I see absolutely nothing funny about Huckabees’s remark, and while I disagree with his politics, I have found him to be kind of a funny guy. This comment was just weird, and totally inappropriate.
It was a joke in bad taste. I love tasteless jokes. I can forgive a lot if it’s funny. The problem with Huckabee’s joke is that it wasn’t very funny.
My take on it is that he was trying to make a joke about Obama being afraid of guns. Not because he’s black, but because he’s a pro-gun control liberal. He screwed up by saying, “Someone pointed a gun at him,” because ducking when someone points a gun at you is a pretty natural reaction, regardless of your stance on gun control.
OK, I can see that - and yeah, still makes no sense. Anyone with any sense doesn’t want to be on that end of a gun.
Disagree. I think it was an assassination joke, and not offensive. Someone sez murder’s not funny, well, no – when there’s been one. But since nobody died, and everybody knows a black presidential candidate has a few more groups in the “wantsya dead” category than a white one, I don’t think it’s a big deal.
I’m with Miller, and I think you’re crediting Huckabee with far more subtlety and nuance than he’s actually capable of.
Now that was funny! I almost liked him for several minutes after that one.
Huckabee is no Ronald Reagan
I really doubt it was an assassination joke. Given the context, it was probably just a dig at Obama’s gun-control position. The joke falls flat because it’s illogical (most people would duck if you pointed a gun at them) and it sounds alarming because it resembles a reference to political assassinations, but from what I’ve heard from Huckabee, that’s not his taste in humor.
Can anyone explain what the article meant about McCain’s rating from the NRA? It said he got a C+ and a perfect score in the same breath.
Maybe he knows some noose jokes too. That way he can appeal to the lunatic fringe.
Not funny to me.
I hope that ruins any chances he had of being Veep.
Fine. Let’s talk about context.
Nobel Prize winner predicts Obama Assassination
“Assasinate,” “Obama” makes the top 100 list of Google searches.
Confronting assassination fears.
KKK Warns of Obama Assassination(NSFW) www dot muchosucko dot com/show/43181
Journalist plays out assassination factor
You know how some things are funny 'cause they’re so true? The inverse is true in this case. This isn’t some drunk redneck shooting his mouth off in a bar, or for that matter, Sarah Silverman or some other edgy comic performing a routine. This was a Presidential Candidate in a public forum.
Context indeed.
later that day…
Damn Mike, really? I’m glad to hear you say that because just today at lunch I mentioned to my coworkers that I could’ve sworn I saw you at the crackwhore bar with a bottle of Jack in your hand and a golden retriever on the end of your dick. I made an off hand remark that was in no way intended to offend or disparage you. I apologize that my comments were offensive. That was never my intention.
I say it wasn’t funny for all the reasons mentioned. Besides, there are Democrats who are in the NRA, correct? Even if they’re Hillary fans, I can’t see many of them laughing.
Seems to me that these things make the joke really NOT funny.
Actually, to Huckabee’s credit he said “I apologize that my comments were offensive.” The link in the OP has been updated and it has his full statement.
One point to Huck for not using the weasly “I’m sorry if anyone was offended” non-apology.
You are incorrect. It was a border collie.
Eh, I’m a big Obama fan and don’t care for Huckabee but I cannot work up any offense at this. It was a throw-away line, big deal.
Actually, even though I criticized it before, I’m starting to dig this part:
I like the implication that morality cannot be taught without the use of firearms, and the unspoken corollary that people who don’t have guns around when they grow up are the ones you have to watch out for. Those fuckin’ Quakers always end up in the penitentiary.
That Huckabee is a friggin’ simpleton. How the blue hell did he get so far in politics???
Screw it. Somebody always bitches.
I’m going to vote for ‘bad improv joke’. I can see what he was going for, it wasn’t all that funny, but I think he’d make the same joke about Hillary. Well, Hillary before she started drinking beer and shooting b’ar. Maybe Kunich, say, then, if he was the nominee.