[cripplecreek]

Whoever filmed that knew they had a cross in the background. Any photographer or filmographer worth his salt looks for things like that through the viewfinder.

I don’t have a big problem with it. My problem is with the denials.

[bcsco]

I don’t have a big problem with it. My problem is with the denials.

Agree.

[rineaux]

***I don’t have a big problem with it. My problem is with the denials.***

You nailed it. I totally agree. Just be honest and move on. BFD.

[Ramius]

It looked like a bookcase to me. Who cares?

Maybe they’re denying it because they thought it was a bookcase too? The camera only panned past the bookcase because they wanted to bring the tree into the frame slowly... OK. Big deal?

I don’t even like Huck all that much... but sheesh. Much ado about nothing.

[gridlock]

I don’t have a big problem with it. My problem is with the denials.

That is it, in a nutshell.

The contrived use of an "accidental" element as a cross was wrong, but people do wrong stuff all the time. It is not a disqualification. But the denials, particular the insulting and condescending nature of the denials, raises this to a Dean Scream level, as far as I am concerned.

Any trust that I had or may have had with Huckabee is shattered, and I can simply not support him, no matter what. If he is the candidate in the general, I will pull the (D) lever without hesitation, unless the (D) is next to the name "Clinton". If Hillary is the nominee, I will write-in.

[Pinkbell]

I agree. I don’t have a problem with the cross. I do have a problem with him lying about it. I don’t trust Huckabee.

[OKSooner]

"Whoever filmed that knew they had a cross in the background. Any photographer or filmographer worth his salt looks for things like that through the viewfinder.

I don’t have a big problem with it. My problem is with the denials."

Thank you.

'Tis a shame The Huckster is such a Huckster - he's in favor of the Fair Tax. I really wanted to give the guy a fair chance, and when I started doing some research on the guy I found what a Huckster he is.

What did I expect from some guy from Hope, Arkansas?

[muawiyah]

Nonsense. People who are around that stuff all the time (e.g. preachers, priests, etc.) don't notice it.

Years back (more than a decade) we formed a team to travel around the region visiting larger postal installations to identify unused equipment ~ the point was we would find it and local postal managers would then put it in service or ship it to others so that it could be put to work.

We discovered hundreds of millions of dollars worth of postal equipment just sitting there waiting for work in postal facilities where the top management team had reported a critical shortage of such things.

Sometimes we'd find stacks of trays on pallets clogging the main operations platform ~ so obvious they had to figure out ways to work around it!

Crosses and religious folks do go hand in hand in Christianity. Only nut cases think that to be strange.

[Verginius Rufus]

If he’s lying about that, he’s probably also lying when he says that if you play the ad backwards, you’ll hear “Paul is dead, Paul is dead, Paul is dead.”

[Balding_Eagle]

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.

[Mrs. Don-o]

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."