Perhaps you remember around Oscar time, when Mike Huckabee, oppressed by society’s relentless glamorization of single mothers, found the courage to speak out against pregnant Natalie Portman. “One of the things that’s troubling is that people see a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, ‘Hey look, you know, we’re having children, we’re not married, but we’re having these children, and they’re doing just fine,’” Huckabee told Michael Medved. “But there aren’t really a lot of single moms out there who are making millions of dollars every year for being in a movie.” The former Arkansas governor has a point: if there’s one thing Hollywood consistently makes out to be totally fun and easy, it’s single motherhood. Portman herself played a single mother in the Star Wars prequels, and those nearly ended western society. A week or so after his remarks, disappointed to find that they were still singing in Whoville, Huckabee issued a clarification on his website:

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