O’Reilly: Easter Bunny Under Attack!
It started with right-wing news site WorldNetDaily and Fox News daytime:
Now, finally, primetime cable’s fiercest culture warrior has joined the battle. Last night, Bill O’Reilly invited on Newsweek’s John Meacham to discuss the brewing ‘war on Easter’:
O’REILLY: Although some left-wingers in the media deny it, we have documented a number of cases where Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter have been attacked by secular interests. Lawsuits and corporate policies have proved this point over and over again.
Doesn’t take much to get O’Reilly hopping mad.
From what I remember all of the stories about the war on christmas that he used as proof were debunked.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:40 amDo he and Jay Sekulow have the same tailors?
April 12th, 2006 at 11:40 amO’rielly is a turd, what more needs to be said?
April 12th, 2006 at 11:41 amO’Reilly. what an unbelievable loser.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:41 amThe Mad Hare
April 12th, 2006 at 11:42 amwith
BAD HAIR
OMFG NOoooooooooooo!!!!!!!
The Global War on Easter has begun.
Get you $23,000 Italian shotguns and blast those bunnies.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:43 amLife imitates art. Colbert has been featuring the War on Easter for weeks.
As for O’Reilly, his weapon of choice is the video editing machine.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:43 amOh my ——- God. Please make it stop. Please………………..words fail
April 12th, 2006 at 11:45 amWow…I thought I had made up the phrase on this comment boards months ago. Holy sh*t, someone like O’Lielly actually ran with it….
Can we predict a War on Memorial Day, too? War on Secretary’s Day?
April 12th, 2006 at 11:46 amO’Reilly does realize that the Easter Bunny and Santa aren’t actually in the Bible, right??
April 12th, 2006 at 11:47 amDoesn’t this stupid jerk realize that neither the Easter Bunny nor Santa Claus have anything to do with Christianity?
They are both related to Pagan holidays, not Christian holidays.
What a dumbass.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:48 amDS,
Exactly.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:49 amBill must be REALLY getting desperate to recycle this kind of pathetic and fabricated tale.
There is no war on religion. Just a bunch of irritated people standing up when it is forced upon us against our will. Not the same.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:49 amEaster Bunny stew, my house, this Sunday.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:50 amWear your bunny ears and your favorite rabbit fur jacket.
Door prizes: Cute little pink and blue chicks, squeezed to death by toddlers.
O’Reilly does realize that the Easter Bunny and Santa aren’t actually in the Bible, right??
Comment by DS — April 12, 2006 @ 11:47 am
But talking dragons and fire-breathing dragons are. Think the holidays should change their mascots?
April 12th, 2006 at 11:51 amAnyone else remember the original TV, right-wing whackjob, Wally George? O’Reilly makes him look sane.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:51 ammeant ‘talking donkeys’
April 12th, 2006 at 11:51 amDoor prizes: Cute little pink and blue chicks, squeezed to death by toddlers.
Comment by Zookeeper — April 12, 2006 @ 11:50 am
You’re too funny… though a little demented ;)
April 12th, 2006 at 11:52 amI happily support BO’R and his campaign to keep the Easter Bunny holy.
All join me in hailing the great big bunny in the sky!
April 12th, 2006 at 11:53 am… gosh … so all those Peeps, Cadbury eggs, plastic Easter baskets and cello grass I saw at Target the other night … not to mention the giant frickin Bunny for kids to take pictures with at the Mall … those are all banned, now?
April 12th, 2006 at 11:53 amBut talking dragons and fire-breathing dragons are. Think the holidays should change their mascots?
Comment by unbelievable — April 12, 2006 @ 11:51 am
meant ‘talking donkeys’
Comment by unbelievable — April 12, 2006 @ 11:51 am
No, you were right the first time. There is a talking dragon in Revelations.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:56 amFrankly, as a follower of methological naturalism, I would not mind if there actually were a secular campaign to divest this nation (and the world) of outdated superstitious nonsense. Sadly, there is no such ‘war’, however. In light of the attacks by religious groups on science, human rights, the arts, privacy, and intellectualism, it is proper, if not mandatory, that secular America speak up in it’s own defense. If that means going after their sacred cows, then so be it.
If Bill O’Reilly and Jay Sekulow are products of this sort of religious nonsense, then the sooner we get rid of what created them , the better we will all be for it.
April 12th, 2006 at 11:59 amFrankly, as a follower of methodological naturalism, I would not mind if there actually were a secular campaign to divest this nation (and the world) of outdated superstitious nonsense. Sadly, there is no such ‘war’, however. In light of the attacks by religious groups on science, human rights, the arts, privacy, and intellectualism, it is proper, if not mandatory, that secular America speak up in it’s own defense. If that means going after their sacred cows, then so be it.
If Bill O’Reilly and Jay Sekulow are products of this sort of religious nonsense, then the sooner we get rid of what created them , the better we will all be for it.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:00 pm#21: There is a talking dragon in Revelations. - - Would that be ‘Puff’? Or in today’s world it’s more like ‘Poof.’
April 12th, 2006 at 12:00 pmActually, it doesn’t take much to make the left mad. It bothers you when someone calls you out as the anti-Christian bigots that you are. You hate that.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:00 pmNo, you were right the first time. There is a talking dragon in Revelations.
Comment by Spudge_Boy — April 12, 2006 @ 11:56 am
Along with the four cornered earth? Which isn’t that where the dragons live - off the ‘face’ of the planet?
April 12th, 2006 at 12:03 pmActually, it doesn’t take much to make the left mad. It bothers you when someone calls you out as the anti-Christian bigots that you are. You hate that.
