Huckabee appears on Comedy Central on same day as Washington cops' funerals

The Examiner ^ | 12/9/2009 | Kevin Hall

[bigred08]

Tuesday, thousands of people mourned their deaths with a touching memorial service. How did Mike Huckabee honor the victims? He appeared on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" to promote his book.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

If Palin commuted the setence of a young maniac who in turn murdered four police officers just as she was gearing up for a book tour, her political career would be over. Just like the Huckster’s is.

[Above My Pay Grade]

>>>He reduced a long sentence for a 17 year old. He didn’t parole him. If Palin had done the same thing people would be OK but since it is Huck they pile on. The ends justifies the means.<<<

a) He effectively DID parole him. He commuted the sentence to 47 years, which in Arkansas prison sentence talk, means 11 years, making Clemmons, IMMEDIATELY eligible for parole. He was unleashed on the community one month later. Clearly Huck intended for him to be paroled right away.

b) Palin wouldn’t do the same thing. She NEVER pardoned anyone or granted clemency while she was governor. She actually cares about the safety of innocent citizens and has the common sense to understand that the best place for a violent crminal is a prison cell. That is one of the reasons she is beloved among true Conservatives.

[mkjessup]

Here, educate yourself on this subject before you embarrass yourself further:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2401392/posts?page=117#110

From our fellow Freeper 'sitetest'.

You're Welcome.

[pandoraou812]

I got into a huge fight on another thread over this. I feel Huckabee was wrong. When he was running I didn't like the fact he pardoned or commuted sentences . The numbers I read seemed way to high for my liking. As I am reading this thread I see the race card again. Getting sick of that too. Huckabee was wrong & I pray for the victims & families of this tragedy.

[mlizzy]

RUSSERT: But you would punish the doctor [one who commits abortions]. HUCKABEE: I think if a doctor knowingly took the life of an unborn child for money, and that's why he was doing it, yeah, I think you would, you would find some way to sanction that doctor. I don't know that you'd put him in prison, but there's something to me untoward about a person who has committed himself to healing people and to making people alive who would take money to take an innocent life and to make that life dead. There's something that just doesn't ring true about the purpose of medical practice when the first rule of the Hippocratic Oath is "First, do no harm." Well, if you take the life and suction out the pieces of an unborn child for no reason than its inconvenience to the mother, I don't think you've lived up to your Hippocratic Oath of doing no harm. --Interview with Tim Russert on NBC News' "Meet the Press" December 30, 2007
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Russert threw everything possible at Mike Huckabee during that interview, and Huck came out looking very good to a pro-life voter. And I would think many who comment on FreeRepublic would agree with Huckabee's stance on the death penalty which he covered in this interview with Russert. MH was and is pro-gun rights, pro-family, and pro-life.

Remember, George W. Bush started a war on misinformation (not to mention high criticism from Pope John Paul II) that has led to a lot more than the death of four troops (and I don't see how Huckabee was entirely at fault for these deaths anyway), yet GWB remains an admired man.

So while my choice for president was Mike Huckabee last time around (and he would have been 100% better than the current administration), my dream ticket thus far, would be Jindal/Bachmann. Michele (along with Huckabee) didn't care if she committed possible political suicide when she said, "That's really where this battle will be won -- on our knees in prayer and fasting. Remember: faith without works is dead. So we're asking you to do all of it: pray, fast, believe, trust the Lord, but also act." --Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) Currently, Sarah Palin hasn't said anything as strong as either of these people (for faith causes), and until she does, I don't have the respect for her that I have for a Bachmann or a Huckabee. Abortion must be eliminated for the US to continue to survive. It's our #1 sin.

I'm praying for the nation every single day. Please join me ... the more the "Maryier."

[genetic homophobe]

Why not educate her on Condy, her moniker’s namesake, next?

[left that other site]

I never liked the guy.

But now I actively DISlike him.
:-(

[maggief]

Huckster timeline:

[blueyon]

I am sure this visit to comedy central was booked long before the funeral needed to be planned................
If you want to go after someone, go after the one that let this killer out a second time! After he went back to jail!

[gorilla_warrior]

. . . well many “conservative” people have wrongly painted people as psychopaths who weren’t and they ended up being executed -—until DNA evidence years later exonerated them—but by then it was too late.

Almost,but not entirely incorrect. Many innocent people have been painted as guilty, some of them may have been psychopaths. People are convicted on evidence, not on psychosis. No one has ever been executed on a wrong diagnosis of psychopathic condition. A psychopathic condition can be accurately diagnosed.

