On Wednesday, former presidential candidate and Fox host Mike Huckabee pushed back at conservative bloggers who were “uncivil” about his recent decision to bring First Lady Michelle Obama onto his show to talk about her campaign to fight child obesity.
Huckabee’s show was the first lady’s debut appearance on Fox News, and there was considerable push back from viewers. “Some bloggers, it seemed, wanted me to bring her on my show only if I yelled at her. Or it seemed they wanted me to hit her,” Huckabee told a crowd in Wichita, Kansas.
The Wichita Eagle reports:
[Huckabee] said he disagrees with nearly every policy position of her husband, but that attacking people doesn’t accomplish anything. The viciousness of attacks from all sides, he said, are “disgusting … the anger and the meanness.”
Mediaite reports that Michelle Obama’s appearance on Huckabee gave the show its lowest ratings of 2010.
I like to bring Mike Huckabee out as a shining star every once in a while. Huckabee respresents a decency I like. Could I probably vote for him? No. He is far too conservative politically for me. But I can like him. Like goes a long way. When I feel like I am getting too partisan (and Marshall-gate has made me feel that way.) the decency of Mike Huckabee restores my sense of equilibrium.
Mr. Huckabee loves music and his band, the Little Rockers do a good job of highlighting artists who are not the stars of today. The Little Rockers are building employees at Fox News.
We need more Mike Huckabees who always represent civility in politics. In many ways, Huckabee admonishes us all as bloggers also. As we sit behind our computer screens, would we say some of the things that come out of the ends of our fingers to a person’s face? On Anti-bvbl, probably 95% of the time, yes. Those who virulently attack others usually don’t make it ‘out on the floor’ of this blog. However, not all blogs can make that claim. Mike Huckabee is a standard we all can admire whether we agree with his politics or not. Mike Huckabee is a gentleman.
Speaking of nice…my husband, who has some orthopedic difficulties, , was struggling to get the garbage can out this afternoon over a snow bank. 2 Latino kids walking home from school noticed and stopped, said “sir, can we give you a hand with that, its awfully slippery out here.” They hauled the garbage can over to where it needed to be. Then one of them turned to Mr. Howler and thanked him for having the walk shoveled in front of the house for the school kids. What nice, nice kids!
Mr. Howler had sweaty eyeballs when he told me about the nice thing that happened to him today. Someone is sure raising their kids right! I only mention their ethnicity because I do, after all, live in Prince William County. Sometimes I feel it is necessary to point that out.
“…would we say some of the things that come out of the ends of our fingers to a person’s face?”
I would, but I would be bawling my eyes out and stomping my feet while saying the worst things I have ever written (which is what I do when I am that angry, hurt and frustrated).
The problem with blogging is, you don’t see the writers’ expressions. What do we look like when we are spouting off? Are we sputtering? Are we stomping our feet? Are we turning red? Are we cold and expressionless? What tone of voice are we using?
One of the best things about 9500Liberty is we got to see what the speakers looked like–their body language–as they were saying what they did.
Kudos to Huckabee and his “band” of merry folks.
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: ) Glad you pointed it out, MH.
Huck’s the man. And for someone in his position, he’s right. People like myself, though, in the trenches battling the mindless zombies who get their chuckles insulting Palin, we have the sad task of pointing out what a leftist radical idealogue Mrs. Obama is. Time to fight fire with fire. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Different view. Huck is a big smiling, old south politician – just a good ole biggoted shuckerster. I will never forgive him for what he did to Mitt Romney — questioning whether he was a christian – or how the conversation itself poisened the body politic. It should never have come up. He did it and knew what he was doing. Would not have voted for Romney anyway, but I was really disgusted by him.