Comment by Unemployment Rate - 4.7% — April 12, 2006 @ 12:00 pm
Clearly you do not recognize humor, wwallace. We are making jokes. Should try it sometime. You might find a prom date then and not need to hang outin here so much.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:05 pmOReilly should be reminded that the easter bunny is actually a pagan symbol, but then again are many of the object that christians hold so dear.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:09 pmMaybe O’liely is mad because check-out people at walmart are saying “Merry Easter” instead of “Happy Easter” when customers go in to buy their peeps.
Nothing makes a reich wing nut madder then when you don’t get the wording correct!
April 12th, 2006 at 12:10 pmGuest what? He is right this time :)
enjoy: http://www.waroneaster.org/
April 12th, 2006 at 12:13 pmEaster Bunny is a pagan symbol.
http://altreligion.about.com/library/bl_easterbunny.htm
April 12th, 2006 at 12:13 pm#25 - You are correct, warrantless domestic wiretapping is against the law.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:14 pmI gotta get cracking on my holiday song for next December. Title will be a snappier version of: “It Doesn’t Feel Like Christmas Until I See His Mottled, Red, Angry Face On My TV”
April 12th, 2006 at 12:14 pmI am a Christian who attends chruch regularly, I am not sure how I would qualify as anti-christian.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:15 pm#18 - You’re too funny… though a little demented ;)
Comment by unbelievable
*blush*
April 12th, 2006 at 12:15 pmYou’ve got to wonder if Bill’s seen this:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ news/ releases/ 2006/ 04/ 20060411-8.html
It goes all the way to the top Bill, the nation is doomed!
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April 12th, 2006 at 12:15 pmhttp://griperblade.blogspot.com - grumblings from the heartland
I.Q. 4.7
You are right - it s sad when Christians attack science at the peril of the world and its children.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:15 pmSuch a war! So fierce that the battle rages as the White House has it’s Easter Egg Roll on the front lawn each year. This year it’s a day late on Monday, April 17, 2006.
Wonder why OReilly isn’t concerned about the lack of Passover menions in the press or the nearly invisible month long celebration of Ramadan each year? Maybe because the country is dominated by an almost 77 % Christian majority.
What a moron!
April 12th, 2006 at 12:15 pmALL HAIL THE FOX NEWS QUESTION-MARK HEADLINE!!
April 12th, 2006 at 12:16 pmIQ 4.7, I find myself agreeing with you once again when you properly point out that the war against christians is nothing more than a tool being used by the right wing in an effort to distract us from the real crimes of this administration and that O’Rielly is nothing more than a GOP hack.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:17 pmActually, it doesn’t take much to make the left mad. It bothers you when someone calls you out as the anti-Christian bigots that you are. You hate that.
Comment by Unemployment Rate - 4.7% — April 12, 2006 @ 12:00 pm
OK, so since you’re not on the left, it shouldn’t bother you if I call you out as a Christian bigot?
April 12th, 2006 at 12:17 pmActually, I am a Christian stupid. My Christian parents raised me to know that both the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus have nothing to do with our religion. They are just holiday mascots for fun.
The truly important part of Easter is the resurrection of Christ and the important part of Christmas is the birth of Christ.
Everything else is bullshit.
If you were a true Christian, you would know that.
Idiot.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:19 pmIf we’re so organized as to wage “war” on 2,000 year old religions, why can’t we win an election?
April 12th, 2006 at 12:19 pmIf somebody actually called in and informed O’Reilly about the pagan origins of the holidays he holds so dear to exploit, he would…
1. Hang up on the caller and inform his listening audience that Fox Security will be handling the issue.
2. Go on some long side tangent about how the caller was completely wrong and then “correct” the caller with something he just made up.
3. Do that silly little smug smirk that he does when he thinks he has made his point and no further discussion is possible…. And since he already hung up on the caller, there is no way to counter his argument.
What a sad little man he is…
April 12th, 2006 at 12:19 pm“MERRY EASTER ” sounds stupid. If I want to say HAPPY EASTER I will and no one will tell me what to say. If I worked at Wal-mart I would say HAPPY EASTER. These people need to get a life.
Bill OReily is an idiot. Who watches Fox anyway only the Right Wing Nuts that can’t think for them self.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:20 pm#27, no actually it was you and your reichwing religious whack job that tried to tell me in sunday class that god was in a white robe with a walking stick along with his lambs sitting on a “cotton ball” cloud would greet me at the pearly gates. then when my family tried to get me to go to confirmation so i could eat a round wafer that you call flesh of jesus and drink cranberry juice that you call blood i realized there are alot of scaredy cats, gullable folks that can’t handle the truth and not knowing. so do you believe in the book of judah(that was recently found and the contents) or are you one of those christians? ones that cherry pick info and only apply the contents that fit your lifestyle.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:20 pmooops #46 was intended for #25 sorry.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:22 pmOh boy, oh boy. I can’t wait to watch Keith Olbermann’s show tonight.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:26 pmDoes anyone even take O’Lielly seriously anymore? His ratings have been plumetting
April 12th, 2006 at 12:27 pmbs,
Don’t forget the Apocrypha.
You know the book that holds the Books of Esdras 1 & 2, Tobit, Judith, The Rest of Esther, The Wisdom of Soloman, Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, with the Epistole of Jeremiah, The SOng of the Three Holy Children, The History of Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, The Prayer of Manasses, and Maccabees 1 & 2.
