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Huckabee Show Opens With Staged Caller
What did Huckabee know about planted call from Cumulus VP that attacked Rush Limbaugh?
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Last night, John Dickey replied, confirming the story. This is what he said:
Jeff:
Thanks for listening to the show. To your question a colleague in the companywas excited about the new show and arranged to call in with the first questionwithout Governor Huckabee’s knowledge. When I learned of this I began theprocess of reminding my colleagues in the company that we should reserveair-time for our listeners and refrain from calling in to our own shows.
John
Mr. Dickey was brief and to the point, and I certainly thank him for responding and being open about what had happened.
But note what was not answered? These questions:
4. Did Governor Huckabee know this was you — and was he a participant in this?
5. Whose idea was this to have you call in? Yours? The Governor’s? Someone else from Cumulus? John or Lou Dickey?
6. Governor Huckabee has a good reputation for honesty. Doesn’t this kind of thing put both the Governor’s reputation and consequently the new show’s reputation at risk?
In other words, the obvious.
Mr. Dickey says Mike Huckabee did not know the call was incoming from McVay. But this leaves unanswered what seems to be obvious. Once McVay was on the phone, it seems extremely unlikely Mike Huckabee didn’t recognize Mike McVay’s voice.
The thought is now out there that Mike Huckabee himself knew exactly who was on the other end of his phone line — a Cumulus programming executive with whom, presumably, he had spent a small eternity in the weeks leading up to the show’s launch — and quite deliberately played possum. Going along with a game to fool his listeners into thinking he was getting a real call when in fact he was not.
Was Mike Huckabee a participant in this charade?
Whose idea was it if not Mike Huckabee’s?
None of this would be good for any new radio host. But Mike Huckabee isn’t just any new radio host in a new but average radio venture.
About the Author
Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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Mike Hawk| 4.10.12 @ 7:18AM
Hucka-Phoney as he is known and will be a phoney evermore.
KyMouse| 4.10.12 @ 10:45AM
I don't listen to Rush's show that often, but I also don't understand why conservatives would want to disparage Rush's show, especially when we're less than seven months away from the presidential election. Shouldn't we all be working together to kick Obama out?
Jack in Wi.| 4.10.12 @ 11:14AM
This whole Limbaugh Huck squabble is nonsense and Lord is just trying to get some traction out of it. Limbaugh has survived numerous competitors from both the left and right over the decades and kept his show. If he lets someone, with no talent, like Huckabee take him out he should quit. It is time he retired anyhow. His neocon, chickenhawk, warmongering is long past it's time.
Traditional Conservative| 4.10.12 @ 11:22AM
Lord's problem is that he and Limbaugh are simply tools for the Republican Party, which is nothing but a bunch of vulgar politicians in cheap suits after our tax dollars and votes. Who cares if someone is a RINO? Republicans are as bad as Democrats. Lord doesn't even have the decency to say "Conservative in name only." He is only interested in puffing up the Republican Party, which is nothing but a bunch of power-mad gangsters. Lord should be writing for the GOP's newsletter, not a supposedly Conservative magazine of Ideas. The only 'idea' anyone has around here is how to get Santorum elected.
Nick099| 4.10.12 @ 4:56PM
Rush Limbaugh puffing up the Republican Party???? Are you serious???
Traditional Conservative| 4.10.12 @ 5:06PM
Functionaries of the GOP and nothing more.
Todd S| 4.10.12 @ 5:40PM
Ron Paul supporter correct?
JeffT| 4.11.12 @ 1:04PM
There is no greater critic of the "establishment" Republican Party (RINO) than Rush. If you listened, you'd know it. Rush is a conservative first, Republican second. Like Rush, I would bolt the establishment Republican Party if a viable alternative were available. The current Republican Party hates Rush almost as much as the Democruds. Again, if you listened, you'd be aware of this.
runningdeer| 4.11.12 @ 11:00PM
Traditional conservative? I think not.
By your post you sound like a liberal, Republican hate filled supporter of the current agenda. You couldn't throw so much venom out against Republicans if you were in any way conservative or traditional. That "power-mad gangster remark was downright nasty and very untrue.
You strike me as being a Ron Paul supporter who hates anyone who doesn't conform to that way of thinking.
Vern Crisler| 4.10.12 @ 11:29AM
And in comes Jack on que with more of his nonsense.
9thID| 4.10.12 @ 11:38AM
Jackboot - what are you complaining about? Ron Paul and his cabal have "Coast To Coast AM"...
Nick099| 4.10.12 @ 4:57PM
LMAO
Miles Monroe| 4.10.12 @ 8:36PM
Well I would certainly believe anything on Coast to Coast before I'd buy anything from a GOP member whose name ends with eeee. Remember who broke the John Edwards love child story? It wasn't the New York Times, that news wasn't fit to print there. You might want to consider referencing the Ed show. It has less credibility than Coast to Coast, or Dr. Paul for that matter.
BodieSD| 4.10.12 @ 10:48PM
Don't forget Infowars...
randyinrocklin| 4.10.12 @ 2:16PM
you're an effing idiot.
Herb| 4.10.12 @ 7:25PM
Jack, since you define a "chickenhawk" as someone who supports our nation at war without his ever having served in combat, please share with us your distinguished war record that renders your views immune to criticism.
As a Vietnam vet I will always be grateful to those who supported us and what we were trying to accomplish, whether they served or not. At least they weren't G%$D$#@ traitors like Jane Fonda.
AhiaGuy| 4.11.12 @ 10:36AM
What is the percentage of former combat or, for that matter, current and former Vets in the US? I heard it was under 5% of the population.
So, I guess according to those who use the term "chickenhawk" almost nobody in the US has the right to discuss issues related to the military---including the vast majority of people who like to throw around the word.
runningdeer| 4.11.12 @ 11:02PM
Well said!
RJ| 4.11.12 @ 11:10AM
The game is to create a new 'Paul Harvey" and nothing more...a business decision. Huckabee is nothing but a "little big man" who seeks the spotlight and follows orders. Rush is too independent for many people, even those in business.
Chalkdust| 4.10.12 @ 5:13PM
KyMouse....You must not be a frequent visitor to the AS site. To get a clue to your question, just get a load of some of the posts a few sanctimonious bobble-heads attached to your own post. Most of them are only quick step ahead of a butterfly net.
Mike Hawk| 4.10.12 @ 7:48AM
I just had an idea. Hucka-phoney needs a sidekick. In the Philluffya market there is a blathering talking head Michael Smerconish, a former RINO, now a genuine blabbering 'moderate'. Perfect match for RINO radio. The Smerc is a big fan of Fast Eddy Spendell and an Arlen Specter boot licker.(I'm being 'civil' for his sake). He detests Rush, Mark Levin and thinks he is the new voice of civility and duiscourse. He is also a 'slip and fall' lawyer who makes his other money sueing doctors. Good pairing.
