Time to enlist! War on Easter alert!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

John Gibson Hypes A ‘War on Easter’, Announces Easter Bunny Under Attack

As sure as April showers bring May flowers, so too does Fox News every year around this time announce that there is “a War on Easter.” Last year, Bill O’Reilly suggested the Easter bunny was “under attack.” After embarrassing himself and his colleagues, O’Reilly eventually acknowledged, “There is no attack on Easter.”

This year, John Gibson is carrying the “War on Easter” mantra, hailing it today as “an incredible development.” Gibson cited efforts by the city of Walnut Creek, California, to rebrand the Easter bunny as the “spring bunny.” “Is this political correctness gone too far”? Gibson wondered. Watch it:

The truth is there is no “war” on Easter. Like the alleged “War on Christmas,” right-wing pundits stir such controversies in order to raise money and suggest that “secular progressives” are at war with Christianity.

Walnut Creek’s changes were made five years ago. San Francisco Chronicle reporter Chuck Nevius said, “Walnut Creek is flabbergasted that they are in the cross hairs of a national controversy.” Fox News has tried to sensationalize local events such as these to try to create a national firestorm where none exists.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/07/gibson-easter/

It's been nearly five years since Walnut Creek renamed its Easter Bunny the "Spring Bunny," but the name change became news on Thursday after a resident wrote a letter to the editor protesting it.

City spokesman Brad Rovanpera said he was surprised by the media buzz and TV news trucks outside City Hall Thursday, attracted by a change instituted in 2003 with no controversy. The city's Spring Bunny reigns over annual "Spring Egg Hunts" in two city parks.

"This will be the fifth year we are doing it that way," Rovanpera said. "This is the first complaint that I have ever heard. In fact, no one has ever complained to the city that we know of. This is from a letter to the editor."

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/02/BAGHQOE71I1.DTL

[Monkeyman]

1. Who care's what Fox Noise says

[Cerridwen]

2. I thought the Easter bunny and eggs were objectionable TO

the so called "religious" zealots due to their pagan origins?

I'm confused. :crazy:

[cloudbase]

3. I already served.

Too damn old for any more wars.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Well be sure you support the troops then!

We will probably be selling magnetic ribbons. :)

[jimshoes]

5. Mister Gibson seems to be

in the middle of a war on reality. Say, didn't I hear about some Washington bigwig getting convicted of something recently? Would that qualify as news? Or is the Easter Bunny more important?

[tanyev]

6. Not me. I'm keeping my powder dry for the War on Quinquegesima Sunday.

:nuke: