Mike Huckabee, A Friend of Jesus, Defends Kavanaugh with Sexual Assault Joke
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Mike Huckabee, religious nutter extraordinaire, continued his long-running streak of conflating bigotry with (conservative) “humor” last night when he tried to fend off a sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Sarah Sanders’ daddy started with a “joke” suggesting women and liberals are just too anti-men and too pro-trans. Seriously? A vicious sexual attack is just a small matter to this bigoted Bible banging hypocrite?
As laid out by Jodi Jacobson in Rewire. News, Kavanaugh’s confirmation “has become an Anita Hill moment.” In addition to other serious concerns about Kavanaugh’s radical view of executive power and his disturbing comments about women’s sexual health rights, Jacobson notes his long, close relationship with accused sexual harasser Judge Alex Kozinski (about whose behavior Kavanaugh was evasive during his confirmation hearings). Now a woman has come forward and accused Kavanaugh of sexual assaultwhen they were in high school. He has vehemently denied that claim.
The allegations are serious.
Kavanaugh physically pushed her into a bedroom, the accuser said. Along with another male, Kavanaugh locked the door from the inside and played loud music that the accuser said precluded successful attempts to yell for help.
Both men were drunk, she said, and Kavanaugh attempted to remove her clothes.
At one point, Kavanaugh was on top of her laughing as the other male in the room periodically jumped onto Kavanaugh.
Huckabee appeared as a pro-Kavanaugh guest on Fox News last night where, instead of calling for a hearing to get to the bottom of what Kavanaugh did or did not do, Huckabee wants us all to move along, naturally, because in his world what’s right is what the Republicans say it is.
That, in itself, is enough to make me suspicious that he’s afraid of what might be found out. Also suspicious is his notion that the way to defend Kavanaugh is to attack his accuser and, by extension, those who think her allegations deserve investigation.
Speaking to Fox host Jeanine Pirro, a despicable character in her own right, Huckabee cited a letter sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee and signed by 65 women who attested to Kavanaugh’s good character in high school. Let’s not forget that a slew of Fox News personalities came forward and defended Roger Ailes from accusations of sexual harassment, too. While I certainly believe that Kavanaugh, like anyone, is innocent until proven guilty, a list of banks a bank robber has not held up is no proof he did not hold up a different bank.
First, Huckabee suggested that Kavanaugh’s accuser’s wish for anonymity was an indication of dishonesty:
HUCKABEE: The big difference, Judge, is that 65 women signed their names to it, they’re willing to be accountable for it. The one person who is unknown and completely anonymous with really, some pretty sketchy accusations – we don’t know who it is, we have no idea.
He concluded with his hideous humor:
HUCKABEE: I’ll tell you the one thing that the left would love him for. If he would wear a dress and hang out in women’s restrooms, that would be the one thing that they would suddenly applaud and say, “He’s fit for the court.”
Host Jeanine Pirro was once known for championing abused women and children. But she laughed heartily as Huckabee deliberately denigrated a possible victim of sexual assault with a bigoted joke about transgender bathrooms.
Clearly, if Huckabee has his way, it will be 1991 all over again, when the spectacle of Clarence Thomas was elevated to the High Court, after multiple, credible allegations of sexual harassment and impropriety by a very believable Anita Hill.
Watch Huckabee try to hustle us away from looking further into the character of a lifetime appointee for the highest court in the country above, from September 15, 2018, with ‘Judge’ Jeanine.
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Odd…that didn’t do it for
Giuliani…er…Giuliana.May daddy have to eat a lot more shit very soon
She lies pretty good, but she hasn’t mastered daddy’s shit eating grin yet.
And his daughter too.
I’m all for a bit of mockery, satire I love. Our politicians should be on the receiving end of both. Huckabee is not funny, he grins like he’s funny, as if he has just out comedianed genuinely funny people. He’s a nasty piece of work.
After years of observing bullies in action, I’m tempted to believe that “it was only a joke” is one of the standard “plan B” approaches to being caught. It doesn’t mean some mockery isn’t apt however, although which shoe is on what foot matters a great deal
It was only a joke. Don’t people have a sense of humor anymore. Just like the Serena Williams caricature was only a joke. Let’s all have a good laugh. Insisting Obama was a Muslim was an 8 year long joke. Saying John McCain was not a hero because he was shot down was the funniest thing I’d heard in years. Keep the humor coming.
1991, 1891, maybe 1491, it makes little difference. Morality is something to be used, like patriotism or “Judeo-Christian” values. It’s like a roll of paper towels you use to clean up your mess and then throw away.
Unfortunately it won’t clean up the stupidity, the fake reasoning, the lies. So what if ten thousand women who weren’t there say it never happened. Remember all the people who weren’t there wrote a book about John Kerry’s Wartime service? All the people who weren’t there who insisted Obama was born in Kenya and Malaysia too?
If you’re stupid, dishonest with hate running through your veins, you might be a Christian conservative, but you definitely are are a fatal disease when you live in a free country.
These people want to live in a different world than we do. Let them have one on some island somewhere – as the sea levels rise.