Huckabee flubs NIE test - again
By Steve Benen Wednesday Dec 05, 2007 7:45pm
One of the principal benefits of Mike Huckabee’s campaign is that he’s managed to reach the top tier of the Republican field with almost no scrutiny at all. But there’s a downside --now that the race has reached crunch time, and Huckabee is a credible challenger for the nomination, all of the scrutiny comes at once.
The question, then, is how Huckabee responds to the pressure, and handles unpleasant questions. So far, I think he’s struggling pretty badly.
This week, for example, Huckabee was asked for his thoughts about the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, arguably the biggest foreign policy news in months, if not the year. Huckabee said he’d never heard of it. This morning, on MSNBC, he tried to rationalize his ignorance.
“Well, I don’t blame my staff. It is a situation where a report was released at 10:00 in the morning, the president hadn’t seen it in four years and I’m supposed to see it four hours later.”
That’s utter nonsense, and actually makes Huckabee look even dumber. As Kevin Drum explained, “The NIE was released Monday morning. He was asked about it Tuesday evening. That’s two days. Two days in which the NIE was on the front page of every newspaper; it was blanketing cable TV, talk radio, and the blogosphere; and the president of the United States addressed its conclusions in a press conference. It was blockbuster news on one of the most important foreign policy issues of the campaign and Huckabee didn’t even know about it.”
The phrase “not ready for prime-time” was practically custom made for a guy like this.
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Now that Huckebee is a supposed 'front runner' and he is receiving all this extra attention... he ain't doin' so hot, is he?
For how stupid his ass is, he's saying all the right things for the conservatives. He answered a fucking cell phone "hello god"! Mega churches are raking in the money for the Huckster. Replace the "c" with an "l" and he could kick Norris's ass.
obviously GOD doesn't care about the NIE. DUH!
I would just like to say the Keith Olbermann's special comment tonight was on fire!!!!
Please post it.
Damned liberals! Huckabee gets all his pertinant info from God, who calls him on the cell every now & then. God didn't call him about the NIE, therefore he doesn't need to know about no stinkin' NIE!!!
=my sarcastic 2c
The Weekly Standard and the Wall Street Journal are both running pieces that the NIE report may be wrong.
Now, who will Dick and George listen to? The experts, or the NIE report?
this guy Huckabee is a serious threat.the sheeple will follow him.....praise the lard.
If the sociopathic, coke-sniffing, moronic deserter who couldn't answer the question of what the capital of Indonesia was and who now occuppies the white House is any indication of what the GOPer electorate likes, Huckabee will be the Goper nominee.
He's doing badly in the reality-based community. Unfortunately, his constituents live elsewhere.
let's be gracious. In Huckabbale time ie; the earth is 6000 years old then, he heard about this only nanoseconds ago, relativley speaking. I can't explain E=mcsquared, but I don't want a moron with his hand on the trigger. Oh shit, Huck is smarter than Bush.
Duck and cover kids.
*This* asshat is the frontrunner? Dammmmnnnn, we screwed.....
on Dan Abrams..there's people saying Huckabee lied...they were on the parole board.They say Huckster brought up the topic....completely refuting Huckabee stance
General_Rennenkampf @ 13:
ONLY in Iowa.....
it was Bill Clintons fault.....geeeezzzz.......this in reference to the Drumond case.C'mon Huckabee.....what do you take us for......republicans?
P.S. The Beatles broke up. Elvis is dead. Blacks and whites can dance together and even marry.
There's a little thing called "Global Warming," look into it when you get a moment.
The Dumond case is worse than Willie Horton. I am surprised it hasn't been reported here yet... And Salon has a great article about Hucksterbee, he has the same rep in Arkansas that G-man has in Manhattan.
Huckabee or Huckafeller?
Given America's current situation with the War in Iraq, you would think that people would be a little suspicious of any Presidential candidate that just emerges from nowhere with little in the way of individual donations. Perhaps a recap of America's situation is in order. The current administration misled (at best) the American people about WMDs in Iraq in order to get us into war. Why? Alan Greenspan, a strong and connected republican, says it was due to oil interests. That's right. There are people that profit from war. The Bush family has always had close associations with big oil. What other families come to mind when we think of big oil? The Rockefellers that owned Standard Oil come to mind. The Rockefellers are still one of the most powerful families in the world with financial interests in oil, banking, media, and everything between. What does this have to do with Mike Huckabee? Are you aware that his Lieutenant Gov was Winthrop P. Rockefeller? A man that died with a net worth of $1.2 billion dollars? How is that for connected? The Rockefellers wield considerable influence in Arkansas. This brings me to another President that appeared out of nowhere….Bill Clinton. Yes, another Arkansas governor. Am I the only one "gun shy" after the 20 years of the Bush and Clinton dynasties? Maybe I am just paranoid. Maybe Mike Huckabee just fell from the sky to deliver us all. Or maybe we are all just easily manipulated. If you think it couldn't happen, try researching the Gulf on Tonkin lie that got us into Vietnam. We were lied to about Vietnam, Iraq, and now Iran. Our faith has been manipulated by money. Maybe sometimes we just cannot handle the truth. God DID NOT put Huckabee on the map. The Rockefellers did.
