Huckabee congratulates Canada on preserving its National Igloo
By scarce Thursday Dec 13, 2007 2:33pm 
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In this classic bit from April 2001, Canadian satirist Rick Mercer travels down to Arkansas to ask some good folks about Canada's efforts to protect their national capitol building from the effects of global warming. A former Governor offers his congratulations on the efforts to preserve their "National Igloo".
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And here's the latest on 'Huck Thin': Proposes to Replace Social Security With ‘Loaves and Fish’ Program
Pretty darn funny. One thing you can say about the Huckster - he has a sense of humor.
Oh, and am I Frist?
So is this like "once a moron always a moron" or is it more like "stupid is as stupid does"?
Fie on you Don Davis and your Frist-ness!
im realted 2 don davis
Let me tell ya, this ain't nothin'. We Canadians have an encylcopedia of stupid Americanisms about our lovely country. ;)
The Huckster wants to replace an idiot with an idiot.
After a record melt this year we almost lost the Igloo, but thanks to that same winter weather that is bringing the arctic sea ice back at record rates so too is the National Igloo being remade. However, the snow pea crop has been disasterous and thousands may starve. Please send help. The bacon and maple syrup will only last us for so long.
The National Igloo? How stupid do you have to be to be a presidential candidate? If there was a "WTF" moment or a what the hell is he talking about moment it was that.
Nothing can top him getting Shrub to acknowledge Canada's Prime Minister
as "Jean Poutine"
(real name is Jean Cretien)
"Poutine" is a greasy combination of fries, gravy, and cheese curds.
Mercer slays me.
there's no end to amerikkkan stupidity...it more abundant than water or air.
Rick Mercer is a genius. His 'Talking to Americans' segments were some of the funniest shit on 22 Minutes. His sitcom, 'Made in Canada' was insanely hilarious. He should be made a living national treasure in Canada. It's a loss to most USers that he's not more well known down here.
BTW, the backstory on the Huckabee statement-he wanted to make sure it wasn't a 'controversial' igloo before he proffered his congrats.
"Congratulations Canada...
...on getting a second area code."
...for legalising VCRs."
...on switching to the 24 hour clock."
-All things Rick Mercer convinced dumbarses in the States that Canada was doing. He also punked Tom Vilsack, Al Gore and George Bush.
I wander what the heating bill is like for the national logo?
Ladies and gentlemen I give you...Mike Schmuckabee!!!!!!!
Please tell me Huckabee was just playing along with the joke.
Oh and while we're at it, let's here from Colin Mochrie as Anthony St George, 22 Minutes Apology to America
pissed off patricia @ 13:
no. He wasn't.
A Canadian seasonal greeting for us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-QB433pSiY
That was clever. I particularly liked the part about the "King of Canada."
Happy Holidays from dick
http://bp1.blogger.com/_UQPUzwdX51o/R2LjG5NKGzI/AAAAAAAAAGg/nlebV_AdKmg/...
As a Canadian, I am sad to report that our National Igloo has just melted. It appears Global Warming knows no bounds... :)
miss_kitty @ 15:
Okay, then that was seriously disturbing.
ROFFLE! I have this show on VHS somewhere. My 'merican hubby loved it so much he made copies and sent them to his family. Most of them thought it was pretty funny.
Reminds me of the stories my father would tell me of his summers working at a tourist information booth in NS. He said they'd get calls all the time from people asking if they should bring guns because they heard we still had "wild indians" or if we had electricity and running water.
Then there was the couple from Vermont who stopped me to ask directions one hot August day. They had skis on the roof wrack and were looking for the slopes. I laughed and told them to come back in December. They were completely shocked that they hadn't encountered snow immediately when they crossed the border.
Jebus, I wouldn't buy a pair of shoes from Schmuckabee. What a buffoon!
LT @ 19:
Do you now have a new National Pond? ;)
miss_kitty @ 14:
erm-hear
You gotta love the HUCK-A-BUCK....
