS is a Christian man of the cloth.
In my humble opinion REAL Christians should be embarrassed by this hypocrite.
Mediaite has more on this.
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He's just preaching to the choir, fluffing up that Fox News base for the primary. There must be something illegal about Fox News. Pushing this much insane propaganda should not be allowed for network television. Why, just imagine if those "muslim terrorists" could start their own network. Bet they wouldn't get licensed.
ReplyDeleteI'm embarrassed by him. He (And Palin and O'Reilly) do not represent my Christian beliefs, nor do many Republicans who hold their faith out there like a red flag. Their war on women is despicable, but moreso when they pretend to be of God. Their hatred of Muslims is just as bad. Leviticus was one of our scriptures in church yesterday (when is the last time God's spokesperson Sarah was spotted in church again?) and it was from Chapter 19, about when there is an alien in your land, treat him as one of you, with the same rights and benefits. Sure, unless his skin color is different, unless he believes in God a different way.The utter hypocrisy of these people is stunning, and this is who is making laws? Wake up America. You were sold a bill of goods, and unless we take back our country in 2012, we truly will not know what hit us. I'm beginning to see that Palin has been a useful tool for the corporate right, who let her attack Obama for them and create fear while they were busy getting the ducks lined up to take over the House and end social programs and anything at all that helped women.
ReplyDeleteConsidering "What Would Jesus Do", I find it hard to believe that he would close the doors of the Church to any other religion. I thought the Holy Wars were part of history, but I guess I was wrong.
ReplyDeleteHumans should be embarrassed by this crappy excuse for a human.
ReplyDeleteThat is the inherent danger in influential personalities like Huckabee and O'Reilly. They are disgustingly abusive with their pulpit but when they aren't in the 'echo-chamber' they appear charming and disarming. Watching Huckabee with John Stewart on The Daily Show was impressive - and I had to kick myself for falling for his unassuming persona. The same for Bill O on Barbara Walters, he comes off as so likable. But still waters run deep, these are stagnant, filthy souls.
ReplyDeleteWe have to do better, we have to keep powerful and influential people open and transparent. Ironically, a tool of the people that is Sarah Palin's biggest Achilles heel, one she couldn't possibly name in the VP debate.
I get the distinct impression that "being a man of the cloth" is a job some take on while looking for a more lucrative means of living (hint : politics") Look how many of them are former preachers, or even doctors. Preaching is not actually a "calling" for some people so much as a "job" Even a family tradition like the Grahams. Pays well for Graham, how many private jets does he own? Huckabee is in the process of building a huge, multi million $$ home on the beach, so politics might be a step down for him at the moment.
ReplyDeleteTodd is currently leading Irondog.
ReplyDeleteSarah and her entourage(Bristol) were there to see him off.
Aren't they all supposed to hiding under the bed scared shitless of you clowns?
Sarah must be laughing her ass off after McGinnis fucked over you bunch of losers.
One question:
ReplyDeleteWhat is Dana Perrino doing there? Is she a Fox employee now?
I especially like how Huckabee accuses Muslims of thinking that everyone else is an infidel and needs to be obliterated, while he himself thinks the same thing of the Muslims!!
I guess he didn't read the part in the 'Gospel' where the guy asked Jesus "And who IS my neighbor?", and he most especially forgot what the answer was.
Mike Huckabee's one redeeming quality (and I try to find one in people I can't stand) is his cute dimples. As Sarah would say, you can't take those away from him.
Even the dimples aren't looking so cute in that nasty clip.
Huckabee, Palin and their ilk are nothing more than power hungry opportunists who continue to try to "convert" people over to their dangerous ideology through fear and contempt for others, in this case the Muslims.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing "Christian" like about them.
To anon. 5:38 -
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin is far too shameless to ever hide under her bed, even when her house of cards is falling down around her. (Remember her "I am the real victim of Tuscon" video?)
The fact that parts of the Palin insider tell all book was leaked is irrelevant. The FACT is an insider in Palin's camp saw her for the two faced opportunist that the rest of us who are not fox brainwashed already knew: she is self serving, she is a raging narcissist and she will step over anyone who gets in her way.
He has the e-mail correspondence to prove it.
Sucks for you.
Everytime I hear his YV ade on healthcare, I say he's no Chrisian. He just outright lies about it (that it wasn't debated,t was done in the middle of the night). These so called preachers now are just motiveational speakers. Religion infortunately has become just another big business.
ReplyDeleteBill Maher last Friday showed he's just as big an Islamaphobe.
ReplyDeleteHow could he be so uninformed. None of these people realize that our constitution states that no matter your religion you could be president of this country. It would be totally legal, ethical and constitutionally sound for a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jehovah's Witness, or a person of any religion to be president of our country.
ReplyDeleteanonymous 5:38 ...so.
