“They Didn’t!”
“They sure did.”
“They wouldn’t dare!”
“They would and they did.”
“Your kidding me, right?”
“Nope they actually did it.”
“Well I’m a monkey’s uncle”
“I hope that doesn’t mean you believe in evolution.”
Yes, they did indeed do it. Those commie rapscallions at the Boston Globe went and took a photograph of Mike Huckabee’s $3 million Florida beachfront house. The temerity, the unbridled audacity, the colossal insensitivity. Well, what’s a MOG (that’s Man of God) supposed to do in the face of such an outrage? Mike had no choice but to cancel the scheduled interview he had with the Globe’s Matt Viser. Too bad, because Mike had ole Matt buttered up like a hushpuppy at the church picnic. But then they went and ruined it.
He has talked openly about his newfound wealth, but still appears to be sensitive about the image. Huckabee, through his publisher, initially agreed to a 30-minute interview for this article, but canceled once he learned that the Globe had taken a photograph of the construction on his new home in Florida. “The governor was very upset that the Globe sent a photographer to cover the construction of his FL home,” Allison McLean, associate director of publicity for his publisher, said in an e-mail. Approached after his sermons in Michigan, Huckabee explained that news coverage of the house concerned him because of security issues for his family. “That’s just not cool,” Huckabee said. “We’ve got crazy people that come to my house when my wife’s home alone. You wouldn’t like that. I don’t either.”
Mike’s really remarkable. He always has an excuse or explanation for the fixes he gets himself in. It’s about security (even though the story didn’t identify the location of the property, saying only that it was in Walton County, Florida). I would have gone with the 10th commandment, “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors goods.” Isn’t this really a case of house-envy? Mike knows how to fight back. He’s a fraud and a phony, a liar and a dangerously unstable person, but he sure knows where to draw the line.
Someone should do a blog just on that. Cancelling interviews, banning questions, spiking stories — any form of artificial control politicians or celebrities try to exert (usually suceessfully). I feel like that sort of thing is on the increase, but I have no data.
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“I, a figure who desperately needs media attention to get what I want, hereby threaten to make it harder for media to give me attention!”
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p>I, a media outlet, who desperately needs to lavish attention upon you, in order to rake in the cash, will keep silent in the face of the occasional passive aggressive rebuke.
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p>rarefied air, it is, in which they live…
http://www.frumforum.com/al-go…
And what happened to his multi-million boat house that was supposed to be eco-friendly??
The post isn’t about building a big house — it’s about canceling an interview [not about the house] because a journalist took a photo of the house. It’s about being embarrassed about the house.
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There are lots and lots of Calvinists who sincerely believe that God rewards the righteous with prosperity. The Psalms in particular brim with cheerful assurances of how the Lord will protect, vindicate, lift up, and reward those who follow Him.
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I was under the impression that it is “easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven”. Of course I don’t take that passage super literally either, but the point is that you are supposed to be righteous in part by charity in this world and you will be rewarded in the next.
Calvinists know there is no one righteous, and whether you are rewarded, in this world or the next, is just a matter of grace. The reason a rich man is less likely to get into heaven is not because he failed to give it all to charity, but because that’s evidence that he didn’t trust God to provide what he needed and he worked and manipulated things to get rich and store up riches on earth. But sometimes, rich men just get rich by grace of God and know that, and they would be the proverbial camel passing through the eye of a needle.