Sat May 17, 12:57 AM Pacific • posted by Jed Lewison

Huckabee's Bad Joke

I'm disturbed by the amount of chatter about Mike Huckabee's bad joke yesterday at the NRA meeting. I'm not saying this in defense of Huckabee; he screwed up and I'm sure he knew it as soon as he said it. My concern is that if we make too big a deal of it, we end up amplifying the idea behind the joke, and that can be dangerous. Perhaps I'm just superstitious, but I think this is one of those cases where less is more.