Huckabee: MSNBC? More Like 'MSBS'

Ex-guv slams network, Chris Matthews

By Matt Cantor, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 27, 2009 7:43 AM CST

(Newser) – Mike Huckabee took a swipe at MSNBC in a speech to fellow conservatives yesterday, calling the network “MSBS,” Politico reports. “It's not MSNBC, but the MSBS channel,” the former Arkansas governor said. He went on to rip Chris Matthews’ audible “oh God” before Bobby Jindal’s Republican response to President Obama’s speech. “I'm in competition with the other cable networks, and one of them finally found religion,” Huckabee said.

“I love Chris," Huckabee later told reporters. "I had a little fun at Chris's expense, and he has had fun at mine.”

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In this 2008 file photo, former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee speaks during the Texas Republican Party State Convention in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, file)

In this 2007 file photo, Chris Matthews speaks before the GOP presidential candidates debate which he moderated at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio,file)

Mike Huckabee speaks at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, Ark., Monday, Dec. 22, 2008. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

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Huckabee: MSNBC? More Like 'MSBS'