The Acpcrypha is not denounce by the Catholic church. They just don’t use them because “The just repeat a lot of stuff in the other books of the Bible”
I bet dippy ding dong had never heard of the Apocrypha before I mentioned it here.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:28 pmThis isn’t about religion, it’s about culture. The Democrats have been losing elections in large part because they are so out of touch with American culture. Attempts to banish Santa, Baby Jesus and now the Easter bunny from the public sector are wrong. A large majority of Americans don’t want that. So of course the right-wing is going to use it politically because we think you are wrong.
When it comes to issues of culture and religion, the left is truly fascist. You don’t want to debate - you want everyone to go along silently with your radical agenda. That’s gonna change. Can’t wait to see the hissy fit you throw when John Paul Stevens steps down from the Supreme Court this summer.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:30 pmHere is a definition from bible.com
A Christian theological definition of Apocrypha according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:
Apocrypha
The word apocrypha means hidden. It is used in a general sense to describe a list of books written by Jews between 300 and 100 B.C. More specifically, it is used of the seven additional books accepted by the Catholic church as being inspired. The entire list of books of the apocrypha are: 1 Esdras, 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, the Rest of Esther, the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, (also titled Ecclesiasticus), Baruch, The Letter of Jeremiah, Song of the Three Young Men, Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, The Additions to Daniel, The Prayer of Manasseh, and 1 and 2 Maccabees.
The books accepted as inspired and included in the Catholic Bible are Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees Wisdom of Solomon Sirach (also known as Ecclesiasticus), and Baruch
The Jews never recognized these books as being canonical (inspired). There is no record that Jesus or the apostles ever quoted from the apocryphal books. The Septuagint (LXX) includes the books, not as scripture, but as part of the translation of the Hebrew manuscripts as a whole.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:32 pmPoor billie, he will do anything to get attention…..fox ‘National Inquirer’ news. How are thoes rating drops doing billie? I see you DIDN’T get Keith Olbermann off t.v. did you…LOSER….
April 12th, 2006 at 12:33 pmDeath to Santa and the Easter Bunny!
But seriously.. no I said seriously… C’mon, stop laughing! Oh never mind, if you aren’t gonna be serious about it..
April 12th, 2006 at 12:35 pmSure it is.
Nise try, but this IS about religion. A religion you know nothing about.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:36 pmAnyone catch David Letterman’s bit last night on Easter? He prefaced it big-time and then when they played it the audience howled at the end (something about everyone being invited to the White House Easter Egg Roll….except if you’re Jewish).
This is just more of O’LIElly bloviating to somehow bolster his sagging ratings. What a pathetic loser he is.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:37 pmSee, Fox & Co. want it both ways. They want their viewers to believe that liberals are a laughingstock, have no ideas, are made ineffective by their rage at the president, and screech instead of talking. Then they want the viewers to believe that liberals are engaged in a vast conspiracy against them, vast enough to be the cause of every story of somebody taking down an Easter symbol.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:40 pmI think it is the Republicans that are out of touch with the American culture not the Dems.
The Dems will take over both houses and we will impeach Old Bushie and his administration.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:41 pmIQ 4.7 - you’re spot on again my friend. I completely agree with your assertion that the right wing is truly facist when it comes to issues of religion and culture. You’ve hit the nail on the head again when you suggest that they are not interested in debate and only want everyone to go along silently with thier radical agenda. I certainly hope that your are correct in your statement that this is going to change.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:42 pmThese are a bunch of whining, spoiled rotten crybabies. These “There’s a war on Christianity”, “War on (put your cause here)”, bunch are a whole lot of losers. They will never be satisfied, even if they take over the world. Everything is about them sickens me. Bill O’Reilly is raising a new generation of paranoid, self-deluded, spoiled rotten losers.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:45 pmThe Easter Bunny died for your sins!
I’m glad that O’Reilly has finally started covering this crisis, so ably first documented by The Colbert Report.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:45 pmLet’s see… as far as cacao is originally a product from south america, “discovered” five hundred years ago by the christians, tell me HOW IT CAN BE A CHRISTIAN TRADITION, as soon as Christ has been around for two hundred years, a bunny (???) laying chocolate eggs!!!
(By the way, I’m christian, catholic brand, and I have no clue where in the Bible is the paragraph about bunnies and eggs).
April 12th, 2006 at 12:47 pmBut, I like chocolate…
April 12th, 2006 at 12:51 pmComment by Unemployment Rate - 4.7% — April 12, 2006 @ 12:30 pm
Why do you insist on using that ridiculous nickname? I’ve already demonstrated that it’s a lie. Or do you get a masochistic kick out of trumpeting yourself as a liar?
April 12th, 2006 at 12:51 pmBut, I like chocolate…
Comment by Bruce Gorton — April 12, 2006 @ 12:51 pm
Me too. You’ll be happy to know that you can buy, and eat it year ’round now :)
April 12th, 2006 at 12:53 pm#62 Oops, obviously, Christ has been two THOUSAND years around.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:53 pm“The answer lies in the ingenious way that the Christian church absorbed Pagan practices.”
That word made me laugh!
-Tommy Torquemada
April 12th, 2006 at 12:53 pmO’Dildo is just doing his job, people. His job is to rally the religious wackos to the GOP (corporate) cause. The Repugs have to fight the next election and the one after that. If the GOP does not run on gays, guns, god and fetuses, what are they going to run on in 2006 and 2008…….. their record?
April 12th, 2006 at 12:58 pmo’reilly is simply a paranoid delusional
April 12th, 2006 at 12:59 pmWild Bill is too dumb to realize that the easter bunny, chocolate, eggs, easter baskets etc… ARE THE SECULARIZATION OF EASTER. Easter has noting to do with those things.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:00 pmYou go get ‘em, Bill! The next thing you know, them damn anti-Christians will be crucifying Jesus instead of celebrating Easter. Oh, wait…
April 12th, 2006 at 1:03 pmI’m starting to think Fox News is really a very long-running satire piece. Kind of like The Daily Show, but not funny. They can’t possibly be serious.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:04 pm#58 - 66% of Americans do NOT want Bush impeached. So yes, you are out of touch. AND a fool, I might add.
