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	<title>Comments on: War on Christmas Fraud Exposed: The Silent Night &#8220;Rewrite&#8221; That Wasn&#8217;t</title>
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		<title>By: zombiefood &#187; Christmas is serious business.</title>
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		<dc:creator>zombiefood &#187; Christmas is serious business.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Turns out that a lot of the right wing media simply fabricated a lot of the anti-Christmas stories. Bill O&#8217;Reilly? Making shit up? Surely you jest! Do your research, look up &#8220;War on Christmas&#8221;. Dollars to donuts that your results will reek of Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s soapy falafel. Why would Fox News create an entire controversy out of almost nothing? Ratings. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Turns out that a lot of the right wing media simply fabricated a lot of the anti-Christmas stories. Bill O&#8217;Reilly? Making shit up? Surely you jest! Do your research, look up &#8220;War on Christmas&#8221;. Dollars to donuts that your results will reek of Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s soapy falafel. Why would Fox News create an entire controversy out of almost nothing? Ratings. [...]<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1289785', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: JACK</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/comment-page-5/#comment-1239379</link>
		<dc:creator>JACK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

P.S CHRITMAS IS RUBBISH! 

HEY KIDS! SANTA&#039;S NOT REAL!!!!#
HE IS FAKE AND HE DESERVES TO BE KILLED WITH A SHOT GUN</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!</p>
<p>P.S CHRITMAS IS RUBBISH! </p>
<p>HEY KIDS! SANTA&#8217;S NOT REAL!!!!#<br />
HE IS FAKE AND HE DESERVES TO BE KILLED WITH A SHOT GUN<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1239379', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ben</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/comment-page-5/#comment-1239376</link>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>america is crap like christmas now die you little fools</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>america is crap like christmas now die you little fools<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1239376', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: JACK</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/comment-page-5/#comment-1239371</link>
		<dc:creator>JACK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I support the war on Christmas! 
It is filledwith dumbasses desperate for money dressed up as Santa Have they any dignity?!
Christmas is a load of crap!

I hope some1 breaks into every house on christmas eve and steals all the presents then burns them!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support the war on Christmas!<br />
It is filledwith dumbasses desperate for money dressed up as Santa Have they any dignity?!<br />
Christmas is a load of crap!</p>
<p>I hope some1 breaks into every house on christmas eve and steals all the presents then burns them!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1239371', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ben</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/comment-page-5/#comment-1239358</link>
		<dc:creator>ben</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>war on christmas good on him christmas is full of lazy mugs andf idiots</description>
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		<title>By: Bruce</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/comment-page-5/#comment-1179761</link>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 05:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Speaking of the war on Christmas, Best Buy has just dug their heels in and returned to the trenches by banning the greeting, &quot;Merry Christmas&quot; from their advertising campaign this Christmas.  

I&#039;ve been fighting back with this song (feel free to use it in your campaign if you like it):

&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Best Buy Inn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
Dr. BLT (c) 2006
http://www.drblt.net/music/BestBI.mp3

for more information, visit my blog:
http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/blognroll/2759