It's A Cunning Plan, Actually| 4.10.12 @ 11:20AM
Hi Mike. I understand your idea, but it won't work. Two egos the size of that of Smerconish & Huckabee won't fit in the same radio broadcast room.
tankrtrash| 4.10.12 @ 8:07AM
The Huckster knew...probably his idea. This pandering, self righteous hack has been leg-humping anyone, anywhere for face time since he left the pulpit.
Let the Dickey's and Cumulus lose a bundle with this pant load and crawl back under their RINO rock.
richard ryan| 4.10.12 @ 8:48AM
They will lose a bundle. Most conservative listeners do NOT want an hour of niceties. It's, in George Carlin's words, "as boring as watching flies f---."
We want someone to take it to the left with the gloves off. Ingraham does it with humor, Hannity pounds away relentlessly, Levin disects them carefully then verbally disembowels them. And Rush is Rush. Huck won't last 6 months.
AhiaGuy| 4.10.12 @ 9:40AM
Rick, you & Mr. Lord forgot Dennis Miller, who had a "Road to Damascus" conversion on 9/11 and now destroys the libs with off-the-wall humor and incisive commentary.
Give Dennis a listen sometime. He deserves to be mentioned with the best.
Henry Calvin| 4.10.12 @ 9:50AM
Don't forget John Gibson on Sirrius radio 126 noon to 3 eastern. He competes against Rush but for those of us that can switch back and forth or get his podcast.
Joan| 4.10.12 @ 10:19AM
Amen tankrtrash!
kate| 4.10.12 @ 5:50PM
Thanks. The term Leg-Humper is forever burned in my memory!
Kitty | 4.10.12 @ 8:17AM
That's why he's called the Huckster.
Von Mises Jr.| 4.10.12 @ 8:20AM
Jeffrey, it had to be the company executive calling. It was just the two of you listening to that crap.
BTW, G.H.W. Bush is not a sweetheart of a guy. He is a huge proponent of Agenda21 and is an elitist that wants to relegate all the "Noble Savages" to a "Smart Growth" urban zone with the rest of the "bewildered herd."
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 4.10.12 @ 9:21AM
Perfect.
Jakota| 4.10.12 @ 10:31AM
After seeing GHW on TV recently, I wouldn't be too worried about him doing too much for very long. (no offense intended)
P.Smith| 4.10.12 @ 8:20AM
I voted for Huckabee in the primary only because he was the only alternative at the time to McCain, but I never trusted him as a true conservative. One big clue was his initial support for a federal workplace smoking ban similar to what he signed in Arkansas. Like most RINOs he has a natural tendency to restrict freedom.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl81Pq4aOOo
BodieSD| 4.10.12 @ 10:52PM
Spot on. He is not a conservative, but a progressive from the social values right. No fat, no cigs kind of guy. Have never trusted Governor Huckabee, let alone liked him.
martin j smith| 4.10.12 @ 8:24AM
Huckeburry is the best thing for Rush since Tea was invented.
I think that Rush will have ball with Huckelburry and there will be lots of laughs--Hucleburry does not know what he is in for and I will bet Rushes listener base will explode.
Kitty | 4.10.12 @ 8:28AM
I doubt Rush will mention the Huckster. He rarely mentions other right-of-center radio shows and/or their hosts.
rountry| 4.10.12 @ 4:18PM
You're correct. He understands that there is no need to give any acknowledgement to the others. Michael Savage rips and taunts him, calling him "the golfer" even though it sounds like he actually listens everyday. However, we can only imagine that Rush barely considers Savage as pesky gum under his shoe. I like Savage too btw.
Herb| 4.10.12 @ 7:30PM
Maybe El Rushbo's "Two If By Tea" company will announce a new Huckleberry flavor. Won't fly, I predict; too bland & tasteless.
Big Tony| 4.10.12 @ 9:03AM
Preachers, politicians and used car salesman are all pretty much cut from the same cloth. You've got to appear as a nice guy to make it in any of the above mentioned careers. But why anyone would want to listen to Huskster or think he is anything other than a Huskster is as the old Fleetwood Mac songs goes a "Mystery to Me".
Thank you for exposing him Jeff!
BodieSD| 4.10.12 @ 10:54PM
I never saw that Huck was a used-car salesman. Would fit him to a tee if he was though.
SC Mike| 4.10.12 @ 9:13AM
So the organization responsible for bringing the Huckster to the airwaves beclowns itself on the first broadcast. That’s one way to establish a standard…
Melvin| 4.10.12 @ 9:16AM
Well, well, well, Huckabee has been exposed as a fraud, a fake, a Charlatan, and a Conservative Carpetbagger from the very first minute Cumulus Radio switch was flipped.
There is one entity that I cannot stand more than Obama, and that is a Liberal Boot-licking, Progressive Moderate. "Pucker up those lips Mikey you just been had."
Heidi| 4.10.12 @ 12:02PM
Well said..
Redatheart| 4.10.12 @ 9:22AM
Gov/Rev Huckabee needs to realize that he is a fellow warrior alongside Rush and the rest of conservative America in this fight against progressive liberalism. He has a long, long way to go to ever hope of catching up with Rush in terms of contribution to advancing conservatism. He should align with, not stand apart from, the best conservative talk voice this nation has ever, and likely ever will be privileged to hear. It is a fool's errand to try and discredit el Rushbo. He owns the airwaves. Period.
Peter| 4.10.12 @ 9:28AM
Huckabee is a lot like Nixon without the sweat.
loulou| 4.10.12 @ 3:56PM
And with extra pounds.
It's A Cunning Plan, Actually| 4.10.12 @ 9:36AM
Hi Jeffrey, this is nothing new & was going on long before "RINO radio" started. Michael Smerconish, who I know you know from living in Pennsylvania & who was mentioned in an earlier comment was bashing Rush in Philadelphia on his show, before he made his move to the loony left in 2008 when he developed his "man-crush" on Barack Obama. Smerconish's ratings sunk big time in Philly & while I know he got Sean Hannity's slot at 3:00 pm in Philly after asking to be removed from the "morning drive" slot his show was either moved to the wee hours of the night when most are asleep or canceled in some of the areas his show was syndicated. I haven't heard what his ratings were like in 2011 after changing time slots in Philly, but with Michael Medved as his competition on WPHT I'm guessing not well. With Smerconish & now Huckabee & "RINO radio", I believe envy is a huge driving force in the hatred they share for popular established conservative talk radio hosts. If not envy, then ideology. Huckabee's show & all those of "RINO radio" are going to learn quickly something Michael Smerconish learned the hard way. Conservative listeners can spot a phony a mile away & will not listen. Sure, "RINO radio" will get some "moderates" & maybe even some lefties to listen, but not enough to propel them past Rush Limbaugh or other established conservative talk show hosts. "RINO radio" will go nowhere. "RINO radio" is just another Airhead America about to unfurl. Take care Jeffrey & go with God!
Mike Hawk| 4.10.12 @ 9:57AM
Maybe Hucka-phoney can take a page from 'The Smerc' and start a book club to talk about. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Bob K.| 4.10.12 @ 10:05AM
Michael Smerconish was a lawyer for the Law firms of Arlen Specter and Specter's son, Shannin. That will tell you all you need to know about his politics and his political ethics:
http://www.klinespecter.com/la.....onish.html
Bob K.| 4.10.12 @ 10:08AM
If you read the link you can see he is still practicing law.
