December 18, 2007 07:00 PM
Donny Deutsch Is "Frightened" By Huckabee's Floating Cross Ad
Donny Deutsch was on Hardball this afternoon to give his views on the presidential candidates Christmas ads and he summer Huckabee's ad up simply as:
"I'm Donny Deutsch and I'm getting frightened over here."
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That's pretty strong criticism coming from one of the top advertising minds in the country. Deutsch also goes on to say that there are no mistakes in advertising and that floating cross falls within that golden rule.
I'm sure a lot of Huckabee supporters out there will give Deutsch a big "bahhuckbug!" over his assessment.
Pretty obvious isn't it?
Frist in the UK?
For all the ad lacks in subtlety, it'll do the job that the Huckster campaign wants it to do: turn out the right-wing religionists.
Problem is that Huckster probably didn't give much weight to the potential backlash. And I'm not talkin' 'bout the backlash here in the prog-o-sphere, but from the more secular segment of the GOP. Look fer Willard's numbers to be on the rise- and soon!
the cross is being branded like our flag is...branded to represent something diametrically opposed to what it should mean (if you buy into the whole twisted ransom sacrifice psychosis) and that the USA is about freedom!
freedom for me (if i got money) not freedom for you
salvation for me (if i'm white, straight and repub) no salvation for you
Chris Matthews reminds me of Jiminy Glick (aka Martin Short).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but...isn't Deutsch a republican? Hasn't he adored the GOP these past 7 years? What is his problem now? I sure as hell knew what all these men were about 7 years ago; there's no change, no surprise here.
The Huckabee ad is pure shit. These republican men are shoving their religious agenda up our asses, and I for one am getting damned tired of their their god, their religions, and their penchant for killing humans in faraway lands.
yes -- nice soft sopt on the intersection of the "cross" -- stage lighting 101 -- huckabee is a true christian: a commandment breaking (thou shalt not lie) piece of shit!
Got a question -- just that.
Whom do you prefer:
1. a person you don't trust on a gut level but whose expressed views accord with yours? or
2. a person you trust on a gut level but whose expressed views don't accord with yours?
Not my preferred set of choices, I admit. But just curious if these are our only choices.
[Deleted. Crass generalizations aren't helpful-Sitemonitor]
VietVet8666 @ 8:
No, there are more choices. I trust Kucinich, Dodd and Edwards. Gravel, too. And I agree with most of what the first three state as their political positions (not a big fan of Gravel's tax plans). I don't trust one fuckin' syllable of what comes outta the mouths of the Republican candidates. They've all got agendas they're tryin' to hide from the mainstream- not that they're hidin' those agendas effectively, or anything.
that is so not an accident. that cross stands out like crazy. they are lying sacks of holy shit if the claim otherwise.
Is anyone dumb enough to be surprised other than the hydrocephalic corporate Repubs who have been riding on the back of this Christianist tiger?
Anyone with two brain cells to rub together saw this coming in 1988 at the latest, when Pat Robertson had 25% support in the Iowa caucus for the GOP nominee for the presidency.
And ever since then, the GOP has been further riling up the religious-right by talking up imagined conspiracies against them.
I hope Huckabee wins the nomination. I will be laughing my ass off at the GOP.
If Donny Deutsch is truly frightened, he must approach Huckabee's sleeping casket after midnight, armed with a cross rubbed with garlic, and a silver stake.
He must open the casket, waving the cross over Huckabee, and drive the stake through his heart. If Huckabee does not arise immediately in bat form, Donny can go home and rest easy.
...no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
This cuts both ways those candidates exploiting the fundamentalists hide behind this article for craven machinations but they proclaim (here comes the other shoe folks - the religious tests kicks in) - "strict constructionist judges", Liberty university grads only need apply and do you expect a Muslim sec of State in a Huckabee administration? How about a Christian?
You can't have it both way Huck, this ain't the hokey pokey - foot in or foot out.
Did he say anything back when George W. Bush kept getting accidentally photographed with halos of light behind his head?
If I remember from donny's interview with Ann Coulter he's also Jewish. I don't think Huckabee cares what the Jewish demographic think, they tend to democrat.
