Huckabee spoke to white supremacist group

First, Ron Paul's newsletters (which The Last Word exposed way back in the mid-'90s), and now this.

The Council of Conservative Citizens - the progeny of the old White Citizens' Councils, the "uptown Klan" of the '60s - is a white supremacist organization. Anyone familiar with their crapaganda knows this. The bigotry of modern conservatism is as pronounced as its greed and often goes hand in hand with it: These two elements of right-wing philosophy heavily overlap like a Venn diagram.

Occasionally some conservative politician will be caught with CCC ties. Before the CCC was exposed as a mainstay of racism, a lot of politicians spoke before the group - but some renounced the CCC when they learned of its actual stance. Others, however, have no regrets. Trent Lott, Haley Barbour, and John Ashcroft have been connected to the CCC even in recent times, and Jim Talent used the CCC's mailing list to gain supporters.

Now it turns out that in the '90s, Mike Huckabee cultivated a relationship with the CCC. Huckabee - then Arkansas lieutenant governor - eagerly accepted an invitation to speak at the CCC's 1993 conference and gave a videotaped speech that was well-received by the racists in attendance.

In 1994 the CCC conducted its national conference in Little Rock just to attract Fuckapee. He agreed to speak to the group, but backed out when it was reported that he would share the stage with Kirk Lyons, an activist whose name often appears in connection with racist causes. Huckabee was worried about bad publicity for himself, not about the CCC's extremism. When Fuckapee canceled, he was replaced by former Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson - organizer of the mob that rioted against the end of segregation at a Little Rock high school and narrator of Jerry Falwell's debunked 'The Clinton Chronicles'.

Huckabee's CCC links are a few years old, but he's had a seamless political career since. Many political figures' lives zig and zag, and parts of their minds are stripped away and rebuilt - so if they once supported something, there's a chance they may no longer. But Huckabee has never renounced the CCC, and is like many politicians in that his career has coasted along consistently. I think he subscribed to the CCC's views in the '90s, and I think he still does.

(Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Huckabee_gave_speech_to_white_supremacists_0118.html)