It's A Cunning Plan, Actually| 4.10.12 @ 11:27AM
Excuse my error, that should read Michael Medved as his competition on WNTP I'm guessing not well.
Tim the Enchanter| 4.11.12 @ 1:41PM
You a Black Adder fan? Just asking, based on your screen name.
Mike Hawk| 4.10.12 @ 1:06PM
Well, well. I am precient. 'The Smerc' is taking the 12-3 slot on WPHT. Rush will move to another station and take the audience too. The Smerc ego is huge, his audience is not. Good luck Smerc. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Last time this happened it was FM - WWDB and they are small time now.
http://www.philly.com/philly/b.....=124488459
Will Not Vote For Rmoney| 4.10.12 @ 4:31PM
Thanks for the heads-up Mike. I stopped listening to WPHT when Smerconish fell in love with BHO in 2008, but WPHT will be officially dead when Limbaugh takes his audience with him. To top it off the Philadelphia Phillies simulcasts will no longer be heard on WPHT anymore either. Rush Limbaugh & The Phillies were their biggest draws. R.I.P. WPHT.
Skippy| 4.10.12 @ 8:54PM
Perhaps you "Will Not Vote For R money"(and your money as well), but millions of slackers will.
They will get it too, unless you get off your ideological highhorse long enough to send Prince Bambo back to...wherever he came from.
corvair| 4.10.12 @ 10:01AM
My question is: is Rush good for conservatives with his femi-nazis segments; his Fluke fiasco; his Michael J Fox episode to name but a few? I think his net effect is negative. He single-handedly lost the Missouri senate election with the Michael J. Fox stuff.
Crassus| 4.10.12 @ 10:21AM
Thank you, Governor Huckabee.
Jakota| 4.10.12 @ 10:37AM
You must have been asleep for the last 10 years. It appears you're stating an opinion and discounting actual ratings.
albert constantine jr.| 4.10.12 @ 11:09AM
Corvair;
It might be said that this response is unsafe at any speed. Perhaps the biggest claim should be parsed for accuracy and meaning.
“He single-handedly lost the Missouri senate election with the Michael J. Fox stuff.”
I would think some a claim is a bit hyperbolic, to say the least. Michael J. Fox did a series of commercials in support of Claire McCaskill’s Senate race, based on her support of embryonic stem cell research. In other appearances in support of his position, Fox would deliberately stop taking his medication, in order to exploit sympathy for his condition. Rush Limbaugh, who does a non-video medium (except for subscribers to the “Ditto Cam”), called him on his deception. Opponents of Mr. Limbaugh obtained the video, created a repetitive loop of Rush’s gesticulations, and attempted to discredit Rush by claiming he was mocking the handicapped.
Until you posted, I was unaware of the exit polls that revealed that Missouri voters switched their support to McCaskill as a result of this manufactured attempt by Media Matters to demonize Rush Limbaugh.
bill| 4.10.12 @ 11:12AM
corvair......unsafe at any speed, and quickly extinct. You're obviously illustrating the absurd by being absurd.
DG in GA| 4.10.12 @ 11:26AM
Corvair, I wasn't aware that Rush RAN for the Senate in Missouri. In order for him to "single-handedly lose" an election, he has to run.
Riff Raff| 4.10.12 @ 12:14PM
It seems "Corvair" is to thinking what the other Corvair is to automobiles.
Mike Hawk| 4.10.12 @ 3:38PM
The Corvair was a pretty good Automobile. Ralph Nader and bad media hype and Joan Claybrook killed it. Claybrook is back in the Oborg administration.
Riff Raff| 4.10.12 @ 5:53PM
Sorry, but I must disagree.
I have personal experience with several Corvairs, including the ramp-side pickup and the Corsa models. My dad bought them and worked on them and I helped him. Each and every one of these Corvairs was a piece of junk. Burned piston. Thrown rod. Sucked valve seat. Spun bearing. Not to mention they handled like the Titanic. My dad liked the idea of an air cooled flat six to compete with the VW Beetle, but experience eventually won out. The Corvair is the most unreliable American car ever built. Poor design, poor build quality. And an absolute b**** to work on.
I never cared for Ralph Nader and don't think much of his "report" on the Corvair. But in my own estimation based on experience, the Corvair is garbage.
Herb| 4.10.12 @ 7:37PM
At least you never owned a Chevrolet Vega. Actually my '72 wasn't so bad once I built a new engine with sleeved cylinders. Handled like a champ, fun to drive. It's just that quality control at the Lordstown plant sucked; you really couldn't turn angry hippies into reliable assembly line workers.
aware| 4.10.12 @ 7:56PM
Had a '72 without the sleeve job. I'm convinced the military has those "engines" at the heart of all their smoke machines. Friend could get reclaimed machine oil at the factory he worked for free, so we just kept a 3 gal. can in the hatch back.
Vegas are easily the worst POS ever put on 4 wheels. What "check the gas and fill 'er up with oil" was invented for.
Doug| 4.11.12 @ 12:12AM
Herb, My wife and I were watching a rerun of 'The Price is Right' a couple years ago and the contestant won the Grand Prize. Monte, as the curtain was raised said "[First Name], you've just won a BRAND NEW VEGA!!!!" (sound of Muppets all going crazy. *g*)
35 years after-the-fact and knowing the 'quality' of the Vega we about wet our pants.
OH BOY! We just won a Vega!!! Yayyy!!!
Joe| 4.11.12 @ 8:58AM
I had a Vega. 1973 GT that was fun to drive got great gas mileage and used a qt. of oil every 300 miles. That is 3 hundred. It was worn out at 28K. I also had two friends that died in a Corvair. They hit a bridge abutment at about 40 MPH (verified by the person behind them) on the way to church. Car stopped but the engine didn't. Good riddance to that piece of junk.
Mike Hawk| 4.10.12 @ 1:08PM
Unless you listen to Rush don't throw out crap you know nothing about. You way off base on you statements.
corvair| 4.10.12 @ 3:43PM
Being retired, I listen to Rush just about everyday. I'm saying that his net effect on getting right and center right candidates elected is negative. His intemperate outbursts are great entertainment, but are grossly magnified by the MSM to the detriment of our candidates. Just look at the new poll out today showing Obama surging past Romney due to a dramatic shift in women voters.
Rush is trying to explain it away on his show today,but the damage has been done.
PS - Try not to go "Libtard" with the personal attacks
LiveFreeOrDie| 4.10.12 @ 5:50PM
This has nothing to do with Rush, if not him then the next guy. Follow your logic and EVERY conservative commentator will be a "net negative" once they become successful because they will be demonized by the left.
And of course you couldn't be more wrong about Rush's effect on the populace. He's brought more people to the right side of the aisle than any man in history. This is the single most important reason the left hates him.
Riff Raff| 4.10.12 @ 5:56PM
Corvair, your posts are sounding suspiciously like seminar writing. Cover the "acceptable" talking points. Nothing more. Not buying it.
