During a discussion on CNN’s Inside Politics about the political impact of the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same sex marriage, National Journal reporter Ron Fournier rushed to compare Mike Huckabee to segregationist former Democratic Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas.

After Huckabee resoundingly rejected the Supreme Court’s decision, Fournier insisted that if you “[s]witch out civil rights and put in gay rights” and Huckabee is no different than a segregationist and is “on the wrong side of history and he should be ashamed of himself.”

Rather than push back against Fournier’s over-the-top comment that opposition to same sex marriage is no different than those who advocated for segregation, CNN’s Nia Malika-Henderson merely wondered what the Arkansas governor is “able to do…in terms of what does it mean that he’s resisting” the Supreme Court?

Fournier continued to go after Huckabee for “appealing to the worst instincts of some people” and although he didn't want to “condemn the whole right of the Republican Party” who have “some very good voters” Huckabee was just trying to “appeal to the worst instincts. You don't make this us versus them.”

Given Fournier’s insistence that rejecting the Supreme Court on gay marriage is akin to segregation, one has to wonder if the National Journal reporter would compare Senator Bernie Sanders to Orval Faubus for his continued refusal to accept the court’s ruling on Citizens United or would Fournier describe the socialist as just staying true to his political values?

See relevant transcript below.