{"id":296,"date":"2007-12-14T22:44:35","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T02:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/14\/politicos-misleading-story-on-huckabee\/"},"modified":"2007-12-14T22:44:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T02:44:35","slug":"politicos-misleading-story-on-huckabee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/politicos-misleading-story-on-huckabee","title":{"rendered":"Politico&#8217;s misleading story on Huckabee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hughhewitt.townhall.com\/blog\/Hewitt\/default.aspx?mode=post&amp;g=c00c88d8-938f-418f-9e9e-4271037cf37a&amp;comments=true&amp;submitted=true86c7e7c9-6b1e-4a38-84e6-8e57edf5fec4\">Hugh Hewitt is doing handstands<\/a> over <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1207\/7401.html\">a story at Politico.com<\/a> which\u00a0implies Mike Huckabee, while Governor of Arkansas, took gifts from people whom he then\u00a0rewarded with appointments to state positions.<\/p>\n<p>The opening paragraph:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mike Huckabee accepted more than 90 gifts from 21 Arkansans he appointed to state posts during his decade as governor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/static\/PPM43_071214_huckdocs.html\"><strong><font size=\"2\" color=\"#003399\">a Politico analysis of state public records found<\/font><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fifth paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of the posts Huckabee\u2019s benefactors landed were on unpaid boards and commissions. Not all of the gifts came before the appointments\u00a0\u2014 several came from old friends and there\u2019s no clear evidence of any quid pro quo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Yet as the attacks on Huckabee increase, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/election_20082\/daily_presidential_tracking_polling_history\">so do his poll numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Hewitt is doing handstands over a story at Politico.com which\u00a0implies Mike Huckabee, while Governor of Arkansas, took gifts from people whom he then\u00a0rewarded with appointments to state positions. The opening paragraph:\u00a0 Mike Huckabee accepted more than 90 gifts from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/politicos-misleading-story-on-huckabee\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}