Bob K.| 4.10.12 @ 10:03AM
Michael Smerconish was a Lawyer and probably still is one. He was with the law firms of Arlen Specter and Specter's son, Shannin. That tells you all you need to know about his politics and political ethics.
http://www.klinespecter.com/la.....onish.html
Mike Hawk| 4.10.12 @ 1:11PM
He is with Specter's new firm. He left his former one about the time he flipped his politics. He got all bent out of shape when his hero Snarlin' Arlen got the boot from Pat Toomey and lost his marbles pronptly thereafter blaming Rush and Levin for their in-civility.
Crassus| 4.10.12 @ 10:20AM
Pat Buchanan, Bill O'Reilly, and Fred Thompson have already gone head-to-head against Rush and lost big time. Why does Hucklebuck thing he's going to be any more successful than those three?
MikeG| 4.10.12 @ 10:38AM
Huckabee was and is for amnesty for illegal aliens. He doesn't say anything about that which he knows is mostly responsible for his previous failure of gaining the Repub. nomination for POTUS. Tells you all you need to know about him.
Localboy56| 4.10.12 @ 10:49AM
Looks like some Cumulus executives are starting to weigh in on this column.
Shane| 4.10.12 @ 10:49AM
If I ever want a change from Rush,which is rare,I listen to Dennis Miller or Prager. Huck is just another Lonesome Rhodes.
Crassus| 4.10.12 @ 4:47PM
Mrs. Lonesome Rh0des (Lee Remick) was a lot hotter than Mrs. Huckabee.
Betina| 4.10.12 @ 10:50AM
Hucksterbe will never be a fave of mine. The word saccharine comes to mind. His obvious attempts to not be TOO CONSERVATIVE, that down home folksy plaid shirt crap is so laughable and a big turn off. Does he really think no one can see through that act? He wants to be LIKED too much for him too attract a devoted following. When you are a "friend" to everyone, you wind up with none. He is too much of a phony. A pleasant one but a phony at that.
David| 4.10.12 @ 11:02AM
Sorry Mr. Lord, but you are completely wrong in your statement to Mike McVay that prefaced question number 6.
The Huckster does NOT have a reputation for being honest. In fact, his dishonesty is what so absolutely turned me off about him when he campaigned for prez.
Remember his television Christmas greeting with the cross in the background that blended into the bookcase? Remember him say that it was a complete accident how that turned out - must have divine intervention or something.
Remember him in the interview when he said that he didn't have anything to say about Romney's religion, AND THEN, knowing the mic was still on said, "don't Mormons believe that Jesus and Satan were brothers?"
And there were so many others. I am not even mentioning his liberal Christianity with all the pardons and the fact that he destroyed the republican party in Arkansas.
Personally, I didn't have problem with with the Christmas ad or his statement about Mormons. What I do detest is his sleazy backhanded way of doing things.
No, Mr. Lord, only people who voted for Bam Bam and say they did so because he deceived them can believe that the Huckster is know for his honesty.
RR| 4.10.12 @ 11:03AM
Why isn't anyone taking J. Lord to task for his bashing of John Derbyshire? I know conservatives don't like bans or boycotts or the like, but we need to turn our backs on Lord for awhile so he gets his head straight. He needs the cold shoulder and to be ignored. The TAS Lord blog comments against Derbyshire were beyond the pale.
Vern Crisler| 4.10.12 @ 11:34AM
Because he was right about Derbyshire.
Occam's Tool| 4.10.12 @ 2:45PM
John's comments were wrong. However, I like John (personally, he's done me a favor in the past), and he's undergoing chemotherapy for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, and he's complaining of mood problems due to the chemo, so why not leave the poor bastard alone, eh?
Quartermaster| 4.10.12 @ 7:12PM
Wrong? How so Occam? Too many of us have observed what he has pointed out. Anyone that doesn't warn his kids about that stuff isn't much of a parent. My son saw much of it in Columbus, OH, and i seeing it around KC. Mo as well.
The Gawker interview of Derb is enlightening as well. Rich Lowry is a coward.
Dai Alanye | 4.10.12 @ 11:06AM
"Governor Huckabee has a good reputation for honesty."
In what alien universe or doppelganger Earth is this true? The Huckster is an outstanding hypocrite and little else besides.
MrFedUp| 4.10.12 @ 11:13AM
A lot of us conservatives have very long memories. In the last election, Huckabee gave a bunch of his delegates to RINO Deluxe and conservative-only-when-he-runs-for-reelection, NDAA 2012 supporter McCain. I/we have never trusted Huckabee to speak for real conservatives. His radio show will be a complete flop because we see right through him and collectively, we are a lot smarter than he or the Republican establishment gives us credit for... which is very little.
BarocheDique | 4.10.12 @ 11:19AM
Huckleberry doesn't have a chance.....fraud. Rush is the Man!
Sue| 4.10.12 @ 11:21AM
What about the pardoning of a "certain race" because he "feels" too many of them are lacking "white man's" funds to get out of their troubles? Then, the pardoned one murders five police officers in another state. So much for being conservative and supporting the "thin blue line."
albert constantine jr.| 4.10.12 @ 11:22AM
My memory of his biography might be somewhat unclear, but wasn’t Huckabee a radio talk show host in Arkansas some time between being a preacher and a politician?
Beyond his tax and spend record as Arkansas Governor, his poor performance as Pardoner-in-Chief has always called me to question his judgment. While I believe we are called on individually to forgive the trespasses of others as we expect to be forgiven, the duty of a chief executive to exercise the pardon powers associated with high office carries great responsibility. There have been enough dead law enforcement officers and citizens that resulted directly from Huckabee’s decisions that lead me to conclude he should never be given a position of public office and trust again.
Occam's Tool| 4.10.12 @ 11:27AM
I don't think he's gonna beat Rush. Rush truly has talent on loan from, well, you know.
The Bruce| 4.10.12 @ 2:58PM
Rush will always be on top until such time as he decides to retire from the airwaves. In terms of listenership, his second-place contender (Hannity) is a distant second at best.
Occam's Tool| 4.10.12 @ 11:29AM
To piss off my New Zealand acquaintances, I used to tell them that their legal system's tort set up was so far to the right that Rush Limbaugh's plans for tort reform in the US could only be seen in the far left side. They knew El Rushbo, and it would piss them off, especially as I explained very carefully why.
I happen to like their tort system, by the way.
Occam's Tool| 4.10.12 @ 11:30AM
That is to say, people LIVING in New Zealand knew who El Rushbo was. Now, that's fame, baby. How many people remember Split ENZ?
The Bruce| 4.10.12 @ 3:00PM
(Raises hand)
Shane| 4.10.12 @ 11:31AM
Constantine-I forgot about all his pardons. What a disgrace.
