O’Reilly Misfires In ‘War On Christmas’ Attack On Crate & Barrel
O’Reilly Misfires In ‘War On Christmas’ Attack On Crate & Barrel
Last night, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly took aim at the retailer Crate & Barrel in his latest “War on Christmas” segment. O’Reilly cited a recent article in which Crate & Barrel spokeswoman Betty Kahn is quoted saying, “We would definitely not say Merry Christmas.”
O’Reilly claimed to have “confirmed” the quote was accurate. As a result, he said he would no longer shop at the store, and alleged that the six Muslim imams removed last week from a US Airways flight “wouldn’t get handcuffed in Crate & Barrel if they started chanting and stuff.” Watch it:
But in an interview with ThinkProgress, Kahn said her quote was misconstrued. Crate & Barrel has no policy encouraging or discouraging store employees from saying “Merry Christmas” or any other greeting. Kahn said she was trying to communicate that the store does not actively require employees to say “Merry Christmas.”
Kahn’s explanation is supported by the fact that Crate & Barrel’s website features various Christmas promotional materials, including a special Christmas section (located at CrateandBarrel.com/Christmas), pictured below:
Full transcript:
O’REILLY: Thanks for staying with us. I’m Bill O’Reilly.
In the “Impact” segment, most American retail stores are saying “merry Christmas”, as we mentioned, but not Crate & Barrel and Best Buy. Incredibly, Crate & Barrel spokesperson Cathy — I’m sorry, Betty Kahn — Betty Kahn told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, quote, “We would definitely not be saying merry Christmas.” Wow.
…
O’REILLY: All right. Crate & Barrel, you know, I don’t care about them. I got one near my house. It’s a nice store. But I mean, I’m not into it. But the woman comes out, and we confirmed this, Betty Kahn, “We’re absolutely not going to say merry Christmas.” It’s annoying. Isn’t it?
I mean, I’m not going to go there because it’s annoying, for no other reason. Betty, you’re annoying. Am I overdoing it?
POWERS: Yeah, I think you are.
O’REILLY: Yeah, you think so??
POWERS: It would be impossible to say how much I don’t care that they’re not saying “merry Christmas.”
O’REILLY: All right, but you don’t care?
POWERS: I don’t. I love Christmas.
O’REILLY: You don’t know why other people do?
POWERS: No, actually, I don’t.
O’REILLY: You don’t understand anybody who’s annoyed by it?
POWERS: It has nothing to do with Christianity. It has nothing to do with Jesus’ birth.
O’REILLY: True, true. All that’s true.
POWERS: And it’s a business decision. If they choose not to say “merry Christmas,” well, how does that how I affect how I celebrate Christmas?
O’REILLY: Because it’s just so small. It’s so small and dumb.
POWERS: Maybe they feel like their clientele is so diverse that they would just rather say happy holidays. I mean, why can’t they just make that decision? How would this ruin your day, though?
O’REILLY: Because you — it doesn’t ruin my day. It’s just one of these little annoying things that I say if you’re not going to say “merry Christmas,” and it’s a federal holiday, I’m not going to buy the lamp. I mean, I am that small.
POWERS: I think the other stuff — I agree with that.
O’REILLY: I am. I am that — Michelle, you — you know me. You know I am that petty, that if you’re going to annoy me like this because I just get annoyed. It’s a federal holiday. Say “merry Christmas,” say “happy holidays,” stand on your head. I don’t care. But to say, “We’re absolutely not going to say ‘merry Christmas’,” I’m not going there then. That’s how small I am. Am I wrong?
MALKIN: Well — well, look. On my aggravato-meter, it’s a two. On yours it sounds like it’s about a six with 10 being total eye-popping outrage. But so you’re not going to buy any crates or barrels. And you know…
O’REILLY: Right. There — I think it’s, you know. Isn’t it dumb?
POWERS: That you feel that way, yes.
O’REILLY: No, isn’t to dumb for a spokesman of a major — of a major company, where 80 percent of the country is Christian and 90 celebrates Christmas, isn’t it dumb, Michelle, to come out and say, “I’m absolutely not going to say that”?
MALKIN: You know, it probably is.
O’REILLY: Thank you.
POWERS: Michelle is sucking up.
MALKIN: I am. You have to look at the clientele of Crate & Barrel. Do you shop there? I don’t shop there? Who shops there, Kirsten? Come on, you know.
POWERS: I have some Crate & Barrel stuff.
O’REILLY: Come on. Maybe the imams who got thrown off the plane will.
MALKIN: Well, there you go.
O’REILLY: I bet you they wouldn’t get handcuffed in Crate & Barrel if they started chanting and stuff.
POWERS: Probably not.
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Does that still frame sum it up or what?
November 28th, 2006 at 3:23 pmIs it just me, or is Michelle Malkin making more sense than BO?
