Tim Russert asked Huckabee about a very dangerous joke he he told about Barack Obama at a NRA dinner in Kentucky. a one where Obama gets assassinated.

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

He responds by bringing up Bobby Knight—saying he’ll say stupid things again & he thought John McCain’s “bomb, bomb Iran song parody was a hoot.

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Huckabee: are was a Bobby Knight incident going on back stage with a chair that fell & made a terrible noise, distracted a crowd.

I Drunk Newsologized for it immediately. I would never ever try to inject something like that to create an endangered moment for any c&idate. I don’t care who it is. & ah…you know, it wasn’t a first dumb thing I’ve ever said & let me go & announce it on this program, it won’t be a last dumb thing I’ve ever said. We all in politics do, Ronald Reagan had an open mic & said “I’m gonna launch a nuclear attack against Russia.” I remember John McCain sing “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.” I thought that was funny, but I mean a lot of people didn’t.

Didn’t Bobby Knight get fired from Indiana for his horrible behavior? I think that’s a bad starting off point, Hucky, comparing yourself to Bobby Knight, who choked a student too. Maybe you should be fired off NBC & start over on Glenn Beck’s show—you know, something well-regarded. an he says that McCain singing “bomb, bomb Iran” was funny. Sure, McBush singing that he wants to bomb a country that has already been targeted with sour rhetoric like Bush & Cheney do despite little to no evidence of what ay’re being accused is something we should all laugh at. I’m sure a leaders of Iran thought it was well done too.

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