Happily, at least he says what he thinks.... sadly, THAT IS WHAT HE THINKS
IN A RELATED STORY...
Rudy determined that "it would be a cold day in hell when the Huckster gets into the WhiteHouse...... AND of course, that cold day would again save the igloo... problem solved... and did I mention 9-11?"
Dr. Acula @ 12:
Ahahahahahahaaaaa!!!
So Huckabee does support action on global warming? Or is he just polite and stupid?
LT @ 19:
You guys must have left a candle burning because the Reich-wing says there is no Global Warming.
Huckabee today hired the guy who ran Ron Raygun's campaign the year he became the president. He hired Ed Rollins. Huck seems to be taking this thing serious.
pissed off patricia @ 29:
Ed Rollins is a slimy sack of shit Repub operative. That's bad news for the other Repub candidates.
Does anyone else agree with me that a clergyman should not run for the presidunce-y?
You can see more of Rick Mercer by keying in
Rick Mercer Rant on YouTube.com
He's a national treasure and well paid to be funny.
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Huckabee, on the other hand, is tragically funny.
Piren @ 4:
Whoa...such language Piren!
Dahgrostab'ph-r-i @ 3:
It's once a maroon always a maroon!
ysbaddaden @ 11:
you wander?
getalife @ 18:
Brilliant!!! Thanks for the laughs...
rasta @ 36:
I'm a rambling kinda guy.
You mean you haven't noticed?
Mike Huckabee is an axemurderer.
Ok, not really.
But you should take the time to listen to this report on Huckabee by a very Molly Ivins-like reporter
Direct link to mp3 for download
Salon article ,"The dark side of Mike Huckabee
Huckabee as Bush 2.0
More of Rick Mercer making an ass of every American he meets, including George Bush and Al Gore - except for one little kid right at the end, the only person interviewed who knows we have provinces instead of states:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seYUbVa7L7w
[FYI - At the time Bush and the Governor of Michigan were asked about 'Prime Minister Poutine', Jean Chretien had been prime minister for 7 years. Poutine is actually a popular French-Canadian fast food made of fries, gravy and cheese curds.]
The whole special, about 46 minutes long between the 2 links. Totally hilariously embarrassing. And good quality too.
TALKING TO AMERICANS - Pt 1
TALKING TO AMERICANS - Pt 2
Rick Mercer has a sleepover with Prime Minister Harper:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8K6MtKpws
Keep my country out of this. The last thing we want is for the US to notice Canada.
earl @ 9:
That doesn't sound very good.
ysbaddaden @ 12:
Like, the heating bill IS one of our great national logos, eh? Great to be oot and aboot, hoser.
I was waiting for this to surface! There is an interview with Rick Mercer about this segment. Mercer said that just before they filmed this, Huckabee asked him "is this a contraversial igloo?", Mercer assured him that it was not. Classic!
The only part of the newspaper hockaloogy reads is Little Abner.
Just when you thought that GOP Congressman Westmoreland and George W. Bush were the solid #1 and #2 in the title fight for Biggest Elected Idiot in America...
ladies and gentleman, it's Huckabee time!
IgnoranceIsNotBliss @ 45:
Maybe I've been living in the deep south too long, but that sounds awesome to me.
He's as qualified as W to be the GOP nominee. As Sadly No can't stop blogging this week, we HOPE he's the nominee! Go, Huck, Go!
Beating him would be too easy, even for Hillary.
I'll tell you what, that there Canadian is flat out funny!!
Reminds me of those old MacKenzie Brothers.
The Great White North, what will they call it when
the global gets itself warmed? More beer. eh?
Ever wonder why some of the greatest comedians of the last
20 years are Canadians?
Take off , eh?
Huckabee=just plain flat out wrong.
noDemocracy @ 44:
No kidding...
