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NBC says some find bookcase and Christmas lights offensive (Huckabee Merry Christmas)
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Posted on 12/25/2007 7:38:44 PM PST by Coleus

NBC says some find bookcase and Christmas lights offensive

Candidate wishing voters Merry Christmas upsets some folks


The latest effort to spread the idea that religion has no place in the public square comes as a response to a TV spot produced by presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.

I urge you to watch the two video clips I have placed in this e-mail. First, is the ad by former Governor Huckabee wishing people a Merry Christmas. Click here to watch the 30-second ad.

Next, is a clip from the Today Show (Dec. 18), hosted by Meredith Vieira, on which Governor Huckabee was a guest. Vieira opens the interview talking about how some say the ad is sending an overt religious appeal to voters.

Some have become so openly hostile to the Christian faith that they are upset when a candidate simply wishes viewers Merry Christmas and mentions that --after all-- Christmas is the day Christians celebrate the birth of Christ.

The governor is accused of putting a cross in the background of his ad. The 'cross' they find offensive is nothing more than a bookcase. The critics say also that three lights stand for the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit! What is disappointing is that the media grabs such a concoction and makes big news out of this ad.

To me, these accusations are utterly silly, and biased. Watch the clip from the Today Show. There are those who feel that nothing religious, especially wishing people Merry Christmas, should be made by anyone seeking public office. That is the attitude of those who want to drive religion from the public square.

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Don

Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman American Family Association


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
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To: Eagles6

Atheism is a religion. Wawa can make demands all day that her atheism has rights. Only Christianity has no rights. Christians are supposed to give is sway to any and every other religion on the planet. It’s only Christianity that gets the boot. Ever other religion gets to make demands and say or do any of their religious things in public and it’s right as rain. The rat is getting to smell really bad. It’s time to take our freedom back.


81 posted on 12/25/2007 10:00:53 PM PST by Picklezz ( (HUNTER: SOLID! Tops on: Illegals, Trade, DPRK, Iran/Iraq, Economy, WOT, PRC, Budget, PROLife))
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To: Coleus

Did anyone watch the sham on CNN last night, in which they devoted an hour show to pretending that Hilary, Obama and Edwards are deeply religious? Yet republicans are villified for being religious. The program was frightening in its deception. Like Hilary being asked a soft ball question about pro and anti abortion groups finding “common ground” and Hilary pretending she somehow opposes abortions, all to thunderous applause for every evasive non-answer.


82 posted on 12/25/2007 10:01:49 PM PST by Williams
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To: spanalot
"then why shouldnt there be a cross and a tree and whatever else?"

No reason not too...

But - the Huckster attempted to deny a deliberate attempt to manipulate the image of a cross through his entire ad..

He asked folks to believe it was unintentional...

He CLEARLY LIED........
That is the REAL problem, and he and his followers are trying to spin it as a problem with religion in a Christmas message from a politician...

83 posted on 12/25/2007 10:02:49 PM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Coleus

I find Atheists offensive, can I have them removed??

Pray for W and Our Troops


84 posted on 12/25/2007 10:03:40 PM PST by bray (Fred, the Law and Order Candidate)
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To: Picklezz

Yes and Hunter is the best choice.


85 posted on 12/25/2007 10:40:06 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: outofstyle

invoking Christ’s name

Around Christmas, just about every body that believes, invokes His name every day, the Bible says that if you are ashamed of Him, He will be ashamed of you, personally I invoke His name every day.


86 posted on 12/25/2007 11:44:30 PM PST by garylmoore (Faith is the assurance of things unseen.)
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To: Marysecretary
Democrats and liberals have a problem with that, gridlock.

When and if Huckabee gets through the Republican Primary, we can start to worry about what Democrats and liberals think about his manipulative use of an "accidental" bookcase to insert a cross into his advertisement and his subsequent self-serving and condescending lies.

But right now, since we are in the primaries, we have to be concerned about how Republicans feel about a supposed "Christian Leader" who doesn't have to guts to be forthright in his use of the Cross and denies the Cross, even three times in a single night.

So when Huckabee supporters repeatedly try to change the subject and make this a matter of freedom of religious expression, they are being disingenuous and manipulative (again!).

87 posted on 12/26/2007 2:41:50 AM PST by gridlock ("I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" -- J. Wellington Wimpy)
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To: Huck
Pick one answer. Can't have both. Either it's just a bookshelf, aw shucks, what cross? Or else it's intentional and he's just using it to get publicity. Which one is it?

