These interviews are pretty good. Have to give Huckabee credit for even going on Jon’s show. The two collide on pretty much every issue, but the debate/interaction here are at least polite, as if they might genuinely like each other.
We need more of that.
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I respect Huckabee’s apparent humility and ability to at least listen to the other side. The fact that he and Jon can have a civil, respectful, even funny conversation says a lot.
While I respect a civil conversation. The fact that Huckabee was unable to understand that Stewart did not have an understanding of I Cor 10 and properly explain the metaphor is a good example of where conversation is breaking down.
Stewart thought he understood the metaphor that Huckabee was using and they never really got it explained. Given Stewart’s assumptions, it is not surprisingi that he reacted poorly.
I think Huckabee’s inability/unwillingness to explain the metaphor says a lot about the isolation of Christianity in America – we think everyone immediately gets our metaphors and therefore we can just point them to chapter and verse and they’ll understand. But that’s arrogance, to assume that our understanding of something is immediately obvious to others who do not come from our belief system.
You know, Huckabee has a fundamental right to believe what he does. Although I disagree with most of his positions, he has a right to those positions. That being said, I wish Huckabee and others like him would at least take responsibility for their positions. Everyone knew exactly what he meant in that ad, and for him to sit there and act like he meant something else is disingenuous and sickening. I would have more respect if he just said, “Yes, that’s exactly what I meant.” At least he would be honest at that point.
Advertising should be evaluated from the prospective of the target audience. I think most people will interpret the ad like Jon Stewart did, vote for Obama and you will go to hell. What else is trial by fire but hell! In any case the use of fire was a bad choice, as most people religious or not associate fire with hell. The other underling message is that a vote for Obama displeases God. Those who displease God go to hell. Liar is such an ugly word but I would have to say that Mike knew that the message of the ad was hell. Maybe bearing false witness would be a better description of Huckabee’s sin. As they say “there are no mistakes in advertising”. The message received is almost always the on that was intended to be sent.
Gov. Huckabee is making sense in the second video. Stewart, though, is making sense in that he correctly points out that Huckabee is using metaphor not necessarily understood in the wider public–and where was the commerical for the other social values from Scripture.
It isn’t communication if both parties don’t understand the message.
Thanks for posting. I think it is the oddest thing that Huckabee’s commercial lists freedom as a biblical value (where?) but not caring for the poor (2,000 verses). I agree with Chapman that they mostly talked past each other. They are from different planets.
I lost all respect for him when he got on FB and talked about how Romney lost and same sex marriage was passed in three states because not enough Christians got out and voted.
I like that Jon Stewart seems to understand Jesus more than Huckabee. Also, I think Jon Stewart will go to heaven, no doubt.
You don’t need to know the Bible to get the imagery of a blacksmith and forge from Huckabee’s commercial. That Stewart didn’t doesn’t mean anything other than he misinterpreted what he saw. (Fire doesn’t always equal hell.) Huckabee tried to explain it — he mentioned blacksmith — but not clearly or concretely enough to get Stewart back on track. In the end, the interview was pointless with both of them shaking their heads. I am often frustrated with Stewart’s interviews when he plays nice with the interviewee, especially an interviewee like Huckabee who says one thing with the Daily Show audience and a totally different thing with his own Bible-thumping, conservative, FOX crowd. Just once, I’d like Stewart to go after Huckabee the way he went after Jim Cramer. THAT was a sight to see. Maybe Stewart’s lack of respect for Cramer made him go for the jugular. I think it’s possible to go after Huckabee without being disrespectful. Someone needs to make Huckabee take responsibility for his contribution to the malignant growth that is FOX, the Tea Party and the bigoted and intolerant discourse on the right in this country.
As a Christian, I’d have to say I was a little disappointed in Huckabee’s interview. When I saw the interview, I thought he actually was using the wrong reference, and after looking up 1 Corithians 10, he was actually referencing 1 Corithians 3. Probably an honest mistake, but as a former pastor I was hoping for a solid biblical foundation for his argument. I am also dumbfounded by his crusade against gay marriage: how about a crusade to tell everyone (including gays) that the God of the universe loves each one of them? I find that far more biblical than anything he said in the interview. I see more and more conservative Christians overly concerned that they are “losing” the country. I find this rather perplexing if they also believe that they are on the side of the God who created the universe. God’s plans cannot be thwarted, and it’s n