FLASH; There is no "War on Christmas"

[Rainmaker]

For the second time in five days, Bill O'Reilly smeared a city in the Midwest. On the December 13 edition of his Fox News show, The O'Reilly Factor, he compared the Richmond Times-Dispatch to media in "Madison, Wisconsin, where you expect those people to be communing with Satan." He made the comments in a discussion with Forbes.com executive editor David Adelman and former NBC correspondent

First, the Fox pundit lashed out at Jackson Bain about editorials critical of his Christmas crusade. O'Reilly was particularly upset at a December 3 Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial, which wrote of "war on Christmas" promoters such as O'Reilly: "What planet do these Scrooges inhabit?"

The Times-Dispatch editorial board wrote that "to hear some voices -- Bill O'Reilly's, for instance -- Christmas lies under siege. Unless defended, it even could disappear!" O'Reilly denounced that statement as a "lie," and he also reacted with incredulity to the editorial's claim that "to refer to Christmas vacation as Winter Break in no way demeans an occasion blest best not by baubles but by souls in quiet communion."

Earlier, O'Reilly targeted another Midwestern town on the December 9 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, The Radio Factor, falsely claiming that Saginaw, Michigan, "opposes red and green clothing on anyone." His assertion was vehemently denied by township officials; the township hall is adorned in red and green lights.

[mrbowler]

I thought that only Walmart was not using Christmas??

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President Bush prefers not to use Merry Christmas

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"This month, as in every December since he took office, President Bush sent out cards with a generic end-of-the-year message, wishing 1.4 million of his close friends and supporters a happy "holiday season."

"Religious conservatives are miffed because they have been pressuring stores to advertise Christmas sales rather than "holiday specials" and urging schools to let students out for Christmas vacation rather than for "winter break."

[whitequeen96]

What gets me about guys like Bill O'Reilly is that they're so MEAN! They're so bitter and caustic about so many things, including . . . Christmas?! What would Jesus do, indeed? I just can't see Him being vicious!

I imagine Bill (and his type) as a miserable, unpopular kid in school (very big on biting put-downs and feeling superior), who dreamed of how he would "show THEM someday!" ("THEM" being the normal kids.) This is his chance to do exactly that and to rail at everyone. Well, it's nice to see someone achieve his dreams . . .