[broncobilly]

I don’t have the time to read through this whole thread to see if someone points it out, but I don’t think this video was made with a camera tracking dolly. If it were, the angle on Huckabee would be changing as the background shifted. I think Huckabee and the background were filmed separately and the background added to Huckabee after the fact — as a shifting background.

The end conclusion. The apparent cross was deliberate.

Is this bad? It only means that Huckabee is trying to play up the Christian aspect of his candidacy as compared to his competitor. For example: He says his religion defines him. He points out he is a “Christian Leader.” The WOT is a theological war and only he has a theology degree. “I won’t say if the other guy is Christian.” “Anyway, doesn’t the other guy believe Jesus and Satan are brothers.”
Huckaabee is playing the religion card and claiming he isn’t. It is that simple.

One problem with that strategy is that his political liberalism is not the major faction in the GOP. The SBC is not the majority of Christians in this country. And Huckabee has identified himself with the minority position in the conservative/modernism split in the SBC.

So, as voters bring him sharply into focus, playing that card, he can’t help but come out the loser.

[muawiyah]

The black vote is predominantly of the same strain of Souvrn' Evangelicalism as the Huck.

Workd for KKKatuh, and Kkklinton, so it ought to work for the Huck.

[Travis McGee]

I don’t think this video was made with a camera tracking dolly. If it were, the angle on Huckabee would be changing as the background shifted. I think Huckabee and the background were filmed separately and the background added to Huckabee after the fact — as a shifting background. The end conclusion. The apparent cross was deliberate.

Good point, I didn't see that.

[Travis McGee]

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.