Huckabee holds his own against Carlson's 'gotcha'

(JNS) — Hats off to Mike Huckabee, U.S. ambassador to Israel!

With elegant professionalism, he tolerated a two-hour-plus hostile interview by conservative political commentator and podcaster Tucker Carlson. Simply, the former governor of Arkansas endured a torturous assault of loaded questions bordering on “blood libel.”

Carlson’s inquiries were framed as variants of the infamous, “Do you still beat your wife?” They were complex questions based on false, malevolent assumptions. It was a “gotcha” for the unsophisticated recipient—a distracting quiz masking his darker motives.

Journalists have e...