Mike Huckabee joins Jay Leno on Caucus eve!
By John Amato Monday Dec 31, 2007 1:54pmOK, so is it a surprise to anyone that Jay Leno's first guest will be Mike Huckabee after breaking with the WGA strikers!
On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee will trade jokes with Jay Leno on NBC's "Tonight Show."
While his rivals will be making a final appeal to the state's voters, Huckabee will be flying to Los Angeles to tape the show with Leno, who returns to the air Wednesday without striking writers.
A similar late-night appearance backfired on rival Fred Thompson, who irked voters in New Hampshire by skipping a Republican debate last fall at the University of New Hampshire to announce his candidacy on Leno's show.
The WGA is hoping their deal with Letterman will have a dramatic effect on Leno's ratings. United Hollywood weighs in on it. The idea of crossing the picket line will keep many celebrities off of Leno, but Jay has been a stand up for decades and his fans tune in to see him so I guess we'll see how that shakes out.
I'm not sure if Huckabee has the Secret Service guarding him yet, (I did a quick google search and came up empty) but it'll be interesting to see how his security responds to the striking writers when Huckabee shows up to Leno...Can you see any arrests coming as we've seen in the past with BushCo. for simply wearing a "Huckabee sucks t-shirt?" Have your video cameras with you if you're on the line.
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Ron Paul beat him in crossing the picket line
http://blog.aflcio.org/2007/12/05/ron-paul-crosses-writers-picket-line
jr @ 1:
Note to self remind Ron Paul fans of this.
BTW Democrats sympathize with the strikers that's why they aren't on his show.
Mike Scababee?
Leno tells funny joke, I'll grant him that.
Now he's going to show funny jokes.
I wonder what the story is with Bill Maher and his writers? Supposedly he is going back on the air January 11th, 2008. Anyone heard what the deal is with his writers and their relationship to the strike?
The gop will nominate Gomer Pyle:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y135/Pandabonium/slide/GomerPyle.jpg
Johnny Carson wouldn't approve of this.
This is not going to be very pretty in my opinion. The writer's strike has been going on for some time now and those people are angry. I can't say that I don't blame them either. In fact, I agree with them 100%. If things turn ugly this could be used against Huckabee depending upon what happens. Crossing a picket line is not a easy thing to do especially for a Presidential candidate that could be out in Iowa sending out his message one last time. You can bet that the ones with the video cameras though will be Huckabee's rivals and they will photograph every mistake he makes.
Republicans don't care about strikers, in fact Huckabee scabbing for Leno will play well with the cave dwellers.
Great article on the Huckster having anti-war protesters arrested, this guy is really into killing:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/29679
OMG!
Jay Leno uses writers?!
And all this time I thought he was unfunny all by himself.
Live and learn.
Happy New Year, all.
jay lenos been giveing repigs blow jobs for yrs, it,ll cost you five dollars for one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Letterman struck a deal, but he owns the production, just like Oprah owns her production.
This has to have made it easier on Letterman to go back on the air, if it were Viacom who owned his show, he'd probably not be going back, and thats likely why Leno is going back on, he has to, like it or not.
jr @ 1:
thanks for the ammo, but I'm sure Paulistas have a spin for this-like he had to deliver a baby on the other side of the picket line.
Shit. I shouldn't be giving them ideas.
Will Leno ask him how he feels about the separation of church and state?
Probably not, and Huckabee would only answer it in such a way that the founding fathers would all take him out back of the barn and take turns kicking the crap out of him.
miss_kitty @ 14:
Some of them act like Paul is the second coming.
The Hucksters appearance on Leno will not endear him to anyone sympathetic to the working man and unions. I'm not sure how sucking up to a Hollywood jiver like Leno will play with the Iowa caucusers either. I don't especially like Leno anyway, and I will never watch him again. Thanks to Letterman for settling with the writers union seperately...I hope this starts really hurting the big studios...
CD @ 16:
Hell. some of them act like he's the FIRST coming.
BTW, Hillbilly Huckabee didn't need to cross a picket line to underscore his lack of respect for humanity.
Turk Meister @ 3:
I think it's Mike suckabee.
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
I haven't watched the Tonight Show since Carson left.
Lollimom @ 4:
Bah hahahahaha! Exactly.
miss_kitty @ 18:
You aren't kidding they seem to think that when Ron Paul is elected (and in their minds he election is inevitable) all will become perfect overnight.
bill w @ 19:
Or Mike Yuckabee! Gosh campaigns can be fun!
huck is a repug, so union non-support is the default.
jay may have a blue-collar start in life, but he is looking staunchly neo-fascist these days.
leno chose huckabee over putin? i'm stunned.
