Huckabee Jokes About Cheney Hunting Incident - Then Fires Over Heads Of Reporters
By Logan Murphy Thursday Dec 27, 2007 7:30pm
John posted a story from The Huckster's hunting trip earlier this week, and now details of a disturbing incident that occurred that day are starting to come out. Apparently, Huckabee was asked by one of the reporters following him that day why he didn't invite Dick Cheney along for the hunting trip and he joked, because he wanted to "survive all the way through this." But, near the end of the hunt, as a pheasant got up and flew toward the onlooking reporters, Huckabee and his fellow hunters turned toward them, aimed and fired their guns right over their heads -- a cardinal sin of hunting.
Photo and more via The Washington Post:
Around 9:30 a.m., before the rest of the candidates were set to spend the day crisscrossing the Hawkeye State, Huckabee took an hour and a half to hunt pheasant in Osceola, about an hour's drive from Des Moines.
The former Arkansas governor, who has surprised the rest of GOP field with his front-runner status here, was the first candidate to hold an event the day after Christmas. Flanked by about a dozen reporters, he wore a microphone from CNN as he went shooting, with Dude, his 3-year-old bird dog, and Chip Saltzman, his campaign manager, at his side.
In the first 30 minutes, Huckabee, Saltzman and a friend shot three birds. Their last shot flew over the heads of reporters, one of whom cried out: "Oh my God! Oh my God! Don't shoot. This is traumatizing." Read on...
As someone who almost lost a close family member in a hunting accident, this kind of mindless and ignorant behavior enrages me. In what can only be considered a huge gaffe by Huckabee, abandoning proper safety procedures and putting the lives of others at risk -- just to show off in front of reporters -- shows a profound lack of judgment on his part. This man wants to be our president and have control over our nuclear weapons. Don't we get enough of this kind of behavior from our current president?
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Here today, gone tomorrow. Americans don't care and are too disinterested to even notice this story.
2nd amendment anyone?
Beeeutiful. Where's the video??
If anyone is interested in this w/any degree of seriousness, raw footage is on CNN's site.
/just sayin'
Republicans either shoot themselves in the foot or shoot others in the back.
fuckabee is just another idiot with criminal intentions towards the United States Constitution.
at about 11:10 of the video referred to above he specifically jokes about aiming away from the journalists.
This seems like a pretty bogus story. Can we please rip Huckabee on the issues and not manufactured controversies over squeamish journalists?
(And btw I'm a vegetarian FWIW)
Don't worry if the Dems win in 08 John can just change the name of this site to Saints and Sinners.
"Vote for me or die!"
When I was a kid in the early 60's that's the way it was done.
In Russia, China and in the places where we installed puppet dictators.
Don't ya hate it when chicken hawks come home to roost?
I was a hunting enthusiast in my youth. I've never hunted since but jeeminy jumpers you never point a shotgun toward a group of people. Even if the hunting party is unused to having a flock of reporters following behind.
Turning around and firing at a target flushed behind you is a thing that happens all the time in hunting. I remember doing that rabbit in while hunting when I was 16 years old. I still regret shooting that rabbit. It's a passage thingy. Worst part was the memory of my friend's dad cutting out the rabbit guts and seeing their beagle glomp it down in two gulps.
Like I wrote, the hunting antics of Cheney, and now Huckabee, give me a sense that neither of them are suited to be leaders.
Thousands of civilians who had nothing to do with the 9-11 World Trade Center disaster are now dead thanks to Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and their neocon ilk funded by the Heritage Foundation. They courted Bush seeking a moron who stood a chance of becoming president and furthuring their agenda. When Bush was elected Cheney and Rumsfeld went to work to ruin America. And they succeeded.
That doesn't excuse this act of irresponsibility by one or more of Huckabee's hunting party.
I just couldn't waste my time wading through that garbage. If he really did what you say he did. Well then, what an idiot. Sadly, antics like that are what seal the deal for some of his base.
On Friday, GOP Iowa frontrunner Mike Huckabee suggested Benazir Bhutto was killed because she posed a threat to the fundamentalist vision of the role of women. That vision, it turns out, is not far from his own.
For the details, see:
"Huckabee: Bhutto Did Not Graciously Submit to Woman's Role."
Huckaboi is a genius! He knows Amerika just loves down home bois like him and W. Go Huck Go!!!
Shooting defensless animals for sport is for the unevolved class.
Shooting them for meat is for the uniformed class.
Cancer is natures way of telling us we are not carnivores.
