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September 10, 2021
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Blessings on you and your family, and from all the Huckabee staff! 

Today's newsletter includes:

  • Bible Verse of the Day - Genesis 1:1
  • Important follow-up: Maricopa County "discrepancies"
  • Biden's Vaccine Speech
  • America The Beautiful
  • Where The Blame For Vaccine Hesitancy Really Lies
  • Note on President Biden’s Vaccine Speech

Sincerely,

Mike Huckabee


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:1


Important follow-up: Maricopa County "discrepancies"

By Mike Huckabee

A reader of our newsletter, to be identified for our purpose here merely as Carl, left us a phone message after reading Thursday’s story, “Maricopa County canvassing uncovers huge discrepancies.” This reader had called with firsthand knowledge of the same type of ballot “discrepancies” in Maricopa County that canvassers had found.

To set the scene for what he told us, we’d first like to call attention to an interview on Stephen Colbert’s late-night “comedy” show –- not so much what Colbert had to say (no surprises there) as what guest Chris Wallace contributed to the discussion. The interview was part of the promotion for Chris’ new book on 9/11, which I’m sure is a great read. To be clear, I bring attention to this not to single out Chris Wallace specifically, but rather to highlight the dismissal with which legitimate concerns about the election are typically received.

Let's start with how Colbert phrases his question: “I’m wondering whether you and your fellow Sunday morning guys out there who are doin’ the Sunday shows, talkin’ about the week, if you ever feel like you shouldn’t have on people who have the irrational belief that the last election...” (Pause for predictable applause from Colbert’s audience.) “...the people who are cynically –- and I know you’ve held these guys’ feet to the fire; I don’t want to suggest that you haven’t pushed back; you have, quite famously –- but have you ever seen anything so cynical in Washington, DC, than...people saying things they know aren’t true, uh, that they KNOW has to have lasting damage on our democracy, coming on TV and saying these things with a straight face?”

This is where Perry Mason would rise and say “Objection, leading the witness.” But leading questions ARE asked in court, at least whenever opposing counsel is asleep and they can be gotten away with, because they work. The same holds true in TV studios, and this one worked here, setting the tone for the whole exchange. If you have a strong stomach, hear it all at the link.

https://www.toddstarnes.com/media/chris-wallace-d-fox-i-dont-frankly-wanna-hear-their-election-was-stolen-crap/

I debated whether or not to provide a full transcript of the conversation, since the video is available, but I think it’s instructive to see at least a part of it in print. So here’s a condensed version, starting where Chris answers the above question from Colbert:

“I have never seen this...I’ve been in Washington 40 years, so I’ve seen a lot of bad stuff [chuckle], but nothing like this, where --- and, you know, someone would say to me, ‘Well, are they delusional?’ No --- well, maybe some of them are --- but what’s worse, I think some of them have cynically decided, because of the Trump base, because they don’t want to get crosswise with the former President, they’re gonna say something they know is not true. Now, I don’t believe you’re just gonna sit there and say, ‘I’m not gonna have them on. But if I’m gonna have them on, I’m gonna hold them to account, over and over, about, you know, ‘what about, you know, this election, what about --- I’ve said this to many of them, ‘Is Joe Biden the duly-elected President of the United States, and they’ll say ‘Well, he’s the President,’ and I’ll say ‘No, no, was he elected fair and square?’ So, we go back on this, and I don’t let it pass...”

More: “There are plenty of people who were the leaders in the Congress who were challenging [the election] that I just have not had on the show ever since then, and have purposefully not had on the show, because I frankly don’t wanna hear their crap. But having said that, there are some leaders that you have to ask them questions. There are people in leadership and the Senate and I won’t let them come on without putting them through the wringer.”

Colbert interjects at this point, referring to such concerns as ‘garbage.” Wallace segues into January 6, “one of the worst days,” as he watched “this mob coming to the cathedral of our democracy.” “I was sickened,” he says, to applause. Colbert goes on to say that anyone who isn’t “wiling to stand up for that truth” –- I guess he means the “truth” that Biden was duly elected –- should be “DISQUALIFIED to be in the public sphere.” (!!!) He says that appearing on those Sunday shows is of value to such people because it helps them “promulgate that lie.”