Donny of anyone should understand what Huck is doing, going after the evangelical base, hoping the independents who are relatively Christian will go his way, and forget the rest. This was a well planned move.
Andy at 10
What prompted the question was this: the thought of Hillary vs. Huckabee.
I lean toward Hil's message but trust her not.
Huckabee -- his message is from centuries ago, but I think I'd trust his word in a foxhole.
rasta @ 9:
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that "huck" huckabee!
I wish someone would corner Huckabee and his ilk about the requirement in Deuteronomy to stone a young woman with a torn hymen. If her husband said she wasn't "pure" on her wedding night and her family can't disprove it, she is shit outta luck.
We aint just talkin' about a couple nineteen year olds here folks. Not that it would matter. Instead, think some grizzled old fart and a thirteen year old bride.
Next time you run into a sanctimonious Huckabee type, ask em about the young girl.
Gather your ammunuition.
Read the Goddamned book, or check this link.
http://www.evilbible.com/sexism_in_the_torah.htm
Like with ex smokers, there's no antichristian like an ex christian.
Otay @ 12:
'88? Hell, ya can look back to '80 and see the Moral Majority's fingerprints all over that year's general election- hell, even when they backed Reagan over the then-pro choice GHW Bush in the primaries.
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” - Sinclair Lewis
rasta @ 18:
Yeah, keep regurgitatin' The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, pal. You're bein' duped by reactionary Russian propaganda that's now over 100 years old. And plagiarized from French and Prussian reactionaries to the Revolutions of 1848, at that.
Ya know, it's kinda funny that Henry Ford bought into that horseshit. Ya'd think that those darned Jews woulda stolen his auto empire from him. Alas, his family still runs the company.
[You know, if you don't want to post here any more, you can just go away. No need to repeatedly post nasty comments when you're slapped down for bigotry. And they won't show up on the board, either-Sitemonitor]
VietVet8666 @ 17:
Well, geez, Vet, there's a whole lotta things that can happen between now and the first Tuesday of next November. Plenty of time to shift the old paradigm. Just takes work. Don't allow yer friends and family to be buffaloed by the MSM's campaign- pick the candidate you really prefer and send those folks e-mails with links. Talk to people. Make sure they get out to vote come primary day- it only takes a few phone calls!
Huckabee is going to be torpedoed by the NeoCons and the Corporate wing of the party....
Rudy is going down like a 5 dollar hooker on Bernie Kerik....
Looks like it's old Mitt "My sons are serving in Iowa instead of Bagdhad" Romney as the new head of the Grand Old Poopers?
Yup, a Flip-Floping Governor from Massachussets is the hope of the Freepers and the Drudge Report....
Hurry back, John Stewart...They're setting them up like bowling pins out here!
He is not alone. The entire country is frightened by Huckabee and all the rest of these seedy Republicans, that are promoted by this media, that is hell bent on running one of these ass holes into the white house.
If we don't get off our asses and put a stop to this shit. This is exactly what they are doing and this big media take over and these bogus voting right laws that have nothing to do with making the process better for American voters and everything to do with improving their chances, to steal another election and they are doing this shit with the blessing of our loyal Congress members.
The religious right ain't gonna play nice with the rest of the pukes. They will grab the repube party with both hands, right around it's throat. And they ain't gonna let go, even after it's dead. I am pretty sure they are doing the rest of us a BIG BIG favor. I think lots of moderates will vote dem just cause the other option looks, and smells, like shit....
Huck's mouthpiece on Tucker today:
TUCKER: "How does his experience as a pastor equip him to deal with the war on terror?"
VAN DER PLAATS: "Well, I think what it is, the war on terror obviously, it's a theological war. We have a radical Islamic group, so we believe that a guy with the training of a pastor understands the theological nature of the war, that also makes him very well prepared in regards to this war on terror."
That too is frightening
You're probably right WashStateBlue, but if and when Gomer Huckabee is torpedoed, the Fundy wing isn't gonna like it one bit. They've seen the other Repub candidates, and they ain't buying. They demand a candidate who'll wave a glowing, white cross at them in his ads. Then what happens?
