Jon Stewart Calls Out Mike Huckabee... To His Face

[kpete]

"Do you know any parent who has a daughter who says, 'Honey, if you make really good grades, someday when you're 12 or 13 we'll get you your own stripper pole?'" Huckabee asked.

"I think that's diminishing Beyonce in a way that's truly outrageous," Stewart shot back, and then introduced a clip of Huckabee playing bass guitar during a Ted Nugent performance of "Cat Scratch Fever," a song loaded with sexual references.

"You excuse that type of crudeness because you agree with his stance on firearms. You don't approve of Beyonce because she seems alien to you," Stewart said. "Johnny Cash shot a man just to watch him die -- that's some gangsta shit!"

Huckabee claimed Nugent's song is different because "it's an adult song."

But Stewart didn't buy it.

"You can't single out a corrosive culture and ignore the one that you live in because you're used to it," Stewart said.

Huckabee told Stewart to read his new book, "God, Guns, Grits and Gravy."

"Oh, I read it," said Stewart.

"Did you?" Huckabee challenged. "OK."

"It ain't Shakespeare," Stewart said.

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[exboyfil]

1. I got a better one for you

Huckabee hanging out with Keith Richards and granting him a pardon. Making a statement about the Stones playing at his inauguration. Let your mind process that for a moment.

The infamous cover of "Sticky Fingers" with the zipper.

Honky Tonk Women
Brown Sugar
Some Girls



http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2007/08/huckabee.html

[Paladin]

2. Thank you, Jon Stewart. (nt)

[eShirl]

3. His only problem's with the one with the Vagina.

[vlyons]

18. Vaginas are SCAREY

Why by golly, women aren't supposed to actually LIKE sex, or if they do, certainly not let any one but their legally married hubby in a real Christian (Baptist) church know about it. Would someone please show Huckabee the definition of "hypocrite" in the dictionary?

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

20. Vaginas were scary to me when I was young.

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Now some of my very best friends are vaginas!

[eggplant]

42. +1!

[BlueJazz]

4. What can you expect from somebody who names a book god, guns, Grits and Gravy ?

His next book will be entitled "Theological musings of my Lawn Chair"

[liberalhistorian]

16. And, as a seminary student,

I can say that I'm confident that the lawn chair will have more substantive theological musings than 'ol Huck, lol!

[BlueJazz]

33. !!

[Proud Public Servant]

5. "Cat Scratch Fever" is an "adult song"?

I was 15 when it was released. There were a whole lot of kids in my high school who loved that album, including most of my friends (though not me, I'm proud to say), but I can't envision any adult in 1977 listening to "Cat Scratch Fever."

[zeemike]

14. Well I was an adult when that came out.

And I did not like the song at all and would never have bought that album...and in fact I don't know of a single friend of mine that did...his music sucked plain and simple...IMO.

[brett_jv]

31. Dude had one good song ... 'Stranglehold', the live version ...

I do think though that Jon (sadly) was barking up the wrong tree on this argument though. Reason being that Huckabee isn't giving Beyonce a hard time for making music, he's giving BO a bad time for letting his kids listen to Beyonce's music.

What would've worked much better is if he'd asked MH if he'd have allowed, say, his 14 year old son to listen to Ted Nugent ... and while doing so, showed a clip of Huckabee onstage with the Nuge.

Presumably Huckabee says 'yes, I would' cause he won't want to make his buddy Nuge look bad, nor make it seem like he rocks out with unsavory types.

Then show another clip of Nugent singing such chestnuts from CSF as "I can make a pussy purr with the stroke of my hand', and 'I don't know why they come here but they sure do come' ...

Now THAT ... would've set Huck up perfectly for a proper roasting.

As it went down, Jon was left kinda flailing for reasons to legitimately bash the Huckster ... unless Jon gets Huck to admit he'd let his KIDS listen to Nuge's music, Jon's argument was essentially rendered a non-sequitur.

[zeemike]

32. Good points.

It would have been better to set a trap for him like that.
But I don't think Jon is that kind of guy...to try to destroy someone even like the Huckster...
But what he did was enough.

Oh and BTW I never heard that song... But even a blind hog...

