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Jesus Malverde

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Sun Apr 13, 2014, 10:02 AM Apr 2014

'More freedom sometimes in North Korea than in the United States': Mike Huckabee stuns New Hampshire crowd with TSA gripe comparison [View all]

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.

In a speech filled with jokes, Huckabee seemed deadly serious.

Read More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2603519/More-freedom-North-Korea-United-States-Mike-Huckabee-stuns-New-Hampshire-crowd-TSA-gripe-comparison.html

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