Huckabee's Shine Beats MSNBC's Whine

Although Fox News host and failed Repub prez candidate Mike Huckabee's still got Potomac Fever, there's an upside to abandoning politics.  Huck tells Wash Post's Howard Kurtz: "Someone puts a microphone in my face and demands I answer a question, I can say, 'Put it where the sun don't shine.' "

That's what Huckabee told CNN and MSNBC when they tried to hire him last year.  Huck went with Fox where he felt "more at home."

Kurtz:  The hour-long Saturday night program, averaging 1.6 million viewers, is Fox's highest-rated of the weekend, beating all its cable news rivals combined. Huckabee's great strength is that "he is folksy," says Fox Senior Vice President Bill Shine. "He's not one of those flashy, loud, obnoxious hosts that are sometimes equated with cable and broadcast. He's from Arkansas, a part of the country we don't usually get television hosts from. He's very respectful, very cordial, certainly interrupts less than any other host on cable."