Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee appeared on the "On Point Radio" show (link) and promoted policy that's not just anti-American, but that would harm other countries as well. And, the host of that show - Tom Ashbrook didn't say a word about it. A real reporter would have called Huckabee on his anti-American policies; Ashbrook just let him give a speech. First, here's what Huckabee said, followed by what's wrong with it:

TOM ASHBROOK: …In Arkansas, you were open to helping immigrants, and children…What about now? There’s an awful lot of pushback against that sort of position.

MIKE HUCKABEE: Well, let me be clear, because I’m not for an amnesty program. Here’s what I did favor, and I still favor it, and this makes people mad at me…and if it does, so be it. But here’s the issue. When a kid comes to his country, and he’s four years old and he had no choice in it - his parents came illegally. He still, because he is in this state, it’s the state’s responsibility - in fact, it is the state’s legal mandate – to make sure that child is in school. So let’s say that kid goes to school. That kid is in our school from kindergarten through the 12th grade. He graduates as valedictorian because he’s a smart kid and he works his rear end off and he becomes the valedictorian of the school. The question is: Is he better off going to college and becoming a neurosurgeon or a banker or whatever he might become, and becoming a taxpayer, and in the process having to apply for and achieve citizenship, or should we make him pick tomatoes? I think it’s better if he goes to college and becomes a citizen. So, I did support a bill in my state, and I would support it today. I don’t want anyone to think I’ve backed away from it – that you do not punish a child for something the parent did. And if in fact the provision in the law says that in order to obtain the scholarship, you have to be in the process of applying for citizenship and becoming legal, then I’d rather have that kid a neurosurgeon than a tomato picker. I’d rather him be a taxpayer than a tax taker. And for that I offer no apology.

1. What Huckabee is supporting is something like the DREAM Act, an anti-American bill that would let illegal aliens take college educations away from needy U.S. citizens. College slots and discounts are a finite resource: there are only so many to go around and any college slot or discount that goes to an illegal alien is one that didn't go to a U.S. citizen. Tom Ashbrook didn't call him on that.

2. Tom Ashbrook didn't call Huckabee on his absurd, "Lake Wobegone"-style implication that all those covered under his policy would be above average. Huckabee makes it sound like everyone covered under his policy would be a valedictorian, when obviously that's not the case. Further, due to affirmative action, less-qualified Hispanic illegal aliens might be able to get college educations that more-qualified white, Asian, and perhaps even black U.S. citizens aren't eligible for. All wishful thinking aside, only a very tiny fraction of illegal alien children will become neurosurgeons. The numbers aren't on Huckabee's side, yet Tom Ashbrook didn't call him on it.

3. If those children will be such a benefit to the U.S., why can't they be a benefit to the countries of which they're citizens? Mexico could certainly use more neurosurgeons and (non-corrupt) bankers. Yet, instead of helping both U.S. citizens and Mexico by encouraging them to return home, Huckabee would rather braindrain Mexico. Why didn't Tom Ashbrook call Huckabee on his policy of braindraining a third world country?

4. Huckabee is making a false choice: we don't have to choose between an illegal alien going to college and going to the fields. Instead, as indicated above, we should encourage those students to return home and build up their own countries. Why didn't Tom Ashbrook call Huckabee on that?

5. Huckabee's policies will encourage more of the above: more illegal aliens taking college educations from U.S. citizens, more braindraining of third world countries, and so on. And, he'd let those third world countries off the hook for their failure to take care of their own people.

Do me a favor: ask Tom Ashbrook why he didn't call Huckabee on any of that. Send a tweet to @onpointradio and @ombudsman and leave a message at facebook.com/OnPointRadio