For sheer pleasure, I've had my ear on talk radio today clearly expecting "something" to happen. Well it didn't take Glenn long to live up to the billing.
It's too painful to actually listen to Glenn Beck, but I had it on in the background just kind of reveling in his insanity as he droned on and on about how the evil liberals were going to ruin radio by resurrecting the fairness doctrine. Pretty standard schtick, but hey, we're not listening to genius here. This devolves into the inevitable McCain bashing backed up by dutifully apoplectic callers, but the next caller was where the fun begins. More....
The next thing I realize is that Mike Huckabee himself is on the line, calling in from parts unknown. Now, I wasn't paying complete attention, but I'm pretty sure ol' Mike didn't just call in out of the blue. These things are pre-arranged in advance by handlers for both Beck and Huckabee.
At this point I'm not sure if Huckabee deserves props for going into the lions den, or demerits for being too stupid to know what was coming....cuz I sure did!
Huckabee got about 15 seconds of free airtime before Beck interrupted him and went for the jugular, saying he was unelectable, he's nothing but a spoiler, he's ruining it for Romney, he's in cahoots with McCain, something about Lucifer, snark,.....
Huckabee kept his cool and started to make his canned response about how people are voting for who they would like to see as president, and until somebody gets to 1100 delegates, he has as much right to.........
It was at this point that Beck hung up on him. He didn't even try to make like they had a bad connection or studio glitch, in fact, he acted proud of his childish behavior. "I,..I can't take this guy anymore" is pretty close to verbatim the first words out of his mouth. You could tell that even his studio sidekick was taken aback by it.
None of this "breaking news", or shocking given the source, but an insight into how far unglued these guys have become. What would be the reaction to a "real" journalist from the MSM doing this, and how in the hell does this guy retain a spot on CNN?