Sean Hannity Tries to Get Huckabee to Slam Michelle Obama

Sean Hannity is such a mediocre nobody, which is apparently all it takes these days to be on TV these days. There is a rebellion against intelligence in this nation.

Michelle Obama recently appeared on Mike Huckabee's show (it will be posted here when it's available). The rightwing has such misperceptions about Michelle Obama because they view her through their own tainted world view. They don't have the ability to reason.

Hannity thinks he has a chance for a sit down with Obama. Ha! Dream on. Hannity is low life. I'd be shocked if Obama ever went on his show. O'Reilly, yes. Hannity, never.

Huckabee says he doesn't believe that Obama's motive is to destroy this country. It's kind of weird that he has to say that but Hannity puts him in that position:

Here is a preview of Michelle Obama on Huckabee's show:

Michelle Obama On Huckabee's Show

Updated with video Feb. 23:




Michelle and Mike Huckabee have something in common:

Michelle Obama and Fox News are sort of going to break bread this weekend. That's because former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has wooed the obesity-fighting first lady onto his weekend show to talk about food, fat, and kids.

Huckabee, who famously lost over 100 pounds and wrote about it in Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork: A 12-Step Program to End Bad Habits and Begin a Healthy Lifestyle, tells our Suzi Parker that he agrees with the first lady that childhood obesity is a major threat to kids.

Huck says he "commends" Michelle Obama for taking on the problem and recognizing that it is not a "crisis of the month."

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Mike Huckabee on The View Dec. 3

Mike Huckabee explains why he commuted the sentence of the cop killer, and it's understandable why he would. He also points out how ridiculous it is that the presidential campaigning for 2012 has already begun and Obama is not even one year into his presidency.

Glenn Beck Merely a Figment of His Imagination

David Brooks says Glenn Beck (and his kind) isn't as relevant as Beck thinks that he is. Listeners aren't the same as voters, Brooks says. But perhaps it's just wishful thinking on Brooks' part because folks like Brooks, conservative, yet coherent and intelligent, can't be heard above the din:

Let us take a trip back into history. Not ancient history. Recent history. It is the winter of 2007. The presidential primaries are approaching. The talk jocks like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and the rest are over the moon about Fred Thompson. They’re weak at the knees at the thought of Mitt Romney. Meanwhile, they are hurling torrents of abuse at the unreliable deviationists: John McCain and Mike Huckabee.

Yet somehow, despite the fervor of the great microphone giants, the Thompson campaign flops like a fish. Despite the schoolgirl delight from the radio studios, the Romney campaign underperforms.

Meanwhile, Huckabee surges. Limbaugh attacks him, but social conservatives flock.

Along comes New Hampshire and McCain wins! Republican voters have not heeded their masters in the media. Before long, South Carolina looms as the crucial point of the race. The contest is effectively between Romney and McCain. The talk jocks are now in spittle-flecked furor. Day after day, whole programs are dedicated to hurling abuse at McCain and everybody ever associated with him. The jocks are threatening to unleash their angry millions.

Yet the imaginary armies do not materialize. McCain wins the South Carolina primary and goes on to win the nomination. The talk jocks can’t even deliver the conservative voters who show up at Republican primaries. They can’t even deliver South Carolina!

So what is the theme of our history lesson? It is a story of remarkable volume and utter weakness. It is the story of media mavens who claim to represent a hidden majority but who in fact represent a mere niche — even in the Republican Party. It is a story as old as “The Wizard of Oz,” of grand illusions and small men behind the curtain. Read the rest at NYT. He comes to a pretty interesting conclusion.

Glenn Beck has a teleprompter malfunction:

Fox Talk Show Host Huckabee Wins Values Voter 2012 Vote

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won the Values Voter Summit's 2012 presidential straw poll Saturday, grabbing nearly 29 percent of the vote in a crowded field.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Indiana Rep. Mike Pence each won roughly 12 percent of the 597 votes cast. CNN

Southern cook Paula Deen talks to Mike Huckabee about her battle with agoraphobia.

Conservatives Seek Values at Values Summit

At a "values voter" summit during the 2008 campaign, conservatives sold waffle mix with a racist caricature of Obama on the box. You can watch that video here. Before these people find a leader, they first need to get some values. They also need to stop preaching values because the rest of the nation is tired of their sanctimony. If they want to make themselves useful they ought to be working with Obama to pass healthcare.