or my website:
http://www.drblt.net</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Speaking of the war on Christmas, Best Buy has just dug their heels in and returned to the trenches by banning the greeting, &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; from their advertising campaign this Christmas.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been fighting back with this song (feel free to use it in your campaign if you like it):</p>
<p><em><strong>Best Buy Inn</strong></em><br />
Dr. BLT (c) 2006<br />
<a href="http://www.drblt.net/music/BestBI.mp3" rel="nofollow">http://www.drblt.net/music/BestBI.mp3</a></p>
<p>for more information, visit my blog:<br />
<a href="http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/blognroll/2759" rel="nofollow">http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/blognroll/2759</a></p>
<p>or my website:<br />
<a href="http://www.drblt.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.drblt.net</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=1179761', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: VirusHead</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/comment-page-5/#comment-427180</link>
		<dc:creator>VirusHead</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] As it turns out, the entire story of the school banning &#8220;Silent Night&#8221; is bogus. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Warren Throckmorton</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/comment-page-5/#comment-389646</link>
		<dc:creator>Warren Throckmorton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is more to this story even yet. The school district could have cleared up the misunderstanding but did not. See this entry for more from Liberty Counsel: http://wthrockmorton.blogspot.com/2005/12/happy-holydays-redux.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is more to this story even yet. The school district could have cleared up the misunderstanding but did not. See this entry for more from Liberty Counsel: <a href="http://wthrockmorton.blogspot.com/2005/12/happy-holydays-redux.html" rel="nofollow">http://wthrockmorton.blogspot.com/2005/12/happy-holydays-redux.html</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=389646', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jr ford</title>
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		<dc:creator>jr ford</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2006 22:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think Christmas won.

Each, or all of the celebrations at the end of December, are nothing more than aberrations of ancient secular observations of the annual recurrence of the Winter Solstice, observed by--for example--the as yet unknown ancients who constructed Stonehenge in England and the fortifications upon the island of Malta 500 years before the pyramids of Egypt; the Sumarians of the Tigris-Euphrates river delta, 500-1000 years before the Old Testament; and the Confusionists and Dynastics of China who celebrated the flooding of the Changjiang(Yangtze) River, while White people in Europe were still wearing hides, living in caves, and eating rotting scavenged meat.

How &#039;bout we just call it: &quot;Happy December 21st?&quot;

JR Ford
UP (Unsubstantiated Press)
St Petersburg, Fl
sixtimeseven@aol.com
http://hometown.aol.com/sixtimeseven/myhomepage/profile.html

&quot;&lt;em&gt;The O&#039;Reilly Factor &lt;/em&gt;is the most popular commentary program on cable television, drawing upwards to 15% of the total viewing audience; and one pile of crap will draw a million flies.&quot;  --  JR Ford, Jan 2006.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Christmas won.</p>
<p>Each, or all of the celebrations at the end of December, are nothing more than aberrations of ancient secular observations of the annual recurrence of the Winter Solstice, observed by&#8211;for example&#8211;the as yet unknown ancients who constructed Stonehenge in England and the fortifications upon the island of Malta 500 years before the pyramids of Egypt; the Sumarians of the Tigris-Euphrates river delta, 500-1000 years before the Old Testament; and the Confusionists and Dynastics of China who celebrated the flooding of the Changjiang(Yangtze) River, while White people in Europe were still wearing hides, living in caves, and eating rotting scavenged meat.</p>
<p>How &#8217;bout we just call it: &#8220;Happy December 21st?&#8221;</p>
<p>JR Ford<br />
UP (Unsubstantiated Press)<br />
St Petersburg, Fl<br />
<a href="mailto:sixtimeseven@aol.com">sixtimeseven@aol.com</a><br />
<a href="http://hometown.aol.com/sixtimeseven/myhomepage/profile.html" rel="nofollow">http://hometown.aol.com/sixtimeseven/myhomepage/profile.html</a></p>
<p>&#8220;<em>The O&#8217;Reilly Factor </em>is the most popular commentary program on cable television, drawing upwards to 15% of the total viewing audience; and one pile of crap will draw a million flies.&#8221;  &#8212;  JR Ford, Jan 2006.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=384098', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: John</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/comment-page-5/#comment-323924</link>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2005 06:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;d like to see a lawsuit filed against O&#039;Reilly himself. Threatening to file a lawsuit against a school that does a play featuring songs with altered lyrics is just plain dumb. And he&#039;s probably asking himself: &quot;Why would I do such a thing like that?&quot;

In the words of Ben Stein and his audience from Win Ben Stein&#039;S Money:

Ben: &quot;Call me crazy.&quot;
Audience: &quot;YOU&#039;RE CRAZY!&quot;
 

Yes, Bill is crazy. Let me just tell you people that I avoid Fox News altogether, and that&#039;s the best Christmas (or Holiday) gift I can get. 

