Huckabee to join Faux News

[marmar]

from ThinkProgress:



Huckabee tapes FNC pilot, rules out post in McCain administration.»

In June, former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee inked a “one-year deal as a political commentator” with Fox News Channel. Today, the New York Post reports that Huckabee has “quietly taped a pilot in New York for a weekend cable TV show that is set to debut on Fox News Channel sometime this fall.” In addition, Huckabee ruled out a post in the next administration if Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) wins in the fall:

And what if Sen. John McCain wins in November? Would he take a cabinet post if offered?

“Why would I want to do that?” Huckabee says.

“I’m gonna have a good life out here in the private sector,” he says. “Why would I go back to telling everybody in the world how much money I make and…barely surviving to have some obscure cabinet post and have some 20-year-old from the White House telling me what I’m gonna do?”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/12/huckabee-pilot/

[geiger]

1. and for someone who claims to be nobody's whore. what a cop-out. eom.

[zanne]

2. At first look, I thought this was a joke.

Soon, every reporter on Fox News will be a former Republican candidate for president.

[Libby2]

3. Yep, which is a good thing.

They are keeping all of the nuts in one place.

[graywarrior]

4. I can't wait for McCain to host a show on "lives of the should have retired years ago."

[Swamp Rat]

7. Pass the eyeliner and rouge... I bet Ghouliani is working on a show right now.

:D

[graywarrior]

11. Maybe they could co-host "Wars We Might Have Had."

[Swamp Rat]

5. LOLOLOLOL!!!

:rofl:

[TK421]

6. Thanks for making me spit coffee all over my keyboard

:spray:

[Swamp Rat]

10. Aw Huckaburgers!!

Sorry. :D

[DFW]

8. Now he can conduct his interviews with God on the air weekly

I always thought Huckleberry would make a good stand-up (or sit down) comedian.
Now he gets his chance.

Pat Robertson, eat your heart out!

[freesqueeze]

9. His own show?!?

That is a shock. I thought opinion monkey maybe to come in at times and clue in those blinded by politics about what those blinded by religion are up to...but his own show...wow!

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Huck's just following his own "prosperity gospel". He discovered that being a preacher just didn't

rake in enough bucks years ago. So, he became governor (in Arkansas, that doesn't pay too well either... $69,920) and wrote his books about losing weight, commitment to marriage between men and women, and children's health, etc. Now, at last, he will be among the 'wealthy'.

[GoesTo11]

13. Laying groundwork for 2012 - look out

This will set him up as mainstream and people will really like him. He'll have a chance to sound analytical and to make more national contacts. Also set him up with more $.

That is why he is doing it.

[flor-de-jasmim]

14. So tell us what you REALLY think about public service?

“Why would I go back to telling everybody in the world how much money I make and…barely surviving to have some obscure cabinet post and have some 20-year-old from the White House telling me what I’m gonna do?”