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Nov 20th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

Do The Right Thing

Seriously why is this the title of Mike Huckabee’s book? I feel like 25th Hour would be a more fitting post-candidacy Spike Lee title appropriation.

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NickM Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Why is this the title?

(1) Huckabee is a man of sterling principle, and he wants to remind us he always “does the right thing;” and

(2) He’s on the political right, and so he’s capitalizing a bit on the pun of doing the “Right [wing] Thing;” and

(3) He wants to pick up on whatever hip cachet there may be in using as one’s book title the name of a twenty-year-old film by a once-hip director.

I await Sarah Palin’s next book, “She’s Gotta Have It.”
Peter K. Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
http://www.theonion.com/content/whitehousewar/mikehuckabee
Grand Moff Texan Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Because “Deuteronomy 22:20″ would’ve been too obvious.
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upyernoz Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
I feel like 25th Hour would be a more fitting post-candidacy Spike Lee title appropriation

how about bamboozled? or maybe jesus children of america?
Stefan Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Because “How to Free a Rapist-Murderer” would have been too off-putting?
pseudonymous in nc Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Oh, c’mon, no-one came up with the pro-life mantra She’s Gotta Have It?
pseudonymous in nc Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
(Ah, yes, the first comment did, with a much better tagline. Though is the Bristol-Levi wedding still on?)
zic Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
My problem with Huck is the feeling I keep getting from him that you can’t “do the right thing” if you’re not christian.

He doesn’t recognize the good folks outside his cult do. And that’s a political dead end.
josh Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
David Benioff, not Spike Lee. Give credit where due, man.
Loneoak Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Maybe Spike Lee can do a film version of Huckabee’s book.
Brian Doyle Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
25th Hour was a way under-noticed/appreciated movie.
Jasper Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I vote for “Crooklyn” because in New York Huckabee’s absurdly over-the-top hoovering of gifts while in office (largely from folks doing business with Arkansas) would no doubt be a crime.
Brian Doyle Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
“Get on the Short Bus”
right Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
I await Sarah Palin’s next book, “She’s Gotta Have It.”

Love it. Other ideas:

Rudy Giuliani – “Crooklyn”
Jeb Bush – “Inside Man”
Charlie Crist – “She Hate Me”
Mitt Romney – ??
Gus Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Or “He Got Game”?
Dave Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
“Outside Man”

(I really like “Inside Man”)
Dave Weigel Says:
November 20th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Mo’ Better Blues – a “please vote for us, black people” tome by Michael Steele
Jungle Fever – a biography of Barack Obama, Sr
Bamboozled – a tell-all by Colin Powell
She Hate Me – a 2008 campaign memoir by Bill Clinton
Get On the Bus – the third McCain/Salter memoir

All done for now. BTW, “She Hate Me” is the worst goddamn movie ver.
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November 20th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Mitt Romney – Bamboozled
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