We’ve mentioned the criticism by Wendell Griffen, the Baptist pastor and judge, of the choice of Mike Huckabee as a keynote speaker at a state-sponsored, invitation-only “interfaith prayer breakfast” Monday at the Governor’s Mansion as part of M.L. King Day observances.
But he’s blasting again on his blog, reiterating Huckabee’s objectionable past statements and also bringing up breakfast host Governor Hutchinson’s educational background.
Huckabee example:
On March 1, 2011, Mike Huckabee falsely commented that former President Barack Obama had “grown up in Kenya” during an appearance on The Steve Malzberg Show. This is what Huckabee said: “I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough. And one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example, [is] very different than the average American.” Later in that interview, Huckabee said of Obama: “…if you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different than ours because he probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather.”
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. He grew up in Hawaii, Indonesia, and Kansas. What evidence shows that Martin Luther King Jr. would have done something like Huckabee did?
As for the governor, Griffen observes that official websites mention the governor’s law degree…
