Huckabee Lashes Out At "Left-Wing" Huffington Post

[CatWoman]

In an interview this morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Mike Huckabee lashed out repeatedly at The Huffington Post in response to the Web site's explosive story yesterday alleging that Huck had pushed for parole for a serial rapist despite the fact that the rapist's victims had pleaded with the former Arkansas Governor not to.

The decision by Huckabee to attack HuffPo and to blame the left for his travails -- a reliable and time-tested tactic in GOP primaries -- suggests that Huck and his advisers have gone into heavy damage control mode at a moment when the story shows no signs of abating. Take a look:

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/12/huckabee_lashes_out_at_leftwing_huffington_post.php

Transcript:

Let's first of all look at the source. The Huffington Post, one of the most left-wing blogs in the blogosphere, There are factual errors in what they have printed. Some of it is outrageously incorrect...

The only thing that I think is just despicable is to use grief and pain as a political weapon. What a sad state of affairs it is in this country when we exploit people's pain for political purposes. That's what's happening...The Huffington Post just doesn't want to give the whole story of what's going on...

This agenda of the Huffington Post is outrageously misleading -- let's go beyond -- it's just downright false.

[theredpen]

1. Their saying the same stuff over at Free Republic

FR is a site where the drooling morons actually bought the wingnut propaganda that Wayne DuMond was a casualty of the "Dixie Mafia" and the "Clinton Crime Family." They bought it hook line and sinker. When Huckabee played bass at their inaugural ball in 2001, there were Freepers demanding that Huckabee pardon DuMond on top of his parole.

Now the Freepers are saying the same stuff we are: Huckabee made a big mistake and he let a dangerous man loose. They just leave out the part about how Huckabee did it to embarrass Clinton. Yeah, Huck, Clinton is really ashamed of his refusal to commute DuMond's sentence.

The Freepers are declaring Huckabee dead in the water. So are we. Who is he trying to fool?

[senseandsensibility]

2. Funny how he never

actually identifies the factual errors.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Ayatollah Huckabee unleashes a Fatwa

Probably the first of many to come.

[sendero]

4. Boy isn't he slick..

.... this isn't about pointing out the horrible judgement that cost 2 women their lives, it's about "explioting grief".

Good luck selling that one, dude.