Hugh Hewitt is doing handstands over a story at Politico.com which implies Mike Huckabee, while Governor of Arkansas, took gifts from people whom he then rewarded with appointments to state positions.
The opening paragraph:
Mike Huckabee accepted more than 90 gifts from 21 Arkansans he appointed to state posts during his decade as governor, a Politico analysis of state public records found.
The fifth paragraph:
Most of the posts Huckabee’s benefactors landed were on unpaid boards and commissions. Not all of the gifts came before the appointments — several came from old friends and there’s no clear evidence of any quid pro quo.
In other words, Politico is making much ado about nothing, hoping no one reads their piece beyond the headline and the first paragraph. Scorched-earth politics at its best.
Yet as the attacks on Huckabee increase, so do his poll numbers.
And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
And finally; Can’t we all just get along? Rodney King