And help me out here, what does saying Merry Christmas at Pottery Barn have to do with 6 imams on a plane? That could be a movie title…
November 28th, 2006 at 3:26 pm‘O’ Reilly says,
“Its just so small, just so annoying”!
That just about describes Bill. The smallest, pettiest, stupidest and most annoying guy on TV! With all thats going on in the world he is pissed people say happy holidays instead of merry christmas. And he gets payed millions for this!
November 28th, 2006 at 3:26 pmThis guy is hemorrhaging credibility by the minute!
What is he the Kaped Krusader for Kristmas?
November 28th, 2006 at 3:27 pmI guess that we have to start saying Happy Martin Luther King’s Birthday since it si a federal holiday. If Bill O doesn’t start saying it on his programs I am going to call a boycott since he is waging a war on MLK B-day.
That makes about as much sense as his hissy-fit did. Also, when Malkin starts thinking that you are going a little overboard that should tell you something.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:27 pmYou’re in pretty bad shape when even Michelle Malkin won’t echo your crazy right-wing rant.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:27 pmIsn’t sweeps month over already???
November 28th, 2006 at 3:30 pmKeep it up, Bill-O. You are making Stephen Colbert look more like a genius every day.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:30 pmThis says it all:
POWERS: It has nothing to do with Christianity. It has nothing to do with Jesus’ birth.
O’REILLY: I am. I am that — Michelle, you — you know me. You know I am that petty, that if you’re going to annoy me like this because I just get annoyed. It’s a federal holiday. Say “merry Christmas,†say “happy holidays,†stand on your head. I don’t care. But to say, “We’re absolutely not going to say ‘merry Christmas’,†I’m not going there then. That’s how small I am. Am I wrong?
O’Reilly is a small, petty man trying to look big and tough.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:31 pmSo here’s what I want to know. In what store would people who are chanting be arrested? Have you ever seen anyone chanting in a store? I don’t think I have. Even if they did, why would they be arrested and handcuffed? Is religious chanting against the law?
I’m not sure what country Bill lives in, but it isn’t mine.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:33 pmThe hatemonger in Chief !! O’Reilly !!
November 28th, 2006 at 3:38 pmI usually reply “Hail Satan” to the O’Reilly-bots that try to make a poltical point of yelling “Merry X-mas” at me.
They don;t know how to reply to that.
-GSD
November 28th, 2006 at 3:39 pmIsn’t “The War on Christmas” being waged only by Fox News?
They could just be honest and call it:
“The War We Are Waging Against Inclusion of Jews in the American Holiday Season.”
November 28th, 2006 at 3:39 pmO’Reilly’s hypocrisy is stunning. On a commercial aired during the Radio Factor last Monday, O’R shlils for a product called the Homedics massage pad (or some such). He repeatedly invokes “the holidays” in the spot, pointing out what a great gift it would be for “the holidays” and how everyone on his “holiday” list will get one — blah blah blah. So where his bottom line is concerned, O’Reilly won’t sign up for THIS war either.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:40 pmBy the way people, watch the video. He is talking to a democratic strategist, not michelle Malkin.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:44 pmThe victim of the dildo debacle said O’Reilly misfires quite a bit.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:46 pmI love that graphic.
Bill O (channeling Mark McKinney):”I hate Crate & Barrel! I am crushing their heads!”
November 28th, 2006 at 3:48 pmPK, he’s talking to both.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:48 pmWhat is this thread? a battle in the war on the war on the “war on Christmas”?
November 28th, 2006 at 3:49 pmIf 90% of Americans still celebrate xmas as BO says, I guess the war on xmas is just as failed as Iraq. Rummy must have masterminded this one too…
comment by greggers
November 28th, 2006 at 3:51 pmBill O (channeling Mark McKinney):â€I hate Crate & Barrel! I am crushing their heads!â€
Comment by barfly
Greatest. Show. Ever.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:53 pmOnly dumbasses listen to this guy.
November 28th, 2006 at 3:54 pmTwo comments
1: O’Really will somehow twist this info around to sound like HE got Crate & Barrel to change their policy regarding saying “Merry Christmas.” Pat himself on the back for taking a stand and making a worthwhile change.
2: Did O’Really actually say “Say ‘merry Christmas,’ say ‘happy holidays,’ stand on your head. I don’t care?” Because if my memory serves me, LAST YEAR, O’Really made it abundantly clear that “happy holidays” was not the same as saying “merry Christmas.” To paraphrase from Pulp Fiction, in O’Really’s world, that’s not in the same league. It ain’t even in the same sport! I mean it’s not like consistency has ever been his strong point, but go go from acting like “Happy Holidays” is akin to getting kicked in the taint, to being okay with that sentiment, in the course of a year is a pretty drastic change in tone, wouldn’t you agree?
