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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Wed May 6, 2015, 05:48 PM May 2015

Mike Huckabee defends spamming supporters

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee defended renting out his email list to a group selling hidden cures for cancer embedded in Bible verses, saying it was no different than CNN allowing advertisers for catheters or adult diapers to air alongside programming.

"My gosh, that's like saying, 'You run some ads on CNN. Do you personally agree with all the ads that run on CNN?' Huckabee said Wednesday to CNN's Jake Tapper on The Lead.

"I doubt you do. I'm sure there are some for maybe, I don't know, catheters or adult diapers. They're not products that you use or that you necessarily believe in," the 2016 Republican presidential candidate said. "I don't hold you responsible for that, and in that same way I don't think that people that understand how advertising works would hold me responsible for something that I didn't personally sign up for or endorse."

Huckabee, who won the Iowa caucuses during his first presidential bid in 2008, explained he couldn't dictate how people decided to use his large email list.

"I didn't actually control that part of our company," he said.

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/06/politics/huckabee-tapper-interview/

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Mike Huckabee defends spamming supporters (Original Post) n2doc May 2015 OP
"After all, scamming you out of money is the sole purpose of this email list" arcane1 May 2015 #1
And there is never any shortage of suckers and marks hifiguy May 2015 #2
Hell, they'll offer their own shears to do it! arcane1 May 2015 #3
Spammers are a much-admired segment of society Cirque du So-What May 2015 #4
 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
1. "After all, scamming you out of money is the sole purpose of this email list"
Wed May 6, 2015, 05:53 PM
May 2015

He then went on to say

Cirque du So-What

(25,934 posts)
4. Spammers are a much-admired segment of society
Wed May 6, 2015, 06:16 PM
May 2015

but not by me. In 2012, it got to the point that I was ready to unsubscribe to anything related to Democratic politics, so incessant and insistent were the emailings.

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