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The Huffington Post has slammed a talk show host for being “forgiving” toward the governor responsible for giving clemency to a suspect in the recent cop killings.
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The Huffington Post has slammed a talk show host for being “forgiving” toward the governor responsible for giving clemency to a suspect in the recent cop killings. “On Monday night, former Governor Mike Huckabee went on Bill O’Reilly’s show to discuss the clemency he granted nearly a decade ago to Maurice Clemmons — now a suspect in the fatal shooting of four police officers. Although many conservative bloggers hammered Huckabee for commuting Clemmons, O’Reilly was forgiving. After thanking Huckabee for ‘being a stand-up guy,’ O’Reilly went on to offer Huckabee a pardon: the cop killings were ‘not your fault, governor’”. See The Huffington Post for a full transcript and video.

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