Eugene Robinson: ‘My Jaw Was Up’ When I Heard Huckabee’s Holocaust Comments

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BRZEZINSKI: “Eugene Robinson, I want to ask you that, the issues the president is addressing, where he is now, are extremely important to them. He did spend a great deal talking about the Huckabee comments.

ROBINSON: “Yeah, he did. It was interesting that, you know, he hasn't inserted himself in the presidential campaign like this today. So it was interesting he decided to go there. I think he may have been personally offended as I think a lot of people were, frankly. I certainly was. And.”

BRZEZINSKI: “What did you think when you heard them? What did you mean you were offended?”

ROBINSON: “My jaw was up. I have not been the Auschwitz. I spent time at the holocaust museum here in Washington, which is, it's an amazing place. It can be changed somehow, to throw around that analogy as Richard Haase said if such a cavalier and I think cynical way, frankly. I hate to use that word about Mike Huckabee, with whom I disagree on a bunch of things. I always thought he was an honorable man. I thought it was cynical to get attention. It's not a lot of oxygen down there. It's sucked up by Donald Trump T. Other thing, what he said, totally doesn't get the whole purpose of Israel is nobody is going to be marched towards any ovens. Right. That's the whole ethos of the Israeli state and so in a sense it sort of insults that history and a terrible history to say such a cavalier thing, it's awful.”