About (Late) Last Night: Huckabombs and Angry Birds [Video]

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has been put on notice.

Last night, Stephen Colbert took to his Colbert Nation to rant against statements by Huckabee, now a Fox News Channel host, in a slew of recent radio appearances. Huckabee challenged Natalie Portman for getting pregnant out of wedlock, said President Obama grew up in Kenya and had an upbringing comparatively foreign to most Americans and compared gay marriage to, well, incest. 

But it's not what Huckabee said in dropping these "huckabombs," Colbert said. It's that the Republican politician didn't say any of this on his show. (On "The Colbert Report," he said, Huckabee was a "steaming pile of reason.")

Colbert, however, did correct the governor on a couple points. He advised him to be careful when criticizing Portman's child because "that kid she's pregnant with is Luke Skywalker." And Colbert said Huckabee had a few facts wrong on the president's personal story.

"Obama didn't grow up in Kenya," Colbert said. "He was born in Kenya, before moving to Islamistan, where he then traveled back in time to plant his birth announcement in a Hawaiian newspaper."

Meanwhile, elsewhere in cable land, the Angry Birds became life-sized. Over on "Conan," Conan O'Brien welcomed his new Finnish online viewers with a tribute to one of their country's greatest contributions while dissing their enemy neighbors of Sweden. His stage was taken over by the Angry Birds game, bringing down Ikea furniture -- the symbol of Swedish engineering.

 

— Rick Rojas

Comments

[Bratt]

Huckabee has been accused of criticizing and slamming Portman for becoming pregnant outside of marriage. Huckabee did quite the contrary. If you read Huckabee's comment, he neither slammed nor criticized Portman. As a matter of fact, he mentioned that she deserved to win her Oscar. Huckabee simply used her situation as a spring board to promote his new book " A Simple Government", and to highlight a problem that is contributing to the financial demise of America...Unwed pregnancies. He wanted each of us to consider something that we all know to be true, but give little thought to, and that is thefact that we fund and help raise millions of children who are born out of wedlock via our taxes. Most single moms are very poor uneducated, can't get a job, and if it weren't for government assistance their kids would be straving to death and never have healthcare. And that's the story we're not seeing and its unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out of wedlock children.