Hukster jokes about Obama being shot, no outrage on DU...

...Hilary comments about RFK's assasination, no reference to Obama (although some promoted it like she did) and the world as we know it ends here at DU.

Do you realize how ridiculous this place has become?

I expect the other team (and fans) to be assholes. But I dont expect something like this from our own people. anyhoo Its something you wouldnt understand (obviously)

The Good Rev. Huckabee is an conservative imbelicle of the highest order who happens to be from a southern state. There are evil conservative assholes o' plenty infesting every corner of our republic. Region has little to do with it anymore.

Hillary is a fellow Democrat, as far as I know. She should know better. No excuses.

more quickly

No apology from HRC (to OBAMA) ... no peace at DU.

Do you realize how ridiculous this OP is?

apologized, for which I give him credit. I also give him credit for only doing it once.

not one where you apologize to a camera (which she hasnt done yet either)
thats a decent thing to do over something like this
if your intention was indeed misconstrued
you apologize to the person you hurt and you do it personally
im no huckabee fan but i give him major human props for facing his wrong and working HIMSELF to correct it

What fuckin planet have you been on? There were at least a dozen threads calling for his arrest and prosecution.

I thought both Hucklebee and Hillary showed extremely poor taste. Also, Hucklebee was long out of the race when he stuck his foot in it.

and we expressed it on this board.

But you go ahead making ignorant posts.

David

We may not have been expressing it as much, because we expect that much from Republicans.

Not one of our own.

1) There was plenty of outrage on DU do a search
2) Huckabee apologized

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6006219

The google search is amazing on here. BTW you'll see that one of the comments is there are dozens of threads on this.

despite the fact that the comment is what we expect of idiot republicans.

Either you have a short memory or you are a liar.

I think you are a liar.

That things we expect of them we should expect of her?

:shrug:

There was plenty of outrage on DU - YOU just weren't outraged.

and as others have pointed out, there was outrage over that too.

difference that creates a DU storm.

(from an awfully sexist song, but a keeper line for general usage.)

only because there weren't any idiots here defending it.

Well, to be fair, Clinton is no longer a credible figure either. Perhaps it is the memory of her credibility that grants her some residual credibility.

Who knows?

even after the Huckster issued an apology (though at least his apology did say "I'm sorry that I offended" and not "sorry IF I offended")

congratulations.

Here is a clue: of course there was outrage on DU over Huckster's fucked up little stunt. What is ridiculous is trying to defend Clinton over her latest gaffe by claiming that 'well we didn't get upset when Huckabee joked about killing Obama'. You have put Clinton's remarks on parity with that crap, a low it had previously failed to reach.

Here is another clue: you should let it sink. The Obama campaign is not flogging her with this. Bringing it up again, even if you think your doing so is going to help her, is not going to help her, it is going to keep her complete fuck up last Friday fresh on everyone's mind.

BIG DIFFERENCE !!!

Open your eyes.

...and there would have been if he said it about Hillary too.

1. Most people who frequent here and elsewhere were probably unaware of the article, since Hustler isn't really a very widely read publication.

2. Now that people here have been made aware of it, they probably join me in repudiating it.

3. When did Larry Flynt become a Clinton surrogate?

times over... Yet you Lie and know you Lie.

Lying is all they've had since Iowa.

I know I saw you and other great DUers rip Huckafuck a new asshole a brazillion times over.

This OP must have been asleep for the past couple of weeks, or as you said, is lying.

I think I found the answer.

same thing now--lots of outrage about Hillary's comments but little of it from her supporters.

they are outraged that anyone has the sexist misogynist NERVE to call her on her murder pimping
I'm old enough to know she said what she said to incite some feeble minded drone (AKA hillary supporter) to pick up his rifle and help her campaign
i will not give her the slightest benefit of doubt
she knew what she said
she said it on purpose
it HAD a purpose
she sent the clowns (hired spokes-mouths)out for the last 2 weeks with the "anything could happen" theme and when no fish nibbled that worm she decided to chum the waters
don't try to tell me that mccauliffe wasn't saying what she wanted said
your choice
is she the smartest woman in politics and doing it purposefully
or the stupidest woman in politics and doing it in full failure flail?
either way she needs to be kept away from any power forever
she
is
insane

Hillary just said today that she did nothing wrong. big difference.