PeeJ @ 13:
Yes he's demonstrating Bush Depression Survival Skills.
obviously separating the men from the boys, the wheat from the chafe, the dingleberries from the short-hairs-- what an asshole-- that should get him the support of the nra--
I find it bizarre that none of these "conservative" men seem to care about gun safety. It's almost as odd as the fact that all the hunting publications always tell people to vote Republican -- without fail. Yet it is the left side that fights to keep game available and healthy with their environmentalism, and there isn't a Democrat in site every time the government really does "come after your guns", just Republicans (silly, "black rifle" phobia aside, which unfortunately many lefties do not realize is largely pointless).
Maybe this is like the new Republican philosophy of government: if you want to destroy government, first get elected, then act like a moron. So it would appear that "conservatives" have now set their sights on gun control: if you want to destroy responsible gun ownership, first get a gun...
Hucks trying to get the Deliverance Vote in the bag
Angry One @ 12:
Christo-fascists = Islamo-fascists. Same philososphy, different supersticious diety. Two sides of the same coin.
This is what our violent, gun obsessed, kill them all culture has brought us.
L.A. Confidential @ 18:
With any luck he'll get swept down the river or be forced to squeel like a pig.
Huck iz justa good ol' down home dimwit what got brung up apreacherin', so whatda hell yawl xpect, a roads skolar frum ARKANZAS?
Ruthless People @ 19:
Actually all it really is is idiots carrying a big gun.
The man is a frigin' loon, that's all there is to it.
E_I @ 20:
Ain't that the truth. We have the world's largest nuclear arsenal at our disposal with these numnuts in charge in our own back yard and Americans are worried about some guys half way across the globe with bombs strapped to their chest?
Never underestimate the ignorance and fear of a bedwetting conservative politician and their supporters.
Which firearm would JESUS use?
Barney Google @ 26:
Truth
This hick spewed there are 600 illegal Pakistanis and when asked where he got the numbers, he fumbled.
Then spewed Pakistan was still under martial law.
He had a terrible day and is a bigger joke than w.
Yeah, run this idiot gop.
The "tough guy with a shotgun" image isn't a pose. The man clearly said, he simply wanted to go hunting. And take a squadron of reporters along. Which is, if memory serves, the best way to do it.
Barney Google @ 26:
Well, if Jesus did use a firearm I'm sure he'd manage not to shoot on of the three wise men in the face.
the pussy should have shovelled an elderly persons sidewalk instead of shooting birds. it would have been a better photo op and it would not have exposed him as the lump he is.
L.A. Confidential @ 27:
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ"
-Ghandi
tr @ 31:
He'd hit the old lady with a shovel and then take her social security check. He's a Republican remember.
"This seems like a pretty bogus story."
Agreed. The tape does not uphold the WP's version of events in any way.
well.......I guess he doesn't believe in gun saftey...........but he does believe in guns......gotts have both....or you end up with Cheney style gun safety.........1 quart of Bourbon,and alot of guns...hmmmm?.....me thinks the press will not take kindly too this.....payback's a bitch.
And this guy wants to be in charge of the biggest Nuclear arsenal on the planet.......
Heck of a Christian. Bullets for Jesus.
I bet old Huck would run from squirrels if he wasn't packing heat.
mudshark @ 35:
If those pen raised birds could shoot back Cheney would have gotten 5 deferrments from hunting. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/01/politics/campaign/01CHEN.html?ex=13988...
mudshark @ 36:
and I'd bet he'd wear that same Elmer Fudd outfit when he pushed the button.
He is so proud of the one-shot hunt in Wyoming. That is where I grew up....He says it's in Lander, but it is about 35-40 miles from there on a ranch.
I have personally seen and talked to locals that work that thing, you see the big-wigs shoot the animal then a local gets to gut, skin, and butcher it. Anyway, I have talked to people who have seen the one-shot be a gut shot and then the Pronghorn Antelope will take 30-40 minutes to die. Really humane stuff.
bkj @ 40:
Compassionate conservatism!
killing is killing.......there ain't no way around that......thanks....but I'll pass.
OK, C&L calm down. (1.) From the video there's no way to tell if it was Huckabee or one other others in the party that was firing. (2.) It appears to me that the shots were not "over the heads" of the reporters but well to the left of them. (3.) This has nothing to do with anything substantive, and to try to make a connection to nuclear weapons is pretty lame.
Look folks, I love Crooks and Liars, but sometimes you go into the Rush Limbaugh zone of partisan sniping, and I think it's important that we call you on it.
I'd say that's just what the country needs for Nov. 2008: Another ignorant, inbred, hillbilly, gun-totin' Hey-Zeus freak fartin' into the White House sofa cushions for 4 long years.
"In the first 30 minutes, Huckabee, Saltzman and a friend shot three birds."
Anybody wanna guess whether "Saltzman and friend" were quick to give lil' Huck credit for hit(s) even if he may have shot nowhere near the targets?