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Obama: 2008 Election Fascinating Slice of Americana

Obama with China's vice premier

In a Dec. 2008 interview, Obama called the election novel worthy. I'm sure somone's working on that.
Here are some excerpts from a juicy story in WaPo offering a behind the scenes look in the "The Battle for America 2008," a new book that's out:

"I don't think I was the most interesting character in the election," he said, noting "a whole cast of characters at the beginning who are fascinating in their own right, in some ways compelling just from a human perspective: John Edwards, Huckabee. And then comes the general election [and] you get Sarah Palin and Joe the Plumber. You've got Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers. It's a pretty fascinating slice of Americana."

e was asked how the writer in him would spin the tale of what ultimately happened in 2008. "The way I would tell the story would really have to do with what this campaign said about America and where we've traveled," Obama said. "The fact that just a little over 40 years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, that I can run. That just a few decades after women were admitted to professions like law or medicine in any meaningful numbers, that Hillary could run in a credible way. The generational changes between John McCain's era and our own, and sort of the vestiges of Vietnam, the shift that's taken place in the salience of some of the culture wars that emerged in the '60s that really were the dominant force in our politics, starting with Ronald Reagan, and how that had less power. Which, by the way, includes why the issue of Reverend Wright or Bill Ayers never caught as powerfully as it might have 15 or 20 years ago. The way the Internet served our campaign in unprecedented ways."

Axelrod on Hillary Clinton:

The second half of the Axelrod memo was more personal and pointed. "We should not get into a White Paper war with the Clintons, or get twisted into knots by the elites," he wrote. He argued that the issue of experience was overrated but said strength was not, and he conceded that Clinton, because of all she had weathered, was seen by voters as a candidate of strength. "But," he added, "the campaign itself also is a proving ground for strength."

Clinton, he wrote, "will try to command the race early. . . . Her goal will be two: to suggest that she has the beef, while we offer only sizzle; and that she is not about the past but the future. But for all her advantages, she is not a healing figure. As much as she tacks to the right, she will have a hard time escaping the well-formulated perceptions of her among swing voters as a left-wing ideologue."

Axelrod is a wise man. Axelrod advising on Obama's past drug use:

Axelrod also warned that Obama's confessions of youthful drug use, described in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father," would be used against him. "This is more than an unpleasant inconvenience," he wrote. "It goes to your willingness and ability to put up with something you have never experienced on a sustained basis: criticism.

Read the whole story. It's pretty good.

Coulter and Huckabee Say Birthers are Wrong

I typically don't care what Ann Coulter has to say but this is surprising. Huckabee too.

Huckabee: We're Pathetic Without Guns

Mike Huckabee quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson and says guns make us who we are. He tries to draw a comparison between the death of Neda and the Boston Massacre. Is he trying to say Neda needed a gun?  

Extremists Suffer Serious Obama Denial

Extremists, who give conservatives a bad name, just can't face up to an Obama presidency. It's deep-rooted racism. No doubt about it, at least according to me.

Mike Huckabee's former campaign manager Chip Saltsman distributed, for Christmas, a Rush Limbaugh favorite -- Barack the Magic Negro. Limbaugh still can't get over the fact that Obama is black. 

Saltsman (here's his email: inbox@chipsaltsman.com) is actually a candidate to chair the RNC. If this is the state of the RNC, they'll need 8 years, at least, to grow up. 

TPM: If one of the Republican Party's challenges is how to effectively oppose the first black president without coming off as racist, one of the candidates for RNC chair is hardly off to a good start -- he is now distributing a CD that includes a racially-charged song called "Barack, The Magic Negro."

Sean Hannity is leading a "resistance" to the Obama administration: 

Radimist: Since the election, Hannity has described his radio show as the outpost of "the conservative underground," as if a show that's legally on over 500 stations could be underground in any real sense of that word. There is little doubt that there are many conservatives who think America will become a radical country under the Democrats and last night I heard on Mike Gallagher's show of a group that is trying to organize these people - Grassfire.

At the Grassfire web site, you get an idea of the immaturity at work here. What's not good is this kind of thing inspires lunatics to violence. If you head to freerepublic.com (under Obamatruthfile), you'll often see violence against Obama in code. No kidding. 
Here's a passage of the Grassfire-led "resistance:"

Resisting is just the first step. That is why we propose a three-phased recovery for conservatives: Resist, Rebuild, and Restore. We believe that resisting will create newfound unity among conservatives. Out of this, we must then Rebuild our structures. New, invigorating models must be developed that inform, equip and bring together conservatives and prepare us to return our ideas to political prominence. The Internet will be a key battleground The Left has moved far ahead in its embrace of and usage of new 2.0 technologies. The Rebuild process will leave Americans with a clear ideological and practical choice between the Left’s statist model and our model based on God-given individual liberties.

Having rebuilt, we can then Restore conservative ideas to leadership by winning elections. Ultimately, a movement’s ideas must result in electoral victories because that is the basis for legitimate authority and ultimately for implementing one’s ideas. Grassfire.org will soon be announcing a breakthrough effort that will allow our members to get engaged directly in the election process. Stay tuned.

