{"id":642,"date":"2007-12-30T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T22:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=642"},"modified":"2007-12-30T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T22:46:00","slug":"medias-masters-adore-huckabee-by-piper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Media’s Masters Adore Huckabee by Piper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Media’s Masters Adore Huckabee <\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

By Michael Collins Piper AFP<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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December 26, 2007<\/p>\n

\nhttp:\/\/www.americanfr…<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n

The media elite is having a honeymoon with Mike Huckabee. As an ordained
\nSouthern Baptist minister, Huckabee is the darling of evangelical
\nChristians, but why would the major media, dominated by atheists and
\nagnostics who are traditionally hostile to evangelicals, suddenly
\nundergo this conversion?<\/p>\n

Media?s Masters Adore Huckabee<\/p>\n

By Michael Collins Piper AFP<\/p>\n

Many good conservatives are said to be captivated with the former
\ngovernor of Arkansas ?Mike Huckabee, not that other former Arkansas
\ngovernor, William Jefferson Clinton.<\/p>\n

It seemed as if just at the moment Texas populist Ron Paul was beginning
\nto make waves, with even The Washington Post reporting Paul’s
\ngrass-roots campaign threatened, in the Post’s words, to “upend”
\nthe
\nRepublican presidential primary campaign,the mass media began focusing
\non Huckabee, whom they had previously ignored.<\/p>\n

For his own part, Huckabee has said he can support any of his Republican
\ncompetitors with the notable exception of Paul. As governor, and until
\nrunning for president, Huckabee strongly supported amnesty for illegal
\naliens and called for extending health and welfare benefits to them. He
\nalso raised taxes many times as governor.<\/p>\n

There is good reason to believe powerful backstage forces are behind the
\nHuckabee “surge,” and some observers suspect Huckabee is being
\npromoted
\nby the media’s owners precisely to redirect attention away from Paul’s
\nburgeoning grass-roots campaign.<\/p>\n

That Huckabee was governor of Arkansas may point toward “special”
\nbacking. Arkansas has long been a fiefdom, an outpost, of the New
\nYork-based Rockefeller family whose satellites in Arkansas, such as the
\nStevens banking empire, which backed Bill Clinton, now supporting Huckabee.<\/p>\n

One of the Rockefeller brothers, Winthrop, was elected governor of
\nArkansas as a Republican in the 1960s with the backing of a young Bill
\nClinton, a liberal “Democrat for Rockefeller.” Then, although many
\nHuckabee fans and foes alike seem to have forgotten it, while Huckabee
\nwas governor, Rockefeller’s son, Winthrop Jr., was Huckabee’s lieutenant
\ngovernor, only to die prematurely of a blood disorder.<\/p>\n

Should there be any doubt Huckabee is oriented toward cold, hard power
\npolitics, he recently told The New York Times Magazine that he takes his
\nforeign policy leads from such seemingly diverse forces as liberal New
\nYork Times columnist Thomas Friedman and “neo-conservative” power
\nbroker
\nFrank Gaffney.<\/p>\n

Although these Huckabee gurus are ostensibly “different,” they have
\none
\nthing in common: all are hard-line supporters of Israel, with Gaffney
\nhaving been one of the key propagandists promoting U.S. involvement in
\nIraq and now touting the need for a U.S. attack on Iran.<\/p>\n

Washington insiders have not failed to note that Huckabee has received a
\nboost from big names in the Establishment media, ranging from
\ninfluential liberal columnists such as longtime Democratic operative
\nDonna Brazile to David Broder, undisputed dean of the “elite”
\ncolumnists.<\/p>\n

These media figures (and others) tout Huckabee as a likeable fellow, a
\nhard-driving “winner” who could add a lot to the GOP ticket, if not
\nas
\nits presidential nominee, certainly in the second slot.<\/p>\n

While evangelical Christians are delighted that Huckabee, a former
\nBaptist minister, advertises himself as a “Christian leader,” the
\nfact
\nHuckabee seems to be getting an unusually favorable welcome from the
\nmajor media is intriguing. The media has never promoted Christian
\n“leaders” unless those “leaders” had the implicit backing
\nof the elite
\nbehind-the-scenes owners of the media.<\/p>\n

All told, there’s clearly more to the Huckabee phenomenon than meets the
\neye.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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