Mike Huckabee Slams Natalie Portman
Former Arkansas Governor and possible 2012 republican candidate slams Natalie Portman for being pregnant and NOT married.
“She got up, she was very visibly pregnant, and it’s really it’s a problem because she’s about seven months pregnant, it’s her first pregnancy, and she and the baby’s father aren’t married, and before two billion people, Natalie Portman says, ‘Oh I want to thank my love and he’s given me the most wonderful gift,’” Huckabee told Medved, per the liberal group MediaMatters. “He didn’t give her the most wonderful gift, which would be a wedding ring! And it just seems to me that sending that kind of message is problematic.”
It seems he’s getting a head start on the rest of the republican pack by trying to stay in the news by shoving his foot in his mouth. He’s obviously banking on the A.D.D of this country for all his over the top talking points. But in fairness he responded to the latest vollies toward him on his apparent “attack” of Portman.
“Natalie is an extraordinary actor, very deserving of her recent Oscar and I am glad she will marry her baby’s father,” Huckabee said. “My comments were about the statistical reality that most single moms are very poor, under-educated, can’t get a job, and if it weren’t for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death. That’s the story that we’re not seeing, and it’s unfortunate that society often glorifies and glamorizes the idea of having children out of wedlock.”
I know I’m generally a left of the isle guy. But this backward ass, puritanical thinking isn’t going to move the country or society forward. We are an evolving species. We grow and change and adapt to our environment. His pandering the the religious right with statements like this only show how he’s more interested in staying in the news and the publics eye, even if it is for outlandish things. It’s pure politics at it’s most disgusting.
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