[brett_jv]

39. Thank you sir ...

And actually, I always thought the song 'Free For All' was a catchy and fairly decent (totally generic) rock song ... got a good bass line & groove ... and prior to his becoming a total ass, I wouldn't rush to change the station, put it that way.

The vast majority of the dude's music though ... is total tripe.

Like ... Wango Tango???

Really, dude?

And yeah, the vast majority of his music was (as mentioned below) totally written for horny, misogynist teenage BOYS, no question.

[zeemike]

41. I just never paid any attention to him.

And it could be because I was no longer a horny teenage boy.

And besides at that time there was tons of great music to being made, some of the best actualy...so I just never heard most of his songs...and did not know anyone that had his albums.

[progressoid]

34. Exactly.

I was also a teen then. It was written for, and mostly listened to, by teens. Teen boys.

[King_Klonopin]

48. Don't forget "Wang Dang Sweet Poontang"

That's a song which promotes values of the highest order.

Of course all his songs are meant for adult ears only --
even though adolescent, hormone-adled boys are (were)
his only demographic.

[oberliner]

6. Well done

Huckabee doesn't have a leg to stand on here.

[melman]

7. Huckabee claimed Nugent's song is different because "it's an adult song."

This is total bullshit and Jon really should have caught it.

Sure, Nugent has an older audience *now* but back in the 70s when that record came out it was kids who were buying it.

[radicalliberal]

8. Huckabee is a walking parody.

Just a big hypocrite who needs to be called out.

Thank you very much, Jon Stewart, for pointing out his hypocrisy.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. He's not even a hypocrite. He's a racist.

[StevePaulson]

12. Everything Conservative

Is a parody.

Upside down world.

A place I don't want to live......

And 'ol Huck is a krisschunn, you know, repeal obamacare, cut food stamps, ignore climate change.

Bomb the helpless, let torturers off the hook, no birth control, no sex ed. The list of positions you
must have to be a modern "Republican" piece of scum is sickening.

Maybe I am wrong on one of these, but I doubt it.

Everything right wing kristchun psychopaths think, breathe, and babble on about
is pure bs. Huck is one of the louder bs spewers.

[vlyons]

19. The great Italian poet Dante put hypocrites way down

on the 8th rung in Hell. Satan was at level 9, so that's how despicable hypocrites are.

[flying_wahini]

9. Stewart is some Kind of Wonderful

ain't he now......

[Hulk]

11. Went right over huckajesus's head...

As far as that chubby hillbilly is concerned, he got the upper hand and good advertising for his silly book for idiots. Sure, Jon Stewart called him on nugent, but chubby cheeks thinks he explained it all and it's a done deal.

These turds are in an alternate reality. Why do you think bor goes on his show or late night shows.....advertising. They actually think they get their message across and look "good". The rest of the world knows how fookin' stupid they are, but they don't get it.

[Curmudgeoness]

13. "It' ain't Shakespeare."

And he would think that is good advertising for his book?

[Hulk]

37. Do you think his audience even knows what "it ain't Shakespear" mean?

To the majority of his hillbilly audience, Shakespear is just another one of those damned "intellectuals" that think they know so much. I don't think it connected with 99% of them, and I suspect it even went over huckajesus's head. You are maybe giving him way too much credit.

[Curmudgeoness]

38. LOL. One of those damned "liberal intellectuals" at that. nt

[zeemike]

17. I think it is more like they are creating the alternate reality.

Whether they know it or not.

It is deliberate because it is bold aggression that they know we will try to deny and explain or apologies for...attack the basic fundamental belief and it will be defended and they never have to defend theres.
Jon Stewart does not let them get away with that...it is a battle of wits and he is King.

[truebluegreen]

29. I forget the name of the syndrome (or whatever)

that indicates that you have to have a certain level of intelligence to understand how stupid you are. Huckajesus hasn't got it, and neither do many others (looking at you, Palin, Bachmann, Gohmert...).

[Hulk]

35. Point well taken....

I honestly believe these people believe what they are spewing. huckajesus thinks his explanations "clear it up" for Stewart and the rest of the liberal, progressive left. They honestly are too stupid to realize just how stupid they are. I've seen this video clip a few times in the last couple weeks; but it explains it perfectly. They are too dumb to realize how dumb they are.

