Posted on 12/18/2007 1:01:15 PM PST by mylife
Huckabee on Christ Ad Brouhaha: 'Paul is Dead'
December 18, 2007 3:07 PM
ABC News' Kevin Chupka Reports: Former Governor Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., had some fun Tuesday answering a question about a brewing controversy over his latest TV ad called "What Really Matters."
Huckabee is running a Christmas ad in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina where the former Baptist minister invokes Jesus Christ -- the first 2008 Republican candidate to do so in a campaign ad.
In the ad Huckabee says that that at this time of year, "what really matters is the celebration of the birth of Christ and being with our family and our friends."
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.
Huckabee was asked if his language crossed the line between faith and politics: "Absolutely not," he said.
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.'"
The Republican candidate likened the dissection of his Christmas campaign ad to rumors that Paul McCartney was killed in a car crash at the height of the Beatles popularity and replaced by a doppelganger, and that subtle clues were placed inside the group's music for years to come.
He is the egg man.
“Why would Donahue place his politics over his religion at Christmas?”
That is a pretty disingenuous statement. Political campaign money paid for Huckabee’s ad.
I know one fellow who’s sole reason for being against Huckabee is that he is a Southern Baptist.
I’m against him on a lot of issues, but not that.
“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 is having fun at the expense of the press. And getting his point through to the electorate. Clever.
“the bookshelf / cross image was inserted”
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It was clearly a shot at Pauls response to the Huckabee ad saying “Fascism will come wrapped in patriotism and religion” (paraphrasing).
But the press dont get it. L0L
The funny thing is that all the controversy over this ad actually helps Huckabee. A lot of Christians are beginning to rally around him as one of their own, as they see ads like this bring out the bigotry in parts of the Republican party as well as the Democrats.
In an age when religion seems to be so unimportant to so many, why does it keep cropping up in this campaign? To my mind, faith, religious or otherwise, is and should be a private matter. When a man (or woman) takes the oath of the Presidency, that, and that alone, must rule the day and all the days thereafter. In that sense, the Presidency can be a stressful and painful burden; no wonder that presidents age so noticably during their terms of office.
I agree.
Just when I thought he would start falling in the polls do to recent negative press, he comes up with this.
Religion has to be at the center of all modern campaigns.
The Dems have deemed it so. But you must NOT be a fundamentalist! The Dems have deemed it so.
Look for Hillary to show up in church this weekend.
I’m not Huckafan, but his response to this is not only spot on but also pretty funny. This is his only redeeming quality in my view.
Oh, I hear ya.
Yes, Huckabee is right! So, why is he only running the ad in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina?
Which does the ad do more: honor Christ or forward Huck's desire to be President?
Seems obvious that the latter is the case. This is the worst sort of pandering possible in my opinion.
jw
Confirming the lie is the fact that the camera was not static, but was on a track, to move the background, and force the eye to notice the emerging cross, and then watch it go behind the Huckster's head.
The guy is slick. The Huckster could give lessons to Slick Willie or any Elmer Gantry.
He just doesn’t have the money.
Plain and simple.
He has cleverly gotten national attention off 2 tiny markets.
But saying he didn’t notice it, it “just happened,” is a huge bold-faced LIE.
Real men of the Bible don’t tell bold-faced lies like that. Phony Elmer Gantry preachermen do.
“Once you learn to fake sincerity and authenticity, the rest is a snap.”
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