Dude, what’s your concern? You want to be part of the dominant culture? You’re a rich, white, male, Christian in America. Lucky you. That, plus being a celebrity with a TV show, makes you one of the most powerful forces on the planet.
But you’re feeling besieged. Buffeted by outside forces. The Jews and the atheists and the liberals and all the other troublemakers have their knives out for your precious Christmas. And when they attack that sacred holiday, it’s as though they were attacking the Lord God Himself. Worse — it’s like they’re attacking Baby Jesus, innocently lying in His crib in the manger.
These companies that want to bow to pressure? Saying “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”? The hell with that. You’re going to marshal a concerted response and bring ‘em to their knees. As you have said, they ought to be grateful for the profits that Jesus being born has brought them.
Dude, there’s a big fucking tree in Rockefeller Center the size of a yacht. There’s cable channels showing Christmas programming every single night of the week. There’s a huge corporate infrastructure inundating us with holiday messaging every chance it can. What, you’re worried we might only get Christmas fucking shoved in our faces 23 hours of the day? That companies might try to make a buck off the Jews, the Muslims, the non-believers, and the couldn’t-give-a-crap crowd?
Wal-Mart could make their employees wear black armbands and wish everybody “Happy Chrismukah” and you’re really think that’s going to stop the Yuletide juggernaut?
You don’t with the primal forces of nature, Mr. O’Reilly; they won’t have it.
In short, the War on Christmas seems to be going as well as the one in Iraq. Enjoy your victory over the forces of darkness and give it a rest.
3 Responses
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HumanityCritic Says:
O’Reilly is a hack, and this war on Christmas idiocy is proof that the man has the I.Q of a bowel movement.
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Ben Says:
The most stunning moment (for me) in this ongoing Fox News hysteria came yesterday when Bill went to Neil Cavuto’s show to discuss this very topic. Bill was saying that this season is very American and over here we say “Merry Christmas” and people new to deal with it and, besides, “they can say ‘we like pandas’ or whatever it is that they say in China. WE say ‘Merry Christmas.’”
Dude, I’m used to O’Reilly being over the top… but that… It was a new level.
Oh and he later took credit for the drop in oil prices. (“Due to my reporting–and the reporting of some others–gas prices are down because the oil companies were scare they were going to jail.”)
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The Pop View Says:
Yeah, I was dropping off some shoes to be repaired and I saw that conversation on TV, which kind of inspired my rant.
NOTE: See the Mr. Garrison song:
Hey there Mr. Muslim
Merry fucking Christmas
Put down that book the Koran
And hear some holiday wishes.In case you haven’t noticed
It’s Jesus’s birthday.
So get off your heathen Muslim ass
and fucking celebrate