Huckabee crossed WGA picket lines Wednesday afternoon to be on the Jay Leno show, amidst total confusion about who struck a deal with the Writer’s Guild of America.

From MSN.com:

Huckabee said he supports the writers and did not think he would be crossing a picket line, because he believed the writers had made an agreement to allow late-night shows on the air. That’s not the case with Leno, and pickets outside Leno’s Burbank, Calif., studio targeted Huckabee.

“Huckabee is a scab,” read one picket sign.

Opps. That can’t be good for your image at the beginning of the Presidential Primaries. More:

Late Wednesday, the Writers Guild of America issued a statement saying that the guild “thanks the former governor for his strong statement of support for striking writers and hopes that he will not cross the picket lines at NBC.”

However, Huckabee appeared on the show despite the calls from the striking writers, according to NBC.

Wow. I mean, it was pretty obvious to anyone that only David Letterman and Craig Ferguson had struck deals with the WGA, so how could you totally ignore that?

Whatever the reason for what he did, this is absolutely hilarious to me.

I’m off to watch Letterman, who apparently had a hilarious show tonight. From MSN, they had this highlight:

During his monologue, stagehand Biff Henderson interrupted Letterman to say, “When are the writers coming back?”

“They’re back, Biff,” Letterman said.