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CNN’s Jake Tapper Confronts Mike Huckabee About Promoting ‘Hucksterism’
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| 4:49 pm, May 6th, 2015
| Matt Wilstein
Posted on 05/07/2015 8:46:26 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie
I dont think people who understand how advertising works would hold me responsible for something that I didnt personally sign up for or endorse. The buck never got here!
Must be an Arkansas thing...
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posted on
05/07/2015 8:49:03 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
To: SoConPubbie
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.
To: SoConPubbie
I would never never never answer a question from these democrat lap dogs.
“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”.
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posted on
05/07/2015 8:54:09 AM PDT
by
Awgie
(truth is always stranger than fiction)
To: SoConPubbie
It is interesting to watch as the media fatwa against Huckabee goes into effect.
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posted on
05/07/2015 8:55:20 AM PDT
by
Genoa
(Starve the beast.)
To: Awgie
The RNC has recruited Jake Tapper to be a GOP primary debate moderator.
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posted on
05/07/2015 8:57:52 AM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: Awgie
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.
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posted on
05/07/2015 8:57:57 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: SoConPubbie
Somebody ask Huckster why Karl Rove was in Hope the day he announced and what is his relationship with Karl Rove.
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posted on
05/07/2015 9:04:58 AM PDT
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(Jeb and Hillary - Two sides of the same coin.)
To: SoConPubbie
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?
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posted on
05/07/2015 9:18:00 AM PDT
by
Kazan
To: SoConPubbie
The faster Huckabee is discredited, the better it is for Cruz.
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posted on
05/07/2015 9:41:04 AM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Every time you say no to a liberal, you make the Baby Barack cry.)
To: SoConPubbie
which was selling a cancer cure hidden by God in the Bible
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posted on
05/07/2015 9:45:09 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Buckeye Battle Cry
Karl Rove is the nexus of all evil in the GOP.
Anything else I have to say about him is probably illegal.
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posted on
05/07/2015 9:54:29 AM PDT
by
navyguy
(The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
To: SoConPubbie; gov_bean_ counter
Tapper was trying to attack Gov. Huckabee’s Christian beliefs. The Governor didn't fall for it. That's why he would be a good president, he doesn't get suckered into liberal media traps.
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.
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posted on
05/07/2015 10:41:56 AM PDT
by
donna
(I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth. - Barack Hussein Obama)
To: OrangeHoof
Just remember that you are alienating his Christian supporters. The very ones Bush-43 used to get elected both times.
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posted on
05/07/2015 10:43:44 AM PDT
by
donna
(I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth. - Barack Hussein Obama)
To: donna
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posted on
05/07/2015 10:45:34 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
To: donna
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.”
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posted on
05/07/2015 10:56:02 AM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: donna; OrangeHoof
Just remember that you are alienating his Christian supporters. The very ones Bush-43 used to get elected both times.
No, you're a little confused Donna. It is Mike Huckabee that is alienating his Christian supporters as more and more of his nonsense is exposed.
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posted on
05/07/2015 10:57:42 AM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
. It is Mike Huckabee that is alienating his Christian supporters as more and more of his nonsense is exposed. 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.
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posted on
05/07/2015 11:35:26 AM PDT
by
Kazan
To: Kazan
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 isn't mud-slinging Kazan, even though you want any discussion about the relevant merits of Huckabee's record declared as mud-slinging and off-base for discussion purposes.
Yes, Huckabee is good on the Social issues, but he is not a conservative, especially where fiscal issues are concerned.
He is only partially conservative and we don't need a partial conservative, we need a full-spectrum conservative.
With respect to "these tactics", we are simply posting the truth about Huckabee, if that turns people off, so be it.
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posted on
05/07/2015 11:46:30 AM PDT
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
This sleazebag never let’s us down LOL!
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posted on
05/07/2015 1:17:15 PM PDT
by
rrrod
(at home in Medellin Colombia)
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