Huckabee to guest on Rachel Maddow Show tonight

[madbrian]

Posted: 11/20/08 at 9:05pm

Should be interesting. She's currently taking the Senate to task for their extended standing ovation for Ted Stevens.

[blueroses]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 8:50am

madbrian, I missed it. How did the interview go?

[madbrian]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 8:59am

I found it interesting. I'd love for him to take Buchanan's place as her sometimes foil. Here the clip:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032553

[artscallion]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 9:27am

When she was pushing him on church influencing government, and he kept veering it to morals as they relate to good fiscal policy, I really wish she had led him back to the social issues side of that question. Folks are less concerned with how religion influences fiscal policy than they are in how it tries to shape social policy to match its moral views.

I think Rachel tends to avoid the gay issues on her show, maybe to avoid looking biased, or like she has some 'agenda'. It's a shame. Because she's so intelligent and sharp that I think she could really get some good points out there.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 1:28pm

Her show's a hit, people love her; it's time for her to take up the cause. And we can only get so much mileage out of Obamaland cabinet leaks. (I hate a leaky cabinet, especially in a mobile home.)

I think she needs to do a Power Lesbian show, with Melissa, Suze, Jodie, Rosie, and Mary Cheney as the beaver.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 1:33pm

Jodie Foster? Appearing in public as an out lesbian? Ha, dream on!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 1:40pm

Mary Cheney can't afford to be a single-issue lady, Auggie.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 11/21/08 at 1:46pm

Once Daddy D--k is outta observatory hill, Little Marry might emerge from her Great Falls bunker and do something wild -- like write a wild west novel about daughters of Sapho shootin' it up. Oh wait -- Mama got there first.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 11/24/08 at 11:51am

"I weighed whether or not to ask him about his anti-gay views, but I really don't care about them very much. Huckabee is a doctrinaire anti-gay theocratic social conservative whose views are well-known and heartfelt. I also probably wouldn't bother asking Sarah Palin about her anti-gay views if I had the opportunity to interview her -- it's just not the most interesting or newsworthy (or ridiculous) thing about either of them."
Rachel Maddow goes soft on anti-gay Huckabee

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 12/9/08 at 4:02pm

Going on Mike Signorile to discuss Rachel Maddow and closeted journalism @ 2PM ET (+)

(UPDATE: 2:50 - I just wrapped up and basically I covered same ground covered in this post and in my original piece on the subject. Rachel will respond in the next hour. I'll have audio of both later.)
UPDATE 2: Holy smoke - Rachel just prevaricated on the air. She told Mike that she's asked me to be on her show and not responded. I've never been asked, and in fact she's never emailed, called or in any way had contact with me before. I have no idea why she would say this. Wow. Why would I have turned down an opportunity to go on her show?


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A couple of weeks ago I put up a post, "Rachel Maddow goes soft on anti-gay Huckabee," that generated a lot of discussion here at the Blend and at Pandagon.

I'm going to be on the Michelangelo Signorile Show today to discuss the former Arkansas Governor appearance on her show to pimp his latest tome, Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America. The book is the media-friendly Huckabee's launching pad for 2012 that seeks to rehabilitate social conservatism so that it isn't jettisoned from his party in the wake of Sarah Palin's batsh*ttery.

A talented and essential progressive voice on the air, Rachel Maddow's softball interview with Huckabee seemed oddly out of sorts, given he has been touring the country spewing fresh homophobia (see his appearance on The View, where he tried to peddle his bigotry and received more grilling than Maddow gave him), and that as a former governor of the state of Arkansas who supports discrimination against gays and lesbians, it would have been timely and relevant to ask him about the adoption measure that passed on Nov. 4 that bars same-sex couples from adopting.

It would have been good to hear what Mr. Huckabee feels should happen to children in the foster care system and group homes -- he must prefer that they languish there rather than in loving homes where the parents aren't married or are same-sex couples.

Some questions for Rachel that might shed light on several issues are below the fold.
http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8478