Jon Stewart Tears Into Mike Huckabee - " Why Is Beyoncé Harming Kids But Ted Nugent’s Fine ? "

[Quixote1818]

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Huckabee is a fucking moron if he doesn't think kids listened to Ted Nugent.

Or KISS or any other rock band/singer from the 1970s. You go to their concerts in that era and a great deal of the people watching are youths - under 18 and soaking up every bit of the experience.

[Thinkingabout]

2. A good point, but I think it is more about President and his children and the president is

a Democrat and Beyoncé is black as is the president and Huckabee and Nugent are white, so it must be the white performer can't do anything wrong. WRONG!

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

26. Huckabee is a very racist and very destructive man. His agenda will put tens

of millions more americans into poverty and risk their lives.

He does want this, also.

The more of us in poverty the more we will rely on him and his sponsors.

That he calls himself a christian, is bad enough, that he calls himself a preacher, is downright disgusting.

[samsingh]

27. exactly

[JDPriestly]

30. Could be. I think it is about dividing the country and of course he is using race as one of a

number of means to do that.

[gordianot]

3. Ted Nugent as well a Huckabee are both peddlers of profanity.

Nugent, the child molester, just has a new audience to whom he can peddle his disgusting vile chickenhawk violence.

[JDPriestly]

29. Worst show for teenagers when mine were young: Beverly Hills 90210, broadcast by FOX,

Huckabee's former employer.

The show depicted drug use, divorce, teenaged sex, etc. I wrote a protest letter to Fox.
It is almost impossible to tell your kids they can't watch some show like that when they are top students in high school and consider themselves to have good judgment.

And compare the necklines on the female Fox newscasters with those of Rachel Maddow, a lieral on MSNBC. So which channel sells its news with the most sexual innuendo? I would pick Fox way over MSNBC.

If Huckabee were really as straight-laced as he pretends, he would never have worked for Fox.

He is a hypocrite when it comes to his exaggerated sexual morality themes. You can't work for Fox if you care about the selling of sex to kids.

I'd like to see a chart comparing Republican sex scandals to Democratic ones. I think that chart would burst the bubble of Republican hypocrisy.

Personally, I really don't care that much. It's the hypocrisy that annoys me.

[MrModerate]

4. The answer could be much simpler . . .

Beyonce is a superstar while Nugent is a has-been (who was never as big in his time as Beyonce is now).

Nugent is irrelevant (not to mention repulsive) so his influence is quantitatively less.

I don't see Mike "The Genial Psychopath" Huckabee admitting that, however.

[calimary]

5. So glad this is being pushed in his face.

huckabooboo - you just do not get it, do you.

Or, as others here have already speculated - we DO get it - about you.

Very clearly.

[Cha]

6. Just what we've been asking for over a week! Thank you, Jon Stewart!! I don't want to watch

now.. so was Huckabee caught off guard?

Mahalo Quixote

[griloco]

7. Huckabee is right but the decline of youth began...

Hmmm...Methinks Memphis is Babylon...?
1950s preacher vs. rock'n'roll music & Elvis:

[czarjak]

10. Nailed it...

Huckashill.

[safeinOhio]

9. Ya, people from the little

South West Arkansas town Huckaback is from are just smarter. Some a little more so than others, like Bill Clinton.

[Fred Sanders]

11. And the Hucksters response was because the song was for "adults" and Beyoncé is corrupting

children? Of course leaving unanswered his love affair with sedition, killing things and draft dodging.

And pedophilia, that one too.

Huckster hearts Nugent for the same reason all the GOP fraudsters heart all the insanity...they want the GOP. They want the Insane Vote and the GunNut vote.

John took it WAY too easy on him.

These are not men, they are monsters.

[drynberg]

12. SO, WHY WAS MIKE HUCKABEE ON STEWARD? TO SELL HIS GRAVY BOOK? DON'T THINK SO...

Mike was on cause some beancounter told him it would draw the youth vote to his move on '16...yeah, right...And Steward? He was salivating at the chance to dance with the Teddy Backup guitarist, Huckabee. Brilliant.