50 most loathesome people of 2007. Huckabee comes in at a "respectable" 47.
http://www.buffalobeast.com/122/50mostloathsome2007.html
Many Republicans make the list (surprise, surprise) but the few Dems on the list rank near the top including Hillary at number 17.
Guess who gets number 1? Not a shocker by any means.
America - I present to you the first family in the nation:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8996600@N03/2145018366/
If you can see this and not puke you are a better man than me, gunga din...
Also, his fat son... well let me just quote:
"(Miller County, Arkansas) Two boy scout counselors, 17 year old Clayton Frady and 18 year old David litickabee, the son of Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, have admitted to catching a stray dog during their summer session at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, AR, and hanging the dog by his neck, slitting his throat and stoning him to death.
Camp officials, who did not report the crime to law enforcement officials, have admitted that the act did occur and have fired the boys from their positions. However, no charges have been filed against the young men.
Arkansas State Police conducted a perfunctory investigation, but did not attempt to locate witnesses to the crime."
from
http://www.utopiarescue.com/oldsite/stop_animal_torture.htm
These people sound exactly right to represent this great country to the world.
logan, we all already know dingleberry hucklebee's a neanderthal.
we got us a democratic primary to worry about.
how about a post reminding everyone that voter fraud is far from resolved?
how about posts focusing on our candidates strengths and weaknesses?
the only republican who can beat a democrat in '08 is ron paul. so, why not spend less time on neocon douche bags and more time on our candidates?
"Oh my God this is traumatizing"?
Now who on earth would have said that, under that circumstance? OK, maybe Niles Crane. Or his fictional brother, Frazier. Or The Biggest Wuss In The World. Or someone looking to collect from a lawsuit. And I don't doubt that a jackass like the Huckster might have done what was alleged.
But this report smacks of a journalistic hit job on a fat fish in a small barrel. A hit job on a political threat to the GOP powers-that-be. A threat they want destroyed.
Must be an Arkansas thing. John Daly (driver) and Mike Huckabee (shotgun), separated at birth?
Bill Norton @ 43:
with all due respect...the nuclear bit is an issue.....gun safety...is very important..if this man who is running for the office of the Presidency...doesn't practice gun safety....well.....that to me is bad judgement...and if he does win the Office......what's to say he will practice prudent safety with regards to our military and our Nuclear arsenal...........think about it.
I didn't see anything in the video particularly egregious from a danger perspective.
Killing birds for nothing more than a spectacle is another thing altogether. For him to act so lucky to hunt in Iowa and then spend a grand total of 15 minutes "hunting", preceded and succeeded by hours of interviews about the gun, hunting, campaigning, etc.....that is a little disingenuous, to say the least.
I for one don't like anyone pointing a loaded weapon anywhere near my direction.......it piss's me off.
Ruthless People @ 14:
Whoosh?
Wouldn't our teeth be just one of nature's ways of telling us that we do eat meat?
You're merely saying that we should be omnivores right? I can understand evolving the compassion and class to not kill animals on a moral/ethical level. To say, however, that we weren't meant to eat meat a class of misinformation. Plus it is uninformed about evolution.
Holier than thou vegetarians/vegans are just as classless and no more evolved than Ted Nugent listening, caveman carnivores.
Plants and animals don't equal cancer, but pesticides and added hormones do. Dont blame nature for our own fuck ups.
he's pandering to the NRA voters....last week with the cross(that wasn't)he was pandering to the religious right......this to me is the same old crap....only he let his weapon discharge...in the direction of people ......that's a big no no....it's actually illegal.
E_I @ 20:
I don't get it. Brought us what? Huckabee? In a way, the country was more gun-obsessed (certainly everyone was more familiar with firearms) when this country was first born. Maybe whatever "this" is, it is a result of lessening of responsible gun ownership and an exploding population? I would paint a difference between strict gun training and hunting that was a special part of growing up 60 years ago, and movies like the Terminator. Gee, I wonder which promotes a more unrealistic, and ultimately harmful idea of weapons? Though to be fair it all started with the westerns about that time too.
Jesus I think was a big fan of driving food into nets. He sure liked the fish caught that way, at any rate. The guy ate fish all the time, even after he was dead! Everyone around him ate beef on special occasions only and goat or mutton a bit more often (slaughtered Kosher-style of course); he didn't ever object. But I'm not sure if there was any game even left in that part of the world then? I seem to recall Peter or Paul in the new testament being commanded by Jesus to slaughter and eat a "host of unclean animals" (unclean meaning not just the kind of critters OK'd by the old testament, but also pigs, etc.). Something like that anyway... I thought it an odd phrase back when I was still a church-going 10 year old. Not sure about his preferred weapon though... hmm...
