Did you see Huck on Hannity and Colmes last night? He responded to the issue of why he helped spring a rapist from jail who later committed murder. I’ve never seen so much double talk.
Later, Dick Morris tried to give an excuse for him, claiming that the reason they let him go was because they were afraid he’d be murdered by his fellow inmates, who’d already castrated him. Morris did not understand why Huck did not use that excuse, but I can see why he did not. That just rubs it in, doesn’t it? He would be using his own failure to maintain order in the prisons as an excuse to justify a further dereliction of duty. If you’re going to use that as an excuse to release a rapist, then why not use it as an excuse to release this guy again, as a murderer?
I, too, watched him on Hannity and Colmes last night and observed a man who was very skilled at using factually accurate statements totally to mislead. It happened while Shaun was questioning him about the DuMond parole. Huckster never directly denied that he tried to persuade the Arkansas parole board to parole DuMond. Instead, he said he didn't grant DuMond clemency, that the parole board paroled DuMond, that its members were all appointed by Clinton and Tucker, and that he, Huckabee, later removed all of them, meaning each would have a motive to lie about Huckabee's trying to influence their decision in the DuMond case. In other words, he tried to give the audience the completely false impression that he had nothing to do with the DuMond parole, without ever saying he didn't, by challenging the motives of those former members of the board who've said he did advocate granting parole to DuMond. The man is as slippery and untrustworthy as a basket full of greased cobras.
I think taking a special class in doubletalk is a prerequisite for being governor of Arkansas.