The Real Jon Huntsman Stops by Saturday Night Live
- Posted on November 20, 2011 at 7:40am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman swapped the campaign trail for 30 Rockefeller Center Saturday, making a real-life appearance on Saturday Night Live.
Appearing on the show’s “Weekend Update” segment, the former Utah governor spoke with host Seth Meyers about his New Hampshire efforts, just eight weeks off from the state’s primary.
Meyers said he wanted to start with something never heard at any of the GOP debates: “Governor Huntsman, the first question is for you.”
Asking about his standing in the polls, Meyers pointed out that nationally Huntsman is only in the low single digits.
“It is true Seth. But only a few months ago, I was polling at margin of error, so to have any digit at all is a pretty big deal,” Huntsman said.
Illustrating his focus in the Granite State, Huntsman peppered the conversation with glowing facts about the state, even deeming New Hampshire native Meyers “as wise as a Dartmouth professor.”
When Meyers said both his parents still live there, his mother a registered Democrat and his father an independent, Huntsman said, “Say hi to your dad for me.”
Watch the full clip below, via NBC:
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Totally Domestic
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:11pmHe is about as exciting as a bowl of Cream of Wheat. (No salt or butter)
Report Post »Clive
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 3:23pmyou also need to add sugar and maple syrup.
Report Post »SheriS
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 3:36pmIt appears Huntsman felt it was more important to appear on SNL then on the Republican candidates’ debate! That tells me Huntsman isn’t a serious candidate for anything!
Report Post »Faith1029
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 4:07pmThere is something about him that doesn’t sit right with me. He seems to have an air about him, conceited. Also, he has appeard on MSNBC, SNL and Piers Morgan. He actually brought his attractive daughters to the Piers show. Why? Does he think this will help him? Anyone see him on Fox? I don’t think he is conservative and the way he comes across, I don’t trust him.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 5:35pmyou‘ll vote for him when he’s the candidate. :^)
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 6:31pmI’m sure he is a very “nice” man .. but I would never vote for him.
Report Post »1bambam
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 8:36pmLoser!!!
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:21am@ Faith1029
Report Post »I know a lot about Huntsman. One thing I know about YOU is that . . . you have an EXCELLENT knack for figuring out a particular politician.
ltb
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 10:55amIt’s really funny the way Liberals are pushing Huntsman and how only about 1% of Republicans are stupid enough to not realize he’s a plant. No doubt most of Huntsman’s donors also donate to Obama’s campaign and it wouldn’t surprise me if Huntsman runs as an Independent to siphon off Republican votes.
Report Post »Bakko Bomma
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:37pmPathetic
Report Post »robert
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:19pmHuntsman is the biggest fraud ever. I think he regards himself so highly he expected to be a leading candidate by now, but it looks like, for once, the electorate can see through this insufferable snob.
He adopted two kids from China and India. While I’m glad for the kids to have found a home, I think it is deplorable pandering to have adopted two non-white kids, obviously for political reasons so he can appear to be the new multicultural white political model who can show the world how “unprejudice” he is, especially since this country has an abundance of kids wanting good homes.
His political ploy at adoption is causing the children to be raised in a foreign land, outiside the people whose ancestor’s and history they share in a land with a far different way of life than what they have here. In effect, people like Huntsman deprive these children of their rightful cultural heritage.
One big complaint by blacks, which is a valid one, is that these kinds of do-gooder whites who adopt black babies from Africa deprive them of their cultural heritage…… and it is wrong…… just in order to feel morally superior.
In Huntsman’s case he would have been better off not concocting a family he thought would be a vote-getter. Probably, his scheme was hatched years ago when he had visions of being president, and I’ve no doubt he thought there would be a different outcome. The result of his devious tactics is having children who will suffer.
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:29pmChris Matthews loves Huntsman and admits it, so that is enough for me to know he is up to no good. I personally am thankful he is staying at the bottom of the pack. I also need more convincing than I am getting that Cain is as real of a conservative as he claims to be. SAYING IT DOESN’T DO THE TRICK FOR ME. I heard his wife say she thought he would do good things for us……….she also thought Obama could….she knows who they both will help in the back of her mind….themselves….both democrats that are using the media to confuse us or some of us. As soon as the left throws Cain out they do something like support him with the SS security on our dime to bring him back up…don’t be fooled by Alinsky tactics. Cain is not able…he is holding a spot for Obama.
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 3:06pmPWAT, you are wrong about Herman. Believe me, he is the real deal.
Report Post »Mr.ManZ
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:10pmHuntsman is a total liberal at heart, he would say and or do anything the Obama administration ask him to do. His poll number even in the single digit are somewhat surprising to me also, for the simple fact that he has even scored, but just like with Odumbo we still have lots of people and lap dog liberals still dumbing down on stupid when it comes to their die hard support. Huntsman is the candidate that is loved by outlets such as CNN, NBC, MSNBC,ABC and those disgusting net flanks at the Huffingtonpost and Move0n.
Report Post »RodT82721
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 1:07pmAs bad as Mr. Huntsman would be as President, and his polling shows what most Republicans think of his assets, he would be far better then what we have now!