Patricia Weir| 4.10.12 @ 11:45AM
Neither Bobby Jindal nor Marco Rubio are eligible to the VP of the USA. See Article II Section I of the US Constitution. None but a "Natural Born Citizen" may hold the office. Jindal and Rubio's parents were born outside of the USA and thus neither of these men meet the criteria set forth in the constitution regarding divided allegiance. That's why Obama is not eligible either and many of us have been pointing this out for years. Read the constitution and review the US Supreme Court ruling defining the Constitutional term "Natural Born Citizen."
RCV| 4.10.12 @ 12:23PM
There is no such US Supreme Court ruling, as any lawyer who can read the case knows. The Constitution does not define the term, and it is understood by virtually all legal scholars to mean "a person whose citizenship was acquired at birth, as opposed to a naturalized citizen."
Patricia Weir| 4.10.12 @ 1:34PM
Minor vs. Happersett
RCV| 4.10.12 @ 2:06PM
I know the case, Ms. Weir, and apparently unlike you, I've read it. Minor involved the question of whether the Constitution (pre-Nineteenth Amendment) granted women the right to vote because they were citizens. The Court in dictum (do you know what the term means?) commented on the term "natural born citizen" while expressly stating that its interpretation was unnecessary to the case. Even there, all the Court did was note what the term meant at early common law in England, but then went on to note that modern (1800s) commentators had differing views on what it meant in the Constitution, and that the Court expressed no view on the subject.
Stop spreading misinformation.
Mike Hawk| 4.10.12 @ 1:01PM
See Title 8 US Code Section 1401. They are both Natural born citizens.
loulou| 4.10.12 @ 4:01PM
They are both Native Born US Citizens, not Natural Born.
Patricia Weir| 4.10.12 @ 4:28PM
Yes loulou. You are correct. There are legal challenges to Obama being on the ballot all over the country based on Article II Section I.
Dick Nome| 4.10.12 @ 4:43PM
You two are really stupid.
Patricia Weir| 4.10.12 @ 6:42PM
Articulated just like a Saul Alinky-ite.
Quartermaster| 4.10.12 @ 7:17PM
A natural born citizen is one born to two parents who are themselves citizens of the US. A child born with dual citizenship is not natural born. That leaves out Obama, Jindal, and Rubio.
Gunner| 4.10.12 @ 3:56PM
Sheesh, with all the discussion about "anchor babies" over the last several years you'd think Ms. Weir would be well aware that pretty much anyone born in the USA is a "natural born citizen." Senator Rubio's parents were *legal* immigrants and therefore his birth in this country (which has never, to my knowledge, been disputed) confers all the rights and responsibilities of a citizen on him from the git-go. As for Govenor Jindal he may have been conceived outside the country but being born in Baton Rouge, LA makes him a "natural born citizen" regardless of the xenophobia of some folks.
loulou| 4.10.12 @ 4:00PM
Correct.
But people are in denial. Just because Obama is not a natural born citizen doesn't mean that the dems are going to give Rubio or Jindal a pass.
SUBVET| 4.10.12 @ 11:32AM
Mr. Lord you are the voice of truth and reason.
May God protect and bless you.
Paul from SA| 4.10.12 @ 11:37AM
First, the American Spectator needs to stop forcing readers to click to another page after page after page after page.... This is really irritating, trying to get us to notice all the ads.
Huckabee is a huckster. I saw thru him the first time I saw and heard him speak, much the same reaction i got from Bill Clinton, Gen. Wesley Clark, John Edwards.
Patricia Weir| 4.10.12 @ 11:39AM
Thus reinforcing my view of Gov. Huckabee as "The Huckster"
Dave | 4.10.12 @ 11:39AM
The Fable Of Three Blind Mice
In a time not that long ago, a compassionate King ruled the countryside with a simple balance of good cheer and kindness, interspersed with firm, yet infrequent admonishments of those who would occasionally stray the path. The King, certainly, was not perfect. No King could be. But as the years moved forward, his followers grew to understand his teachings, and the method of his ways. And, too, they came to understand that ones individual talent and gifted abilities are, indeed ... On Loan From God.
But like all benevolent leaders, jealously and loathing occasionally infected parts of the valley by way of a serpent headed dragon invading the kingdom's peaceful forest.
In the end, the King would survive unharmed, the dragon was driven away, and soon the people returned to embrace good will and cheer. Later, the Fable of Three Blind Mice was told all across the land:
Whatever became of Les Crane, Joey Bishop, and Alan Thicke? If he were still among us, King Johnny might ask that question. And soon, reigning King Rush might ask the same of Prince Huckabee: Whatever happened to Lil' Mikey?
The End
- Burma Shave
Kenny| 4.10.12 @ 11:47AM
Jeff,
Thanks for this analysis. Peolle need to know what is afoot.
Anthony| 4.10.12 @ 11:49AM
Maybe Huckafraud can team up with Keith Overbite, who is currently having a temper tantrum over stinky limo drivers, and that mean, cruel, Anthropogenic Algore.
Are there no people in positions of power with any dignity and honesty left?
Don't give up your Fox gig, Huckster.
richard mcenroe | 4.10.12 @ 11:53AM
Why are we paying any attention to this washed-up cop-killer Huckabee?
Heidi| 4.10.12 @ 11:58AM
I won't be listening to this show. I don't like Huckabee, didn't like how he acted in 08, his backstabbing Sarah Palin.. No thanks.
TURK| 4.10.12 @ 12:48PM
One claim to fame for the juckster is his roots in Clinton land.
Another claim to fame that got him a mansion on a Fla panhandle beach area is his despicable deal with daffy duck in '08, siphoning conservative votes to protect the nominee disaster.
He belongs with Bill and Hillary, NOT with those trying to, or interested in, saving our Great Nation.
Bill| 4.10.12 @ 1:16PM
I got no problem with Huckabee, as long as he preaches liberty and the free enterprise in the air, and hope that he doesn't get sucked by the MSM.
Dick Nome| 4.10.12 @ 4:40PM
Too late, he was sucked by the MSM a long time ago.
Seek| 4.10.12 @ 1:17PM
So how did Mike Huckabee acquire a reputation as a principled conservative? Was it his stint as Arkansas governor?
Mike Hawk| 4.10.12 @ 3:08PM
Media hype.
BodieSD| 4.10.12 @ 11:04PM
He was a "conservative" that the media could like, ala McCain. Need I say more?
Dixie| 4.10.12 @ 1:26PM
Still haven't forgiven the Huckster for helping run interference for McCain to take out Romney, thus leaving us with the anti-American man-child we're now enduring. I'll never understand why Fox promotes him (and Rove). His TV show is small-time and I can't envision his radio show being any different, especially running against Rush. It's a wonder Conservative Republicans can have any success at all, battling both the Democrats and their own party. I'm so tired ... constant attacks with Obummer, Soros, Islamists, illegals, Liberals, the MSM, the 99%, and on and on. So many attacks from so many directions but we must fight on - America is worth it!
Tommy Frisco| 4.10.12 @ 1:38PM
Please don't think I'm taking up for Huckabee, but phony call-ins are the norm. The quote below was taken from Clear Channel's Wikipedia page.