[lolly]

46. Dunning-Kruger effect

Means you're too stupid to know you're stupid, essentially.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

[truebluegreen]

49. Ah! Thank you. nt

[Initech]

15. Mike Huckabee listens to and defends Ted Nugent.

In no way shape or form does he get to dictate what is "wholesome" or not.

[ProudProg2u]

21. Nugent

He should of played the clip of Teddy the nutcase Nugent playing at an event using his guitar as a machine gun saying he wants to kill Hillary Clinton...this is on you tube. Hucks friends, sweet nice people ...

[snooper2]

22. Huckaho book, god guns grits and gravy, he should lay off the grits and gravy LOL

He be getting thick

[Erose999]

23. "It's an adult song, it's meant for adults." Yeah.... and Peddo Teddo Nugent's underage victims.

[Moostache]

24. SHOCKING!!!! A white, right wing male denigrating a black female?

About the only thing I would find even remotely less surprising is if the sun rises in the east and sets in the west again today.

Huckster and the rest of the GOP noise machine have made careers (and FORTUNES) off of pretending to run for president when all they are really doing is hocking their latest poorly ghost written propaganda manual.

This guy is a charlatan of the highest order, period. He is no different than Caribou Barbie when it comes to the art of the grift...just a little more able to play nice at Faux Noise.

[Erose999]

25. Does anyone think these rightwing jerkoffs like Fuckabee or Poot Gingrich or Shitt Romney would ever

descend to the level of eating a poor people food like grits? And I'm not talking about a $17 bowl of shrimp and grits at some fancy Charleston hotel. Do you really think their personal chefs would give them an unadorned bowl of Red Mule grits like the average working class southerner? I seriously doubt it.

[samsingh]

26. repugs are whiny stupid animals

[madokie]

27. No one does it better than Jon Stewart

He can park his ass on my couch and put his feet under my table any time he wants to be eat some good food and be in the company of people who appreciates him.

[herding cats]

28. Smack that hypocrisy down, Jon!

That was great!

[SwankyXomb]

30. A better question for Fuckabee about his book:

Did *he* read it, or just sign his name to it?

[Stephen Retired]

36. Calls out?

Stewart STOMPED THE SHIT out of Huckabee!

[Marr]

40. It's not a coincidence that Huckabee went into professional religion.

Everything he says is geared towards stirring up in-group/out-group animosities. Everything.

[bayareaboy]

43. Sitting here thinking...

Maybe Jon Stewart could out Biden, Joe as Vice President. I mean just sic Jon on all the tiny infinitiesimal little thoughts of the opposition horde.

Or perhaps as head of the Press Office for the President?

[geretogo]

44. Huckabee playing with an evil racist like Nugent just broadly displays the ignorance and hypocrisy

of psycho's like him .

[rocktivity]

45. If Jon had REALLY wanted to call him out

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He could have asked what music his son was listening to when he was kicked out of the Boy Scouts after an animal torturing incident. But I guess he felt that Huckabee's dragging Obama's kids into it didn't justify bringing it up.


rocktivity

[lolly]

47. There are some weird superstitions floating around evangelical circles about Beyonce

One of my conservative FB friends posted a very serious warning about Beyonce promoting devil/demon worship.

Followed the post down a rabbit-hole of weirdness. A whole website devoted to finding evidence that Beyonce either is or has an alter-ego that is a demon. Lots of screen-caps and photos catching her in unflattering positions (as will happen when someone is singing and performing intensely, of course.)

It was laughably stupid, but obviously these people take crap like this very seriously. The website and the comments on it were fanatic about warning people to keep their kids away from this seemingly innocent performer who was, honest to gawd, trying to convert or transform children.

Huckabee's bizarre obsession with her, and his fixation on the Obama's being culturally deficient for letting their daughters listen to her songs, suggests to me that he buys into all this at some level. Perhaps he realizes that if he went full-on "Beyonce is a demon" in public, he realizes he would get ridiculed (or possibly sued!) so he is dog-whistling the whole thing.

[daleanime]

50. K&R....