Mike Huckabee thinks Natalie Portman’s baby bump is hurting America

Natalie Portman just won the highest honor in her field, she’s gorgeously pregnant, and she’s engaged to possibly the most beautiful man in the world. Yeah, I’m jealous. Mike Huckabee, shockingly, has a different take. He thinks Portman’s setting a bad example by rubbing her unwed mother-ness in our faces.

On Monday’s The Michael Medved Show the host bated Mike Huckabee to go after Portman:

MEDVED: [Natalie Portman] got up, she was very visibly pregnant, and it’s really it’s a problem because she’s about seven months pregnant, it’s her first pregnancy, and she and the baby’s father aren’t married, and before two billion people, Natalie Portman says, ‘Oh I want to thank my love and he’s given me the most wonderful gift.’ He didn’t give her the most wonderful gift, which would be a wedding ring! And it just seems to me that sending that kind of message is problematic.

Huh? They’re engaged, isn’t that what you’re supposed to do when there’s a non-church-approved pregnancy? But I guess the guy is supposed to give that “gift” of the ring before the gal gives him her “gift.” (Gag)

Huckabee had plenty to add with his own attack on Portman and all single mothers:

HUCKABEE: You know Michael, one of the things that’s troubling is that people see a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, ‘Hey look, you know, we’re having children, we’re not married, but we’re having these children, and they’re doing just fine.’ But there aren’t really a lot of single moms out there who are making millions of dollars every year for being in a movie. And I think it gives a distorted image that yes, not everybody hires nannies, and caretakers, and nurses. Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can’t get a job, and if it weren’t for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care. And that’s the story that we’re not seeing, and it’s unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of children wedlock.

The hypocrisy is overwhelming. It’s the Mike Huckabees of the world who want contraception and abortion to be inaccessible and want to destroy government assistance. I guess he only wants there to be one version of the story of what it’s like to be a mother outside of traditional marriage to pare with the one right way to be a mother (married, of course). And he’s gotta be a big fan of shipping off unwedlocked mothers to hide the shame.

Something I’m not seeing mentioned in a lot of coverage of this story is the subtle Huckabee-brand race-baiting thrown into his comment:

HUCKABEE: You know, right now, 75 percent of black kids in this country are born out of wedlock. 61 percent of Hispanic kids — across the board, 41 percent of all live births in America are out of wedlock births. And the cost of that is simply staggering.

Oh right, the problem with baby making out of wedlock is all the black and Latino single mothers leaching off the state. And there’s the racist topper to Huckabee’s reason why Portman should be hiding her sin-sex belly.