SNL's Weekend Update: Huckabee's Graceful Exit
By Nicole Belle Saturday Feb 23, 2008 6:03pm
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Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee explains to Weekend Update anchor Seth Meyers why he's still in the race.
MEYERS: So, Governor, you remain in the race, despite the fact that it’s a mathematical impossibility that you can win. And our question is: why?
HUCKABEE: Well, Seth, the media loves to throw around the term “mathematical impossibility” but no one can ever explain exactly what that means to me.
MEYERS: Well, let me give that a shot: basically, it takes 1,191 delegates to clinch your party’s nomination and even if you won every remaining unpledged delegate, you would still fall 200 delegates short.
HUCKABEE: Wow. Seth, that was an excellent explanation. But I’m afraid that you overlook the all-important Super Delegates. Don’t forget about them.
MEYERS: Well, I won’t forget about them, but the Super Delegates are only in the Democratic primaries.
HUCKABEE: Ah…they can vote in the Republican primary?
MEYERS: They cannot.
HUCKABEE: Uh oh. That’s not good news. You know, Seth, I was …I was counting on those Super Delegates.
MEYERS: Sorry to break that to you. Now does this mean that now you know that, you’re going to drop out of the race?
HUCKABEE: Well, fortunately, Seth, I’m not a math guy. I’m more of a miracle guy. So at this point, I’m going to focus on the miracle part. But if that miracle doesn’t happen, let me assure the American people that Mike Huckabee does not overstay his welcome. When it’s time for me to go, I’ll know. And I’ll exit out with class and grace.
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I'm glad to see that Huckabee has a sense of humor and all but if he knows he doesn't have a chance then why is he staying in the race?
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I know people want to believe that America is a Christian Nation and all, but really, come on...
Huckabee, former Baptist Minister, became a braggart over how many people he's sent to their death.
How very Christian of him... YES?
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Is Huckabee really joking, cause I can't figure out why he's still around.
Is he going to use a calculator to balance the budget or is he going to rely on miracles and hosanas?
Huckabee is a circling vulture waiting for the elderly sick looking man with the horrible temper to suddenly meet his maker. That is the only "miracle" that could in any way result in Huckabee getting the nomination.
I just wonder if this "good Christian man" actually prays for this to happen ...
Politics aside, Huckabee is a pretty good actor. His reaction to learning the hard truth about super delegates was as good as pretty much any other actor in this miserable cast (but not as good as Jesse Jackson, back in the day, reading Green Eggs and Ham). It's obvious he knows he's cooked; maybe he could sign on to SNL for a stint filling in those traditionally Phil Hartmann-esque roles.
AHHAHAHA! THEIR PARENT COMPANY MANUFACTURES WEAPONS THAT HAVE KILLED OVER 1 MILLION IRAQIS! NOW THAT SOME FUNNY ISH!!!!
You know what? I don't agree with his politics, and I don't think he'd make a good president AT ALL! But I like Mike Huckabee!
Mike Huckabee is an excellent speaker. Probably the best of all candidates either side. I know he's a freak, and there may not be much substance to what he's saying, but his elocution is perfect.
Boogaloo Scrimps @ 8:
easy now GE weapons didn't kill all 1 million.
Geezy peezy.
Boogaloo: what are you talking about? NBC is owned by GE. What weapons did GE make?
I'm confused about something, was this truth or fiction? A sound argument could be made for either of those choices given the insanity of that skit / explanation.
SNL's stooped to this?
I just finished watching 60 Minutes' report about Siegelman. It's the 1st story and well worth watching, well worth missing 20 minutes of the Oscars to those of you who live in time zones with time conflicts. No doubt about Rove's involvement in my mind, not that I had any doubt before watching this report.
this wasnt a funny bit
oh look, im mike huckabee and i can laff at myself.....whahahahahahahaa
humanizing a guy who believes that birth control pills should be banned is the wrong thing to do
snl is a corporate show
once a trend setter, now following the trends
TomR @ 14:
The effect is shifting the ongoing debacles away from the daily reality of Americans and towards the abyss of a most cavernous memory hole.
uncle joe mccarthy @ 17:
No doubt about it.
I think the "miricale" guy should get the "meth" guy to come be his "math" guy.
After that there is still room for 'GRACE'?
And tonight more bosom buffed Celeb awards to drown out reality.