Lost in the pundits' pondering over Mike Huckabee's scam to show - and then not air - an attack ad against Mitt Romney is the former Arkansas Governor's apparent bloodlust. As Steve Benen and Michael Crowley note, Huckabee's spot takes Romney to task for a record in Massachusetts that included "no executions." In extolling the joys of the death penalty, Huckabee is following in the proud tradition of George W. Bush.
For the details, see:
"Huckabee Echoes Bush in Killer Ad."
They might have trouble booking guests. The guests are mostly actors and singers. By appearing they will definitely upset a lot of colleagues. Also a lot of their fans who is sympathetic to the writers will see this as a political statement. Leno's potential guests are the "open republicans" and maybe unknowns who have nothing to loose. I predict guests like Chuck Norris, Patricia Heaton (from Everybody loves Raymond), Elisabeth Hasselbeck...
If he can't tell a monologue and can't book guests, then he has to alter his show somewhat. Like longer interviews per guest and segments with absolutely no writing needed. The only threat to the writers are, if it becomes "normal" or "accepted" to appear on the show while they are on strike. If he can't get any quality quests, then his show is going to suck ass. Letterman will have good time:-)
I think Huckabee is being advised by Willie Coyote. He's done some crazy shit the last few days.
BennyP @ 11:
My thoughts exactly. Jay is more unfunny than dead air. He's a black hole that sucks in surrounding humor, never to let it escape again for all eternity.
What's Huckabee's picture doing on the cover of Jonah Goldberg's new book?
Amato: You seem to have a handle on what's-what in the writers strike. So what's up with Stewart and Colbert? My understanding is that they'll soon crossing a picket line. Which is to say, they're stabbing organized labor in the back. Their convenient spiel about supporting non-union personnel aside, shouldn't their return be considered an attack on all unions? Or not?
Leno's ratings must really suck for him to make this kind of move.
Rob J @ 29:
I wonder if Carson regretted choosing that asshat before he passed. JC never even came back as a guest after ditching Letterman, AFAIR.
pissed off patricia @ 28:
I thought huKKK's advisor was elmer fudd.
leno is just a two bit insult commedian , its funnyier watching garbage rot then this goober!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CoIntelPro @ 34:
Mr Elmer Fudd is Huck's fashion adviser. ;)
A very wonky FYI WRT Secret Service protection for Huckabee ... give the below, it's higly unlikely he's getting any (protection, that is)
TITLE 18 > PART II > CHAPTER 203 > § 3056
§ 3056. Powers, authorities, and duties of United States Secret Service
(a) Under the direction of the Secretary of Homeland Security, the United States Secret Service is authorized to protect the following persons:
(1) The President, the Vice President (or other officer next in the order of succession to the Office of President), the President-elect, and the Vice President-elect.
(2) The immediate families of those individuals listed in paragraph (1).
(3) Former Presidents and their spouses for their lifetimes, except that protection of a spouse shall terminate in the event of remarriage unless the former President did not serve as President prior to January 1, 1997, in which case, former Presidents and their spouses for a period of not more than ten years from the date a former President leaves office, except that—
(A) protection of a spouse shall terminate in the event of remarriage or the divorce from, or death of a former President; and
(B) should the death of a President occur while in office or within one year after leaving office, the spouse shall receive protection for one year from the time of such death:
Provided, That the Secretary of Homeland Security shall have the authority to direct the Secret Service to provide temporary protection for any of these individuals at any time if the Secretary of Homeland Security or designee determines that information or conditions warrant such protection.
(4) Children of a former President who are under 16 years of age for a period not to exceed ten years or upon the child becoming 16 years of age, whichever comes first.
(5) Visiting heads of foreign states or foreign governments.
(6) Other distinguished foreign visitors to the United States and official representatives of the United States performing special missions abroad when the President directs that such protection be provided.
(7) Major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates and, within 120 days of the general Presidential election, the spouses of such candidates. As used in this paragraph, the term “major Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates” means those individuals identified as such by the Secretary of Homeland Security after consultation with an advisory committee consisting of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the minority leader of the House of Representatives, the majority and minority leaders of the Senate, and one additional member selected by the other members of the committee. [emphasis mine]
The protection authorized in paragraphs (2) through (7) may be declined.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00003056----0...
Leno & Huck
Birds of a feather...
Ron Paul crossed the picket line ZOMG how dare he!!! I mean if he voted for the iraq war or the patriot act like nearly all the democrats and republicans did then I could at least forgive him, after all it's not like those hurt anybody.
