The all-time one day fund raising record was broken on Sunday by Congressman Ron Paul. His supporters staged a fund raising “moneybomb” on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, raising a record $6 million. Naturally all that most of the media wants to talk about is that $500 comes from a white supremacist.
Huck in the News
Mike Huckabee is clearly not the most intelligent man. Aside from exadurating about his formal education (Huckabee lied about having a theology degree) we now have to wonder if he knows what he’s doing regarding foreign policy:
You just don’t want to believe that a leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, two steps from power in the free world, really thought that Canada had a national igloo. When Rick Mercer comes on the phone to talk about Mike Huckabee, we expect he’ll explain it was a joke. Surely, he’ll assure us that the wisecracking former Arkansas governor was just playing along for a laugh in Mercer’s now-iconic Talking To Americans television spots…. “He wasn’t in on it,” Mercer says. “The governor of Arkansas thought there was a Canadian national igloo. The governor of Arkansas would have believed the world was flat.”
We Three Kings of Orient Aren’t?
The UK Telegraph wrote up a controversy generating piece: Archbishop says nativity ‘a legend’.According to Bryan in our forums, the transcript shows that this was a botched hack-job at best.
Environmental Hysteria (possibly)
US Senate passes a bill raising fuel efficiency standards to 35 mpg. Chrysler estimates meeting the standards will cost $6,700 per vehicle.
More Links
Two prisoners escape a New Jersey prison by putting posters over their escape route.
Vladimir Putin is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.
Harold Meyerson examines the “mountain of moral, and mortal, hypocrisy that is our Christianized Republican Party.“
Harold Meyerson… now that’s a laugh.
Um, the article you link to clearly states that Huck DID NOT lie about his theology degree, but merely overstated his educational experience.
Oh, right. And Bill Clinton didn’t lie about having an affair, he just overstated his innocence.
I don’t think most people know or care about the difference between a religious degree and a theology degree. It’s just the type of mistake you’re going to make if you talk alot.
Definitions matter, as we are finding out in the “forced” debate.
I am not a fan of Huck, but let’s not be disengenous. Do you honestly think he intentionally lied about his theology degree or just approximated since the “spirit” of his statement was still true? In comparison, the spirit of Clinton’s proclamation of innocence was not true. And he knew he was lying.
Jasen, exactly. For a politician, this is a really small mistake.
I found the nativity thing pretty interesting. I had read that article before Bryan posted the actually interview, and it’s clear the article was media sensationalism at it’s finest.
The McLaughlin Group this week discussed what candidates would work best with Putin, Ahmadinejad, Brown, etc. Everyone agreed that Huckabee would get run over by someone like Putin. And from what I’ve seen, I would agree. Though they are making too much out of the igloo thing.
No, I definitely agree about the Huckabee thing. I don’t even know the difference between a religion degree and a theology degree, so this is a non-issue. Huckabee said nothing wrong.
I agree with Darius…the headline for that article was sensationalist at best…I don’t see a big problem with Huckabee’s mis-step in regards to his education.
I do, however, think that the Rick Mercer thing is kind of a big deal. Huck actually thought that the Canadian parliament building was a small-scale recreation of the Arkansas state legislature…made out of ice! How smart can this guy be?