http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/mike_huckabee This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Mike Huckabee en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America http://mediamatters.org/items/200810300012 The conservative activist group Citizens United is reportedly distributing <em>Hype: The Obama Effect</em>, a DVD attacking Sen. Barack Obama, this week in newspapers in Ohio, Nevada, and Florida. The AP quoted Citizens United president David Bossie saying of the film, "We think it's a truthful attack. People can take it anyway they want." But a <em>Media Matters</em> analysis of <em>Hype</em> finds that it contains numerous falsehoods and misrepresentations of Obama's record. Newspapers that distribute the DVD should consider their obligation to provide readers with information that discredits it. http://mediamatters.org/items/200810300012 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:01:51 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200808280014 Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee falsely claimed that, under Sen. Barack Obama's health-care plan, "the government will be in control," and that "we're going to be rationing it." In fact, Obama has not proposed government-run health care. Indeed, Obama's website specifically states that, under his proposal, individuals "will not have to change plans." http://mediamatters.org/items/200808280014 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:44:03 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200806270005 On <em><em>Fox &amp; Friends</em></em>, Mike Huckabee falsely asserted, "When Katrina, a Cat-5 hurricane, hit the Gulf Coast, not one drop of oil was spilled off of those rigs out in the Gulf of Mexico." In fact, according to a report prepared for the federal government by an international consulting firm, damages related to Hurricane Katrina resulted in 70 spills from outer continental shelf structures with a total volume of approximately 5,552<a href="#correction">*</a> barrels of oil and petroleum products. http://mediamatters.org/items/200806270005 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:11:31 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801250016 Repeating the myth that social conservatives are the only political constituency that votes its "values," the January 24 <em>USA Today </em>twice referred to voters most inclined to support Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as "values voters." A front-page graphic claimed "Huckabee: Has drawn evangelicals and 'values voters,' " while an accompanying article noted that "Huckabee's strength is among just those kind of 'values voters' " who are "uncomfortable" with Rudy Giuliani. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801250016 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:17:35 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801250010 During a report on CNN's <em>The Situation Room</em>, Mary Snow uncritically aired Mike Huckabee's assertion that "[i]f we could free people up to go out and earn -- get their whole paychecks -- it could make a truly huge difference in securing jobs and making the economy work." However, in a previous report, CNN's Ali Velshi had rebutted the claim that, under the FairTax plan, workers would get to keep their entire paychecks, saying, "Promoters like Huckabee talk about how you'd get 100 percent of your salary paid to you. Now, that is a myth." http://mediamatters.org/items/200801250010 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:13:23 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801250004 On his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck repeatedly suggested that the top Democratic presidential candidates have not shown support for the ongoing Writers Guild strike. In fact, all of the Democratic front-runners have expressed support for the striking writers. John Edwards joined them on a Los Angeles picket line, and Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton each issued statements of support for the writers. The candidates also withdrew from a planned December 10 CBS News debate, forcing its cancellation. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801250004 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:13:16 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801040007 In a <em>New York Post</em> column, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann wrote that Mike Huckabee's "refusal to indulge in negative advertising sent a message to Iowa voters showing his strength under fire." But on <em>Hannity &amp; Colmes</em>, Morris criticized as "a stupid move" Huckabee's actions at a press conference during which Huckabee played an anti-Mitt Romney ad for the assembled media, after stating that he was renouncing negative advertising in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses and had decided not to air the ad. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801040007 Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:05:58 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801030007 On January 2, despite numerous references on NBC's <em>Nightly News</em> to Mike Huckabee's appearance later that night on <em>The Tonight Show with Jay Leno</em>, no one noted that Huckabee would be crossing a picket line in making the appearance. