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Fact checking RNC comments from Mike Huckabee and John McCain

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Josh Hicks - Aug. 31 (Opinion) - Wednesday’s speeches at the Republican National Convention struck us as somewhat safer than those from the previous day, but that doesn’t mean the event that day was completely free from misleading and factually incorrect remarks.

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Tim Pawlenty's Cash Problem

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By Walter Shapiro - May. 23 (Opinion) - With Mitch Daniels officially out of the presidential race, it seems like the entire GOP is emulating Ethelred the Unready. Well, not quite everyone. In a contrarian move at odds with the Reluctant Republican ethos of the party, former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty will actually make it official by declaring his candidacy today in Des Moines.

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Running Man

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By William Galston - Apr. 15 (Opinion) - Given current national trends and a credible Republican nominee, the presidential election would be very, very close, and President Obama might even lose.

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Mike Huckabee Wants Americans to Be Indoctrinated at Gunpoint

Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By B.E. Wilson - Mar. 31 (News Report) - Huckabee has just been caught on video, at a Christian supremacist conference, stating that Americans should be forcibly indoctrinated at gunpoint. The organization which hosted the "Rediscover God In America" conference, United in Purpose, has edited Huckabee's comment from footage of his speech, but not before People For The American Way's Kyle Mantyla captured the unedited footage, in which Mike Huckabee states, "I almost wish that there would be, like, a simultaneous telecast, and all Americans would be forced - forced at gunpoint no less - to listen to every David Barton message, and I think our country would be better for it."

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Huckabee Replaces N-word With 'Mau-Mau'

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Nation - By Leslie Savan - Mar. 07 (News Analysis) - But here’s a simpler theory: The right spews this bizarre “anticolonial” claptrap because it gives them a chance to say “Mau Mau,” which conjures a more fearsome threat than the N-word itself. Is Huckabee trying to prove he can be a good hatchetman as a Veep candidate, or is he just letting his freak flag fly? It’s hard to say—or anyway, harder to say than “Mau Mau.”

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Corn on "Hardball": Huckabee's Birther Lies

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - Mar. 02 (News Analysis) - David Corn and Joan Walsh joined Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball to discuss Mike Huckabee's recent boneheaded birther remarks and the racist undercurrent to the birther movement.

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Huckabee: Obama Grew Up "In Kenya"

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - By Eric Hananoki - Mar. 01 (News Analysis) - During a radio appearance yesterday, Mike Huckabee repeatedly falsely claimed that President Obama grew up in Kenya. After questioning Obama's purported secrecy about the birth certificate, radio host Steve Malzberg asked Huckabee if "we deserve to know more about this man." Huckabee responded, "I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough."

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Mike Huckabee, gay-marriage defender

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Ruth Marcus - Feb. 25 (Opinion) - Mike Huckabee made a great argument for gay marriage. The once and perhaps future Republican presidential candidate didn't mean it that way, of course. Actually, he was slamming President Obama's decision to stop defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibits the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages.

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Who will smack down all the lies?

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Gene Lyons - Nov. 18 (Opinion) - For most of two decades, Democrats have acted as if they actually believed what conservatives say about the allegedly liberal "mainstream" news media. Any day now, appropriately stringent and evenhanded news gathering and editorial standards will reappear as if by magic.

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Josh Silver: Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint Take Aim at NPR Funding

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Josh Silver - Oct. 22 (Opinion) - It's no longer just about Juan Williams or NPR. We're in a moment when we have to decide: Are we going to let our news media further devolve into a morass of shouting heads, hateful rhetoric and political opportunism? Or will we build something better?

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Huckabee rips CPAC

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Jonathan Martin - Feb. 21 (News Report) - Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee blasted the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Saturday as outdated, nearly corrupt and unrepresentative of the conservative movement. Huckabee, a 2008 Republican presidential contender and potential 2012

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Mike Huckabee Pt. 2

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Daily Show - Dec. 13 (Interview) - Just because Mike Huckabee doesn't support the idea of changing the definition of marriage doesn't mean he's a homophobe.

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Postmortem: Dicin’ And Slicin’

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New Yorker - By Lauren Collins - Nov. 30 (Opinion) - The former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who won eight states and more than four million votes in the Republican Presidential primaries, spent Election Night at home in Little Rock. Eating takeout in the den with his family and a few staffers, Huckabee wasn’t surprised to see Barack Obama win, although he couldn’t help but think that things might not have turned out the way they did had he been the nominee. “It would’ve been very different,” he said the other day. “Because I would’ve campaigned that the economy was headed toward meltdown. And I was saying this back when I was getting laughed at by the Wall Street Journal and pilloried by the National Review. They were just dicin’ and slicin’ me for not following the company line.”

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Crossin' All The Boundaries

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Current TV - By Brooke Bassin, Rebecca Parrish - Mar. 15 (Special Report) - Crossin' All The Boundaries is a journey through Clarksdale, a small town on the Mississippi Delta. Three weeks before the 2008 Mississippi Presidential Primaries, the filmmakers, Rebecca Parrish and Brooke Bassin, travel across boundaries of race and class in this small Southern town to find out how people relate to the candidates and to national politics as a whole.

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Huckabee protests Washington caucus results

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Post Intelligencer - Feb. 10 (News Report) - Huckabee's campaign chairman, Ed Rollins, said Luke Esser, Washington state's Republican Party chairman, chose to call the race too quickly for McCain. Rollins said Huckabee was losing by 242 votes with 87 percent of the vote counted. He said there were 1,500 or so more votes that were apparently not counted.