November 28th, 2006 at 4:01 pmI think that Bill is the dumbest man on the planet. The war on Christmas is a farce. Christmas is out of control, Christians have allowed it to be hijacked by the likes of Wal-Mart and Bill!
What does Jesus have to do with shopping. NEWSFLASH: In 1659 it was outlawed in the state of Massachusetts, and the law is still on the books!
November 28th, 2006 at 4:03 pmI agree that O’Reilly is a horse’s ass… but this article is lame. And the fact that you guys keep talking about him is only keeping him in the news. Let’s see if we can all ignore him and if he’ll then just go away!
November 28th, 2006 at 4:04 pmAlright Trolls,
November 28th, 2006 at 4:04 pmRiddle me this?
Are you really that concerned about which store greets you with either Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays?
Because if you truly are concerned, then this little thingy in the Middle East may never be resolved
Barfly: Bill O (channeling Mark McKinney):â€I hate Crate & Barrel! I am crushing their heads!†- - These bizness boyzzz, like putty… in my hands! (Best Kids In The Hall skit ever.)
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November 28th, 2006 at 4:07 pmI used to go out of my way to watch that Kids in the Hall show, pretty good stuff.
November 28th, 2006 at 4:09 pmO’Reilly needs the rating so he’ll say anything to get attention. Look he lies and is really a sicko who needs help from a doctor. Now when the Bush Mob goes down what will their loyalist O’Reilly have to do other then still make a fool of himself. That’s what Fox news does they hired idiot who like making fools of himself and lie just to be lying. Plus O’Reilly needs the money to pay that sex harassment suit and much more. Just say Bill O’Reilly for hire he does anything for a buck.
November 28th, 2006 at 4:10 pmThat screen shot is dying for a caption of some sort….
November 28th, 2006 at 4:16 pmcaption contest!
My falafel smells like crap!
November 28th, 2006 at 4:17 pmBill O’Reilly is a Nut.
November 28th, 2006 at 4:20 pmCaption:
“Since my weenie is only this big, I will only need a condom this big”
November 28th, 2006 at 4:21 pmI’m sorry if this offends people, but I look at that face he’s making and I’m reminded of the Eddie Murphy movie (”Delilrious”? “Raw”? One of his stand-up acts) where he goes into the faces you make while having sex (he had another term for it.)
O’Reilly looks like he’s doing a bad imitation of that bit.
And no, I don’t want to be reminded of that.
November 28th, 2006 at 4:21 pmWho cares?
November 28th, 2006 at 4:22 pmCaption Contest:
“Yes, I’m incredibly small.”
November 28th, 2006 at 4:22 pm(caption contest)
EEEEEEawwwwwww! whew……
November 28th, 2006 at 4:27 pmthem crucifixes are so danged hard to pass… and that one had thorns, too…
Caption Contest:
November 28th, 2006 at 4:28 pmThis war on Christmas just tweaks my nipples…..its so annoying. Michelle, can I tweak your nipples?
The B.O. picture reminds me of a rat.
November 28th, 2006 at 4:28 pmGnawing on any little sh*t he can get a hold of…
caption contest!
November 28th, 2006 at 4:29 pm“It feels like those itchy little crabs are back”
Does Crate & Barrel sell Falafel? ROTFL :-)
November 28th, 2006 at 4:34 pmCaption Contest!
“This annoys me so much my panties are Knotting up!! Oww, damnit! Why didn’t I wear my crotchless ones?”
November 28th, 2006 at 4:37 pmThe “chanting and stuff” is called praying you dumbass twit.
Maybe you should try it sometime so you will understand the meaning of the words “Peace on Earth” and “Goodwill towards All” instead on “War on Christmas” and nasty attitude towards anyone who does not agree with your loony ideas
November 28th, 2006 at 4:42 pmYesterday our esteemed First Lady Bushit said “Happy Holidays” when accepting their giant tree donated from ass-kissing losers. Why do the Bush’s hate Christmas, Bill? I’m waiting…
November 28th, 2006 at 4:50 pmIn 1995, He enrolled at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he received a Master’s Degree in Public Administration. Upon leaving Harvard, O’Reilly was hired by Roger Ailes,
What in the hell did they teach BORe?
November 28th, 2006 at 4:52 pmim sure glad there is nothing else going on in the world that he could be talking about, Palestine is celebrating their independence, lebanon is doing great, everyone loves the pope, and then there is the unity gov. of iraq, with the situation under control, glad to see someone is bringing us the real news
November 28th, 2006 at 4:56 pmwho cares about oreilly?
November 28th, 2006 at 4:58 pmCrate & Barrel?? Christmas?? Will someone please give this guy a credible script already? I guess they can’t trust him with the real news any longer….what a fraud.