And even better, I&#039;d love to see Bill in the Boardroom, and Trump would tell him, &quot;I can&#039;t believe you would threaten to sue a school just because of something offensive to you. Just because something&#039;s offensive to me I wouldn&#039;t sue unless I had a good enough reason to do that. You don&#039;t have a good enough reason to sue them. So, Bill, YOU&#039;RE FIRED!&quot;

(O&#039;Reilly takes elevator down to the ground level, where his cabride home awaits)

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! Hope you&#039;ll find something good under your trees and in your stockings (and pray that O&#039;Reilly and Conservative, Inc. get lots of coal)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d like to see a lawsuit filed against O&#8217;Reilly himself. Threatening to file a lawsuit against a school that does a play featuring songs with altered lyrics is just plain dumb. And he&#8217;s probably asking himself: &#8220;Why would I do such a thing like that?&#8221;</p>
<p>In the words of Ben Stein and his audience from Win Ben Stein&#8217;S Money:</p>
<p>Ben: &#8220;Call me crazy.&#8221;<br />
Audience: &#8220;YOU&#8217;RE CRAZY!&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, Bill is crazy. Let me just tell you people that I avoid Fox News altogether, and that&#8217;s the best Christmas (or Holiday) gift I can get. </p>
<p>And even better, I&#8217;d love to see Bill in the Boardroom, and Trump would tell him, &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe you would threaten to sue a school just because of something offensive to you. Just because something&#8217;s offensive to me I wouldn&#8217;t sue unless I had a good enough reason to do that. You don&#8217;t have a good enough reason to sue them. So, Bill, YOU&#8217;RE FIRED!&#8221;</p>
<p>(O&#8217;Reilly takes elevator down to the ground level, where his cabride home awaits)</p>
<p>Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! Hope you&#8217;ll find something good under your trees and in your stockings (and pray that O&#8217;Reilly and Conservative, Inc. get lots of coal)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=323924', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: &#187; War on Christmas Fraud Exposed: The Silent Night â€œRewriteâ€ That Wasnâ€™t Christian News &#187;</title>
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		<dc:creator>&#187; War on Christmas Fraud Exposed: The Silent Night â€œRewriteâ€ That Wasnâ€™t Christian News &#187;</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Tom Parmenter</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/comment-page-5/#comment-321971</link>
		<dc:creator>Tom Parmenter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From my web log:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://desperado-list.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_desperado-list_archive.html#113493579031975640&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Secularizing Jingle Bells&lt;/a&gt;

As it turns out, &lt;a href=&quot;http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;no one rewrote &quot;Silent Night&quot;&lt;/a&gt; as part of any War on Christmas, but it got me to thinking about doing unto others as I would have them do unto me, and turning the other cheek, and giving gifts in the true spirit of Christmas.  

Here is my gift to the world, a politically incorrect rewrite of the disgracefully secular so-called Christmas song, &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_Bells&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;Jingle Bells&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;   Jesus Christ 
      (sung to the tune of &quot;Jingle Bells&quot;)
Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, born on a bed of hay,
Came to earth to save our souls and wash our sins away. Yay!
Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, born on a bed of hay,
Came to earth to save our souls and wash our sins away!

Two thousand years ago, in a shed behind the inn,
Midst asses, sheep, and camels, no crib but just a bin,
All alone his mom and dad, assisted at the birth,
And above the angels sang, good will and peace on earth.

CHORUS

And when he was a man, he gave the world so much
He loved lepers, whores, and taxmen, cause he had the common touch,
But scribes and pharisees were feeling Jesus&#039; scorn
Moneychangers and powerful men wished he&#039;d never been born.

CHORUS
 
The politicians quaked,  he said the truth would make us free
So they pulled him down and nailed him up and killed him on a tree
For God so loved the world he sent his only son
With the Golden Rule the Prince of Peace is stronger than a gun.

Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, born on a bed of hay,
Came to earth to save our souls and wash our sins away. Yay!
Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, born on a bed of hay,
Came to earth to save our souls and wash our sins away!

&lt;/blockquote&gt;Written in the profound belief that Jesus belongs to the whole world.  Merry Christmas, everyone!
</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From my web log:  <a href="http://desperado-list.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_desperado-list_archive.html#113493579031975640" rel="nofollow">Secularizing Jingle Bells</a></p>
<p>As it turns out, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/" rel="nofollow">no one rewrote &#8220;Silent Night&#8221;</a> as part of any War on Christmas, but it got me to thinking about doing unto others as I would have them do unto me, and turning the other cheek, and giving gifts in the true spirit of Christmas.  </p>
<p>Here is my gift to the world, a politically incorrect rewrite of the disgracefully secular so-called Christmas song, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingle_Bells" rel="nofollow">&#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221;</a><br />
<blockquote>   Jesus Christ<br />
      (sung to the tune of &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221;)<br />
Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, born on a bed of hay,<br />
Came to earth to save our souls and wash our sins away. Yay!<br />
Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, born on a bed of hay,<br />
Came to earth to save our souls and wash our sins away!</p>
<p>Two thousand years ago, in a shed behind the inn,<br />
Midst asses, sheep, and camels, no crib but just a bin,<br />
All alone his mom and dad, assisted at the birth,<br />
And above the angels sang, good will and peace on earth.</p>
<p>CHORUS</p>
<p>And when he was a man, he gave the world so much<br />
He loved lepers, whores, and taxmen, cause he had the common touch,<br />
But scribes and pharisees were feeling Jesus&#8217; scorn<br />
Moneychangers and powerful men wished he&#8217;d never been born.</p>
<p>CHORUS</p>
<p>The politicians quaked,  he said the truth would make us free<br />
So they pulled him down and nailed him up and killed him on a tree<br />
For God so loved the world he sent his only son<br />
With the Golden Rule the Prince of Peace is stronger than a gun.</p>
<p>Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, born on a bed of hay,<br />
Came to earth to save our souls and wash our sins away. Yay!<br />
Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, born on a bed of hay,<br />
Came to earth to save our souls and wash our sins away!</p>
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<p>Written in the profound belief that Jesus belongs to the whole world.  Merry Christmas, everyone!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=321971', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Dale</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/comment-page-5/#comment-319121</link>
		<dc:creator>Dale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2005 04:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>O&#039;Reilly&#039;s really on a tear with the &quot;War on Christmas&quot;. Here&#039;s another story about lies he&#039;s spreading. Plano ISD has asked for a retraction, but the lies are still on the Faux News website.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/TX_OReilly_School_Dispute.html

Plano schools angered over comment by Bill O&#039;Reilly

PLANO, Texas - School officials want talk show host Bill O&#039;Reilly to retract his on-air comment about the district banning students from wearing red and green because the colors represent Christmas.

O&#039;Reilly told the audience on his Fox News Channel show &quot;The O&#039;Reilly Factor&quot; that a Plano school told students they couldn&#039;t wear red and green clothing. &quot;That&#039;s flat-out fascism,&quot; he said during the broadcast.

The district, located in an affluent Dallas suburb, said in Wednesday&#039;s editions of The Dallas Morning News that it never has prohibited such clothing, and sent e-mails to parents and posted a statement on its Web site about the &quot;false rumor.&quot;

