From GoLeft TV:
As sure as Christmas comes once a year, so do the morons claiming that there is a war on Christmas. Led this year by Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and Gretchen Carlson, the true war is between these blowhards and reality. So Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from everyone at GoLeft TV, and we hope you enjoy this special Christmas Media Moron poem.
You are reading the headline correctly. Bill O'Reilly really has no material to work with on his phony "War on Christmas" theme-based show, so he's resorted to just making sh&t up. F&F's Gretchen Carlson is all fired up too over the big Christmas crisis so far. The only incident that he's been really passionate about because -- there ain't nothin' to complain about anywhere else -- is in Washington state. David gives you the back story:
According to Bill O'Reilly, it's the fact that an atheist group was permitted to erect a holiday display alongside a Nativity scene at the state Capitol in Washington state...read on
What really got Gretchen was a possible exhibit for the great "Festivus" holiday from Seinfield being proposed too. Hey, she can take only so much.
Carlson: When they wanted to do Festivus, give me a break.
O'Reilly: This is a mocking of Gregoire...
Carlson: To me that was the final straw today because Bill, what is going to be next?
O'Reilly: What's going to be next is in our secular progressive society they are going to try and revoke the federal holiday. You wait and see. That's going to come.
Carlson: That's what I said. Jesus is taking a back seat.
They're going to say separation of church and state, you can't have a federal holiday based on religion. You wait and see, that's what's going to be next.
Hey, I like Christmas and all, but Bill is speaking in "baby talk" over this stuff. We're assuming that most of us have jobs next year, what a moronic man who nobody likes, not even his boss. America doesn't get enough time off as it is and even if people objected to a federally mandated law based on it, I doubt they mind getting the time off from work. Oh, and Bill: Merry Christmas.
Keith takes on his favorite Bill-O for his phony War on Christmas, and Pat Boone for this screed at WorldNetDaily comparing Prop 8 protesters to the terrorists in Mumbai.
I have to wonder how CNN's Lou Dobbs manages to pull in any kind of ratings these days. It's become such a tired schtick: Dobbs huffs and puffs and shakes his head at some kind of bureaucratic stupidity or liberal craziness or some awful crime committed by illegal immigrants. After awhile it just looks fake, because ya know what? It is fake. Dobbs constantly manufactures fake outrage. That's his schtick.
Now it's "the War on Christmas." Guess Dobbs, along with Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, is content to slither along Bill O'Reilly's slime trail.
And sure enough, near the end of the exchange, Dobbs says:
Dobbs: I've got to say -- it's an outrage, it's an outrage.
... Somebody needs to do something about it, I've gotta tell you.
... People have just got to wake up to what's happening in this country.
I'm sure they don't want to hear this (and would pay no mind if they did), but someone should tell them that nobody cares. Really. OK, there's a platoon of elderly koolaid drinkers who do everything BillO and Dobbs get them outraged about, but they're becoming just like their heroes: Irrelevant.
The only people who might make these rants relevant are the psychologically unstable haters out there in wingnutopia who decide to "do something about it" by acting out violently. Though no doubt, Dobbs will somehow find a way to blame illegal immigrants or liberals for that too.
People care about the economy. They care about getting our soldiers home. They care about fixing all the things right-wing basket cases talked the country into screwing up the past eight years. They could give a rip about meaningless local disputes about holiday displays. Really.
Maybe sooner or later, when the air goes out of those ratings, they'll finally figure that out. But I doubt it.
This morning I received an email, for real, reminding me it's ten weeks until Christmas. Good thing I forced the brilliant duo Paul and Storm to make a video for their "Way Too Early Christmas Song."
In honor of Bill winning the Media Matters award, here's Bill O'Reilly's take on his own martyrdom:
Has any TV commentator ever mentioned his own name more?
Yet, despite weeks of coverage of "Christmas Under Siege," O'Reilly never mentioned that News Corporation, which owns FOX News Channel, held an inclusively titled "Caribbean Holiday Celebration." The word "Christmas" is conspicuously absent from the invitation.