But crossing the picket line over writers who make more in a week than most of us make a month is atrocious! You just can't vote for the guy now.
Were there black people on the picket line? I think I saw one on the tv! ... further proof this man is a reincarnated Hitler!
Leno sucks anyway.
Gary,
I know you Paulbots can't stand the idea that - GASP! - someone is treating your New Fuhrer like he was a human being, or worse, like you treat anyone who's not a Loyal Follower of Lord Ron. But learn to live with it. If you [deleted] can't take that your candidate is, and always will be, exposed as a corporatist paranoid racist shitbag in the same manner that you try to "expose" things we already know about our candidates and choose to deal with through something besides extremism, then you should do us all a favor and shut your [deleted--keep it civil please].
Site Monitor: Keep it civil. I'm not interested in monitoring your flame war.
Gary @ 39:
Do they really make that much money? They know they are getting pennies on the dollar for the DVD's their corporate masters sell and they write.
[Deleted.]
Ok, excuse me, but CALL THE FEC!
Since when does a show like Jay Leno get to showcase only one candidate the night before the actual vote without offering equal time to everyone else?
If I was Team Romney or Team Thompson, I'd be raising some serious hell about this.
Huckabee is becoming hte "king of free advertising" with his friend on the left happily towing the line.
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
i remember johnny had george "goober" lindsay on once. it was ok.
he didn't ask him a single question about running for president.
see how times have changed?
And my question is:
Why did the New Hampshire NEA *ENDORSE* picket line-crossing Huckabee?
Ask them yourself.
As an outsider, truthfully, I can't stand Huckleberry, not just for his religious tone about politics, but he thinks funny quips and jokes seem more important in his responses to questions than facts.
I also agree with one of the posters above who wondered why Huckabee gets front stage on the Leno show just before the Iowa caucuses? Maybe it will highlight him as less than the serious candidate he seems to be if he continues to come out with one liners or push the religion again. Maybe he will repeat that famous line that he wants to take back America for Christ. That should go over big with all the atheists and those religious people who don't wear it on their sleeve and believe in your separation of Church and State.
Why does Leno need writers anyway? For 14 years he inserts at least one Clinton slam in each of his monotologs. If he says something derogatory about a Republican he has to slam Clinton.
The only things funny about his show are the "headlines" and Jaywalking which shows the mentality of Americans. It might be interesting if he asked some illegal immigrants the same questions he asks Americans. Are you listening GSN?
ronpaul @ 43:
you're kidding, right?
[That was posted by the poster ronpaul, who has been banned for impersonating a site monitor-Sitemonitor]
Earlier I asked: "Amato: You seem to have a handle on what’s-what in the writers strike. So what’s up with Stewart and Colbert? My understanding is that they’ll soon crossing a picket line. Which is to say, they’re stabbing organized labor in the back. Their convenient spiel about supporting non-union personnel aside, shouldn’t their return be considered an attack on all unions? Or not"?
I'm kind of surprised that no one has yet to comment on the question. I've long held both entertainers in high regard, and still do (jeezuz, Stewart is a veritable Walter Cronkite, compared with today's corporate clowns). Still do, that is, unless they're about to cross a picket line. And, if that's the case, screw 'em both.
medlakeguy @ 49:
thanks real site monitor!
they never play fair, do they?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/23357.html
Check out this article by Christopher Bollyn about how the votes in Iowa are counted. This is f-ing incredible.
http://www.dailypaul.com/node/19098
Leno hasn't been the same since his temper tantrum over the Worldcom debacle. It's easy to see now that money makes his world go round, and republicans help him keep the most money. He's pulled about every sleazy trick to help his Republican friends and I never did hear he got around breaking the law by only having Arnold on.
Kudos to Letterman on the deal, which only he can make since he is his own production company, paying salaries and insurance for non-writing staff, calling people on the chimp's activities and becoming a heck of a nice guy. Hard to imagine it's the same Dave sometimes.
Leno did that with Arnold. He's breaking the law, and his republican friends are letting him do it. He's trying to walk a line by saying he's a news reporter, and as such isn't required to give equal time as he's doing news.
But then again, he doesn't report 'news' about anyone else and acts like entertainment for everything else.
And getting myself in trouble, I wonder if Ron Paul isn't the ultimate chameleon. To liberals, he has popular liberal issues. To conservatives, popular conservative issues.
For instance, out of Iraq, get rid of the HMOs, gay rights and gay marriage if the state allows it.
On the other side, fiscal responsibility, small government, close the borders.
In today's world of cognitive dissonance you see what you want to see and ignore the rest.
