Huckabee seems to be pretty bi-lingual, not only does he speak the language of Zion, he speaks the language of the south (what language is that btw, French?). Evidently that means squirrel talk — Hey, you good ol’ boys, let’s go out back and fry us up some squirrel (btw, I can say this without sounding like a…um…regionalist because I speak the language of the south also since I learned it as a baby. I had to learn the language of the north when I moved here at the tender age of nine 🙂

Clowning around on an MSNBC talk show, Huckabee spoke of his connection to the people of South Carolina. “South Carolina’s a great place for me. I mean, I know how to eat grits and speak the language.” (Cue the banjo music here). We even know how to talk about eating fried squirrel and stuff like that, so we’re on the same wavelength.”
He went on to say, “When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper, because that was the only thing they would let us use in the dorm, and we would fry squirrels in a popcorn popper in the dorm room.”

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