Presidential Candidate Huckabee shoots over reporters' heads

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  Elsewhere

  Now we know for sure that Huckabee will be of the same, ahem, caliber as Dick Cheney.

  This guy turned to shoot at a pheasant and ended up firing over the heads of a group of reporters.

  What an idiot.

  http://weblogs.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/blog/2007/12/huckabees_muzzle_control_probl.html

  Huckabee's muzzle control problem

  by Jim Tankersley

  Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick pheasant-hunting expedition in Iowa on Wednesday, and at one point, a reporter asked why he hadn’t invited sporting enthusiast Dick Cheney along. "Because I want to survive all the way through this," Huckabee replied, in a chuckling dig at the vice president’s accidental shooting of a quail-hunting partner last year.

  Any good sportsman, though, couldn’t miss a distinctly Cheneyesque moment in the press accounts of the former Arkansas governor’s morning hunt: At one point, Huckabee’s party turned toward a cluster of reporters and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired shotgun blasts over the group’s heads.

  This, friends, is dangerously bad hunting form.

  Your Swamp correspondent, the son of a longtime hunter education instructor, grew up plying the corn rows and stream banks of rural Oregon with a Labrador retriever and a Mossberg 20-gauge pump shotgun. On our hunts for pheasant, grouse and quail, merely swinging a gun barrel in the general direction of another person was grounds for day-long banishment to the truck (which smelled like wet dog).

  Suffice to say, if any of our hunting mates had pulled a stunt like Huckabee’s yesterday, we never would have invited them back. It’s the sort of behavior that drives safety-conscious hunters up the wall, because it reinforces a reckless, gun-totin’ stereotype.

  My colleague James Oliphant reports that Huckabee’s party was about 75 yards away from the press corps Wednesday when a pheasant jumped up and flew toward the reporters, drawing several shots. “That was too close,” he reports a cameraman saying.

  Perhaps Huckabee missed hunter’s safety classes – Arkansas only requires them for hunters born after 1968 – but the etiquette on this point is clear.

  “Never point a firearm at yourself or others,” the International Hunter Education Association declares in its Basic Safety Rules. Later, it adds, “Never point your firearm at something you do not intend to shoot. Make sure you positively identify what you are shooting at and know what lies in front of and beyond it.”

  Huckabee emerged happily from his hunt, three dead pheasants in tow, Oliphant reports. Asked for a metaphor to describe the hunt, he replied, "Don't get in my way. This is what happens."
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  snowbird

  Asked for a metaphor to describe the hunt, he replied, "Don't get in my way. This is what happens."

  An omen?

  Sylvia
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  Elsewhere

  Looks like this guy is as dumb as Bush. Here are a few Huckabeeisms I've found so far:

  Imagine, at least, another four years of Bush-like leadership. The thought scares the hell out of me.

  1. After shooting over the heads of a group of reporters while pheasant hunting: "Don't get in my way. This is what happens."
  2. Forget energy conservation. Lets eliminate ALL energy: “I think we ought to be out there talking about ways to reduce energy consumption and waste. And we ought to declare that we will be free of energy consumption in this country within a decade, bold as that is.” EW: If he's as bad as Bush I don't doubt for a second he could accomplish this. One way or another he would likely send us back to the stone age.
  3. On why preventative health care is best: "Kill the snake rather than treat the snake bites."
  4. Referring to government bureaucracy on how he plans to keep jobs in America: "I can't part the red sea, but I can part the red tape."
  5. On students' lack of motivation: "They don't drop out because they're dumb, they drop out because they're bored to death."
  6. On ensuring music and the arts are taught in schools: "Unleash weapons of mass instruction" in schools.
  7. On education: "Second to being the commander in chief is being the communicator in chief."
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  dogisgod

  I hope Hillery doesn't go out pretending to love killing creatures for fun. Do these guys follow a bad script or what.
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  BrentR

  When it comes to shooting reporters all I can say is better luck next time! For legal reasons it's always better to make it look like an accident.
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  What-A-Coincidence

  Asked for a metaphor to describe the hunt, he replied, "Don't get in my way. This is what happens."

  An omen?

  YEP...

  remember this?

  Huckabee said the bookshelf is just a bookshelf and shrugged off the controversy: "I will confess this: If you play the spot backwards it says, 'Paul is dead. Paul is dead.'"

  then he suggests his opponents committ suicide.

  wtf?
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  frankiespeakin

  Sound like this guy made a little Fruedian slip if you ask me:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip

  Freudian slip

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  A Freudian slip, or parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is believed to be caused by the unconscious mind.

  Some errors, such as a man accidentally calling his wife by the name of another woman, seem to represent relatively clear cases of Freudian slips. In other cases, the error might appear to be trivial or bizarre, but may show some deeper meaning on analysis. As a common pun goes, "A Freudian slip is like saying one thing, but meaning your mother." A Freudian slip is not limited to a slip of the tongue, or to sexual desires. It can extend to our word perception where we might read a word incorrectly because of our fixations. It is important to note that these slips are semi-conscious. This is to say that these thoughts are consciously repressed and then unconsciously released. This is unlike true Freudian repression, which is the unconscious act of making something unconscious.