NJ college journalist riles national GOP figure

Well done (4.00 / 3)

the audio makes him look like more of a fool than the comments.

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by: Jason Springer @ Wed Apr 14, 2010 at 21:34:46 PM UTC

Hat tip Smarty Jones (0.00 / 0)

by the way... thanks, Smarty.

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

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by: Rosi Efthim @ Wed Apr 14, 2010 at 23:26:13 PM UTC

Great Job! (4.00 / 5)

Just listened to the recording of "The Interview" Mike Tracey conducted with Huckabee.  Superb job!  Huckabee's tone of voice is so benign sounding. He tried to be careful in his choice of words...'oh that is someone else's decision' in each case ("not mine"), but Tracey got him to divulge his own small minded view of the Huckabee world. Congrats, Mr. Tracey, you have a great career ahead of you.

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by: Senator Loretta Weinberg @ Wed Apr 14, 2010 at 23:52:03 PM UTC

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Aw, shucks folksy charm (0.00 / 0)

That's the kind of language often used to describe Mike Huckabee, which is interested when you parse how objectionable his words are. No matter how covered in Southern charm, this is unacceptable nasty talk.  

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

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by: Rosi Efthim @ Wed Apr 14, 2010 at 23:46:45 PM UTC

Mike Tracey and The Perspective deserve the student equivalent of a Pulitzer (4.00 / 3)

Mike's interview was tenacious and a gazillion times better than those by journalists with decades of experience - Mike never lets go, never lets Huckabee evade.  And Mike is also respectful in the process - this is just great journalism without showboating.  And beyond the interview, for those who claim that Mike and The Perspective took what Huckabee said out of context, oh please - bull.  Mike reported it exactly, another feather in his cap.  Mike, it's fun to be in the same decade with you, as FDR wrote to Churchill.

By the way, Garden State Equality issued the statement below:

"Mike Huckabee's comments, which ably demonstrate why he'll
never be President of the United States, prove exactly why New
Jersey needs to enact marriage equality. Every day New Jersey
denies marriage equality to same-sex couples is yet another day
in which our society gives an imprimatur to extremists to
demonize loving American families as somehow less than human.

"The outrageous tenor of Huckabee's comments, which lack
compassion for fellow human beings even beyond the position he expressed, demonstrates that opposition to marriage equality is,
for some, a stalking horse for the spewing of hate.

"Huckabee's comments bring the marriage equality debate in New
Jersey into newly sharp relief: Where does our government in New Jersey stand - with Mike Huckabee, who has compared loving marriages of same-sex couples to drug abuse and incest, or with the American dream of equality for all?"

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by: Steven Goldstein, Garden State Equality chair @ Thu Apr 15, 2010 at 00:45:28 AM UTC

I just read (0.00 / 0)

that Rev. squirrel for brains and his wife are moving to Florida.

Which, of course, has no state income tax.

I was thinking that maybe someone should say that Huck "would, hopefully find a career other than Faux journalism," but I decided that he belongs there and in politics.

Huckabee - Palin in 2012!

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by: SmartyJones @ Thu Apr 15, 2010 at 00:46:47 AM UTC

Rachael (4.00 / 1)

just covered the story.

Gave kudos to Mike Tracey.

"College of NJ - 1 , Mike Huckabee - 0"

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by: SmartyJones @ Thu Apr 15, 2010 at 01:59:20 AM UTC

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TCNJ paid him $25,000 to spew hate? (0.00 / 0)

WTF!!!  Tax-payer $$$$???

"Discrimination caused by ignorance and fear is a tax on human progress" - Barbra Casbar Siperstein

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by: Babs NJSD @ Thu Apr 15, 2010 at 04:50:22 AM UTC

Question: (0.00 / 0)

"I'd rather have an honest atheist than a dishonest religious person [as President]" -- Huckabee

So he'd endorse an atheist over himself??

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by: jdm28 @ Thu Apr 15, 2010 at 05:01:28 AM UTC

Honest atheist (0.00 / 0)

He was being a shade or three past disingenuous wasn't he?  

It's not a particularly snappy signature, but here's what I think we need in the next NJ Democratic State Chair.  

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by: Rosi Efthim @ Thu Apr 15, 2010 at 05:25:42 AM UTC

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Thanks for the kind words everyone! (4.00 / 2)

Rachel Maddow covered it tonight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

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by: Mike Tracey @ Thu Apr 15, 2010 at 05:43:34 AM UTC

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