"Clear Channel, through its subsidiary, Premiere Radio Networks, auditions and hires actors to call in to talk radio shows and pose as listeners in order to provide shows, carried by Clear Channel and other broadcasters, with planned content in the form of stories and opinions. The custom caller service provided by Premiere Radio assures its clients they won't hear the same actor's voice for at least two months in order to appear authentic to listeners who might otherwise catch on."
Yes, having a Cumulus VP call in anonymously was worse, but almost all of talk radio hosts use actors for their call-ins.
For those who don't know, Bain Capital purchased Clear Channel in 2008, after Romney's unsuccessful run for the GOP nomination.
DRW60| 4.10.12 @ 1:59PM
I don't agree that person was staged. As a woman, I was THRILLED to have an alternative to Rush's narcissist "red meat" personality.
It's very nice to have a choice.
RHkroger | 4.10.12 @ 3:04PM
You must believe in Unicorn farts to.
Dick Nome| 4.10.12 @ 3:42PM
Good one! I need to remember that.
Tim the Enchanter| 4.11.12 @ 1:53PM
RHK: Don't forget the Skittles! Skittles, too!
AnnS| 4.10.12 @ 2:05PM
What do you expect, I guess? He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). I remember in 2008, how much bashing he got for calling Mormanism a cult. I was so thankful for him standing up for the Christian faith. Sure come a long way down hill........
Think I will drop out of the SBC
AnnS| 4.10.12 @ 2:08PM
Oh I forgot; thank you "Lord" for exposing the truth. (Pun intended)
Steve Marcum| 4.10.12 @ 2:12PM
I will stick with RUSH!!
Rocco| 4.10.12 @ 2:17PM
What a bunch of contrived BS! Oh, well, he'll soon sink, just like Air America and all the others.
Drek| 4.10.12 @ 2:17PM
This is what happens when conservatives believe that to remain part of the wider national conversation, they have to turn on their own.
Last weekend it was Derbyshire.
Before that it was Pat Buchannon.
There have been others, Joe Sobran for instance.
Now they're gunning for Limbaugh, and hope to leave his lifeless corpse on the carpet of some fashionable business corporate board room.
Now Lord is going to bat for Limbaugh.
But just yesterday he was gushing about how necessary and right it was to put down Derbyshire.
Where's it going to end?
Occam's Tool| 4.10.12 @ 2:49PM
Drek, Sobran and Buchanan are not fit to be mentioned in the same breath with El Rushbo. Really.
John did some pooch screwing, but nobody seems to note that he is a seriously sick individual suffering from chemotherapy induced mood changes that he himself has outlined. Sobran and Buchanan were assholes while healthy, but the Derb is physically severely ill, and some charity would be nice.
Drek| 4.10.12 @ 6:18PM
My point in mentioning them is that their peers turned on them all in some idiotic attempt to ingratiate themselves with a left that despises them, and will always despise them.
I'm sure that Derb's physical problems created a mindset of disgust, and an inability to bear with some of the stuff that's going on around us.
I'll cut him slack.
Remember, I never liked the guy, yet I went to the ramparts and took up my sword for him.
And all because I'm weary of the left dominating narrative, dominating subject matter, dominating rule setting.
Trinacria| 4.10.12 @ 3:20PM
Since when was this buffoonish moron with a comb-over one of our own? That's the whole point, sport - nobody's turning on their own; they're calling out someone who claims to be something other than what he is.
SetOurChildrenFree | 4.10.12 @ 2:21PM
I know Rush Limbaugh, and Mike, you're no Rush Limbaugh. You weren't even a good Republican candidate. As for having a show with less confrontation - we need a show that encourages MORE confrontation, not less. We need MORE tea party people in congress, not RINOs. We are in a major crisis in America, and "bipartisanship" has never worked, and will never work. We are up against hard core radical socialists who will stop at nothing to seize and retain power. We must be more committed to our cause than they are, or we are history!
leilani texas| 4.10.12 @ 2:31PM
This piece isn't logically consistent, Mr. Lord.Why does "RINO" radio have a problem if, as you suggest "RINO" radio constitutes no competition for the definitively non-RINO radio king Rush Limbaugh?
I'm not a Huckabee fan. I agree he's not conservative enough for where I already am, and won't be listening to him.
But on one hand you seem to be outraged that anybody would try to compete with Rush yet on the other hand you're incongruously dismissive that, as a RINO, Mike Huckabee DOESN'T compete with him. Which is it?
If self-proclaimed TruerThanThou Conservatives such as yourself want to be exclusionary and cut out anybody else out there who might not be already be a pristine pure right winger as you define it to begin with, and condemn anybody else who even tries to reach out to an audience Rush does not already own which nonetheless might be amenable to hearing a not-quite-as-perfectly-right message as Rush's but certainly a more rightward message than they're currently getting, how in God's name do you expect non-leftists to win elections in this country?
You're saying that unless the message is pristine pure farrightwingerism as You & Rush and maybe even I define it, then other Americans shouldn't have the right to hear it at all and should be condemned to choosing only between Rush and the far leftism of the MSM with nothing else to temper either which might serve as the persuasive hook to more gently draw people over to what they've been told by the liberal media all their lives is the dark side.
Do you think maybe you guys are getting to be so puritanically myopic, you've lost sight of the forest for the trees?
You'd honestly rather see leftists maintain control over the hearts and minds of the nation than any deviation from rigid right wing orthodoxy - as members of the far right wing elites such as yourself define it - should ever be spoken at all?
Mike Hawk| 4.10.12 @ 3:07PM
Nobody is outraged that a RINO or a Liberal wants to 'compete' with Rush. It is amusing more than anything else. Every leftist clown who has tried has crashed and burned. RINOs will flame out. They don't know radio or the market like Rush does. As El Rushbo says, "Bring it on."
Trinacria| 4.10.12 @ 3:32PM
Tex,
You've rather missed the point of the article. It's not that Huckabee DOESN'T compete with Limbaugh; it's that he CAN'T compete with him. And launching the show with a plant serves to illustrate the point - Limbaugh doesn't need a plant to give voice to the ideals that the show seeks to convey, precisely because there's a vast audience who happens to share those ideals. The premise for Huckabee's show; namely, that there's a vast market for those who yearn for a kinder, gentler, more compassionate brand of conservatism that is currently unserved - is fundamentally flawed.
And by the way, if "kinder and gentler" means deceiving your audience, well, it's rather obvious why there's a very limited market...
Trinacria| 4.10.12 @ 3:32PM
Tex,
You've rather missed the point of the article. It's not that Huckabee DOESN'T compete with Limbaugh; it's that he CAN'T compete with him. And launching the show with a plant serves to illustrate the point - Limbaugh doesn't need a plant to give voice to the ideals that the show seeks to convey, precisely because there's a vast audience who happens to share those ideals. The premise for Huckabee's show; namely, that there's a vast market for those who yearn for a kinder, gentler, more compassionate brand of conservatism that is currently unserved - is fundamentally flawed.
And by the way, if "kinder and gentler" means deceiving your audience, well, it's rather obvious why there's a very limited market...