Although I don't hunt as much as I should I do handle and shoot guns an awful lot. And this incident with the Huckster disgusts me so badly he's lost my vote! Of course I would have hacked my arm off with a sharpened spoon rather then vote for him before this but still...
there are so many right wing whackos out there -- i wish we concentrated on the outrageous stories and not the petty ones. who gives a #*(!% about this?
this guy would be exactly like Boosh.
Is it me or doe the "Oh my God! Oh my God! Don't shoot. This is traumatizing" makes the reporters sound like a bunch of over-reacting city boys?
Found this different eye-witness account with a different utterance.
Now that sounds likely. And just as scary in the lack of attention shown for safety.
Agent Provocateur @ 53:
Way too many counterpoints to make. Just pick up a copy of "Nature's 1st Law - The Raw Food Diet".
Oh, and conteplate while you're at it why we don't have teeth like dogs and tigers but like other plant eaters.
Actually, the hunting didn't bother me that much, even though I am not myself a hunter or a gun user.
But his metaphors were very revealing. His humor was quite off-color.
He came across as a macho middle-aged dork.
Which is what he meant to do.
(head in hands, disillusionment)
Ruthless People @ 19:
Actually same diety, different name. I believe. But the right point! ;-)
Agent Provocateur @ 53:
We have a winner!
Ruthless, what you fail to notice is that homo sapiens were chasin' the herd for millions of years, mixin' in nuts, berries and grasses when they could find 'em. Agriculture is the root of the problems we face today.
Read this guy, Daniel Quinn. See what I'm talkin' about.
Now that the bar for the office of President has been sufficiently lowered, Huckabee is a shoe-in.
Thing Fish @ 59:
Ya know that someone yelled, "What the fuck are ya doin', ya dumbass fuckin' hillbilly?!?"
I'm pretty sure that's how I'd have reacted, anyway.
Andy K @ 63:
Live it, believe it. That's all I have to say.
Wow...nice camouflage shotgun. I can hardly see it.
/sarcasm off
...actually I tell a lie. I do have a few more things to say. Eat meat raw and see how natural it tastes. We evolved for billions of years on plant based diets, if we chased herds for millions of years that doesn't mean we were supposed to eat unatural foods. Rather than facing starvation we may eat things we should not eat, still does not make it natural.
Eating meat is a cruelty based diet. Not only is it unatural for humans leading to disease, it leads to animal suffering and planet pollution. Cooking foods is unatural, nothing is created with fire. Fire destroys including the enzymes and vitamins in foods.
If you want to eat meat, go ahead...just realize what you are doing don't lie to yourself and stick your head in the sand
Andy K @ 65:
I agree with Andy K that that's what was probably said. The story about the different eye witness account has gotta be bogus 'cause there's no way in hell a "hunting expert" said that it was "buckshot". It is correct though that the birdshot wouldn't have hurt them at the range their talking about. Been there, done that; when I was a kid I went along with my bother on a welding job near the gun club, they were shooting trap and the lead was falling in the trees all around us, once in a while one would bounce off me, long time ago but probably about 100-150 yards away from the shooters. eerie feeling. But I'm not saying that it's right to point a gun any closer then 45% from a person because it isn't!
Terrible @ 69:
45%?.....don't you mean 90%
Right now, its a race of cro-magnon proportions. The tobacco-chewin, camo-wearing, diesel pickup drivin base looks up to guys like Huckleberry and Boosh because it reminds them of their daddy or their boss at Home Depot.
Ruthless People @ 68:
Outside of our ability to relate tense(as in past, present and future) in our language, what differentiates us from wolves or coyotes? We are animals, Ruthless, no matter how high an opinion we have of ourselves.
And cruelty, at least in the way you describe it, is relative. Why do you deem it cruel for us to eat the flesh of animals? Those fuckin' wolves, huh, chasin' down a herd of elk...bastards!
And if cooking foods is un-natural, how do you explain the survival of homo sapiens down through the millenia? The fact is that raw meat contains many pathogens, and some human figured out long ago that if you cook that meat, you kill off the bugs.
And to carry your Frankenstein's Monster, "Fire Bad!" argument to the next level, how in the hell would you propose that we prepare our grains, if not with the use of fire? How easily does the human body digest raw wild rice or wild millet?
Whoops! Forgot to close a tag. Sorry.
This reminds me of Shrub "jokingly" aiming a bulldozer at a group of reporters. Classic behavior of bullies and sadists.
Why are all the Republican candidates slob hunters? If I had done something like that when I was a kid, I would have had a shotgun shoved up my rear end.
