On Tuesday night, 15.3 million people tuned in to a sane, rational Democratic presidential debate. Nobody remembered to bring the crazy to the Dem’s debate. So, wingnuts brought enough for everybody.
It’s hard to choose the most egregious of the right-wing responses to the Democrats’ debate, but it should probably go to former Arkansas governor, infomercial star, and GOP presidential wannabe Mike Huckabee’s stunningly ignorant, incredibly racist tweet.
<blockquote class=“twitter-tweet” =“en”>
I trust @BernieSanders with my tax dollars like I trust a North Korean chef with my labrador! #DemDebate
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) October 14, 2015
Where to begin? Invoking negative stereotypes of Asians, that were themselves created to perpetuate the notion of white supremacy? Is there another word for that besides racist? Making jokes about people who are powerless and starving, just to score a political point? Are there other words for that besides crass and ignorant?
Oh, but Huckabee wasn’t done. Taken to task on Twitter, he complained about “political correctness” and the “liberal media” on his Facebook page, before responded with another tweet.
Poor liberals think it's racist to deplore a brutal dictatorship. #DemDebate https://t.co/ItkrFfMYiL
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) October 14, 2015
No, making crude, racist jokes about eating dogs is racist. Huckabee’s joke never even mentioned North Korea’s brutal dictatorship.
[fve]https://youtu.be/SfOBHm3T_Nw[/fve]
Actually, Huckabee should probably be more worried about leaving his labrador alone with his son Dave Huckabee, who brutally tortured and killed a dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998. And he wasn’t even hungry.
Huckabee wasn’t done. He came back with a tweet even more stunning for its utter lack of irony or self-awareness.
Racism exists because we have a sin problem in America, not a skin problem. #DemDebate
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) October 14, 2015
Glass houses, Mike. Glass houses.
But Huckabee was far from alone. Arizona Republican Party chairman Randy Pullen was a close second for most racist tweet.
Yes black lives matter. The best way to end the slaughter of young black men is to take guns away from blacks as they are the main killers.
— Randy Pullen (@RPullen) October 14, 2015
There was more:
- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) fell back on the “fee stuff” dog whistle.
- Fox News host Steve Doocy claimed that Democratic policies are “going to be a gravy train. Just a trough.”
- Fox News Host Stuart Varney chimed in that Democrats are “giving stuff away” and “buying votes.”
- Fox guest Sheriff David Clarke said that Hillary Clinton is “willing to prostitute herself for the black vote.”
- Clarke later complained to Sean Hannity that ⌗BlackLivesMatter is “an ideology of victimhood with a list of grievances that do not exist.” Right. Try telling that to Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Jordan Davis, Matthew Ajibade, Freddie Gray, Natasha McKenna, Darrien Hunt, Walter Scott, Sam Dubose, and John Crawford. You’re gonna need a Ouija Board.
- Fox News host Bill O’Reilly compared ⌗BlackLivesMatter to the KKK.
- Rush Limbaugh dragged out the old right wing trop that Clinton’s “only accomplishment is being a woman.”
- Limbaugh also dismissed climate change warnings as “apocalyptic doom,” and argued that global warming “would actually be good for a lot of things and people.”
- Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck claimed that male Democrats were “letting Hillary Clinton Win” because of feminism.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV1nLI6ql05yO4AzMibhwWge1-M-w6v_n&w=640]
Here’s the best of the rest of the worst in wingnuttery this week:
- Fox News “terror expert” Wayne Simmons was arrested for “charges of major fraud against the United States, wire fraud, and making false statements to the government,” including lying about being a CIA officer. Simmons was one of Fox News’ purported experts on the 2012 Benghazi attacks. Poor Fox News. First the committee is revealed as a sham. Now so is its Benghazi “expert.”
- GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee agreed that poor people should be sold into slavery for stealing. Huckabee agreed with right-wing radio host’s Jan Mickelson’s idea for getting biblical on criminal justice reform. Mickelson suggested that conservatives look to the book of Exodus. “It says, if a person steals, they have to pay it back two-fold, four-fold,” Mickelson explained. “If they don’t have anything, we’re supposed to take them down and sell them.”
- Republican Missouri State Rep. Rick Brattin wants to force Planned Parenthood to build a “Vietnam Wall type” memorial to aborted fetuses. “I know that sounds crazy,” Brattin said, “but by state law [fetuses are] given human status, so should there be a human memorial attached to that human life?”
- Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told an audience at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, that gays should stay in the closet at work, if they don’t want to face discrimination.
- A Donald Trump rally turned violent when a Trump supporter spit on an immigration activist, after hearing Trumps anti-immigrant rhetoric.
- Fox News judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said he thought the Supreme Court made a mistake when it said voting is a fundamental right.
- Pat Robertson had a hard time explaining why he needed surgery if faith is enough to heal anybody. Maybe science isn’t so bad when you get sick.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV1nLI6ql05yk70Q2hmcJa58v3gc–0AxF&w=640]