LOL John McCain: http://youtube.com/watch?v=6v8qazD_fFk
dragon @ 13:
Deadly Deception juxtaposes GE's rosy "We Bring Good Things To Life" commercials with the true stories of workers and neighbors whose lives have been devastated by the company's involvement in building and testing nuclear bombs.
These tragic stories are answered by the inspiring activism of the GE Boycott, a grassroots campaign run by corporate accountability organization, Corporate Accountability International, to pressure GE out of the nuclear weapons industry. Nine months after this powerful video won an Oscar in 1992, the corporate giant did indeed pull out of the deadliest business of all. Ideal for classes on business ethics, advertising, environmental issues, the arms race, media literacy, and community organizing.
Mike Huckabee is without a doubt the sweetest, funniest, warmest, most self-deprecating theocratic nutjob threat to this country that I've ever seen.
dang if huckabee isn't a funny fella. i just wish he wasn't such a theocrat nutjob.
... and the Tina Fey vid was a heck of a lot funnier.
huckleberry is "sticking around" because he wants to be on top when mccain's house of lies comes tumbling down.
Don't assume this was only comedy. That's the thing with fundies - it's impossible to tell their reality from satire.
Huckabee should drop out and start a new career as a straight guy comic. He was pretty funny. He certainly wasn't smug like SNL can be, and he looked like he learned his lines to some degree. You can still tell he was reading cue cards, but it wasn't so blatant as other celebrities when they're on.
JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin @ 31:
Yeah a Real Richard Pryor
That clip (thanks crooks and liars) I've just wasted 5 minutes of my life - was marginally funnier than the Fox equivalent placed in "the trash can" some months ago.
See, I know your lingo. I'll have a triple cheese double bacon whopper, double fries and a large strawberry milkshake at the double.
The only mildly funny remark was regarding Hillary expecting delegates from Kosovo.
I'll never agree with his crazy-ass positions, but damn if Huckabee isn't a heck of a personable guy.
uncle joe mccarthy @ 17:
Yes, how dare those EBIL CORPORATIONS dare to treat ideological enemies of the People's Revolution, those EBIL CAPITALIST RUNNING DOGS, as human! Comrade Stalin will order them shot, post-haste! :eyeroll.:
Seriously, WTF? The Constitution gives Huckabee the right to speak. Regardless of his likely intent to gut it, he still has that right. Besides, the corporations wouldn't love him anyway. Some of his ideas are too populistic. Huckabee is an evil jerk. Under the intent of the Founders, even the EBIL JERKS could speak.
Meat @ 34:
So's Bush. Look what that got us. Let's see, a pair of wars, a creaking economy, billions in debt to China with fantastic levels of spending and a further 1 trillion bucks deficit, another Balkan War on the horizon, our third war in the Middle East on the horizon, the decaying of the nation's infastructure and the ruining of the industrial manufacturing of the U.S........
No, thanks. I'd take the "unpersonable" Hillary over a "personable" evil jerk like Huckabee any day.
General_Rennenkampf @ 36:
no capital reserves left, the nation is $20 trillion in debt, $53 trillion in worthless IOU's, all of the capital marketplaces are teetering, and the nation is bleeding red ink at the rate of $1.43 billion per day.
How much longer they going to be able to maintain that mirage?
OK, I'm your huckleberry.
Ole Mike is a good sport. It's just too bad that the religion thing got in his way.
Angelina Jolie shows off baby bump.
Again?
Whats driving this recent trend of continuing to overpopulate the planet?
Anyone get the logic?
Jay Severin Has a Small Pen1s @ 5:
I hope the next POTUS uses a calculator cause 8 years of the miracle system has cost us about 6 trillion dollars
Isn't there some kind of equal time law for promoting campaigns on television? Should Obama and McCain sue?
L.A. Confidential @ 32:
I didn't compare him to Pryor. I just said he was funny, not Pryor funny. Silly boy....
Why didn't they ask him about the frog that lived 65 million years ago?
I agree that he's personable. Which makes him one of the scariest nut jobs I've seen in my 57 years.
Thanks for reminding me. Chase interviewing Pryor... best sketch ever!?
JaneaneTheAcerbicGoblin @ 42:
Yeah. Be careful though. You never know whats lurking underneath the surface of the "Good Ol Boy Facade".