&quot;What vehicle do I have to say Bill O&#039;Reilly is flat wrong?&quot; said Richard Abernathy, an attorney for the school district.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s really on a tear with the &#8220;War on Christmas&#8221;. Here&#8217;s another story about lies he&#8217;s spreading. Plano ISD has asked for a retraction, but the lies are still on the Faux News website.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/TX_OReilly_School_Dispute.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/TX_OReilly_School_Dispute.html</a></p>
<p>Plano schools angered over comment by Bill O&#8217;Reilly</p>
<p>PLANO, Texas &#8211; School officials want talk show host Bill O&#8217;Reilly to retract his on-air comment about the district banning students from wearing red and green because the colors represent Christmas.</p>
<p>O&#8217;Reilly told the audience on his Fox News Channel show &#8220;The O&#8217;Reilly Factor&#8221; that a Plano school told students they couldn&#8217;t wear red and green clothing. &#8220;That&#8217;s flat-out fascism,&#8221; he said during the broadcast.</p>
<p>The district, located in an affluent Dallas suburb, said in Wednesday&#8217;s editions of The Dallas Morning News that it never has prohibited such clothing, and sent e-mails to parents and posted a statement on its Web site about the &#8220;false rumor.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;What vehicle do I have to say Bill O&#8217;Reilly is flat wrong?&#8221; said Richard Abernathy, an attorney for the school district.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=319121', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: gary san diego</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/comment-page-5/#comment-317937</link>
		<dc:creator>gary san diego</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It gets weirder and a Hunter Thompson trip everyday!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It gets weirder and a Hunter Thompson trip everyday!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=317937', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#237

Laurie, to answer your question, Bush was elected president.  He thinks that either you are with him and his ideals, or you are against him.  From his actions, that means that either you are like him or you are at war with him.  Hence this war on Christmas.</description>
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<p>Laurie, to answer your question, Bush was elected president.  He thinks that either you are with him and his ideals, or you are against him.  From his actions, that means that either you are like him or you are at war with him.  Hence this war on Christmas.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=317646', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Laurie</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/comment-page-5/#comment-317549</link>
		<dc:creator>Laurie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2005 17:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My kids go to Dodgeville School District and the supposed &#039;Outrage&#039; over the Silent Night song just doesn&#039;t exist. There is Outrage that the school district has received thousands of e-mails and voicemails, many of them threatening and hateful. They have received so many that there has to be extra security at our schools!!! How is this part of the Meaning of Christmas???? The song was changed to tell a Christmas story -- the title even has the word Christmas right in it! My fear is that after this year and the ridiculous &#039;War on Christmas&#039;, many of the little school districts and small towns are going to decide to skip the Christmas celebrations. They can&#039;t win!! If they celebrate Christmas with traditional Christian symbols, they are threatened with lawsuits from the &#039;Freedom from Religion&#039; groups, if they dare to celebrate Christmas without traditional Christian symbols, they are threatened with lawsuits from the Liberty council and other Christian groups.

Whatever happened to the Christmas Spirit -- Peace on Earth, Goodwill towards Men? I always thought that Christmas was a time to set aside differences and celebrate family and friends. What has happened to this country?????
Laurie</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My kids go to Dodgeville School District and the supposed &#8216;Outrage&#8217; over the Silent Night song just doesn&#8217;t exist. There is Outrage that the school district has received thousands of e-mails and voicemails, many of them threatening and hateful. They have received so many that there has to be extra security at our schools!!! How is this part of the Meaning of Christmas???? The song was changed to tell a Christmas story &#8212; the title even has the word Christmas right in it! My fear is that after this year and the ridiculous &#8216;War on Christmas&#8217;, many of the little school districts and small towns are going to decide to skip the Christmas celebrations. They can&#8217;t win!! If they celebrate Christmas with traditional Christian symbols, they are threatened with lawsuits from the &#8216;Freedom from Religion&#8217; groups, if they dare to celebrate Christmas without traditional Christian symbols, they are threatened with lawsuits from the Liberty council and other Christian groups.</p>
<p>Whatever happened to the Christmas Spirit &#8212; Peace on Earth, Goodwill towards Men? I always thought that Christmas was a time to set aside differences and celebrate family and friends. What has happened to this country?????<br />
Laurie<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=317549', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/comment-page-5/#comment-317472</link>
		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2005 16:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;christ is the invisible man. &lt;/em&gt;

