Bush’s War on Christmas.
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December 7th, 2005 at 7:56 amI just read this on MSNBC.com. Next time, i’ll come to thinkProgress first. :)
Fascinting article – it’s like what you were reporting a couple days ago.
Let’s see if O’Reilly called Bush an enemy of the Christian faith now. Or even better, Pat Robertson. Hook up your Tivo’s and VCR’s people!
December 7th, 2005 at 7:57 amYep, when your whole world and agenda are melting down in failure……….. Change the subject
December 7th, 2005 at 8:35 am#2 O’Lielly and Robertson, will remind everyone that these cards are “just like Bill Clinton’s” so it’s Clinton’s fault.
December 7th, 2005 at 8:35 amThis just makes me want to vomit.
December 7th, 2005 at 8:44 amReading the spew that comes out of these conservative mouths, I’d rather drink from the Ganges.
With everything that’s going on the world, this is what they focus on? These letches don’t deserve any airtime or media play.
December 7th, 2005 at 8:46 am#5 Tony, you’r right. They blame Clinton for everything. Funny thing, when Clinton was in office I got a card every year, also got responses every time I sent a letter or email. Know they were probably stock answers and responses done by an aid, but, atleast I got a reply. Here’s the thing. This gang has never sent me a card or responded to any letter or email except a short email that says ” due to the heavy mail to the white house we can not respond at this time”. ” If you need further information please refer to our web page.” Ha Ha! LOL can’t imagine why they don’t respond to my asking him to resign before he is impeached. Guess that why I’m not on his card list….Blessings
December 7th, 2005 at 8:47 am“Spare me the diversity lecture.” Um. . .Freedom of Religion also includes freedom FROM religion. If retailers want to include a generic holidy greeting or sale, then fine, don’t shop there. I get offended when y’all try to foist your religious propaganda on the 4% who don’t happen to celebrate Christmas. Besides, most of the icons of Christmas are Pagan anyway, so quitchabitchin’ and send your Mother that crap fruitcake you do every year. Christmas stopped being about Christ younks ago. Don’t believe me? Then just look at what happens every
December 7th, 2005 at 8:47 amBlack Friday
December 7th, 2005 at 8:49 amBill O’Righty must be doing back-flips right now, but before he has time to mention it on his show, the subject will be changed to a “Gay nativity scene” or some overworked judge somewhere who let a pervert out of jail.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but maybe the company who printed the “Holiday” cards are the same evil bunch that created O’Reilly’s “holiday” bulbs he sells on his website.
December 7th, 2005 at 9:00 amYeah, I’m with Locke on this one. Most of these Holiday symbols, such as the Christmas Tree, have their roots in Paganism. If Christians were sincere about following their own belief system they would discard all these elements, according to their own idealogies, as being evil.
The mind just boggles at the absurdity of it all. I truly believe that Christianity is a mental disorder. Hopefully it is recognized as such, one day, so that we can get on with the business of finding a cure for it. These poor people are obviously in so much pain. Just like drug addicts, they really need our help.
December 7th, 2005 at 9:04 amWhy do the Bushes hate Christians? And aren’t they supporting terrorists by sending out these generic “holiday” cards? Why, they remind me of someone else who hates Christians and supports terrorists…now who could it be…hmmmm…perhaps SATAN???
Oh, if only the Church Lady was still on SNL; instead, we’ll just have to view the lunacy of O’Liely and friends…
In the meantime, Happy Christmakwanzukkahsolstice to you and yours…
December 7th, 2005 at 9:27 amI really think our country is headed for some type of bloody civil war. There’s only so much stupidity people of sound mind will tolerate.
December 7th, 2005 at 9:30 amWell, I wouldn’t go so far as to label it a mental disorder, but you do have a point as well, JPV. Even our founding fathers knew that their little republic would never work without tolerance of those things that most offend, such as hate speech. After all, those “concerned parents” that want to protect their children by controlling what we all see and here I wouldn’t want as MY parent, and neither should you. “Witnessing” to a nonbeliever involves sharing your heart-opening story to someone who is interested, not projecting it into every aspect of our lives. “The diversity lecture?” Fine, then don’t preach to me, are we even now?
December 7th, 2005 at 9:36 amI must be fair with O’Reilly here. I just checked his and Fox News sites again and since it was posted here a few days ago about the site offering “Holiday bulbs” the site has been corrected to “Christmas bulbs.”
Correct me if I’m wrong, but one the Christmas bulbs for sale on the Fox site says, “Fair and Balanced.” I mean, it looks like cheap, sad-looking shit for the hefty price, and when you hang it on the tree, it is off-center and tilts way to the right.
December 7th, 2005 at 9:38 amOops, I think Dumbya is in trouble again with the ever faithful:
By Alan Cooperman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 7, 2005; Page A01
What’s missing from the White House Christmas card? Christmas.
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.”
Many people are thrilled to get a White House Christmas card, no matter what the greeting inside. But some conservative Christians are reacting as if Bush stuck coal in their stockings.
“This clearly demonstrates that the Bush administration has suffered a loss of will and that they have capitulated to the worst elements in our culture,” said William A. Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
Bush “claims to be a born-again, evangelical Christian. But he sure doesn’t act like one,” said Joseph Farah, editor of the conservative Web site WorldNetDaily.com. “I threw out my White House card as soon as I got it.”
