Fox News personality and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee stunned a New Hampshire crowd on Saturday by likening the federal government's treatment of airport passengers to the totalitarian regime of Kim Jong-un. 'My gosh, I'm beginning to think that there's more freedom in North Korea sometimes than there is in the United States,' he told a partisan crowd at the inaugural New Hampshire Freedom Summit. 'When I go to the airport, I have to get into the surrender position, people put hands all over me, and I have to provide photo ID in a couple of different forms to prove that I'm not going to terrorize the airplane,' he deadpanned.
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Huckabee is a preacher, a former Arkansas governor, a Fox News host and a potential presidential candidate
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He brought up the rear in a cattle-call of politicians angling for early momentum in the 2016 race
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He's known as a social-issues crusader, but branched out into other red-meat conservative issues
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The unusual comparison with North Korea lit up Republicans on Twitter, with nearly all of them saying he had gone too far
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