hahahahahaha...  love it!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>christ is the invisible man. </em></p>
<p>hahahahahaha&#8230;  love it!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=317472', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: thinkprogress@americanprogressaction.org</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/comment-page-5/#comment-316540</link>
		<dc:creator>thinkprogress@americanprogressaction.org</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BO is a twat! PERIOD. So is Bush.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BO is a twat! PERIOD. So is Bush&#8230;..<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=316540', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: unbelievable</title>
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		<dc:creator>unbelievable</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#232

Silent Night holds no spiritual value for a lot of people.  Get over it already.  Pick a real problem and stop whining about a silly song we lifted from the Germans to begin with.  You have plenty of options for a real issue.  Let&#039;s see... There&#039;s AIDS, the Occupation of Iraq, the minimum wage too low to live off of, child molestion by priests, cancer, starvation, high crime, second-hand smoke, and on and on and on...</description>
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<p>Silent Night holds no spiritual value for a lot of people.  Get over it already.  Pick a real problem and stop whining about a silly song we lifted from the Germans to begin with.  You have plenty of options for a real issue.  Let&#8217;s see&#8230; There&#8217;s AIDS, the Occupation of Iraq, the minimum wage too low to live off of, child molestion by priests, cancer, starvation, high crime, second-hand smoke, and on and on and on&#8230;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=316013', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Robert Zeurunkl</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/14/silent-night-fraud/comment-page-5/#comment-315435</link>
		<dc:creator>Robert Zeurunkl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lessee here.

The kids sang a song accompanied by music that would be universally recognized as &quot;Silent Night&quot;, but instead of actually singing &quot;Silent Night&quot; they sang &quot;Cold in the Night.&quot;

Is anyone disputing this?  I don&#039;t see anyone disputing this.  I see people trying to excuse it, or explain it.

That this change was made as part of a Christmas play from 1988 only says that someone was willing to co-opt or tamper with the words of a well known song a lot longer ago than was originally thought.  And it makes no difference to me.  Weird Al can parodize &quot;Beat It&quot; all he wants, because &quot;Beat It&quot; is not a song that holds significant religious or spiritual meaning for people.  And besides, the point of parody is good fun.  There&#039;s no such good reason to take, co-opt, and bastardize a song that is personally representative of many people&#039;s spiritual devotion or religious belief unless it is your intent to be offensive.

You can parody celebrities.  You cannot parody starvation.
You can parody politics.  You cannot parody genocide.

If you see the pattern there, then you know already what I mean.  If you do not, then there&#039;s not much that can be done for you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lessee here.</p>
<p>The kids sang a song accompanied by music that would be universally recognized as &#8220;Silent Night&#8221;, but instead of actually singing &#8220;Silent Night&#8221; they sang &#8220;Cold in the Night.&#8221;</p>
<p>Is anyone disputing this?  I don&#8217;t see anyone disputing this.  I see people trying to excuse it, or explain it.</p>
<p>That this change was made as part of a Christmas play from 1988 only says that someone was willing to co-opt or tamper with the words of a well known song a lot longer ago than was originally thought.  And it makes no difference to me.  Weird Al can parodize &#8220;Beat It&#8221; all he wants, because &#8220;Beat It&#8221; is not a song that holds significant religious or spiritual meaning for people.  And besides, the point of parody is good fun.  There&#8217;s no such good reason to take, co-opt, and bastardize a song that is personally representative of many people&#8217;s spiritual devotion or religious belief unless it is your intent to be offensive.</p>
<p>You can parody celebrities.  You cannot parody starvation.<br />
You can parody politics.  You cannot parody genocide.</p>
<p>If you see the pattern there, then you know already what I mean.  If you do not, then there&#8217;s not much that can be done for you.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=315435', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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