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Why isn't Huckabee throwing in the towel?

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Michael Finnegan - Feb. 10 (News Report) - A day after John McCain appeared to have nailed down the Republican presidential nomination, Mike Huckabee clung Friday to the faint hope that he could snatch it away. -- He gamely pleaded for support at "Huckabee for President" rallies in Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City, Kan. -- But for many who have watched Huckabee rise to the top tier of candidates only to see McCain emerge as the presumptive nominee, the question has become: Why keep going?

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Evangelical leader endorses Huckabee

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Eric Gorski - Feb. 08 (News Report) - James Dobson, one of the nation's most prominent evangelical Christian leaders, backed Mike Huckabee's presidential bid Thursday night, giving the former Arkansas governor a long-sought endorsement as the Republican field narrowed to a two-man race.

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The FundamentaList

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

American Prospect - By Sarah Posner - Feb. 06 (News Analysis) - It will be interesting to watch and see, in the coming weeks, whether the religious right leaders start to coalesce around Huckabee, something many of them have resisted for months, in order to put pressure on McCain, who many of them still view with suspicion. Surely any rallying around McCain would be accompanied by pressure on him to pledge fealty to their core issues, especially a federal gay marriage amendment and judicial nominations. If McCain makes amends with the old guard -- people like James Dobson and the Southern Baptist Convention's Richard Land -- and they also see Huckabee as a viable running mate, McCain could draw together different strands of the Republican-leaning evangelical vote.

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Candidates scrambling from coast to coast

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Michael Finnegan, Maeve Reston, Seema Mehta - Feb. 04 (News Report) - With polls suggesting that Republican voters were consolidating behind John McCain, the Arizona senator made a foray into former Gov. Mitt Romney's home state of Massachusetts. He greeted New England Patriots fans in a Boston tavern just before the team's Super Bowl kickoff and spoke openly of his plans for the general election.

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Simi Valley Showdown

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Brooks Jackson, Viveca Novak, Jess Henig, Joe Miller, Lori Robertson, D'Angelo Gore - Feb. 01 (Review) - Summary: With a nationwide wave of nominating contests looming next week, Republican presidential candidates held their last scheduled debate against the backdrop of Ronald Reagan's retired Air Force One. But we found some of the candidates' facts just won't fly. -- Romney complained that McCain used "the wrong data" about job creation to support his assertion that Massachusetts had ranked 47th among the 50 states while Romney was governor. Romney was wrong; McCain was correct. -- Romney said his hundreds of millions of dollars in "fee increases" merely caught up with years of inflation and weren't tax increases in disguise. Independent budget experts contradict him on that. -- Romney said the over-budget costs of his Massachusetts health care plan were due to changes made by his successor. Authorities on the plan say that's mostly untrue; costs went up because more people than expected signed up for state-subsidized insurance. -- Romney wrongly claimed McCain's anti-global-warming bill would boost gasoline prices by up to 50 cents per gallon. Actually, the official estimate is 40 cents for most vehicles, and not until the year 2025. -- McCain and Romney traded oversimplified assertions regarding a "timetable" for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. -- Huckabee cited a Heritage Foundation study to back up his assertion that rebates to taxpayers aren't as good a way to stimulate the economy as the highway construction he favors. In fact, the study does disparage rebates but urges tax cuts instead, not increased spending. -- Ron Paul repeated his claim that defending the U.S. "empire" is costing "a trillion dollars a year." But the dubious figure includes costs such as the entire Veterans Affairs budget. Paul also claimed "nobody" is talking about cutting spending, even as his rivals did so 14 times during the same debate.

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Huck's Free Pass

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By Christopher Hitchens - Jan. 21 (Opinion) - In this country, it seems that you can always get an argument going about "race" as long as it is guaranteed to be phony, but never when it is real. ***************** Gov. Mike Huckabee made the following unambiguously racist and demagogic appeal in Myrtle Beach, S.C., last week:

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Base Runner

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:35:01 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By John Fund - Jan. 21 (News Analysis) - Huckabee tries but fails to win the votes of non-evangelicals. -- Mike Huckabee tried his best to expand beyond his evangelical base in South Carolina and appeal to what his campaign called "Joe Six Pack" voters. Mr. Huckabee was the only candidate to pander to devotees ...

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Why Republican candidate Mike Huckabee worries Jewish voters

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Shmuel Rosner - Jan. 20 (News Analysis) - Huckabee wants to change the U.S. Constitution to reflect what he sees as divine law. It's not exactly what the Jewish voter wants. It's not the first time Huckabee has butted heads with the principle of the separation of church and state that is so dear, for obvious reasons, to America's Jewish minority. On the eve of the Iowa caucus, an ad went on the air in which he declared himself a "Christian leader."

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Huckabee vows to send all illegal aliens home

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:30:00 -0800

Washington Times - By Stephen Dinan - Jan. 17 (News Report) - Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee yesterday continued to move to the right on immigration during this year's presidential campaign, signing a pledge to enforce immigration laws and to make all illegal aliens go home

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Huck, the Constitution and 'God's standards'

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - Jan. 15 (News Report) - "[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards," Huckabee said, referring to the need for a constitutional human life amendment and an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

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