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Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:20:42 +0000

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By: pacatrue

pacatrue — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:10:50 +0000

And why hold a press conference at all unless you specifically wanted to earn brownie points for not running the ad? I assume people in his campaign staff come up with ideas all the time that people decide not to do. Just operate by your morals; don’t brag about them.

By: Joe Gandelman

Joe Gandelman — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:04:29 +0000

I don’t buy Huckabee’s explanation totally either. Yes, I know reports said they were out a huge amount of money. But the bottom line is they DID show the ad to the press and it ranks as a craven political ploy, even if some are now portraying it as an act of course. You’re correct. It could have been there to show those who doubted it. Reporters LAUGHED when he showed it. I was a reporter for years and you don’t laugh at news sources in a group. Even if you think they’re full of it, you show them the respect of hearing them out, then you go back and write your report.

By: Jim Satterfield

Jim Satterfield — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:45:03 +0000

–On showing the ad to the press: (26:57) “Maybe in hindsight we’d have done it differently, but if we had said that we had an ad that we were going to run but now we’re not going to run it, the press would have said, ‘Oh yeah, right — where is the ad? You don’t have one.’”

And you have the ad there off to the side and offer to let anyone who doubts you go over and watch it.