We Cats Win Our Bet

By Baxter

When we first saw the headline over at Politico, we cats thought maybe we had lost our bag of Whisker Lickin's.

But — no. Weighing in on the Chip Saltsman "Magic Negro" controversy, Chipmunk Cheeks' former Presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee, tried to have it both ways.

"Chip should have been more careful in his selection of Christmas gifts," Governor Huckabee said. "But no one who knows him would ever suggest that he in any way would purposely disparage other people."

Oh, yeah? We cats think that a song like that is pretty darn disparaging. And we don't think a lukewarm follow-up paragraph about the historic and wonderful nature of Senator Obama's election lets Mike Huckabee off the hook. either. So we HISS at him, and we dump our dirty litter boxes in his and Chip Saltsman's beds.

P.S. We also offer a low GROWL to Politico's Ben Smith, whose headline referred to the former Republican Presidential candidate as "Huck." A much too friendly way to reference a guy who puts crosses in his political ads. Plus, it reminded us of a famous fictional character who floated on a raft down the Mississippi River with a man whose name cannot be repeated in polite company today because it employs a — shall we say, disparaging? — term. A term that has fallen, mercifully and deservedly, out of fashion. Kind of like "Negro," only worse.