Huckabee supporters do not want to pick one. The first one makes Huckabee look stupid and the second one makes him look like a self-promoting hustler who will exploit Christian symbols for his own gain and then lie about it.

Now I, for one, don't think Huckabee is stupid. I think he thinks we're pretty stupid, however.

88 posted on 12/26/2007 2:45:28 AM PST by gridlock ("I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" -- J. Wellington Wimpy)
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To: Jim Robinson
I don’t know about you, but I find those who claim to be offended by this first amendment protected Merry Christmas ad to be very offensive (not to mention intolerable).

With all due respect, Mr. Robinson, may I suggest you look again? I think you will find very few people here are upset about First Amendment protected speech. The folks who are upset here are upset because Huckabee is exploiting the Cross of Christ symbols without having the courage to be forthright about it and then denying his actions.

And, let me add, that I have the utmost respect for you and admire what you have done in creating this forum.

89 posted on 12/26/2007 2:50:13 AM PST by gridlock ("I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" -- J. Wellington Wimpy)
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To: Tigen
“one Christian who WILL NOT vote for him”... As the rooster crows... OK what ever three times

Exactly who's role are you casting Huckabee into? Are you sure you want to do that?

90 posted on 12/26/2007 2:52:14 AM PST by gridlock ("I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" -- J. Wellington Wimpy)
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To: hinckley buzzard
That’s not a bookcase, it’s a big glowing sledgehammer that the Huckster uses to hit everybody over the head with his “holier than thou” schtick. It’s absolutely revolting!
91 posted on 12/26/2007 3:56:32 AM PST by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: kerrywoodssecretwife

They can go pound sand.


92 posted on 12/26/2007 3:58:33 AM PST by corlorde (New Hampshire)
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To: CaptRon
Try as I might, I can find no right not to be offended in the Constitution.

It's in the penumbras or the emanations, I forget which. 'belive it's also one of the racially conditioned rights.

93 posted on 12/26/2007 4:00:10 AM PST by sphinx
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To: Coleus

I find nbc offensive.


94 posted on 12/26/2007 5:19:41 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatives live in the truth. Liberals live in lies.)
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To: gridlock
The folks who are upset here are upset because Huckabee is exploiting the Cross of Christ symbols without having the courage to be forthright about it and then denying his actions.

If you really believe that a bookcase is a symbol of Christianity, then you need help my friend....

95 posted on 12/26/2007 5:20:36 AM PST by csense
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To: Coleus
***NBC says some find bookcase and Christmas lights offensive***

I find some offensive. (And no, I'm not for Huckabee)

96 posted on 12/26/2007 5:24:12 AM PST by Gamecock (Aaron had what every megachurch pastor craves: a huge crowd that gave freely and lively worship.)
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To: csense
If you really believe that a bookcase is a symbol of Christianity, then you need help my friend....

I have accepted that some people cannot see the obvious, and that the shot was intentionally manipulated to insert the Cross using the "accidental" bookcase in the background. I am not sure how they can not see it, but they maintain that they can not, and I have no choice but to accept that.

It is abundantly clear to me, though. And now the Huckabee supporters are trying to stir up trouble between religious folks and secular society in order to cover his butt. It reminds me of the times when another Arkansas huckster threw Thomas Jefferson, FDR and Martin Luther King Jr. down the stairs by bringing up their marital infidelities in order to protect himself from his own discretions.

Some folks are willing to do any amount of damage in order to advance themselves. We don't need another man like that in the White House.

97 posted on 12/26/2007 5:33:32 AM PST by gridlock ("I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" -- J. Wellington Wimpy)
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To: Coleus

Huck’s fine, but I don’t see a place for an “NBC”...


98 posted on 12/26/2007 5:34:57 AM PST by GOPJ (Drug dealers are NOT "unlicensed pharmacists" and illegals are NOT "undocumented workers". Bailey)
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To: Coleus

99 posted on 12/26/2007 5:38:45 AM PST by InvisibleChurch ("200 percent inspection is less reliable than 100 percent inspection,")
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To: outofstyle

Apparantly so. Rush hit it on the head with the “identity politics” thing. People are saying “he’s a Christian, so I like him.” Dolts.


100 posted on 12/26/2007 5:47:43 AM PST by Huck (Soylent Green is People.)
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