ReplyDeleteGryphen, rest assured that there are many, many Christians like myself who find people like Mike Huckabee and his crowd repulsive. They are as strange and unrecognizable to us as extra-terrestrials would be. Truly. What they say has no relationship to our lives as Christians, our world view, our political beliefs. And we believe that our way is far more in line with Christ's teachings, for what it's worth. Christ argued for social justice for ALL people, period.
ReplyDeleteI think this is true in many faiths. There are fanatical extremists whose behavior and speech bear no resemblance to that of their more moderate counterparts.
Just as Mike may be lumping all Muslims together in error, I would ask others to stop lumping all Christians together.
You may think we should "do something" about Mike, but unfortunately he has the right to say whatever he wants, whenever he wants. All we can do is let him paint himself into a corner and hope that most people have the good judgement to see these creeps for who and what they are. They will always have their appeal to some of our citizens, unfortunately.
Fox News needs to go away. Until it does, people like Sarah and Mike will have a platform.
4:18 -- I also heard Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18 and Matthew 5:38-48 yesterday.
ReplyDeleteBut I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,for if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
How Mike Huckabee can claim to be a Christian and yet preach the exact opposite of the Scripture is why so many people are turning away from religion today.
I'm no expert but if we define a "real" Christian as someone who follows Christ's teaching, then I'm guessing that real Christians are embarrassed. Outspoken, uncharitable, supposed "Christians" like GWB, Palin, and Huckabee give Christianity a bad name. As do the "Christian" House members attempting to cut deficits by gutting/eliminating programs that help the poor and the struggling.
ReplyDeleteAnon 5:38
ReplyDeleteKudos to the Iron Dog participants and persons who press their endurance in competitive races.
It's doubtful people are taking it as a big middle finger or one upping.
It must be difficult to travel with a toddler in tow by alleged stability providing Bristol . Thanks for the info she's in AK.
I perceive Palin can't stand or be alone leaving me to further doubt she has anything to offer except a brand of mommy for President. No man could be elected as a boy scout dad or on his professed hobbies. The majority in the country believe the same.
To Anon 5:38 Todd is leading in the Iron Dog Race? Is he cheating AGAIN? Isn't that the only way he wins? Maybe $carah should hide under the bed, she is looking mighty rough these days. Guess botox and cosmetic surgery only help so much, so she is distracting all the old goats with her "hooker shoes"
ReplyDeleteO/T but worth reading
ReplyDeleteOur favorite wilderness wonk has been banished from the Fourth Estate — a bit late, in my view — and only after they gave her massive wings to fly, ropes to swing from, money to burn and an ego bigger than the gargantuan glaciers in her frosty backyard.
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/feb/19/
teague-curtains-for-the-divine-ms-sarah/
This clip is really so self-serving. The thing that stuck out to me was the part about a church being a building dedicated to one purpose and should not be used for other purposes. If that is the case, why is it OK for church services to be held in some schools.?
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Mike Huckabee is the same neanderthal who said that gays were "pedophiles," so it's not at all surprising that he would openly express intolerance for a group with a different religion.
ReplyDeleteI am a believer myself, and people like Huckabee, Palin, and Franklin Graham are not folks I can relate to. They appeal to people who use religion as an excuse to push aside their critical thinking, common sense, and empathy for people who differ from them in some way. I consider Huckabee particularly dangerous because he has this avuncular facade that fools so many people. Palin has shown the ugliness of the interior woman too often for her to be able to fool many people, and Franklin Graham's self-righteous intolerance is too much to stomach.
One of the things missing from their perverted interpretation of Christianity is social justice. It's scary that they are all tools used to persuade people to vote against their own best interests in the name of religious piety.
More Scoop On Palin: Her Reliable Media Mouthpieces
ReplyDeleteThere's also just, well, nutritious nuggets like the following. Bailey describes Palin's eventual media strategy: avoid any MSM interviews and get talking points out through surrogates. Who were they? Bailey names names: Bill Kristol, Mary Matalin, former Bush aides Jason Recher and Steve Biegun, GOP officials Nick Ayers and Michael Steele, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Glenn Beck, Greta Van Susteren, Sean Hannity, and Bill O‘Reilly. Then this sentence
We could normally expect them to repeat any coordinated message we sent.
First among equals as a propagandist posing as a journalist:
Of all the fawning—mostly middle-aged white men—nobody had infatuated eyes more than
Bill Kristol...
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_
dish/2011/02/more-scoop-on-palin-her-
reliable-media-mouthpieces.html
you need always to remember the main point.
ReplyDeleteeverything these people do to demonize Muslims and keep people hating them(telling us ALL Muslims hate so called christians etc.)
is done for the benefit of israel.
remember israel wanted bush to bomb Iran and he said no just as obama has said no way!
in fact bizarre palin is the only person that would bomb Iran if she ever was president and THAT is the nain reason she gets support from fox etc.
any attack on Iran will change the world as we know it.
no president as yet is willing to do it.
thatswhy you see Muslims talked about on fox to make their audience hate them.
