“Elitist snobs.” That’s what former presidential contender and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee called President Obama and award-winning actor Leonardo DiCaprio for their “bone-headed” stances on climate change.
DiCaprio joined the president at the White House earlier this week to discuss climate change where the actor said those who deny climate change should be banned from public office.
“This is the insanity of these people — the Left,” said Huckabee in an interview with Stuart Varney on Fox Business Network. “They’re not only smug, they’re elitist snobs.”
He also took issue with the way the administration correlated climate change to increasing global conflict and the rise of the Islamic State.
Huckabee said it is “plain bone-headed wrong to say that the Syrian war is the result of the climate. I’ve been to Syria, Stu. It’s always been hot there.”
“And to say that’s what’s causing people to get their heads cut off? These people shouldn’t be allowed without some clinical attendants standing next to them,” the former governor said.
He went after DiCaprio’s comments with particular intensity, saying the actor has decided he is like James Madison or Thomas Jefferson, two Founding Fathers of the U.S., and is “re-writing the early documents.”
The actor says “if you don’t believe like he believes, you shouldn’t hold office,” said Huckabee. “Well, what if I were to impose that if you believe in abortion on demand, you shouldn’t hold office? Do you think the left would sit back and say, ‘Yeah, that’s OK, we’ve got no problem with that?'”