Keep'm coming republicans, we're lov'in this. My dog knows right from wrong and he didn't even read the bible.
It's amazing that anyone is seriously considering this doofuss for president.
This MF from Arkansas should be toast soon. In any event, I'm getting my pitchforks and torches ready!
Hucklebuck's a bit SSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW!
He's used to retest after retest after retest, on the same one book.
Give him time. Let him crib the answers.
6,000 years ought to do it.
His father built the universe in that time.
It is obvious that Huckabee gets his info from Faux News and nothing else.
Be a good conservative and pray for him. But don't get on your knees. That'd be a little too familiar for this crowd.
He's a personable guy who you might like to go out and have a beer with. Other than that, we don't need another ignorant Jesus freak in the White House.
It’s amazing that anyone is seriously considering this doofuss for president.
You'd be surprised. Moderate Christian Republicans love the guy -- and since most people don't really know what's going on because our news media don't do their collective jobs, moderate Christian Republicans will never know that this doofus didn't know about the NIE.
Dear Huck,
all the answers aren't in your Scofield Bible. You gotta pick up a paper, turn on the radio or tv, or read a blog. You're not ready for prime time, d00d
stories like this is why you do not let the media determine your vote and should base decision on more than sound bites and name recognition.
ok, I challenge everyone to find a truly thoughtful repugliKKKan presdenitial candidate.
hucksters not the only one failing the NIE test, duhbya and dick are too!
Keith Olbermann’s Latest Special Comment
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Olbermann: We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking World War III about Iran at least six weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be fantastic, irresponsible hyperbole, or we have a president too transcendently stupid not to have asked, at what now appears to have been a series of opportunities to do so, whether the fairy tales he either created or was fed were still even remotely plausible. Full story
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Why does no one here realize that America is run by fascist corporations? All this garbage about who is running for what is useless tripe!
The Federal (and most state) governments are doing the bidding of their corporate bosses. The democrats have all the power they need.
They are not spineless in the least. In fact they are showing tremendous courage to ignore the will of the public to help Bush/Cheney
implement the fascist agenda. Hillary Clinton will also help with the agenda, as would most of the "Democratic" candidates. In fact, it seems that
the American public is so brain dead and complacent, that they themselves have caused this. They are the terrorists, and they are terrorizing themselves,
and the Iraquis, and soon the Iranian's What a bunch of evil dummies America has become!
Huck knows the key element of becoming a 21st Century president--being a moron. Americans no longer want intelligent discussions of the issues of our time. We just want a happy ignoramus. Bush was a dolt 7 years ago, and Gore had a brain. Brains scare people. Bush giggled. We just wuv gigglers.
Well - his staff is prepping him for questions on foreign policy issues -- how come they're not prepping him on foreign policy?
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Something very noticable about Muckabee -- when he's upset and angry his expressions get ugly.
Says a lot about his real character.
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Preacher Boob @ 21:
President Huckabee?
Are they kidding us?
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CoIntelPro @ 30:
RepugliKKKan?
I love it. Can I use it?
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This guy Huckabee is REALLY far to the right, even if he does play bass in a rock band. Because he has the conservative bonafides, he just might make it...
After I saw NIGHTLINE tonight, though, I am hoping that Romney can hold on and squirm his way into the nomination. On a story about Evangelicals trying to evangelize Mormons in Utah (Holy Crap! I had no idea that was going on! They're both right wing Christian, Wal-Mart lovers to me!), I heard this Evangelical woman actually say that if Romney was the Repub nominee she would be FORCED to vote for Hillary Clinton because she could not vote for a Mormon! WOW!!!! She wouldn't like it, she would hold her nose while doing it, but she would vote for Senator Clinton.
Holy hamburgers! Evangelicals climbing on the Hillary bandwagon????? GO MITT!!!!!!
It's entirely possible to miss important news if you're distracted. To cite an example, I was visiting the Smithsonian museums in DC on Monday 19 October 1987, and was so totally absorbed in what I was doing and seeing that I completely failed to notice until later that the stock market had collapsed 508 points.
However, I was not running for President of the United States at the time. A candidate needs to be "up" on things, or risk looking like a dunderhead in public (i.e., George HW Bush when quizzed about the price of a gallon of milk, Huckleberry Dumbshit being asked about the NIE, etc.).
