CULTURE -- RIGHT WING LAUNCHES 'WAR ON CHRISTMAS' CAMPAIGN EARLY:

[Don_1967]

Citing last year's "overwhelming response," religious right groups have already launched their annual efforts to "defend Christmas." Liberty Counsel, a Jerry Falwell-linked conservative legal watchdog group, recently kicked off its "Friend or Foe" campaign "to defend Christmas from secularist attempts to suppress the holiday's traditional, faith-based aspects." Said one Counsel representative, "We wanted to give people enough time this year to report issues regarding Christmas so they can be resolved before Christmas." Meanwhile, "wishing for a bigger holiday season after a sluggish fall," Wal-Mart announced last week that "60 percent more of its merchandise will be labeled with 'Christmas'" and that "customers will hear Christmas carols as they shop." "We listened to our customers," Wal-Mart spokesman Steven Restivo said. "There's a call to return to a core Merry Christmas message." Whether the right-wing media will get behind the campaign this year remains to be seen. Last year, Christmas warrior Bill O'Reilly "apparently reversed his previous position that the phrase 'Happy Holidays' is offensive, stating, "'Happy Holidays' is fine, just don't ban 'Merry Christmas.'" Media Matters noted that O'Reilly had previously claimed the term "Happy Holidays" is offensive to "millions of Christians" and "insulting to Christian America."

[Richard Steele]

1. Well, it's not like they have much else left to talk about, is it?

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[Mojambo]

7. My thoughts exactly

They need this. It's been a rough year for them.

[flakey_foont]

2. ah, geez

not again! This WAR ON CHRISTMAS hokum is becoming an annual holiday tradition....like watching IT"s A WUNNERFUL LIFE!

[StoryTeller]

3. I wrote a book that's partly about this.

I was so disgusted last year about this nonsense that I put it into the Christmas comedy novel I was working on. It was SO much fun! If anyone wants to see info about that as well as the "War on Christmas" page on my site that mocks this entire thing, see here: http://www.meredithefken.com/html/holidays.html. You can click on "Extra Features" for the war on Christmas page itself.

As I do book signings, I'm making a point of signing "Happy Holidays" or a variation thereof on each and every book. It's awfully fun. :evilgrin:

[azurnoir]

4. Yup

The Wizard of Oz was on last night, so they're about due. Too bad Dr Seuss is no longer with us there's a story in here somewhere.

[AlinPA]

5. Keeps the jerks occupied while we work on good legislation for 2007 and

how to expand our majority in congress.

[Ilsa]

6. Didn't KO say that FOX ordered "Holiday Cards" to send out

to employees? Aren't they having a Holiday party or somehting? Yeah, FOX.

[MidwestTransplant]

8. Yes Yes, Wal Mart must say Merry Christmas as Jesus would have intended

Let's fight this war alongside the righteous Mr. Falwell and co.

[Phredicles]

10. What kind of person does it take to turn "Merry Christmas" into

fighting words? Rethug types of person, evidently. Miserable, vicious, small-minded bastards. :grr: :grr: :grr:

[MidwestTransplant]

13. That's the great irony. Commercialism must be combined with Christmas

according to these nuts. To them it's commercialism, not religion.

[Liberal Jesus Freak]

9. Good grief.

Why can't they understand that "Christmas" is a day during the "Holiday" season? I don't say "happy new year" on December 18; I don't say "happy Thanksgiving" in October. "Happy Holidays" is absolutely correct, even for Christians :sarcasm: I mean, let's not even talk about the non-religious or those of other faiths. These so-called Christians are just ruining the very day they purport to "honor". :grr:

[lapfog_1]

11. I'm all in favor of stopping the war on Christmas...

So let's see.

No Christmas trees. That's a pagan thing. Oh, the Mistletoe has got to come down, too, same reason.
and the lights and decorations, not a very Christian tradition there. Shopping? Very, very anti-christian.

Exchange presents? What is that all about, that's not Christmas.

Oh, and no nativity scenes... or at least ones with a baby Jesus in them... can't have graven images ya know.

you can still have Christmas dinner, but you must wait till after sunset to eat, and fast the rest of the day.

And if you want to celebrate the birth of Christ, you'd better move it to sometime between August and October.

[catnhatnh]

12. And on Earth,Peace to men of Good Will.....

-Oh wait,Jerry Falwell must identify them first as a "friend or foe" so we don't accidentally waste any peace on earth on some godless, non-christian men of good will-these assholes make me want to vomit....I am an atheist and I am tempted to pray for the second coming-because if their' literature (the bible) is correct about the character of their' savior (jesus) then on that day,they will be indeed, screwn....

[NightOwwl]

14. ...

[Faygo Kid]

15. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" - Been going through my head; saw my daughter yesterday

It's a funny thing about that War on Christmas. Those of us (most of us) who have our memories of our grandparents now gone, of our brothers, sisters, moms, dads - of the toys of our generations, and the music, maybe most of all the music - we don't have time to be concerned about a "War on Christmas." I took my daughter (30) to dinner yesterday in Tampa, and have seen her five times in five years. I don't give a stink about a "war on Christmas." It's ridiculous.

[bluedogyellowdog]

16. Actually the right wing has been waging a war on Christmas

for a very, very long time.

See Michael Moore's movie "Roger & Me" to see what a REAL war on Christmas looks like: working families being evicted from their homes while CEO Roger Smith attends a ritzy holiday party.

The right wing is waging a war on Christmas by allowing the market to be flooded by cheap junk made in third world sweatshops such as in China. Look at the box and see where your Christmas lights were made - I guarantee that unless you use only antique lights, they weren't by unionized workers at GE in Schenectady.

The right wing is waging a war on Christmas by opposing stem cell research, sending U.S. troops to Iraq, promoting "abstinence only" sex education, and so on. Their idea of a Christmas present: your son coming home in a casket, your teenage daughter pregnant, you with a terminal disease left uncured because they won't allow scientific research that would find a cure.

[stepnw1f]

17. Are They Traveling the Country in this:

[gratuitous]

18. Had an LTTE in the paper this morning

Some nimnol in St. Helens talking about what a struggle it is to maintain the Christmas spirit in such a godless society, and how much glee he will personally have in celebrating Christmas because of the discomfort he thinks it will inflict on us libruls.

I should track down his address and invite him to services at our church. We're having our regular Sunday service on the 24th and our usual Christmas Eve service that evening. He could make a day of it!

[kineneb]

20. two services on Christmas eve

yup, I am already booked to play both the regular Sunday morning service and the Christmas eve service on the 24th. Being a United Methodist church, with an elderly congragation, the evening service will be at 7 pm instead of midnight.

[madmusic]

19. Is there a good youtube spoof on this?

That would be the best way to reveal how silly this is.

I picture a dam liberal invading his children's Christmas Eve with toy guns and setting all the gifts on fire. Caricature it.