The backpedal on the "War on Christmas" has begun [View All]

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and then... it got really weird (see the very end of the transcript)

Funny to watch (VIDEO at the link) O'Reilly and Malkin backpedal on how this was such a crushing blow to Christianity and America in general. Suddenly it is no big deal it is just one store not some huge conspiracy.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/28/oreilly-crate-barrel/

POWERS: Maybe they feel like their clientele is so diverse that they would just rather say happy holidays. I mean, why can’t they just make that decision? How would this ruin your day, though?

O’REILLY: Because you — it doesn’t ruin my day. It’s just one of these little annoying things that I say if you’re not going to say “merry Christmas,” and it’s a federal holiday, I’m not going to buy the lamp. I mean, I am that small.

POWERS: I think the other stuff — I agree with that.

O’REILLY: I am. I am that — Michelle, you — you know me. You know I am that petty, that if you’re going to annoy me like this because I just get annoyed. It’s a federal holiday. Say “merry Christmas,” say “happy holidays,” stand on your head. I don’t care. But to say, “We’re absolutely not going to say ‘merry Christmas’,” I’m not going there then. That’s how small I am. Am I wrong?

MALKIN: Well — well, look. On my aggravato-meter, it’s a two. On yours it sounds like it’s about a six with 10 being total eye-popping outrage. But so you’re not going to buy any crates or barrels. And you know…

O’REILLY: Right. There — I think it’s, you know. Isn’t it dumb?

POWERS: That you feel that way, yes.

O’REILLY: No, isn’t to dumb for a spokesman of a major — of a major company, where 80 percent of the country is Christian and 90 celebrates Christmas, isn’t it dumb, Michelle, to come out and say, “I’m absolutely not going to say that”?

MALKIN: You know, it probably is.

O’REILLY: Thank you.

POWERS: Michelle is sucking up.

MALKIN: I am. You have to look at the clientele of Crate & Barrel. Do you shop there? I don’t shop there? Who shops there, Kirsten? Come on, you know.

POWERS: I have some Crate & Barrel stuff.

O’REILLY: Come on. Maybe the imams who got thrown off the plane will.

MALKIN: Well, there you go.

O’REILLY: I bet you they wouldn’t get handcuffed in Crate & Barrel if they started chanting and stuff.

POWERS: Probably not.