Mike Huckabee: Duggar Family The Victim Of An 'Insensitive Bloodthirst'

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: Right Wing Watch, people for the American Way



Mike Huckabee, whose presidential campaign website still boasts of his endorsement from the Duggar family, responded on his Facebook page today to the revelation that the reality TV family’s eldest son, Josh, sexually assaulted several girls, including his sisters, as a minor.

(...)

Huckabee praised the Duggar family, who took over a year to bring the matter to law enforcement, saying that they “dealt with it and were honest and open about it with the victims and the authorities.”

He adds that Josh is a good person who “confessed his sins to those he harmed [and] sought help,” despite the fact that, according to reports, Josh did not receive counseling and was only sent to live with a family friend who worked in the home remodeling business.

The former Arkansas governor saved his anger for the people who have cited the case to point out the disingenuousness of the reality TV stars and the conservative political activists who hold them up as a paragon of moral virtue, or as Josh referred to his family, “the epitome of conservative values.” They also have a record of depicting LGBT people as threats to children.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mike-huckabee-duggar-family-victim-insensitive-bloodthirst#sthash.TyL06ASI.dpuf

Read more: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mike-huckabee-duggar-family-victim-insensitive-bloodthirst

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Conservative Victimhood Power-up +5!!!!

Yes, how dare that media accurately point out the fact that a conservative "family values" activist, who went around saying LGBT people were "a threat to kids" turned out to be an incestuous, serial child molester! Josh Duggar and his enabling parents are the real victims here!

When will this persecution of Republicans ever stop!

[katmondoo]

1. Up yours Huckabee

What's in your past??

[leftofcool]

4. And you know darn well there is SOMETHING!

[LynnTTT]

15. Well, his son

and a friend tortured and then killed a stray dog by slitting it's throat back when he was a camp counselor. I won't post the many links, just look them up. Even on snopes. Bad parenting you know.

[Chemisse]

56. Does it really matter?

After all, if he confesses his sins, all is forgiven.

[KingCharlemagne]

73. Not to engage unduly in theological hair-splitting, but Huckabee is a

Southern Baptist (Protestant) and his denomination does not believe that one must 'confess' one's sins to be forgiven. Confession is a doctrine belonging to the Roman Catholic faith. In Huckabee's denomination, if one is 'saved' (by Grace), one is forgiven. No confession required.

Pedantic itch scratched. Now back to regular programming (npi).

[3catwoman3]

80. A nursing faculty colleague of mine, many years ago...

...had converted from Catholicism to Judaism. She told me that in Judaism, it does not matter if god forgives you. it matters if the people you have harmed forgive you.

Makes more sense to me. The automatic forgiveness from god seems just too damned easy.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. What an ugly human being...

"Huck" defends child molestation. What an utterly SICK fuck...

[Plucketeer]

36. Aw..... C'mon!

If Huck's God can forgive, why can't Huck get awa...er do it too?

[haikugal]

3. Huckster and all his ilk are enablers of the first order.

[Historic NY]

5. Huckaberry should shut his yap it makes him more stupid....

considering his closeness to sexual offenders

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/huckabee-rape/

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. Don't forget Huck's ongoing friendship with convicted felon, adulterer and accused rapist Jim Bakker

No disgraced televangelist is to disgracey for the Huckster!

[Judi Lynn]

86. Wow! Super creepy! What a bunch of posturing liars these fundies are. Funny video! Hilarious set.n/t

[Thinkingabout]

6. Huckabee's defending the abuse of young girls does not go well with many. The attitude of Huckabee

is he is "forgiving" Josh and with the remarks from what makes gays gay does not add up. He is supposed to hate the sin and not the sinner but in the case of LGBT he doesn't forgive.

[Dawson Leery]

7. Defending child molesters is not popular at all Mikey.

Mr. Duggar does not need "confession". He needs to face justice in the courts.

[christx30]

17. I think a confession to a police

interrogator would be good for the soul.

[meow2u3]

44. Duggar is a Christian child molester

So that makes it OK.

[davidpdx]

70. I honestly think this disqualifies him from running

Here is what I posted on his Facebook page:

Mike Huckabee on child molestation in 2009:
"Some things are either right or wrong. It doesn't matter who does them. When Hollywood hero Roman Polanski drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl and then fled the country instead of facing the consequences of his own guilty plea, there should be no defense of him from anyone. What he did was evil and reprehensible. The fact that he is a great director doesn't obscure the fact that he robbed a child of far more than Bernie Madoff stole from his victims.

