Mike Huckabee has released a new campaign ad that is, how shall we say…not very campaign-y, except in a very dog-whistle kind of way.
Makes you all warm and fuzzy, don’t it? Okay, maybe not, but at least it’s not as overt as this ad. Campaigning as the Theocrat in Chief makes a lot of people nervous. Street Prophets:
Lots of establishment types like to say there’s nothing new under the sun with respect to religion and politics. In December 2004, White House speechwriter Michael Gerson told journalists that George W. Bush’s religious rhetoric was the same old thing we’d always seen: “I don’t believe that any of this is a departure from American history.” Three months earlier Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, editor of the ecumenical journal First Things, declared of Bush’s religious politics: “There is nothing that Bush has said about divine purpose, destiny and accountability that Abraham Lincoln did not say. This is as American as apple pie.”
If this is apple pie, the fruit is rotten.
Both of these men were wrong, and their position is dangerous. As in end of the American experiment in democracy dangerous. How do I know? My colleague, Kevin Coe, and I ran the numbers. Read on…
PERRspectives compiles 10 More Moments in Mike Huckabee’s Extremism. And Ron Paul tells FOX & Friends in no uncertain terms how he feels about the not so hidden symbolism in Huckabee’s ad.
UPDATE: Uh oh. I think that Huckabee might want to bring that WWJD attitude back home a little more before he pushes it to the electorate.
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It’s going to get worse now.
The Federal Communications Commission, overturning a 32-year-old ban, voted Tuesday to allow broadcasters in the nation’s 20 largest media markets to also own a newspaper.
Huckabee seems very ….how do I say….”milktoastish”
If you enlarge it, you can make out a dog with a slit neck hanging from the tree - looks like his son helped decorate this year.
Makes you all warm and fuzzy, don’t it?
Actually, it sends a chill up my spine…
“…not very campaign-y, except in a very dog-whistle kind of way.”
Dogs, STAY AWAY!
God help us!
That’s nothing: Huckabee’s Latest Iowa Commercials Broadcast From a Manger
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1297
L.A. Confidential,
Do you have a link? Not finding anything through Google yet.
He’s Religious! Lets kick his ass! Start your hate machines people
Blue Lensman @ 6:
No kidding. Enter the Televison is Reality Era.
I saw an article today where the writer was using a TV show as the example bosses and business owners should strive for. And she was serious.
Stupid Git @ 8:
http://tinyurl.com/yogyq9
So that was just a rumor that church and state were separated? I guess they are back together again. I was kinda hoping for a divorce.
Seems old huck has the Repubs panties in a knot. Like someone said on tv today the repubs like to use the evangelicals every four years for their vote and then they want them to go away. Well, now the evangelicals believe they have found one of their own and the rest of the republicans don’t like that their party might actually be taken over by one of these folks.
It would be funny as hell if it wasn’t so serious.
So Mr. Fuckupbee wants to wish me a merry christmas. Well happy Zappadan to you too ass hole. Like Steve Vai says, “Fuck yourself with organized religion. Now there is some seriously sinnin business. If the lord sees their pathetic crimes, he’ll be fuckin them, till the end of time”….
“Are you about worn out from all the television commercials, mostly about politics? Well here’s a television commercial - about politics!”
In that one video, he says, “I don’t have to wake up every day saying what do I need to believe…”
Does anyone wake up and say that? What do I need to believe today?
I hope God calls this SOB home TODAY.
Be sure to check out the comments field, there’s a theological battle going on in there between the heathens and True Believers that’s nothing but entertaining.
For myself, I find it hysterical that the Republican field is just so through and through awful that their base really doesn’t have a choice but to throw in with Huckabee.
Especially with all the smart money and backing that Willard and Ghouliani have from the Washington Corporate insider set, and then to have this Aw-Shucks, Maw, Rube, Hick from the Sticks, come along and leave them scrambling for electorate cover, too funny.
Literally more fun than a barrel full of monkeys.
heheheh.
Also worth pointing out are all the response videos, 125+ of them strong in under 24 hours, like this one that’s all about Santa’s Balls.
You can almost see the wing-nuts heads explode from knowing that we’re not laughing with them, but at them.
~Nyc
Sure hope that Huck’s son shared his extensive collection of adult magazines with his dog killing brother and whack job father.
Got appreciate how low this family sets the “family values” bar. Thanks Huck.
I’d say the cross in the backround is subliminal messenging but it’s pretty overt.
Huckabee is no longer amusing.
He’s just insulting to Christians now.
Monsta-Monsta @ 9:
See those trees? THAT’S A FOREST!
The issue is not whether he is religious. I have no problem with anyone having a deep personal faith–Jimmy Carter, JFK come to mind. The difference between them and Huckabee is that Huckabee–despite a 230+ year fine tradition of respecting a separation between Church and State–is basically running as an unapologetic theocrat.
Sure looks like a nice big white KKK cross in the backgroung to me…
fwacbar @ 21:
The white cross didn’t show up by accident. Very clever.
go ron
HAHAHAHAHAH…you just can’t write this stuff…
get that huckabee son’s roommate on CNN…we need to get to the bottom of this unforgiveable sin.
Huck’s bible must be missing Matthew Chapter 6:
Let him keep leading all the sheep like a good shepherd does.. to the slaughter.
CD @ 19:
Sorta like when he talks about Christ and God.
I think he has decided we have had enough Presidents of the United States, he wants to be Preacher of the United States. You know who I think Huck is helping? I’m guessing it’s Ron Paul.
What a c u next Tuesday !
