Mike Huckabee Rips Natalie Portman For “Glamorizing” Single Motherhood

[The Straight Story]

Mike Huckabee Rips Natalie Portman For “Glamorizing” Single Motherhood

Mike Huckabee just isn’t having a good week.

First, in what he says was a mis-statement, he says that the President was raised in Kenya by a father he barely knew and a grandfather who died before he was born. At the same time, he was correcting that mistake, he said that President Obama had a foreign worldview. Then, he made some insinuation about the President attending a madrassa instead of joining the Boy Scouts like a “real American.” Now, he’s gone after the woman who just won the Academy Award for Best Actress:

Mike Huckabee laced into Oscar winner Natalie Portman for her “out-of-wedlock” pregnancy, saying the expecting star is helping to “glamorize” single motherhood.

Huckabee made the comments on conservative commentator Michael Medved’s radio show this week, after Portman accepted her golden trophy and in her speech thanked her fiance, Benjamin Millepied, for giving her “my most important role of my life.”

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/mike-huckabee-rips-natalie-portman-for-glamorizing-single-motherhood/

[geckosfeet]

1. Why does Huckabee hate Americans and America?

[malaise]

2. Now let me see

Wasn't a knocked up teenager on stage at the ReTHUG 2008 Convention? Was she the Vice Presidential candidate's daughter?
Where the fugg was Fuckabee then?

[snappyturtle]

9. He was called out on that ( B.Palin's baby) last night by L. O'Donnell or Ed Shultz.

Huckleberry Hound better go back and re-take the lesson on fair and balanced. He's obviously not bright.

[SharonAnn]

11. Yes, I was about to say, "Why does he hate Bristol Palin?"

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Here ya go. All better.

[deminks]

4. Huckleberry is about to glamorize fatness again.

He should not throw stones. Judge not, lest ye be judged. Doesn't the bible cover that? Guess he missed that lesson.

[KharmaTrain]

5. Hucklenutz Is Ready To Jump...

Yep, the guy is a hypocritical shitstain...that's the only way he can "win" the GOTB nomination. This is all about stirring the shit and getting a lot of attention in the media. Remember, in the parallel universe, there is no limit to being unhinged...actually the more whacked out you are the better your chances. We're a year out from the first primaries and the dash for the cash has begun. Huck's gonna need to bag at least 20-25 mil if he's gonna be a "player" and that's gotta start rolling now. The more his name is in the news, the more people wag their tongues at him the more the unhinged will start throwing money at him.

The fish in this scam are the fundies...Huck's "base". They'll be key in Iowa and South Carolina and he's trying to freeze out any attempt by a very wounded Palin from even thinking of jumping in. The way to do it is out Moose Mooselini...and he's done it first by playing the birther card and now doin' the "family values" gimmick. The attacks on him by the sane registers differently in the parallel universe and the more people laugh and ridicule these statements the more the fundies will circle their wagons around him. This dude is slicker than vasoline...

[LeftinOH]

6. She could have aborted, ya know.. These people are never satisfied. n/t

[NightWatcher]

7. Note to Fuckabee: "Fiance" is a foreign word meaning "person you're about to marry"

thus the "single motherhood" crack is off

[mmonk]

8. Someone needs to rip him for glamorizing self-righteousness.

[AzDar]

10. Yet Bristol Palin, who has based her fame and fortune on being an out-of-wedlock

pregnant teen, gets a pass. Fucking hypocritical Republicans...:puke:

[Lindsay]

12. But Portman glamorized it.

Bristol profited from it.

I'm thinking that to Rethugs, that is an important distinction.

:eyes:

[no_hypocrisy]

17. Here's the distinction: in Huckabee's opinion, Bristol demonstrated appropriate contrition

and regret for her actions. Specifically she went on record, condemning premarital sex and having to bear the burden of her choice. Notice that Bristol didn't regret unprotected premarital sex, but sex-before-marriage entirely. She gives "lectures", warning about abstinence.

That's what Huckabee's looking for.

To me, this is like reinventing the burp. Think of all the other actresses/celebrities in the past who had children out-of-wedlock. I think that there was even a Congressional Hearing with an official condemnation of Ingrid Bergman when she had a child with Robet Rosselini when she was still married to her first husband.

