Arkansas Blog: Huckobsessed

Thanks to Cato for pointing me to a website of a scholar devoted to cataloguing Mike Huckabee's extremism. It's not light work to keep up with Huckawhoppers. Much of it's familiar: His approval of discrimination against gay people; his calls for the U.S. to leave the UN and abolish the IRS. I'd missed this one, about the threat of a nuclear device using electromagnetic impulses to knock out power and communications in the U.S. for maybe years:

On September 10, Governor Huckabee the keynote speaker on day two of the EMPACT America conference on the threat from electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks. At the event sponsored by food and beverage maker Steuben Foods, Huckabee warned his audience about the usual suspects. Citing his experience in dealing with devastating ice storms that left his home state of Arkansas without power for 21 days:

Huckabee agreed with Dr. Fritz Ermarth, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council, who told the attendees on Wednesday the greatest threat of an EMP attack would likely come from so-called rogue states like Iran or North Korea or from a terrorist network like al-Qaida.

Recalling the unpredicted terrorist attacks of 9/11, Huckabee said, "The greatest threat we face today is the naiveté about the threat of our enemies. Any country who has the capacity to explode a nuclear device is a threat."

Huckabee's penchant for hyperbole, as ever, stands out. From news coverage:

The former Arkansas governor said he learned firsthand about the devastation and chaos a loss of electricity can cause when an ice storm knocked out power in his home state for up to 21 days in some communities.

“There was no communication, no transportation, no heat or food,” Huckabee said. “When we were able to get in to some of those areas (by helicopter) the people there asked us what the news was and I told them, ‘You are.’ ”

As I recall, the storm didn't prevent people from firing up their cars and driving to newspaper boxes. Or turning on battery-powered radios to get a headline or two. Of course, in Huckabee's view, everything that happens to him is the best or worst ever. He famously ruled the ice storm the worst natural disaster in Arkansas history, something of a surprise to those with memory of the 1927 flood.

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If America is going to fall to pieces going without juice for 21 days then I hope Osama returns and finishes us off. I swear...Huck learned nothing from visiting his granny with the dirt floors. He needs to spend a little time with a 90 year old and talk to them about the Great Depression and WWII. The poorest person in the state today has it easy compared to the average Arkansan who made it through the 30s and 40s.

I don't want to go back to working for 25 cents a day or being shot at, but by god even with the bitching I do about my ailments, I bet I could do it and last a lot longer than lard-ass. I made the mistake of watching a little HuckaClip last night on Crooks & Liars and our former governor has become unwatchable. He's fat again because he's so full of shit. But worst of all....that he continues to have a TV show points out how stupid some Americans are.

He's just sad. I never realized how nuts Republicans are. But like the dust storms of the 30s and the Japanese kamikazes of the early 40s, if we just keep fighting eventually we'll whip their lunatic asses and life in America will be good again.

(To comply with the new blogger rules I need to say that my daughter's boyfriend brought me a free 2 liter Pepsi last night as a thank you for getting to eat my excellent Chicken Florentine. I believe that's about a $1.45 value. Max, are you keeping track of this stuff?)

Posted by: Deathbyinches | October 6, 2009 09:19 AM

Oh, nothing shocks me about the scurrilous Huckabuck, anymore.

But, why is a yogurt company conducting meetings about EMP? Their website promotes their environmentalism, but I'm unable to determine whether it's real or the Turk Plant kind. Don't they realize the kinds of crazies that an EMP conference will draw e.g. Huckabuck.

Posted by: 70%er | October 6, 2009 09:35 AM

My Republican dream ticket for 2012: Huck and Sarah...the order is irrelevant. In fact, the pissing contest for the top slot would be fun.

My favorite analysis of Huck's current money-grubbing career came from my DEVOUT Southern Baptist mom-in-law, who is done with him because 'He turned his back on the Lord's call to preaching.' In her die-hard Baptist mind he either lied about having the preacher calling or he turned his back on it for power/money and fame. I think both are true.

Posted by: zelda | October 6, 2009 09:49 AM

Huckabuck's hand is always extended palm-up when meeting people. One of his favorite phrases while Governor was "ask not, receive not".
RE: weight. Does the bypass weight loss surgery reverse itself? He is bloated. And DBI, you're right, full of $@#% and hot air.

Posted by: bayou | October 6, 2009 10:17 AM

I had a dream last night. I had a dream that America finally awoke from a 50 year sleep and realized who is really out to get them.

It's not ice storms. It's not EMPs. It is the IMP within.I had a dream we learned that to be safe means to have good friends around the world willing to help because you have helped them and supported them.

Seems just yesterday it was the Chinese who were going to invade the U.S. via our Southern border and topple major defense strongholds while five renegades in the Texas Hills stopped the entire mega-global operation. Now they're selling us our jeans and making bailout-America loans.

Before that Russians were going to bury us with nuclear bombs so he had to make sure it would be mutually assured destruction. Now, we have corporate offices in Russia and send oil executives there to help them extract oil from the world's largest reserve. Plus, for years Gov Palin kept an eye on the Ruskies. How safe is that!

I had a dream that most Americans could put this picture together. That a poorly funded, poorly equipped band of mountain folk in the Middle East is going to topple the mightiest military empire in the world simply doesn't make any sense.

Freedom is never Free
Eternal Vigilance

I had a dream that we all came to our senses. We decided to pay our own way and not rape other nations who in turn do not like us.

Posted by: eLwood | October 6, 2009 12:36 PM

Bayou, in answer to your query, take a look at Star Jones' current weight after her (first denied, then admitted) surgery.

Posted by: NormaBates | October 6, 2009 02:54 PM

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