[beerandjesus]

13. Wow, can't believe the brazen lie about Ted Nugent's music being for adults.

Forget about Ted Nugent's politics for a second. I'm 42, and although I've never cared for Ted Nugent (the interminable guitar solos bore me), I like a lot of music that's stylistically similar. But as an adult who likes this stuff a lot, I'll stand up and say it's KIDS' music.

It's simple, rock out, good time shit, and to pretend otherwise is just to deny the obvious. Hats off to AC/DC, Slade, and Rose Tattoo! (And Kiss, but that one sticks in my craw, cuz I hate Gene Simmons more than Ted Nugent.)

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

14. Speaking as a man with an MA from Harvard

I was insulted by the man with the BA from Ouachita Baptist University sneering at Harvard. And yes, it was a sneer. He made it quite clear that he believes that the Harvard faculty has no idea about life in the real world. I'd say that they have a far better knowledge of it than Ted Nugent does.

On the whole, you do get a better education at places like Harvard than at places like Ouachita Baptist. I will cheerfully admit that the finest teacher I ever had was at the University of Wisconsin; but I must add that his PhD was from Harvard.

I will say that my car once broke down in the middle of nowhere, and some good old boys in a truck with a box of tools did get me going again. I was very grateful that they happened by. But those men would not be the ones I would go to for business advice -- it would be the man with the MBA.

Huckabee does not like Beyoncé's style. Well, neither do I. Mozart is my musical love. But compared to Ted Nugent, she is a paragon of virtue and musicality.

[AndreaCG]

20. The Harvard grad I can think of who's the biggest snob

Is Ted Cruz. In law school he refused to study with anyone who hadn't gone to an Ivy League school (and iirc only Harvard, Yale and Princeton counted).

And yet...Ted Cruz says some of the dumbest shit out there, in his insufferably smug way. So maybe huckabee has a point after all. He's just looking at the wrong Harvard grads. (W comes to mind too. Though he's not nearly as smug as Cruz).

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

22. W got into Yale and Harvard Business School

For only one reason: He was his father's son. At Yale, he got what is termed a "gentleman's C"

I knew quite a few snobs at Harvard, and one or two complete idiots. But most of us, especially in the graduate schools, went there for the education.

[calimary]

35. I think it's also a subtle dig at Barack Obama also. After all, the President is Harvard-educated.

And it's been a long time since anybody remembered the finer points of JFK's background. Now, notice, he didn't say "Yale" because while Bill Clinton went there george w. idiot went there, too, on the string-pulling fellowship.

Huckabooboo also forgets the "bubba" "educational" possibilities that are presented at such "sterling" institutions as Bob Jones "University," pat robertson's Regent "University," jerry falwell's Liberty "University," and other borderline fraudulent operations. It was Monica Goodling and other hot young Turks and Turkettes who came out of the "law schools" at THOSE outfits who got stovepiped directly into the bush/cheney "Justice" Department, and were vetting and filtering US attorney candidates according to their political leanings - and other filters that were forbidden by law. She had to testify about that in Congress and admitted that in her involvement in those agenda-driven activities - saying "I crossed the line". All these fire-breathing true-believers like her learned their "law degrees" through the Christian-extremist filtration curriculum that's force-fed to students in those "universities".

I'm putting a lot of these words in quotes because the use of them in this context requires a companion reaction of "yeah, my ass."

[amuse bouche]

15. Jon did a nice job calling out Suckabee on his BS

[Thespian2]

16. First, I admit

that Huckabucka makes me puke when he spouts his lies. He is not a minister, preacher, or in any way religious. His "college" must not have taught what Jesus said and did. He is evil.

Note to Huck: As a graduate student at U of Houston, my PHD advisor and I built an apartment from ground up, doing all the work: plumbing, electrical work, carpentry, etc. All work passed inspection. How did we learn to accomplish these various tasks? We had the ability to read. So those of us who teach can also do many kinds of jobs.

Would I want a bunch of good ole' boys helping out? I couldn't trust them not to be high or drunk or fully armed and willing to shoot people.

