# Huckabee "misspoke"? Yeah, right!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 2, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247 "2011-03-02T19:01:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/41 "2011-03-02T21:48:57Z")
Standard “big lie” application. Big shout, small apology. Huckster, \*\*“Obama’s a Kenyan, he’s black, and his folks killed white guys.” \*\*Huckster handler, "He, I mean, we mispoke. The Huckster really meant, **“Obama grew up in Indonesia, he’s black, and his folks killed white guys in the Mau Mau rebellion”.** Handler, "I guess that’s not quite right either. How about, **“Obama was born in Kenya, grew up in Indonesia, then went back to Kenya to kill white guys in the rebellion and, ‘Oh my God, we’ze got a black president’”.** * * * We’ll just kind of slink away in “not running for president mode but sure resembling the critter” mode. This should be gist for about 500 million emails plugging up in boxes about how Obama grew up in Kenya (SEE, the birthers were right!) killing and eating white guys. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/42 "2011-03-02T21:55:20Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I hate you. I do, too, and I don’t get the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/43 "2011-03-02T21:57:27Z")
Blame Elvira: Oom papa oom papa oom papa mau mau … ---
**Author:** ![akennett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee59a6/32.png) [@akennett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akennett)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/44 "2011-03-02T22:03:25Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Christ explicitly said that the old covenant no longer applies. > [@Kokopilau](#): > > He also explicitly said that not “jot or tittle” of the law will pass away until heaven and earth pass. It’s almost like the different people who made up and made use of this Jesus character had different ideas of what he should have supposedly said and stood for. Shocker! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/45 "2011-03-02T22:16:20Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Blame Elvira: > > Oom papa oom papa oom papa mau mau … [Don’t you know about the bird](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow)? ---
**Author:** ![Mapache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@Mapache](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mapache)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/46 "2011-03-02T22:20:24Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Blame Elvira: > > Oom papa oom papa oom papa mau mau … I believe you will find that the phrase actually originated with the renowned philosopher Fat Freddy’s Cat. The original goes like this: Flapdoodle kitkaboodle kittykitty kowcow Moptootle mammydoodle oom papa mau mau There is rumored to be an entire communist plot in a coded message among the above immortal words. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/47 "2011-03-02T22:25:26Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > He means that in the US the term “Mau Mau” scares the shit out of people. > [@Malthus](#): > > Is it actually well known? The Mau Mau rebellion? I’d say “no, probably not.” The term “Mau Mau?” Again, probably not, but to the extent that it is, it’s known as a buzzword that associates large groups of black people with dangerous savages. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/48 "2011-03-02T22:36:20Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Only amongst Oak Ridge Boys fans. Tom Wolfe references are wasted on you people. Wasted! ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/49 "2011-03-02T22:41:59Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Nah, all my African violents are purple. I’ve never seen a purple mau ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/50 "2011-03-02T23:25:04Z")
My favorite part is in the issued “Clarification” where they indicate is that all they want is to know where Obama gets his liberal beliefs. Yes, Obama, EXPLAIN YOURSELF!! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/51 "2011-03-02T23:45:21Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Tom Wolfe references are wasted on you people. > > Wasted! I was just about to say that posts like yours are why I love the Dope. I know about the Mau Maus, but I’m an old Africa hand. And didn’t Linda Hunt wear ceremonial paint in “The Year of Living Dangerously?” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/52 "2011-03-02T23:45:38Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > [Don’t you know about the bird](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZThquH5t0ow)? My poppa was a mau mau, Obama ooma mau mau. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/53 "2011-03-03T00:54:47Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > I’ve never seen a purple mau …but I can tell you anyhow, I’d rather see than be one. Dear Lord, you suckered me into that… ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/54 "2011-03-03T00:59:02Z")
Mike is a good ol’ boy. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/55 "2011-03-03T01:18:11Z")
[Here’s](http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/huckabee-obama-isnt-from-kenya-but-hes-still-anti-american.php?ref=fpb) Huckabee’s response. Basically he’s pissed at the lame stream media for focusing on the fact that he doesn’t know the basic facts about Obama’s life, rather then his deep psychoanalysis of a man that he apparently knows less about then what he could get from spending five minutes on wikipedia. FWIW, he’s still factually wrong as well. Baraks biological dad left the family when Obama was three and visited him once after that. Huckabees claim that Obama learned his politics from his father while he was still to young for pre-school is pretty obviously false. Also, the idea that anti-British colonialism is somehow “anti-American” is beyond bizarre. Presumably Washington and Jefferson were also in thrall of anti-American Kenyans. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/56 "2011-03-03T01:47:52Z")
The dude needs to ease off the cheeseburgers: they’re making him talk stupid. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/57 "2011-03-03T02:05:23Z")
Obama plainly advocated “Home Rule” for Kenyans under British imperialism, and it became known as "Home Mau Rule"and now it’s part of his “Home Mau Sexual Agenda” that is subverting our Christian society. Don’t you people have eyes? ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/58 "2011-03-03T02:12:07Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > Don’t you people have eyes? CONNECT the DOT, PEOPLE! ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/59 "2011-03-03T02:17:36Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Blame Elvira: > > Oom papa oom papa oom papa mau mau … Oak Ridge Boys Shmoak Ridge Boys… Elvira has a great set of mau maus! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/huckabee-misspoke-yeah-right/573247/60 "2011-03-03T02:25:42Z")
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