With all the utterly absurd, factually challenged things right-wingers have been saying lately with a completely straight face, to make a huge to-do about Huckabee having made what was obviously a dumb joke is worse than useless. A much better use of outrage, time, and effort would be to urge the media to publicize the nitwit stuff he says with the utmost seriousness.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: > > Mike Huckabee Says He Wants Americans To Be Indoctrinated At Gunpoint > -AlterNet > > Did Mike Huckabee just flush his presidential aspirations down the proverbial > toilet? Well, if American mainstream media has an ounce of journalistic > gumption remaining the answer most certainly would be "yes". 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 forcedforced at gunpoint > no lessto listen to every David Barton message, and I think our country > would be better for it. I wish it'd happen." > > David Barton is the leading promoter of a brand of falsified American history > altered to support the claim that America was founded as a Christian, rather > than a secular, nation. As Chris Rodda, who has authored an entire book > debunking Barton's brand of pseudo-history, writes, > > I was quite surprised to come across a video clip from this conference on > the People for the American Way (PFAW) Right Wing Watch blog with the > headline "Huckabee: Americans Should Be Forced, At Gunpoint, To Learn From > David Barton." I had watched Huckabee's speech. How on earth could I have > missed a statement like that? Well, I didn't. It had been edited out of the > webcast that I had watched. > > Kyle Mantyla over at PFAW's Right Wing Watch had recorded Huckabee's speech > when it was streamed live on Thursday, and posted the `forced at gunpoint' > clip on Friday. By Saturday, when I watched the webcast on the United in > Purpose website, that part of Huckabee's speech had been edited out. > > The webcast that I saw showed Barton leaving the stage as he ended his > presentation, then the screen going black for a moment, and then what > appeared to be the beginning of Huckabee's speech. What was edited out was > Barton returning to the stage to introduce Huckabee, and the first two > minutes and forty-five seconds of Huckabee's speech, during which Huckabee > made his `gunpoint' comment and praised David Lane, the man behind all of the > American "Renewal" and "Restoration" projects that have popped up across the > country during the past few elections. > > [below: the unedited footage from Huckabee's speech, with the "joke" about > indoctrinating Americans at gunpoint to be found at at 1:06. Footage courtesy > of Kyle Mantyla of Rightwing Watch, who might have almost single-handedly > consigned Huckabee's presidential hopes to the dustbin of history.] > > > I should also note that what Chris Rodda has to say about this has especial > weight given that she's arguably been the most indefatigable author to > challenge David Barton's sprawling falsified American history oeuvre, as a > Talk To Action site search on Rodda's extensive posts debunking Barton would > suggest. Chris Rodda is author of the book Liars For Jesus: The Religious > Right's Alternate Version of American History which prominently features > David Barton, head ofWallbuilders and arguably king of the "liars for Jesus". > Rodda is also Head Researcher for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. > > George Erickson > www.tundracub.com >