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The skinny on Mike Huckabee vs. Glenn Beck over Michelle Obama's fat fight
Politico ^ | MAGGIE HABERMAN

Posted on 04/21/2011 10:04:54 AM PDT by Right Wingnut 2

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"This week Glenn Beck has taken to his radio show to attack me as a Progressive, which he has said is the same as a ‘cancer’ and a ‘Nazi,’” Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor whose battles with his own weight are well known, wrote on his HuckPAC website. “What did I do that apparently caused him to link me to a fatal disease and a form of government that murdered millions of innocent Jews?

"I had the audacity — not of hope — but the audacity to give respect to the efforts of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign to address childhood obesity,” Huckabee fumed. “I’m no fan of her husband’s policies for sure, but I have appreciated her efforts that Beck misrepresented — either out of ignorance or out of a deliberate attempt to distort them to create yet another ‘boogey man’ hiding in the closet that he and only he can see. The First Lady’s approach is about personal responsibility — not the government literally taking candy from a baby’s mouth. He seems to fancy himself a prophet of sorts for his linking so many people and events together to describe a massive global conspiracy for pretty much everything.”

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: beck; huckabee
Huck is a clown.
1 posted on 04/21/2011 10:04:59 AM PDT by Right Wingnut 2
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To: Right Wingnut 2
Nazi's are a subset of Socialists.

This woman needs to embrace and celebrate true diversity.

2 posted on 04/21/2011 10:09:12 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Right Wingnut 2

Maybe the title should be rewritten. There is absolutely nothing skinny relating to Mike Huckabee.


3 posted on 04/21/2011 10:11:08 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Right Wingnut 2
“What did I do that apparently caused him to link me to a fatal disease and a form of government that murdered millions of innocent Jews?

You decided that because you are a fatso, you need to control others lives and practices. If you don't see that Huckster, you are as big a Progressive as we all see you as. By the way. Your record as AR Gov also shows a love of Gov't solutions.

Apparently you can get fat on so called healthy foods too, Huckster, as you have demonstrated.

4 posted on 04/21/2011 10:13:01 AM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: Right Wingnut 2
An overbearing Baptist preacher (or a fat FLOTUS) who believes that it's the government's role and responsibility to tell people what they can or should eat is only marginally less objectionable than some Mullah telling us what we are permitted to think and say.

"Happy Easter" and "Butt Out" to them and the horses they rode in on.

5 posted on 04/21/2011 10:14:28 AM PDT by katana
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To: Right Wingnut 2

If Huck was hoping to use his radio spot to become as trusted and beloved a figure as, say, Paul Harvey, I’d say today’s pretty much torpedoed that goal. He came across as petty and shrill.


6 posted on 04/21/2011 10:14:44 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Right Wingnut 2
Catfight!


7 posted on 04/21/2011 10:15:23 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: Right Wingnut 2

Downright snippy ain’t he?


8 posted on 04/21/2011 10:16:00 AM PDT by MestaMachine (Note: I do NOT capitalize anything I don't respect...like obama and/or islam...but I repeat myself.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie; All

Is there anything skinny relating to Glen Beck or am I confusing him with Rush?


9 posted on 04/21/2011 10:16:16 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: Right Wingnut 2

Huck is a progressive.


10 posted on 04/21/2011 10:17:17 AM PDT by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: Right Wingnut 2
Glenn Beck has his faults but he called this one correctly even if he used slightly overblown rhetoric in the process. Mike Huckabee is a progressive and he naturally embraces progressive ideas, such as controlling what people feed their children. Yes, childhood obesity is a concern but it is not one that justifies governmental attention. Michelle Obama is probably a bigger authoritarian than her husband and anything she is interested in means she hopes to eventually have government control over because, in her mind (and that of all socialists) the super-brilliant, ultra-compassionate people are all liberals and they know what's best for the peons (us). So, put down that Big Mac, kid, and eat your organic vegetables or we'll have to send you and your parents to a 're-education' camp until you learn to obey your government masters, who just want you to be 'healthy' - or else.
11 posted on 04/21/2011 10:33:25 AM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: Right Wingnut 2
The Huckster belongs in the dumpster.

