The media elite is having a honeymoon with Mike Huckabee. As an ordained Southern Baptist minister, Huckabee is the darling of evangelical Christians, but why would the major media, dominated by atheists and agnostics who are traditionally hostile to evangelicals, suddenly undergo this conversion?

Media’s Masters Adore Huckabee

By Michael Collins Piper — AFP

Many good conservatives are said to be captivated with the former governor of Arkansas —Mike Huckabee, not that other former Arkansas governor, William Jefferson Clinton.

It seemed as if—just at the moment Texas populist Ron Paul was beginning to make waves, with even The Washington Post reporting Paul’s grass-roots campaign threatened, in the Post’s words, to “upend” the Republican presidential primary campaign—the mass media began focusing on Huckabee, whom they had previously ignored.

For his own part, Huckabee has said he can support any of his Republican competitors with the notable exception of Paul. As governor—and until running for president— Huckabee strongly supported amnesty for illegal aliens and called for extending health and welfare benefits to them. He also raised taxes many times as governor.

There is good reason to believe powerful backstage forces are behind the Huckabee “surge,” and some observers suspect Huckabee is being promoted by the media’s owners precisely to redirect attention away from Paul’s burgeoning grass-roots campaign. (more…)