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HUCK’S CROSS TO BEAR

Mike Huckabee yesterday denied that he inserted an image of a white cross behind him in an unprecedented campaign ad celebrating Christmas.

“That was a book shelf,” Huckabee insisted, responding to controversy over the religious message in his 30-second spot appearing in the early voting states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.

He likened the cross controversy to the hoax that singer Paul McCartney of the Beatles died at the height of the Fab Four’s popularity.

“I will confess this: If you play the spot backwards, it says, ‘Paul is dead; Paul is dead,” Huckabee quipped at a campaign stop in Houston.