Mike Huckabee, meet Amy Schumer. And, for that matter, Tony Orlando.

[cbayer]

http://religiondispatches.org/mike-huckabee-meet-amy-schumer-and-for-that-matter-tony-orlando/

BY SARAH POSNER MAY 5, 2015



Perhaps you are too young to remember Mike Huckabee’s 2008 presidential run. If so, you’re definitely too young to remember Tony Orlando.

Who?

If you were alive (and sentient) in the 1970s, you must have heard Orlando’s smash hit (with his partners, Dawn) “Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree,” which shot to the top of the pop music charts the same year that Roe v. Wade was decided. Forty-two years later, Huckabee thinks abortion is like the Holocaust and slavery. For Huckabee, Roe v. Wade is out; Tony Orlando is still in.

At Huckabee’s campaign announcement speech today in Hope, Arkansas, Orlando, now 71, performed “Yellow Ribbon,” as well as a song he composed for Huckabee, a hackneyed ode to why he loves America, “our home town.”

Huckabee is widely seen as the evangelical’s candidate–not an just an evangelical candidate, but the candidate who speaks to and for evangelicals. But not all evangelicals agree, and it’s in part because of his aw-shucks-I’m-a-just-a-country-boy-who-made-big-money-on-Fox-News-but-am-still-one-of-you-circa-1974 routine, in part because he overplays his status of speaking for evangelicals, and in part because he’s simply not cool. He’s a gifted orator, to be sure–that’s his preacher roots, parlayed into politics–but not all evangelicals find his particular iteration of the bi-vocational pastor appealing.

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. This morning I woke up to that on NPR...

and was not at all happy. He couldn't sing back when he could sing and now is just a horrorshow of ego.

NPR wasn't all that happy about it either, apparently, and ran the thing just to make sure we met the day in a properly pissed off mood. Kinda like an old WBAI morning jock who played marching band music in the morning and said it was to get even with us for making him get up to do his show.

Not only were they bemused by Orlando, but Huckabee seems to be something out of a bad movie. They did make a point of reminding us that Clinton used his birthplace of Hope a lot better than Huckabee is capable of.

The article has it right-- and I saw Amy Schumer's routine on her show, which I religiously record. I understand why nobody has the guts to use Schumer as an opening act for a big political speech, but it would be fun if someone did

[cbayer]

2. Missed the NPR take on this...

but I'm not disappointed to miss Orlando singing anything, ever.

Huckabee comes across as a caricature, but so does pretty much everyone who has declared for the republicans at this point.

I only occasionally get to see Amy Schumer, but she is consistently hilarious. White House Press Corps dinner next year perhaps?

[3catwoman3]

3. I wonder how many people know...

...that the "Tie A Yellow Ribbon" song is about a guy on his way home after getting out of prison? Not returning from some noble journey.

[cbayer]

4. Really? I always thought it was about a returning war hero.

[Goblinmonger]

5. Well there is this line

"I'm really still in prison, and my love she holds the key"

Plenty of songs people don't know what they are about.

[AtheistCrusader]

8. Why?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_a_Yellow_Ribbon_Round_the_Ole_Oak_Tree

[AlbertCat]

6. Are you gonna vote for Huckabee?

Or the praying neurosurgeon?

You keep posting love fests for far RW candidates.

So which is it?

[cbayer]

7. Love fest? You think this is a love fest? Read the article, please.

I wouldn't vote for either of them if there were a gun at my head.

DU has a long and accepted tradition of posting articles about republicans. That doesn't in any way imply endorsement.

The need to find something wrong with everything I do is pushing irrationality to it's limits, Albert.

[tkmorris]

9. So why post it?

There is nothing informative here for Democrats. It's more along the lines of something from Buzzfeed, "Which Hyper-Religious Nutjob is Right for You".

[cbayer]

10. Hey tk! What's shaking?

Of course there is something here for Democrats. This article openly mocks the Huckabee and is written by one of the best liberal/progressive religious writers on the web. It's from a site that is chock full of great articles that take the religious right to task.

Nothing in it for you? Don't read it. Think it's like Buzzfeed? You might want to look closer…. or not.