The Huckabee Hullabaloo continues to roil the blogdom and the media, and rightly so.
Here's a man who spent over a decade as governor of a state. He ran for president in 2008 and make a respectable showing. He writes books on public policy and morals. He holds a well-paid Fox News grace-and-favor TV show-- on public policy.
Hendrick Hertzberg has a nice summary of the last, dreadful week of Huckabee's dog whistling race-baiting (scary black men -read Mau Maus- rise up against whites, ref, et al, Styron, W., The Confessions of Nat Turner, code working Otherness, and getting all waxed up about unmarried pregnant movies stars:
Recall that Huckabee has picked up Dinesh D'Souza's undocumented, unprovable nonsense about how the President is a Kenyan anti-colonialist.
Fat Elvis has been running that line, too. Huckabeee put all his chips on another turn of the wheel, though, arguing that the President somehow absorbed an enthuasiam for the scary-sounding Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s from his grandfather (whom Obama never met) and his father (whom he barely met). It's a sort of racial bloodline thingy kind of argument, though it only works, apparently, in black and Muslim nations- preferably both. You can't really explain Ronald Reagan, Jr. for example, on bloodlines.
Just as an aside, though, the D'Souza, Huckabee, Gingrich meme seems to assume that if the President is an anti-colonial Kenyan who hates the Brits, doesn't that argue, a posteriori, that the American hard right thinks colonialism in Kenya was a good thing?
Segueing from favoring colonialism makes it easy for Huckabee- who's basically a rube- and Gingrich- who's a three card monte act who composes novels about what if the Confederats won the war?) - to dredge up the loaned bust of Winston Churchill which was removed from the Oval Office to make way for one of Abraham Lincoln, then moved to the private Presidential residence, then returned to the British when the loan period expired. Churchill, who reelegated himself to the sidelines of the 1930s with his quixotic defenses of King Edward VIII and opposition to giving any ground in India, is a conservative US icon because they can make him whatever they want to be, and because Kenya as a venue for the triumph of Empire is redolent of lush plantations, Out of Africa, pliant natives, and casual adultery (Seen White Michief, Newt?).
These bits of collective brain tissue rattle around all the time, waiting to be stiched together by new opportuniists like Huckabee, Gingrich, and D'Souza.
But here's what came to me a few minutes ago. Huckabee, of whose records give no hint he was ever a Boy Scout (and I must confuess, I don't know as much as I'd like to know about Huckabee, but what I do know disturbs me; why won't he produce his Scout records?) is now arguing that real Americans like him came up going to Boy Scout meetings and Rotary Club meetings. The President hung out in madrassas in Honolulu, by contrast, says Huckabee. Or in Kenya. With the Mau Maus. Or in Malaysia. Or who the hell knows, in the Bildenburg compoud in Europe where the Rosthchilds reveal themselves as interstellar reptilians- the stuff you can hear on Coast to Coast in the wee hours every moning.
So anyway- Obama= Kenya= anti-American=anti-Brit=Boy Scouts= real American= Lord Baden-Powell= founder of the Boy Scouts= muscular Christianity= Americanism= this:
Here's a man who spent over a decade as governor of a state. He ran for president in 2008 and make a respectable showing. He writes books on public policy and morals. He holds a well-paid Fox News grace-and-favor TV show-- on public policy.
Hendrick Hertzberg has a nice summary of the last, dreadful week of Huckabee's dog whistling race-baiting (scary black men -read Mau Maus- rise up against whites, ref, et al, Styron, W., The Confessions of Nat Turner, code working Otherness, and getting all waxed up about unmarried pregnant movies stars:
Mike Huckabee has been pretty well worked over (e.g., by our own Amy D) for his “Obama grew up in Kenya” foray into birtherism, but the context has not been given sufficient attention.
Via the invaluable Media Matters, here is said context, from a transcript of an interview conducted last week by Steve Malzberg, a typically repellent “host” on WOR, New York’s No. 2 (behind WABC) ultra-right talk-radio station:
MALZBERG: Don’t you think it’s fair also to ask him—I know your stance on this—how come we don’t have a health record, we don’t have a college record, we don’t have a birth cer—why, Mr. Obama, did you spend millions of dollars in courts all over this country to defend against having to present a birth certificate? It’s one thing to say, I’ve, you’ve seen it, goodbye. But why go to court and send lawyers to defend against having to show it? Don’t you think we deserve to know more about this man?
MALZBERG: Of Winston Churchill.
HUCKABEE: —the bust of Winston Churchill, a great insult to the British. But then if you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different than ours because he probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather.
MALZBERG: He despises the west, he despises the Brits, and I think he could take it all out on Israel and that’s why he despises Israel. He’s not too thrilled with our history either. But let me just try to get an answer from you. Would you say to him, or at least ask him in a debate, why did you go to court and spend millions of dollars on lawyers to prevent from having to show your birth certificate. If you have one and it’s there, why not show it?
Huckabee replied that “the only reason” he’s not “confident” that Obama is lying about his birthplace is that “the Clintons” must have oppo-researched the question thoroughly during the 2008 primary campaign and that “if there was anything that they could have found on that they would have found it, and I promise they would have used it.”