[olegramps]

17. His attempts to justify his performance is typical Repukian crap.

A person only has to say this is only for adults ears to justify staying in good stead with their ignoramus admirers to justify his admiration of a draft dodging pervert. He is just a disgusting opinionated slob hawking books that appeal to his fellow racists.

[vkkv]

18. God ?? Religion is the oldest, most profitable marketing scam on the planet

Religion is the oldest, most profitable marketing scam on the planet - just ask Jim and Tammy-Fay Bakker, Pat Robertson, Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen, Harold Camping, Jerry Falwell, Gene Scott .. the list is long.

What they do is, sell a product: salvation, which costs absolutely nothing to make, and sell it to those looking for answers that science can't entirely explain while the organization grows by assimilating many cultures and traditions to spread, like a virus, through as many cultures as it can.

Martin Luther formed a new church because the Pope was corruptly selling slices of Heaven known as "indulgences". The Pope was on the take from both poor and wealthy supporters - no surprise there. It's called 'Merchandising!"

[3catwoman3]

33. Creflo Dollar???

[vkkv]

19. Conservatives have been mostly WRONG coming around EVERY corner of history.

The time-honored right-wing motto: "Frequently wrong, never in doubt."

I'll name one really easy one. Gay Marriage, remember how that was going to "destroy traditional marriage", but then Charles Manson just had a traditional marriage.. so.. okay another, minorities voting, okay another, women voting, okay another: Republicans fought against Dems in joining WWII until Pearl Harbor was struck (kinda like BushCo's unpreparedness for 911), okay, three more, the Roman, Spanish and French Inquisitions, more? The Civil War ( Republicans like Lincoln were the Big Gov liberals and the Dems were the conservative state's rights party in the 1800's until the Whig Party collapsed around 1900) More? Open gays in the military were going to "destroy the military!" Renewable energy, the environment. The Earth is round and not the center of the Universe by the way.. oh and it's not flat. Invading Iraq when Saddam was going to walk out before the bombs fell anyway? And how about our absurd military budget, It's killing our development as a future leader on this planet. More? How about the quality of our education? roads? bridges? Dems want to rebuild all of these, but right wingers would rather give tax breaks to the wealthy who just off-shore their loot anyway.

Time has shown again and again how conservatives just can't get over their ideology and greed to make the correct social, environmental and economic long-term decisions.

Their self-definition of "conservative" alone dooms them to keeping their eyes and minds shut to new possibilities.

[AndreaCG]

21. On a slightly different topic

I notice huckabee seems to have gained a lot of weight. As a fat person I'm not going to shame him, as it's very difficult to keep the weight off in the long run. I do believe, however, that huckabee himself engaged in a little fat shaming after he lost the weight. To which I say, be careful your words don't come back to bite you.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. It's REPUBLICANS who think the people in the "flyover" are idiots....

Mainly because they keep falling for their shit.

[Stephen Retired]

24. Oops!

Sorry. Will delete my duplicate thread.

[surrealAmerican]

25. Was he always this bad ...

... or has he just stepped up the pandering to a level where even he can't make any sense of it?

Maybe his "bubbas" will fall for this flattery, but it really shows that he figures they'll fall for just about anything.

I like he assumed that Stewart wouldn't have read his book. I guess he never bothered doing the reading when he did interviews.

[Siwsan]

28. Huckabee is an elitist buffoon

Make that a delusional elitist buffoon.

[Initech]

31. Honestly if I ever have kids....

I'd be more afraid of their music choices if they brought home a copy of Ted Nugent's "Cat Scratch Fever" as opposed to the latest Beyoncè album

[JDDavis]

32. Just watch this Jesus freak's body language as he is interviewed

Look at his hand gestures and his face, and eyes.

He's very afraid of the next question, and trying to appear sane for a moment while he is totally on the defensive after every question.

Two minutes of watching him wince is too much, I had to stop before John asked him about his times with the rock legend of the right wing.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

34. and today, Huckabee took his book tour to Jim Bakker's show

and got an endorsement from the disgraced televanglist, convicted felon, accused rapist and doomsday prepper:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mike-huckabee-talks-2016-plans-jim-bakker-shouts-hallelujah