Mike Huckabee's Bad Week [View All]

Run time: 06:53 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0NgrC0SZ2o   Posted on YouTube: March 07, 2011 By YouTube Member: mediamatters4america Views on YouTube: 172   Posted on DU: March 07, 2011 By DU Member: Charleston Chew Views on DU: 925

 
A look back at Fox News' Mike Huckabee's terrible week, from his statements on Steve Malzberg's show that seemed to flirt with birtherism to his condemnation of Natalie Portman.

http://mediamatters.org/studios/video/201103070006
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Huckabee wrong on single moms
Melissa Harris-Perry
March 6, 2011

Last week Mike Huckabee’s presidential ramp-up took a Quaylian detour when he denounced Oscar winner Natalie Portman for her out-of-wedlock pregnancy. Suggesting that Portman and other unmarried Hollywood stars glamorize single motherhood, he claimed, “Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care.”

This is the kind of story I would typically ignore, but I agreed to talk with Lawrence O’Donnell about it on Friday night because Huckabee’s recycled and inaccurate attack on single motherhood was personally irritating to me.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/159052/huckabee-wrong-single-moms
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