Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee (R) didn't make a lot of friends Tuesday night during the Democratic debate, when he tweeted a racist "joke" and then failed to apologize for it:
"Poor liberals think it's racist to deplore a brutal dictatorship," Huckabee tweeted, quoting his Bernie Sanders tweet again.
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Many also found irony in the "joke," pointing out that Huckabee's son, David Huckabee, allegedly tortured and killed a dog while at Boy Scout camp in 1998, when he was almost 18.
Huckabee's Labrador, Jet, died in 2013.
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