Posted on 06/13/2008 7:25:11 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Mike Huckabee, a former Republican presidential hopeful, has been hired by Fox News Channel as a political commentator.
"Gov. Huckabee's campaign experience and knowledge of politics makes him a great addition to our ongoing election coverage," Bill Shine, senior vice president of programming, said in a statement Thursday.
Huckabee, who served as governor of Arkansas for 10 1/2 years, dropped out of the race in March, after John McCain won enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination. Despite a financially strapped campaign, Huckabee won the leadoff caucuses in Iowa and seven other states.
"I hope to bring the unique perspective from `inside the dragon's belly' as well as to try and speak for the millions of hardworking middle-class Americans who really do feel that their voices are not being heard," Huckabee said in a statement released by his daughter, Sarah. "I saw that on the campaign trail and continue to see as I speak to groups of all kinds around the country as well as campaign for other candidates."
Financial terms of the agreement weren't released.
Huckabee, an ordained Baptist preacher, has been mentioned as a potential running mate for McCain. Since leaving the race, Huckabee has formed a political action committee that he says will help raise money for McCain and other Republicans.
Before the boo-birds jump in and decry this as evidence of Fox News’ decline, let me say for the record that I think this is great. Huckabee is bright, articulate, and hilarious. Perhaps he may be a little too moderate for some, but he will be an entertaining (and, I think, relevant) addition.
That’s my two cents. If that isn’t enough, ask Barack for spare change.
Well I am glad he is off the VP list and sad he is on Fox. He will join the list of others I turn Fox off when they are on. Newt is on this list.
Sounds good to me. ;-D
You’re too kind to the Huckster ;)
What a perfect marriage, a network owned by a mega huckster employs a small time huckster who bears that as a nickname.
You are correct. I was much too kind. I had to temper my comments to be appropriate for this forum. Had I said what I really felt, I would probably be banned.
note I do not use a / s tag
Huckabee could steal the title of his show from Robert Schuller, but you give this boy his show and you got the closet thing to a real life reincarnation of the fictional Howard Beale that we have seen.
Agreed! Huckleberry is a fun guy. We need more faces like his representing us.
He’s bad, but not as bad as Weasely Clark was...I had to switch channels when his face was shown on FoxNews.
Mike Huckabee, a former Republican presidential hopeful, has been hired by Fox News Channel as a political commentator.
Well ... on the upside at least it wasn't Rudy.
If it was, I'm afraid I'd be 'doing an Elvis' on my TV every week and I just can't afford that. Not with ammo prices the way they are. :-)
Wow, look, ma ! They hired another liberal at Fox News.
Yes, we’re all looking forward to the Gomer Pyle/Elmer Gantry NewsHour.
They hired him to pray for FOX news?
Funny how so many “political commentators” must first be fired by their previous employers or lose in a political race, before they can land a job on FOX. Just one more reason to flip the cannel.
I won’t watch that fool.
More evidence of FNC becoming a joke. They make John Stewarts show on the comedy network seem credible. Geraldo, Fred Barnes, Hannity and now Huckabee. What a quartet of airheads.
“VP out of the picture?”
Of course. Gov. Huckabee was never on the list. Sen. Kennedy was favored to take the VP slot in a spirit of “bipartisanship” and “cooperation”, but he’s been ill lately. Maybe Sen. Kerry is still available?
Wesley Clark has a face? I only see eyebrows when he is on television.
As if he ever was being seriously considered for VP.
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