"Huckabee Stands by Christmas Ad"...He denies the cross in the ad is a cross! It's a BOOKSHELF!

[in_cog_ni_to]

:rofl: So, he's a LIAR TOO! The cross isn't a cross! Bill Donahue is the one upset about this and speaking out!:rofl: OMG....this is too much.:rofl:


Huckabee Stands by Christmas Ad

Republican Presidential hopeful, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee takes qu...
By LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON, AP
3 hours ago

HOUSTON — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Tuesday defended his Christmas ad amid suggestions that the ordained Baptist minister had gone too far mixing religion and politics.

The ad, which is airing in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, shows Huckabee in front of a Christmas tree as he says, "Are you about worn out by all the television commercials you've been seeing, mostly about politics? Well, I don't blame you. At this time of year sometimes it's nice to pull aside from all of that and just remember that what really matters is the celebration of the birth of Christ and being with our family and friends."

Huckabee is courting evangelical voters and other religious conservatives in his bid to win the Iowa caucuses Jan. 3. In Texas for a fundraiser, he said the ad was a harmless holiday greeting even though it excludes other religions.

"If we are so politically correct in this country that a person can't say enough of the nonsense with the political attack ads could we pause for a few days and say Merry Christmas to each other then we're really, really in trouble as a country," Huckabee said.

Catholic League president Bill Donahue said Huckabee went beyond wishing people a joyous holiday. Donahue said he was especially disturbed by the cross-like image created by a white bookcase in the background of the ad, saying he believed it was a subliminal message.

"What he's trying to say to the evangelicals in western Iowa (is): I'm the real thing," Donahue said Tuesday on Fox News Channel's "Fox and Friends. "You know what, sell yourself on your issues, not on what your religion is."

Huckabee said the bookshelf is just a bookshelf and shrugged off the controversy: "I will confess this: If you play the spot backwards it says, 'Paul is dead. Paul is dead.'"

He was joking about the Beatles' recording of "The White Album" and the urban legend that if a portion of the album is played backwards, the words "Paul is dead" is heard, a reference to the very much alive Paul McCartney.

http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/politics/2007/12/18/Huckabee.Christmas.Ad/

[madeline_con]

1. Huck and Donahue are both wackazoids. n/t

[sakabatou]

2. Riiiiight

:eyes:

[annabanana]

3. Can anyone post the pic in question?

I haven't seen it..

[rasputin1952]

6. Neither have I, but i found this...

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Here's the ad link:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8xn7uSHtkuA

[Dukkha]

9. here

the soft lens and lighting makes it almost look like a burning cross.

[kineneb]

15. scary pic

"convert or die, heathen"

ugh.

[kysrsoze]

32. What's the difference anyway? He pulls Christ out of his pocket enough already

Fucking asshole. Another religious faker.

[CPschem]

4. what a liar

n/t

[burythehatchet]

5. why should anyone complain, the republican convention platform was

embedded with christian imagery.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. He's running for President of the United States, not President of Southern wacko nut job

Evangelical Baptist Christians. He just alienated 70% of the country with that ad. Why shouldn't people complain? I thought it was insulting. Not everyone celebrates the birth of Christ or Christmas. He's an idiot.

[burythehatchet]

10. I stared at the picture for a solid 2 minutes. It was freaky and I had a mental

image of the Huckster that was VERY disturbing. He is a very scary man.

[in_cog_ni_to]

11. LOL....I know. He makes my skin crawl.

:scared:

[AzDar]

12. Like a malevolent Jim Nabors......

:puke:

[burythehatchet]

13. If Jim Nabors and Kevin Spacey had a baby

[AzDar]

14. That's gonna haunt me......

:rofl:

[davidinalameda]

16. sorry sometimes a bookshelf is just a bookshelf

I don't see it

and I'm also sorry-the Paul is dead line is way funny

[DUgosh]

20. I thought it was a window pane

But Kevin Spacey and window panes reminded me of that scence from the American Beauty Movie.... so much for subliminal messages.

[Poiuyt]

21. It is very clearly subliminal imagery

Did you watch the video? It jumps out at you. Huckabee and his director knew exactly what they were doing.

[davidinalameda]

25. yeah I did and I paid close attention to it

it didn't jump out

[greyl]

33. One doesn't even need to pay close attention to it. nt

[in_cog_ni_to]

28. They certainly did know what they were doing and now they won't own up to it.

He's outright lying in the faces of everyone who has watched the damn ad and saw the cross! How could so many people see that image and be wrong?:eyes:

[TankLV]

29. One cannot help but see it - it's VERY disturbing...

NOTHING is done by accident...

for him to say it's just coincidence is assinine...

this was well planned and thought out from the get go...