Annnd... there off! Debate begins with Obama in the lead and carrying the momentum, Hillary trailing with a bit of a lame campain.
LOLz, kudos to Huckabee. Good sport.
EliteLemming @ 47:
He offer any wisdom on how he's going to bring back those 50,000 jobs in Ohio NAFTA's chopping block eliminated?
Come on man, just a little horse race humor. I do support Obama though.
EliteLemming @ 50:
At my age there's little humor in seeing your life's work being destroyed and looted in 7 short years.
I hope you don't have to experience it.
L.A. Confidential @ 51:
At least he's talked about it now. Hopefully the NAFTA genie won't go back into the bottle too easily, once he uses it to trounce Clinton.
And I’ll exit out with class and grace and a crack of thunder and a bolt of lightening.
I don't know what your lifes work is and empathize with you, but unfair to to suggest that i haven't been effected or am not sicken by the current state of our nation.
Son of Liberty @ 53:
You mean once the Media trounces Clinton. They'll turn on Obama soon as he gets the lock.
Isn't the great New World Order Savior supposed to be appearing soon?
Or was that Bush?
You DO NOT come on SNL as a serious REPUBLICAN candidate for the presidency of the U.S. and read SNL's script, which is EXACLTLY what Huckabee did, unless you WANT to be seen as even more of a buffoon than the current prez, which is one hell of a leap, if not an impossible one.
So... either Huck wants to be seen as a serious man with a sense of humor, which he could do easily enough on the campaign trail with clever campaign writers, or... you are so desparately stupid that you go on SNL and read their script, WHICH HE DID, which rules out possibility #1 and...
I don't think I need to say anything further.
L.A. Confidential @ 58:
As it is written, " The Temple of the U.S. Constitution shall be razed to the groud before our Glorius Leader will come forth and make his cronies fruitful by his werd."
Book of Dubyah
dragon @ 13:
Dragon:
GE is the worlds leading producer of jet engines. Their military applications range from the F14-15-16 C/D to 767 AWACS to the AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter. Their engines power everything from Air Force one to the B1-B. If any type of "ordinance" is being dropped from an aircraft in Iraq, you can bet the aircraft had GE supplied engines.
I wonder if they really believe at GE "they bring good things to life!"
Janeane, I agree with you...Huckybear was funny but then again so is a fart in church! Either way they both stink when you get close to them.
With Huckabee showing his lack of understanding of logic, reason & the political system he is in, it isn't suprising he is a miracle man.
Maillot_jaune @ 61:
Now, now, let's not insult farts.
I'm looking for the place where a sense of humor goes to die. Is this it?
sansho1 @ 64:
No, actually that's the minds of the wingnuts. But, you're close.
The answer lies just over that ridge, everyone... follow meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! ...................(splash).
Not bad -- that was from the Al Gore school of self-deprecation. If I didn't know anything else about him, I could be fooled into thinking he'd be a good president. Just goes to show, people can be mixed bags.
Was this SNL skit made before or after the writers strike????
General_Rennenkampf @ 63:
GE also used to make the so called "mini guns" which were 50 caliber gatling guns used on helicopters. For those not familar with law it is illegal to use 50 caliber guns on "troops in the open" and yet that is exactly what those weapons were most used on during the Vietnam conflict.
Well actually to give GE credit maybe I should point out that the "mini guns" were used more often on civilians in the open. SNL lost all relevency years ago. They've been nothing but another corporate "entertainment" show every since. Once they were giants though, but that was 30 years ago!!
The only thing remotely funny about that was the words grace and class used by a republic(an).
The only miracle that could make me believe in God is if Mike Huckabee became a staunch atheist.
but with my luck, he'd probably become a libertarian.
Maybe you were thinking of General Dynamics?
http://www.gdatp.com/default.htm
SNL is GE property, you know the corporation that owns NBC, Tweety, and that little twit Tucker. It's fairly certain they want McBoner as president. The Huckabee bit along with the bitch post earlier promoting Hillary confirm that.
Did you ever see Mike Meyers in "So, I Married An Axe Murderer?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPMS6tGOACo
Oh, I HATE Mike Huckabee with his WEE Beady Eyes!
Someone needs to tell him it's too late to exit with "class and grace" - he's completely set himself up as a figure of ridicule.