Report Post »He is at least a natural born citizen of this country and appears far less steeped in socialist behavior.
paulusmaximus
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 4:33pmNo he would not skip the polls and look at the debates he is a gray haired Obama!
Report Post »otmonger
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 12:44pmOne of these rino’s will run as a independent and get Obumer back in!!!!!!!!! He will get rich!!!!!
Report Post »UrbanCombatSurvivor
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:16pmWhy do you call them RINOs? Do you really think there are any “true” republicans left in this country?
BOTH parties have been infiltrated. BOTH are almost nothing but quislings. The Progressive movement has taken everything over; all three branches of government. So long as people pretend that there is a difference between the Progressives in the Republican part and the Progressives in the Democratic party, we will continue to spiral down this path towards collectivism.
Reject it all, start thinking for yourself, critical analysis.
Report Post »rdk
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 12:27pmI don’t know why I dislike Huntsman. For sure I don’t like the snarky way he keeps attacking Mitt. I wish he would just drop out of the race.
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 3:07pmEven Huntsman’s sarcasim seems contrived. There is just something phony with him.
Report Post »dictionmary
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:56amJust bland enough to blend with SNL’s programming.
Report Post »Wakeup Maggie
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:48amI like him…I don‘t know why he’s not doing better in the polls…he’s smart and would make mincemeat of our current imposter in chief
Report Post »Oraclevoiceofreason
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:45amI live in Utah and Jon Huntsman – our former governor ( who quit to go work for Obama) is not a conservative. And he cannot be trusted politically.
Report Post »9635kari
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 12:06pmI agree. I to am from Utah and Huntsman is NOT a conservative. He tries to distance himself from his Mormon religion whereas Romney does. not. Romney and Huntsman are relatives and grew up together, but something happened during the Salt Lake Olympics. There is no love lost there. I think Huntsman got into the race to mess it up for Mitt.
Report Post »UrbanCombatSurvivor
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:17pmHe is yet another example in the long, long list that shows us that BOTH parties have been infiltrated and taken over by quislings.
What alternative is there to this game?
Report Post »charmingtail
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:21amwell I will take Huntsman over a skirt chaser like Cain…. at least Jon’s wife is a conservative REPUBLICAN… unlike Gloria Cain who is a DEMOCRAT who sits every week in a REV WRIGHT type church…. she hasd been hiding because she is a big lib…. she gave to Harry Reid, Robert Kennedy Jr & Mayor “Choc City” Ray Nagin & NOW New Orleans mayor Mitch Landreu ..DEMOCRAT Sen. Mary Laindrieu’s brother… she is a DEMOCRAT whore
Report Post »c0mm0nsense
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:31amProve all of that with out the name calling!
Report Post »gr8photoman
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:38amProof please.
I have a really hard time believing that. Sorry.
This is a hatchet job by Team Obama…are you not smart enough to see that? All of his accusers are from Chicago and the Restaurant Association which is located there. Herman spent just 3 years there. If he was the serial sexual offender they say he is…don’t you think it would have happened elsewhere too? Or was he “cured” magically when he left the Windy City? One woman works for Obama outright. One woman lives is the same building as Axelrod. Seriously do you really believe what they tell you to believe that easily?
The only skirts Herman chases are worn by Gloria.
By the way…I don‘t really care what Huntsman’s wife’s views are. The last time I checked she won’t be on the ballot, and Huntsman is nothing more than a Liberal Democrat who paints and R by his name. A New World Order kinda guy, a global warming believer, the man is NOT his father and is a complete moonbat.
I have known Herman for 10 years. You are wrong.
Report Post »sunnyblack
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:01am“she is a DEMOCRAT w***e”
–You’re on the wrong board.
And I’ll take Herman Cain over Jon Hunstman 999 days out of the year and twice on Sunday.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:32amI like Herman. I was considering him a top choice at one point and wanted to learn more about him.
Google it, folks. Gloria Cain does, in fact, party switch but has in the past voted Democrat. She registered R to vote for Herman when Herman was running for the Senate. Gloria Cain voted for Obama in 2008.
http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Cain-Wife-Votes-Democrat/2011/11/04/id/416931
My problem is…… if Herman couldn’t point out or influence his own wife about the Lefts/Dems agenda, how will he be able to influence anyone else who doesn’t already believe in him.
As to his church, research it and come to your own conclusions. Here’s a vid to get you started. It’s from slanted CNN but you can ferret out the facts:
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/18/the-liberal-church-of-herman-cain/
I still like and respect Herman. He seems in over his head (as was/is Obama). I surely would take Cain over Obama. But, he is not my top choice.
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:54amI’d love to hold this against Herman Cain, but I know too many mindless soccer Mom’s that cancel out their husband right wing extremist vote. They aren’t bad people. They just don’t think 3 steps ahead.
I don’t think those women really care about politics. They care about feelings and how relaxed and safe they feel when a man speaks to them. And their mindlessness is only negated when they themselves can no longer afford to eat because of their own stupidity. Then they vote for whoever is paying the bills.
