-By Warner Todd Huston
For some reason, Politico felt it had to commit an outright lie about something Mike Huckabee said recently. In fact, they didn’t just invent the quote, Politico even invented the context in which he said it! Talk about media bias.
First of all let me say that I am not a supporter of Mike Huckabee. It isn’t likely that I would vote for him in a primary, though I would vote for him over a Democrat in the unlikely case that he should become the GOP nominee. So, I don’t come to this as an outrageously, outraged Huckabee supporter.
That said, let’s take a look at what Politico posted to Twitter to advertise a piece written by their Adam Lerner.
Mike Huckabee complains of ‘trashy’ women at Fox News http://t.co/ZL6WdtfVLS
— POLITICO (@politico) January 28, 2015
Just look at that headline tease. It says that Mike Huckabee called women at Fox News “trashy.”
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‘Politico’ Lies About Mike Huckabee Quote”
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Politico unleashed an incredibly