The Huckster is a progressive that helped McAmensty win the nomination in '08.

FOMH.
12 posted on 04/21/2011 10:47:49 AM PDT by Mr. Jazzy (The United States Marine Corps, your greatest friend or your worst enemy. YOU choose.)
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To: Right Wingnut 2

Let’s move haga


13 posted on 04/21/2011 10:48:28 AM PDT by mel (I DONATE to FR monthly...Do You?????)
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To: Jim Scott
The direction Governor Huckabee would take us in … liberal economic policies … liberal foreign policies … taxpayer funded programs for illegals … that’s not the model of the Reagan coalition, that’s the model of the democratic party.
14 posted on 04/21/2011 11:09:58 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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15 posted on 04/21/2011 11:33:06 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Right Wingnut 2

RINO Romney could say that MO was the smartest woman since sliced bread

and Beck would say “Yes master she is”

and would have her on his show to tell us about her anti-fat plans.....

(suddenly MO would be the model for conservatism)

So when is Glennie going to endorse Romney ???


16 posted on 04/21/2011 2:42:55 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Right Wingnut 2

Mike Huckabee about Beck

“His ridiculous claim that John McCain and I collaborated and conspired in the 2008 campaign is especially laughable…Beck needs to stick to conspiracies that can’t be so easily de-bunked by facts.”
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Straight out of the Romney Rule Book of excuses why Mitt didnt win the GOP nomination

Its Bushs fault ...errr...Huckabees fault
Its the south
Its the bigots

No it was Romneys 40 years of blatant liberalism


17 posted on 04/21/2011 2:47:25 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Servant of the Cross

Baloney, Huckabee is no rino liberal. That’s just pure crap.

Contrary to the false smears against him Huck would not have been a “tax-hiker”. Instead, he did his best to promote the Fair Tax in the 2008 Republican primary. Huckabee wanted to abolish the Federal income tax, not raise it.

On foreign policy, Huckabee was the only Republican candidate to vigorously oppose the Bush “two-state non-solution “Roadmap” policy. A horrible foreign policy devised by Bush to impose a “Palestinian” state in Israel’s own land of Judea and Samaria. In that regard, Bush paved the way for Obama. As Obama has continued that horrible policy of pressuring Israel to make appeasement to the Islamists.

All the other GOP candidates, including Fred Thompson, supported the Bush Roadmap-Phased Plan. This was a major reason why I supported Huckabee in the 2008 primary.

Huckabee also advocated an enforcement plan to secure the border, stop illegal immigration, and not allow amnesty for illegal aliens based on studies done by Mark Krikorian.
It was called the “Secure America Plan”.

Beck has hated Huckabee ever since his question to a NYT reporter, “Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and Satan are brothers”?

In that matter, both Romney and Beck responded like a couple of enraged Islamic ayatollahs.

If you take issue with Islamic doctrine you are accused of being an anti-Muslim bigot.

If you take issue with certain Catholic teachings as being un-Biblical, you are accused of being an anti-Catholic bigot.

If you dare put a spotlight on the un-Biblical doctrines of Mormonism, you are accused of being an anti-Mormon bigot.

That fact is that Huckabee probably did a good thing in that he helped, even if unintentional, in calling public attention to an official Mormon teaching that helped exposed Mormonism for what it is:

A false counterfeit Christian cult religion.

Don’t think Huck is going to run this time around.

Hope he doesn’t because I would like to see everyone rally behind Sarah Palin. Assuming that she does run.

My dream ticket would be Palin/West.

I agree with Joe Farah of WND. I have some differences of opinion with Mike Huckabee. But he’s not a monster. He’s not a wolf in sheeps clothing. But Romney is.


18 posted on 04/21/2011 6:15:35 PM PDT by Amerisrael
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To: Amerisrael
LOL. You will love this thread ... Is Governor Huckabee Conservative Or Progressive?
19 posted on 04/22/2011 8:13:36 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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