Methinks he shall succeed. At being an Al Franken wannabe.
You mean that soft doughy fellow from Arkansas has a show.? He gives me the creeps.
The Huckster proving why he is the Huckster.
What a joke this huckster is. Cannot believe anybody even listens to him. And the dummies on Faux news?
Sherman suspect staged calls to radio talkers not uncommon.
I don’t watch his show on TV, and will not listen to him on radio........Rush, Mark Levin, Boortz and Savage....can’t stand Whinety..............
Awkward!
Opie and Anthony caught Howard Stern using the same caller for two different segments, where Howard was plugging something like Howardtv and another product.
He will NOT take away Rush's audience because he appeals to a different demographic. Real Rush fans couldn't listen to Huck for more than a few minutes. He'll create his own small audience of ideologically squishy moderate-ish “independents”. They can all high-five each other with their reach across the aisle less-confrontational more-conversational conversation.
Good luck Huck...You're gonna need it.
Huckabee Radio Show = the only conservative radio call-in program with only one incoming phone line.
Bad start to a not-so-good idea.
Few people remember how Limbaugh built his popularity in the first place: he was both very funny and very snarling, in a cutting edge manner. He did not mince words, but spoke from crystal clear conservatism.
Leftists lost their marbles. Eventually, even he decided he had to tone it down a bit, such as when irate feminists (”Feminazis”), called in to scream and shriek at him, he would play the recorded sound of a vacuum cleaner, and say that he had “aborted” their call.
Then, with the Contract With America, anti-Bill Clinton sweep, he felt he had to tone it down even further, as it could have been counterproductive. Unfortunately, this half turned him into a Republican party platform mouthpiece.
Only when the party leadership went full RINO “moderate” did he finally return to more core conservatism. A very good thing.
But Huckabee really doesn’t have much a chance. He is vying for the “weak-conservative moderate Republicans who call themselves conservatives” listeners, and there really aren’t that many of them. Nor are they very dedicated to listening to radio shows.
And this shows another huge advantage to Limbaugh: a LOT of his listeners are working people, at work. That is a huge demographic, and they listen to the same radio station all day long. Or at least for shows they like.
Huckabee is seriously creepy. Nothing more dangerous than a mushy, squishy moderate Republican, well other than any Democrat.
Huckabee is working for the wrong media. He needs to move over to NBC where staging the news is accepted behavior.
What a doofus!!!!
The Huckster (Juan McLame butt buddy) is a RINO? Who knew?
Is EVERYONE from Hope, AR A DAMNED Lier!
bttt
I don’t think the goal here is so much to go after Rush Limbaugh’s audience but rather to recreate what Focus on the Family used to be, with an explicitly political edge that caused problems for the 501(c)3 nonprofit status of Christian radio stations.
Personally I think there’s an audience for both and I think expanding the audience of conservative talk radio is a good thing.