He doesn't embarrass me - he disgusts me to the deepest core of my being.
ReplyDeleteHe also hats Mormons. He was the keynote speaker at an anti-mormon convention of baptists around 2000, held in Salt Lake City. They came to SLC to 'convert the heathens'. He has yet to release his comments.
ReplyDeleteEpic Fail
to the troll.
ReplyDeleteHe may be ahead, at this time, but do you really think he'll be coming home? I have a bet that something along the way will 'tripp' him up.
And, since the grifter jr is in town, dontcha think it would be nice if she put on her big girl panties on and too her money maker over to see his father?
I'm afraid that in the same way as "businessmen" USED to have a real spine, and wouldn't even consider cheating, and especially not accepting government welfare, when they were already doing well---
ReplyDelete---people who call themselves followers of Christ have convinced themselves its perfectly fine to hate almost everyone, and to demand that all others believe and act just like they do.
A "man of the cloth" is usually the worst in the cesspool.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all the early church, in Acts, went to each other's homes for assembling, or used rented a public place, or down by a riverside. What's happened since then in the western world, churches have become a property investment, and in many cases profitable money ventures. NOT what the NT would have encouraged.
ReplyDeleteHuckabee, who lives in a very very secular society here in the west, and who enjoys all the benefits of the wealthy, the entitled, the most prosperous country, and exceptionalism, might want to look deep in his heart and ask why he'd discourage another minister to help another peaceful religious group from temporarily borrowing their building. What is he afraid of? Doesn't Huckabee know that the early church, in Acts, met in all kinds of places, during the Roman Occupation, in homes, AND in courtyards where hours earlier may have been holding a ritualistic religious pagan meeting? They were in the world, and as they were taught, not of this world.
His intolerance seems like a product not from Jesus Christ, but of a greed/power/kingdomnow spirit which has taken hold of him and of the rest. He could learn from the humility and devotion of muslems.
So, his Christian duty is to preach the word of the bible, not to help his neighbor (who has a different viewpoint) share space in a building. I heard quite a few hypocritical switcheroos in those few minutes, but, what ever suits his argument, I guess. I'm sorry, this is why I left organized religion many years ago. The leaders and many followers of most of them are just self serving, and I think religion is in the top two reasons for world unrest- now and in the past.
ReplyDeleteWell then Huckster, do you think it is right for Churches to be political? (Since they were set up to 'preach the gospel').
ReplyDeleteI watched the video and agree with Huckabee. A Christian church is a house of worship. And it DOES matter What and/or Who is being worshipped within those walls. God teaches his followers to worship him and no other gods or idols. Those who say this is about hate are missing the point. It is not about hate - it is about the freedom to make an informed (biblical) choice and sticking to it.
ReplyDeleteChristianity is about love, nothing more and nothing less. People who use it for any other purpose - and certainly people who, instead of practicing love, practice judgement - are not real Christians. I also know Muslims who are extremely loving people, as their religion dictates.
ReplyDeleteMike Huckabee is a radical fundamentalist who is attacking other radical fundamentalists. There's nothing more to it than that.
This is not a man who practices Christianity as Jesus intended. Jesus would throw him out of the temple in a milisecond.
Repent, Mike, it's not too late.
Huckabee is one of the more competent religious extremists. This article includes not a single direct reference to Sarah Palin. The demolition derby reference might be made with her in mind.
ReplyDelete"Does Mike Huckabee still want to be president?" In the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/20/AR2011022003760.html
President Obama "is going to be much tougher to beat than people in our party think," Huckabee said.
OH NOOOOO!
The Republicans, meanwhile, "could in fact end up with a demolition derby," he added. "Whoever emerges will come out bloody, bruised and broke."
Demolition derby? How could that happen?
Wait until you see what he has to say about the tea party and it's involvement in the 2012 presidential race.
Contrast the activities of Mike Huckabee with the activities of Sarah Palin.
He recently returned from his 15th trip to Israel, where he was received almost as a visiting head of state. He sat down with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and spoke at the Knesset.
P.S. Mike Huckabee is running in 2012.
Anyone nowadays that says they are a 'christian', I immediately question them. Huckabee puts out these few minutes things on various radio stations - which I've heard on occasion - and I've heard him not be truthful on what he says...he always spins things just as do Limbaugh, Hannity and O'Reilly. I wouldn't trust him any further than I could throw him - and that wouldn't be far!
ReplyDeleteWhy is it in the Republican party - that those who disclose their being a 'christian' turn out to be the furthest from it - i.e. Palin, Beck, Hannity and Bill. They lie, cheat and manipulate their listeners.
Huckabeee and Palin especially are not qualified to be President of the U.S.
About his Israel trip. Watch the video in Crap Watch on Sajepress.com
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