I am pretty tough on the media but Chris Wallace from FOX really put the hammer to Gomer Huckabee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbL5Z-2ym4Y

About This Video On Fox News Sunday, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
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On Fox News Sunday, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said that he had never called for AIDS patients to be quarantined in 1992. In fact, in '92 he said "we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague."

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Romney. Huckabee is beginning to look like a threat, so my guess is that the corporate press will try to stop his surge in the primaries.

Huckabee is nutty as hell; but when has that ever bothered Chris Wallace or the boys on the bus?

My guess is they think ( even) they can't sell him and he'll be an electoral catastrophe for them.

and no other will do, so it could be an interesting fight.
Will people have a say? Probably not in the republiKlan party.

While some here are all up in arms about the Huckster, I think he's a gift that could keep giving for years to come. While the Religious Right may represent 30% of the GOOP...enough to carry primaries and the nomination, it's 30% of 35%...or their numbers of the overall electorate are small. Run a Huckster and be prepared to lose elections...it's that simple.

The Powers in the Repugnican party want either Rudy or Mittens...useful tools. Huckster can't be controlled and that's what makes him attractive to the fundie base.

The real fun is if this race boils down to the Huckster and either Rudy or Mittens...the bad blood that would be spilt during that battle will provide years of accrimony only highlighted by the revolt of Ron Paul Libertarians. The Democrats split apart in the 70s and it took us nearly 30 years to get our shit together...now it's the Repugnican's turn.

As far as Fox, Dudi 9ui11iani was their man but he never had a shot. Romney's campaign has attracted the virus. Cofer Black, one of the Cheney spawn are working with him.

Jebbie's part of the show. So is Barbara Comstock who ran the astroturf operations at the DOJ under Asscroft and then for Scooter Libby...a real sweetheart she is (just ask Jane Hamsher...LOL). Oh, and yes, the beloved Mr. Black and his good friend Mr. Prince. Rudy got all the "idelogues", Mittens bought the muscle.

Happy Happy Merry Merry

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They are empty, empty, empty

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He broke down the GOOP in three segments...the "Fiscal Conservatives", the "Libertarians" and the "Religious Right" and that no one candidate appeals across the divide. If anything, this primary season is pulling them apart to the breaking point...whomever wins the nomination will be hard-pressed to get true support from the other.

Empty seems generous...more like morally and politically bankrupt.

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F'n hilarious!

Perfect!

Dudi 9ui11iani :rofl:

.... Chris Wallace and the rest of the Faux tools have their marching orders.

The rest of the corporate news is doing pretty much the same thing.

God, what a fuckwad.

deeply ignorant idiots such as huckabee into government??!

There are third-world nations that would turn their noses up in disgust over such stupidity.

the republicans gave the religious right wing their creditability and now they want them to go away. since when did the republicans really care about people with aids? maybe when it directly affected them?

:rofl:

Who's Fox been given the orders to salivate over?

The ONLY time Fox is "hard" on someone, is when they want to take them down.

I think they want to hide the face of "what is considered to be good presidential material" by the GOP primary voters, from the general voting public. I think they are afraid of something even worse than a Schaivo moment were the GOP operatives over estimated the power of the religious right in terms of shaping american public opinion (as in that big pander would be a winner for them), and instead horrified and pushed even more formerly sympathetic voters away from the GOP. I think they realize that if the general public, that doesn't pay that much attention to general media stories until they are very BIG (like winning a bunch of early primaries) comes to see that the GOP is still wanting simplistic, radical/reactionary religious (lead by what is popular with the far religious right, rather than what makes sound policy), that they just might lose generations of elections for the party - as it could no longer be thought that Bushjr was just an abberation (bad apple) rather than representative of the party. Which of course is really the case (representative) - but they really don't want the general public coming to that conclusion.

Btw, Hi and Happy Holidays!

hoping that Huck's ascension is short-lived and doesn't get too much long-term attention - lest they (Faux and the 'republican movement') further discredit themselves among their viewers that are slightly right leaning middle of the roaders who haven't really caught on to the full scope of the propoganda machine role that Faux plays. It is sort of like the Schaivo issue - when it got real broad air time - while the far religious right salivated and got their 'glory on' (so to speak) the rest of the country - even a whole lot of folks sympathetic to the superficial rhetoric of the religious right (you know the soft rhetoric used on the masses rather than the coded more blatant rhetoric used "within the group") - found the whole spectacle not only repulsive, but frightening. In the beginning of the national coverage their were memos sent (one by Sen Martinez and staff, another by Tom DeLay) that showed the depth to which the right wanted to propogandize the situation AND that their goal was to go further in appeasing the right to life crowd by sacheting the issue into one ending living wills and end-of-life (ala life support). This hit too close to home for a lot of folks.

For many middle americans who had been swept up in the post911 fear mongering of Bushco - this was one of the first turning points in starting to seeing how ugly the emperor was without his clothes - followed by the initial spectacle of bush not being willing to meet with Cindy Sheehan (who regardless of how she is viewed by different folks today - was very sympathetic to many americans at that point) followed by the horrid and callous response to Katrina - then the multiple corruption shows in the GOP congress that began to turn the word "Republican" into a dirty word (at least electorally-wise).

I think that Faux might be leaning like some conservo writers (who helped bring us the Frankensteinian GOP of the modern era) who now are afraid that the front runners for the GOP presidential nomination (re: Huckabee) are caricature's are far too off the mainstream for middle america. I think that they do not want Huck's moment in the sun (starting to run ahead of others) to last too long, lest the republican party lose all last hopes of regaining the support of much of the american populace anytime in the near future.

Just my gut reaction, for what it is worth.

then so be it.

Why "force answers" then from Huckabee?

Why the different treatment, one wonders.

Not that I would ever accuse Fox of being biased, noooo.

The media suddenly came up with a poll showing a 'surge' for McCain! They won't accept Huck as their candidate, so the move is on for McCain. Watch for all kinds of phony polls showing him coming on, plus the 'smear' machine is cranking up.

Rudy officiated at Ailes wedding while he was mayor. They will rip everyone but him a new one, every chance they get.

for once, the GOP and I agree--Huckabilly = BAAAAAADDDD NEEEEWWWWSSS!