Letters to the Editor
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The answer to the headline is: Yes, and why are you making excuses for this guy?
I was stunned to read all the dumbass equivocation by Catherine Price for Mike Huckabee, which play right into the "women vote feelings not issues" stereotype.
She implies his odious politics are balanced a jokey band name which reuses a Chuck Norris meme which is years old. If Price thinks that is Daily Show quality humor, she's pathetic - I'll bet she'd be amazed by that list of wacky Chinese translations of movie titles.
Then she writes this incredibly dishonest response to the fact Huckabee signed a statement agreeing with the SBC: "Who knows where Huckabee really stands on what the relationship between men and women should be..." Oh bullshit. Everyone knows, Catherine, BECAUSE HE MADE A PUBLIC STATEMENT THAT HE SUPPORTS IT.
This is the sort of craven hedging and phony objectivity Glenn Greenwald dissects on a daily basis. Huckabee signed a misogynist statement and Price pretends there's a gray area.
The man has said AIDS victims should have been rounded up in quarentine. He is openly homophobic. He's against choice. He demanded the parole of a serial rapist based on anti-Clinton rumors. He is a right wing extremist and jokes don't matter.
The real issue here is Catherine Price's motives in writing this. Is there some bias which informs her pretending there's uncertainty about Huckabee's open statements, or is she just that shallow? A blogger or columnist with integrity would be honest about this, with the audience and herself.