[Arkansas Granny]

15. She's even writing her memoirs. The book has no title yet, but you can pre-order it now.

http://www.amazon.com/Untitled-Bristol-Palin-Memoir/dp/0062089374

[ejpoeta]

13. does he go after palin's daughter for 'glamorizing' single motherhood?

FIrst of all. fuck you mike huckabee. Who are you to say anything to anyone about anything. Women can have babies on their own. Maybe that is what gets you and all your ilk's panties in such a wad.... Besides sperm women don't really need men anymore. We can work and have kids and take care of them without needing a man to fulfill us. So fuck you!

[treestar]

27. I bet that is their exact problem with it

That the man is not in control.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

14. I thought Bristol Palin held that title "Miss Glamor Single Parenthood"

[Segami]

16. Hey Mike, what about that killer/rapist YOU let go while Governor?

Huckabee Got a Rapist Freed (for dumb reasons), Allowing him to Kill Again


" Mike Huckabee pressured the Arkansas Parole Board to free a convicted rapist, Wayne Dumond -- who then moved to Missouri and raped and killed two more women. Worse yet, he lies to this day about it, denying he had a role.

Worse yet, Huckabee ignored the desperate pleas of the rape victim, a 17-year-old high school student, and several other women who wrote him to say that Dumond also raped them and should not be released. The victim went to the governor's office, got right in his face, and said "This is how close I was to Wayne Dumond. I will never forget his face. And now I don't want you ever to forget my face."

Incredibly, Huckabee was unmoved, and argued that the rapist was innocent, or at least got a "raw deal... He'd been born on the wrong side of the tracks and hadn't been treated all that fairly." He even wrote a letter to the rapist saying "My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel that parole is the best way for our reintroduction to society to take place."

Huckabee had a lot of other reasons to keep Dumond in prison, too. Another woman wrote him that Dumond had raped her mother, when she was 3 years old and sleeping in bed with her -- and threatened the mother that he would rape and kill the 3 year old if the mom did not cooperate. A third woman wrote Huckabee that Dumond raped her at knifepoint, and added "I feel that if he is released it is only a matter of time before he commmits another crime and fear that he will not leave a witness to testify against him the next time." One of Huckabee's chief former aides has confirmed that the the then-governor read that letter and spoke with the victim in a follow-up phone call. He also heard about Dumond's alleged role in a murder while serving in the army.

So why was he so determined that Dumond be released? How could he ignore all of these heartfelt pleas? Well, a preacher friend of his ministered to Dumond in prison, and believed his claim that he was born-again. Huckabee commuted or pardoned over 669 prisoners, including 12 murderers -- 10 times as many as Bill Clinton did over 9 years, and more than all of the larger states surrounding Arkansas put together -- as long as they claimed to be born-again Christians, or worked at the governor's mansion, or played in the prison band.

Also, the teenage rape victim was a distant cousin of Bill Clinton, who as governor refused a request for pardon by the rapist. Right-wing circles at the time -- including NY Post columnist Steve Dunleavy and radio host Jay Cole -- had a conspiracy theory that Clinton railroaded Dumond.

Stranger yet, Dumond called the police one night and said that two men had broken into his trailer and castrated him. (The police thought he had done it himself, to gain sympathy and show that he was safe to release. Huckabee said he felt sorry for the rapist.)

In a bizarre twist, the local sheriff (Coolidge Conlee) put the testicles in a fruit jar on his desk and showed them off. "That's what happens to bad guys in my county," he liked to say. Ironically, Dumond sued him for intentional infliction of distress and won over $100,000. Then that sheriff was himself convicted of extortion, and died in jail. (Arkansas is a pretty interesting place, eh?)

Now that he's in a tight presidential race, Huckabee is denying that he had any role in Dumond's release, and has refused to release the governor's office documents on the case. He has blamed Bill Clinton for the release, or Jim Guy Tucker, the governor after Clinton and before Huckabee (who was later convicted himself of fraud in the Whitewater case.) But Huckabee's story keeps changing, and he doesn't dispute the letter of support he sent to Dumond. He said he wished he "knew more" about Dumond -- before details of the letter sent to him by other victims were made public; then he had no comment. Dumond also had a prior record -- a guilty plea for attempting to assault a teenage girl in Tacoma, Washington, and Dumond's own sworn testimony -- under a grant of immunity -- that he and two friends beat a man to death with a claw hammer in a public park, because he dated their friend's ex-wife.

