Uh, Agent Mike? Isn't this an implied threat?

[Aviation Pro]

Huckabee jokes about Obama ducking a gunman

(CNN) – During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman.

“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he's getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”

Obama supports extending the assault weapons ban, limits on gun sales, and a national law against carrying concealed weapons, with exceptions for retired police and military personnel. John McCain – whose legislative record was awarded a C+ rating by the NRA in 2004, but has received a perfect score – will address the group later Friday afternoon. His speech will include remarks "on the issue of unconditional negotiation with state sponsors of terror" that aides tell CNN’s Dana Bash are a direct response to Obama’s comments earlier Friday.

Link here: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

[Hissyspit]

1. Stupid and ugly, if not an implied threat.

[TooBigaTent]

2. No, it actually is not. To be actionable, it must be a credible threat by the one

making the statement that they will "do harm" to the target.

Just "joking" about killing someone is not a crime. And joking about someone else doing the killing is even more removed from forbidden speech.

[Yavapai]

14. Is that why so many of us removed our

"LEE HARVEY OSWALD, WHERE ARE YOU WHEN AMERICA REALLY NEEDS YOU" bumper stickers over the last 7 years?

We thought they were illegal...






OK, I will admit it, I am shamelessly looking for a DUZY. :evilgrin:

[lyonn]

17. It may not be a threat but it could be taken as a suggestion!?

This is not a joking matter.

[dhill926]

3. this is vile....n/t

[Wickerman]

4. exactly, no place for that in civil discourse. n/t

[newmajority]

5. Really classy there, Huckster

Who Would Jesus Joke About Killing??

[eleny]

6. And he's been spoken about so kindly here at DU

Hopefully, that will be at an end from here on out. The guy never has been a sweetheart. He just knows how to act.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. And this comment coming from a Baptist minister.

For shame. Bill Moyers is also a minister and he would never go into this territory.

[Texas Hill Country]

8. it was a stupid and tasteless joke that is over the line, this is true.

[qijackie]

9. I don't think he was joking about anyone killing Obama - the poke

was saying Obama is a coward.... tripping to get out of the way of a gun.... implying that his stand on guns is because he's afraid of them.

[Occam Bandage]

20. Haha! What a coward, getting out of the way of people who would kill him! Real men get shot!

Seriously, are you that dumb?

[DearAbby]

10. What a disgusting piece of humanity...

and this man is supposed to be a man of god...

[Crunchy Frog]

11. Hahahaha, those Republicans are just so witty.

:eyes:

[rurallib]

12. so much for Huckabee being "nice".

he likes to stoke the fires too.

[olkaz]

13. He learned his lesson. Socially conservative populism doesn't play with the Republican elite

Huckabee will transform in the same way McCain transformed.

He'll be Gollum by 2012.

[Window]

15. Fuck Huck.

[Apollo11]

18. Strongly agree

:applause:

[JimGinPA]

16. He Just Got Blasted On CNN For His "Joke"...

Even by Blitzer.


K&R

[robertpaulsen]

19. Tasteless, but I think Rush "dreaming of riots" Limbaugh is worse.

That Secret Service hasn't knocked on his door shows what a crock justice in this country is.

[Aviation Pro]

21. Thanks Randi!!!!!

She just mentioned this.

[ErinBerin84]

22. posted this on another thread, but

(Chris mentioned it later in his show, but I missed that part) Andrea Mitchell brought up the Huckabee joke briefly on Hardball and seemed really disgusted. She said "It was bizarre...just really bizarre. You DON'T make jokes like that during a presidential-", and then Chris cut her off and said "Shhh. Don't even REPEAT what he said. There are a lot of nuts who watch and I don't want them getting any ideas" (Of course, he brought up the joke later in the show, so I am assuming it was repeated to some extent, haha).

[theboss]

23. Jesus, that's ridiculous

I have said nice things about Huckabee but that's disgusting.

[NotThisTime]

24. Shouldn't even post this crap, there are nuts everywhere KWIM?

[TheDonkey]

25. There goes his chance at VP. LOL. What a sick fuck.

[Olney Blue]

26. How in the hell can he even think like that? WTF?

[moondust]

27. I don't think it was spontaneous. eom