Not content to make just one questionable quote in the last 24 hours, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee decided Saturday to suggest that North Koreans living under an oppressive regime might have more freedom at times than Americans.
According to reporters at the New Hampshire conservative summit where Huckabee spoke, the potential 2016 candidate cited airport security measures by the Transportation Safety Administration as proof.
Huckabee: “I’m beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.” Cites TSA patdowns.
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) April 12, 2014
“When I go to the airport, I have to get in the surrender position, people put hands all over me, and I have to provide photo ID and a couple of different forms and prove that I really am not going to terrorize the airplane – but if I want to go vote I don’t need a thing,” he continued, according to MSNBC.
You are not allowed to go to the airport in N K if you are a Christian dumb ass.
Ole Huck really, really wants to be president. He’s begun to drop these little packages of red meat to the right-wing base & I think he actually has a good shot at putting together a coalition of RWNJs that bridges the Christian and the Libertarian Right.
Huckabee’s an idiot. When I go to vote I must show my voter registration card and a gov’t approved picture ID card BECAUSE of republican paranoia here in AZ against the “other”. Voter fraud has been proven to be miniscule here yet the legislature freaked about it.
The present airport security was instituted by a republican administration in response to the events of 9/11 and Richard Reed the shoe bomber. I admit I don’t like the TSA but I know why they do what they do. The equivalent of the TSA is everywhere in N. Korea. Here it’s just airports, Mike. Maybe in Arkansas they don’t need any ID.
If those words had been uttered by a Democrat or anyone they label as a “liberal”, FauxNews would have run that non-stop for weeks. I am constantly amazed (disgusted, really) how people like Huck keep uttering such mean, hate-filled comments as being aligned with Christian beliefs.
IMHO Huckleberry should accompany Dennis Rodman on his next trip, live there for a year and then report back to us. But seriously, a place like North Korea, where everyone is told what to thing, how to dress and even what hair styles are allowed is a GOTP dream!