{"id":1776,"date":"2007-12-20T09:06:38","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T15:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2007-12-20T09:09:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T15:57:45","slug":"the-real-mike-huckabee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1776","title":{"rendered":"The Real Mike Huckabee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/politics\/story.html?id=0f9a4c7e-8215-47ca-8847-4beeaf747b8e\">The New Republic writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reporters recall Huckabee as combative, even malicious, in response to critical coverage. He was known to attack reporters, fire off scathing e-mails to newsrooms, and complain to editors about probing questions. &quot;I was just astounded at how vindictive he was,&quot; says Joan Duffy, who covered Huckabee for <em>The Commercial Appeal<\/em> of Memphis in the &#8217;90s. &quot;He took it all so personally. . . . You&#8217;re either with him, or you&#8217;re a mortal enemy.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"articleText\">What&#8217;s ironic about all this is how Huckabee&#8211;a graduate in speech and communications from Ouachita Baptist University and former p.r. director for televangelist James Robison&#8211;seems to be fashioning himself a sort of media-relations expert. About halfway through his campaign autobiography, <em>Character Makes a Difference<\/em>, Huckabee comments on his communications strategy. &quot;Several points are helpful in dealing with the media. One is not to be afraid,&quot; he writes. &quot;If a newspaper reporter doesn&#8217;t like you, there may be nothing you can do to change that. You have to be ready to counter it with other information outlets.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>And, in his meteoric ascent in the polls this past month, Huckabee has not only managed the press but mastered it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Republic writes: Reporters recall Huckabee as combative, even malicious, in response to critical coverage. He was known to attack reporters, fire off scathing e-mails to newsrooms, and complain to editors about probing questions. &quot;I was just astounded at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1776\">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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}