[takenoprisoner]

Help keep Americas streets safe. Reduce crime by nearly 50%.

1. Mandatory longterm sentences for violent criminals
(ages 14 and up)

2. Ban parole for violent criminals

3. Ban Governor’s and President’s ability to commute
sentences for any and all convicts.

Huckster will have to live with his decision the rest of his life. It’s really not fair if you think about it. At the time, he believed he was making the right call. Now he will have to live with the fact that in the end, it was a horrible and tragic decision which he could not have forseen. All this could have been avoided if Governors were not assigned the task of reviewing criminal dockets which can potentially override juror’s and judge’s decisions.

The process of commutations is not fair to victims, jurors, judges, nor law enforcement. It is in no way beneficial to society. It is only beneficial to the perp.

Perhaps this tragedy can result in some good if the policy/law/rule which allows for commutations is revoked.

[Kells]

Probably this is not a coincidence. I bet that Comedy Central intentionally set the appearance on the same day of the funeral and told Huckabee they had firm commitments on every other day for the next few weeks. Huckabee foolishly took the bait.

[vimto]

You get respect from me for pitchin’ in here and remaining gracious when some replies must have stung.

[supremedoctrine]

YOur last paragraph, dragging in the Amanda Knox case:
frankly, nonsense. “Had this girl been black, NO ONE
would be coming to her defense, let along giving her coverage”. A guy named Rudy Guede, a drifter and erstwhile partyboy-type from the Congo, had his DNA all over everything, including INSIDE Meredith Kercher, and though he
fled the country, and already had a trial, and is imprisoned, he is STILL in effect being given a pass because it offers the World Press oh,so many more opportunities to vent all their hatred and rage against American Amanda Knox. How many people even know the basic facts about Rudy Guede, including you?

[Kells]

Complain about the concept of inherited guilt all you want. As a Christian, it is not a foreign concept to me. Ever hear of Adam and Eve? Well...we all inherited ADAM’S *guilt* from THEIR initial sin.

Okay, but then the principle of inherited guilt would also apply to the descendants of black criminals and their enablers.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Remember, George W. Bush started a war on misinformation

George W. Bush didn't start anything. He responded to ten years of attacks from a madman dictator that culminated in the murder of 3,000 Americans on our own soil. Was Abdul Rahman Yasin misinformation? Was the attempted assassination of George H.W. Bush misinformation? How about Salman Pak? How about the Iraqi diplomats expelled from Prague and the Philippines for meeting with known al Qaeda members (including Mohammad Atta)? How about the cash payments from Iraqi intelligence to al Zawahiri, the cooperation pact between AQ and Iraqi cited in the 1999 UBL indictment, or Zarqawi's presence in Iraq 18 months before any U.S. invasion? All misinformation? Every bit of evidence tying Saddam Hussein to al Qaeda is a lie? Nonsense.

I'm tired of these lies about the Iraq War becoming conventional wisdom because Republicans don't have the knowledge or the guts to fight back. The Iraq War was beyond justifiable... it was absolutely necessary. Saddam had everything to do with the 9/11 attacks. The propaganda campaign against the war was waged by hostile nations (Russia and China, primarily) in love with the idea of waging proxy wars against us using jihadists, as Saddam had done for a decade. And of course, the Democrats, the media and their useful idiot sycophants were more than happy to oblige our enemies.

I'm not ignoring the rest of what you wrote, but when I see the same old outright lies about the Iraq War, I have to respond to them. There was no misinformation. The connections between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda were longstanding, well documented and largely indisputable.

[Raider Sam]

Well, in all fairness, the letter did not mention Clemmons at all, and was around 4 years after Clemmons was paroled. Also, Huckabee said he laughed at the letter because the prosecutor (who is also a politician and now a judge) wrote a letter saying “everything you are doing is wrong, and here is why”

Not defending or attacking Hucks position, but it is a little disingenous to make it seem like the prosecutor said dont grant Clemency to Clemmons and Huck laughed at that.

[bigred08]

No, but I expected him to show just a little bit of sympathy for the victims’ families and not do comedy on the same day as the funerals.

[bigred08]

It was not a repeat. It was taped yesterday.

[freebird5850]

20,000 cops were at the Tacoma Dome for the memorial. Sad times here in Wa. Huckabee is trash.