|
|
ABC News calls it "an off-color joke".
Former GOP hopeful and Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is back in the news this week, making a splash when he took a hit at Senator Barack Obama during the annual National Rifle Association meeting.Huckabee made an off-color joke during his speech in Louisville, Kentucky, when a loud bang was heard off-stage.
"That was Barack Obama," Huckabee quipped, "He Just tripped off a chair. He was getting ready to speak. Somebody aimed a gun at him and he…he dove for the floor."
How reckless is this from CBS news?
Obama Is Target of GOP Jabs at NRA MeetingRove wasn’t the only speaker to take aim at Obama. Mike Huckabee, speaking later in the program, was interrupted by a loud noise. “That was Barack Obama,” he said. “He just tripped off a chair. He was getting ready to speak and someone pointed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”
Don't these people have any sense of the potential impact of what they're stating in the press to some crazy out there?
The memory of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King 40 years ago, and the risks Obama could face in his run for the presidency, have been a concern of many voters during this presidential campaign.
At Obama's request the U.S. Secret Service began protecting him in May 2007, 18 months before the general election and the earliest a presidential candidate has received protection because of racially motivated threats.
I'm sure the Secret Service doesn't find this funny at all.
Watch it:
