The Hotline - Talk To My Agent

Friday, April 18, 2008

HUCKABEE

Talk To My Agent

Mike Huckabee was in the "Situation Room" last night, where he was asked about reports that he hired a talent agent in Hollywood.

Huckabee: "Oh, well, I think it sounds like, you know, I'm going to Hollywood."

Wolf Blitzer: "It sounds like you want to be a movie star."

Huckabee: "You got any openings? ... No. What I'm trying to do is put, you know, the future together. ... To campaign for people, which I'll be doing this year. ... I'm also exploring ways to take this community that we did see form during the course of the campaign, to keep it active."

Blitzer: "So what does a talent agent have to do with it?"

Huckabee: "Well, what they're going to be doing is help me in the coordination of everything from speaking and the books that I hope to write and, also, you know, doing things in media. ... I don't know this field. I'm not a person who's navigated those waters before. And they had approached me and I visited with them and felt that it was better to have somebody kind of helping me steer through that than me jumping out there in dark water where I've never swam" (CNN, 4/17).