As for the culture wars, you people have no idea what you are in for. The Court will shift radically to right and there is not a thing you can do about it. Your Stalinist agenda will be stopped once and for all.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:04 pmI posted the following on a UK board back in December when the religious right were going on about the War on Christmas:
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 10:23 am Post subject: The War On Christmas
After having come off of this last major religious holiday, it struck me, has anyone else noticed how Christians seem to have this whole persecution complex going? I mean, every time we hit a major Christian festival, we get told the PC Brigade (which, so far as I can see doesn’t exist) has declared war on it. And these festivals aren’t really even Christian any more.
Face it, who do your kids identify with Christmas? A fat guy in a red suit, or Jesus? Easter? Jesus getting offed or a bunny armed with chocolate eggs? Hell, I identified Christmas as being about the fat guy in a red suit when I was small, and I didn’t believe in Santa! I believed in presents but that is another story.
Now, as an Atheist, with vaguely liberal leanings, I have come to the conclusion that Christianity is in dire need of real persecution. As one of the number one parties getting blamed for said persecution, I feel that it is only fair that I get to engage in it. Thus I as an all powerful atheist person, have declared war on Christian festivals, except for Saint Patrick’s Day because that one oddly enough never gets mentioned and I like leprechauns.
Now, for next Christmas, as my first act of war, I will hereby tell all and sundry children that Santa doesn’t exist, their parents are buying them those presents, and besides don’t they find it kinda creepy having some fat old guy knowing when they are say, having a bath or on the toilet? Or even wanting to know? Second, I shall attend church with the distinct aim of being asked to leave after heckling the priest and replacing the choir’s prayer books with Kevin Bloody Wilson lyrics.
Now I am waiting till Easter after next, because I want all of those Christian fundies to at least have a chance at not being whiny wussies about whatever Easter variant of “Happy Holidays” hits the shops. The Easter afterwards however, will likely see red cherry jam filled chocolate (dark chocolate) Crucified Jesus sweets appearing all over the place. They at least will be on topic.
Saint Valentine’s Day? Porn! And anyway, both Valentines were celibate. So who will join me in this holy crusade against the “holy” festivals? Sure we will get called jackasses, but hey, at least the Christian right will have reason to bitch and moan instead of doing it for practice.
Now Easter has come, and I must start preparing for next year, anybody know where I can get some Jesus shaped cooking moulds?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:05 pmO’Reilly is an idiot.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:05 pmOh no, not the Easter bunny!
I thought the Pat Robertson’s and Jerry Falwell’s were opposed to the bunny as being irreligious, and “diluting the message of Christ?
If this is the case then O’Really has put himself in an odd position even by his own standards.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:07 pmWe’ve had enough! If there are going to be fake wars on Easter and Christmas in the press, we’ll wage real war and let him know what’s up! This Easter nowhere is safe from the truth as we non-violently spread copies of “The God Who Wasn’t There” DVD in the hymnals and pews for unsuspecting worshippers to see.
Visit http://www.waroneaster.org and this thread for some audio files about the event including radio appearances we’ve made!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:07 pmIt almost makes me feel pity. Almost. The best O’Reilly can do is parrot Stephen Colbert’s satire. The Colbert Report was there first, Bill. Get your own war.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:08 pmOkay Joseph MacCarthy.
You know who else was scared of the communists?
Hitler.
That fits rather well, since you are a facist.
You have been bitch slapped up one side and down the other here.
STFU
April 12th, 2006 at 1:09 pmI do hope that Bill stands up for the Tooth Fairy next. Tooth Fairy believers have had ENOUGH
Oh, wait … Bill will probably never stand up for any kind of “fairy.”
April 12th, 2006 at 1:09 pmmaybe O’reilly can use The Colbert Report’s graphic for “Easter Under Attack,” featuring a pistol-toting Jesus fending off bullets as he emerges from the tomb!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:09 pmSecular interests? THat is like saying black people who fought against slavery were pushing “black” interests. How dare people NOT want to be oppressed! How dare people NOT want Christianity forced on them eveywhere they go! And how dare anyone think religion should be a spiritual private matter as opposed to a boistrous, brag-fest.
After all, that is the “secular interests” O’Reilly is laughably talking about…people not wanting to have someone else’s beliefs forced on them in public.
And WTF does the Easter Bunny have to do with Jesus’ death and resurection anyway?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:09 pmIs the “War on Easter” anything like our “War on Porta-Potties in the Iraqi Desert”?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:10 pmSomebody unwrap this nut bar…and stuff him in a microwave.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:11 pm“As for the culture wars, you people have no idea what you are in for. The Court will shift radically to right and there is not a thing you can do about it. Your Stalinist agenda will be stopped once and for all.”
Because everyone knows that the best way to stop things becoming The Way I Don’t Want Them To Be is to FORCE everyone to do it My Way. Threaten. Threaten. Screech. Screech. Screech.
If that isn’t real, Tooth-Fairy-Blessed DEMOCRACY, what is, Paw?