In keeping with the Republican talking point of the day, Robert Novak wasn't happy with President Bush's "Happy Holiday" greeting:
Novak: I was just kind of stunned at the end of his press conference, when President Bush, who is a believing Christian, and a very sincere one, a deeply religious man said, "Happy Holidays." Well...what's the happy holidays...is it the fourth of July? [Novak converted to Catholicism in 1998.]
It sure seems like it's open season on Bush by the Republicans now that the election is over.
Is it me or what? We have a president that wants to destroy Social Security, a Homeland Security nominee who has more question marks than The Riddler, our troops are under siege in Iraq, and these twits are crying about "Happy Holidays."
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Carlson: ...for all you authoritarian liberals out there, and there are many of you...Merry Christmas.
dreaded:To be in terror of.
When did saying "Happy Holidays" cause such terror in the hearts of Republicans? Is the President an authoritarian liberal now for using the term? It seems to only cause dread when there's a studio audience.
Atrios: "Another Ally in the War on Christmas" is Brent Bozell's Parents Television Council
While MSNBC is getting a lot of heat for considering adding Tucker Carlson to their stable and rightly so; Pat Buchanan has turned Scarborough Country into a hoot. It's like the 700 Club on steroids. Every night there is usually a debate on how secularists are taking the Christ out of Christmas!
It was inevitable to see different faiths start to attack each other and the other night was a classic.
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WILLIAM DONAHUE, PRESIDENT, CATHOLIC LEAGUE and RABBI SHMULEY BOTEACH faced off:
RABBI SHMULEY BOTEACH:...Having said that, the problem that I have with people like Bill Donahue, Pat, is that they take trivial issues, like a creche. One creche may have been manhandled by some teenager, when the-and the pope also even said yesterday that the problem with Christmas is, we need more trees. We need more trees? The pope is a tiny island of faith in a completely secular continent. You can land airplanes in churches today, they are so empty. We have the main depiction of women in America as prostitutes. We have kids taking drugs, teenage sexuality. And we are talking about that Macy‘s doesnt Merry Christmas in its department stores? Come on, Bill Donahue. Catholicism doesn‘t have priests these days.Talk about something substantive for God‘s sake.
DONAHUE: No, I will not allow you, the demagogue, to define the debate.
I will define the debate the way I want to. And if I want to talk about creches that have been vandalized, I will treat it seriously, just as I would synagogues that have been vandalized. For you to make light of nativity scenes that have been vandalized, a rash of 40 across the country, is not the voice of sanity. It‘s the voice of insanity.
This vicious, phoney 'debate' is a national embarrassment to believers and secularists alike.
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Why does Bush hate Christmas? What will the Christian fundamentalists say to the commander now? Is he a secularist?
This Season, Greetings Are at Issue
Southern church presses store workers to say 'Merry Christmas,' not 'Happy Holidays.'
By Ellen Barry, Times Staff Writer
RALEIGH, N.C. — This year, as Christmas season swung into gear, Pastor Patrick Wooden's followers fanned out to shopping malls across Raleigh to deliver a muscular message of holiday cheer: As Christian shoppers, they would like to be greeted with the phrase "Merry Christmas" — not a bland "Happy Holidays" — and stores that failed to do so would risk losing their business. Nearly six weeks later, some citizens in Raleigh are seething over what they see as an attempt to force religion into the public square....read on
The religious right wants us to believe that there's a culture war going on by the "secularists " to wipe out Jesus Christ from their lives.
The article continues:
Mark Creech of the Christian Action League of North Carolina said:"It's a cultural war. We are in the thick of it," "It's not so much an attack on us. It's an attack on Christ."
Why is the Christian based society so afraid of a non-offensive term like "Happy Holidays" that's been used for over twenty years?
Pastor Patrick Wooden says "The greater the persecution, the stronger the church."
So by creating a problem where none exists, Christian leaders are trying to strengthen their hold over their congregations, the media and politicians to bow down to their ideology or; "no gold" to the retailers and "no votes" to the politicians.