Jennifer| 4.10.12 @ 2:37PM
When driving home late I have to kind of scan AM/FM until I find something to listen to. I stumbled on to Huckabee last night and ye gods...boring as heck. I couldn't wait to cross into range of my regular FM talk and pick up Jason Lewis instead. Not even the tinfoil-hat entertainment value of Coast To Coast AM...I've had glasses of warm milk with more stimulant value (and I hate warm milk.)
Kelly| 4.10.12 @ 2:42PM
Good old Huckaphony. Never disappoints. A huge big government, statist fraud disguised in Christian clothing.
The Bruce| 4.10.12 @ 2:45PM
Huckster will fail because he doesn't grasp one important factor that makes for a successful talk radio show--entertainment and humor.
And the Huckster is insufferably boring.
BodieSD| 4.10.12 @ 11:08PM
He wishes that he was ONLY "insufferably boring"...
Magoo| 4.10.12 @ 2:59PM
Why is anyone suprised with Huckabee being associated with these Moderate Republicans /Liberals in Sheeps clothing. During the 2008 Republican primary Huckabee focused his campaign not on his Liberal Big Government record of under acheivement in Arkansas but ran heavy on his Southern Baptist minister history in the deep south. His attacks were directly focusd on Romney and his religion. He helped sink Romney in the south and helped the GOP nominate the NY times and Washington's Post favorite republican (other than himself) John McCain thus ensuring the election of Barack Obama. The thing I've always wondered was who were Huckabees backers ? Where did his money come from to run a national campaign ? Was he ever a viable candidate or just a tool s used to further someones agenda. I am guessing a tool !!!
Crassus| 4.10.12 @ 4:57PM
Hucklebuck has always been a tool of poultry billionaire Don Tyson who plucked him from the ministry and ran him first for lieutenant governor and then governor of Arkansas. It was Tyson's deep pockets that helped Huck beat the Clinton Democratic machine in Arkansas. How much Tyson backed Huck for his presdiential race in 2008 I don't know but it would be worth looking into.
RHkroger | 4.10.12 @ 3:02PM
I never liked Gomer Pyle anyway,his combover starts at the top of his ear
bc3b| 4.10.12 @ 3:04PM
They don't call him the "Huckster" for nothing.
Trinacria| 4.10.12 @ 3:15PM
"There is doubtless a ways to go here in all this."
-The only comment in Mr. Lord's otherwise exceptional article with which I disagree. The Huckabee experiment crashed on takeoff and, like the ill-fated contenders before it, will burn out like smoldering embers within its first several months.
mj| 4.10.12 @ 3:21PM
I hope they sue your ass for false reporting
Trinacria| 4.10.12 @ 3:52PM
So - to be clear - Mr. Lord submits a written inquiry to the executives at Cumulus seeking to verify that the alleged "plant" was indeed a Cumulus employee. The executive responds - in writing - that the story was true.
Which part, exactly, was false reporting?
mj| 4.10.12 @ 4:03PM
He implies that Huckabee knew the guy was a plant, is this Jeffrey Lord a psychic or something? Its slander hope they sue his ass.
Trinacria| 4.10.12 @ 5:23PM
Again - to be clear - you indicated that Mr. Lord should be sued for FALSE reporting (later modified to "slander" in your second post).
Having established the charge, let's review the evidence, shall we?
1) Mr. Lord asked whether Mr. Huckabee knew a priori that the first caller would be a "plant".
2) Mr. Dickey indicated that Mr. Huckabee did not know before he recieved the call that the caller would be a plant, and Mr. Lord noted this fact accodingly (p. 5).
3) Mr. Lord, having accepted Mr. Dickey's claim that Mr. Huckabee did not know of the plan to use a plant prior to the call, points out that it remains unclear whether Mr. Huckabee realized that the caller was a plant upon hearing his voice (no one has confirmed or denied this fact).
4) In the absence of a definitive response to the question of whether Mr. Huckabee realized that caller was a plant upon hearing his voice, Mr. Lord reminds the reader, as any journalist would, that the caller was the Vice President of Programming, an individual with whom Mr. Huckabee spent considerable time in the months leading up to the launch of his show.
5) Finally, Mr. Lord makes a true statement (which is to be distinguished from a definitive conclusion); namely, that it is likely that one would recognize the voice of an individual with whom one had worked extremely closely for several months.
By the way, I note in passing that it is generally a matter of good form to use the proper charge when accusing a man of wrong doing. Slander is a malicious, false, defamatory statement; libel is the proper term for a malicious, false and defamatory written statement. In either case, however, truth is an absolute defense in a defamation suit. Since none of the foregoing statements can be shown to be false, neither charge has merit.
But thanks for playing, Perry Mason.
Joe Blow| 4.10.12 @ 3:26PM
This hilarious. The spectator had a write pretent to be a protester and then write about it, but yet they feign indignation when someone stages a call.
Trinacria| 4.10.12 @ 3:47PM
Joe,
Congratulations on managing to post a comment, even if the selection of keys on your keyboard was somewhat random. I've always said that spelling and grammar are over-rated; the important thing is that you made your voice heard, despite that fact that none of us know exactly what it is we're hearing.
Having enlisted the assistance of my secretary (who, as luck would have it, happens to be fluent in nonsense), I've come to understand that your post was suggesting that Mr. Lord had misrepresented himself in his correspondence with Cumulus ("The spectator had a write pretent to be a protester [sic, sic, and sic, respectively]). I hasten to note that Mr. Lord clearly identified himself as a writer (or, as you so eloquently described him, a "write") with The American Spectator who was working on a story regarding the alleged "plant" that called Mr. Huckabee's debut radio broadcast. Assuming your grammar is a rough indication of your reading comprehension skills, I acknowledge the near certain difficulty in discerning this subtle fact (which, upon review, was repeated no less than three times); however, may I suggest that you might profitably consider the merits of having a colleague read and, dare I suggest, explain the article to you before endeavoring to comment upon it?
BodieSD| 4.10.12 @ 11:12PM
That first paragraph is an absolute classic. I wish I could come up with something half that biting!
By the way, my condolences to your secretary for having to decode Joe's post.
Old One| 4.10.12 @ 3:34PM
Hucka----- in his first day on the radio did what he has always has done. He stepped in it hard with his faux phone call. Huckacluck is a fool for all time.
JJV| 4.10.12 @ 3:37PM
You forgot to mention Bill O'Reilly (no conservative he) also went head to head with Rush and lost big. Odds are good the Huckabee show will follow the same path, planted calls or not.
Brad| 4.11.12 @ 10:30AM
And don't forget, O'Reilly's more popular than Huckaphony...
Gunner| 4.10.12 @ 3:43PM
Let us not forget that as Govenor of Arkansas Mr. Huckabee did not govern as a conservative. IMHO calling him a "RINO" places him much further right than he actually is.
vietvet68| 4.10.12 @ 4:01PM
Huckabee another RINO and schmuck!
Jay| 4.10.12 @ 4:23PM
If Huckabee had had any stones, he would have hit the caller abortion button. That worked great for Rush when he was building up his audience.