Stalinism. Yeah, RIGHT, pal. Like the theocracy YOU want is anything people with better than a 3rd grade education would ever sanction.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:12 pmGlenn - I can feel the hate. We have been living in a liberal theocracy since 1968. Your religion is a hatred of religious values and those who have them.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:16 pmO’Reilly is the dumbest man on planet Earth! Easter became a more secular holiday years ago! Does he think the Easter Bunny, Ducks and eggs are in the Bible? Almost everything about Easter is created nonsense! Only if you go to church on Easter Sunday, and listen to the story of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, do you understand its meaning! But do not give all that gooey candy to your kids, and paint eggs, if you believe in Christianity!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:18 pmHa ha ha — “hopping mad”
April 12th, 2006 at 1:18 pmO’Lielly the loser is so trite now - so predictable. With Colbert nailing Bill’s delivery and attitude on his satirical program, it’s surprising to me that Bill O continues to provide fodder for Colbert and all the other comedians who mock him.
Not that he doesn’t deserve all the derision he gets, and then some.
The Easter Bunny may not bring the rabble-rousing fomenter a basket on Sunday.
I wonder if O’Lielly will attend church Thursday, fast on Friday and make the Stations of the Cross, and attend the sunrise service on Sunday - or will he buy new outfits for the family, eat a few chocolate bunnies, and help the local kids color a few eggs, and then join the kids on the White House lawn for the Easter Egg Roll.
Marie - YOU are loser. SO predictable. A poster child for the far left.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:20 pmHey Spudge Boy, Unemployment line and the rest of you hypocritical Christians!. If you guys hate us “leftists” ergo We Secular humanists, then leave our SCIENCE alone! Don’t take advantage of our medical discoveries, our electronics discoveries, our airplanes and transportation, computers or telephones or anything technological. Those were made with SCIENCE! Next time you or your kids get sick, PRAY, don’t use modern medicine. Use your FAITH, not our Science. Leave my Easter Bunny and Santa out of your silly war. The War on Easter and Christmas is a war on your STUPIDITY not the holidays. Next you’ll want to claim the Tooth Fairy.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:20 pm#86 - I completely agree with your assertion that the right wing is truly facist when it comes to issues of religion and culture.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:22 pmAs the Knights of the Round Table can attest, the bunny can take care of itself.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:22 pmBush is a dictator and has to be stop. You are out of touch with reality.
Bush has done nothing for the American people except give us an unjust war. This administration was behind 9-11.
The American people do want this man Impeached. We will win in November and you can cry in your beer.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:22 pm#90 JAG, Spudge Boy is only pointing to the reasonement failures of IQ 4.7
April 12th, 2006 at 1:23 pmBruce - did you bring the royal grenade?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:23 pmO’Reilly is absolutely ridiculous.
My brother-in-law is a hard-core Protestant and he refuses to have anything to do with the Easter Bunny or the egg hunt. He thinks is too pagan.
Don’t even ask him about Halloween.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:24 pmThese guys are desperate they runnuing out justification for their wars ,Now the easter bunny .NOW WHO WILL BE NEXT . Tshe jews , the gypsies , the gays , they have done that done this , old shit . Thair imagination of hate is running dry . Well may be not.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:24 pmZookeeper - I said the left is fascist when it comes to culture. Of course, you agree.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:25 pmJAG,
You got the wrong guy. I am directly attacking Unemployment and O’Rielly over the fact that they know nothing about the Christian religion. Jesus was in fact a liberal and was fighting against the tyranical opression of the Romans.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:26 pmKeith Olbermann will probably get on this and make O’Lielly TONIGHT’S WORST PERSON IN THE WOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRLD!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:27 pm[…] Meanwhile, Bill O’Reilly, confronted with perhaps one of the biggest war crises in his country’s history reports on…the war on Easter. This is not a joke. […]
April 12th, 2006 at 1:28 pm[…] Meanwhile, Bill O’Reilly, confronted with perhaps one of the biggest war crises in his country’s history reports on…the war on Easter. This is not a joke. […]
April 12th, 2006 at 1:28 pmFunny how the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus are myths that Christians like to tell to their children as if they were true.
I guess they’re just softening them up for the really big myth they’re going to teach them as truth when they get older.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:28 pm98
As a South African, I have a long history of knowing people who were all about defending their culture. In fact that was the exact rationale behind Aparthied. So you will excuse me if I take your “Defending American Culture” stance a bit less then seriously.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:28 pmUnemployment Rate - 4.7%,
Hey dipshit, everytime you say left and facist in the same phrase you make yourself look very stupid. Facism is a right wing policy, not a left wing policy. Get your attacks straight. You are supposed to call us communists.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:29 pmratings must be very low for O’Liely! very,very low. I think i’ll sic all the kids in the United States on him. What an old miser. taking all the fun away! as a kid we went to mass FIRST then we had the easter egg hunt and pigged out on chocolate the whole day so when my mom called for dinner we all groaned!! I’m sure thats how most american families still play it!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:31 pmFirst this:
It bothers you when someone calls you out as the anti-Christian bigots that you are.
Comment by Unemployment Rate - 4.7% — April 12, 2006 @ 12:00 pm
Followed by this:
This isn’t about religion, it’s about culture. (..) Attempts to banish Santa, Baby Jesus and now the Easter bunny from the public sector are wrong.
Comment by Unemployment Rate - 4.7% — April 12, 2006 @ 12:30 pm
UR47/wwallace cannot keep his stories straight… such a sad spectacle…
April 12th, 2006 at 1:34 pmA-HOLES all of them! If they only knew that EVERY LAST CHRISTIAN celebration
April 12th, 2006 at 1:34 pmwas STOLEN from the PAGANS!
First they came for Santa Claus
April 12th, 2006 at 1:34 pmand I did not speak out
because I was not Santa.
Then they came for the Easter Bunny
and I did not speak out
because I was not the Easter Bunny.
Then they came for the Tooth Fairy
and I did not speak out
because I was not the Tooth Fairy.
