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Huckabee: Bashing 9/11 Cartoon Profits Is Like Attacking Spielberg For Schindler’s List

08/05/2011 8:46 am 0 comments

Source: Frances Martel / Mediaite

Mike Huckabee made a midweek stop on the O’Reilly Factor prompted by the controversy surrounding his new children’s education cartoons. One cartoon in particular that explains the events of September 11, 2001 has received significant criticism, both from those who believe the cartoons are biased in favor of the Bush administration and those that worry Huckabee is making money off the terror attacks. Today, Huckabee addressed the latter, saying criticizing him in such a way would be like condemning Michael Moore or Steven Spielberg for their work.

Huckabee blasted the criticism to host Bill O’Reilly, noting that most of it was coming from “BSNBC” (get it?) and lamented only that the father of a fireman who died on September 11th had been upset by the attacks. That said, he clarified that a “team of experts” wrote the cartoon scripts, not him, and that their goal was to “take kids through American history in a positive way.” “It is very frustrating that this network who has fewer viewers than you have people going to the bathroom during the break,” he joked, was after him.

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