[UrbScotty]

30. I must say I agree

Though the lighting may raise some eyebrows.

[greyl]

35. We're talking about a target audience who believes angels appear on toast.

Not to mention the fact that he says "Christ" in the ad.

[Jacobin]

38. Nothing in a politcal ad is 'accidental'

Think of the millions that are spent to air it

[fenriswolf]

17. a man without a concious is a scary thing

a man with a concious but one that is subverted and has perverted the meaning of religion and of humanity is a dangerous one. One kills without thought. One kills with rightious conviction.

[rocktivity]

18. Why have the camera move at all?

And who is the "we" he spoke of--did he have a mouse in his pocket?

:eyes:
rocknation

[Kurovski]

19. Lies make baby Jesus cry.

[Raven]

22. I suddenly feel the need to go to Confession to this guy...

Bless me Father for I have sinned. I have voted for democrats all my life and intend to keep doing so". Amen.

[BlackVelvet04]

23. It's pretty obvious it is some kind of shelving. n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

27. I thought it was a window grill....disguised as a cross, when I first saw it. I never saw a

bookshelf until I heard him say..."a bookshelf is just a bookshelf." I had to go look for the "bookshelf." That was deliberately shadowed to look like a cross. He knew EXACTLY what he was doing and now he's lying about it.

[BlackVelvet04]

48. There's stuff sitting on the bookshelf on the left hand side

IIRC.....Christmas decorations.

He probably did do it on purpose but it IS a bookshelf.

[youthere]

24. Bullshit...Christmas is about one thing. FUDGE.

[SoCalDem]

31. Did someone say FUDGE???

[Kool Kitty]

36. Ugh. What a creepy picture.

Why am I hearing Colin Clive yelling, "It's alive! ALIVE!!!" in my head as I look at it?

[NMMNG]

26. An answer in two parts

1. Huckabee is full of crap.
2. Donahue is the last person to tell anybody to "Sell yourself on your issues, not what your religion is".

[greyl]

34. This is one fight I wish both opponents could lose.

Bill Donahue just might be my least favorite person to watch or listen to. Horrible, horrible, person.

[rocktivity]

37. Remember the podiums at the '04 Repub convention

They had subliminal cross images, too. (Gets off shiftless lazy ass and does her own research) Here's one!



:headbang:
rocknation

[bbernardini]

39. As much as I hate to do it, I have to give Huckabee credit for one thing...

That "Paul is dead" joke is pretty funny.

[rocktivity]

41. Maybe he had a snappy comeback already prepared

knowing that he'd NEED one. I think it's Huckabee's credibility that's dead.

:headbang:
rocknation

[LanternWaste]

40. I saw a screen capture from the commercial in question...

I saw a screen capture from the commercial in question. I didn't pay much attention to it, but the set design, lighting and camera angle made it more than obvious that a Cross was part and parcel of the message in that commercial.

I will admit that his "Paul is dead..." response was pretty sharp, though. Gotta keep up those claims of plausible deniability, y'know.

[vireo]

46. I wonder if he was thinking of Ron Paul

At least subliminally.

[Clinton Crusader]

42. OK, kill me, I gotta admit....

I did giggle for a nano second about Paul Is Dead...

:crickets:

[gatorboy]

43. It is a book shelf. But it's also a Christmas ad.

I don't see why this would bug Donahue so much. It's not like Huck's trying to hide the Christianity slant. He mentions Christ by name. This is getting silly.

[LibertyLover]

44. The first time I saw the ad

I turned to my husband and said that it was patently obvious the filming had been done so that the background bookshelves formed a cross. Huckamuck clearly shows in this ad who his constituency is and would be.

[rocktivity]

45. True, but he's making the same mistake the Rethugs made with Terri Schiavo

This may be turning on the evanglicals, but they're WAY outnumbered by Christian moderates--and this kind of showboating turns them off.

:headbang:
rocknation

[zanne]

47. All Christmas ads are lame. nt

[ileus]

49. all the "floating cross" tinfoil hat peeps are on crack...

What a big load of shit, "floating cross" when I heard this I expecet to see a tansparent cross actually floating above his head on one side or another, not to be confused with a panning background. What a dumbass claim....what next the Christmas tree has the all seeing eye on top?

[frogmarch]

50. Hey! It's the letter "t" for

ummm... :shrug: