Mike Huckabee Interviews Robert Duvall About America, Sarah Palin, & Living Away from Hollywood

Duvall gives a great speech in"2nd Hand Lions" about what it means to be a MAN.
I think he was so convincing because he lives it in real life !!!!

Awesome actor and a great man !!!

Agreed on Huckabee. He's all for the government nanny state, and jumped on the global warming bus long ago.

That tells me he's a republican politician, not a conservative, and definitely not a libertarian.

As for Mr. Duvall, what a class act. That's the first time I've heard him outside of a movie. Sounds like the kind of guy I'd like to sit around on a front porch during a summer afternoon, split a six pack, and just listen to his stories.

Gus!

Concur with you 100% Mr. EdSki.
Completely off topic, but how do you feel about Omar Minaya being retained for another year as GM, of your Metropolitans?

I have a very strange relationship with the Mets. When I pay attention to them, they lose. When I ignore them, they still lose, but not as much.

So for most of the season, the most I will do is occasionally check their stats in the morning paper, but very quickly, and then make no mention of them again.

Remember two years ago when they looked like they had the whole division sewed up with two weeks left to go, and the went down in flames? That slide started the day I started bragging about my Mets.

So at this point of the season I am totally ignoring them. I believe they won last night too.

Spooky ain't it?

Feel free to come over to the Yankee side if you like…only kidding of course. Some of my closest friends are Met fans, and they've been a little quiet these few years. They don't want to get to confidant when they're winning. Baseball can be cruel sometimes, no way of getting around it. Good luck to your Mets, there is still plenty of season left for them to make a move. Ya nevah know!!

Out here in Seattle, the Mariners are well on their way to losing over 100 games, so the sport fan is looking forward to the Seahawks, and the Huskies.

I live in NY, I'm a Yankees fan too, but I keep quiet on it because of my brother and dad.

I go by the cities the teams are in, not so much the players themselves. And since I live in NY, that means Yankees.

Interesting side note, the town I grew up in used to have the Yanks' AAA farm club, the Triplets. Among other players, Whitey Ford, Thurman Munson and Billy Martin played there. They used to hang out at a local bar, which I've been too. They've got autographs, pictures on the walls, even autographed gloves.

For his workers, the local evil, filthy, rotten corp elitist used to pay the Yankees to come into town and play exhibition games against the farm team, then throw open the doors to the entire town.

Then the highway came through, they had to tear down the old stadium, so the Yankees moved the club, I think to Columbus, Ohio, the Columbus Clippers.

Not crazy about Huckabee as a politician, but he's a pretty good tv host.

The Best character, played by the Best actor, in the Best miniseries, from the Best western novel…..EVER!

"Can't anybody here play this game?" — Casey Stengel

When I see Huckabee I see a republican Bill Clinton.

Not concerning families and personal morals, but politics of the moment, what ever works at any given moment.

Agreed. I used to think DeNiro was the best actor of this generation. But over the last few years I've changed to Duvall.

He's got a range that in my opinion far out paces pretty much every other actor. From the corp. lawyer in A Civil Action to the old master mechanic in Gone in 60 Seconds, to Apocalypse Now, to Geronimo – An American Legend. Mr. Duvall is a master of his craft.

He played mostly down South in the Carolina league.

I'm pretty sure he knew some of these guys.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/team.cgi...

That's a man.

Yankees? Well we can't always agree but .999 is a great batting average.

When did the become Los Mets?

I did meet Thurman Munson in 1971, yeah I'm sure he knew some of them. If you could guess who my cousin is, I'd be mighty impressed. Good website, thanks for the link.

The Huckster can't even clean up his own messes.

Robert Duval – a rational man with rational thoughts – even if you don't agree with all of them. That's what I see. That's what I like.

ps – he was in a few episodes of the TV series THE FUGITIVE with David Janssen back in the mid '60s…and he still had some hair, but it was fast going even then.

I just wish he would make another western. I loved "Broken Trail".

I think he is out of politics….

He seems to enjoy his show a lot

H8az gonna hate.

*struts out of thread*

Lemme throw this at your back as you strut out: Forgive me for wanting a politician with some ethics instead of one that has had many ethics charges thrown at him …and some stuck and more should have. The fact that he is supposed to be a man of God is the second strike against him. As was said earlier in this thread, I don't trust him and put him on a par with Swaggart and his ilk. (you know, the ones who want you to give your soul to Jesus but make the check out to them)

Yup, I'm a hater and not ashamed of it. I want a President who is a LOT more conservative and honest than is Huckabee. I'll never, ever vote for him. If he's the Repub. nominee, I will vote Libertarian or Conservative Party or stay home … because all my hopes for the GOP will be dashed forever.