Huckabee now claims that he had no influence over the parole decision. However, that board voted 4 to 1 to NOT release Dumond before Huckabee was governor. Huckabee arranged a meeting with the board, and the board's secretary -- who normally tapes the entire session -- was asked to leave the room, violating state law. After that, the board reversed their decision, voting 4 to 1 in favor of parole. Huckabee denies he asked them to release Dumond, but four of the parole board members insist that Huckabee pushed them to release Dumond. (The others are dead, not talking, or forgot what happened.) Huckabee claims that all four parole board members are lying. His office also claimed, at first, that the letters to him from other Dumond victims were not genuine, but now admits receiving at least one of them. Huckabee's former lawyer -- referred to reporters by Huckabee's own campaign, to support his story -- actually said that the governor called Dumond's sentence "outlandish" and "way out of line", and that Huckabee pushed for Dumond's release.

Huckabee refuses to release the documents from his office concerning the case. A former aide has sasid that Huckabee's staff discussed how to make sure that documents about the case, especially the letters from other Dumond victims, could be kept secret. When he left the governor's office, Huckabee spent the entire governor's emergency budget - set aside for hurricans, tornadoes and the like -- destroying the hard drives of 100 computers in the governor's office. -





Rapist Sources



"The Story Mike Huckabee Dreads", by Byron York, The National Review, December 5, 2007

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/223026/story-mike-huckabee-dreads/byron-york


"Let us not whitewash governor's Clemencies", by Garrick Feldman, Arkansas Leader, July 28, 2004

"Huckabee's role in rapist's parole comes under fresh scrutiny", by Dana Bash and Alexaner Mooney, CNN.COM, December 7, 2007

"Murder Victiim's Mother Assails Huckabee," CBS News.Com, December 5, 2007

"Paroled Rapist Could Haunt Huckabee," by Brian Montopoli, CBS News.Com, December 4, 2007

"Huckabee Aide: Gov Pushed For Rapist's Freedom," by Brian Ross, ABC News: The Blotter, December 5, 2007

"Former Aide Contradicts Huckabee Defense of Rapist's Release," by Murray Waas, Huffington Post, December 5, 2007

"Documents Expose Huckabee's Role in Serial Rapist's Release," by Murry Waas, The Huffington Post, December 4, 2007

"Hard Times For Huckabee," The Hotline -- National Journal, December 6, 2007

"Despite Victim's Pleas, Huckabee Pushed Rapist's Freedom," by Brian Ross and Joseph Rhee, ABC News: The Blotter, December 5, 2007



http://www.realchange.org/huckabee.htm#rapistsources.




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[hobbit709]

18. Huckleberry-the wannabe Mad Mullah of the Ameritaliban.

In his warped vision he would bring back stonings if he could.

[justiceischeap]

19. Apparently he's forgotten the whole Dan Quayle/Murphy Brown broohaha

Seems to me you don't want to alienate single mothers anymore today than back when Dan Quayle attempted to do it.

[treestar]

25. Yeah, it's quite an 80s issue

Nice to see the Huckster is keeping up.

[July]

20. Hey, Huck.

Single motherhood has been increasing for some time. Apparently, you've just found out about it. And just when did it become glamorous -- was that before or after Dancing With the Stars Palin?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/us/06moms.html

[spanone]

21. ah, another judgmental faux christian

[NoGOPZone]

22. Would he prefer an abortion? nt

[PVnRT]

23. A woman in a committed monogomous relationship is not a "single" mother

Note the word "fiancee." In fact, throughout American history, it was not uncommon for engaged women to get pregnant, or for a woman to be pregnant at the wedding.

[Brigid]

24. Don't worry, Mike . . .

Soon Natalie Portman will be sporting a lovely wedding ring, and you can find something else that's none of your business to get your panties alll in a wad about. :eyes:

BTW, Mike, where is the judgment and condemnation of Benjamin Millipied? Natalie Portman didn't get pregnant by herself, ya know.

[woo me with science]

26. Murphy Brown redux.

There's just something about those single moms...