Note that Huckabee took no exception to his interviewer’s assertions that Obama has (a) spent millions on lawyers to prevent the release of his oft-released birth certificate, (b) is likewise covering up something nefarious about his health and his college days, and (c, d, e, and f) hates the West, Britain, America’s history, and Israel.
Undaunted, the Huckster then hit the daily double by twinning his opening meme (Obama = Mau Mau; i.e., dangerous black terrorist) with an equally deft followup (Obama = madrassas; i.e., dangerous Muslim terrorist).
Now Huckabee is going for a trifecta: “HUCK RIPS PORTMAN’S PREGNANCY” is the headline at Politico. It seems Huckabee has gone on yet another right-wing radio show to accuse Natalie Portman, who is expecting a baby with her fiancé, of being among those who “glorify and glamorize the idea of out-of-wedlock children.”
Huckabee has not extended his disapproval of bastardy and its enablers to Sarah Palin, mother of Bristol and grandmother of little Tripp. Perhaps it is a question of worker solidarity with a fellow toiler in the Fox News sweatshop. That seems more probable than that it’s simply because the Palins are Christians, whereas the Portmans, er, aren’t.But you, know, as I was reading the lastest about tis crapulous mendacity today, a little cog from the recesses of my mine, circa 1970.
Recall that Huckabee has picked up Dinesh D'Souza's undocumented, unprovable nonsense about how the President is a Kenyan anti-colonialist.
Fat Elvis has been running that line, too. Huckabeee put all his chips on another turn of the wheel, though, arguing that the President somehow absorbed an enthuasiam for the scary-sounding Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s from his grandfather (whom Obama never met) and his father (whom he barely met). It's a sort of racial bloodline thingy kind of argument, though it only works, apparently, in black and Muslim nations- preferably both. You can't really explain Ronald Reagan, Jr. for example, on bloodlines.
Just as an aside, though, the D'Souza, Huckabee, Gingrich meme seems to assume that if the President is an anti-colonial Kenyan who hates the Brits, doesn't that argue, a posteriori, that the American hard right thinks colonialism in Kenya was a good thing?
Segueing from favoring colonialism makes it easy for Huckabee- who's basically a rube- and Gingrich- who's a three card monte act who composes novels about what if the Confederats won the war?) - to dredge up the loaned bust of Winston Churchill which was removed from the Oval Office to make way for one of Abraham Lincoln, then moved to the private Presidential residence, then returned to the British when the loan period expired. Churchill, who reelegated himself to the sidelines of the 1930s with his quixotic defenses of King Edward VIII and opposition to giving any ground in India, is a conservative US icon because they can make him whatever they want to be, and because Kenya as a venue for the triumph of Empire is redolent of lush plantations, Out of Africa, pliant natives, and casual adultery (Seen White Michief, Newt?).
These bits of collective brain tissue rattle around all the time, waiting to be stiched together by new opportuniists like Huckabee, Gingrich, and D'Souza.
But here's what came to me a few minutes ago. Huckabee, of whose records give no hint he was ever a Boy Scout (and I must confuess, I don't know as much as I'd like to know about Huckabee, but what I do know disturbs me; why won't he produce his Scout records?) is now arguing that real Americans like him came up going to Boy Scout meetings and Rotary Club meetings. The President hung out in madrassas in Honolulu, by contrast, says Huckabee. Or in Kenya. With the Mau Maus. Or in Malaysia. Or who the hell knows, in the Bildenburg compoud in Europe where the Rosthchilds reveal themselves as interstellar reptilians- the stuff you can hear on Coast to Coast in the wee hours every moning.
So anyway- Obama= Kenya= anti-American=anti-Brit=Boy Scouts= real American= Lord Baden-Powell= founder of the Boy Scouts= muscular Christianity= Americanism= this:
In 1939, he and his wife moved to a cottage he had commissioned in Nyeri, Kenya, near Mount Kenya, where he had previously been to recuperate. The small one-room house, which he named Paxtu, was located on the grounds of the Outspan Hotel, owned by Eric Sherbrooke Walker, Baden-Powell's first private secretary and one of the first Scout inspectors.[7]Walker also owned the Treetops Hotel, approx 17 km out in the Aberdare Mountains, often visited by Baden-Powell and people of the Happy Valley set. The Paxtu cottage is integrated into the Outspan Hotel buildings and serves as a small Scouting museum.
Baden-Powell died on 8 January 1941 and is buried in Nyeri, in St. Peter's Cemetery [40] His gravestone bears a circle with a dot in the centre 
, which is the trail sign for "Going home", or "I have gone home":[41] When his wife Olave died, her ashes were sent to Kenya and interred beside her husband. Kenya has declared Baden-Powell's grave a national monument.[42]
, which is the trail sign for "Going home", or "I have gone home":[41] When his wife Olave died, her ashes were sent to Kenya and interred beside her husband. Kenya has declared Baden-Powell's grave a national monument.[42]
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