What has our culture become when people can commit despicable criminal acts and yet get defended and excused because they are celebrities. If David Letterman takes advantage of subordinates who work for him, then it's not funny, it's pathetic and immoral. The audience shouldn't laugh and applaud; they ought to walk out in disgust. And instead of actors and even governments seeking the release of Roman Polanski, they should be screaming for justice."
-- Mike Huckabee, FOX News commentary, 2009
http://www.foxnews.com/.../can-have-different-points-view...

Mike Huckabee on child molestation in 2015:
Huckabee praised the Duggar family, who took over a year to bring the matter to law enforcement, saying that they “dealt with it and were honest and open about it with the victims and the authorities.”

He adds that Josh is a good person who “confessed his sins to those he harmed sought help,” despite the fact that, according to reports, Josh did not receive counseling and was only sent to live with a family friend who worked in the home remodeling business.
https://www.facebook.com/mikehuckabee/posts/10152994543137869

I encourage everyone on DU to post the same.

[workinclasszero]

74. Huckabee is a typical republican liar/hypocrite/scam artist

If you are not in the teahaddist/dominunist false Christian camp then its all hellfire and damnation for you, you lousy demon possessed democrat!


But if you are a member of the republican cult/party, you even get free child molesting privileges!

As in Ted Nugent and now Josh Duggar!

Republican scam artists like Huckabee make me sick and these lousy hypocrite bastards are killing this country and Christianity in america as well.

[ck4829]

8. They accuse and stereotype an entire class of people as being predators and dangerous to kids

But when one of their own is revealed to be just that, they defend him?

If hypocrisy could be used as fuel, all we would need to do is interview a Republican, and all energy problems would be solved.

[Fred Sanders]

12. Good one! Tesla should have a talk with Republicans, maybe build a GigaHypocrit factory, powered by the GOP.

[George II]

10. He IS from Arkansas, of course...

....(I may be hidden for saying this!)....where men are men and sheep are nervous.

[libdem4life]

64. Oh, Canada ... you went there.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

76. And after talking to the locals, immediately left.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

11. Family values at their best

If your family values happen to include raping your sisters.

Huckabee is right. It's so insensitive of people to condemn child molesters. Yes Huck, now we know what your own family values must consist of.

[Sunlei]

13. Was it Mike Huckabee who gave him the cushie executive position at the republican charity?

Perhaps the republican party knew? of his behavior and still gave him a cushie 'family values" job & used the popular TV star for photo ops.

[CoffeeCat]

48. You're on to something...

These abuser types--especially sex abusers--always find a way to each other. The sick sad truth is that I think child sex abusers are common in the Republican Party. They feel entitled to hit and abuse children (spare the rod), they want to control women's bodies and so many of them excuse away rape.

They're mysoginistic stunted pigs.

Let's watch as other fellow sex abusers run to the Duggar's defense. Easy way to ferret out other sex-abusers.

Anyone else think it's a coincidence that Mr Duggar, after learning that Josh had sexually victimized FOUR of his own daughters, took his son to talk with a cop friend--who was later convicted of manufacturing child porn?!?!

Mr Duggar did nothing for a year! Then he finally has his son talk with a cop who is also a pedophile and a sex predator.

These people damn we'll stick together. It's how they keep their sick secrets in the dark.

[alphafemale]

85. I think the rings that protect child predators are wide and deep.

And I think it also has to include elements in law enforcement.

[hrmjustin]

14. Two creeps.

[Judi Lynn]

87. Their "sweet" act is almost enough to trigger a gag reflex. They are outlandish,waaay overdoing it.

They really hope to pull the wool over their contributors' eyes.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

16. Imagine if the Duggars let their kids listen to Beyonce!

Then ol' Huck would finally be up in arms!

[sarge43]

18. Not a mumbling word about Josh's victims

Just when you think they can't dig any deeper...

They never disappoint.

[Novara]

20. Yep, nothing about the victims

Those good old Christian butthurt values.

[arcane1]

30. What victims? It's not as if he molested boys!

[sarge43]

35. They probably tempted the poor boy

More

[arcane1]

37. After he was raised by parents who believe in that "wives must submit" crap...

I am shocked that he'd think girls were there solely for his amusement!

[sarge43]

39. In those sacks of rabid rats that sub for their brains,

they're probably wondering what all the hubbub is about. "Their jist wimmins."

[leftieNanner]

47. Those girls were probably sleeping

in a provocative manner under the covers. Nothing like a blankie to turn a guy on.

