Quotable: On Huck, media
All the national press corps hasn't found our former governor charming. Charles Pierce, a Boston Globe writer and frequent Esquire contributor, has a story on John Edwards in the latest Esquire. The blogs are noting his turn of phrases, such as:
On May 15, Mike Huckabee, a greasy Rotarian gasbag from Arkansas, made a funny. Speaking at a debate with the other Republican presidential contenders, Huckabee said of the Congress that it had "spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop." This nasty little bit solicited gales of laughter from the studio audience and almost unalloyed approval from the traveling political press, and nobody enjoyed it more than the lads at The Politico, a brand-new-political fanzine that combines the biting wit of a high school slam book with the nuanced policy analysis of Tiger Beat.
A couple of more quotes from the article by Pierce, a frequent contributor to Eric Alterman's blog, can be found here. One more:
The imporant thing to remember is that toughness is a semiotic dumb show now. In the same debate in which Mick Huckabee flexed for the camera, John McCain pointed out that in his experience, which is considerable, torture doesn't work. On this, he was disputed by a former mayor of New York, who was once tortured by the thought that his second wife would not vacate the mayoral digs in favor of his second mistress, and the former governor of Massachusetts, who once was tortured by the fact that gay people were getting married. Toughness was now a performance skill in a cowardly country taught to fear the best things about itself.
Comments
I would encourage you to read the whole piece. He does take shots at Huckabee....but the whole piece is a nausea inducing , way over the top, love letter to Edwards. He makes this wealthy trial lawyer sound a notch on the compassionate side of Mother Theresa.
Max...it's probably different up there in the Heights / Hillcrest zip code, but where I live $400 haircuts for guys are always going to be ridiculed. I think the fact he paid $400 and billed it to the campaign speaks volumes about Edwards. Edwards is simply swarmy. Say whatever you want but Huckabee is more in touch with Americans living on a budget than haircut boy will ever be.
When are the democrats going to stop recycling losing candidates like this?
As bad as Bush is, as low as his numbers continue to fall....the GOP has a chance when the oppostion trots out candidates like this. Against this backdrop....a Thompson / Huckabee ticket would not do bad at all
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July 29, 2007 11:39 AM
Toughness is now a bunch of draft-dodging ChickenHawks trying to out squawk each other. Guiliani is tough on wimmin, and poor, defenseless, homeless people. Romney is likely tough when his baptism is done in the name of 10,000 dead people in a pool that likely costs more than the average home and was blessed by John Smith. What a bunch of political playboys. Huckabee has hands like a girl. He walks like a girl.
Give me Senator Webb. Rahm Imanuel, Max Cleland.
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July 29, 2007 01:32 PM
"Max...it's probably different up there in the Heights / Hillcrest zip code, but where I live $400 haircuts for guys are always going to be ridiculed. " Posted by: StrangeTimes
How condescending and arrogant. Oh yes, we men in the Heights/Hillcrest zipcodes routinely pay $400 for haircuts. Believe that, and believe we pay $100 for the privledge of having lunch at Sonic. StrangeTimes, what insulting stereotype would you like to be applied to you? How about pissant?
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July 29, 2007 08:44 PM
My goodness. Raw nerve or what? Actually, it was a little mild sarcasm that Mr Brantley probably recognized. Hey look...it's not my candidate who got the $400 haircut. Sorry. Let me be precise. It's not my candidate who got several $400 haircuts and billed them to the campaign. I wonder if he got the haircuts on one of the days he was doing one of those driveby poverty tours of small towns? Whadda think???? And by the way gang...if we are going to get into the price of Romney's pool or whatever, why don't we start with Edwards estate or Hillary's husband's speaking fees. Or how about your nominee Kerry wind surfing off Nantucket. You get the point, right.
Dang...has the new blog format cranked up the irritation level here.
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July 29, 2007 10:39 PM