Hannity and Colmes left unchallenged Huckabee's inconsistent statements on distribution of anti-Romney ad

SUMMARY: On the January 1 Hannity & Colmes, Mike Huckabee discussed a campaign advertisement attacking Mitt Romney that Huckabee said he decided not to air, claiming: "I don't know how you obtained that copy [of the ad] because we didn't give it to anybody. We had a box of CDs of them. We gave them to no one. We showed it in that room for those reporters, and the only way they could have gotten it would be to tape it, I guess, off a camera from the screen." But during a December 31 press conference, Huckabee himself said that his campaign had sent the ad to television stations, telling reporters, "We prepared it, sent it to the stations. It was supposed to start running at noon today." Moreover, Colmes himself had reported that "Fox News exclusively obtained a clean copy of the Huckabee attack ad that he ordered pulled earlier today." Yet neither Sean Hannity nor Alan Colmes challenged Huckabee's assertions.

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