[AsahinaKimi]

28. Mike Huckabee is JUST JEALOUS he was never in STARWARS

Its not every day you can claim to have your own ACTION FIGURE!

[MgtPA]

33. He has more reasons than Starwars to be jealous

Before Oscar, Portman Was Science Geek

The Intel Science Talent Search is considered the nation’s most elite and demanding high school research competition, attracting the crème de la milk-fats-encased-in-a-phospholipid-and-protein-membrane of aspiring young scientists. Victors and near-victors in the 69-year-old contest have gone on to win seven Nobel Prizes in physics or chemistry, two Fields Medals in mathematics, a half-dozen National Medals in science and technology, a long string of MacArthur Foundation “genius” grants — and now, an Academy Award for best actress in a leading role.

http://www.newser.com/story/113090/natalie-portman-before-winning-oscar-actress-was-a-science-geek.html

[AsahinaKimi]

35. Yeah but come on!!

HER OWN ACTION FIGURE!! :D :rofl:

[LynneSin]

29. At least she is marrying the father. Where is Huckabee's outrage over Bristol Palin

BTW if Natalie didn't marry the father it still wouldn't make Natalie any less of a smart, intelligent, talented person.

Think about it, Natalie has been doing movies since she was 11 and yet she still managed to graduate from Harvard (class of 2003 with a degree is psychology). Her husband-to-be is pretty talented himself, being a principal dancer at New York City Ballet.

[NillaWafers]

30. He's recycling Dan Quayle's schtick. Desperate to get some traction.

[DainBramaged]

31. Mike Fuckabye who is glamorizing the Birther movement

Fuck him.

[sinkingfeeling]

32. Hey Huck, why does Arkansas rank 9th, with 43.4% of all births being to unwed women? Was Natalie

Portman ever here?


http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/data/UNMARRIED_STATE_07.pdf

Edited to add link to source.

[fascisthunter]

34. nosey judgmental misanthrope

as if this guy was in any position to point his finger at others.

[robertpaulsen]

36. Dear Mike Huckabee,

Could Everyone Please Stop Pissing Me Off?
Dear Mike Huckabee,

Dearest Former Arkansas Governor Mike,

I just wanted to write to you today to show further support for the things you stand for; as they mean so much to me and my family, and are so close to our hearts.

Not only do I appreciate – as an American of non-African descent – the fact that you are on the front lines reminding voting Americans that President Obama was raised in Kenya, I also want to applaud your tireless efforts toward protecting traditional family values.

You recently singled-out Oscar winner (and hottie) Natalie Portman for choosing to have a baby out-of-wedlock. It takes a real man of Christian values to stand up against an individual’s right to have a child and choose to raise that child in what will likely be a loving home where the adults are not married. It also sickens me how these wealthy liberals make it seem so easy by having assistants and help around the house. I know you as Governor were able to maintain that help-free environment when you were indoctrinating your children with proper religious values and teaching them how to wail on the bass guitar.

In closing, I just want to encourage you to keep it up, Governor Mike. Having worked with you many times on Fox *News, I’ve seen first-hand how the American people respond to your “aw, shucks” demeanor, your Nixonian good looks and your Mickey Rooney eyes.

I wish you nothing but the best as you continue to treat this great land to your unbiased wisdom.

Yours’,



Laura Ingraham ~ Fox talking head, Conservative single mom

http://jdrourke.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/dear-mike-huckabee/

[OneGrassRoot]

37. I anticipate a brilliant response from Ms. Portman

Aside from liking her as an actress, my impression is that she is very bright and conscientious.

And very progressive.

:)


edit for typo

[SoCalDem]

38. To sum up:

Republicans like Chuckleberry are "concerned" about the MONEY..

They don't give a crap about much else.

The "problem" they see when it comes to "unwed mothers" is the part where they RECEIVE AID ..

Old time republicans never minded out of wedlock babies when there was a bumper-crop of blond, blue-eyed babies available for adoption by their pals..

They DO mind when the "crop" now is decidedly less blue-eyes, blond baby. NOW there is a glut of babies they would not choose to adopt, and they are faced with having to re-do the whole orphanage thing, or financially aid the poor women to raise their own babies..

What they really want is a magic wand, to make the whole thing just go away..