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CatWoman

(79,302 posts)
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 03:50 PM Jun 2018

Mike Huckabee Says Owner of Red Hen Followed Sanders Family to Another Restaurant to Start a Protest

this is the first I've heard of this.............

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee spoke today with radio host Laura Ingraham on her show Monday regarding his daughter, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, being kicked out of a restaurant over the weekend. According to Huckabee, things were not as “polite” as has been reported.

Ingraham released the segment with Huckabee on her website Monday afternoon after Tweeting a summary.


Huckabee picks up where the story so far left off: after Sanders was asked to leave. According to Huckabee, Sanders and her husband departed the restaurant and went home alone, but her in-laws continued on to another restaurant.


By the way Laura, there’s a part of that story that hasn’t been told, you’re going to be the first to hear it. Once Sarah and her family left, of course Sarah was asked to please vacate, Sarah and her husband just went home. They had sort of had enough. But the rest of her family went across the street to a different restaurant. The owner of the Red Hen – nobody’s told this – then followed them across the street, called people, and organized a protest yelling and screaming at them from outside the other restaurant and creating this scene.”

Huckabee notes that many of her in-laws are liberals and stated that one of them confronted the protesters, saying they were making liberals look bad and yelling at someone who wasn’t even there.


“This is what the left has been reduced to. It’s really tragic,” he said. “And it is dangerous.”

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/mike-huckabee-says-owner-of-red-hen-followed-sanders-family-to-another-restaurant-to-start-a-protest/

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Mike Huckabee Says Owner of Red Hen Followed Sanders Family to Another Restaurant to Start a Protest (Original Post) CatWoman Jun 2018 OP
Did they get a video of that? mainstreetonce Jun 2018 #1
LOL we had the same response. mnhtnbb Jun 2018 #3
Same here canetoad Jun 2018 #49
Where's the video? Probably just another lie from the Huckster. mnhtnbb Jun 2018 #2
Ain't no probably about it....like daughter like Daddy. nt Trek4Truth Jun 2018 #39
LIAR MFM008 Jun 2018 #4
If they harm her business she should sue Trump and Huckles...defamation of business. Thomas Hurt Jun 2018 #5
Absolutely! nt avebury Jun 2018 #24
Businesses have a right to eighty six anyone. Horiible, despicable, disgusting people. I just heard notdarkyet Jun 2018 #52
Liars. MrsCoffee Jun 2018 #6
Oh really? bearsfootball516 Jun 2018 #7
Has anyone seen the pic going around of Huckabee rallying with the KY anti-gay court clerk? dameatball Jun 2018 #8
Didn't his son torture and kill a dog ? JI7 Jun 2018 #9
yep CatWoman Jun 2018 #10
Hey, the kid had to eat TheCowsCameHome Jun 2018 #15
Yes, he did. Miles Archer Jun 2018 #51
Mike Huckabee is a major asshole. Hard to believe anything the creep says. n/t RKP5637 Jun 2018 #11
That is actionable exboyfil Jun 2018 #12
Precisely Sherman A1 Jun 2018 #30
mike is full of shit. spanone Jun 2018 #13
So what huckafuk...when kathy davis used her convictions to refused to do her job Fullduplexxx Jun 2018 #14
that is a lie. NO report of that has been seen. trueblue2007 Jun 2018 #16
Not to worry, Laura won't spread the fake story TheCowsCameHome Jun 2018 #17
It's so sad that smart phones with cameras are Satan's work gratuitous Jun 2018 #18
Speaking of Satans work, the evangelicals apparently like scumbag rockers. CentralMass Jun 2018 #32
Wow Two Morons That Can't Play None ProfessorGAC Jun 2018 #64
I hope that he gets called out on this lie. madaboutharry Jun 2018 #19
This is what sanctimonious preacher has been reduced to. It's really tragic. But I don't really care Freethinker65 Jun 2018 #20
Pics or it didn't happen. Initech Jun 2018 #21
People have a right to protest.. LakeArenal Jun 2018 #22
They dine with liberals?... lame54 Jun 2018 #23
Hey Mike, aren't you glad that we lefties don't carry AR-15s like you righties do? marble falls Jun 2018 #25
The reason Laura was the first to hear louis-t Jun 2018 #26
Mike Huckabee is not trustworthy. I'd love to see video of the event. fishwax Jun 2018 #27
mike huckabee is really an oversized sea lion bigtree Jun 2018 #28
So, the owner who is busy at her own business DeminPennswoods Jun 2018 #29
Calling Michael Avenatti exboyfil Jun 2018 #33
Someone needs to follow her and a few others around 24/7 Runningdawg Jun 2018 #31
Yes, duforsure Jun 2018 #34
They should be doing that outside of Trump properties EVERY night Runningdawg Jun 2018 #40
"But the rest of her family went across the street to a different restaurant." csziggy Jun 2018 #35
Nope, not the same person. It's just that Everyone Hates Sarah! NightWatcher Jun 2018 #36
Chronic liars, but here's a truth about Mike Huckabee. Hortensis Jun 2018 #37
Another lawsuit for slander coming up mainer Jun 2018 #38
Damn! None of the remaining in-laws had any recording devise. oasis Jun 2018 #41
Or anybody at the other restaurant. Or any of the protesters. Or any witnesses whatsoever. Iggo Jun 2018 #57
huckabees ARE FUCKING LIARS. Cha Jun 2018 #42
Know how I know it's a lie? Iggo Jun 2018 #43
I don't believe this... n/t hlthe2b Jun 2018 #44
Others in party told they could stay at Red Hen and dine. mainer Jun 2018 #45
ANYTHING Mike Huckster says MUST be taken with a large grain of salt... Raster Jun 2018 #46
He's lying. Count on it. (nt) Paladin Jun 2018 #47
Ya got no proof. Liberal In Texas Jun 2018 #48
LOL RhodeIslandOne Jun 2018 #50
So underthematrix Jun 2018 #53
Huckleberry Lies Like a Trooper, But Only In the Name of God, So It Is OK! DoctorJoJo Jun 2018 #54
I don't believe it. badhair77 Jun 2018 #55
hmm, smells like slander 0rganism Jun 2018 #56
Raunchy meet raunchy.... asiliveandbreathe Jun 2018 #58
don't believe it...Magda Goebbels Sanders would have put that in the tweet Demsrule86 Jun 2018 #59
Riiiight... Blue Owl Jun 2018 #60
Sarah's in-laws are liberals? Really? mainer Jun 2018 #61
Red Hen has three week waiting list Gothmog Jun 2018 #62
Now Fox claims they have "confirmation" and it's bullshit mainer Jun 2018 #63