Terrible @ 69:
Story was an eye-witness account. And I don't think you can claim something is bogus because a person is quoting saying stupid. Otherwise every report on what Bush says could be considered bogus.
But, yea, something like what Andy K sounds like a more reasonable response. Mine would probably had also been muffled because I'd probably have dove into the dirt.
P.S. Benelli? Whats wrong with a good old American Remington?
L.A. Confidential @ 18:
Maybe he should just yank out a few teeth and learn to play the banjo.
Ruthless People-
You've got a valid point here, but only as it pertains to the domestication of animals. The proximity of so many humans to so many domesticated animals over a prolonged period of time has led to the cross-species spread of many diseases(see: pox, chicken and cow; see:influenza: avian and swine).
But this is as much, if not more a symptom of the Agricultural Revolution. When we ate of the tree of knowledge and began planting and irrigating, we didn't leave behind the animals we had domesticated. And when, because we learned how to store the surplus grains we now began to grow, our population grew- along with the population of those domesticated animals that we could also feed better and more easily. And as both populations grew, they crowded in on each other more and more. The diseases began to spread more easily and quickly.
And the fucked up thing is that we were such good farmers that we began infringin' on all of the other life forms on the planet. Jesus, man, we don't eat bats, but bats are passin' on all kinds of viruses to humans that history never recorded. Think the Ebola virus. And this wasn't, again, because we were eatin' animals, it was because we started eatin' more plant life.
Ditto for the planet pollution. We ruin the place in our quest for more farm land.
Damn it! The tag thing again! I am cursed!
If this numbnuts wins the elections plan on becoming a turd world country. God what an idiot and the press are entertaining him. They're so clueless.
Ruthless People @ 68:
Just my 2¢ but feel it more probably humans started out as omnivore scavengers.
I'm very skeptical of these types of stories concerning Huckabee. The GOP establishment does not want him to get the nomination, and they'll do all the same things to him (via their lapdog media) that they usually reserve for Dems.
I'm no fan of Huckabee's, of course. The man is a religious zealot who intends to undermine the Constitution just as profoundly as Bush. But I have to take these sorts of stories with a grain of salt, having seen them used so many times before against Democrats. This kind of narrative has a distinctly corporate media smell to it.
Ruthless People @ 60:
Um. I'm not a doctor or anything, but if you have teeth like a horse, you might want to see the dentist. Same if you have more than one stomach...
The humans I know have canines. And one stomach. And eat all kinds of crazy things, from near carrion to fermented honey to mushrooms to Pop Rocks. We eat everything. We are more the Bear and the Raccoon (Dog is catching up as we feed him more and more grain and plants, but is not there yet -- his body and health prefers raw bones and meat. He is a carnivore.) than we are the Lion OR the Cow.
Our teeth are specialized to eat meat (premolars canines), fruit (incisors), and some plants/seeds except fibrous grass and leaves (molars, though small). In otherwords, not specialized at all, but the best generalists in the world. Is this not true? Of course, even a cow will not turn down a yummy, crunchy locust or grasshopper as a snack occasionally. And even a Lion will nibble at grass for occasional roughage.
BTW, raw meat tastes fantastic whether sashimi, or beef. We've been using fire for quite a while though. And many things are "created" with fire. Entire ecosystems are adapted and depend on fire to reproduce. Or if you mean nutrients and taste I agree. Meat is best when the outside (that is exposed to air) is sterilized by fire, but the inside remains tender, juicy, and rare.
Normally I'd be content to think "to each their own" and not reply. But the most annoying deviation from reality in your posts, however, is a common delusion:
You've had people explain about the poisons of modern agriculture again and again, yet you just don't seem to get it. Perhaps you need more protein or vitamin B-complex in your diet? Your supposedly morally superior position is a lie. FAR more people die from inadequate access to the nutrients that a portion of meat would provide them than die from some imaginary "meat disease". They "cannot live on bread alone" you see.
Personally, the cruelty line I think most laughable. After all, if I was a deer, I'd rather be in a managed herd in my natural habitat (and occasionally be eaten), than have my forest clearcut for a monoculture of soy. No other plants, just soy. No animals, not even insects. Just soy. No deer, no rabbits, just genetically modified soy. Yet it is this model in combination with a population expanding out of control that some irresponsible vegans would claim to be "cruelty-free". Hardly. You would deny the entire existence of the deer in the first place. I would protect it and manage it -- meaning occasional killing and consumption. Now which is crueler? Better to never have lived at all, you say. Very... "final solution" of you. In fact, it is that sentiment that has lead to killing of deer to manage herd size that just lets the body rot on the ground rather than respectful hunting! Now THAT is sacrilege -- but hey, at least the vegans are still happy, right?! There is no immortal deer, death is a natural process. So almost every deer dies a painful, cruel death in nature. Starvation, disease, being frozen alive, being eaten while still alive by predators, these are the natural outcomes. You need to get out more. Seriously. We all kill for our food, either directly or displacement. I'm just more honest about it than you are.
