Bill O'Reilly's War and the Iraq War...
Tonight, during my self-inflicted mandatory "know thine enemy" time watching Fox News, O'Reilly was taking up valuable air time with another segment on his struggle against his invented "War On Christmas."
Tonight he said that ten years ago, this wasn't a problem and wonders why it changed. While I no longer attend Church regularly, ten years ago, I did. And I was very active. And there was a big push in the Christian Community against "Christmas" displays in the stores. It was considered offensive for stores to associate massive shopping and consumerism with the birth of Jesus. So that's part of the reason for changing to "holiday" displays. Add to that that you see Christmas themed displays before Thanksgiving in stores now, it truly is a "Season of Conspicuous Consumption."
He's at it again with one of his "boycotts" and had a poll on his website. According to him, the poll showed that 80% of people will not shop at stores that don't promote Christmas by name. I have no way of proving this allegation, but then he has no way of proving the opposite - but I am fairly certain the numbers are bogus.
The greatest part of this story is that Fox News was selling O'Reilly Factor "Holiday Ornaments." Right up until one of those left-wing smear websites pointed it out. The website was quickly changed without comment to "Christmas Ornaments." I love the fact that web pages can be cached to point out outrageous hypocrisy.
I look forward to when he claims a victory in this war and gives some inflated approximation of how much money he has cost the stores on the wrong side of his crusade. Then he can get back to misleading us about how we are supposedly winning that other War.
Note to Al Queda - don't bomb Coit Tower, bomb Fox News while O'Reilly's in the building. Al Franken is right, this guy is a lying liar who tells lies.
Tonight he said that ten years ago, this wasn't a problem and wonders why it changed. While I no longer attend Church regularly, ten years ago, I did. And I was very active. And there was a big push in the Christian Community against "Christmas" displays in the stores. It was considered offensive for stores to associate massive shopping and consumerism with the birth of Jesus. So that's part of the reason for changing to "holiday" displays. Add to that that you see Christmas themed displays before Thanksgiving in stores now, it truly is a "Season of Conspicuous Consumption."
He's at it again with one of his "boycotts" and had a poll on his website. According to him, the poll showed that 80% of people will not shop at stores that don't promote Christmas by name. I have no way of proving this allegation, but then he has no way of proving the opposite - but I am fairly certain the numbers are bogus.
The greatest part of this story is that Fox News was selling O'Reilly Factor "Holiday Ornaments." Right up until one of those left-wing smear websites pointed it out. The website was quickly changed without comment to "Christmas Ornaments." I love the fact that web pages can be cached to point out outrageous hypocrisy.
I look forward to when he claims a victory in this war and gives some inflated approximation of how much money he has cost the stores on the wrong side of his crusade. Then he can get back to misleading us about how we are supposedly winning that other War.
Note to Al Queda - don't bomb Coit Tower, bomb Fox News while O'Reilly's in the building. Al Franken is right, this guy is a lying liar who tells lies.
posted by Eric Soderstrom at 5:36 PM
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