Resist. Rebuild. Restore. It’s not an easy path for grassroots conservatives, but it is a clear path. We know what we must do. And it begins with resisting rightly —respecting the new President but never backing away from the God-given ideals of freedom and liberty upon which this nation was founded.

I have to believe that Sean Hannity is also concerned about his ratings. 
You can also find Obama resistance from, believe it or not, the Pumas. You remember them. They believe Obama is a stealth Muslim terrorist, the guy who stole the election from Hillary.  

Another strain of resistors are the ones who claim Obama isn't eligible to be president. The nutty Wiley Drake, a pastor of all things, is hating on Rick Warren for accepting Obama's invitation to give the invocation. Oh, the irony. Drake is one of the sorry souls who have filed a lawsuit questioning Obama's birthplace and his eligibility to be president. I hope the people at his "church" are aware of his lunacy.

BUENA PARK — Southern Baptist Pastor Wiley Drake bashed Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren this week, saying "God will punish" Warren for agreeing to give the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration next month.
"I pray He is kind to you in this punishment that is coming," Drake wrote in a widely-released e-mail. In it, the First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park pastor criticizes Warren's "recent plan to invoke the presence of almighty God on this evil illegal alien," a reference to Obama.

Notice he said "evil." I'll say again, these folks are merely racists. It's really that simple. Otherwise, they would come up with grownup strategies of moving forward, while living with the fact that their guy or gal didn't win. They'd find constructive ways to make their voices heard.

Jon Stewart Pokes At Mike Huckabee on Gay Marriage

Folks like Huckabee will never understand.

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Joe the Plumber Complains to Huckabee

Joe complains to Mike Huckabee that he's been made to feel small because he questioned a leader.
No one is complaining about Joe the Plumber questioning Obama. It was a great question and gave Obama the opportunity to calmly explain his tax policy.
What we're complaining about Joe, is the fact that you then went on Katie Couric's webcast, directly after the debate, to slam Obama as a socialist, when you were really a conservative republican, who didn't have an open mind, or a license and you didn't pay your taxes. You said Obama was just a smooth talker, that he tap danced almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr. You essentially looked like a republican pawn and you misrepresented yourself. You epitomize the McCain campaign. Joe the Plumber is a good example of the narrowing of the republican party.

MSNBC: "You know, I am a plumber," Wurzelbacher said. "Just a plumber."

Wurzelbacher said he agreed to appear on the show after he received phone calls from friends serving in the military who voiced their support.

"You know, when you can't ask a question of your leaders anymore, that gets scary," he said.

On Sunday, McCain was to travel to Ohio, where he might appear with Wurzelbacher.

What Mitt and Huckabee Said

Mitt Romney says democrats want to be poor and don't know anything about economics. They also don't know about evil enemies.

He also said he was proud of his country (intended to slam Michelle Obama).

Huckabee said Obama is the affirmative action candidate, that we're supporting him because he's black. He said Lava soap makes it hard to shower. He also says Europeans and democrats are bad because they prevent freedom and prosperity.

Huckabee Says Demonizing Obama Big Mistake

Mike Huckabee says republicans shouldn't demonize Obama. Agreed.

CNN:Huckabee praised the country for getting "to a point where we did not see his color but we truly saw his charisma, his message and what he brought to the campaign trail."

"When people are really hurting — and they are right now — they're not looking at a person's race," he added.

Huckabee said he hopes John McCain beats Obama, but that Republicans should focus on policy differences, not race.

What else is he trying to say? That it would be okay to demonize Obama if people weren't hurting? Am I reading too much into that? I don't trust him. Too much primary season.

The Apologies Keep Rolling in

who would've thought so many people in positions of power could be such complete knuckleheads? it seems obama is the only one who wants to have an adult conversation.

nyt: Note to pundits and politicians: Assassination jokes just don’t go over well.
A week after former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas apologized for joking at a National Rifle Association gathering that a thud heard backstage was Senator Barack Obama diving to the floor to avoid gunfire, a Fox News Channel commentator found herself in similar territory this weekend.
Discussing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s reference last week to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy during the 1968 primary season, the Fox analyst, Liz Trotta, said Sunday that “now we have what some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama, um, Obama — well, both, if we could.”
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Huckabee Makes an Arse of Himself

and gun lovers chuckle. (video)
huckabee's comments can be (and probably will be) interpreted in different ways. really though, his comments are just plain asinine.
wow- obama gets four attacks in one day from the irrelevant party. is anyone scared?

cnn: During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman.

“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he's getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”