Huckster mocks Mittens removing skin from KFC

[RamboLiberal]

Mitt Romney took a stop off the trail Saturday, and shared a meal with his traveling press corps. The food? Colonel Sanders’ fried chicken, and biscuits. Romney, known for his healthy eating habits, however, pulled off the skin. For some Southerners, a culinary faux pas.

Today, FNC asked Huckabee, how he as a Southerner, and someone who is also known for his healthy diet(Huckabee famously lost 110 pounds) eats the calorically-colossal, but Southern gastronomic mainstay.

“Going thru the weight loss program I try to eat it more broiled, and baked but I can tell you this: any Southerner knows that if you’re not gonna eat the skin, don’t bother with calling it fried chicken,”Huckabee said through a smile.” And that’s good, I’m glad to hear that he did that because that means I’m going to win Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma- all these great Southern states that understand that the best part of fried chicken, is the skin.”

Huckabee said it reminded him of an event when he was a graduate student in San Antonio. President Gerald Ford, in what is now famously part of political folklore, ate a a tamale with its corn husk still on it, which is comparable to eating a blue crab, or lobster without taking off its shell.

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/01/28/huckabee-on-romneys-fried-chicken-moment/

[kirby]

1. Snore n/t

[Buzz Clik]

2. I'm shocked. First the Dems, now the GOP -- playing the skin card.

:wow:

[HereSince1628]

8. Oh. That. Was. Excellent! A real DUzy

[Radio_Lady]

28. What? Can we talk about chicken again? When did the chicken wars end?

Probably after the Olive Garden wars.

[opihimoimoi]

39. What is it with the Pubs and their Food Fetish/Hangups??? Reagan Ketchup is a Veg

Bush 1 "I hate broccolli"

Bush 2 " I hate pretzels"

and now...Mitt has a fit w skin? OMG........

[Radio_Lady]

43. Bush two almost choked on pretzels, but I don't think he hates them...

I wish he'd love them TO DEATH>>>>

[opihimoimoi]

52. Are you kidding me...? After all that choke shit...He Gatta Hate them Pretz

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

53. I love pretzels and hate both bush's

[Hutzpa]

48. Why don't you guys take your GOP talking point

to Freeper land. This is fast becoming a habit, who in their right
mind on this board gives a monkeys ass if Romney took the skins off
or wants to hear what Huckleberry has to say.

WTF! Get the fuck outta this board and go somewhere else.

Gross chick!

:evilfrown:

[Buzz Clik]

54. Hm. I don't see any hint of sarcasm in your post.

Any particular reason you chose to target me with that rant?

[Canuckistanian]

58. DUZY fer sure

:rofl:

[Dukkha]

3. that's how desperate he is now?

flaunting his unhealthy eating habits as a campaign tactic?

and Huckabee is as much of a real southerner as Hillary is a real New Yorker :eyes:

[Nailzberg]

42. Sad thing is, it's not even his eating habit.

Huckster doesn't eat fried chicken. He eats baked chicken cause he used to have a real unhealthy diet himself.

[thereismore]

4. I hope the MSG gives him a hell of a headache! KFC is full of that shit. nt

[Radio_Lady]

45. I thought they only put MSG in Chinese food! As a matter of fact, I remember reading about CRS...

in, of all places, the Wall Street Journal in the 1960s.

They were describing Chinese Restaurant Syndrome -- which had given me horrible headaches for years.

I am seriously allergic to monosodium glutamate and try to avoid it.

I never eat at KFC.

[SidDithers]

55. "The truth about MSG"

http://www.thestar.com/article/295648

The Toronto Star did a piece about MSG just last weekend. I think it's used much more widely than just Chinese food.

Sid

[Radio_Lady]

57. Thank you, SidDithers. That was well worth the read and I appreciate it.

Don't think I'll die from eating the stuff, but with hypertension and a family history of heart disease, I do try to avoid it the best I can.

My only reaction is a terrible headache that lasts for almost an hour, but can be controlled with painkillers if I do happen to get it. Normally, I don't get headaches AT ALL.

Cordially,

Radio Lady in Oregon

[thereismore]

56. MSG in crystalline form is part of the Colonel's secret recipe. I never touch the stuff. nt

[GOPNotForMe]

5. Rednecks probably will vote based solely on fried chicken eating habits.

They've clearly got the perfect candidate for winning the redneck vote!

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

59. in 2000 and 2004 it was the "I'd like to drink a beer with that guy"

so yes, it will probably be something quite viceral and senseless that drives the amphibian mind.

[Mojambo]

6. Skingate! n/t

[Wednesdays]

7. Well, here's FOX Noise talking about the REAL issues again.

:eyes:

[NastyRiffraff]

9. Oh no! The chickenskin card

It's getting more and more difficult to distinguish between the MSM and The Onion.

[mainegreen]

14. The onion has better writing.

[opihimoimoi]

40. It comes under SKINOLOGY 101.002

[Radio_Lady]

44. Damn! I thought I had signed up for SINOLOGY 101!

[opihimoimoi]

51. Sorry, you are in the SkinReHab Section....

[lurky]

10. Republicans consider healthy eating a sign of

communism or homosexuality. This will probably cost Willard the race. :evilgrin:

[KillCapitalism]

22. So true!

I was talking with a group of people once & mentioned needing to get down to Whole Foods to get some things. The freeper in the group made some lame comment like "I thought only hippies and queers shopped there.":eyes:

[TwilightGardener]

11. I usually pull the skin off of it too, especially if it's not nicely crispy. I must be one of them

Northeastern Librul Elites. Huckabilly, didn't your 15 minutes end a week ago?