notdarkyet

(2,226 posts)
52. Businesses have a right to eighty six anyone. Horiible, despicable, disgusting people. I just heard
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 05:51 PM
Jun 2018

One of my favorite songs yesterday. If I had a mind to, I wouldn’t want to be like you. I don’t care
What you do, I wouldn’t want to be like you. Dedicated to all trumpers.

bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)
7. Oh really?
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 03:54 PM
Jun 2018

Weird how over the last 72 hours, literally nobody has mentioned anything remotely like this, no video, etc.

dameatball

(7,400 posts)
8. Has anyone seen the pic going around of Huckabee rallying with the KY anti-gay court clerk?
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 03:54 PM
Jun 2018

He didn't have any problem with a government employee refusing to do her job.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
51. Yes, he did.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 05:43 PM
Jun 2018


As Mike Huckabee gains in the polls, the former Arkansas governor is finding that his record in office is getting more scrutiny. One issue likely to get attention is his handling of a sensitive family matter: allegations that one of his sons was involved in the hanging of a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998. The incident led to the dismissal of David Huckabee, then 17, from his job as a counselor at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, Ark. It also prompted the local prosecuting attorney— bombarded with complaints generated by a national animal-rights group—to write a letter to the Arkansas state police seeking help investigating whether David and another teenager had violated state animal-cruelty laws. The state police never granted the request, and no charges were ever filed. But John Bailey, then the director of Arkansas's state police, tells NEWSWEEK that Governor Huckabee's chief of staff and personal lawyer both leaned on him to write a letter officially denying the local prosecutor's request. Bailey, a career officer who had been appointed chief by Huckabee's Democratic predecessor, said he viewed the lawyer's intervention as improper and terminated the conversation. Seven months later, he was called into Huckabee's office and fired. "I've lost confidence in your ability to do your job," Bailey says Huckabee told him. One reason Huckabee cited was "I couldn't get you to help me with my son when I had that problem," according to Bailey. "Without question, [Huckabee] was making a conscious attempt to keep the state police from investigating his son," says I. C. Smith, the former FBI chief in Little Rock, who worked closely with Bailey and called him a "courageous" and "very solid" professional.

