Who Made Huckabee?/Comments - Aftermath

Aftermath

That same day, Colbert and Stewart issued the following joint statement:

"Conan's claims on Mike Huckabee could not go unanswered. We just hope the kids out there learned that sometimes the best way to resolve a conflict is with violence."

Meanwhile, as O'Brien was recovering, he conducted an interview with The Associated Press, and explained that one of the reasons he took part in the feud was because, " had been leaving me threatening messages. He got to me. I have a temper. A famous temper."

Later that same day, on The Daily Show, Stewart poked fun at the fight by calling it "the stupidest fucking thing anyone's ever seen." He then apologized to Colbert, in a conversation via satellite, for inadvertently smashing him over the head with a beer bottle during the brawl, amid the confusion. While Colbert accepted his apology, Stewart continued and asked why Colbert had initially responded by shoving a recycling bin over Stewart's head and hitting him with a baseball bat. To which Colbert replied, "No, no, Jon—I shoved a recycling bin over your head and encouraged Conan to hit you with a baseball bat," and, as usual, left Stewart confused. At the end of the segment, Stewart asked Colbert: "Did we win that, by the way?" Colbert's answer was, "I think America won, Jon."

In the meantime, Huckabee won the first contest of "Super Tuesday" with 52% of the West Virginia GOP state convention electorate to rival Mitt Romney's 47%. Backers of rival John McCain threw him their support to prevent Mitt Romney from capturing the winner-take-all GOP state convention vote. He also secured victories in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and Tennessee on Super Tuesday, bringing his delegate count up to 156, a distant third compared to 689 for Republican Party front-runner John McCain and Mitt Romney's 286, according to the 2008 Republican presidential primaries and caucuses.

On February 7, 2008, Huckabee made a trip to New York to make yet another appearance on The Colbert Report, declaring he was still a viable candidate in the race. By the end of the segment, he was playing a game of air hockey with the host.

However, despite winning the Kansas Republican Caucuses and the Louisiana Republican Primary, Huckabee decided to end his bid for the GOP nomination, upon losing the Texas Republican Primary on March 4, 2008.