Parker: Huckabee Responds To Retread Story On Computers

Intrepid reporter Suzi Parker with U.S. News and World Report catches up with former Arkansas Governor and potential Presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee for his reaction to a recent Mother Jones article on his waning days as Governor.

The Mother Jones report recounts how Huckabee ordered hard drives of computer records destroyed as he left office after nearly 10 years as the state chief executive. It regurgitates local reports more than 5 years ago that called into question the action, but with Huckabee’s standing in many 2012 Presidential polls it seems to have found new legs.

Huckabee tells Parker:

"What I don’t understand is how the supposed ‘legitimate’ press is used for pawns by Mother Jones, Media Matters, and other partisan organizations and how they could use material from sources like that without doing their own fact checking," says Huckabee of outlets that linked to Mother Jones’s story on his missing records and computer hard drives.

And he’s no fan of the liberal Mother Jones. "As far as I know, it doesn’t pretend to be a real news outlet, but a highly polarized opinion-driven vehicle for all things to the far left," Huckabee adds. "I can’t fault them for doing what they do. You expect that wolves will eat meat."

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