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Well I thought this bit was cute. If I hadn't heard all the ridiculous things that Huckabee has said in the recent past I would think he seems like a great guy - good sense of humor. Too bad he's an overly zealous religious freak.
CD @ 3:
Same reason Ralph Nader is entering. I can only hope he's as destructive to them as Nader is to Democrats.
General_Rennenkampf @ 36:
..."an entirely *new* movement fighting the establishment, man"...
or to put it in less oblique terms... mindless mobs that would rather listen to a sales-pitch than read the fine print...
I despise his religion (along with all other religions) and I would flee the continent if he was somehow elected, but... it is very hard to actually dislike the guy. I haven't laughed that hard at SNL in a long time.
General_Rennenkampf @ 36:
I never had the impression that Bush was personable. He's a condescending, patronizing jackass who treats every reporter's question as though it were completely idiotic.
Each week I see the GOP slime machine trying to get the Hillary and Obama campaigns angry enough at each other that they "would never vote for the other"
This is BULLSHIT... and the Democrats would be wise to announce NOW AND FOREVER...
VOTE FOR WHICHEVER CANDIDATE WINS THE PRIMARY
The LOSING CANDIDATE should STEP UP LARGE to back the winner.
------- I would love to see the top 10 idiots include those Rethugs who think they can run the democrats into the ground.... the swift boaters... etc....
Yes... she can be a bitch
AND
Yes... Obama has a black baby
PREPARE FOR THE DEM LANDSLIDE...if only we can stick together
I think the reason that Huckabee is staying in the race is because his job after this election is to deliver speeches. The longer he stays in, the higher his rates go up. It's financial.
Also, Matt Taibbi himself said that Huckabee has charm enough to make someone forget about his regressive and primordial policies. That applies to me too. I like Huckabee. He seems wonderfully goofy. He'd be a terrible President. He makes a great TV person.
As many as you have said, there's nothing redeeming about Huckabee's stance on politics or religion, but he's sure as hell a funny, likeable guy. Maybe after he looses he should go into showbiz. :P
"I'm not a math guy. I'm more of a miracle guy."
Oh? You mean, the miracle of believing the earth is 6,000 years old and that our species walked with dinosaurs? The miracle of women being created from some guy's rib? The miracle of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy? Gomer Shuckabee isn't a miracle guy. He's a Dangerous Lunatic.
"(but not as good as Jesse Jackson, back in the day, reading Green Eggs and Ham)"
Now that was the total shit. It's on YouTube. It's not the best quality (somebody filmed their TV with a video camera). The sound is fine (although a bit out of sync), which is the best part:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PPxPciXcJvc
Fuckabee is a great actor, just like most preachers. Got to learn to amuse the masses while your doing the dirty deeds behind the curtain. He sorta' reminds me of Reagan, very slick - and pretty dangerous.
I'm pretty sure he's staying in for the time being just to see what happens to our bud McPain. He has won a bunch more delegates in the past couple primaries, so he probably thinks the nomination will have to come to him if the "allegations" against McPain - good things come to he who waits.
I wouldn't want him as my president, but I must admit he would be a great next door neighbor.
mastuhp @ 91:
Unless you have a dog. Then keep it indoors when that one dog-killing kid comes by to visit.
"I'll exit with grace and class"...... 'or maybe not' And that, as our ol buddy Paul Harvey would say... 'Is the rest of the story'..JD
deezus @ 9:
I've been thinking that too. I hate the guy on paper, but when he speaks, he's rather likable. Just don't let him win!
Mm, mm, mm! Such _ing and moaning. Well, catch your breath. Mike Huckabee CANNOT be president! If he were the nominee, people would have a chance to cast a vote that would not condemn them (by their own choice) to eternal separation from the source of any and all good that has ever been experienced by anyone in this world. As president, Mike Huckabee would be a hindering and preventing influence against the GENUINE evil that is coming to the forefront in the next five years. The POTUS will have to be either Obama or Clinton in order for the nation of the United States of America to be brought low, ravaged, and desolated from 2013 to 2019.
Here's a miracle for Huckabee: John McCain goes hunting with Cheney....
Most of us really didn't like Huckabee as a governer.... but he was pretty funny making fun of himself on SNL. I think I'd vote for him now.
The Aztec calendar ends in 2012, so what have we really got to lose? Let's elect Hillary.
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