2008 Election

Huggy Bear Gets His Own Show

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ September 26, 2008 ⋅   Email this post ⋅  Digg This ⋅  Share on Facebook ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

My second-favorite Republican (after MediaLizzy “Hackney,” of course) is getting his own show on Fox:

Former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee announced on his Web site that he has a new show debuting 8 p.m. EDT Saturday and Sunday on the Fox News Channel.

The show is simply titled “Huckabee,” he said.

“I’m sure the name will make it easy for all of you to find it,” Huckabee wrote on his political action committee’s blog.

Fox News Channel spokesman Richard White said that Huckabee’s new show would air on the channel but referred all questions about the show to Huckabee’s agent.

I know that this development will only propagate the spread of extremist evangelical ideas, but I can’t help being excited about it. I just want to hug Huckabee every time I see him. As Bill Clinton said of his Hope, Arkansas, neighbor to a crowded middle school gym in Crystal Lake, Iowa, when I was there back in January: Huck is the only Republican who can give a speech and make a joke. And you’d have to have an awesome sense of humor to hang out with Chuck “Black Belt Patriotism” Norris that much. 

His first guest will be Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who makes my skin crawl. I may have to hold out for the second episode.