Michelle Malkin » “I won’t touch his hair, I won’t touch his porcelain teeth;” Rollins responds to Townhall’s Amanda Carpenter; crabby!; Video added

“I won’t touch his hair, I won’t touch his porcelain teeth;” Rollins responds to Townhall’s Amanda Carpenter; crabby!; Video added

By Michelle Malkin • January 3, 2008 09:05 PM

I’ve transcribed the most interesting part:

CW: Ed, I’m not sure you’re aware of this, but you’re the subject of a blog on Townhall.com tonight. Someone says they overheard you eating at a restaurant called Winston’s. Let me ask you first of all, did you eat at a restaurant called Winston’s?

ER: I did and the tall, beautiful blonde that they were referring to is my wife. We snuck off to have a little lunch today and obviously when you have thousands and thousands of reporters covering it, there was no one else but one woman at another table and obviously she was the blogger…it was a private conversation between my wife and I…

…

CW: …It says you talked about going negative in South Carolina…do what you gotta do…

ER: …It was a private conversation…not for public consumption…and the reality is Mike Huckabee makes the decision in this campaign, I don’t…I don’t think [wife] expected to have our private lunch…

CW: Unfortunately, it isn’t private anymore. It is all over the web. So, I’ll ask you one more question…It quotes you as saying that Rudy Giuliani is done, has no money and was hurt terribly by those police cruises with his girlfriend.”

ER: I’m happy to confirm that…

CW: …there were a lot of roadbumps…has he and you learned anything from those…

ER: [interrupts/crosstalk]

ER: We learned that the wise men who sit like you do and others and basically say that a guy like Mike Huckabee doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in heck can still go out to the public and make their public. So all the wisdom doesn’t live in Washington and all the wisdom doesn’t live in the press corps…We’re very grateful for the opportunity to go out and talk to the public…

CW: [Defends opportunities Fox has given Huckabee to come on air. "We've had Huckabeen on Fox News Sunday]

ER: I just said we’re very grateful for you giving us the opportunity to take our message across the country and Iowa.

…

Brit Hume cracks: “It’s always good to get an interview with a joyful victor.” [Laughter]

Update 9:22pm Eastern. Rollins on Fox explains his teeth comment by claiming he said it in protest of Romney’s negativism. Rollins responds to Amanda Carpenter’s comments (Wallace mentions the post, but not Carpenter by name); Rollins affirms that he was at the restaurant with his wife.

Chris Wallace asks about the South Carolina strategy. “It was not for public consumption.”

“The reality is that Huckabee makes the decision, not me.”

Wallace asks Rollins about Giuliani slam. He basically confirms it. Rollins snipes at Fox. Brit Hume ribs Rollins for his “joyous” attitude. Har.

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CBN’s David Brody has video of Ed Rollins doing a bit of the Huck strut and further egging Mitt Romney.

Amanda Carpenter at Townhall overheard more of Rollins’ trash-talking.

When a campaign guru is garnering more attention for himself than his candidate, it spells trouble.

It’s not as if Huck didn’t already know about Rollins’ big mouth, though…

Posted in: 2008 campaign, Mike Huckabee

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#1

On January 3rd, 2008 at 9:09 pm, POTUS said:

This guy is a freaking psycho. Says alot about his boss.
#2

On January 3rd, 2008 at 9:14 pm, zorro said:

…as chief consultant for Michael Huffington’s unsuccessful 1994 Senate campaign…

Michelle, did you work with this guy on Huffington’s campaign? He seems most unsavory.
#3

On January 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 pm, Michelle Malkin said:

Briefly. He came in at the end of that disastrous campaign, as did I. I do share his assessment of the Huffingtons.
#4

On January 3rd, 2008 at 9:19 pm, TexasTiger said:

Don’t start dancing until you get in the end zone, Eddie.
#5

On January 3rd, 2008 at 9:23 pm, zorro said:

Mike Wallace is talking with “the old boxer” himself, Ed Rollins.

As for the Huffingtons, I agree with you and Rollins.
#6

On January 3rd, 2008 at 9:42 pm, vickisoup said:

I thought his point, about it being a private lunch he was having with his wife, was well-taken. I don’t know…it was unsavory, to me, that she was eavesdropping and blogging…sorry, MM.
#7

On January 3rd, 2008 at 10:01 pm, blacktygrrrr said:

Amanda Carpenter is a classy, intelligent woman. Ed Rollins is a jack@ss.

The only reason anybody knows who he is is because of his idiotic gaffes, including the one where he claimed to have paid black people not to vote during the Whitman-Florio race.

As for Reagan’s 1984 campaign, Bonzo the Chimp could have run that campaign.

Maybe he did.

Respectfully,

eric aka the Tygrrrr Express
#8

On January 3rd, 2008 at 10:13 pm, swj719AWG said:

Yeah, Mitt’s real negitive…

I guess the Huckster wasn’t awake when he pulled that “we won’t show our negative ad, except when I show it to all you reporters…” stunt.