Not to get all biblical here, but I think the GOP is about to reap exactly what they've sewn.
StCyrlyMe2 @ 27:
They (the FCC) just voted today to allow major networks to buy newspapers in their markets. Can you imagine Fox owning the TV networks, radio and newsprint in your town? I'd rather eat my own shit. We better plan on raising all hell when they try to fuck with the internet the next time. It's all any of us will have...
why waste nuance on the jesus freaks, burn that cross. they like that.
WashStateBlue @ 25:
I've talked about it here before, but in case ya didn't see it...Mitt's campaign manager in Michigan is David Brandon, CEO of Domino's Pizza, Inc. Brandon got the pizza gig after Mitt Romney's Bain Capital bought out Domino's founder Tom Monaghan.
Now here's where it gets interestin': Brandon ran Amway heir Dick DeVos' failed bid fer Governor of Michigan in '06. Dick and his wife Betsy- the older sister of Blackwater's CEO Erik Prince- are MAJOR players inside the GOP. The DeVoses are amongst the top 5 GOP contributors nationwide- and they stand firmly behind Mittens. Romney, like Stupor Mudi back in '99-'00, is the Chosen One. No matter what Huckabee does in Iowa, he won't get the nomination next summer. Mark it down.
I felt that Chris Matthews was a little sedated on tonites show. Anyone notice, or was it my imagination?
ronhohn @ 29:
Totally agree.
Two things:
1 - Damn straight that cross was intentional.
2 - WAYNE FREAKING DUMOND - How holy is the fat motherfucker who lets a rapist out of jail to get back at a political enemy?
I'm not voting for the guy but I'm getting sick Christianity being treated like it's something to be ashamed of. If the guy was Jewish most of you wouldn't have a problem with it. Read the bible, if anyone was a Democrat it would have been Jesus.
Donny is pure ad guy. What he's worried about is that methods he himself perfected are now being used by slime like Huckabee. What goes around comes around.
Sorry, I don't mean to sy mean things about overweight people in general, although its not healthy - try eating more vegetables, less fried food, and excercising.
And I guess I don't really have anything against motherfuckers. I just really don't like this Huckabee guy.
Huckabee is a used-car salesman. If there were a viable republican candidate, Huckabee would be at Duncan Hunter numbers.
It would be awesome if he were the republican nominee.
jules @ 34:
did it have any effect on his spitting and slobbering?
ed @ 36:
The religion of a candidate is nobody's business.
And before you assume anything about people having a problem with Christians, ask yourself, what questions would a professed atheist be answering on hardball. Could you see an atheist getting over 2% in the polls? People are willing to give Kucinich a pass (myself included) for seeing a freaking UFO, but try to explain that you just don't buy all this "god" crap and see where your campaign goes.
tr @ 39:
Matthews doesn't spit, he swallows.
one of the top advertising minds in the country
Talk about damning with faint praise.
I've never been ashamed to say that I was from Iowa. Its a great place to live. But now that Huck is in, or near, the lead, even if it is among the lying thieves in the Republican Party, I have to admit: I AM ASHAMED! And I'm sorry. Honest I am. I'm sorry.
Apologies if the last comment was over the line. I'm going on vacation. See you all later. Don't forget to tune in on Friday when Judge Kennedy orders Cheney to face charges.
tr.....I really think he was having trouble talking and much slower than usual (relief) and the spitting and slobbering seemed to be under control. After last night , maybe just maybe someone told him to take his meds. About time !!!
Old Billy @ 44:
I personally found it hilarious. Have a good time. See ya when you get back. Mappy Holimas!
Talking about Cheney. Is it coincidental that his office caught fire? Anything ominous here?
Old Billy @ 40:
I agree that its nobody's business, but as it would be wrong to call you arrogant for being an atheist so is it to refer to some one's belief as"crap".
rational people go with empirical data and religious people seem to prefer belief.
Tweety didn't like Donny Deutsch poking fun at fruitcake Rudy's Ad.
debaser71 @ 22:
Here, here!