Huckabee called Bailey's account "totally untrue" and described him as a "bitter" exemployee. "I asked him to resign because he had so alienated the entire state police," he said. "It had nothing to do with my son." Brenda Turner, Huckabee's then chief of staff, and Kevin Crass, the Huckabee family lawyer, also disputed Bailey's account, although both acknowledged talking to him about the dog killing. "I asked him, 'Is it normal for the state police to … investigate something that happened at a Boy Scout camp?' " Turner says. "We wanted the same treatment that anybody else would get." (Animal cruelty in Arkansas is a misdemeanor, not a felony.)

The details of the incident remain murky. The Animal Legal Defense Fund got an anonymous fax that summer alleging that David Huckabee and another youth had been involved in the hanging of a stray dog at the camp on July 11. A local animal-rights activist, Joyce Hillard, later contacted the camp director. Notes of Hillard's report to the defense fund read, "Boys confessed & were fired. Dir. is making excuses, saying dog was sic & boys were putting him out of his misery." (The director told NEWSWEEK only that a stray dog was "put down" and that the counselors were fired for violating the Scout credo to be "kind." ) The father of the other counselor was quoted by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette in August 1998 as saying that his son found the dog "hung over a limb and choking." David Huckabee did not respond to requests for comment. (In April of this year, he was arrested—and paid a fine—when he forgot to remove a loaded gun from his carry-on luggage at Little Rock airport.) His father told NEWSWEEK that his son did not engage in "intentional torture." "There was a dog that apparently had mange and was absolutely, I guess, emaciated." A campaign official says David "regrets" the incident and notes that he later made Eagle Scout.

http://www.newsweek.com/sons-past-could-come-back-bite-huckabee-94351

exboyfil

(17,865 posts)
12. That is actionable
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 03:56 PM
Jun 2018

if it is not true.

"The owner of the Red Hen – nobody’s told this – then followed them across the street, called people, and organized a protest yelling and screaming at them from outside the other restaurant and creating this scene.”

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
30. Precisely
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 04:20 PM
Jun 2018

And one hopes it is pursued. This nonsense needs to have consequences and the only thing understood by this group is money.

Fullduplexxx

(7,870 posts)
14. So what huckafuk...when kathy davis used her convictions to refused to do her job
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 03:57 PM
Jun 2018

You celebrated her as some sort of victory. That pig can belly-up to the trough at home

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
18. It's so sad that smart phones with cameras are Satan's work
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 03:59 PM
Jun 2018

Because otherwise someone in the party remaining would have taken video of this organized protest, or at least recorded the yelling and screaming. Or called the cops on the rioters. But Huckabee's family is so holy, they can't have smart phones.

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)
32. Speaking of Satans work, the evangelicals apparently like scumbag rockers.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 04:24 PM
Jun 2018

Holier then thou Mike Huckabee playing Cat Scratch Fever with with that "moral pillar"Ted Nugent.



I've come to the conclusion that it is a made up religion to mask their pervision, debauchery, and hate.

Freethinker65

(10,055 posts)
20. This is what sanctimonious preacher has been reduced to. It's really tragic. But I don't really care
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 03:59 PM
Jun 2018

Do u?

LakeArenal

(28,845 posts)
22. People have a right to protest..
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 04:01 PM
Jun 2018

Protesting can be rude. It can be mean. I am a pacifist by nature. But I would yell rude things to people who work for the WH. If some members of her family are really liberal then they by all means should understand the angst of people these days. Protesting is the farthest thing from tragic. What's tragic is the policies of this Administration. What's tragic is the utter gall of these "people" to eat at an Hispanic restaurant (I realize she isn't Nielsen) right after doubling down on what an infestation Hispanics seeking asylum are to the US and ripping families apart.