“Does it worry you,” he asks Chris, “that you have given legitimacy to people who have abdicated all public responsibility?” (Again, where's Perry Mason when you need him?)

Chris responds that there are members of Congress who have been the leaders on that argument whom he just has deliberately not had on the show, “ever since then.” He says it was because he “frankly, didn’t want to hear their crap.” (This is followed by predictable audience cheers and applause.)

He goes on to say there are certain ones you have to have on, “but I won’t let ‘em come on without putting ‘em through the wringer.” That was pretty much the end of the interview, except for a book plug, and then on to the commercial break, which should have been for Pepto-Bismol.

So, Chris Wallace said he essentially gives his guests a litmus test, and it’s not enough for them to say, “Biden is the President.” It SHOULD be enough, but no –- the guest has to say that, yes, Biden was elected “fair and square,” even though it’s not known for sure that he was. We do not have definitive proof that the election was “stolen,” either, but after known problems with mass mail-in balloting in 2020, we have good reason to call for audits, and this does not make us “cynical,” "irrational" or “delusional.” It certainly does not mean that we "lie." Likewise, fact-based observations that there were problems with the last election that need to be fixed or that elections need to be more transparent are not “garbage” or “crap,” and to suggest this is offensive and insulting to millions of intelligent and informed people.

Such observations are not made to stay in good with “Trump’s base.” They are made because there are valid reasons for concern. Concerned Americans want to make sure we can TRUST the system, and maintaining that trust is PRO-democracy --- much more pro-democracy than pulling the curtain over the election and saying, “You have to talk about this in a certain way or you can’t participate in public life.”

Indeed, though I strongly and repeatedly condemned the breach of the Capitol Building, it's easy to understand why it happened. People were fed up because no one, not even the courts, would take their concerns seriously, saying that whatever the truth, the issue was "moot."

So, back to Carl. (Remember Carl?) Our commentary on Maricopa County sparked him to call and tell us about his niece, who moved from Maricopa County to Florida ten years ago. She found out something very interesting this year when a jury summons from Maricopa County was forwarded to her. She received this because they still had her on the Maricopa County voter rolls.

And the records showed her as having “voted” in the 2020 election.


Biden's Vaccine Speech

By Mike Huckabee

Thursday, President Biden gave what many commentators are describing as the most disturbing, dictatorial speech ever given by an American President. I’m so angry about this speech that I’m glad I don’t have to describe it in detail, since the writer Bonchie at Redstate.com did it so well for me:

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/09/09/joe-biden-threatens-the-unvaccinated-and-announces-his-unconstitutional-vaccine-mandate-in-disturbing-dictatorial-speech-n440634

Stacey Lennox at PJ Media also has a good rundown…

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2021/09/09/breaking-joe-biden-unveils-authoritarian-plan-to-defeat-covid-19-blames-the-unvaccinated-n1477304

And Lincoln Brown has some pointed questions about it…

https://pjmedia.com/columns/lincolnbrown/2021/09/10/mr-president-a-few-questions-n1477380

The President who didn’t dare say “boo” to the Taliban attacked the “freedom and personal choice” of tens of millions of Americans who are hesitant to get vaccinated for COVID, darkly warning that his “patience is wearing thin” with them. The man who, as a candidate and as recently as six weeks ago, rejected vaccine mandates…

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/09/09/biden-proved-today-what-liars-they-are-with-vaccine-mandate-n440681

declared that he would impose a draconian mandate on both government and private sector employees, including every business with more than 100 workers, forcing them to force their workers to be vaccinated or be tested weekly. Considering businesses are already having trouble finding workers, what would it do to the economy if millions of workers simply refused to show up and comply? Particularly since that includes a large percentage of healthcare workers.

Biden also spat on the entire idea of federalism by warning that if any state Governors opposed him, he would use his powers to “get them out of the way.”

I know he’s been acting more and more like King Lear lately, but someone needs to tell him he’s not a king, and he doesn’t rule by Divine Right. He’s also not Tony Soprano. And of this writing, 14 Governors have already announced plans to sue the second he tries to impose this.

