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Despite his blossoming presidential bid, it looks like the Huckster’s still earning money by working the speaking circuit, Politico reported yesterday. This morning, CNN pretended it was their story and reported it all over again, but they didn’t get to talk to the charming Mr. Huck on this second go-round.
In Huck’s place, CNN got a spokesperson with a Muslimy name who reiterated his If-I-Don’t-Work-I-Don’t-Eat point, and also confirmed that he makes like $25k per gig (roughly equivalent to what a Wonkette intern makes in about a million years). Predictably, Huck’s mouthpiece had no idea who was paying for the speeches or where they would be given. All the other presidential candidates have put their paid speaking engagements on hold, but they’re also all kind of loaded. We’ll come to Huckabee’s defense because of this: he hasn’t given a paid speech since November, when no one cared about him, and he won’t give another until February, when, again, no one will care about him.
Huckabee still gives paid speeches [Politico]
Huckabee still getting paid on the speech circuit [CNN]
Comments
Is he autographing a Bible?
I think history as much as money has dictated that the aesthetics of presidential last names safely precludes the ascension of a President Huckabee
Who but poor dumb hillbillies would pay to hear this man say anything?
"To Jesus, Best Wishes, The Huck"
well, @dcityman: wouldn't YOU vote for a man that has a nice southern drawl?
@dcityman: That doesn't explain Polk very well.
The pay of an Arkansas governor must be piss poor because they keep trying for promotions.
@drunkandhorny: Well, I did vote for Clinton, but he wasn't blowing squirrels into the 8th dimension with a 12-guage.
@CribbageLeft: You can't make a cartoon character out of Polk like you can with Huckabee Hound.
So this is the famous Huckabee "don't give speeches so you don't eat" diet? I hear Alberto Gonzales is trying that out too, though not on purpose.
If he doesn't make money then he can't get his NutriSystem order filled and he has to go back to eating fried squirrel.
@dcityman: 8th dimension--is that like Tron?
@popsocket: $69,920 according to a six year old story at a State policy site. The lowest in the country, which has been the situation since the 1992 election. (All those, parsing the Whitewater land deal stories always explained that the Clinton's were looking for extra money, because the Gov's pay was the lowest.)
25,000 for a quarter-hour with Huckabee?!? Well, at least the person paying will be Republican... so it's nice to hear that they continue to get what they deserve for all of their ignorance and power-hunger...
$25,000'll buy a whole mess of popcorn squirrel.
I get a feeling ol' Huck for a duck might have a back up plan. He figures if he never gets to be President, he might be the next Jimmy Dean.
The more interesting question is:
How much do you have to pay to get the whole Huckabee family to show up and do that "torture a dog to death" vaudeville act of theirs?
I bet you could really make money on booking them into some Tijuana venue.
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