Then they came for me
and there were no imaginary friends
to speak out for me.
Spudge - good points. However, the modern day left has a touch of fascism and communism. You people are like the thought police. You viciously attack anyone who disagrees with you (case in point, Alito). O’Reilly, too. You would gas conservatives if you had the power - you would.
You hate religion unless you can invoke to save the life of murderer. You also like to use religion to justify taking my $$.
It is quite an achievement, but ThinkProgress is both fascist and communist.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:35 pmNeD, you must reread your helpful, insightful, intelligent comments once again. Can you honestly say you are useful to anyone? Aren’t you embarrassed?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:36 pmSomeone with an IQ over 100 is still listening to O’Reilly’s big fat mouth from his big fat head?
Get the facts. Watch Keith Olbermann instead.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:37 pm#98 - *snort* You are correct, warrantless domestic wiretapping is against the law.
#107 - Ah Spudge, now you’ve let the cat out of the bag. I was going to let him go on that way. Left=fascist…HA!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:38 pmI.Q. 4.7 - I Love You Man!
I think Jesus does too.
How could he not when you work so hard to spread the Loving message that he died for.
You go Girlfriend!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:38 pmAre you having trouble reading?
I am a Christian, so every time you say I hate religion, you make yourself sound like a fool.
Besides, It is the right who hates the Muslim religion, so if you are going to generalize, please at least say the left hates Christians. But, considering that you consider me left, which I am not, that would make you sound stupid also, because once again, I am a Christian.
I just don’t believe your bullshit lies or those of O’Rielly or those of the Bush cabal.
You need to go to church and learn about what Christ really wanted.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:39 pmBoth the “War on Christmas” and the “War on Easter” have been wholly invented by Fox. On the other hand, it’s great to see Fox using the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus to symbolize to deeply Christian holidays. Anyone else think they’re missing the point here? What a bunch of morons.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:41 pm#116 - prove that you’re not fascist. You are the thought police. You hate anyone or anything who doesn’t share your views. Did you watch Teddy Kennedy disgusting tactics at Alito’s hearing? Did you hear Leaky Leahy grilling Alito about what he thought thirty years ago. You are an Orwellian novel, except you have no power to enact your agenda.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:41 pmYou know what is funny? The first protestants where people who was not in sintony with the Roman Catholic Church because they thought that the way of the Church was far from the teachings of Christ. And look today: their descendants “ingeniously” integrated the non-christian traditions (easter & bunnies, Santa Claus, Halloween…) into their brand of christianity. I think that Martin Luther, John Calvin, Zwingli, Thomas Cranmer, and John Knox would be very disappointed if they knew what have done their ideological descendants to christianity.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:42 pmActually, I would force them all to watch BBC news insteda of Fox News. I would make them all attend higher education, not just go to the building, but actually attend. Then I would make them all read the Bible from front cover to back, so they could learn abou the religion they preach to everyone.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:43 pmFlying Spaghetti Monster - That’s some funny shit man!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:44 pm#100, If you want to see his head explode start talking about the UNDEREMPLOYMENT of America, which has been steadily rising for the last few years.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:45 pm#120 - You are correct, this is the most incompetent administration ever.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:45 pmNeD, do you really think you are religious? Isn’t it obvious when you read your own posts, that you are judging others and not doing God’s work? Do you think you are any better than any other human walking the earth? And really, aren’t you worried about how your party looks? Republicans are barely keeping afloat. There is much division and it would seem that if you actually cared, you would be trying to assist them instead of wasting your time here - not that I mind.
And NeD, you are very confused about what we think and what we are about; that is why your posts are so strange to us here. You sound like a pimply faced teenager. How could anyone want that? Don’t you have any pride? Why weren’t you taught self-respect? That evil mother issue again?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:46 pm#124 - I think we’re getting close, Mark.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:47 pmSpudge - I would make people like you live in Iran and pre-war Iraq for a year to see what oppression is really like. Then, maybe you would appreciate this wonderful country even if you don’t like the current leadership.
I would make the left live under all the dictators they would have left in power because they are cowards and don’t believe in their country.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:47 pm[…] Remember the thoroughly debunked persecution complex of the right wing’s War on Christmas meme? We’re more Hanukkah people here at DoubleSpeak, but we found it silly nonetheless. Looks like they’re using the same playbook this spring. Via Think Progress, from last night’s O’Reilly Factor: O’REILLY: Although some left-wingers in the media deny it, we have documented a number of cases where Christian holidays like Christmas and Easter have been attacked by secular interests. Lawsuits and corporate policies have proved this point over and over again. […]
April 12th, 2006 at 1:48 pmI have declared Jihad against the Easter Bunny! Alahu Akbar!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:48 pm“Doesn’t take much to get O’Reilly hopping mad.”
You think Father O’Reilly gets mad about the unrelenting attacks on Christianity from the Filthy Left, wait until all those R.C. Mexicans that have been streaming across the border wiegh in on the subject. They are not used to putting up with the fun and games our secular humanists on the Filthy Left plays on the Christian faith. It won’t be long before disrespecting the Christian religion in this country is considered a hate crime. When that happens you losers will really be screwed. I suggest you learn the Rosary. You heard it here first.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:48 pm#120 A negative cannot be proven. More of that crazy science that you don’t understand. Geez, NeD, you really have be more clever, if not smart.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:49 pmThe left believes in our country not the current dictator Old Bushie.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:50 pmAha ah ah ah ah a
You mean the dictators that the republicans put in power?
WHy are you trying to change the subject. What happened to defending the Christian religion, you know nothing about. Why are you not talking about the Global War on Easter.