The reporters actually LAUGHED at him. They SAW what he was doing…
#9

On January 3rd, 2008 at 10:17 pm, Christian Soldier said:

I remember the M. Huffington campaign well. We Californians had a principled candidate in Congressman William Dannemyer. I was personnally arranging small fundraising and speaking events for him-I do not do that without thorough checks into integrity. Money and backstaged intrigue led the CRP to push Huffinton.

We knew what the Huffingtons were.

Some CA Republicans pulled the lever for neither the Democrat (Feinstein) nor Huffington. Many Republicans were so angry at the shinanigans of the State Party that they pulled the lever for
the Democrat - Diane Feinstein.

We do not forget easily - either!

Michelle-I didn’t know that you had been involved in CA politics.
#10

On January 3rd, 2008 at 10:49 pm, TXRose said:

Politics is the one human endeavor where they eat their young. Usually it
happens among dems but occasionally you get those on the GOP side that
indulge in that practice.
#11

On January 3rd, 2008 at 11:06 pm, Christian Soldier said:

TX Rose- You’re correct on the GOP betraying its best. James Rogan comes to mind as well as William Dannemeyer.
#12

On January 3rd, 2008 at 11:32 pm, vickisoup said:

blacktygrrrr writes, “Amanda Carpenter is a classy, intelligent woman.”

I don’t care whose conversation it was. In my book, reporting on a private conversation between and husband and wife can be characterized as many things, but “classy” isn’t among them.
#13

On January 3rd, 2008 at 11:45 pm, blacktygrrrr said:

There is no right to privacy in a public place.

It was one thing when an activist liberal couple took a cell phone call involving Gingrich and Boehner, and gave it to McDermott. That was disgusting.

The Rollins deal is no different than people emailing naked pictures or salacious stories meant for only “a few” or “one other” and being shocked when it leaks out.

If the media finds out about “The Macaroni Incident” involving me and my ex-girlfriend, it will be our fault for not keeping it quiet. Besides, who knew mountain goats could…ummm, never mind.

eric
#14

On January 3rd, 2008 at 11:55 pm, Dave Turson said:

I read through Amanda Carpenter’s full posting on this, and I don’t feel sorry for Rollins. He was throwing f-bombs in a conversation with his wife, yet he knew that there was only one other female in the room who could clearly hear his filth since he was talking “loudly.” Next time he should bring a Cone Of Silence to keep it all in the family.
#15

On January 4th, 2008 at 12:00 am, blacktygrrrr said:

I should have offered a full disclosure for the sake of ethics, which I will do now. I interviewed Amanda Carpenter, and my opinion of her intellect, grace and class are based on not only her answers, but her generosity of time.

The URL is too long to post, but anyone who goes to the Tygrrrr Express and types in “My interview with Amanda Carpenter” will find her to be the best of American politics.

Ed Rollins, Paul Begala, and their ilk represent the worst.

Respectfully,

eric
#16

On January 4th, 2008 at 12:46 am, dakine said:

You may be right about Amanda Carpenter, but folks such as Amanda do not run, let alone win, campaigns. People like Rollins and Begala do. I’m sure you know this though. Running and winning campaigns is about the nastiest and dirtiest business there is. Wanna be President of the US? Well, you better have the toughest, meanest SOB out there running your campaign. Sorry, that’s just the way it is. For those of you anti-Huckabee folks out there, underestimating him and/or Ed Rollins would be a very big mistake.
#17

On January 4th, 2008 at 2:33 am, nyc123me said:

All you need to do is take one look at the title and cover pic on Ed Rollins’ book “bare knuckles and back rooms” to see what an egocentric wanker he is.
#18

On January 4th, 2008 at 10:24 am, corona said:

righhhhhhhhhhhht ……

A little more “trouble” like this and say hello to President Huckabee.
#19

On January 4th, 2008 at 2:02 pm, Al in St. Lou said:

I went to Amazon.com and I agree with nyc123me. And like somebody else asked further up, what has Rollins done since 1984?
#20

On January 4th, 2008 at 2:03 pm, old trooper said:

The Huckster has surrounded himself with “tough guys”, grand!

New Hampshire and the rest of America will not be as impressed with him and his staff as were the rubes in Iowa.

Neither Rollins or Chuck Norris will sell well over the coming months to the rest of the nation.

Caucuses are generally a joke anyway. Real sealed ballot votes in Primary Elections will take the skew out of the stats. Open vote Primary elections with a better representation of the voting population of this nation are coming up.

Iowa is truly not relevent except to Iowans. Wait and see!
#21

On January 4th, 2008 at 3:16 pm, loob said:

On January 3rd, 2008 at 9:09 pm, POTUS said:
This guy is a freaking psycho. Says alot about his boss.

Aw, c’mon. Huckabee is after all the guy who made the “John Edwards in a beauty shop” crack. That’s gotta count for something!
#22

On January 4th, 2008 at 7:05 pm, blacktygrrrr said:

This is 100% coincidental, but I just received a spam email for discounts on prescription medication. The sender was listed as “Eddy Rollins.”

So now we know what he has been doing since 1984, or at least since 1995 when Al Gore invented the internet.

Respectfully,

eric aka the Tygrrrr Express