As the primaries loom ever closer, presidential candidates are contending not only with each other, firing and deflecting accusations at a furious pace, but with themselves — scrambling to “put into context” (i.e., rationalize) things they have said, or written, as in Huckabee’s case here. In this clip, “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert holds Huckabee’s feet to the fire over a passage from the former Arkansas governor’s 1998 book, “Kids Who Kill,” in which Huckabee appears to equate homosexuality with necrophilia and pedophilia.

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