Huckabee Lies About Cross

Update: Allah thinks it could be a cubby hole bookshelf. While true, it's also obvious what the intent of this "prop" is. Look at the lighting - only the edges glow. None of that lighting goes to the back of whatever it is, shelf or not. For him to dismiss it as a "bookshelf" is a dismissal of the "cross." He can't have it both ways with this Clintonesque crap. Why not simply own it? That's my real issue with the guy, he seems deceitful. And this proves he is.

Mike Huckabee is claiming it was a bookshelf behind him in his recent ad.

"That was a book shelf behind me, a book shelf," Huckabee told reporters while campaigning in Houston, Texas.

Here's the YouTube. Below are four screencaps. It wasn't a bookshelf and it wasn't a window either. I've lightened them, you can seen a plain wall behind the cross.

Comments

[jj]

If that's a wall, it has weird objects painted into it. You've lost it, Dan. It looks exactly like a shelf, including having objects sitting on it. And it doesn't look like any cross I've ever seen. Please, Dan, you're obsessed with this crap.

[Larry sheldon]

You are hurting your credibility here.

I am not by a wide margin a Huckabee fan, but that is some kind of a shelf. With corners, and stuff sitting on them.

There are important things about Huckabee to worry about. Those shelves are not among them.

[Dan Riehl]

"it doesn't look like any cross I've ever seen"

LMAO - jj, that isn't even worthy of a response. Gee, let's paint the edges of a shelf with some high relective white paint and mute the background. What a great looking "bookshelf" it'll make.

BS - it's intended to represent a cross, pity that Huck now seems ashamed of it, somehow.

[Mike]

Just to go along with you...what is the schmootz between the cross, um, bookshelf and the fireplace? Why is that burned out? If it were a bookshelf, how does it abut to the stone of the fireplace? If that shelf system were brought in, they would have to black out the part where it joins the stone...so why is that area blackened? It appears altered to me, look closely at the stone and the white of the shelf.

Also, the angle that the bookshelf joins the fireplace is a crazy design for a living/family room.

I'm not saying it is or isn't, I just don't put it past him that its staged, yes it is a bookshelf...but is it a staged bookshelf so that it looks like a cross? Yes, possibly.

Finally the lighting would have shown the white of the junction of the stone and the shelf, but it doesn't, its masked.

[Brent Logan]

It's a bookshelf. See the ornaments on it?

And what's the big deal? Is seeing a cross somehow more offensive than "celebrating the birth of Christ," being wished a "Merry Christmas," and being told "God bless" while "Silent Night" plays in the background?

And no, I don't like the Huckster. As a previous poster so wisely said, "There are important things about Huckabee to worry about. Those shelves are not among them."

[TexasFred]

Looks like some kind of shelf to me, and I don't have a bit of use for Hucksterbee, just sayin'...

[Larry Sheldon]

Well, couple of things are pretty obvious.

1. It is a group of shelves.

2. There is a light source high and close to the shelves that shines down highlighting the edges, kind of like the ones right in front of me ("eyeball" ceiling can light, oak shelves here).

3. Y'all need to take a break. Or get a grip. Or both.

4. I need to be more careful about the blogs I read.

I'm out.

[TheSpartan]

Wow, that's totally a shelf/ It just so happens to be white so along with the light coming from Huck's right it is the highlight in the screenshot. Much as I'd love something nefarious I'm just not seeing it.

[Whiskey Tango Foxtrot]

Even Alex Jones would agree...that's a shelf.

[JP]

The next step is for Huckabee to say that it is a miracle-similar to the toast,etc. that people see the Virgin Mary in. He'll say that it was divine intervention-that now that it has been shown to him, it is a true sign that his candidacy is divinely ordained! There is no stopping him now. To all of his followers, this will show how he should be ordained President. Great. Thanks to the "cross" being seen by unbelievers, we are doomed to President Huckabee or President Clinton. We will be forced to see the making of the commercial and shown a shelf that looks completely not like a cross, and the Huckabee will tell us that God put the cross there to point the way to electing Huckabee.

[Mike]

I'm not saying nefarious but you tell me, do you really want a candidate who would set up a shoot to have the cross in the background? There is nothing wrong with the cross but come on...can you say pander? The issue is not the cross, just like the issue is not him wishing us a Merry Christmas, the issue is the subtext.

I still think there is masking going on around the stone and the white shelves...so there.

Oh yeah, Merry Christmas to eveyone even the Mormons.

[Dan S.]

I'm not a Huckabee fan but the 'cross' is just a dang bookshelf! Everyone needs to just chill a bit on the religious hysteria paranoia. I can't believe the stupid crap that gets focused on in this campaign season. Actually, I can believe it.

[old trooper]

Ann Coulter called it precisely on target.
Huck is the Republican Party Jimmy Carter.

Never listen to their quotes, look at their record. Huck never saw a tax
that he did not like. He is funded by Tyson Foods, a known employer of Illegals.

Nuff Said.

[seekeronos]

A bit of a stretch Dan.

As much fun as it is to look for stuff behind the Huckster... it is a shelf with some decorations resting in one of the shelf slots. The question might better be whether it is part of Mike's actual house, or as part of a staged set (more likely), but even that really isn't that important. Given that he is on the move, it might have been cheaper to rent a studio for a day's shooting.

That it remotely resembles a cross is probably the sort of careful calculated stagecraft some other Arkansas politicians are well known for.

Judge the man on his words and on his policies, not on the stage effects... and there will be plenty to condemn him.

[Plumb Bob]

So, we're claiming a politician has a TV in which he's embedded a symbol he'd like to have associated with his candidacy.

This is newsworthy... why, exactly?

Please comment on something that actually addresses the fitness of the candidates to hold office, ok?

Methinks we're seeing Dan Riehl's anti-religious anxiety showing...

[JimK]

Dude, that is *totally* a cubbyhole bookshelf.

[Dennis D]

And what if it was a Cross? So What. I am thrilled that a candidate is not afraid to display a cross in an ad.

[Al-Ozarka]

LOL!

Hilarious! Talk about cherry-picking! And there are no cherries...only glass ornaments embedded into the "wall"!

Hoe low can a pundit stoop to smear a candidate, Dan?

Ask Romney and Thompson...they're smearing things up enough.

[taco]

Its not a book shelf lol, but its not a cross, who puts fruit ona cross, dude if n e one would put a cross wouldn't it be McCain?

[docweasel]

The "analysis" of this by some people is hilarious. Its like you're scrutinizing the Zapruder film: "see where the supposed 'bookcase' joins the fireplace mantle? Its hazy there, like they blew some smoke in to obfuscate the fact there is a tiny man on a tiny grassy knoll there."

This is beyond ridiculous. If this is all they got on Huck, his "bookshelf" will be behind the White House Christmas tree in 2009 with him posing in front of it.

[Al in St. Lou]

It's OBVIOUSLY a cubbyhole bookshelf.