IgnoranceIsNotBliss @ 45:
Yeah, it does sound awful and it's loaded with fat, but it's kind of addictive. The hot gravy melts the cheese curds, so with every bite you get a hit of fried potato, beefy gravy and rich cheese. About 40 years ago some guy in a greasy spoon in Quebec threw some curds into an order of fries and gravy, and it took off from there.
Well you don't have to be smart to be a religious nut. Huckabee loves Jesus. For a good portion of the Republican party, that's all they need to know.
Rusty Shackleford @ 50:
I was raised in Louisiana and live in Florida. Maybe that's my problem.
[Fixed Blockquoting-Sitemonitor]
Huh, I wonder how I managed to do that?
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whirledpeas Says:
Ever wonder why some of the greatest comedians of the last
20 years are Canadians?
Because they live just north of the saddest joke in the world.
Ahahahhahahahaha Seal up Joe Clark's Hole! Jump off the Peter 'Mans Bridge!' Mulrooney's brown nose! Bipolar Canada... Stop it, Rick, yer killin me...
Annoyed Canuck @ 54:
I think I just gained 5 pounds reading your description.
Ack, I'm so embarrassed for my home state! (Born and raised in Arkansas here...) Huckabee's a known idiot in Arkansas, and a known criminal. I'm still embarrassed for Arkansas...
I have an experiment and I want to see if it happens to you: DON'T TRY THIS IF YOU ARE FRAIL
okay, and be sure to have someone near you that can help;
Say: HUCKHUCKHUCKHUCK as fast as you can for 10 seconds. If you can retain control over your diaphragm, you are a stronger one than I. Last Huck I knew had a last name of Hound. That one was considerably smarter than our current one, but not up to the the earlier Finn model. The Finn's creator, or not god, as the current Huck might call him, was Sam. Sam knew a lot of hucks. And new Huck, you aren't that huck. I knew that huck, sorry, got carried away with the kennedy/kerry/huck controversy brewing in another location
When are they going to let us go back to work? Support the WGA strike and all our unions. When they go, we go with them. When one gets better, we all get better. stand up together, and help your neighbor if they have problems when they huck.
BlameCanada @ 7:
Oh god, can't breathe! The funny, it is too strong!
As so many of Mercer's 'Talking to Americans' segments demonstrate for a whole bunch of Americans the world does not exist outside the borders of 'merica - Huckabee was the crowning touch on this segment - too much
Ohh... I loved that the first time they showed it on CBC and it's even funnier now!
Oops double thread.
A truly representative example of Republicanism if ever there was one.
What a dumbshit.
As a resident of Toronto, I just wanted to mention that there are plenty of idiots north of the border as well.
miss_kitty @ 16:
Yup. The show was/is called This Hour Has 22 Minutes, which is funny because FOX sort of accidentally ripped that off with their The Half-Hour News Hour. Rick Mercer is a funny man and he would speak to politicians throughout the U.S. to expose their ignorance regarding their neighbours to the north.
Hey, if any of you Yanks want to move to Canada, I promise you, the water's fine (if a bit cold)...
IgnoranceIsNotBliss @ 45:
It is, in fact, delicious. I am offering the don't-knock-it-till-you've-tried-it sentiment, I guess, because man - you'd be surprised.
Frank @ 68:
Granted. However, on the whole, the average Canadian cannot hope to compete with the average American when it comes to ignorance of others outside its borders, or for that matter, those within its borders.
HEY, enough from you Canadians! Doncha know America is THE greatest country in the world? Oh, sure, you may have a few idiots up there, but by god we've got more of 'em down here than the whole world put together! So don't think you can compete with us! WE lead the world in everything, dammit! An' that includes idiots! And greenhouse gas production! and obesity.......and arrogance........and TV channels..........and ...
rapture bunny safari
For more background on Mike Huckabee the dangerous extremist and radical reactionary, see:
"Top 10 Moments in Mike Huckabee's Extremism."