I am reminded that televangelist Ayatollah Pat Robertson beat GHW Bush in Iowa back in 1988, but crashed and burn short of the runway in so many other primary states that he dropped out of the race (after another chat with God). I am hopeful that "All God But No Money" Huckabee fades away, to leave only a rancid-smelling grease spot and the lingering odor of brimstone.
I question this story. He says four hours after 10am, which would make it 1pm, which isn't evening. It's not possible to be in meetings from 9:30am - 1:00pm?
Sorry to cite this as the example, and I only use it as an example and not any sort of propaganda, but it's the only personal example I can think of right now. I didn't know about the 9/11 attacks until 11am that day? Am I a bad person for waking up late? Of course not.
I know the Bush administration has made scandals so common they're a dime a dozen, but this isn't a scandal.
#26
If Huckabee does go out for a beer with anyone as a Baptist Minister (and a health freak), you really have a scoop.
Regarding the NIE, it wasn't in the Baptist and Reflector newspaper so of course he didn't know about it. That's the only place where the real news is.
Maybe he and the Mrs. will go and register their china pattern at Target again to celebrate.
Don't we WANT him to know about it. We have already tried it with a president who isn't curious enough to read the newspaper. How about somebody who at least picks up a paper every once in a while. I think this may have even been reported on FOX news.
But what few realize, or are willing to acknowledge, is that the release of this report indicates that the Bush administration just can't find enough lunatics in the workforce to replace those that have departed.
Intelligence and Huckabuck in the same sentence.... WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THAT
First you had Reagan losing his jellybeans
Then McCain doing his Reagan impression
We have Dubya eating Chinese Paint Chips
AND NOW... STRAIGHT FROM HIS STARRING ROLE IN:
3000 BC, A DINOSAUR'S TAIL
THE HONORABLE REVEREND HUCKABUCK
what is even more amazing is that he is leading the GOP pack of fools.....
for 2008 the PARTY is ready.... we have Dips and Chips, Dweebs and Geeks
no IDIOT is left out of the "WHO IS SMARTER THAN A REPUBLICAN" contest.....
Mitt the critter killer and his backup band The Ain'tServing Sons of the Pioneer
Rudy the 911 mayor of 911 a major city 911 in a major state 911 in america 911
Fred.... hey fred.... wake up... they're asking you a question...
WHAT HAS 3000 LEGS AND AN I.Q. OF 98..... THE 2008 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
I am not worried about Schmuckabee...if he does somehow manage to get nominated...there's no way in hell this flat-earther will get elected.
In that picture, is hockaloogy thumbing his nose, or giving the Heil Hitler salute?
Annoyed Liberal @ 38:
I'd climb Hillary.
I understand MIT wants to change their school's name.
Huckabites couldn't find the NIE anywhere in the Bible
yesirree
Trittydi @ 36:
President Huckabee?
I agree - aside from the whole Bible-thumping, fair tax-spouting, "God wants me to be the front runner" thing, Huckabee's name alone should keep him from the nomination. Can you imagine four (or worse, eight) years of nightly newscasts starting off with "President Huckabee..."?!
The name thing wouldn't be so important if he actually had the credentials to be president - but so far he's proven he doesn't. And not knowing anything about the NIE should be an automatic disqualifier.
Huckleberry's not up to speed on shit.. No real surprise for me in that tidbit of info... About the only saving 'grace' I can see in this whole GOP charade, is the fact that this particular closet Christo-facist, is another clueless loser who will never get to camp out in the oval office for four years... Sorry Huckleberry, this nation already got saddled with one clueless loser for seven years and counting down... Tried that... didn't work out.. Guess you are shit out of luck slick...Try selling snakeoil out the back of a wagon, maybe that'll work out for you..........JD
Maybe Mike's just trying to pander to the Bush constituency, where intelligence is a liability. I sense a new bumper sticker in the works:
Vote Huckabee
Dumber than Dubya!
A bit of hyperbole there, but it could be effective among certain folks.
I don't want a Preacher as President. There is supposed to be separation of Church and State. Preachers should be disqualified... if you want a Theocracy... move to Iran ! They love religious zealots as heads of state, and Huckabee would CERTAINLY be running the country imposing his RELIGIOUS beliefs.
But this shows Huckabee... is a wanna be ! There's no excuse 2 days later. I'm busy as hell and I heard the report 5-6 times. Who briefs this bozo every AM ? apparently no one!
Just cause a person might be a "Nice guy" doesn't make him fit or even qualified to be President. Look at the loser we have now , and he's not even a "nice guy"... he's a war-mongering LIAR !
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