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Spiky pulls his punches on how Mike Huckabee's son killed that dog

Sun, 12/16/2007 - 12:00pm — lambert

[Welcome, Digby and C&L readers!]

182HHstagscout Yesterday, we asked the question:

How, exactly, did Mike Huckabee's son David kill that dog?

(To be fair, there was a second Scout involved in the killing with Huckabee; we'll get to that below.) And, based on the contemporaneous accounts, we gave what we thought was the best answer.

Today, Newsweek's Michael "Spiky" Isikoff tackles the Huckabee dog-killing story. Using the enormous reportorial resources of the Washington Post operation, he adds some interesting data points, but he circles round the real question which is, again:

How, exactly, did Mike Huckabee's son David kill that dog?

With that, let's look at how Spiky moved the story forward, starting with the fact that Huckabee seems to be running Arkansas like a personal fiefdom for the benefit of his family members* instead of like, you know, an actual state of the Union governed by the rule of law:

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