Bear in mind, I’m only talking about the parts that blatantly overstepped his powers, and not even the parts that defied logic, like saying, “We’re going to protect the vaccinated from unvaccinated co-workers” (if vaccines work, why would the vaccinated be threatened? It sounds as if he’s saying vaccination is useless while attacking anyone who thinks that.) Or claiming that GOP officials are actively working to undermine the fight against COVID and not encouraging people to get vaccinated. That’s not merely a lie, it’s a slanderous lie. The Governors he attacks most often, DeSantis in Florida and Abbott in Texas, are both vaccinated, both strongly encourage vaccination, and they’ve both done a far better job of distributing vaccines than just about any blue state.

I’m stunned by the openly authoritarian tone of this speech. For four years, the left railed that Trump was a dictator, he was “literally Hitler,” just for using his Constitutional authority to enact his agenda. And yet they’re cheering this insane power grab, with Biden angrily dictating to private businesses, state officials and individual citizens that they will do what he says and inject something into their bodies that they don’t want injected, or else.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/intense-mixed-reactions-biden-anger-at-the-unvaccinated

If Afghanistan didn’t convince Americans, this should: he needs to resign, NOW. I’m sure a lot of Republicans would agree, as both GOP Governors and Congress members are already declaring Biden’s threats and mandates to be blatantly unconstitutional, calling him the wannabe dictator that the left falsely accused Trump of being, and prepping to fight him in court and Congress.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-respond-to-vaccine-mandates-issued-by-biden-absolutely-unconstitutional

That rising spirit of resistance to government overreach may be the only silver lining to this toxic cloud. To be clear: I’ve been quite open that I’m vaccinated myself, and I think people should be vaccinated, but it’s not the government’s place to force it on anyone (the “My body, my choice” crowd thinks that only applies to abortion, which actually destroys someone else’s body.) And this is such an unprecedented abuse of power that there’s no way it will stand.

But Brandon Morse argues that it will serve the left’s political aims because when the Supreme Court inevitably throws it out, that will give Democrats the opening to fire up their crazy base by claiming the conservative court wants people to DIE and the only solution is to expand and pack the Court, and so we’re back to that end-run around the Constitution.

https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2021/09/09/bidens-unconstitutional-promise-to-force-vaccinations-on-private-companies-is-hollow-but-dont-get-comfortable-n440604

If Biden and his cohorts spent as much time and effort figuring out how to get around the Taliban as they do trying to get around the Constitution, all our people would be out of Afghanistan by now.


America The Beautiful

God's creation is all around us. To learn more about Grand Canyon National Park, visit its website here.


Where The Blame For Vaccine Hesitancy Really Lies

By Mike Huckabee

Thanks to Instapundit for directing readers to this article by George Korda of the Knoxville News Sentinel, who shows where much of the blame for vaccine hesitancy really lies. Maybe Biden doesn’t remember 2020 (and I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t), but he, his running mate, other top Democrats, their lackeys in the media from CNN to Newsweek, and even their godhead Dr. Fauci, all spent last year casting doubt on the safety and effectiveness of any vaccine developed under President Trump. Mr. Korda went through the archives and dug up some of their scare quotes about the unlikelihood of a vaccine being developed that quickly, and the safety risks if it were.

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/george-korda/2021/09/09/mixed-messages-2020-may-behind-vaccine-resistance-george-korda-opinion/5751974001/

Biden seems to have forgotten that he was at the forefront of a Democratic Party/liberal media PR push to convince Americans that any vaccine that didn’t take years to test and wasn’t fully FDA-approved might be dangerous. Biden would like us to forget, too, since he and Harris got themselves jabbed with the Trump vaccine before they even took office, and then promptly started taking credit for it. Now, they’re demonizing anyone who might have the same doubts they were promoting less than a year ago.

Instead of attacking people who are skeptical of the vaccines, Biden might be more effective, and certainly more believable, if he’d come clean and say, “Look, I was just playing a cynical political game with the lives of 320 million Americans. So don’t distrust the vaccines. Just distrust anything I say.”