[CreekDog]

12. I guess Huckabee thinks Southerners are pretty stupid

That they will vote for him on the basis that he eats the skin.

[momster]

13. Gastronomic Diplomacy Key, Says Huckabee

"When I invite them Russkies or Chineses to my little ol' place down in Arkansas," Huckabee said, dropping into vernacular, "if they don't eat the skin of the chicken, I'm gonna drop the big one on their countries. That'll learn 'em how to eat fried chicken the Amurrican way!" He chuckled and added, "Romney is too liberal to eat squirrel."

[elehhhhna]

15. Mitt was saving it for Huck's hungry kids ...

[PlanetBev]

27. Man sure has got himself some ugly sons

They remind me of the old Hotpoint freezer we had in the garage when I was a kid.

If given the choice, I'd fuck the dog...

[opihimoimoi]

41. At lease he didn't eat Quiche or whatever they call it...Men will be Men kinda thing

[rucky]

16. This is like Kerry and the cheesesteak incident.

no Whiz.

[RB TexLa]

17. And Fred "I'll just have a fruit plate, but I'm a hollywood outsider" Thompson didn't make it far

enough for this major issue in the GOP race. Damn.

[Ian David]

18. And Rudy 9iu11ani doesn't like New York Deli

See prior thread:

Rudy Giuliani says, 'Fuck You' to New York once again!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4229637&mesg_id=4229637

[bidenista]

19. still, i'd rather this than racial division

[onethatcares]

20. if this is what people base thier voting on,

I'm outa here, the country will get what it deserves, be it a pretzeldent they want to have a beer with, a wannabee that eats chicken skin making him warm and fuzzy, or any of this gaudawful bullshitt.

Why can't we have a President that says, "Americans, we're screwed unless we get our act together and work for our common good"? Oh, we did and they killed him. my bad.

[tridim]

21. So these losers have no problem removing the skin for health reasons..

And making it a freaking campaign issue, but the have no problem leaving our soldiers in Iraq indefinitely where they will continue to die every day.

The Repukes will do anything to avoid talking about real issues. ANYTHING.

[shain from kane]

23. Headline should read Huckleberry says that Mitt's 5 sons are a bunch of chickenshit chicken hawks.

[kskiska]

24. What about Huck's sons?

Maybe if they signed up they'd lose some of that flab in basic training.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

25. Romney already has enough oil coursing through his body

You could probably solve the oil shortage problem by just pumping out his hair.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

26. If how you eat chicken is what gets you the nomination

The GOP is screwn! :)

[B2G]

29. And now, Ladies & Gentlemen,

we have reached a new high in campaign bullshit irrelevance.

My god. These people are idiots.

[flvegan]

30. I didn't know KFC was a good example of good, Southern fried chicken.

Kind of a low opinion of Southerners.

[AspenRose]

31. I remember when Ford ate the tamale shuck

I was about 8 at the time. My parents laughed their a**es off.

[izzybeans]

32. Well there goes the southern fried vote.

Now ma' could you pass me the taters n' slaw?

[Vickers]

33. 'Which candidate wold you rather eat a bucket of chicken with?"

Good lord.

[Elidor]

34. Seeing as how Huckabee lost 100 pounds...

I dare say he's taken off the skin a few times himself.

[Bucky]

36. Ain't no sin to take off your skin and dance around in your bones

[Elidor]

37. I love his lyrics

It's his singing I can't abide.

[originalpckelly]

35. GDmit I thought we were done with circumcision?!?!

[grantcart]

38. mitt will come back and say that he was taking the skin off for desert

[havocmom]

46. In Mitt's defense: If one doesn't pull the skin off KFC meat

one risks a fur ball

[bluedawg12]

47. Huckster plays the corn pone card-aww shucks. n/t

[Swamp Rat]

49. LOL! Huckaburger didn't go to "grad school."

He dropped out Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (main campus is in Fort Worth, Texas). The location in San Antonio is an extension school where approx. 3 grad courses are taught per semester, so I suspect he is lying about his curriculum.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/14/518108.aspx

(snip)

"I have a bachelor of arts in religion and a minor in communications in my undergraduate work. And then I have 46 hours on a master's degree at Southwestern Theology Seminary. So, my degree as a theological degree is at the college level and then 46 hours toward a masters -- three years of study of New Testament Greek, and then the rest of it, all in Seminary was theological studies, but my degree was actually in religion."

(snip)

Looks like he may be fudging the numbers too. The Masters Degree in Theology requires 24 hours, and ridiculously low entrance standards (a score of 100 on the Internet-based TOFEL for international students?!? :wtf:). Apparently he couldn't even finish the 26 hour non-thesis track... three years and 46 hours of "work," and no degree? It's not like he was attending a real, Jesuit university or something. :eyes:



edit: Link to the SBTS Master of Theology curriculum page:
http://www.swbts.edu/catalog/page.cfm?id=36&open=3_area

[BreweryYardRat]

50. Ironically, I'm a southerner...and I can't stand the stuff.

Two parents from South Carolina, and I live in Florida. Absolutely despise fried chicken.

On the other hand, you give me a plate or two of Charleston seafood, and god damn, I'll gulp that down like you wouldn't believe.

(Heck, eating at Hyman's Deli is a family tradition whenever we're in Charleston.)

[yellowcanine]

60. Huckster tries to play the "good ol boy" card. He is almost more of a fake than Mittens and that

is saying something.

[Dukkha]

61. he just did it again in his LOSER speech on CNN

the great delusional campaign of 18th century values marches on