We were all over the Huckster's comment!

Do you actually believe that Hillary is getting no criticism other than at DU?

She's getting it good everywhere!

Check out these links:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6109379&mesg_id=6109379

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6105722&mesg_id=6105722

It's really that simple.

Also, his was actually an off the cuff gaffe. Hers was a practiced talking point.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5998796

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3297652

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3298063

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3298063

and that is a SMALL sample of the threads, feel free to use DU's google search link on the right hand side of the page.

Hillary Clinton IS a presidential candidate.

That IS the difference!

:argh:

The two gaffes are closely linked. Only a week or so apart. That's why I can't as easily dismiss her misstatement because it came on the heels of The Huckabee's little joke about Obama dodging bullets. And he was widely condemned. With that horrible macabre super-gaffe only a week or so earlier, we were still reeling when HRC dropped her casual calendar reference into the mix. So her statement touched that already jangled nerve and was thereby greatly amplified.

I guess she wouldn't have any hopes of having enough decency to be held to any higher ones.

we expect that kind of shit from them. But at least he gave a honest and very quick apology for his remarks. Hillary? Not so much. And it is a complete and utter lie that there wasn't outrage here at DU regarding Huckabee's comments. I saw several threads regarding his statements. This is yet another delusional attempt to somehow make what Hillary said the fault of the Obama supporters. It's not. It's hers. She fucked up and she remains defiant and unapologetic for what she said which is why she and her little band of delusional supporters can all go straight to hell.

Oh. How fucking stupid.

Latest Breaking, GD, GDP, Editorials, even video. It was also on the front page, and people were plenty pissed about it.

Let me explain... I felt that he was impulsively telling a joke that just went horribly wrong. I've done the same thing more times than I care to mention:blush: He is basically a well-meaning guy who has shwon grace and humility many times (for example he was one of Wright's most forceful defenders) The main reason that I gave him a pass though, was his immediate heartfelt and un-parsed apology.

WIth Hillary, she had made the statement or similar ones several times before- it wasn't an impulsive gaffe, it was a well-thought out part of her dialog. It seemed to me, to be indicative of her inner thoughts... very disturbing thoughts. (Now I'll agree that I have no way to know what her inner thoughts and motivations truly are, so this may not be rational on my part. I'm just explaining my thought processes here:)0 The main reason for my upset at Hillary is her anemic self-serving non-apology. She refuses to admit that she might have been wrong... and her comments today seem to indicate that she feels we are to be blamed for being upset. Sorry... not the kind of leader I want.

Plus she is a Dem, he is a Repub...

ANd I remember a whole lotta outrage on here at Huck's "joke... so much so that I was sliced a bit for speaking in his defense.

The word "assassinate," used in any sense is not funny. People see what they want.

I was outraged.

or something like that. It made the top of the most recommended list.

There WAS outrage. You just were not paying atention.

his comments.

There was at least one thread rec'd to the front page for quite some time.

the Hukster joke is no big deal. What with peanut head Pat Robertson calling for the assassination of the leader of another country and with these asshole fundies murdering abortion doctors, it's just not a surprise anymore. A candidate implying or relating to assassination of a presidential candidate is quite another thing.

1) there was a abundance of outrage at the good reverend Huckabee for his allleged "joke;" and

2) it is entirely understandable that it is more upsetting to the constituency here to see one Dem obliquely raising the spectre of a rival Dem's murder than it is to see a consversative idiot doing what conservative idiots do.

you are disconnected from reality.

Huckabee is a fruit and everyone here already knows that.