What a First-Rate Operation

Here's Mike Huckabee, maybe a week or so away from being your Republican frontrunner, on the biggest international news story on the planet:

Kuhn: I don’t know to what extent you have been briefed or been able to take a look at the NIE report that came out yesterday ...

Huckabee: I’m sorry?

Kuhn: The NIE report, the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. Have you been briefed or been able to take a look at it —

Huckabee: No.

Kuhn: Have you heard of the finding?

Huckabee: No.

OK, a guy's out campaigning all day, maybe he doesn't pick up on the breaking news. But nobody from his communications staff prepares him for an on-the-record interview? They don't think that, you know, CURRENT EVENTS might come up?

Between this and the third party robocalling and the Wayne Dumond thing back in the news, suddenly Mr. Meteoric Rise looks about to leave a crater.

Here's Mike Huckabee, maybe a week or so away from being your Republican frontrunner, on the biggest international news story on the planet:

Kuhn: I don’t know to what extent you have been briefed or been able to take a look at the NIE report that came out yesterday ...

Huckabee: I’m sorry?

Kuhn: The NIE report, the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. Have you been briefed or been able to take a look at it —

Huckabee: No.

Kuhn: Have you heard of the finding?

Huckabee: No.

OK, a guy's out campaigning all day, maybe he doesn't pick up on the breaking news. But nobody from his communications staff prepares him for an on-the-record interview? They don't think that, you know, CURRENT EVENTS might come up?

Between this and the third party robocalling and the Wayne Dumond thing back in the news, suddenly Mr. Meteoric Rise looks about to leave a crater.

UPDATE: The Chicago Tribune has a story on this, as well as The Hotline. This is not going to be pretty.

"I don't know where the intelligence is coming from that says that they suspended the program and how credible that is versus the news that they actually are expanding it," he said. "And then I've heard the last two weeks supposed reports that say that they are accelerating and could be having a reactor in a much shorter period of time than originally they thought."

"I don't know where these boys with their newfangled machinery and techno-wizardry get off saying Iran doesn't have a n- CIA? What's that, a new pro cockfighting league? 16 intelligence agencies? Get out of town. Far as I know, we only got one higher intelligence, and that's the good Lord Jesus Christ!"