By making a pact with the deer to eat him, I am also promising that I will make sure the herd lives, and produces... that they have enough land and food. That they are healthy. After all, the deer must be there for my children, and their children, and so on. When I ignore the deer, I am now his competitor for herbaceous growth and land. I care not for him -- the sacred bond is broken. All deer could perish, I would not notice with my nose in the air, mouth full of soy paste and vitamin pills.
This is not a choice that we must make: only one path or the other; the wonder of nature is diversity. Ideally, so too should be our food, and therefore our "food lands". Trees that grow nuts and fruits that shelter other plants with edible leaves and berries that also host deer and rabbit and birds which we can also consume responsibly. In other words the ultimate answer is nature itself, not cropland. Not surprising.
If there are too many people, and they over-burden the earth, switching from collecting small amounts of many different kinds of food to collecting huge amounts of only a few kinds of plants solves NOTHING. Feedlots, like franken-crop monocultures with petroleum poisons on the soil, are both sinful byproducts of overpopulation. That doesn't mean that eating meat or eating plants alone is sinful. Seek the root of the problem, if you desire a cure.
Maybe we should have Huckabee call God again on his cell phone to resolve the dispute...
Next we'll see him up in Canada clubbing seal pups. His son still wins most disgusting person for hanging a pet dog. Just think if he were a dumb football player, he'd be in prison.
Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm huntin' weporters , hehehee
I think his attempt to kill reporters will only HELP him with the Republican wingnut base.
(And that has got to be the stupidest outfit I've seen since Woody Allen dressed up as a SPERM for 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex.")
Just sat through 13 mins of CNN raw footage on this and saw...absolutely nothing.
As much as I would have loved to see something newsworthy, there was butkus
Sorry, Logan. Nice try.
Is Huckabee Gomer Pile or what? The man knows nothing about foreign policy and apparently handles a firearm like a moron.
i hate this man..... and he represents the very reason atheists should be taken seriously as candidates
I'm sick of Huck doing his "I'm a retrosexual" shtick
Schmuckabee!
I can't tell from the intrepid investigating reporters if Mr. H. was lawfully following the Iowa game laws while hunting pheasants. Seems like there is some licensing and fees that are required according to the State at: www.iowadnr.com/wildlife/files/upfaq.html.
Hopefully he was not a lawbreaker or acting illegally during his shoot-out at the Iowa corral and that the dead bird were donated to a food bank ( with buckshot extracted).
Just saying!
yet another reason to vote for butt fuckabee. the knownothing vote that loves bushco will love this.
What if his dog had jumped up at that moment and hit his elbow?
I desperately want Huckabee to win the nomination. He is so profoundly unsuited to be President that his nomination clinches the Republican shut-out.
Who the hell cries out " This is traumatizing!" ?
I want Elmer Fudd to win the GOP nomination
man come on, you weren't even there, you're just using this incident to further your political stance, if he would have sneezed to the right you'd be saying the same thing, impeach huckabee!! get a life man
hareli @ 94:
He'd just blame the dead reporters on the dog, and kill it. I hear the Huckabees aren't too crazy about dogs either.
And yes, I'm hoping he gets the Republican nomination, too. It would be tantamount to the Republicans running George W. all over again. The 'solid quarter' might like that idea, but I think the rest of the country would take a pass on it. A Huckabee/Romney ticket would be a dream come true for the Dems. Huckabee would scare away the moderates, and Romney would drive away the wingnut base. On the other hand, a McKain/Huckabee or a Giuliani/Huckabee ticket would be a nightmare for the Dems.
I don't think he'll last anyway. He's a flash in the pan. 9iu11iani will rough he and his up a bit with the rubber hoses, and they'll cave.
Hah! Tha'll teach the damn librul press a message! See what to expect?
:-D
I'm sick of rednecks. Go away Huckleberry.
Considering all that has gone before, firing over reporters? The "joke" about hunting down and shooting anyone who doesn't go his way, is something to take seriously - he's deranged
as a long time hunter/huntress/hunting grrl (yes i like that) who grew up in vermont i can state uneqiuvocally that huckabee is a complete and utter boob who should be stripped of ahy future chance at a hunting licence until he gets retrained and recertified. he for a supposed 10 yr veteran he exhibited some vast errors of hunting judgemant.
he broke one of the two most important rules of hunting which are :never, ever shoot unless you are 100% certain of your target and never shoot in the at your target if it is also in the same direction as an alternate target that is undesireable.
as an aside that reported that yelled “Oh my God! Oh my God! Don’t shoot. This is traumatizing.” should never had accepted such an assignment. what an unprofessional boob.
The Huckster seems like the kind of good ol' boy that a big ol' chunk of American christians would like ta sit down and have a beer with...........uh oh....didn't that?....naw
It's called buck fever. Not a good trait for the person who would have his finger on the nucular (sic) button.
that's right. shoot first and ask questions later. sounds like more Bush style foreign policy.
This guy Huckabee gets creepier by the minute! Firing over the head of people is such a nono that I'm wondering if he has worms for brains?? I'm serious - each time he goes "off the cuff", he makes a bigger jackass of himself. He knew nothing of the NIE report or even what NIE was the acronym for. Then he furthered his imbecility by speaking of Afghanistan and not even knowing where the country was located geographically and this is the man vying for the highest position in this country. We should feel ashamed that we even have this stooge running a campaign. The only reason he's gained any support is because he is, for the Repukes, the "lesser of all evils" - there is no GOP candidate worthy of election at this point and, once again, the people want to feel superior to their president (which is the case with Bush) so he's gaining popularity.
We've learned one difficult lesson regarding the intelligence of our leader with Bush who makes a total buffoon of himself each time he speaks; we definitely do not need another moron who is clueless about foreign policy, clueless about hunting ethics and rules, and god only knows what else this clueless moron isn't aware of. Pathetic excuse for a candidate!
sassafra @ 103:
In taking Huck's behavior with the reporters one step further, I think it's safe to say that Huck, not unlike Shrubbie who inserted firecrackers into the anal orifices of frogs and lit them for sheer pleasure, Huckabee may, in fact, be a sadist as well.
To do something like this and laugh about it when it obviously caused much fear and consternation among those in attendance is proof positive that this guy is seriously, if not profoundly mentally compromised.
This will be Huck's "last hurrah" - just like the old hunting garb photo shoot tanked Kerry, this "shooting-gate" will be Huck's swan song (or pheasant song).
And this maniac is running for president?
Whaddaya mean, he missed. Who knows his intent? Ya gotta admit, if you have a gaggle of idiot 'news'folks chasing you around, the temptation is great.
Babbling boobs should know better that to try to interview a guy with a gun.
On the other hand, if his aim is that bad, he shouldn't be president.
What if he tried to Nuke the godless heathens in Iran, and hit the godless heathens in Israel?
That's like walking in and crapping on your boss's desk.
People criticize Huckabee for having no foreign affairs knowledge or experience.
But he knows 'heaven', and he knows 'hell', what else is there to know?
boy that is the truth all we need is another idiot republican with his dumbass finger on the button!
I will vote for whatever dem gets the nomination!
Another war hero who probably got a deferment...
Fil @ 97:
Ewect me Pwesident or I come out bwasting!
Anyone check to see if the Huckster purchased an out of state hunting license for his little excursion into the wild?
What a F*#@ing idiot...this CHUCKLE-HEAD thinks he's qualified to be a president??
The man is just NOT presidential material. But then again, the religeous right gave us George W. Bush so I guess the sky is the limit for this jesus freak.
Pericles @ 86:
Yup.
http://zazie.no.sapo.pt/i%5C'm%20not%20going.jpg
Hmm. Not to defend Huck being unable to manage his weapon safely, but #59 says they were not wearing orange? Not clearly marking yourself in a dangerous area is pretty stupid also, on behalf of either the reporters or whoever organizes these lame events. I say mark everyone involved as "failed".
As an aside to the hunting/anti-hunting distraction above, there was an interesting piece on NPR today about that very thing (you have to listen to the whole thing). It shows that breaking the chain of the hunter/warden and the animals of the land was actually worse for the animals than the hunting itself in Africa. The wholesale slaughter of the big African game only began once hunting was outlawed, as the animals lost all value to humans living there. The first peoples of America that depended on game and held it as sacred versus the uncaring Europeans that killed and left bison to rot is another example. They didn't use the bison so it was considered of "no value" to them, and to some extent that was technically accurate. And pretty bad for the bison.
swarmofkillermonkeys @ 83:
Spoken like a true meat eater. Having been a meat eater for half my life I can speak from first hand knowledge on both sides on how one feels both nutritionally and spirtually being raw/vegan/vegitarian. If you think your diet is working for you, keep doing it. Eventually nature will let you know, in not so subtle ways, your body wasn't meant to be a grave yard for dead animals or overly cooked and processed foods. On a spritual note hopefully there is not such thing as karma that would have you come back to earth in your next life as one of those hunted animals or a cow in a slaughterhouse.
But... but Chuck Norris said he's a "life-long hunter!"