Bill Mitchell @ 44:
pissed off patricia @ 28:
Yea, I don't know who is running his campaign. Whoever is coming up with these stunts must be smoking some really good weed.
Well, doggone. Still no response as to whether or not Stewart and Colbert will be crossing a picket line, with all that implies. "Thou shalt not speak ill of perceived political hipsters". Is that what it boils down to?
To anyone out there pulling their punches, keep in mind what Stewart himself has pointed out on a regular basis: He's just an entertainer.
I think it boils down to Stewart and Colbert being management and thus having to return to work when ordered to--note that that seems to be the WGA position on them: blame Comedy Central and Viacom, not Stewart and Colbert. So long as they continue to pay their writers, don't do any writing that ordinarily would be done by their writers, and, hopefully, use the show as a platform to support the writers, I've got no complaints about them returning to work. Guests will be a tricky issue--encouraging others to cross the picket line is different than returning to work because ordered to do so--but we'll see how that's handled.
Of course we still have to wait and see, but I suspect, at least as far as Stewart/Colbert goes, that they will really lay into the powers that be and stick up for the writers. They have never not been ones to take shots at their corporate masters and I suspect they will be even more inclined to now. They will have a platform to really speak for the writers and there is nothing that CC or Viacom can do, as they would be absolutely foolish and suicidal, ratings-wise, if they were to 'punish' them by getting rid of two of their most popular shows, especially ones that get the types of viewers that these two do.
I also think that LongTooth @ 56 is on to something too. The Daily Show and Colbert Report are like no other shows on TV. Equal to this uniqueness is also their importance. Writers(or at least most) are quite intelligent people, and there for likely politically savy, I dont think anyone is upset with them coming back because they understand how, especially in these times and right in the heart of the primaries for the new "most important election ever", important of a service they offer.
I loved Jay Leno when he was a standup comedian. Haven't watched him since he took over the Tonight Show because HE ISN'T FUNNY anymore. Also, he is a huge suckup. Booking Huckabee isn't all that surprising. Didn't Fred Thompson announce on Leno's show?
Stewart is anti-union and hates his writers. He always has, because he knows he wouldn't have a hit show without them -all 13 of them! He was FORCED to unionize his writers after 7 years of fighting it through abuse and threats against employees. Stewart's main concerns are power and money. And if he could make as much being a Bill O'Reilly, he'd do it in a second.
Jim-(former Daily Show writer of 4 years)
LongTooth @ 50:
Well, Jim's a liar:
Disgruntled former employee? Take it elsewhere.
Huck is gonna win. I will vote for Huck unless Obama is the dem nominee.
good luck huck!
First: Disgruntled former employee? Yes, I am. I don't like verbal and physical abuse. And I don't like being exploited and lied to.
Second: Who are YOU? I was there. Four years worth. You were not. So at best, you are completely ignorant of what happened. At worst, you're some nut who can't get it that sometimes people in show business AREN'T really who they seem to be in front of the camera. It's called show business.
Third: There's a room full of former Daily Show writers (and frightened current ones) who were repeatedly threatened by Stewart for contacting the WGA. When I contacted the union, they told me they were trying to convince your hero that fair wages and health benefits were basic human rights -but they were afraid of angering Stewart. After he threatened his writers for the umpteenth time, they finally forced it on him. The Daily Show is union now ONLY due to the strength and bravery of one of the ex-writers, who I am not at liberty to name.
You think the WGA wants that publicized, you noodge?! What you quoted below is a nicey-nicey press release, that's all.
Fifth: Where's your great beacon of progressive thought lately? You seen him on the picket line? Ever? Um, nope.
Last and not least: His blubbering post 9/11 speech describing how he used to have a view of the twin towers from his apartment, but now he can see the Statue of Liberty -well THAT was a lie. He never had a view of anything from his flat. And 13 other writers will attest to that.
Grow up. You're living in a dream world. If you really believed in what Mr. Stewart claims to believe, then you'd be joining the picket outside the Daily Show studio. Hope to see you there.
Rob J @ 61:
Whoops. I forgot...
Fourth: Jon's real last name is Liebowitz. See? It's called "show" business. It's not all real!
Jim
Mike Huckabee is that Andy Griffith character, Lonesome Rhodes, in Elia Kazan's 1958 film "A Face in The Crowd." Check out clips and comparison here...
http://dreamdogsart.typepad.com/art/2008/01/mike-huckabee-a.html
See my interpretation of the other candidates as the dogs they represent here...
http://dreamdogsart.typepad.com/art/dog_art_politics/index.html
Tonight should be intereting.
M
You mean Johny Carson is not there anymoe?
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