Mike Huckabee, Asshole of the Day for February 9, 2015Last week President Obama spoke at the Nationa
Mike Huckabee, Asshole of the Day for February 9, 2015Last week President Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast and continued his assertion, stated often, that ISIS and other Islamic terrorists do not represent their entire religion, and that evil done in the name of Islam is no different than evil that has been done in the name of Christianity, not just throughout world history, but specifically American history with regards to slavery and Jim Crow. Here’s what the president said:Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ. The facts of Christianity being used in service of those evils is 100% accurate, as Ta-Nehisi Coates goes at length to show. But apparently bringing up facts is unforgivable. And, while many conservatives responded with crazy talk, it’s Mike Huckabee we’re highlighting today, for his was particularly ugly and he is running for president. Here’s Huckabee’s response:“Everything he does is against what Christians stand for, and he’s against the Jews in Israel,” he said on “Fox and Friends.” “The one group of people that can know they have his undying, unfailing support would be the Muslim community. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the radical Muslim community or the more moderate Muslim community.”Huckabee makes two assertions, both objectionable. So let’s take them in order:#1 “Everything he does is against what Christians stand for.” So which one of these things that Christians stand for does Obama act against?Helping the poor?Treating others the way he would like to be treated?Or is it that in Mike Huckabee’s very narrow view of his own religion all that Christians stand for is persecuting gays and oppressing women?Please recall that Obama is a professed Christian, and that during the 2008 election, members of Mike Huckabee’s party tried to make it unacceptable that Obama attended the Christian church run by Rev. Wright. Ring a bell? #2 “The one group of people that can know they have his undying, unfailing support would be the Muslim community.”Look, during his presidency ObamaPrioritized killing Bin LadenIncreased drone attacks against Islamic terroristsBegan bombing ISISNegotiated to keep Iran from getting nuclear weaponsThat doesn’t sound like undying and unfailing support to me.But Mike Huckabee doesn’t care about that. He expects the president of a constitutionally secular country will unconditionally put Christians above all others, and by Christians, those who hold the narrow view of the faith that Mike Huckabee has.And even more than that, Mike Huckabee knows that this line of attack plays to the portion of American racists who believe Obama to be a secret Muslim. And for that, Mike Huckabee is the Asshole of the Day.It is Mike Huckabee’s sixth time being named Asshole of the Day. Previous wins were forcalling Lara Logan a hero for her Benghazi story AFTER the story had been completely discreditedsaying Muslims come out of a mosque “like uncorked animals”saying women need birth control because they cannot control their libidoclaiming there’s more freedom in North Korea than the USsaying Christians having to accept gay marriage is like Jews being forced to serve porkFull story: Talking Points Memo -- source link
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