Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, has always prided himself on a bluegrass aesthetic – from a book titled “God, Guns, Grits and Gravy” to a Fox News show that featured a musical interlude for Southern rock. Formerly of Fox and now with Trinity Broadcasting Network, Huckabee’s was in Israel taping a television special when…
Mike Huckabee wants to “Build Israel Great Again.” The conservative onetime presidential candidate waved a hat bearing the awkward twist on president-elect Donald Trump’s slogan during an event at the West Bank settlement of Ma’ale Adumim. “I’m going to take an extra hat, I’m going to get it to president-elect Trump,” Huckabee said. “Who knows,…
If you leave your bubble, my fellow tofu-eaters, my fellow consumers of kale and quinoa, my fellow safe-space-trigger-warning-obsessed “Girls” fans, my fellow people who aren’t so much ‘people who actually exist’ as straw figurines constructed in the conservative imagination, you might be surprised to learn that right-wing websites also put “destroyed” in their headlines. In…
WASHINGTON — Mike Huckabee apologized for posting a false news report blaming “liberal, Jewish” students for an alleged hate crime that involved a mention of President-elect Donald Trump. The story, appearing on the Conservative Tribune website, blamed an attack in March at Northwestern University on “liberal, Jewish Northwestern students” seeking to smear Trump and his…
During a visit to Israel, Mike Huckabee, an ex-governor of Arkansas and former candidate in the U.S. Republican presidential primaries, defended the anti-Muslim rhetoric of presumptive nominee Donald Trump, whom Huckabee said would make a “great president” for the Jewish state. “It’s not racist. I think a lot of people are acting like what Donald…
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Israel has as much right to the West Bank as the United States has to Manhattan. Speaking at a press conference at Jerusalem’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Wednesday, the former Arkansas governor, who gave a speech in the West Bank settlement Shiloh on Tuesday said, according to The Guardian: “I…
Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee will arrive in Israel this week to raise campaign funds and discuss the recently signed accord on Iran’s nuclear program. The former Arkansas governor will arrive in Israel on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. A spokesperson saifd the trip would be “brief,” and did not provide further details. Huckabee…
We thought this year’s Republican presidential field had set a new low in personal invective, what with Ted Cruz calling Mitch McConnell a “liar,” Lindsey Graham calling Donald Trump a “jackass” and Trump himself impugning Graham’s competence, Rick Perry’s intelligence and even John McCain’s heroism. But Mike Huckabee has shown us there are always new…
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