Canadian Observer @ 71:
If that makes you feel better about yourself as a Canadian, fine. As for me, I have great respect for the US as a country, and there are plenty of folks within its borders who know plenty about what's outside. I know because I've met some of them. As for those folks, they don't make the editing cuts with Rick Mercer.
I mean it's true. Take my former office assistant, great bright young guy who can and will quote you every sports statistic but did not know who is his Congressional Representative was nor could he name his US Senators from California though in his defense he did recognize them when prompted. Americans are at the mall, at the movies, at the stadiums or mostly on the couch watching whatever hit must-watch show it now happens to be. Apparently this past Tuesday night I learned it was Project Runaway when at a meeting with four other gay men. You know it's a good sign when the project lead says let's keep this short, Project Runaway starts in an hour. I, on the other hand, was headed to hear Mike Gravel speak. My colleagues, all pretty well-educated young men with promising careers, never discuss politics. I assume that it is a work thing but I doubt that they do really talk about it. I don't really see a citizen democracy in the US on a national scale anymore. I mean there is a war on, apparently now at halftime, while we help the Sunnis rebuild and rearm to offset the Shi'ias in the second half of the Iraq Bowl. Who pays attention to the two versions of the Telecom Bill now before the Senate. Who pays attention to what's happening in state capitols? It's all overwhelming so I guess some Americans turn stupid, others just play dumb, still it is pretty obvious that the educational system has failed something fierce. It might have to do with the way they are financed, it's only a clue, but having schools largely financed by property taxes creates very uneven results. But the Bush proposal would be a sheer disaster: they want to privatize all public schools, which is what's effectively being done in New Orleans, a city still in the throes of a Sabine rape, as only evidenced by the continued razing assault on public housing. Let's be honest, isn't ethnic cleansing Louisiana-style so much more hospitable than the other mess we tried to privatize over in Baghdad. Whatever comes to pass this coming year, you can bet if there is a public debate in the United States over what happens next, it won't be one on the street, Americans may be being polled to death but on the street in the coffee shops Americans say nary a word. However there soon might be a debate on the street of a different kind is only a matter of time before some minor incident becomes a major one. There are some worrisome signs of racial violence on a level that we have not seen since the 1960s. From Jena, LA to New York City on more than one occasion, to now Pasadena, TX, there seems to be a growing powder keg awaiting a spark. I didn't see the 1968 special the other night but it struck me how we might be on the verge of another 1968 soon. Is there a Sunni offensive in the offing a la Tet or the prospect of even yet a wider war as we once again navigate Middle Eastern currents? Are we immune from major assassinations of political figures? I hope so but the honest answer is I don't know. Pasadena Texas is frightening on both ends. Mon dieu, riots in France now seem an annual event. There is no question that the country is polarized but Americans don't talk about it they only pretend it doesn't exist. 1968 was a trouble-filled year but it also nearly matches the high water mark of the American prosperity. It's been a pretty steady decline in the standard of living in the US since the late 1970s or should I say perhaps a growing gap between the haves and the have nots. I am not saying that there is a right-wing conspiracy in this country, but there is a long-term right-wing plan in America and it is happening right before your eyes. It is a step-by-step dismantling of American social achievements some dating back to the founding of the Republic in 1789 such as a free and public education but mostly it is an undoing of the New Deal and the Progressive Era. Conservative think-tanks seem to evoke a whisk of nostalgia for the post-Civil War period through 1900. Why? I don't know. That 35-year period saw two Presidential elections (1876 and 1888) where the Electoral College victor lost the Popular Vote, one highly contested one in 1876 where the outcome was achieved in a back room not in the public square, the near-total annihilation of the Western Indian Tribes, economic shock after economic shock as the nation grew adrift under 27 years of mostly ignominious Republican rule and 8 years of uneven rule even under Grover Cleveland, the lone Democrat to occupy the White House during this period. Only Chester Arthur is a stand-out in these leans years of Presidential leadership. Arthur actually toured the West and the slaughter did abate but by then it was already most done away. His greatest legacy was the establishment of a Civil Service. There are times when I wonder if the Republicans really want to undo that but if I take comments such as Grover Norquist's desire to drown government in a bathtub seriously, well then yes, I do take this comment seriously. Politics effects us all and if we fail to take politics seriously well then the problem is that politics can happen to you. As it's happening to the citizens of New Orleans right now. So even in a democracy, bad things can happen, some of it actually legal but a crime against humanity nonetheless. But go ahead shop until you drop, catch every screening, watch the hit shows and know all the fantasy football trivia you should know but let the politicians do Washington, Sacramento or any other state capitol for that matter. Nobody is really watching.
