Yesterday, CNN’s Dana Bash started the attack on Mike Huckabee.
At Rnc meeting @MikeHuckabee just said fed govt shouldn't help women w who can't control their libido w birth control.
— Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) January 23, 2014
That was picked up and expanded on by Kasie Hunt of NBC:
Huckabee: Women "helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing them … birth control because they cannot control their libido"
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) January 23, 2014
Then it was off to the races with every leftist going crazy:
Even 100 years ago, it would have been hard to imagine a man making a statement as ridiculous as what Mr. Huckabee said today.
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) January 23, 2014
Jessica Valenti a board member of The Nation not only repeated the lie, but after I called her out on it, continued to try to find justifications to attack him.
UNCLE SUGAR? http://t.co/245V3af9r9
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) January 23, 2014
She then denigrates the elderly. See how that works, Jessica?
Also, is there a more grandpa word than 'libido'? http://t.co/245V3af9r9
— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) January 23, 2014
What did Huckabee actually say?
That’s right, not anything that they claimed. In fact, he was, correctly, calling Democrats out on their paternalistic approach to women. He was criticizing Democrats for diminishing women, the polar opposite of what Bash et al claimed.
Bash and Hunt subsequently “clarified” their erroneous tweets, sticking in the words “he said Dems said” but that was a bit like locking the door after the horse had already gotten out. Their damage was done and the attacks dogs were off to the races.
Hey leftists? When you spread lies to promote your agenda, YOU are the intolerance of which you speak!