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Proof Hucakbee is lying about the moving cross
myself | Dec 20, 2007 | Travis McGee

Posted on 12/20/2007 8:59:16 AM PST by Travis McGee

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To: Steve_Seattle
Based on the information in this piece, how do we know a tracking dolly was used in Huckabee’s commercial?

Have you watched the video? It's linked at about reply 20-something.

201 posted on 12/20/2007 2:12:19 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Travis McGee

I think the video REFUTES your point. As the camera moves, the widow pane/cross DISAPPEARS behind Huckabee’s head.


202 posted on 12/20/2007 2:13:42 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Travis McGee

By the way, I am not necessarily a Huckabee supporter - the Republicans have done such a good job bashing each other, I don’t know WHO I’m for, if anyone. But the flap about this alleged cross reminds me of the Dem allegations in 2000 that the Republicans deliberately flashed the subliminal word RATS in a campaign video.


203 posted on 12/20/2007 2:18:04 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: broncobilly
You're right, I've watched the video (linked at around reply 35) a few more times, and the perspective on his shoulders does not change. He could move his head to keep his face toward the camera, but his shoulders remain square to the camera. It had to be done with a second, added-on background. It was a "blue-screen" shot of Huck with the shelf/cross added, scrolling behind him.

For 100% sure, the cross effect was deliberate. They added the entire background scene! So obviously, it was filmed, cut and cropped with perfect deliberation of every element of composition.

They picked exactly when the cross emerges, at the opening, and when it ends, in "eclipse" behind Huck's head.

204 posted on 12/20/2007 2:19:59 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Steve_Seattle

How does the cross/shelf disappearing behind Huck’s head refute the point?


205 posted on 12/20/2007 2:21:03 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Travis McGee

To finish my comment in #202, before I saw the video, the critical comments had led me to believe that the camera dolly was used to keep the cross in view all the time, despite Huckabee’s movements. In fact, the camera just panned to add a little movement to the background, to show the Christmas tree, etc, while Huckabee remained motionless. And the panning of the camera made the “cross” vanish behind Huckabee, the opposite of what I had been led to expect. I thought I was going to see the “cross” remaining in full view despite Huckabee’s movements.


206 posted on 12/20/2007 2:22:53 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Steve_Seattle

This isn’t single frame image capture like “rats” that you have to literally freeze to see.

The shelf/cross is the entire ad, during all 30 seconds it is in the open.

Until the image of the cross merges with the image of Saint Huckleberry the Annointed.


207 posted on 12/20/2007 2:23:00 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Steve_Seattle

Read 161 and 204: it wasn’t a tracking dolly, it was a blue-screen shot with a completely different added background, scrolled behing Huckleberry.

IOW, every inch of the background was designed and included, second by second, for a deliberate effect.


208 posted on 12/20/2007 2:25:02 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: cripplecreek

Mostly agree.

However, if they really didn’t notice it, someone should be fired. After all look how big a thing they missed while proofing it.


209 posted on 12/20/2007 2:25:32 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: cripplecreek; Travis McGee
You guys are undoubtedly correct about the technical filming aspect. My question is, why the heck would he put a "subliminal" Christian message in his ad when the whole ad was a perfectly plain, overt, obvious, out-and-proud Christian message? It doesn't make sense to me.

It's like the California Citrus Marketing Board putting out a TV commercial featuring lemon groves, orange juice, grapefruit desserts and lime pies, and then sharp-eyed analyists get disgusted and crying "unfair advertising" because it has a coded message that says, "Buy Citrus."

210 posted on 12/20/2007 2:27:51 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Hmm?)
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To: Travis McGee

The “cross” shape is visible for only about 8-9 seconds of the video. At the end of the video, it does not “frame” Huckabee. It is almost totally obstructed, and the vertical pane is about to re-emerge to Huckabee’s left (to the right, from the viewer’s perspective).


211 posted on 12/20/2007 2:30:09 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Nobody here has a problem with him putting crosses all over his ads. More power to him!

But I have a big problem with an ex-preacher doing it, for all the world to see, and then LYING about it being done intentionally.

If a former preacher will lie about using the cross, what won't he lie about?

212 posted on 12/20/2007 2:31:17 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Travis McGee

“But I have a big problem with an ex-preacher doing it, for all the world to see, and then LYING about it being done intentionally.”

Why would he say Christ (something I never hear *any* politician say and then lie about the cross?


213 posted on 12/20/2007 2:35:05 PM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: Steve_Seattle
I timed it. The cross is visible for 16 out of 28 seconds that the ad runs, counting the time the center of the cross is visible.

Then its left side lingers a few more seconds as it slowly merges with the Holy Head of Saint Huckleberry.

Video of Saint Huckleberry

214 posted on 12/20/2007 2:36:00 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Travis McGee
"Read 161 and 204: it wasn’t a tracking dolly,"

The only reason I assumed a tracking dolly was used was because you said so in the original post. But regardless of how it was done, I see nothing more than a Christmas scene. As Mrs. Don-O said, why should they try to "sneak in" a Christian message in an ad that already has an obvious Christmas theme?
215 posted on 12/20/2007 2:37:37 PM PST by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Scythian

My theory is that it was not a cross of Christ that he was displaying. It was a cross of the Romans - an instrument of excruciatingly painful execution. It was a coded message that he believes in the use of torture.

What the heck? Some people will believe anything.


216 posted on 12/20/2007 2:38:05 PM PST by Daveinyork
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To: rurgan
Vertical stripes are slimming.
Or so I’m told.
217 posted on 12/20/2007 2:38:20 PM PST by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: N3WBI3
Why would he say Christ (something I never hear *any* politician say and then lie about the cross?

I think that he didn't want to admit to intentionally using a semi-subliminal cross in a political ad in a manipulative but deliberate way.

It would have been better for him to just admit it, and then it's a "so what?" story.

Now it's a story about his tendency to lie, when a question is uncomfortable.

And if a preacher will lie about using the cross, he'll lie about ANYTHING.

218 posted on 12/20/2007 2:38:22 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Steve_Seattle
They obviously did "sneak it in."

IF you believe it was "just an accident" and that none of the production team noticed it, then I have a few bridges to sell you.

It's not a story about using the cross in an ad.

It's a story about LYING ABOUT using the cross in an ad.

219 posted on 12/20/2007 2:40:12 PM PST by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Travis McGee
think that he didn't want to admit to intentionally using a semi-subliminal cross in a political ad in a manipulative but deliberate way.

Semi-Subliminal... oh jeez the huckabee hatred has blinded some...

It would have been better for him to just admit it, and then it's a "so what?" story.

Except its a *book shelf*

220 posted on 12/20/2007 2:44:49 PM PST by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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