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Posted on 05/07/2015 8:46:26 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Toward the end of his interview with brand new Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Wednesday afternoon, CNN’s Jake Tapper brought up a somewhat obscure piece of trivia about the former Arkansas governor regarding one source of revenue he has engaged in since leaving his job as Fox News host.
As Tapper explained, earlier this year Huckabee rented his email list to a group called Health Sciences Institute, which was selling a “cancer cure” hidden by God in the Bible. The email came directly from MikeHuckabee@MikeHuckabee.com and included an intro message from the candidate about the “important information” from the sponsor.
“Don’t you lose credibility by attaching your name to things like that?” Tapper asked Huckabee, who in turn defended himself by saying he never signed the letter in question. He then turned the tables on the CNN host, saying, “My gosh, that’s like saying that you run some ads on CNN, do you personally agree with all the ads on CNN? I doubt you do.”
“I’m sure there are some for catheters or adult diapers, they’re not products that you use or you necessarily believe in,” Huckabee continued. “I don’t hold you responsible for that. And in that same way, I don’t think people who understand how advertising works would hold me responsible for something that I didn’t personally sign up for or endorse.”
Tapper shot back by calling Huckabee’s analogy as “false equivalence” and saying there is no real comparison between the “medical devices” that advertise on CNN and “something that I think a lot of people would consider to be hucksterism in terms of Bible verses curing cancer.”
Just as Tapper does not control what ads run on CNN, Huckabee claimed that he did not run the part of his company that chose advertisers for his email list. But while Tapper’s name is never physically attached to those ads on CNN, Huckabee’s did appear in large letter above the email message in question:
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The buck never got here!
Must be an Arkansas thing...
Jake’s just striving to prove he is a “real” journalist by following provocative lines of questioning of ANYBODY BUT ANYBODY IN THIS CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.
Kind of like it’s purging his soul of many times he DID NOT follow misdeeds of Administration officials he is and has covered on his beat...or whatever it is now.
“Credibility?!?” “You ask me about Credibility?! When is the last time you asked Hillary a probing question about...(pick your scandal)?”
Take control of the interview Pubs...that is an adversary asking you questions not an objective “journalist”.
It is interesting to watch as the media fatwa against Huckabee goes into effect.
The RNC has recruited Jake Tapper to be a GOP primary debate moderator.
And thus you demonstrate why true conservatives disdain the party system. When someone tries to dodge their wrongdoing by pointing else’s wrongdoing, you know they have no remorse and no intention of stopping long term.
And those who defend that are cut from the same cloth.
Somebody ask Huckster why Karl Rove was in Hope the day he announced and what is his relationship with Karl Rove.
Who cares when the media should be focused on Hillary using her position as Secretary of State to bring in millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation?
The faster Huckabee is discredited, the better it is for Cruz.
Karl Rove is the nexus of all evil in the GOP.
Anything else I have to say about him is probably illegal.
Transcript excerpt:
TAPPER: In January, sir, you rented out your e-mail list to a group selling hidden cures for cancer embedded in Bible verses for the low price of $72.
Don't you lose credibility by attaching your name to things like that?
HUCKABEE: Well, I never signed that letter. I mean, I have a huge e- mail list that I developed over many years and we did, in fact, rent it out to entities.
But my gosh, that's like saying that you run some ads on CNN, do you personally agree with all the ads that run on CNN? I doubt you do. I'm sure there is some for maybe, I don't know, catheters or adult diapers. They're not products that you use or that you necessarily believe in. I don't hold you responsible for that. And in that same way, I don't think people who understand how advertising works would hold me responsible for something that I didn't personally sign up for or endorse.
TAPPER: With all due respect, sir, I think that's kind of a false equivalent. We're talking about medical devices on one hand, catheters and adult diapers, and you're talking about something that I think a lot of people would consider to be hucksterism, in terms of Bible verses curing cancer.
[16:20:08] HUCKABEE: Well, once again, I just say that if people buy the advertising space, whether it's on your channel or in that case, it was in essence my channel, it doesn't mean necessarily that I'm personally identifying it with it anymore than I would expect you to identify with any and everything that is sold on CNN because my guess is, you probably don't control all those things and I didn't actually run that part of my company.
Pardon me?
As usual, Mike Huckabee wasn’t being completely honest:
“The email came directly from MikeHuckabee@MikeHuckabee.com and included an intro message from the candidate about the “important information” from the sponsor.”
Actually, all you doing is creating a backlash of sympathy for Huckabee and turning anyone reading this off to your candidate.
Ted Cruz would never be politically daft enough to use these kind of tactics.
The fact is Huckabee is well-liked by many evangelicals in Iowa because they know he is a true believer when it comes to social issues. You're not going to persuade them by mudslinging and making personal attacks on Huckabee. It comes off as anti-Christian or, at best, classless.
This sleazebag never let’s us down LOL!
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