DomCasual
01-03-2008, 01:41 AM
I am really starting to be amazed at his, "Aw, shucks - I didn't know" approach. It appears to part of his modus operandi.
Did anyone watch him on Leno? He was asked about the "I'm not going to run negative ads; but if I was, this is what I would have run," routine. He said (paraphrasing), "You know, Jay. I know the media was skeptical of my intentions. I know they don't really believe I had a change of heart."
Jay responded, "Well, why did you have to show them the negative ad?"
To which Huckabee says, "You know, if I didn't, they would have all said that I was making it up that I had ever made the ad. Listen, if I was being disingenuous, I would have run the ad for three days, then had the change of heart."
No, Mike - let's look at it a different way. If you were sincere, the reporters would have never questioned whether an ad had actually been made, because you would have just buried it. THAT would have been respectable. But it also wouldn't have been reported; which, of course, you just can't have.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/02/huckabee-likely-to-have-to-cross-picket-line-to-appear-on-len/
Huckabee appears on Leno, crosses picket line
Posted: 11:58 PM ET
MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — Republican Mike Huckabee, a presidential candidate sounding a populist theme, appeared on the "Tonight Show" with Jay Leno on Wednesday despite the strike and picketing by the show's writers.
Earlier Wednesday, Huckabee said he supports the writers and did not think he would be crossing a picket line, because he believed the writers had made an agreement to allow late night shows back on the air.
"My understanding is that there was a special arrangement made for the late-night shows, and the writers have made this agreement to let the late night shows to come back on, so I don't anticipate that it's crossing a picket line," Huckabee told reporters traveling with him Wednesday from Fort Dodge to Mason City.
In fact, that is true only of David Letterman, who has a separate agreement with writers for his "Late Show."
Told he was mistaken and that writers had cleared only Letterman's show, Huckabee protested:
"But my understanding is there's a sort of dispensation given to the late-night shows, is that right?"
Told again that he was wrong, Huckabee murmured, "Hmmm," and, "Oh," before answering another question.
The former Arkansas governor faced an unfriendly reception.
A picketer outside the Burbank, Calif., studio where Leno tapes his show held a sign saying, "Huckabee is a scab." Another picketer carried a sign saying, "Huckabee, what would Jesus do?"
"I think it's just another reason not to vote for him," said Allan Katz, a veteran TV writer who was picketing.
Huckabee said he stood with the writers.
"I support the writers, by the way. Unequivocally, absolutely," he said. "They're dead right on this one. And they ought to get royalties off the residuals and the long-term contracts."
"I don't think anybody supports the producers on this one," he added. "Maybe the producers support the producers, but I think everybody in the business and even the general public supports the writers."
Did anyone watch him on Leno? He was asked about the "I'm not going to run negative ads; but if I was, this is what I would have run," routine. He said (paraphrasing), "You know, Jay. I know the media was skeptical of my intentions. I know they don't really believe I had a change of heart."
Jay responded, "Well, why did you have to show them the negative ad?"
To which Huckabee says, "You know, if I didn't, they would have all said that I was making it up that I had ever made the ad. Listen, if I was being disingenuous, I would have run the ad for three days, then had the change of heart."
No, Mike - let's look at it a different way. If you were sincere, the reporters would have never questioned whether an ad had actually been made, because you would have just buried it. THAT would have been respectable. But it also wouldn't have been reported; which, of course, you just can't have.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/02/huckabee-likely-to-have-to-cross-picket-line-to-appear-on-len/
Huckabee appears on Leno, crosses picket line
Posted: 11:58 PM ET
MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — Republican Mike Huckabee, a presidential candidate sounding a populist theme, appeared on the "Tonight Show" with Jay Leno on Wednesday despite the strike and picketing by the show's writers.
Earlier Wednesday, Huckabee said he supports the writers and did not think he would be crossing a picket line, because he believed the writers had made an agreement to allow late night shows back on the air.
"My understanding is that there was a special arrangement made for the late-night shows, and the writers have made this agreement to let the late night shows to come back on, so I don't anticipate that it's crossing a picket line," Huckabee told reporters traveling with him Wednesday from Fort Dodge to Mason City.
In fact, that is true only of David Letterman, who has a separate agreement with writers for his "Late Show."
Told he was mistaken and that writers had cleared only Letterman's show, Huckabee protested:
"But my understanding is there's a sort of dispensation given to the late-night shows, is that right?"
Told again that he was wrong, Huckabee murmured, "Hmmm," and, "Oh," before answering another question.
The former Arkansas governor faced an unfriendly reception.
A picketer outside the Burbank, Calif., studio where Leno tapes his show held a sign saying, "Huckabee is a scab." Another picketer carried a sign saying, "Huckabee, what would Jesus do?"
"I think it's just another reason not to vote for him," said Allan Katz, a veteran TV writer who was picketing.
Huckabee said he stood with the writers.
"I support the writers, by the way. Unequivocally, absolutely," he said. "They're dead right on this one. And they ought to get royalties off the residuals and the long-term contracts."
"I don't think anybody supports the producers on this one," he added. "Maybe the producers support the producers, but I think everybody in the business and even the general public supports the writers."