Note on President Biden’s Vaccine Speech

By Mike Huckabee

In threatening to crush the freedoms of any unvaccinated America, Biden still never acknowledged that an estimated 140 million Americans have already been exposed to COVID and should have natural immunity. The left has tried to paint natural immunity as an anti-vaxxer hoax or dangerous misinformation, but that’s become much harder with the rising number of studies showing natural immunity to be as good as or possibly better than vaccination.

A recent study out of Israel that’s getting a lot of attention found that people who’d had two doses of the Pfizer vaccine were 27 times more likely to get symptomatic COVID-19 and eight times more likely to be hospitalized than people who were previously infected (FYI: both were very rare, but natural immunity re-infection was rarer.) The results were so overwhelming that a writer for the Washington Post who’d previously claimed that vaccines were more effective than natural immunity from prior infection actually admitted, “I was wrong, and stand corrected.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/vaccines-versus-covid-19-the-great-immunity-debate/2021/09/07/b55f2aca-0fe4-11ec-baca-86b144fc8a2d_story.html

Our President might actually convince more people to get vaccinated if he could say those words instead of threatening everyone.

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  • Jacqueline Johnson

    09/12/2021 01:59 PM

    I really wish you would quit putting pictures of anyone from the Biden administration as the header for your newsletter. Just seeing these pictures makes me sick.

  • Linda Smith

    09/12/2021 11:23 AM

    * If the shots are so good, why are we, vaccinated still wearing mask?
    * I'm still stuck on the vaccine that Trump tried to introduce (the Malaria vaccine), I received it when I was a child along with many other children and we never had malaria. I'm wondering if that may still be in my blood stream and has prevented the covid virus from attacking me and maybe many others. In my opinion it should have been research along with those vaccines not many people trust.

  • Kathy L. Brewster

    09/11/2021 03:36 PM

    I want Joe Biden and Kamala Harris de-certified. They are not the President and Vice-President of the United States. Every blue state should be demanding this!!!!!

  • Norma Blatz

    09/11/2021 01:40 PM

    To understand what "the ppl running biden" are doing do as much research on Prince Charles and Klaus Schwab "The Great Reset" -- www.weforum.org/agenda is a good start

  • Benny Long

    09/11/2021 12:03 PM

    I am a native born, red-blooded American, who is of the mind-set that you are NOT the boss of me, you can't tell me what to do, when it comes to things that affect me personally. I think all the discussions of vaccine and mask mandates have gotten way out of hand and that the voice of reason in this matter should prevail.

    As for masks, I don't plan to wear one again unless forced to choose between the mask and some kind of unpleasant consequences.

    But about the vaccines. I definitely don't think it is the business of government or others in positions of influence to mandate the acceptance of the vaccine. On the other hand, consider the fact that we are no longer faced with the death or debilitating effects of diseases of the past such as polio, measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, whooping cough, typhoid, small pox, and other dreaded diseases due to........ VACCINES. I am not old enough to recall any kind of public revolt against taking these vaccines, or any kind of government mandate requiring people to be vaccinated. And because we have been vaccinated to protect us from these diseases, beginning just a few weeks after birth, it is rare for people to become infected with these diseases from the past.

    I do understand peoples' concerns about negative reactions to the new vaccines because of an experience we had when our youngest daughter was receiving her first series of vaccinations. Because of her failure to thrive in spite of our best efforts to help her, our pediatrician recommended that she receive half doses of her vaccines. After her third half dose of the DPT, I knew something was very wrong. Almost immediately, she began to be restless and fretful and then developed a very high fever along with a runny nose, that was almost non-stop. I called the pediatrician's office but her regular pediatrician was not available, so the one who took my call, said it was just a cold and to give her Tylenol. After about 24-36 hours, she began to return to normal. When I was able to speak with her pediatrician and told him what had happened, he said she never be given that vaccine again. In the following years, as I spoke to other pediatricians, they all agreed that she should never receive that vaccine again. Around that same time, I was listening to Ted Koppel on Nightline and he had a story of a four year old boy who had suffered brain damage, with his parents saying that this had occurred as a result of the pertussis vaccine. (DPT) You may question how they were able to say that the vaccine was the culprit, but I knew almost immediately that something was very wrong with my daughter, and it is possible that they had a similar experience with their son. From time to time I wonder what might have happened to my daughter if she had been given full doses of the vaccines. Would she have had the same lifelong consequences? I will never know, but I am so grateful for the wisdom and caution of our pediatrician in taking the precautions that he did. My daughter is now grown, healthy, with children of her own.