facta non verba
San Francisco, CA
If you liked Rick Mercer's comedy...
http://www.cbc.ca/mercerreport/
http://www.rickmercer.com/
;)
Sadly, even though funny, it is a shame that Americans know so little of their northern neighbour. I was watching Are you smarter than a fifth grader, and the question for geography was what is the name of the country on the northern border. I could not believe my eyes when she didn't know and had to go to the fifth graders for the answer. The same in that skit that someone realized we were just being congratulated for becoming part of North America. I mean....really!
canadian visitor @ 78:
It's too bad that some Canadians get most of their information about the States from their television.
Merry Holidays from the HUCKABEES!!!!!!!!
always nice to see an american conservative politician get rolled by a homosexual liberal canadian comedian satirist.
i wonder where stephen colbert got the idea for better know a district?
miss_kitty @ 42:
For Americans wondering about some of the jokes
Tim Horton was a hockey player who founded of cooffee shop chain of the same name and a double double is a coffee with 2 sugar and 2 cream.
Sask is a LANDLOCKED province.
The rest is obvious!
Frank @ 75:
Somebody needs to inform Billo that America is no country for old men.
Dumb ass Americans.
You should see the rest of this on YouTube. Huckabee is as dumb as the dumb ass American public. They are 24th out if 29 countries in education.
The idiotic American public has destroyed their democracy, and the entire globe because of their greedy pathetic over consumption. I look forward to watching America collapse from within. Misery loves company.
Underground Pirate @ 85:
I'm pretty sure that a guy who writes that there are only 29 countries is the real dumbass.
Canuck Looking South @ 82:
Oh, you people are such losers..If you were asked such dumb questions by a reporter asking them seriously you'd 1#"walk-away" or 2# you'd answer them in the manner they were asked..Huckabee, seems like a fool..But what seems most foolish and ironic is the Canadian patriotism!! Sick!!
America is 24th out if 29 countries in education?? someone said ?? That means All Western Countries and Japan right ?? Most Western European Countries have less population and less Ethnic people also..So, what's the point?? Is the point that the Third World doesn't matter and Every Canadian is racist??
Here's another bit that is funny. It's an actual commercial that ran on the air.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pXtVrDPhHBg
Michel @ 89:
What?
That was just dumb.
Michel @ 90:
The point is Americans are not very educated overall.
As in our literacy levels in math and reading do not match what most Americans are all to willing to shove into someone from another countries face.
As in most Americans are misinformed as to how great their own country really is.
Clear?
classic indeed!
earl @ 9:
Though isn't poutine pronounced similar to the Russian President's last name of Putin?
RGKahn @ 8:
It's one of those situations where you have no idea how to answer. I wouldn't be suprised if Canada had some sort of National Igloo. You're not going to know every little tidbit about every country.
It's like having a question about the US' Jell-O Belt. It sounds so made up but would you take take the chance to dis it? Or would you say that sounds like a great place. Just so you know. There is a Jell-O Belt in the US. It's Utah's official snack.
Michel @ 89:
Michel @ 90:
Exhibit A?
Frank @ 87:
Take a valium Frank.
The Yanks can look out for themselves.
They're damn hardass and pretty crafty....kinda like Torontonians.
Well, what do you know, the schmuck has a website:
Mike Huckabee Schmuckabee
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