This is where the evangelical abstinence-only zero-knowledge crowd takes us. They treat human sexuality like an evil sin (although we do know that the Duggars have "done it" 19 times. Well, maybe 20 - we'll give them one for practice) and they refuse to teach their children that it's normal and healthy. Therefore, the Joshes of this world don't know what to do with their sexual urges. And because their religion doesn't treat the issue sensibly, the parents have to hide their son's behaviors. I'm not saying it's OK what he did at ALL. Sick, just sick.

[libdem4life]

77. Maybe not so far off ...

Yes, I went to their own blog...just to get the actual definition, as per the Matriarch

Q: What is blanket training?
A: Starting when her children are toddlers, Michelle teaches them to play quietly with a single toy for short periods of time, often while sitting on a blanket. Blanket training teaches small children to exercise self-control in any situation (with or without a blanket). As the kids grow older, Michelle begins training them to sit quietly without a toy. Click here to read more about the process Michelle uses to teach her 19 kids to be "quiet and still."

So whether one is changing diapers or molesting, they are taught to be "self-controlled" and keep the secrets. It actually starts when they are Babies. It makes perfect (ungodly) sense.

[3catwoman3]

81. I believe I'll pass on reading more about it.

The information in your post is sufficient to tell me it will be nauseating.

It took every scrap of emotional and intellectual energy I had to nurture the minds and bodies of our 2 sons, who are now 25 and 22. I could have raised a third. I have often commented, regarding the Duggars, that I cannot imagine how one could possibily do it well for that many different individuals.

[libdem4life]

83. I had one son, and he had ADHD, so one was all I could handle...had to quit working to do that. But

was he ever worth it.

[Blue Owl]

19. Thanks for that Uncle Fuckabee

n/t

[PersonNumber503602]

21. Hah! I bet someday he'll wish he didn't come out in support of this guy.

His behavior doesn't sound like a youthful curiosity thing. I won't be surprised if we see Josh Duggar in the news sometime in the future for something related to sexually violating children.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

23. this is further proof that Huckabee has no serious intentions of working to be elected

or even nominated.

The Huckster book tour/gravy train continues...

[Tom Ripley]

27. +1000

[DisgustipatedinCA]

65. That day is likely today.

Look at Huckabee's Twitter feed. He's trying to talk about the usual GOP stuff, but nothing doing. Everyone is talking about his soft spot for pedophiles.

[red dog 1]

22. K&R...Thanks for posting

Last edited Fri May 22, 2015, 03:43 PM - Edit history (1)

Thanks also to RightWingWatch and People for the American Way

Huckabee....What a douchebag!

[lonestarnot]

24. Creep and Creepier.

[Nitram]

25. So, is the Huckster admitting that all anti-gay conservatives have a blood lust?

And all anti-poor conservatives, and all pro-war conservatives, and all pro-capital punishment conservatives, etc. etc.

[MADem]

26. Yeah, because being mean to pervy molesters is JUST SO WRONG!!!!!

Leave Josh ALONE!!!!!!

[DesertRat]

28. If Duggar wasn't White, Straight and Christian,

Huckabee would be singing a different tune.

[greenfish]

68. Huck would be calling for capital punishment

[3catwoman3]

82. Damn...

...right!

[samsingh]

29. their true values come out don't they?

[trusty elf]

31. "the epitome of conservative values"

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[Plucketeer]

38. LOL!

"The end is near" Really Near - get some while you can!

[father founding]

32. The huckster at his best

What he's trying to say is that Pedophilia seems to be a Arkansas christian value thing.

[LanternWaste]

33. A lot of half-wits certainly do seem to believe that the accuracy...

A lot of half-wits certainly do seem to believe that the accuracy in labeling Duggar a child-molester is inappropriate at best... and bloodthirst at worst.

Dullards. The lot of 'em.

[wolfie001]

34. Nasty disgusting repukes!

Reaping what they sow...........

[alterfurz]

40. "an insensitive bloodthirst" like David Huckabee's...

...when he tortured and killed that dog?

But Mike says it's all OK, because Jesus forgives Josh, David, and Mike too, for quashing the animal cruelty investigation and charges.

[muriel_volestrangler]

41. Meet Mike Huckabee’s rapey 2016 running mate who will keep him from being president forever

In 1984 he raped 17-year-old cheerleader Ashley Stevens of Arkansas, who happened to be the third cousin of Bill Clinton, and was later convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
...
Despite receiving letters from women who had previously been assaulted by Dumond, Huckabee met with the parole board, in a meeting that was not recorded, and which later voted 4-1 to parole Dumond on the condition he leave the state.