As long as the republic party is forging full steam ahead w/ their “Tear down that wall” approach to Jefferson’s separation of church and state (and there’s no way in hell the other republic candidates are going to out-Jeebus Rev. Huckabee), they might do well just to wish a Merry Christmas in their own unique ways:
I’ll start w/ the easy ones:
Mitt Romney: Conducting the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (of course) in “What Child Is This?”
Rudy Giuliani: either in a reindeer outfit singing (what else?) “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer” … or given his past, in drag as Judy Garland singing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
Alan Keyes: (Dare we say it? Sure!) Singing “White Christmas” at some barbeque joint in Des Moines … assuming Des Moines HAS a barbecue joint
Fred Thompson: I can just see him in a Burl Ives outfit vocalizing “Frosty the Snowman” … but that’s probably just me.
(Too good not to share, so h/t to Balloon Juice)
I think we should stay focused on the latest news:
Huckabee lied about having a theology degree, at least three times this year. He does NOT have such a degree. Funny, he didn’t think we’d notice.
LIAR
ron paul quoted sinclair lewis in reference. “if fascism ever comes to America it will be carying a cross and wrapped in a flag.”
Go ron.
ps site monitor this is completely on topic.
cheers
Dr. Matt @ 25:
What happens if the left hand knows what the right one is doing? Is that when the trouble starts? If you could have seen some of my typing today you would know that neither one of my hands knows what it is doing, let alone what the other one is up to.
OT: L.A. Confidential - thanks for the link and pointing that out. Just read the article and am now even more depressed… I just can’t keep p with all the cons and scandals… That’s a big one though. I guess Murdock gets his way again. That man is possibly more powerful than any politician on the planet at this point.
Huckabee is the best thing that can happen for the progressive movement. His nomination would draw a sharp contrast between evangelicals and everyone else and split the GOP wide open.
The smear machine in full effect!!!
This site has become Fox News of the left.
Huck’s about as religious as any snake oil salesman.
As religious as the Bush who can’t be bothered to ever even make it to church.
Who are the idiots who are so easily fooled into not actually looking at a candidate as soon as they blow the “I’m a religious guy, trust me!” smoke up their asses?
What’s frightening about this message isn’t its message at all. It’s precisely what people want to hear: Let’s stop the attack-style politics. Let’s focus on what matters, family, friends, etc. Let’s celebrate the holidays.
What makes it frightening is that it is perfectly executed propaganda.
In its effort to battle the cynicism of today’s political world, it succeeds in being even more cynical, wrapping the explosive device in cute Santa paper.
The Huckster equivalent of Bush’s Orwellian “Healthy Forest,” “Clean Skies” or “No Child Left Behind.”
Faux and their ignorant fruitloop gays are hilarious comedy.
When a politician is speaking in a TV commercial, he shouldn’t speak as if everyone in the audience is Christian. They’re not.
Ron Paul scares me….the guy is doing everything we needed the likes of Perot and Nader to do…..but he has some ties to very bad groups.
as for the Huck’ster….i just wish he would talk about food, that i can agree with
Eric Jaffa @ 40:
Yeah, but the ones who aren’t are evil and anti-American so they don’t count.
….but, but, but. Chuckie likes Huckie. I think the huckleberry thinks Chuck will be the leader of his crusades. I think he wants Chuck to kick anybodys ass who doesn’t believe as he does. I’m pretty sure Mr. Norris doesn’t want to be used in this way. Although, I may be wrong here. With the insanity of religion spreading like the black plague, who knows where peoples heads are.
Ok I take that back. After watching what Ron Paul said I feel all warm and fuzzy again.
…and WOW!…how about Ron Pauls comments about Huckabee! (Merry Christmas and fuck you Huckabee! Ha! hilarious!)
Douchey actually took it upon himself to actually-a-apologise for Ron Paul for calling him (Huckster) a fascist! in no uncertain terms!!!…thanks for that one Nicole…that was a rich little nugget!
and I seem to have lost my “quote function” and…maybe that is just as well.
@ Arnold Benedict, #32
Comment quote functionality isn’t working for me, but holy crap that’s a good quote. I’ve heard that RP is a different breed from the rest of the thugs, but still too socially conservative.
Maybe Kucinich/Paul ticket?
The Huckabee family and The Romney family ought to get together and compare notes about animal cruelty. Maybe they could run a joint ticket. Hell, we’ve already got a president who tortured and killed animals when he was young. They’d be the perfect replacement for that psychopath.
Guys? I think that is just a white bookcase. Okay, MAYBE it was cleverly shot by tightening up the lens and there you can make the dog-whistle claim, but at the end when it grows back out, you can clearly see another shelf above the “Cross” piece.
Rather than get into a lather about the way his camera person may or may not have been framing him, why not take the dude out on his record of lies? That would appeal to the rational folks who see this.
Why is The Huckabee doing so well now?
Let us count the ways…
1. Ghouliani………………………..SUCKS!
2. Willard…………………………..SUCKS!
3. Napalm McCain……………….SUCKS!
4. Lazy Freddie………………….SUCKS!
5. Whack-A-Doofus Keyes……SUCKS!
6. The Duncester……………….SUCKS!
7. Racist Ron Paul……………..SUCKS!
8. The Tancrazymeister………SUCKS!
With a pathetic Rejokelican field of piping hot and steaming manure like that, of course The Reverend Unka Mike is gonna smell like a rose and they’ll all flock to him in droves.
heheheh.
Looks like Ed Rollins has his work cut out for him.
~Nyc
Dr. Matt @ 25:
I’ve never seen an Evangelical bible, but there must be a LOT of the new testament missing.
casper46 @ 50:
Yep, pretty much.
After reading a few more c