Paul G| 4.10.12 @ 4:38PM
How long till he loses his FNC show?
DavidH| 4.10.12 @ 5:23PM
I think the only non-RINO in Jeffrey Lord's mind is Jeffrey Lord. Use of the RINO label is a personal attack that's difficult to argue with facts. It is a dismissal that demonstrates a hostility to reason.
LiveFreeOrDie| 4.10.12 @ 6:46PM
Yes, it's "difficult to argue with facts" when the public record doesn't match the rhetoric. What is a poor liar to do?
Citizen Jerry| 4.10.12 @ 5:31PM
Looks like the Huckster got punk'd.
Chef Schnauzer| 4.10.12 @ 5:32PM
I was planning to catch the Huckabee show at some point. Not now. I don't have time for the clowns on the JV squad.
Fred | 4.10.12 @ 5:45PM
This is a bit "inside radio", but it is even more improbable because of the dump delay. While local shows typically have a 7 second delay, network shows have 30 or 60 seconds of delay to give them longer to react to hit the dump button since the stakes are higher.
A real caller would not have heard the phone number until 30-60 seconds after Huckabee said it, reducing the reaction time to hear the number, pick up a phone and dial it and talk to the host on the live side of the dump delay. I'm pretty sure the "caller" in the second hour was also not "real", but rather a professional anti-bullying activist making the case for Federal laws and funding to prevent children from annoying each other - truly a small government Conservative position (not)
Jabber3| 4.10.12 @ 5:55PM
I think this is a manufactured issue and will subside once Huckabee's ratings fall through the floor.
C Krenik| 4.10.12 @ 7:18PM
I will just stick with Rush. He has always been honest, truthful and usually right (99.7% of the time!!). I am sick of the Republican leadership. They won't branch out and let conservatives speak. They just are too afraid. Yep, Rush is my man.
Eric | 4.10.12 @ 7:31PM
Huck can't out-rino Medved. Or Hugh Hewitt. He can try,but it's impossible.
Roman Melnyk| 4.10.12 @ 10:28PM
Jeffery has hit the nail right on the center of Nat.Rep.Party They keep stumbling and snorting
that they are the answer to the conservative party. I really don't know when they will ever wake up.
Tommy| 4.10.12 @ 11:09PM
I like cheese
fmm| 4.10.12 @ 11:25PM
Huckabee's Arkansas governorship was left of center and he remains that way today. The left always uses plants and fakery because they can't win anyone over to their side with their "truth", so this is to be expected on his show. I predict Huckabee's show will fade rather quickly.
WL| 4.11.12 @ 12:10AM
Aw...Come on Folks...You KNOW alot of you fell for Huckaphony....
I always knew he had one hand on the Bible and one hand in the offering plate.
No Surprise here!
The Bruce| 4.11.12 @ 1:14AM
Crap. I just tuned to one of my local AM stations online--expecting to listen to John Gibson--and the Huckster's on.
Time to write that station.
Dr. Tesla| 4.11.12 @ 1:53AM
If Huckabee isn't a RINO, who is? The man spent like crazy, he raised taxes, he sprung criminals from death row who went on to kill again, he was for amnesty, I think he was on the global warming thing for awhile, and it seems like he wouldn't mind government policing what it's your kids lunchbag.
Dr. Tesla| 4.11.12 @ 1:54AM
Huckabee said in 2008 that he didn't raise taxes, he raised hope.
So what's this nonsense about how he's honest? I don't see him that way. He's smarmy.
Briam| 4.11.12 @ 5:18AM
Lord's column lacks pith.
threeleafclover| 4.11.12 @ 6:42AM
I can take it that Huckabee is a a smarmy Preacher/Politician. It is his fake bass guitar playing and insistence on joining any group on his hokey TV show. His show is never on in my house except by accident when the channel is left on from the previous hour. I walk in and see that pudgy, Pillsbury Dough Boy, business-suited hayseed with a fancy guitar he doesn't know how to play slung around his neck. I break a leg diving for the remote.
Teflon93| 4.11.12 @ 8:35AM
Yet another example of how phony and dishonest the GOP Establishment is.
We need to purge the FauxCons. Starting with several here at AmSpec. I'm talking to you, Kaminsky.
RCV| 4.11.12 @ 12:52PM
Mr. Lord has become such a sycophant for Rush Limbaugh, it's almost an embarassment for TAS. Limbaugh can stick up for himself. He doesn't need little Lord Jeffrey Fauntelroy to poke his nose in every day. Get a new subject, Mr. Lord!
sirbourbon| 4.11.12 @ 1:03PM
"Challenging Rush is seen by many conservatives as an attack on conservatism itself."
Wasn't that the point all along?
Rush was just a guy with a talent for gab who started out as most do to give their point of view on the news and then he sold his soul to the moneyed interests who gave Rush a huge package of lucre to pitch the establishment approved line. It was to be establishment talking points and NOTHING else!
He has done as they wished, no different than the Public
schools, the American Historical Society that says zero about the CFR and the major "news" media that says nothing about the CFR (a secretive private organization that influences our foreign policy and economic policy). http://www.thenewamerican.com/.....ge-nothing
Rush won't discuss:
1) the North American Union
2)Say anything critical about the Council on Foreign Relations even though Ronald Reagan campaigned against such influences in our government!
The CFR practically runs the State Department and is behind our disasterous foreign policy failures.
That is the point of having people like Rush on the radio- to divert attention away from those destroying our nation from within- the CFR.
Rush is like the character in the movie The Brotherhood of the Bell; his job is to shout down "conspiracy"; ridicule those who claim there is a plan behind America's decline. Rush as the real Bart Harris has performed masterfully up until Rush began to speak of the "global warmists" and their attack on the free market as being part of a plan to bring America down. That Rush has begun to decribe the global warmists as close to being part of a conspiracy without actually saying the word may well be behind his problems. The irony will be be, should he be replaced as the king of talk by a sniveling little liberal (RINO) former governor, is that a conspiracy was behind his downfall.
Erik Hansen| 4.11.12 @ 1:16PM
Nice people do not cause the death of four police officers.
wankel| 4.12.12 @ 12:13AM
>> Governor Huckabee's credibility as a conservative radio host has been jeopardized.
If I were Huck I wouldn't worry too much. Not in light of the fact that he is about as interesting as watching paint dry. (Yes, he IS a nice man but...)
Wendy | 4.12.12 @ 3:27PM
Rush Limbaugh is a big, fat, mean, druggie who would eat his own shorts if the RNC told him to.
Staged or not, it is definitely refreshing t0 hear conversation instead of blow-hard Howard-Stern-ish shock jock, hate-filled vile.
David| 4.13.12 @ 4:06AM
More conservatives eating their own.
art| 4.25.12 @ 8:28PM
Mike Huckabee is a loser. I'd rather be water boarded than listen to this tripe.
sharinlite| 6.19.12 @ 4:09PM
Has anyone been able to discuss with Mike this incident? Does he truly think he replace Rush? Does he have his own website so we can post comments to him, or is he shy!