Said parole board member Ermer Pondexter, “I signed the (parole) papers because the governor wanted Dumond paroled. I was thinking the governor was working for the best interests of the state.”

After moving to to Missouri in August 2000, Dumond was once again arrested only months later for the rape and murder of Carol Sue Shields.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/meet-mike-huckabees-rapey-2016-running-mate-who-will-keep-him-from-being-president-forever/

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

42. Huckabee's pals love the underage sex

Guy seems to have a thing for hanging with pedophiles:

Jailbait you look so good to me
Jailbait won't you set me free
Jailbait you look fine fine fine
I know I've got to have you in a matter of time

Well I don't care if you're just thirteen
You look too good to be true
I just know that you're probably clean
There's one lil' thing I got do to you

Honey you you you look so nice
She's young she's tender
Won't you please surrender
She's so fine she's mine
All the time, all mine mine
It's all right baby
It's quite all right I asked your mama
Wait a minute officer
Don't put those handcuffs on me
Put them on her and I'll share her with you
-- Ted Nugent, "Jailbait"

Two years before recording "Jailbait," Ted Nugent had the novel idea of becoming legal guardian to a 17-year-old girl, so that they could have sex without, you know, her parents having legal recourse. They acquiesced. "I guess they figured better Ted Nugent than some drug-infested punk in high school," he told VH1, years later. In the same documentary, he claimed to have had several relationships with young girls, and seems to brag about gaining their parents' approval, too. (Though he didn't go so far as to adopt any of them.)

(...)

But we have pretty good reason, even beyond the autobiographical details, to believe that the choice of 13 in "Jailbait" is not entirely comedic exaggeration. For example, Courtney Love claims to have performed oral sex on Nugent when she was 12 and a half. When pressed, an uncharacteristically somber Love elaborated, "I didn't have breasts yet... it's sick." This would have been around the time of Nugent's 29th birthday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-womack/ted-nugents-jailbait-problem_b_4840060.html

[CoffeeCat]

51. Again, this is no accident...

Many Republicans are sex abusers. Everyone know that Nugent is a sex predator. He's open about his proclivities, but of course he would never define himself as a sex predator. They never do.

Given Huckabees fucked up, dog killing son, his consorting with known child exploiter Nugent--and now his defense of Kish's serial molestations of his four younger sisters--I think it is clear what Huckabee is.

NOONE, but a child molester, makes excuses for another child molester.

There are some fucked up people lurking in the Reoublican party.

[world wide wally]

43. But what is totally unforgivable is Obama's efforts to get health care for millions of Americans!

[CoffeeCat]

45. I always though Huckabee was a molester!!

I'm not kidding. I get perp vibes from the man. Always have. Look at his own family. One of his sons murdered and hung a dog. There's some sick pathology in that family, and what do you want to be that Huckabee is an abuser? I'd put money on it.

Now we have Huckabee making a victim out of a serial molester.

DISGUSTING!!!!

[tanyev]

46. Wait, I thought Huckabee was against gay marriage because it was as bad as incest.

Now he's OK with both, then?

[samsingh]

49. isn't it just like a repug to excuse the predator and blame the victim

they are treacherous in their words these repugs, uncaring about the victims and the innocents, and unbelieving in what they preach for everyone else.

this Huckabee worm has shown once and for all that the right does not support the morals they talk about at all.

[Lucky Luciano]

50. So, in other words Huckster is pro-rape. Sounds like Todd Akin. nt

[americannightmare]

52. Mike Huckabee victim of...

cranial blood burst!

[abelenkpe]

53. Is Josh going to jail or registering as a predator?

[Zorro]

66. Nope

Statute of Limitations.

[sendero]

54. Yeah Gomer..

..... that's what it is.

[brewens]

55. I probably wouldn't be hearing about it if all the clown car riders hadn't sucked up to them

to score points with the baggers! You're as responsible for the shitstorm as anyone Hucksterbee!

[Turbineguy]

57. This man should be President.

Just think of the number of murderers he'll release!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

58. Huckabee was singing a different tune 6 years ago

When it was not-a-Republican in the news:

"Some things are either right or wrong. It doesn't matter who does them. When Hollywood hero Roman Polanski drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl and then fled the country instead of facing the consequences of his own guilty plea, there should be no defense of him from anyone. What he did was evil and reprehensible. The fact that he is a great director doesn't obscure the fact that he robbed a child of far more than Bernie Madoff stole from his victims.

