Mind if we call you Bruce?

Mind if we call you Bruce?

Mike Huckabee does not like to mention it these days, but Mike Huckabee got his start as an evangelical minister with a conspicuous nasty streak. He's honed the nasty streak (even if religious shock radio wasn't a thing, Mike Huckabee's radio show would have made it a thing) but does not put as much emphasis on the minister part these days. And that's putting it mildly: After Mike Huckabee developed presidential ambitions, back in 2008-ish, he secured nearly all recordings of his past sermons away from public view.

A few have remained. As Tim Murphy explains, what survives is pretty damn special.



Above all, Huckabee was upset with Monty Python's 1979 movie, Life of Brian. [...] Per Huckabee: "There was a time in this country when a movie like The Life of Brian which, I just read—thank God the theaters in Little Rock decided not to show, but it's showing all over the Fort Worth–Dallas area, which is a mockery, which is a blasphemy against the very name of Jesus Christ, and I can remember a day even as young as I am when that would not have happened in this country or in the city in the South."

No Monty Python for you, America. You can have any freedom you want, but not that one.