Rev Huckabee should never have brought up the Boy Scouts

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

He said tonight that Obama didn't have an American childhood like being a boy scout.

Flash from the past 2007.

Huckabee Squashed Charges Against His Son For Stoning, Hanging Dog

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(Miller County, Arkansas) Two boy scout counselors, 17 year old Clayton Frady and 18 year old David litickabee (sic), the son of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, have admitted to catching a stray dog during their summer session at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, AR, and hanging the dog by his neck, slitting his throat and stoning him to death.

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http://crooksandliars.com/2007/12/16/huckabee-squashed-charges-against-his-son-for-stoning-hanging-dog

[bluestateguy]

1. What would you expect from the liberal soft on crime Huckabee

who pardons and sets free cop killers and rapists to run in the streets.

Only Barack Obama can be trusted to keep American streets safe from thugs and criminals.

(testing soundbites for 2012...)

[Adsos Letter]

2. "...hanging the dog by his neck, slitting his throat and stoning him to death."

What does that say about these guys respect for life? About their psychological profile? About the values they were taught, and had demonstrated to them in their own homes?

This is some seriously sick stuff. :mad: :puke:

[A Simple Game]

23. The dog wasn't pregnant was it? If not no fetus was lost.

Maybe the Huck's can get together with the Romneys. They all seem to love dogs caring for dogs so much.

[RainDog]

3. eeeuuwww

isn't animal abuse one of the markers for a psychopath? (not that all people who torture and abuse animals will become serial killers, of course.)

[Frustratedlady]

10. One became president, right?

Didn't George abuse animals?

[RainDog]

15. and torture humans n/t

[Populist_Prole]

4. Being a religious nutjob can't help

I believe the bible cites stoning often.

[Jmaxfie1]

5. Good lord! n/t

[snappyturtle]

6. OMG! That is really sick...how awful....and you're right, he shouldn''t have brought it up. nt

[brewens]

7. Evidently Kenyan dads don't teach that kind of behavior. n/t

[snagglepuss]

8. Touche. A brilliant retort. nt

[snagglepuss]

9. How come did this crime not sink his political career? And Huckabee must have a serious

psychological problem, what else explains his mentioning boy scouts when his son did this?

[ThoughtCriminal]

24. Why?

the (R) means NEVER having to answer.

[lonestarnot]

11. wow.

did we make this shit up? WTF! Why is this the first time I've heard of such heinous treatment of animals by a fuckwad offshoot. Huckalbees hatched that thing? Apples don't fall far from the tree.

[HipChick]

12. Fuckabee...

[hlthe2b]

13. Oh, gawd... I could have merely detested him before reading this...

What kind of monster covers up for a son doing that? Nice little Jeffrey Dahmer you've raised Huck. Gawd in Heaven, what a monster.

Just reading this horrifies me so much. That poor poor dog. Wrenching, absolutely wrenching.

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. True but notice no major TV channel will go there

and report the news of this or his other bad judgements.

[jbnow]

16. But some network did poiunt out that Obama was in a boy scout troop

as a child. All the more ironic

[SpiralHawk]

19. So Huckabee (R) was lying again?

Sheesh - Republicons need to give the lie thingy a rest...Americans are sick of it.

[Pacifist Patriot]

22. Sadly I know way too many people who would swear with their dying breath...

that Obama had never been a Boy Scout even if you showed them a record of his badges, cancelled check for troop dues and a photo of him in a Webelo uniform.

[NotThisTime]

17. OMG That is freaking awful, worse than awful, I have no words.

[SpiralHawk]

18. Republicon Family 'Hang-a-dog-for-fun' Values

"Ptooey on Republicon hate and cruelty." - Fido

[xchrom]

20. recommend

[thereismore]

21. I almost forgot about this little gem. Huckster and huckster's son. Blech. nt

[SoCalDem]

25. Wonder what Ole Huck had to say when Vick did sort of the same thing..

Which one of the sons is it?






http://reason.com/blog/2007/12/17/the-dog-days-of-david-huckabee

The Dog Days of David Huckabee

Nick Gillespie | December 17, 2007

Must Hate DogsAbout the strangest family scandal to emerge so far in Campaign 2008 involves Mike Huckabee's son David, a Boy Scout camp, and a dog dangled unto death. From a Newsweek account by Michael Isikoff:

One issue likely to get attention is 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....

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."...
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."...

Whole thing here.

Are the allegations true? It's not clear from this account, but as a former Eagle Scout interned for several summers at the wonderful Forestburg (near the New York/New Jersey border), I can tell you that what happens at scout camp stays at scout camp. Isikoff is certainly right to imply that as the former tub of goo Huckabee rises in the polls like some sort of slimmed-down Ron Paul blimp, all sorts of weird shit is going to come out about him, his past, and more. He's been in the public eye too long and comes from a milieu that gave him wide range to pander to all sorts of creeptacular elements in American cultural and political discourse (which, to give Huckabee credit, he might fully agree with). Witness the recent flap over his 1992 comments about AIDS.


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[joshcryer]

26. WHAT THE HELL I NEVER HEARD OF THIS

Wow.

[Drahthaardogs]

27. WOW!

Animal torture. So we have Detective Harry Morgan running for President huh?