Jon Stewart calls out Mike Huckabee’s Beyonce hypocrisy to his face

[egbertowillies]

Mike Huckabee came to peddle his book about the Red State/Blue State divide. Jon Stewart treated him to an embarrassing reality detailing his hypocrisy.
http://egbertowillies.com/2015/01/20/jon-stewart-calls-mike-huckabees-red-state-blue-state-beyonce-hypocrisy-face/

[femmocrat]

1. That was so rich.

Huck was peddling as fast as he could.

[bmbmd]

2. If someone were to talk about my wife

the way Huckabee talks about Beyonce, I'd have something to say about it. I'm kind of surprised Jay Z hasn't made a statement, or proferred a knuckle sandwich.

[One of the 99]

3. Saw it last night

Stewart owned Huckabee.

[Gothmog]

4. Huckabee is fixated on Beyonce

[Jamaal510]

5. Jay-Z vs. Huckabee

I'd love to hear Jay do a diss song of him for going after his wife.

[Wounded Bear]

6. I just love when Jon gets 'serious'...

He has embarassed many RWers in his day, especially when they expect it to be all in fun and he starts going all journalistic on them.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. i think jon should have mentioned race, i dont know why we liberals shy away from confronting racism

otherwise i thought he did an amazing job

[kwolf68]

8. Because it does not matter

Hypocrisy is hypocrisy and no racial dog whistle is needed. Stewart stuck with point instead of interjecting conjecture into the mix. You can only assume Huck doesn't like Beyonce' because of race, you can't prove it. But we CAN prove what a hypocritical tool he is by showing him singing a song about getting crabs by having sex when you are 10 years old.

Race doesn't need to be interjected into everything.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. it's not a dog whistle when it's true. He is not going after hundreds of white pop stars,

just beyonce. it does matter.

we like to pretend race does not exist because most of us are not the targets of racism.

[ancianita]

10. I got something else from the encounter -- Huckabee's 'bubble' explanation. Which is that a majority

can't be the ones in a "bubble;" only a minority. He's making the point that reality, even if it's made by limbaughs, hannities, foxies, churches, et. al., is made by consensus, and that flyover country people are more 'real' by numbers alone than are the 40% who want facts, science, education and secularism. His implication is that flyover will prevail because they have the numbers.

I think the idea of being in a 'bubble' is actually more important to Huckabee's voting constituents than is the hypocrisy jab to Stewart's liberal crowd. While Stewart jabbed Huckabee for hypocrisy, Huckabee defined his whole voting demographic's mindset.

We can laugh at what Stewart brought up, but I could tell that Stewart wasn't really listening to Huckabee's point about what I think is a more troubling form of identity politics -- groupthink.

[davidpdx]

11. I watched the entire clip which I recommend as it gives a little more context to what Stewart

was talking about. Stewart did a good job of slapping down the BS being fed by Huckabee.