"Pheasants, peasants. What's the difference?"
Stupid reporter fell for the joke. I'd like to know who it was?
You gave Mike and the boys a cheap laugh.
If Huckabee were smart, he wouldn't have done that.
Of, course, if he were smart, he wouldn't be a minister.
If he were even smarter, he wouldn't be a baptist.
If he were really smart, he'd be an atheist.
And he'd be much closer to 'god'.
WGA Writer @ 4:
This isn't substantiated at all. I don't want to call out Logan for not doing in-depth blogging, but this is a NON story. What kind of candy assed reporter would cry out "Oh my God! Oh my God! Don’t shoot. This is traumatizing."? Someone like that probably shouldn't be standing in a frozen Iowa corn field full of armed repugs and caged pheasants.
Every time I see Huckabee, I think, 'There, but for the Grace of Evolution, goes a slimy, crawling, mumbling, idiot, assh*le'.
Thanks to evolution, he's not crawling, he's up on two feet
Logan,
Get real--this wasn't incompetence.
Think:
The WashPost and Repub/DC insiders hate Huckabee.
Huckabee slams Cheney's hunting incompetence, pre-hunt; b/c they're already at odds.
But he's also seen how ugly Repub power politics works, and from watching Cheney & Bush work, he learns--like any abuser. (think about his son & the dog)
Huck took his cue from Bush's going after reporters with that Caterpillar tractor---and fired his shotgun over the reporters' heads. Referencing Cheney's accident before, and remarking on the fate of non-supporters after, ensures the message is unmistakable.
Huck knew what he was doing--and so did the WashPost.
With one episode/event, Huck simultaneously threatened and tried to intimidate the news media, the electorate, and Republican insiders.
Holding Bush accountable is crucial b/c it sets a precedent. There's no guarantee the next Prznts won't go further than Bush, violate humane & democratic norms to a greater degree, viewing Bush's outlaw regime as an invitation. Bush has earned real accountability, but Establishment Washington hasn't wanted to face up to either basic or the open-ended structural damage that no accountability brings. That a dangerous mistake.
fuddled @ 107:
More like shoot first and don't bother asking me any questions, 'cause I'm not answering anyway.
Apparently, this kind of behavior is exactly what Republican crave.
There is no question that Huckabee is a batshit crazy douchebag. However, I think the wuss who screamed "This is tramatizing" is an even bigger douche.
First thing that popped into my head was when Michael Jackson dangled his infant son over a railing.
Huckabee could become our next president if for no other reason than his aim is better than that of Bush.
Ruthless People @ 121:
Actually, it was spoken like a true fellow human being. This is why there can be no rational discussion on this issue with you. You think that your experience, brand of spirituality, and perspective is an acceptable substitute for my own. So you make pejorative judgments accordingly...
I don't. And let me assure you, you are incorrect there as well (regarding my dietary habits and history). You blur two concepts here though, as over-processing foods is a different problem from meat consumption. (ie. a Twinkie is NOT healthier than fresh fish from a clean stream. I'll leave it to you as to which is more "moral" in the eyes of the Great Pumpkin or whomever you pray to.)
I would add that these types of mistaken assumptions will hurt any truly meaningful conversation with those of another political perspective as well. That assumes you are looking to communicate, rather than just shout to hear your own voice, of course.
If there is any spiritual lesson in recent history, I would think it to be the folly of man placing himself "above" or "outside" of the rest of nature, rather than working with nature. Including understanding and accepting predation.
I'll gladly meet whatever maker you can dream up with a clear conscience in these beliefs. It's clear to me that if any being designed the systems on this planet, that being knows exactly what I've been talking about.
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What a gross disgusting life-hating pig. To see a grown man take down innocent animals with such glee makes me ill. I'd much rather see a duck in my yard than a Huck in my yard. Maybe someone will take you down Mikey. You might go good with a little pomegranate.
The religious nut who claims to be pro-life doesn't care about anyone's life but his own.
BTW Repubs are NOT pro-life, they are merely pro-birth. Following birth, beware.
My brother and my best friend are both cockeyed, and, they are both crazy, for real. Huckabee's got a cockeye....
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Oh. Thanks! :)
Everything I read about him displays alarming poor judgement and this is just another example. Hope he does get the GOP nod. He is an idiot and he will lose. Go back to Arkansas and preach to those gullible fools.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E3DB123AF936A1575AC0A...
Published: September 25, 1994
Humans are meat eaters. Look at our teeth and brain. This is evolutionary fact.
I forgot to put in a link.
http://richarddawkins.net/article,865,The-Human-Body-as-an-Evolutionary-...
A video of a lecture that talks about this, and a lot more.
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