If those "liberal" relatives said, Hey Sarah, what you are doing is tragic and I can't sit here with you while you allowed 2000 children taken from their families and spread across the country and will never sit down with their family members again.


Hey and by the way Sarah... Where are the girls and babies? Tell me and I bet the Red Hen would ask us to stay.

DeminPennswoods

(15,290 posts)
29. So, the owner who is busy at her own business
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 04:11 PM
Jun 2018

and has politely asked the Huckabee/Sanders clan to leave, then decides to leave her business and follow them across the street? Fox News viewers really must be that stupid to believe it.

exboyfil

(17,865 posts)
33. Calling Michael Avenatti
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 04:25 PM
Jun 2018

I would contribute to a Fund Me campaign to file a lawsuit on Huckabee. He better be sure of his facts. The owner should get started today while the iron is hot.

csziggy

(34,137 posts)
35. "But the rest of her family went across the street to a different restaurant."
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 04:26 PM
Jun 2018

There are no restaurants across the street. On the next street a block or so away, there are some, but no one "across the street."

Reverend Huckabee needs to re-read the Ten Commandments: "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour."

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
36. Nope, not the same person. It's just that Everyone Hates Sarah!
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 04:30 PM
Jun 2018

Coming to everywhere she goes from now on.

mainer

(12,029 posts)
38. Another lawsuit for slander coming up
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 04:38 PM
Jun 2018

I hope lawyers are lining up to assist the Red Hen owner and sue these lying jerks.

Iggo

(47,568 posts)
57. Or anybody at the other restaurant. Or any of the protesters. Or any witnesses whatsoever.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 06:28 PM
Jun 2018

Amazing, it is.

mainer

(12,029 posts)
45. Others in party told they could stay at Red Hen and dine.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 05:04 PM
Jun 2018

They decided to leave instead. (see this detail in link below)

Sarah Huckabee and her husband went straight home.

So if the owner of Red Hen invited the other guests to stay and dine, why would she then follow them out to heckle them at another restaurant? It doesn't make any sense.

Mike Huckabee will be called out as a liar, and the Red Hen owner should sue for slander.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/06/23/why-a-small-town-restaurant-owner-asked-sarah-huckabee-sanders-to-leave-and-would-do-it-again/?utm_term=.a443aef98d9c

Raster

(20,998 posts)
46. ANYTHING Mike Huckster says MUST be taken with a large grain of salt...
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 05:18 PM
Jun 2018

...after all that bad lady at the restaurant was mean to his lil' smokey-eyed daughter. And Laura Ingraham, goes without saying, is NOTHING MORE THAN A tRump* mouthpiece. This is all BLATHER, BLUSTER, and BULLSHIT to gin-up a response from the base.

badhair77

(4,221 posts)
55. I don't believe it.
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 06:22 PM
Jun 2018

Even if none of her party recorded it surely another guest at the restaurant would. Liar liar pants on fire, buddy. It’s a wonder any of your family has any pants left.

0rganism

(23,970 posts)
56. hmm, smells like slander
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 06:26 PM
Jun 2018

unless the Red Hen owner really did this weird thing and Huckster has some evidence of it (video, corroborating witnesses) or said person falls into the category of "public figure" already, this is defamation pure and simple

Demsrule86

(68,689 posts)
59. don't believe it...Magda Goebbels Sanders would have put that in the tweet
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 06:35 PM
Jun 2018

Big liars...possible someone else saw her baby caging self...and acted.

mainer

(12,029 posts)
61. Sarah's in-laws are liberals? Really?
Mon Jun 25, 2018, 09:48 PM
Jun 2018

Her husband is a conservative Republican from Kansas. And he has liberal parents? Yet another part of the story that sounds fishy.

mainer

(12,029 posts)
63. Now Fox claims they have "confirmation" and it's bullshit
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 11:31 AM
Jun 2018

They claim Mike Huckabee's story is now confirmed because Justin Peery, the owner of the Good Place Bed and Breakfast in Lexington, backs it up. They show a TV interview with Peery saying that Sarah HS stayed at his inn and he welcomed them.

But Justin Peery NEVER SAYS he witnessed the harrassment. His B&B is nowhere near the Red Hen. He never says he saw any harrassment at all.

Yet Fox calls this "confirmation." Typical.

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