{"id":183,"date":"2007-12-17T22:58:51","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T22:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/12\/new-huckabee-ad-celebrates-bir.html"},"modified":"2007-12-17T22:58:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T22:58:51","slug":"new-huckabee-ad-celebrates-bir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/12\/new-huckabee-ad-celebrates-bir.html","title":{"rendered":"New Huckabee Ad Celebrates &#8220;Birth of Christ&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8xn7uSHtkuA&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8xn7uSHtkuA&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object>Mike Huckabee&#8217;s new TV ad shows him in front of a Christmas tree and what the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/\">Drudge Report<\/a> calls a &#8220;floating cross&#8221;&#8211;the clear wooden crosspiece of a window that God-o-Meter has a hard time believing got in there by accident. After complaining about all the annoying political ads clogging the airwaves, Huckabee, looking more like a friendly neighbor than a presidential candidate by dint of a soft red sweater, reminds viewers in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina about the true meaning of Christmas:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What really matters is the celebration of the birth of Christ and being with our family and our friends. I hope that you and your family have a magnificent Christmas season. And on behalf of all of us, God bless and Merry Christmas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A top Huckabee aide tells God-o-Meter that &#8220;the ad really is about wishing everyone a Merry Christmas.&#8221; That&#8217;s very thoughtful of Huck, but GOM is still startled by the ordained minister&#8217;s sharpening of his religious appeal even after his earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godometer\/2007\/11\/huckabees-new-ad-believe.html\">Christian Leader<\/a> ad. But it is also taken with the spot&#8217;s simple brilliance. How better to answer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/politics\/la-na-romney11dec11,1,5902015.story?coll=la-news-politics-national\">Mitt Romney&#8217;s attack ads<\/a> then by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas&#8211;and reminding them once more that you&#8217;re a traditional Christian&#8217;s Christian? God-o-Meter promises to look into the possibility of an &#8220;11&#8221; rating tomorrow.<!--more-->10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Huckabee&#8217;s new TV ad shows him in front of a Christmas tree and what the Drudge Report calls a &#8220;floating cross&#8221;&#8211;the clear wooden crosspiece of a window that God-o-Meter has a hard time believing got in there by accident. After complaining about all the annoying political ads clogging the airwaves, Huckabee, looking more like&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mike-huckabee"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Huckabee Ad Celebrates &quot;Birth of Christ&quot; - God-O-Meter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/godometer\/2007\/12\/new-huckabee-ad-celebrates-bir.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Huckabee Ad Celebrates &quot;Birth of Christ&quot; - God-O-Meter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mike Huckabee&#8217;s new TV ad shows him in front of a Christmas tree and what the Drudge Report calls a &#8220;floating cross&#8221;&#8211;the clear wooden crosspiece of a window that God-o-Meter has a hard time believing got in there by accident. 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