Because you don’t have a religion.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:50 pmUnderemployment - we have a dictatorship here - no need to leave.
By the way…when are you going to Iraq? If this is such a just cause, why aren’t you serving?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:50 pmActually, my feelings on the matter is that all prisoners should be treat according to the facts of their case, not according to their religion, so I disagree with letting converts off easy just because they found God (or gods.)
My misgivings about the death penalty are more based on what Gandalf said then anything Jesus said, so your argument fails there too.
Oh, and your taxes? How about this, try living without any of the services those taxes pay for, then get back to us.
Now lets all get back to mocking the Rightwing Pundit.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:52 pm#131 - “…all those R.C. Mexicans”??? You think that they’re radio-controlled?
April 12th, 2006 at 1:52 pmUnemployment Rate - 4.7%,
When was it that you said that you joined the military to go fight the dictators?
I served my country during Operation Desert Storm.
How about you. Fought for your country lately?
Didn’t think so.
Chickenhawk Facist.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:53 pm#131 Yes, O’Liely gets very mad about almost everything - much like yourself. And you are not a Christian. You are what we were warned about in church - false profits disguised as believers. You will be dealt with, one way or another.
You should try to atone.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:53 pm#134 - you should live in Iran since you fear Bush more than their President. Let’s see what they to do dissenters like yourself.
Also, live with your buddy Chavez with Cindy Liar Sheehan. You can be put in jail for criticizing him.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:53 pmPROOF of the war on Easter:
April 12th, 2006 at 1:55 pmhttp://www.doei.org/misc/Easter_is_cancelled.jpg
IQ 4.7… Christian Brother - let’s bury the hatchet… or maybe paint it and hide it in the yard… whatever works best for you.
I think a compromise is in order!
Why don’t we pull the troops out of Iraq and then take the hundreds of billions of dollars that wed save from no longer funding an illegal war and buy plastic Santas and plastic Easter Bunnies for every man woman and child in America… even the illegals.
Oh yeah - and we could get all the soldiers that wed save from certain death to deliver them.
Mmmmmmmmmmm - now that’s good compromise!
April 12th, 2006 at 1:58 pmIn the name of Christianity HE should be waging war on the Easter Bunny which has nothing whatsoever to do with the Christian Easter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This guy is bipolar.
April 12th, 2006 at 1:59 pmComment by I-RIGHT-I — April 12, 2006 @ 1:48 pm
dribble on you pea-minded ignoramus!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:00 pm#140 - You are right in your assertion that it’s a travesty that George W. Bush lied us into the Iraq War, at the cost of over 2300 of our troops, including Casey Sheehan.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:00 pmComment by I-RIGHT-I — April 12, 2006 @ 1:48 pm
dribble on you pea-brained ignoramus!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:00 pmHa, Bush doesn’t scare me. The whole Bush cabal reminds me of the Keystone Cops. They fvck up everything they touch.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:02 pmUnemployment Rate: Why didn’t you tell Spudge Boy to live in Iraq? I know why. It’s because you know that Preznit Half-wit screwed the pooch on Iraq and it’s WORSE THERE NOW THAN IT WAS BEFORE PUDDIN’ HEAD BUSH GOT ALL MESSIANIC AND DECIDED TO INVADE IRAQ WITH A LOAF OF BREAD AND A COUPLE OF FISH.
Let’s examine some reality for a change:
“No one could have predicted that they’d use airplanes as missiles!”
– Condi Rice
“No one could have predicted that the levees would be breached!”
–George W. Bush, nincompoop
“No one could have predicted there would be looting!”
–Donald Rumsfeld
“No one could have predicted there’d be an insurgency!”
–Dick “Dick” Cheney
It should be clear to all those watching that this administration is dangerously incompetent in assessing the real world. If they are telling us today that Iran is dangerously close to possessing ‘nucular’ weapons, then I will predict that it is just a matter of time before one of these dangerous asshats stands in front of us and tells us, “No one could have predicted that Iran didn’t really have nukes, after all!” Of course, this will be after tens or hundreds of thousands of people have died.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:02 pmRyan - do your homework. You can be put in jail for criticizing Chavez’ govt. It’s digusting that the left would associate with him.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:03 pmUnemployment Rate: Chavez was democratically elected. Do you have a problem with democratic elections? Or are you just in favor of ‘Free-dumb’?
April 12th, 2006 at 2:05 pmUR - do your homework. You can disappear just like that for criticizing Bushco’s government. It’s no wonder the right associates with him.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:05 pmActually, I would probably be greeted as a hero for standing up against Bush.
Same should be true in the US, too bad republicans control the “liberal media” here.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:06 pmIf there was an official label put on the first decade of the new century, the right wing media outlets would choose “The War on…” decade.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:07 pm#150 - Spaghetti - They need to call Ms Cleo. That crazy bitch can predict anything!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:07 pm#154 - you are SICK. You are an un-American scum bag. Done debating with trash…
April 12th, 2006 at 2:08 pmGeez! First those Liberal-Commie bastards try to take the son of God out of Christmas [leaving just “Merry mas”].
Now they try to take God’s favorite Bunny Of the Month (April . . . although S/he sometimes appears in March) out of the centerfold of Prayboy magazine!
What next? Will they try to de-Saint Patrick . . . WHAT???
April 12th, 2006 at 2:08 pm“you should live in Iran since you fear Bush more than their President. Let’s see what they to do dissenters like yourself.”
this idiot hasn’t a clue. People in Iran, like us, CANNOT stand their leader either.