BC @ 51:
but a floating cross? didn't see that coming.
Deutsch says "This is really troubling to me. I gotta tell you Chris."
Huckleberry is going to fall hard as soon as the primaries get out of the tiny worthless/dumbass/no there there/show me the church/middle America States (Sorry all you middle Americans). Just like Giuliani fell in the middle America States. These two are polar opposites and people are reacting polar opposite to them depending on where they are from.
ed @ 36:
Well, it seems to be Huckleberry’s only claim to fame. What about the god damn issues Huckster?
Jesus ain’t going to pay the bills Ed. Jesus ain’t going to make the house payments. Jesus ain’t going to get us out of this war. Jesus ain’t going to pay for the war either. Jesus ain’t paying the doctor bills either. Enough of the Jesus …. stuff.
Huckleberry needs to get to the issues.
By theway;
Happy Holidays everybody!!!!!!
It's almost funny to watch the GOP scrambling to sabotage Huckabee's campaign. These irresponsible jackasses organized the religious right into a voting block so they could pander to the morons and get themselves elected. Now the religious right has taken over their party, and one of their own may very well win the nomination.
The GOP establishment wants another Bush-- you know, another corporate stooge who talks religion when it serves his political interests, but really serves Wall Street. They've got a tiger by the tail now and they don't really know what to do.
Chris Matthews asked John Edwards why he didn't wear his faith on his sleeve like Huckleberry Bozo. Edwards said he's running for president not minister of the US. I need to find that one the youtubes.
Deutsch is another pesky Jew. Like me. We remember having other religions jammed down our throats and other orifices, with violent death if we didn't agree and convert. That's what's so scary. My take: The righteous shall triumph. The self-righteous shall burn in a fire of their own making.
Does anyone doubt that if Huckabee wins the nomination, this commercial will disappear down the memory hole, to be remembered only by those of us who were offended by the crass appeal to religion and the Christian fundamentalists for whom it was a wink-wink-nudge-nudge?
The commercial has already served its unfortunate purpose of being both a signal to the rightwing and a way of keeping Huckabee's name in the headlines over the holidays. The fact that Huckabee is using Christmas itself to make a political statement should scare the hell outta any serious Christian in America.
I can't stand Donny Deutch, and I don't like Huckabee but this is much ado about nothing.
What's disgusting is his dishonesty, claiming it is not a cross, but a bookcase, and it was inadvertent.
But then again, I have come to expect dishonesty from these 'family value' hypocrites.
This Huckleberry SURGE is a monster created by Karl Rove.
In the inner sanctions of the Bush Crime Family, leading up to the 2000 campaign, it was decreed that Republicans could win elections if they could unite the efforts of NEOcons, traditional conservatives, compassionate conservatives, the Silent Majority, and Born-Again Christians. Hence... loveable little George W. was ordained to be their "uniter." In the ensuing years he and his administration managed to defacate all over ALL of those groups... save the NEOcons (who are still in charge!)
Now, the born-again-Christians are retaliating for all those frustrating years of not being able to get KKKarl Rove to re-criminalize abortion. Their problem is that the greater conservative coalition is presently splintered into non-existance, and they are out there on thin Iowa ice... rallying their perrenial 23%.
StirFry @ 57:
I found one of the youtubes you were talking about. It is at the end of this 5 minute video.
ronhohn @ 29:
hucksterbee is the man to leed the next crusades, the religous pricks must suit up in thier armor lock the chastity belts on thier wives and girlfriends goody box and gallop off to the mid east to battle salidin once again for the glory of god! god speed old huckesterbee! and take that fat bastard dog killer son with you!
"huck" huckabee. father of jamie lynn spears' love child!
(flying cross indeed.)
jakes @ 14:
But he has already played it both ways. At the Youtube debate he was asked directly about what Jesus would do regarding the death penalty. And he gave the smarmiest answer he could have given: "Jesus was too smart to run for public office".
