In an interview this morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Mike Huckabee lashed out repeatedly at The Huffington Post in response to the Web site's explosive story yesterday alleging that Huck had pushed for parole for a serial rapist despite the fact that the rapist's victims had pleaded with the former Arkansas Governor not to.
The decision by Huckabee to attack HuffPo and to blame the left for his travails -- a reliable and time-tested tactic in GOP primaries -- suggests that Huck and his advisers have gone into heavy damage control mode at a moment when the story shows no signs of abating. Take a look:
http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/12/huckabee_lashes_out_at_leftwing_huffington_post.phpTranscript:
Let's first of all look at the source. The Huffington Post, one of the most left-wing blogs in the blogosphere, There are factual errors in what they have printed. Some of it is outrageously incorrect...
The only thing that I think is just despicable is to use
grief and pain as a political weapon. What a sad state of affairs it is in this country when we exploit people's pain for political purposes. That's what's happening...The Huffington Post just doesn't want to give the whole story of what's going on...
This agenda of the Huffington Post is outrageously misleading -- let's go beyond -- it's just downright false.