Eh even though i am the strong Paul supporter i am going to play devils advocate here and hope that it was accidental. The fact is that earlier that day Huckabee was talking about the flack that he was getting for the "subliminal messages" that were in his Christmas advertisement where the bookshelf in the background that has things in all the right places and it is lit up so that it looks very much like a cross.
heres the video i screen captured it from if you are interested.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2007/12/by_frank_james_an_associated.htmlIn response to these accusations of subliminal messages huck jokingly responded, "If you play it backwards it will say, "Paul is dead, Paul is dead, Paul is dead""
That is where the quote the quote came from... As for it being used on the news i think that it was a Useless thing to use but hopefully it was just an honest mistake... otherwise just more propaganda... imagine that.