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801030007 Thu, 3 Jan 2008 18:27:10 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200801030002 On the January 1 <em>Hannity &amp; Colmes</em>, Mike Huckabee discussed a campaign advertisement attacking Mitt Romney that Huckabee said he decided not to air, claiming: "I don't know how you obtained that copy [of the ad] because we didn't give it to anybody. We had a box of CDs of them. We gave them to no one. We showed it in that room for those reporters, and the only way they could have gotten it would be to tape it, I guess, off a camera from the screen." But during a December 31 press conference, Huckabee himself said that his campaign had sent the ad to television stations, telling reporters, "We prepared it, sent it to the stations. It was supposed to start running at noon today." Moreover, Colmes himself had reported that "Fox News exclusively obtained a clean copy of the Huckabee attack ad that he ordered pulled earlier today." Yet neither Sean Hannity nor Alan Colmes challenged Huckabee's assertions. http://mediamatters.org/items/200801030002 Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:42:42 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200712120006 On <em>Hannity &amp; Colmes</em>, Dick Morris asserted that "the reason everybody was focused on him [Wayne DuMond] is he was castrated while he was in prison by his fellow inmates by a knife." But that was not the reason Mike Huckabee gave for "focus[ing]" on DuMond, and it is not what Huckabee -- or news reports -- said happened. In his book, <em>From Hope to Higher Ground</em>, Mike Huckabee wrote of DuMond: "Prior to his trial, two men broke into his home, hog-tied him, and castrated him. They left him to bleed to death." http://mediamatters.org/items/200712120006 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:25:24 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200712110003 On <em>Morning Joe</em>, while discussing the controversy surrounding Mike Huckabee's 1992 statements about AIDS, Mika Brzezinski praised Huckabee for being "charming," "authentic," and "honest," and stated that the way he's handling the issue is "brilliant." In fact, Huckabee has claimed that he "didn't say that we should quarantine" AIDS patients, and he has asserted that "[t]here was still so much confusion about HIV transmission" at the time he made the statements in question. But as several news outlets pointed out, by 1992, it was widely known that AIDS could not be transmitted via casual contact. http://mediamatters.org/items/200712110003 Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:13:09 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200712090005 Writing about reports that Mike Huckabee had suggested quarantining people with AIDS in 1992,<em> Washington Post</em> staff writer Perry Bacon Jr. uncritically reported: "As Huckabee's response to a questionnaire on AIDS began to circulate yesterday, his campaign issued a statement from him noting that in 1992 there was much confusion about how AIDS was spread." But an Associated Press article reported that "[w]hen Huckabee wrote his answers in 1992, it was common knowledge that AIDS could not be spread by casual contact." <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200712090005 Sun, 9 Dec 2007 17:25:26 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200712060005 In the last week, several news outlets have reported on recent developments in the case of Wayne DuMond, a convicted rapist sentenced to life in prison in 1984, who was paroled in 1997 after "[then-Arkansas Gov. Mike] Huckabee and a senior member of his staff exerted behind-the-scenes influence." While both <em>The New York Times</em> and <em>The Washington Post</em> have published articles discussing Huckabee's rise in the polls for the Republican presidential nomination, and several reporters at each newspaper have written blog posts citing Huckabee's role in the DuMond case as potentially politically damaging, neither newspaper has published a news article discussing recent developments about Huckabee's role in the case. http://mediamatters.org/items/200712060005 Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:27:12 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200712050008 MSNBC's Contessa Brewer and <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report</em>'s Kenneth Walsh discussed the general reactions of "GOP [presidential] candidates" to the release of the key judgments of a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. While Brewer mentioned the specific reactions of John McCain and Fred Thompson, neither Brewer nor Walsh noted that Mike Huckabee reportedly stated that he was not familiar with the NIE, having not read it, not been briefed on it, and not even heard of it. http://mediamatters.org/items/200712050008 Wed, 5 Dec 2007 16:10:00 EST http://mediamatters.org/items/200711300003 During post-debate discussion of the November 28 CNN/YouTube Republican debate, CNN's Anderson Cooper praised Mike Huckabee's response to the question, "The death penalty: What would Jesus do?" calling Huckabee's answer, "certainly, probably one of the best answers you could possibly come up to, to that question." However, Huckabee, who has repeatedly invoked Jesus Christ and Christianity to explain his position on matters of public policy, did not answer the question or Cooper's own follow-up. <br /> http://mediamatters.org/items/200711300003 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:52:12 EST