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.” They celebrated when House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) insisted that the sparkling spectacle on the Capitol lawn should be called the Capitol Christmas Tree, not a holiday spruce.
Then along comes a generic season’s greeting from the White House, paid for by the Republican National Committee. The cover art is also secular, if not humanist: It shows the presidential pets — two dogs and a cat — frolicking on a snowy White House lawn.
“Certainly President and Mrs. Bush, because of their faith, celebrate Christmas,” said Susan Whitson, Laura Bush’s press secretary. “Their cards in recent years have included best wishes for a holiday season, rather than Christmas wishes, because they are sent to people of all faiths.”
That is the same rationale offered by major retailers for generic holiday catalogues, and it is accepted by groups such as the National Council of Churches. “I think it’s more important to put Christ back into our war planning than into our Christmas cards,” said the council’s general secretary, the Rev. Bob Edgar, a former Democratic congressman.
But the White House’s explanation does not satisfy the groups — which have grown in number in recent years — that believe there is, in the words of the Heritage Foundation, a “war on Christmas” involving an “ever-stronger push toward a neutered ‘holiday’ season so that non-Christians won’t be even the slightest bit offended.”
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December 7th, 2005 at 10:07 amFinally, an enemy to fight in the War on Christmas, I was wondering who the villian Alito Gibson and BOR are fighting
December 7th, 2005 at 10:30 amYea, I read that article this morning. Thankfully the reichtwing christians weren’t blaming Clinton but expressed their ire at dumbya.
I don’t mind saying Merry Christmas to people who aren’t necessarily christian, but I do think that it is polite to say Happy Holidays if you are addressing a large group of mixed religions. Honestly, I think bushco did the right thing in saying Happy Holidays on this one. What is up with certain christians now? How in the hell can they claim to be persecuted when they are a majority? Didn’t their mothers teach them about being polite and respectful of others or do they think their mothers were fools and morons for being “nice”? Fascist bastards.
December 7th, 2005 at 10:35 amHere We Come a Wassailing:
Here we come a wassailing among the leaves so green
Here we come a wandering so fair to be seen
Love and joy come to you and to your wassail too
And God bless you and send you a happy New Year
And God send you a happy New Year
We are not daily beggars that beg from door to door
We are your neighbor’s children whom you have seen before
God bless the master of this house, likewise the mistress, too
And all the little children that round the table go.
Do you see a ‘Merry Christmas’ in there?
For shame, to write a Christmas carol and not include the words ‘Merry Chritmas.’ The composer should be sentenced to death… posthomously.
George Bush doesn’t have to say “Merry Christmas” if he doesn’t want to. He can say “Happy Holidays” if he so chooses. It’s his business, not anyone elses.
Here’s one:
“Season’s Greetings from President and Mrs. Bush”
If he would stop all of the war policy and concentrate on some peace, he might just find it.
Christmas time’s a comin’
December 7th, 2005 at 10:36 amDoes anybody have any remaining doubts as to the wisdom of our founding fathers in refusing to establish a religion in our nation?
December 7th, 2005 at 11:15 amWhy does George Bush hate the baby jeebus?
December 7th, 2005 at 11:15 am“Bush “claims to be a born-again, evangelical Christian. But he sure doesn’t act like one,” said Joseph Farah, editor of the conservative Web site WorldNetDaily.com. “I threw out my White House card as soon as I got it.”
I have been saying that since before he got into office. My mother is a devout Christian. She would never even think of doing some of the things that Bush does. He does not act anything like any Christians I know.
December 7th, 2005 at 11:43 amA Christian would never dream of doing this to their press secretary:
December 7th, 2005 at 11:44 amLove the pictures SpudgeBoy!
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By SHELLEY K. WONG
Associated Press Writer
December 7, 2005, 11:14 PM EST
STORRS, Conn. — Conservative columnist Ann Coulter gave up trying to finish a speech at the University of Connecticut on Wednesday night when boos and jeers from the audience became overwhelming.
Coulter cut off the talk after 15 minutes and instead held a half-hour question-and-answer session.
“I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am,” Coulter told the 2,600 people at Jorgensen Auditorium.
Coulter’s appearance prompted protests from several groups, including Students Against Hate and the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center. They criticized her for spreading a message of hate and intolerance.
Nearly 100 students gathered inside the Student Union for a rally against Coulter. About a half-dozen people held protest signs outside the auditorium.
After a book signing following her appearance, Coulter called the audience’s reaction “typical.”
Coulter, originally from New Canaan, Conn., has a history of bashing Democrats in best-selling books, frequent television appearances and speeches. Harding University in Arkansas dropped her from its lecture series in September, citing her abrasive image.
Last April, the president of the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota denounced a speech on the campus by Coulter, calling it hateful. In October 2004, University of Arizona police arrested two men who ran on stage and threw custard pies at Coulter; one of the pies glanced off her shoulder.
December 8th, 2005 at 2:42 am[...] Interestingly enough, as Think Progress has pointed out, both President Bush and Governor Jeb Bush of Florida sent out their holiday cards this year completely devoid of “Merry Christmas”. No word from Fox yet on whether they believe the Bush brothers are active members of the “liberal plot to ban the sacred Christian Holiday” or if it’s just that the liberals have infiltrated their administrations and are now working from the inside. Scary stuff. [...]
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