    I have shared my thoughts and my story in order to give my personal perspective on the vaccine issues. I hope they will be helpful to others as they consider what is the right thing for them to do for themselves and their families.

  • Twila Mae Dickerson

    09/11/2021 11:07 AM

    I am a huge fan of yours, Mike Huckabee--and I love your daughter too. Everything you say is spot on, and I am seriously concerned about the future of my country,

  • adele bonaccolta

    09/11/2021 09:08 AM

    We have an evil president coached by an evil bigger then him.

  • Ann Beeker

    09/10/2021 11:42 PM

    To see why people are hesitant to get the jab, look at the CDC’s own VAERS August 25, 2021 report on the number of DEATHS and ADVERSE REACTIONS to the covid “vaccines.” There are good reasons why people are hesitant to take them!!!

  • holger latt

    09/10/2021 10:43 PM

    There is a federal law from 1946(?). The law was put in place to protect people from experimentational drugs being used against them. As far as I know the law has not changed. I do know that this law was abused my the US military against its own GIs (GI means government issue). The worse abuse was the exposure of radiation from atomic testing. The bottom line is people can sue the federal govt. against vaccinations are still not fully tested for being safe.

  • Ann Beeker

    09/10/2021 09:57 PM

    I enjoy reading your articles very much! Thank you! After saying that, I have to say the following: If you wonder why people are hesitant to get the “vaccine,” (technically speaking, this is NOT a vaccine in the classic form but is rather a gene therapy), I suggest that you go to a website called “1000 Covid Stories” and see what many people have experienced after receiving these jabs. In addition to these horror stories, there have been thousands of deaths directly attributed to the jabs. These are real people who have suffered real injuries and life threatening conditions that they will have for the rest of their lives. There are more and more doctors, many recognized doctors, who are coming out against these jabs as well Of course, our government and mainstream media will not ever mention the thousands of lives that have been severely impacted by these experimental jabs. The FDA approval is for a “vaccine” that is not even available yet...read the August 23, 2021 FDA letter to see where the Cormidity (spelling?) vaccine from Germany is the one that has been approved...but it is not even available yet! The Pfizer “vaccine” Is still under the EUA only! It is in black and white in the FDA letter. So there has been a “bate and switch” pulled on the American people!! With so many deaths and so many terrible conditions brought on by the jabs, it’s no wonder people are hesitant to put those unknown ingredients in their bodies! I urge you to do some research into people like Dr. McCullough in Dallas and some of the Frontline Doctors to see why people are hesitant. Look at Israel, probably the most vaccinated country in the world and how many cases of covid there are there. Just how many boosters will people have to take to get rid of all the new variants that seem to be coming out every few weeks? And how long are they being tested to know if they are safe and effective? For a disease that is over 99% recoverable for most age groups and with things like hydroxychloriquine and ivermectin, which have been used for years and have successfully treated and cured many people with covid, why do we need a “vaccine” anyway? Is there an ulterior motive behind the push to vaccinate millions of people...like the “great reset” to take us into a New World Order? Research on the NWO will produce some frightening things. And “vaccine passports” ties right into the mark of the beast; if you don’t get one, you can’t participate in any type of commerce or activity...just like what is now happening in New Zealand and Australia. If this vaccine mandate, which is unconstitutional and unlawful, is successful, we will no longer have any rights as American citizens because we will no longer have a Constitution; “the powers that be” will dispense with it as “no longer valid” under their Emergency Powers to control us...just like Nazi Germany. Vaccine hesitancy is MUCH bigger than what is being portrayed by many people!