Gov. Draws Ire For Concentration Camp Joke (Mike Huckabee)

[oberliner]

Republican Gov. Mike Huckabee drew criticism from a Jewish Democratic group Friday for jokingly crediting his 100-pound weight loss to a stay in a concentration camp.

Huckabee, who is considering a run for president in 2008, made the comment Wednesday on Don Imus' radio show after the host told him he looked “emaciated.”

I have just come out of six weeks at a concentration camp held by the Democrat Party of Arkansas in an undisclosed location, making a hostage tape,” Huckabee said. “That's why I look that way.”

A spokesman for the National Jewish Democratic Council said Huckabee should apologize.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/20/politics/main2112584.shtml

[ShortnFiery]

1. Mike Huckabee is a putz. n/t

[whistle]

2. GOP candidates have large mouths and long feet, good for Dem's

:rofl:

[Human Torch]

3. Huckabee is the dickwad whose band plays at the Freep parties...

...RimJob trots them out as the "special guest" whenever the freeps get all "gussied up."

[saigon68]

12. Ah yes old "Rimjob" leader of the simpletons

The special olympian

[BootinUp]

4. You've got to be joking~!

Where do they find these chuckleheads?

[Art_from_Ark]

9. They slipped this chucklehead in through the back door

Ken Starr got two known perjurers to testify against then governor Jim Guy Tucker to force him out so the then-lieutenant governor, Mike Chucklebee, could get into the governor's mansion by default. Somehow the putz was able to win two elections after that.

[jwirr]

18. Is he ahead now?

[Art_from_Ark]

31. Hucklebee's not running this year

Asa Hutchinson is running for governor on the Republican side. Most polls I've seen show him trailing his Democratic opponent, Mike Beebe.

[yellowcanine]

5. It was a lame ass joke. Ignore the meat head.

[tanyev]

6. Concentration camps and hostages are funny!

Who knew?

[stepnw1f]

7. Wow... Now Where was this media 6 years ago

We wouldn't be in this mess right now if they reported this type of crap before.... oh well. I'll take it now... just wish the media did it's job consistently for the last 6 years.

[Demeter]

8. At Least Ahnold Didn't Make That Crack

For a moment my heart was in my mouth...

[Toucano]

10. That's really gross.

It equates Democrats with Nazis and the concentration camps with weight-loss centers.

Really funny, dick cheese.

[gratuitous]

11. Ah haw, haw, heee!

Gosh, Mr. Huckabee, you're so funny! Concentration camps, torture, hostage videos! Gosh, where do you come up with this kind of material? You really should go to the offices of the Christian Science Monitor. I'll be you'll have them rolling in the aisles, especially Jill Carroll.

Ah haw, haw, heee! Torture is just sooo fuckin' funny. No wonder the GOP rewrote the laws of the land so the president could do it legally.

[NoodleyAppendage]

13. Ha...ha...ha. Concentration camp jokes...yuk. yuk. yuk. Only a Repuke.

Apparently, in addition to the dumbass allele, there is also a insensitivity allele over-represented in Repuke DNA.

J

[treestar]

14. They are making a big deal of something they shouldn't

It is oversensitive to complain about this one - and concentration camp is a general term - doesn't have to even refer to the Holocaust.

[Stand and Fight]

15. Okay..... n/t

[elehhhhna]

17. Riiiiiiiiiiight. Guess you don't have any family who died in the camps,

huh? No. Didn't think so.

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[DavidDvorkin]

19. It's clear that he had the Nazi camps in mind

His joke makes no sense otherwise.

However, I agree that it's an example of cluelessness and carelessness, not malice, and shouldn't be escalated into a controversy. And for the record, much of my mother's family died in the Holocaust.

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[Fredda Weinberg]

26. That's what you think

You learn about death waaaaaaaaaaaay too early when you grow up without a family. Imagine it if you can ... no grandparents, aunts, uncles or cousins. You hear about these things, but they don't exist in your life.

So why don't you demonstrate some sensitivity and quit talking about conditions about which you admittedly know nothing.

Too sensitive? I don't think so ... considering the magnitude of the holocaust, the public reaction to Huckabee's quip was about right. I don't want us to become desensitized to suffering - look what it's done to you.

[elehhhhna]

30. oh my. fredda, that was very concise. excellent. thank you.

[DavidDvorkin]

27. What in the world are you talking about?

I'm 63, and I'm certainly not playing the victim.

I mentioned my mother's family because someone said, in an earlier post, that those who don't think the joke was outrageous can't have lost family members in the Nazi camps. I'm someone who did lose family in those camps, and I don't think the joke is worthy of outrage.

I think I made that clear in my post, but your knee seems to be jerking so wildly that you can't read properly.

[elehhhhna]

29. Sorta like "YOU LOST! GET OVER IT!" but "THEY"RE DEAD! GET OVER IT!"?

why does your bs sound familiar?

[geek tragedy]

16. Michelle Malkin will probably endorse the idea. eom

[grasswire]

20. huckabee's a bona fide FREEPER

A member of freerepublic.com. I wonder if they have scrubbed his old posts there.

[struggle4progress]

21. Guess he didn't lose the fat between his ears

[seasat]

22. And this guy is a potential 08 pres candidate.

Our possible nominees are looking better and better. I read some stuff on him a while back. He's kind of an odd duck. He is strongly religious right in his social views but populist on other issues. I think he's an ordained baptist minister. CATO blasted him a while back for his flip flop on increasing taxes. He's pioneered a healthy school system program for Arkansas. I'm interested in following him in the primary because, IMHO, his supporters may indicate how much Christian Conservative support remains with the GOP during '08.

[Cha]

23. That's a fucking asshole

thing to say.

[area51]

28. Oh, brother.

Only a member of the republinazi party would find concentration camps humorous. :eyes:

[treestar]

32. I may have lost family to the potato famine

If he wants to refer to that, I don't think I'll get hypersensitive about it.

Really, where does it end? Aren't there enough real anti-semites out there that one should be offended by this? And this guy probably didn't mean anything by it.

[sarcasmo]

33. Kick since I can't NOm.

Republicans the hatred party.

[BreweryYardRat]

34. Tasteless.

Very tasteless.