O'Reilly - "Very Secret Plan to Diminish Christianity"

I'm think Set should be burned at the stake. Probably medium rare.

whatever, it's been demonstrated that Set is evil.

I'd love to see how many of the Keep the Christ in Christmas crew in this thread is lusting after blood in the kill Tookie thread. That would be interesting...

I'd love to see how many of the Keep the Christ in Christmas crew in this thread is lusting after blood in the kill Tookie thread. That would be interesting...

So tico, you saying Tookie should have been aborted?

So tico, you saying Tookie should have been aborted?

The Ugly Fox News ?'War on Christmas'
...sometimes living in Diaspora, or in fact as a minority anywhere, can feel mighty uncomfortable.

And that brings me to the "war on Christmas" which has become a permanent fixture on cable television this time of year.

Let me explain.

The "war on Christmas" is a term invented by the far right to describe what they consider an onslaught by non-Christians against their most significant holiday. The title of a best-selling book by Fox News anchor John Gibson pretty much sums up the entire argument: It is called "The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday is Worse Than You Thought."

And how is this war being fought? According to John Gibson, it is fought every time someone uses the greeting Happy Holidays rather than Merry Christmas. This is how columnist Joel Stein described it in the in Tuesday's Los Angeles Times: "Gibson and fellow Fox anchor Bill O'Reilly…have organized a boycott of Costco, Target, Wal-Mart, Kmart and Sears for using the phrase ?'Happy Holidays' in their ads instead of ?'Merry Christmas.'" For O'Reilly and others, talking about the "holidays" rather than Christmas represents a victory by the secular left and a defeat for all Christians.

It sounds crazy but both CNN and MSNBC have reported on the "controversy." The champion, of course, is Fox News, which invented the controversy and which from November 28 to December 2 devoted 58 segments to the subject!

And now the war has spread to Washington, DC. On Wednesday, the conservative and once serious Heritage Foundation actually held a symposium on "the liberal plot" to ban Christmas...

I suppose there are individual Jews (or Muslims, or others) who prefer to be wished "happy holidays," but that is simply neither here nor there. As for the secular liberal groups making war on the term, they don't exist either. The whole issue was invented by the far right to divide Americans from one another, at Christmastime no less. As the Christmas warriors probably know, the reason businesses have adopted the term "the holidays" in place of Christmas is that Christmas is one day, December 25th. "The holidays" suggests a period that runs from Thanksgiving through New Year's, more time for shopping and exchanging. Anti-Christmas animus is a myth.

But that does not mean that the "war on Christmas" brouhaha is not threatening to Jews...

Have the christians gotten any smaller yet?

Fox News: Holidays 10, Xmas 0 on a single webpage
by bobharris
Mon Dec 12, 2005 at 10:04:36 PM PDT
(From the diaries. Poor O'Relly isn't just surrounded by the enemy... he's employed by the enemy! -- kos)

The point has already been made by Olbermann and many others, but this Fox web page really does demonstrate the point with a certain overwhelming finality: ten uses of the word "holiday."

Not even one use of the word "Christmas."

Since the page would be changed shortly, whether or not they were already in the habit of covering their butts (and I caught O'Reilly's page being changed just 16 hours after one of his own pages was pointed out in this Kos diary), here's a screengrab saved from 8 pm PST 12 Dec 2005.

Enjoy.

UPDATE: Found another one. It's at least eleven. My bad.

I haven't marked the last one on the screengrab, since it's kinda fun to play along in a Highlights For Children, find-the-baseball-in-the-tree sort of way.