One of set of letters are described in the article as “multi-page, rambling, and highly personal attacks that Huckabee wrote while in Arkansas office.” They refer to “the [weekly] Arkansas Times as ‘a local version of the National Enquirer,’ a ‘collection of carping columnists,’ a ‘newsletter for the Democrats,’ an ‘irrelevant irritant’ and the ‘Theater of the Absurd.’”

In another correspondence to Max Brantley, the editor of the newspaper, Huckabee wrote, “I frankly don’t give a rat’s rear as to your regard for me as a public official, because you apparently will never overcome your boorish behavior toward those whose opinions you cannot challenge on a responsible or intellectual basis.”