Thumbs up here, my sentiments 'zactly.

The ending of that scene has one of the best-acted lines of all time. Duvall is squatting down, fidgeting with the piece of straw? that he's been chewing on and says SO wistfully and with painful anticipation and regret:

"Some day this war's gonna end."

You must not have seen "Godfather" too many time–Duvall was "Tom Hagen–" I can't think of him in the movies without automatically thinking of the character's name. ;-D

Big fan of Duvall.

Huck? Not so much.

G.W. Bailey

A very young Robert Duvall was also in an episode of the "Twilight Zone" which is rarely seen today, because it was from the season when the series was a one-hour format. The episode is on YouTube (at least until the lawyers at Viacom find out….)

Is this getting warmer? http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/roster….

When that happened, I knew he was toast.

Plus, Lewis Black said it best, "Bill Clinton is the reason nobody should be elected President from Arkansas for 100 years." It's just too soon.

Ive not heard meny people call their city awful but i agree for sure. I really respect Duvall a lot he has made meny great films and you can tell he has it figured out where meny in young Hollywood don't. The man has values its a great thing

I would say you are hot. My cousin, or should say more accurately, my Dad's cousin, is Fritz Peterson. I wish I still had the yearbooks for that year and a couple of others. It was so much fun to go to the Stadium when I was a kid, well it still is, but that particular summer, 1970, while staying at my Grandma's in NJ, we took either the train, or the bus into the city a couple of times to see the Yanks. This was on Fritz's advice as cars had a habit of being stolen in the Bronx a lot at that time. Players cars weren't much safer than the fans'.

That was another good website, thanks for the link,
Cheers!

BH had a link to an interview with Hu8gh Hewitt some time ago, and he said that that was his favorite role too. Loved the scene in the saloon in San Antonio.

and let us not forget the line "Charlie don't surf!"…loved him, absolutely loved him in that film!!!

Your post is either dishonest or misinformed. He did not release a murderer who went on to kill a bunch of cops. I recommend actually know what the heck you are talking about before making a statement like this. Thanks, feel free to retract and apologize.

Get your facts straight, really, you have no excuse to be this wrong.

That's exactly what I was think'n………a great analogy! The kind of woman who would meet the drifters on the porch with a shotgun and they would know quickly she's gonna blast their ass if she has to.

Plus 1 rep for a well thought out post. I can definitely respect your feelings, I had them at one point as well.

My case for Huckabee is this, don't buy into his genial Democratic sounding nature, he is from Arkansas and was formed in that culture. He sounds like one of them, but he is not one of them.

Let me list some fiscal facts that really drew me to him.

He came into the state with a deficit, he left it with a huge surplus.

He at one point had to raise taxes, he chose the most unpopular, regressive, and unsustainable one possible, a grocery tax. His Democratic successor was forced to get rid of it after inheriting a huge surplus from Huckabee.

He improved education, and fixed the decaying highway system and still left a surplus. Taxes were estimated to have gone up $500 million per year from when he started to when he left, but the surplus was around $800 million. This allowed for significant tax cuts, that while he cannot take direct credit for, essentially made possible and politically necessary for his democrat successor.

Take it or leave it, I think he managed the left fairly well, even if he can come of as a Democrat sometimes. Reagan was the same way, people forget how he was essentially so skilled at smoothing over his conservative reputation by seeming like a moderate.

Here's the man to which I think you're referring: Wayne Dumond: A reminder of Huckabee's role in his freedom

I forgot about Dumond, but it was actually Maurice Clemmons to whom I was referring. Here's the vid:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/03/washington.cl...

I am sad that you are apparently unable to realize that every single accusation is unsubstantiated. The individual claiming to have been strong armed only did so after being fired years later and during an election year. Poindexter essentially claims he went against his better judgment because Huckabee had some greater knowledge of what constituted the state's best interest than he did and that he was shocked to discover that this trust was somehow misplaced. Add to this how Huckabee, despite being sympathetic to DuMond, denied his clemency request four times.

It shows that you are unable to use discernment in the reading of an article or simply are unwilling to think critically about the article.

RW&B, you're dealing with something akin to Obama supporters; you know the type, the ones that faint at his political rallies, the same sort that gets a tingle up their leg.