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Mike Huckabee creates radio controversy twice in one week
He's not even close to Charlie Sheen territory, but conservative commentator and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee created two controversies following two separate comments he made on the radio this week. In the first, Huckabee, who is considering a Republican run for the White House in 2012, spoke to conservative Steve Malzberg on New York City's WOR-AM (710) on Monday, and said President Obama was raised in Kenya and has negative views of the West, saying "His having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example, is very different from the average American." Actually, Obama was raised in the US and lived in Indonesia when he was very young, a comment verified by a Huckabee staffer the next day. You can hear those comments here. Later this week, Huckabee followed that up with an attack on out-of-wedlock children, telling syndicated host Michael Medved, "People see a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts, 'we're not married but we're having these children and they're doing just fine.' I think it gives a distorted image. It's unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out-of- wedlock children." The pregnant Oscar-winning actress is engaged to be married. Huckabee had no comments regarding the 2008 out-of-wedlock teenage pregnancy of Bristol Palin, the daughter of then-VP candidate Sarah Palin. Both Palin and Huckabee are contributors to Fox News. You can hear his comments about Portman here.
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