With help from the New York Times and James Fallows of Atlantic, I’ve already worked over Mike Huckabee for trotting out again before a national TV audience last night a teacher’s head-scratching metaphor about how veterans somehow “earned” desks for the kiddies at Joe T. school.

I had searched last without success for the words of the prophet, Bob Lancaster, who’d done a pretty good job previously on the subject. Because I can and because I liked it then and now, I offer Bob’s take on the Huck nonsense again.

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UPDATE: Huck’s pal Colbert worked over the desk last night.

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