Monday, December 30, 2013

Report: Mike Huckabee Reflects On Syndicated Show

Mike Huckabee (Brian Wilson photo)
Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate reflected in a recent interview with Mackenzie Weinger at Politico on the good and the bad during his stint as a radio talker.

Cumulus Media had billed the show as “more conversation, less confrontation” in an effort to install Huckabee as a Rush Limbaugh alternative. But when Cumulus re-signed Limbaugh this summer for a number of its station, Huckabee — who announced at the end of November that his show would go off the air Dec. 12 — said he realized that it didn’t look as though the syndicator would make any attempt to broaden his program’s reach, at least in the near future.

As a medium, talk radio is “a very important force in American culture and certainly in politics,” Huckabee said. And there’s also a “a certain sort of vicarious thrill that people have of listening in on other people’s conversations — it’s like being a junior NSA agent,” he said.

From April 2012 to December 2013, Huckabee’s show offered listeners everything from song parodies to interviews with guests from across the political spectrum and many from far outside the world of politics.   “Frankly, some of the things that I enjoyed most were the things that were non-political,” he said.

“Willie Nelson was a lot of fun,” Huckabee, 58, said, calling his chat with the country legend one of his favorite interviews. “He’s just a great guy … one of the nicest people around and just an unbelievably gracious and humble person.”

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