Report from Governor Mike Huckabee on the Colbert Report
By chapelccino from the HucksArmy Forum:
After Colbert ran across the stage (in ski boots - the joke was that he’s ‘in’ Denver, which of course he isn’t) he went to where Mike was seated at the table, and they shook hands to the applause. Colbert asked Mike if he was ‘going skiing’ and Mike said no, he did that once and promised God he’d never do it again.
The talk turned to the convention and Colbert asked how Mike thought it had gone, saying he could use owrds like ‘debacle,’ etc.
Mike said that Michelle Obama was ‘phenomenal,’ and then he talked about Hillary. He said that the criticism was that she was ‘not effusive enough’ - but Mike said that if she’d gone on and on about how much better Obama would be, she wouldn’t have sounded sincere, she therefore couldn’t win. He said she did what she had to do, supporting Obama but not going crazy.
Colbert asked if Obama should have asked her to be his VP, and he said that wasn’t going to happen.
Mike said that the pick of Joe Biden was like going into an ice cream store and picking vanilla, it’s safe, it’s a ’simple flavor’ - (the audience reacted to that, and he quickly said he meant ’safe’ - it was obvious he didn’t mean Biden was simple). Colbert made some comment about vanilla being a euphemism for white - and Mike’s right away said ‘oh, gosh no’ (leave it to Colbert). Mike said he meant that Biden was not going to energize or excite. Colbert said ‘Hillary would have.’
The talk turned to McCain’s VP choice. Romney’s name came up, Mike said ‘I don’t think it’s Romney,” and he started to talk about what the pundits are saying - but Colbert interrupted him and said ‘you can’t say they - now you have to say ‘we’” - funny -
then Colbert said ‘Why not you?’ and Mike laughed (the whole thing was smiling and laughing, so I don’t mean it as having any ‘meaning’) - and said ‘why NOT me?’
Colbert started to say about Mike ‘you believe the Constitution should be changed to fit God’s law,’ and Mike smiled and started to explain, that it was about our values, that it’s a document that can be changed, that’s the genius of it - but Colbert interrupted to make his point, ‘you said that - and yet you appeal to everyone! You’d put McCain over the top!” It’s all very tongue-in-cheek.
Then Colbert asked Mike to talk about Obama and said ‘you can use whatever euphemism for black you’d like’ - and he gave examples (which I didn’t write down, but they were normal words, I can’t think of an example, but he was implying that when people refer to Obama critically, it’s sort of euphemism for black, I guess is what he meant) -
So Mike said (I’m paraphrasing, of course) - ‘let me be serious, which I seldom do here - I grew up in the deep South - and as a Republican, I’m proud that I’ve lived long enough that a black man has been nominated, not despite or because of his race, but with indifference to race. That said, I’m not going to vote for him or want him to be president, but I’m happy for the country.’ Colbert was sarcastic about this, (I don’t recall if it was with words, or just laughter, kind of like ‘it’s great, but’) then the spot was pretty much over.
There was another little spot but I forgot where it was in the order of things - about Colbert saying ‘you’re going to St. Paul next week, you’re going to speak’ (’yes, I am’) ‘You had said I’d be your vice president, so now can I be your vice speech maker, like say you take 20 minutes and I’ll take 10?’ and Mike laughed and said sure, seeing where ‘it got me’ to promise him the vice presidency. And at another point, there was a joke by Mike like ‘I’m sure I’ll get the phone call after the show’ - laughing about it.
Posted: August 28th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
Tags: arkansas, governor, mike huckabee, president, republican, veep, vice president, vp
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