I saw this in 2008 all over the place. it‘ll be different this election because the soccer mom’s are finally realizing that socialism‘s price is their kids staying home until they’re 30. This is a generalization of course, but it’s generally what I saw. I can’t hold what his wife does against Cain. I’d have no right wing friends left.
Report Post »dictionmary
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:59amTY! Good to know…
Report Post »Unix
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 12:14pmIndeed, you went out on the limb here and you are being called out, where’s the beef? Show us your proof?
Liberals, sanctimonious hypocrites, the lot of them. Pompous and full of themselves, their opinion is all that counts. Bull hockey! Nuts to you libs…
Viva TEA
Report Post »God BLess America
amerbur
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:05amI have never felt that Jon Huntsman, communicates the seriousness of this election. Laughter is good. This piece was sadly intertaining, because it is a partial reflection of reality. However, I am concerned for the survival of my country. I want to remain a free country in which my children can dream dreams and achieve. My fellow Americans are not waiting for a leader to lead us out of this pit, but it would be good to elect someone who has a clue. I have not seen that Huntsman understands, or that he has the passion to lead.
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:19amHe does come off as rather aloof,doesn’t he? He would make the perfect VP and IQ at that position would be increased ten-fold!
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:05amCracks me up how conservatives always think somebody is aloof just because they’re bright and speak their own mind.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 12:26pmTrue, Huntsman would be a far more intelligent Veep, but who the heck wouldn’t? Biden was J-O-B security for Obama. The only one scarier than Biden being elevated to Prez would have been Nancy Pelosi. Was frightening for that 2 years she was Speaker!
However, Huntsman is a RINO. What right-minded, Constitutional conservative would take any position in the Obama admin? Jon is certainly no fox-in-the-henhouse.
Report Post »Bitter_Klinger
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:05amgive it up jon…
Report Post »c0mm0nsense
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 9:58am“The Whole World Is NOT Watching”
Report Post »libertylady2
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 9:56amThat was his best performance yet; unfortunately, that’s not saying much.
Report Post »Rodster
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 9:30amUnbelievable how the political process has melded with entertainment. Is it just me who sees all these Republican debates as nothing more than the political version of the X-Factor or American Idol? Why don’t we have Ryan Seacrest MC these debates and have us text in our votes to kick off the losers?
I’d definitely text in my vote to vote off Jon Huntsman. :-D
Report Post »NOBAMA201258
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 10:29amI like your idea ! Can we call it the EX- Factor?
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 9:24amWho cares?
Report Post »gemologist
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 9:23amOh, Huntsman, we really wished everyone loved you like we in the media do… So sad really…
Report Post »Magnum1
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 9:15amWhat a schmuck!! Hey, look at me! I’m a Republican, but I’m not one of those wacky far-right tea partiers, I’m not a evangelical, I’m not pro-life….I’m not pro-gun….I’m not for “extreme” tax cuts”….I’m for “comphrensive” immigration reform (i.e., amnesty)….
This guy is just auditioning for the “token” RINO Republican spot on MSNBC or CNN.
Report Post »TruthIsgoodMN
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:06amAre you kidding me? The wsj has called huntsmans plan to cut tax rates the most serious and best plan put forth by the GOP candidates. As governor he was consistently pro life and pro gun. I mean come on he was governor of UTAH. To say that his not conservative or a Rino is just nonsensical. Study up. http://www.jon2012.com
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:08amI think that was Romney you just described. Or Newt. They both said all that stuff.
Report Post »alecj
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 12:43pmYou nailed it. The people that know Huntsman best, the people of Utah, proclaim him a RINO with a capital R. He left to work for Obama….which leaves a bad taste in the mouths of most conservatives. Plus, anyone who buys the global warming hoax is not nearly as smart as they think they are…..
He is a useful idiot for the left.
Report Post »Fantastic Four
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 11:11amlook what hope and change promised to do…………………….and the results are a disiaster. hunstman ketchum can promise a burger but never the Heinz flavor.
Report Post »oriondma05
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 8:53amMaybe after he get eliminated, he can be Obama’s running mate for 2012. Even some of my liberal friends that have unfriended me on facebook for having opinion like Jon Hunstman, if that tells you anything about him.
He does have some good looking daughters though.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 9:44amAgree. On all points.
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:07amThat is actually a great idea. Obama/Hunstman 2012. I like that a lot.
Report Post »David
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 8:29amI don’t get it. He wasn’t even funny. His reading of those lines was pretty lame.
If you had to pick the least “funny” out of all of the candidates, wouldn’t you think it would be this guy? I mean, really. lol Even michelle bachman would probably make a better guast on SNL.
But I get the feeling that wouldn’t be happenin any time soon, huh?
Report Post »PATRIOTGRUNT
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 8:16am“ Jon ” Who ?.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 7:55amSomehow Jon ( not John) Huntsman seems to belong on SNL….
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 7:53amHe should have appeared with RINO nose…Only a fool would vote for him. He did not read the teleprompor as well as Obama either.
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 11:09amAt least he looked into the camera, instead of gazing off into blank space like Bachmann.
Report Post »ColoradoProudAmerican
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 7:50amYa, that’s him throwing in the towel.
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