Huckabee Jokes About Koreans Eating Dogs To Jab Bernie Sanders

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., Friday, March 7, 2014. Friday marks the second day of the annual Conservative Politi... Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., Friday, March 7, 2014. Friday marks the second day of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, which brings together prospective presidential candidates, conservative opinion leaders and tea party activists from coast to coast. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) MORE LESS
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Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on Tuesday invoked a racial stereotype to take a shot at Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) during the first Democratic presidential primary debate.

Huckabee tweeted that he’d trust the self-described socialist senator with his tax dollars “like I trust a North Korean chef with my labrador”:

He later knocked “liberals” who criticized that tweet as racist:

This post has been updated.

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  1. Avatar for caltg caltg says:

    And I would trust Huckabee with our country like I would trust ISIS taking care of Christians and Jews.

  2. Hucakabee knows his base, I´ll give him that much.

    Except for the assumption that his base knows that there´s a country call ¨Korea¨, of course.

  3. Desperate for attention at the real risk of being pathetic.

  4. I think we´re way beyond ´risk´, at this point.

  5. What a piece of shit. What an unfortunate happenstance of nature that this fucknugget was formed with the ability to talk and form words.

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