I Don't Heart Huckabee

Mike Huckabee is moving up in many of the primary poles. I find him to be one of the more shallow and backward thinking candidates. In 1992 he made some written statements about AIDS that displayed a surprising lack of knowledge on the disease and fostered damaging mythes about the virus that were, at the time, a decade old. The statements were just as medically and historically incorrect in 1992 as they are now. I was a sophomore in high school in 1992 and based on Governor Huckabee's own words, my peers and I had a better understanding of the AIDs virus. I imagine this is still true today. Huckabee has close ties the the Southern Baptist Convention with which he shares faulty views on evolution and women's rights aswell. I say no thank you.

FromMedia Matters:

Wash. Post uncritically reported Huckabee's false claim that "in 1992 there was much confusion about how AIDS was spread"
Summary: Writing about reports that Mike Huckabee had suggested quarantining people with AIDS in 1992, Washington Post staff writer Perry Bacon Jr. uncritically reported: "As Huckabee's response to a questionnaire on AIDS began to circulate yesterday, his campaign issued a statement from him noting that in 1992 there was much confusion about how AIDS was spread." But an Associated Press article reported that "[w]hen Huckabee wrote his answers in 1992, it was common knowledge that AIDS could not be spread by casual contact."