Huckabee on Christ Ad Brouhaha: 'Paul is Dead'

ABC News ^ | 12/18/07 | Kevin Chupka

[ravingnutter]

Oh no... is Huckabee behind the Ron Paul plot?

LOL!

[Rick.Donaldson]

Paul is the Walrus....

[JohnnyZ]

He may be a liberal but he isn't ashamed of being a Christian. In this politically correct era, I think he's stirred up something people agree with. Let's face it: if Christmas isn't about celebrating the birth of Jesus, then what is it all about?

QFT.

No conservative should object to a Merry Christmas message.

[NeoCaveman]

The media's silly season is in full swing.

Agreed. That's why January primaries are wrong. They are taking the Christmas season and replacing it with the silly season.

[Spiff]

Some have suggested there is an image of a cross behind Huckabee's shoulder as he talks to the camera in the ad, but Huckabee dismissed that Tuesday. "That was a book shelf behind me, a book shelf," Huckabee told reporters while campaigning in Houston, Texas.

A carefully placed "bookshelf".

In fact, in watching the ad, it appears that is wasn't an actual bookshelf, but flat backdrop of some sort. From what I see, the perspective of the shelf as the camera rotates doesn't change as it would with such a large movement behind Huckabee.

[Corin Stormhands]

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's the world coming to when the Catholic's are offended by an image of the cross? I doubt Donahue speaks for all Catholics.

I'm not on the Huckabee bandwagon, but I like the fact that he's not hiding his faith.

[djreece]

I take it to have a double meaning of referring to both Paul McCartney (the subject of the original urban legend) and Ron Paul (the subject of the current uproar).

[nonsporting]

Referring to Ron Paul?

Amusing. I thought he was also referring to the other Paul (Saul of Tarsus). "Paul is dead, but Jesus lives," since he was discussing a Christmas ad.

[NeoCaveman]

I can’t believe the latent anti Christian bigotry thats been exposed by a bookshelf in the background. The fact is, there would have not been a damn thing wrong with it if it HAD have been a cross.

A real cross would have been find. The subliminal cross, from a candidate running as a "Christian leader" does grate on some people.

[reagan_fanatic]

It wasn't that long ago that most stores in this country closed on Sunday to observe the Sabbath - now we're pissing our pants when someone says 'Christ' on TV without using it as a swear word and the shape of a bookshelf resembles a cross.

How sad.

[savedbygrace]

Huckabee went on to joke, to the delight of the reporters in the room, "I will confess this; if you play the spot backwards it says 'Paul is dead, Paul is dead, Paul is dead.'"

If you're gonna quote backwards music, at least get the quote right. It's, "Paul is a dead man." (Sounds more like, "Paul is a dead mon.

Are those delighted reporters like 18 or something? Weren't any of them alive and alert in '69?

[mylife]

I wondered the same thing. Why would Donahue place his politics over his religion at Christmas?

[Liberty Valance]

"Paul is dead ..."


Now that right there is funny I don't care who you are ...

[Obadiah]

“I buried Paul.”

[NeoCaveman]

Let’s not even get into what happens when you play “Una Paloma Blanca” backwards....

[SHEENA26]

The idiot can’t give a straight, intelligent, substance filled answer. His answers are always tired cliches.

[mylife]

;0)

[FreedomProtector]

President Reagan’s Humor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpOgYbr234Q

[Cedric]

Big government, small government or anarchist: The ONLY reason the DBM is promoting Huckabee is because he is, indeed, the ultimate GOP candidate - FOR THE DEMOCRATS!!

[tlj18]

It wasn't that long ago that most stores in this country closed on Sunday to observe the Sabbath

However, that continues to be the case today in Germany.