The ongoing feud between Fox hosts Glenn Beck and Mike Huckabee shows no signs of slowing down as Beck slammed the former Arkansas governor as unqualified to run for the President on Friday.
To recap the story so far: Earlier this week, Beck called Huckabee a “progressive” for supporting Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign. In response, Huckabee issued a lengthy and hard-hitting condemnation of not only Beck’s statement but his entire conspiracy-laden ouevre.
On his radio show this morning, Beck went another round, claiming that Huckabee’s reaction to his previous attacks proves he isn’t White House material.
“If, sir, you are this thin-skinned about your politics, it might be best for you to stay on the sidelines” and not run, Beck said.
Huckabee targeted Beck’s past hyperbolic attacks on the left in his statement, accusing Beck of tarring him as a “Nazi” and a “cancer” by proxy in calling him a “progressive.” Beck stood by his rhetoric, saying that he believed the Nazis “used progressive tactics” but that progressives were not Nazis themselves.
“I have said the progressive movement is a cancer to this naton and it is…not a specific person being an actual disease,” he said. “Was it really that confusing to you, Mr. Huckabee?”
Benjy Sarlin
Benjy Sarlin is a reporter for Talking Points Memo and co-writes the campaign blog, TPM2012. He previously reported for The Daily Beast/Newsweek as their Washington Correspondent and covered local politics for the New York Sun.
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