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Huckabee: "We Would Fry Squirrels in a Popcorn Popper"
"South Carolina's a great place for me. I mean, I know how to eat grits and speak the language. We even know how to talk about eating fried squirrel and stuff like that, so we're on the same wavelength."
"Mika, I bet you never did this," Huckabee went on, addressing Mika Brzezinski. "When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper, because that was the only thing they would let us use in the dorm, and we would fry squirrels in a popcorn popper in the dorm room."
My sure the Democrats are praying for this man to become the GOP nominee...
Update: This shouldn't come as a surprise.
Comments
Can we get the recipe?
Jon, this is classism. You look down upon poor people. What a hypocrite you are. You are also a racist. Other cultures do the same(e.g. Korean, Chinese and Filipino eat dogs). You think that your culture is superior to third world peoples culture. Your true self shows, a classism and racist person.
Posted by: MaryLu on 01/17/08 at 9:45 AM Respond
Sorry MaryLu, but "noticing" that certain asian cultures eat dogs does not make one a racist. Just as having a friend of a different race and referring to them as "black" or "asian" doesn't as well. Simliarly, ignoring differences in cultures does not make one "un"-racist.
Because there is a difference between "distinction" and "discrimination".
Yes there was implied judgement, but it was in the context of "electabilty on a national scale", as opposed to "people who eat squirrels are hill-billies and that is bad".
I for one, support Hucka-billy as the GOP nomination. Nice guy, and a Real Christian, who will ensure a Dem victory. Go Huck!
Posted by: cboss on 01/17/08 at 10:17 AM Respond
I have eaten Squirrel in a stew, not very tasty. This was in the mountains in California at a ski area.
Hardly just a foodsuff for poor folks.
Posted by: capt on 01/17/08 at 10:30 AM Respond
Squirrel is actually tasty, when done right. I've even had the brains.
I agree, I'm not sure how Huck's squirrel-eating makes him any less of a candidate, unless you're attempting to insinuate that only poor Appalachians eat squirrel, and poor Appalachians are too ignorant to hold the presidential post.
But, as an aside, I think Huckabee is a friggin' idiot and a religious nutcase.
Posted by: Austin on 01/17/08 at 10:56 AM Respond
MaryLu --
Are poor people more likely to fry squirrels in popcorn poppers? Or are total weirdos more likely to fry squirrels in popcorn poppers?
Posted by: Jonathan Stein on 01/17/08 at 10:57 AM Respond
MaryLu:
Racism? Classism? You got that from two quotes and a one sentence comment? It seems to me that you are making assumptions and seeing things that are not there. Although, distasteful to me, eating squirrel is not unheard of in my deep south, 'neck of the woods. And, while a candidate's eating habits are not on my list of criteria for a potential President, Huckabee is sorely lacking in those that are.
Posted by: lei on 01/17/08 at 12:00 PM Respond
Eating squirrels, how does this differ from eating beef? Squirrels are lean meat and beef is full of artery clogging fat. No wonder you dumb fat farting Americans are falling like flies from heart disease. Oh well, just more land for us Chinese. I am a vegetarian and we don't get fat and fart(CO2 green house gas) like you meat eaters. Beef cows are a major contributor to green house gases. Squirrels are not(they only make tiny farts).
Posted by: Lucy Lu on 01/17/08 at 12:23 PM Respond
Comments about classism and racism aside, I think any party that would let a man who makes comments like this get what they deserve. I think we have another Dubya in the wings.
I'm from Georgia and I think squirrels became passe after the Depression, as did possum.
With the present state of the ecomomy, maybe we should be finding some squirrel dumpling recipes!
Posted by: Joy Rebello on 01/17/08 at 2:43 PM Respond
fine, i'll say it: frying squirrels in a popcorn maker is some backwardsass redreck behavior. huckabeee made this comment to appeal to southern voters looking for a good ole' boy to vote for. hurray for him, but we all make choices, and aiming for the hillbilly vote is apparently huckabee's choice. go huck!
Posted by: nmc on 01/17/08 at 4:05 PM Respond
Mother Jones stoops pretty low in allowing this type of article. No matter whether Huckabee is a religious nut or not, Mother Jones' editors have surely lowered what used to be high standards for their publication. Sad & disgusting.
Posted by: LewisJ on 01/17/08 at 4:39 PM Respond
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Posted by: yu on 01/17/08 at 5:46 PM Respond
Though the thought of frying a squirrel in a popcorn popper and eating it is loathsome to me, it is not as loathsome as sitting down to a factory farm dinner of steak and eating that in a nice restaurant. Perspective is everything.
However, to the average "liberal" voter, the first act--while nowhere near as cruel--will indeed be looked upon with a certain amount of scorn.
Posted by: Diane on 01/17/08 at 6:36 PM Respond
This is discrimination based upon one's choice of food. Jon's true lack of intellect came through on this article. It is nothing short of racism. Cultural Imperialism, that the typical American Beef diet is superior to cultures that choose other types of meat. Ho, Ho, Racism has to go.
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Posted by: davenow on 01/18/08 at 5:05 AM Respond
davenow, your translation was nonsense. Please don't do it again.
Posted by: Dr. Webster on 01/18/08 at 7:37 AM Respond
Dr. Webster-
As I clearly stated, this was not my translation, it was courtesy of Google's language tools.
Is it any more nonsense than Yu's post?
Posted by: davenow on 01/18/08 at 9:30 AM Respond
The Democrats have become an overwhelmingly Feminist, anti-Christian, anti-White, anti-Straight party. The Democrats don’t understand our cultural references and sensibilities. In short, the Democrats, are not just our kind of people, they don’t talk like us, and they don’t understand us. Unless and until that changes, we are likely to be voting overwhelmingly GOP for years to come.
Posted by: Bubba (aka Goober) on 01/18/08 at 9:53 AM Respond
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Posted by: capt on 01/17/08 at 9:30 AM Respond