OK, pal, then don't ever, ever EVER mention Jesus in a public forum, EVER again. But course he goes right on doing it. But I have faith (as it were) that there is no way it will fly nationally. And I'd like to think that that kind of faith isn't blind.
ed @ 36:
Being non-perfected, as Mann Colder referred to my co-religionists, as best I recall, assuming Jesus was an actual person, and not another character created by mankind when drafting the history of the world according to the "New Testament", Jesus was born to a jewish female mother, and hence, was a "jew" (h/t to Lewis Black for his use of that term). And from what I have read or seen on TV, was a pretty liberal fellow. So, I guess that he would have supported democratic principles, but probably not a party which is part of the system of those in power. Best I recall, Jesus had a thing for the MAN (and no, I am not referring to Mann Colder).
Maybe Donny Deutsch is learning that there are serious issues that deserve consideration, which is why the majority of Americans who practice or were born jewish, tend to support the Democratic party.
I believe in coincidence about as much as I trust Dick Cheney.
ed @ 36:
What I'M getting sick of is these god damn phony "christians" complaining of being persecuted. Listen, yer 90% of the population, yer the only religion with yer damn religious holidays as STATE holidays, and all yer frickin property and income is tax exempt. Cut the crap already.
Religion is just like sex or penis size. The ones who talk about how they have the most ALWAYS are the ones who really have the least.
Huck loves to let the mouth-breathers suckle from his southern baptist sharia teet
you see a cross. i see a shadow of a hanged dog.
Why is the subliminal cross such a big deal? He explicitly says in the ad that Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Christ. I anyone going to be tricked into thinking Huckabee is the religious candidate by this cross in the background?
"President Huckabee." Jesus, no matter how many times you say that, you can't help but laugh.
Shocking! - An ordained Southern Baptist Minister might have a subliminal Christian symbol in a campaign ad! Matthews needed Donny Douche to "analyse" this?
No need to even cover the Republican race. Everyone knows Huckabee can't lose - He's got Jezzzzzzzus on his side.
It doesn't matter who the GOPers put forward,they're going to lose their asses next year, assuming that they fail to steal the election. Big media knows this, and I think that's part of the reason why they are trying their hardest to annoint their favorite corporatists as the front runners and inevitable Democratic nominee. If the voters buy into that and vote the way big media wants, it will be an uninterupted continuation of the GOPer plan.
That"s the slowest pace of speech I've ever heard come from Matthews. He usually sounds like he is on speed.
He sounds a little drunk to me.
For me, people's beliefs matter when considering voting for them for office. Sorry but if you are a religious nutter you fail my test. To me when you hold odd beliefs regarding religion it can spill over to bad thinking regarding real issues.
Captain Kangaroo @ 63:
thanks. that's the one. Edwards kept it pretty simple.
tr @ 71:
and a silhouette of size 60 dockers.
Forget the cross in the background! The idiot just alienated every other faith respected in this country, the largest being Jewish. I don't think there are enough evangelicals to save him on election day.
How do you give right-wingers a boner? Show them war and crosses.
That's part of a bookcase!
well.. at least he questioned this ad... instead of going straight for it like the coke issue..
I feel ill, Must be coming down with something- I agree with Chris Mathews-where's that rectal thermometer at? I need to take my temperature!
VegasRage @ 80:
According to surveys after christianity the next largest group are folk who answer "none" when asked about their religious affiliations. It's also worth noting that the non-religious are by far the fastest growing group.
What about Tweety's interview with McAint? Tweety was polishing his knob like I've never seen before!
Tweety was so hawkish -- "no WMD's have been found in Iraq, YET". WTF???????????
Waaaahhh! Leave Huckleberry alone!!! You're lucky he made that ad that panders to his base! Waaahhh!
BTW, I thought Huck's "Paul is Dead" response was actually pretty good. I mean, yeah, the guy's a nutter, but at least he's got some semblance of a sense of humor. Haven't seen THAT in the Republican party since.... since.... (wait -- I'm thinking!)....
And as a side note, I -- as a native Arkansan -- wonder which way Arkansas would go in a Cllinton-Huckabee race. Hmmmmm.
Someone from the press should ask him if he considers the end of the world a good thing.
That's the end of him.
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