Nontroversy of the week.
 

Mike Huckabee's subliminal cross.

Have you all heard about this? A more ridiculous source of outrage I'd be hard pressed to imagine.

In case you hadn't heard, Huckabee is being slammed for supposedly placing a subliminal image of a cross in one of his ads.

This is a ridiculous nontroversy on two fronts.

1) The "subliminal cross" is a bookshelf. It's got a shelf and a vertical support. Freaking lame.

2) It was a freaking Christmas message in which he talked about how the holiday is about celebrating Christ. What exactly is the subliminal message here? He's explicitly talking about Christ!! OMG, if you squint, you MIGHT see a cross!! Oooooooh.

I'm outraged at the politics of outrage.

Yeah, I heard about that.

Nontroversy, all the way.

And I am outraged at your being outraged.





BTW: LOVE the new word. May it spread as well as the red long john story.

Whoops, to add to it.

Just sounds like made-up hogwash. He's out and open about his faith, so it's really not subliminal at that point. If I was on Huckabee's staff (though this sounds equally as stupid), I'd stir up this whole nontroversy to get my supporters stirred up about faith... which seems to me (as someone who's been almost too busy to really keep up with politics) what his campaign is kind of about.

Unfortunately a google search reveals that I am hardly the first. I need to start some outrage about that.

I'm not outraged by it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was an intentional visual. Obviously it is a bookshelf, but that doesn't mean it is the only thing it is. And intentional or not it is a nice piece of imagery.

But I don't really care that it is there. But even if it wasn't intentional, then there's a certain phrase that beings "live by the sword..." that seems to apply.

For those who have not seen it, here is a screen grab:

OMG! And, what do we make of that giant penis of the Washington Monument?

Hmmm, but that looks more like a Greek cross - perhaps that's the subliminal message?

I see a Hidden Mickey!!!!!