And that is the thing we are turning into. Not being able to SPEAK OUT! For fear of the SLIME MACHINE!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:10 pmMission Accomplished!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:10 pm#78: The best O’Reilly can do is parrot Stephen Colbert’s satire. The Colbert Report was there first, Bill. Get your own war. - - And that sneaky bastard O’Reilly waited to do this story until Colbert went on vacation this week. When Stephen gets back he’s going to weep over how his ‘mentor, idol and template,’ O’Reilly, betrayed him.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:10 pmJust a quick quote pulled from Wikipedia on the subject of Chávez. Now who do we know who uses routinely uses the “But they did it too” excuse?
April 12th, 2006 at 2:10 pm#156 - You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT! We were sold the bill of goods that this imbecile was going to be “The CEO President”. After all of the disasters that he and his incomptent band of thieves have managed to perpetrate on us, I’ve decided that we don’t need a CEO President–we need a CLEO President, just like you said. Miss Cleo could have predicted that stuff and saved hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars and tens of thousands of lives!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:10 pmRyan - you’re an idiot. If you had your way in the 50s, Stalin would have committed more crimes against humanity because you are too busy crying about Joe McCarthy. He wasn’t the enemy - Stalin was.
You twisted fucks would have let Stalin, Hitler and Hussein in power. You have always sided with the enemy. FDR would be ashamed.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:12 pm#157 Good riddens. We don’t want you here. You are an insulting right wing idiot.
By By!!!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:12 pmWhat the hell does the Easter bunny have to do with Jesus rising from the dead?
April 12th, 2006 at 2:12 pm#154 - you are SICK. You are an un-American scum bag. Done debating with trash…
Comment by Unemployment Rate - 4.7% — April 12, 2006 @ 2:08 pm
Damn Spudge - You did it… you wore that simple bastard out.
And they say that ignorance has no bounds… Ha!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:12 pmWe were sold the bill of goods that this imbecile was going to be “The CEO Presidentâ€.
Seems to me most people should have noticed that Bush was a failed CEO before they fell for that line of crap.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:13 pmUnemployment Rate - 4.7%
Actually, we can argue that without McCarthy, America would have beaten Russia sooner, because valuable resources that were wasted on persecuting Charlie Chaplin could have been better spent on fighting Communism.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:14 pmUnemployment Rate - explaining stuff to you is kind of like showing a card trick to a cocker spaniel. The dog cocks it’s head as though it’s trying to understand what’s going on, but clearly it doesn’t have the intellect to cope.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:14 pmHitler’s Industrialist Party was funded in part by Prescott Bush. George Bush’s Grandpa.
Saddam Hussien was good buddies with Regan and Rumsfeld.
Get your facts straight.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:15 pmHey you all - have you seen this - I keep posting it but you HAVE to see it.
Check it out here…
it really does explain the mind set of these idiots!
April 12th, 2006 at 2:16 pmBTW, in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, we can celebrate Easter even though we don’t believe in imaginary friends like the Easter Bunny. We have REAL friends–like the Easter Penne.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:17 pm#100 Ryan :) !
April 12th, 2006 at 2:18 pmUR is quick to label everyone who doesn’t think (does he think?) like he does.
madashell,
That is definitely funny stuff. I sent it to all of my republican friends.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:18 pmWait till they find out about the Easter Beaver, who brings us whole new method for hiding the Easter eggs.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:19 pmThere *is* a war on the bunny - but they have it wrong: the RIGHT is after him, not the LEFT. Silly Billy. From a local (PIttsburgh) phenomenon in 2004:
No passion for Easter Bunny at church show
Children in audience watch as actor in rabbit costume whipped
The Associated Press
Updated: 9:37 a.m. ET April 8, 2004
GLASSPORT, Pa. - First, the Passion of the Christ. Now, the torment of the Easter Bunny?
It may not have been as gruesome as Mel Gibson’s movie, but many parents and children got upset when a church trying to teach about Jesus’ crucifixion performed an Easter show with actors whipping the Easter bunny and breaking eggs.
People who attended Saturday’s show at Glassport’s memorial stadium quoted performers as saying, “There is no Easter bunny,†and described the show as being a demonstration of how Jesus was crucified.
Melissa Salzmann, who brought her 4-year-old son J.T., said the program was inappropriate for young children. “He was crying and asking me why the bunny was being whipped,†Salzmann said.
Patty Bickerton, the youth minister at Glassport Assembly of God, said the performance wasn’t meant to be offensive. Bickerton portrayed the Easter rabbit and said she tried to act with a tone of irreverence.
“The program was for all ages, not just the kids. We wanted to convey that Easter is not just about the Easter bunny, it is about Jesus Christ,†Bickerton said.
Performers broke eggs meant for an Easter egg hunt and also portrayed a drunken man and a self-mutilating woman, said Jennifer Norelli-Burke, another parent who saw the show in Glassport, a community about 10 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
“It was very disturbing,†Norelli-Burke said. “I could not believe what I saw. It wasn’t anything I was expecting.â€
© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:19 pmWait till they find out about the Easter Beaver, who brings us a whole new method for hiding the Easter eggs.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:19 pmImagine…George Bush has been President for more than 5 years, and the best thing that our not-bright friend can come up with about the Bush administration is “Unemployment Rate 4.7%”. Of course, that’s higher than the unemployment rate when Clinton had been President for 5 years, but I guess that ‘our friend’ didn’t have room in the name field for other Bush accomplishments like, “Over 25,000 Americans dead and wounded in 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan and Katrina!”
April 12th, 2006 at 2:20 pmI want to know what books in the Bible have the stories about the Easter Bunny and about Santa Claus.
.
April 12th, 2006 at 2:24 pmVeruca,
The truth is stranger than fiction. You can’t make this s