Arkansas Blog

I found out it was REALLY Tucker who started the process to commute Dumond's sentence. And, the only part of the interview that made Huck really squirm was the Dumond stuff. His body language was shrieking 'Screw you Times'...at least, that's my interpretation. Obviously, this line of questioning should be pursued.

Huck can speak well (and did)...though I did expect to see an offering plate being passed after his sermons on abortion and 'taking the nation back for Christ.'

His softball days are over and he held up well. His Up/Down or vertical approach is going nowhere. Somebody on the staff better tell him that and quickly.

If Huffabee makes it to the run-offs the old criminals' revolving door ad of Bush I fame is gonna return.
"Enviromental wackos" may do more harm than Dumond-pardons issue. Is there a video floating around of his "wacko" statement?

The clock has begun on the Huckster's Warholian 15 minutes of national fame. The national media may be slow to pick up on his evasions, distortions, and outright lies, but they will eventually come around to having enough information to ask follow-up questions that really make Huck squirm.

Huck is an intellectual cipher. He has no plan for addressing the major political issues of the day, and the opportunity slip and slide with a conservative social agenda has long ago passed. Platitudes and bromides can take him only so far.

The true wonder of the interview was that he was unable to find an opportunity to inject a reference to a body function. Some national media type should ask him about the level of support for his presidential aspirations back home in Arkansas.

He's dead in the water --he doesn't have the money, he doesn't have the answers or the appeal. He can't take the hard questions and certainly won't be able to control the national media.
Hey Alice, you better start dusting off that resume tape --

When I was a kid, I played a lot with mercury... that liquid-like metal that probably will give me cancer in the end.

That's what the Huckster's interview reminded me of: mercury hitting a pane of glass. He spoke well enough, but he was all over the place politically. I guess he's trying to offer something for everyone, but I'm not sure that's going to appeal to the moderates and keep the Bible-thumpers in tow as well.

An aside: I kept expecting to see a scolling 800 number at the bottom of the screen and instructions on how you could give the Huckster something. That was a long interview for him not to ask for a gift of some kind.

I missed the interview, but I suspect that the "tabloid" reference was to the New York Post, and their columnist Steve Dunleavy. That series of articles was the major influence in Dumond's parole.

ARK. BLOG: No, the reference was to "tabloid" accounts that suggested he influenced the parole board. That would be us. I don't think Huck is too keen on recalling his cooperation with Dunleavy way back when.

He answered the questions very well and was able to finish the interview without making even one improper reference to the holocaust.

We all knew he would do it, but I am surprised he would announce so soon after the deluge of negative press that he's received in recent weeks.

His insistance that everything from nonprofit records to his toilet tissue fall under the working papers exemption of the FOI law will can't be ignored--it's huge.

Now that he's used state money to destroy state information, the shit's really gonna hit the fan. The fodder he has provided the press is incredible.

Dumond is the least of his worries.

Unfortunately I can't read and so I Tivo-ed Face the Nation instead of Meet the Press.....3 word titles mess me up. So I had to go to the Meet The Press website and see what they offered up. None of the Dumond stuff appears, the rest is Me yada yada, God yada yada, Abortion yada yada.

Huckabuck is fixing to learn what John McCain already knows...that unless you are chewing a gall bladder torn from a dead abortion doctor as you talk, the rightwing nuts will not be satisfied. Normal folks heard him say in many ways how he would be happy to do anything possible to overturn Roe v Wade.

But to a wingnut, all he heard was softball stuff that tells him Huckabuck might even perform an abortion himself on the big dining table in the White House.

The polls show that between 20 and 30% of the nation is locked up tighter than Dick's hat band in their love for Bush and they're hatred of abortion. Unfortunately for these Life Lovers, they don't mind it when grown people are stuffed in the back of an SUV in Iraq and executed. I tend to think they are this way because they've crossed over into a reality where Jesus actually walks the earth and protects their milk from spoiling.

In other words, 30% of our population live lives inside their head, not based on reality or facts. Can't do a damn thing with those people and they mostly only matter if you're an abortion doctor or running for President.

Huckabuck spoke well. What do you expect of a person who has been speaking in public 3/4ths of his life? Couple that with 6 years of a President that has yet to master the English language and Huck comes off smelling like a rose. My 20 year old daughter, brilliant like her mother, can talk rings around Huckabuck. Should she be President? Hell no.

Hopefully Russert sent Huck home with a nice VHS tape of this show. Huck will need that trophy on down the road as he sits and rocks and continues to be his own biggest fan. Orval spent his last days driving around NWA in a battered Renault Alliance attending funerals and asking people, "Do you know me?' , the same fate awaits the Huckster.

In the end Wayne Dumond will not sink Huckablackberry...Huck's own mediocrity will seal his fate. Count your blessings and pat your PAC at night....the other guy from Hope has reached the end of the line.

Don't sell your daughter short, DBI. Ya never know.

MSNBC.com has the MTP transcript now, and the 'tabloid reports' remark an apparent reference to Arkansas Times, as Max said.

I'm leaning in favor of Huckabee's candidacy - but, for what it's worth, my preference would have been to keep this publication on the media distribution list.

I don't see much difference between the MTP spot and the Democrat's front editorial page. Huckabee just goes on and on just like he practiced in the mirror someone gave him when he was governor. Set questions. Space to answer by script. No challenges.

If he had any balls, he would have said, "He(ck) no I don't still think GWB has done a magnificent job. But instead he went on about how it was great the way we went in and toppled Saddam. Nothing about how all this started and how it has been carried out. Just that GWB has had some struggles.

Wait a minute. Huckabee said about his faith it doesn't make him better than anyone else. Later he says he thinks gay couples shouldn't be allowed to adopt foster children. Aren't they as good as he?

He says we shouldn't change institutions that have served us for generations. Hmm ... what are his views on slavery?

Sorry, but the Huckster didn't fare so well on the Dumond thing. Sure, blame it on Clinton. Everyone else does. But he knew better than to say anything ill of Hillary.

If he wants to place emphasis on music and art in education, I'm all for that. Just keep it public.

Tim didn't give Huck a totally blank slate, but he still pitched slow.