What has our culture become when people can commit despicable criminal acts and yet get defended and excused because they are celebrities. If David Letterman takes advantage of subordinates who work for him, then it's not funny, it's pathetic and immoral. The audience shouldn't laugh and applaud; they ought to walk out in disgust. And instead of actors and even governments seeking the release of Roman Polanski, they should be screaming for justice."
-- Mike Huckabee, FOX News commentary, 2009
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/10/05/can-have-different-points-view-but-shouldnt-have-different-standards.html

vs Huckster now:

"No purpose whatsoever is served by those who are now trying to discredit Josh or his family by sensationalizing the story. Good people make mistakes and do regrettable and even disgusting things.

(...)

Janet and I love Jim Bob and Michelle and their entire family. They are no more perfect a family than any family, but their Christian witness is not marred in our eyes because following Christ is not a declaration of our perfection, but of HIS perfection. It is precisely because we are all sinners that we need His grace and His forgiveness. We have been blessed to receive God’s love and we would do no less than to extend our love and support for our friends. In fact, it is such times as this, when real friends show up and stand up. Today, Janet and I want to show up and stand up for our friends. Let others run from them. We will run to them with our support."
-- Mike Huckabee, Facebook. 2015
https://www.facebook.com/mikehuckabee

[countryjake]

59. + 1000

Huck's hypocrisy is showing.

[Paladin]

61. Thread winner, right there. Thanks so much for posting. (nt)

[NYC Liberal]

60. Pretty disgusting even for that one.

But hey -- I hope more of them defend this. Let them expose themselves.

[Gore1FL]

62. An insensitive gropethirst that did them in.

If blood is involved, it's sicker than I originally thought.

[Skittles]

63. an "insensitive bloodthirst" is when you pimp for senseless wars

not when you slam serial sex offenders

[SoapBox]

67. That's right Huckleberry...you just stand up for the pervert molester.

Ya...you're some great Presidential material...not.

Asshole.

[Hugin]

78. This isn't Huckleburies first rodeo with this sort of thing, either. There was Wayne Dumond.

Who was allegedly persecuted by Bill Clinton when he was Governor for being a sexual predator... Turned out he was.

"Little Rock, Ark -- As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee aggressively pushed for the early release of a convicted rapist despite being warned by numerous women that the convict had sexually assaulted them or their family members, and would likely strike again. The convict went on to rape and murder at least one other woman.

Confidential Arkansas state government records, including letters from these women, revealed publicly for the first time, directly contradict the version of events now being put forward by Huckabee."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html

[romanic]

69. Bloodthrist my ass.

The dude was perving on little girls and his own siblings no less. Huckabee is a complete idiot.

[davidpdx]

71. Please go to Huckabee's Facebook page and post the following:

Mike Huckabee on child molestation in 2009:
"Some things are either right or wrong. It doesn't matter who does them. When Hollywood hero Roman Polanski drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl and then fled the country instead of facing the consequences of his own guilty plea, there should be no defense of him from anyone. What he did was evil and reprehensible. The fact that he is a great director doesn't obscure the fact that he robbed a child of far more than Bernie Madoff stole from his victims.

What has our culture become when people can commit despicable criminal acts and yet get defended and excused because they are celebrities. If David Letterman takes advantage of subordinates who work for him, then it's not funny, it's pathetic and immoral. The audience shouldn't laugh and applaud; they ought to walk out in disgust. And instead of actors and even governments seeking the release of Roman Polanski, they should be screaming for justice."
-- Mike Huckabee, FOX News commentary, 2009
http://www.foxnews.com/.../can-have-different-points-view...

Mike Huckabee on child molestation in 2015:
Huckabee praised the Duggar family, who took over a year to bring the matter to law enforcement, saying that they “dealt with it and were honest and open about it with the victims and the authorities.”

He adds that Josh is a good person who “confessed his sins to those he harmed sought help,” despite the fact that, according to reports, Josh did not receive counseling and was only sent to live with a family friend who worked in the home remodeling business.
https://www.facebook.com/mikehuckabee/posts/10152994543137869

[libdem4life]

79. FWIW...the first link has been taken down.

[CentralMass]

72. Perhaps he and his idol Ted Nugent can do a benefit

concert for him.

[leftyladyfrommo]

75. The Duggar family is just disgusting.

I'm so glad they are going.

[SwankyXomb]

84. Better headline:

Mike Huckabee: "I support child rape!"