{"id":4131,"date":"2008-01-01T19:15:12","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T02:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/01\/huckabee-compares-nie-report-to-brittany-news\/"},"modified":"2008-01-01T21:52:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T04:52:41","slug":"huckabee-compares-nie-report-to-brittany-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/01\/huckabee-compares-nie-report-to-brittany-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee Compares NIE Report to &#8216;Britney News&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/12\/31\/news\/elections\/doc477960509f986913841749.txt\">an interview yesterday<\/a> with the <em>Iowa Quad City Times<\/em>, GOP Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee defended his ignorance of the Iran NIE report release when asked about it on the campaign trail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The point I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to make is that, on the campaign trail, nobody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be able, if they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been campaigning as hard as we have been, to keep up with every single thing, from what happened to Britney last night to who won \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDancing with the Stars.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huckabee said that the NIE report question was &#8220;an ambush question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The whole perception was based on an ambush question on the NIE report.  From there, it was like, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWow.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 That was released at 10 o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122clock in the morning. At 5:30 in the afternoon, somebody says, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHave you read the report?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Maybe I should\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve said, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHave you read the report?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 President Bush didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t read it for four years; I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know why I should read it in four hours.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huckabee had not been criticized for failing to <em>read <\/em>the report.  He was criticized for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-huckabee_webdec05,1,3972812.story\">not even being aware of the most important news story of that day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview yesterday with the Iowa Quad City Times, GOP Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee defended his ignorance of the Iran NIE report release when asked about it on the campaign trail: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The point I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m trying to make is that, on the campaign trail, nobody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be able, if they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been campaigning as hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_social_image_id":0,"_social_image_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","_social_image_id":false,"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}