Mike Huckabee’s Hee Haw Moment

Mike Huckabee may be a professional pol, but he’s a musician at heart. The rock bassist and likely 2012 presidential hopeful tells us that while pitching his latest book, Can’t Wait Till Christmas, in Bakersfield, Calif., he visited the Crystal Palace, a music theater that the late country superstar and Hee Haw star Buck Owens built. “I interviewed him when I was a 15-year-old disc jockey in Hope, Arkansas, and it was a big deal for me to go,” Huckabee says. Huck says he used his press pass from Hope’s KXAR radio to “finagle my way backstage at Little Rock’s Barton Coliseum, where I had traveled two hours with another guy from the radio station old enough to drive so I could get an interview.” Owens “treated me as if I was the host of the Grand Ole Opry. He was the consummate gentleman.” The former Arkansas guv and Fox commentator says it made him a “fanatic fan. Still am.”

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