Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” that “be a heck of a good President” because of his decision to promote dietary supplements on informercials.
“Well, there’s gonna be a lot of criticism thrown my way,” Huckabee said. “I don’t have to defend everything that I’ve ever done. I’m not doing those infomercials obviously now as a candidate for President. But if that’s the worst thing somebody can say to me, is that I advocated for people who have diabetes to do something to reverse it and stop the incredible pain of that, then I’m gonna be a heck of a good President.”
CBS host Bob Schieffer mentioned that he had diabetes and understood the importance of diet and exercise in treating the disease before questioning Huckabee about whether he’d sold pills in his informercials.
“No, no, there was not, that’s a misnomer,” Huckabee said. “One of the elements of the plan was dietary supplements. But it’s not the fundamental thing.”
Watch the video below, courtesy of CBS News:
h/t Mediaite
Just as OTC supplements are useless for addressing real diseases, so Huckabee’s fundamentalist religious beliefs are useless for addressing real national issues. Lots of placebo effects and wishful thinking in both cases.
I got nothin’ at this point. Really. The drep just derped its own derp.
let’s see…
bible thumper with a phoney interpretation of what the bible actually says…
hawks ‘diet supplements’ and feels that qualifies him to be president…
had a toe the company line infomercial ‘news’ show on Fox…
sounds like the Huckster is just another snake oil salesman…
I would suggest adopting a dog to motivate exercising, but we know what Hickabee’s son does to dogs. Better for him to just shill some diet pills.
Oh, yes, let us have for president a smooth-talking rube-fleecing money-grubbing huckster. This is the guy we want talking to the other world leaders for us, and setting policies for the 21st century.
In other news, it’s “misconception,” not “misnomer,” you ignorant baboon.