November 28th, 2006 at 5:01 pmLoofah Felafel has been spreading lies about the War on Christmas for a couple years now. All O’Liely’s lies about Christmas have been thoroughly debunked. And now he’s lying again.
What the hell happened to America? There used to be network standards and idiots like Loofah Felafel would not be allowed on the air.
November 28th, 2006 at 5:03 pmCaption:
“Constipation got you down?”
November 28th, 2006 at 5:16 pmLooks like another market will benefit in the boom business that usually results from an O’Really boycott…
I’m going to find me some Crate & Barrel stock to buy!
November 28th, 2006 at 5:17 pmBill O’Reilly makes me hate Christmas.
November 28th, 2006 at 5:32 pmBill needs to attack Cracker Barrel too, just cuz it sounds similar.
November 28th, 2006 at 5:41 pmI love Crate & Barrel.
November 28th, 2006 at 5:48 pmGreat still frame of the BORe; he looks like he’s re-creating Ben Stiller’s cat-milking scene from “Meet The Parents”
November 28th, 2006 at 5:52 pmI love how O’Reilly acts like he normally shops at places like Walmart and Crate & Barrel and the Gap but NOW he’s going to boycott them. If I were those stores I’d say, “Good! Not only would the $0 you spend in our stores not go missing, but many of our female customers can feel safer they won’t be assaulted with a fallafel.”
November 28th, 2006 at 5:57 pmWould he do the world a favor and die, please. If he won’t die, can’t he please just shut the f**k up?
November 28th, 2006 at 5:59 pmSee Here.
The point is, if this was REALLY a fair and balanced station, someone would have mentioned that
If 90% of Americans celebrate Christmas (of whom I don’t think all are practicing Christians, even if that is an accurate estimate)
The OTHER 10% are still shopping at their stores, and they may or may not be celebrating another holiday (Hannukah, Kwanzaa, winter solstice, etc) during this season.
Why not include EVERYONE by wishing happy holidays? Not to mention, that also means happy “holy days”, which is in itself also religious.
So what’s the big?
What’s wrong with wishing happy holy days on everyone who shops there instead of being “protectionists” and “inclusive” and “offensive”?
Really?
November 28th, 2006 at 6:00 pmThis should be your biggest worry.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:01 pmWould he do the world a favor and die, please. If he won’t die, can’t he please just shut the f**k up?
Comment by NoMoreRepublicanTrash
He’ll have to die, because he certainly won’t shut up.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:07 pmAnn: “Bill O’Reilly makes me hate Christmas.”
My wife and I feel pretty much the same way. It’s not that he’s made us hate Christmas, but he takes the joy out of it by reducing it to a ridiculous conservative talking point. He has lied to his audience so many times, it’s a wonder to me how any of his fans can have any self-respect. For example, he sat there on Good Morning America and said that if they didn’t find WMD’s, he wouldn’t support Bush anymore. Why don’t his moronic fans remember that?
November 28th, 2006 at 6:26 pmCaption contest meets quotes out of context:
O’REILLY: I mean, I am that small. (While gesturing to the exact tinniness of his balls).
November 28th, 2006 at 6:27 pmI love Crate and Barrel - But I really must compliment Nico or whoever selected the still photo of O’Reilly. That grimace really helps illustrate how threatening a cable columnist such as O’Reilly really burns TP. I suppose I won’t be offended when other outlets go out of their way to pick the MOST unflattering Prog pics……
November 28th, 2006 at 6:28 pmSo here’s what I want to know. In what store would people who are chanting be arrested? Have you ever seen anyone chanting in a store? I don’t think I have. Even if they did, why would they be arrested and handcuffed? Is religious chanting against the law? I’m not sure what country Bill lives in, but it isn’t mine.
Comment by lw — November 28, 2006 @ 3:33 pm
Excellent point. 99% of his scenarios are stuff that never happens or never will happen. He just thrives on sensationalism and third grade drama.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:31 pmMA
You are lame… get a life… seriously….
November 28th, 2006 at 6:33 pmI suppose I won’t be offended when other outlets go out of their way to pick the MOST unflattering Prog pics……
Comment by mighty aphrodite — November 28, 2006 @ 6:28 pm
And I suppose anyone who wouldn’t be offended by the United States military slaughtering hundreds of thousands of Iraqis probably couldn’t care much about screen shots.
You are incapable of feeling offended - unless someone exposes your lies for the fabrications they and you are.
Go volunteer all your free time posting comments to help feed the needy or something truly magnanimous.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:38 pmUnbelievable I agree
Billo is as obnoxious as a three year old. I mean he is complaining about one little word…
November 28th, 2006 at 6:39 pmI suppose I won’t be offended when other outlets go out of their way to pick the MOST unflattering Prog pics……
Comment by mighty aphrodite
The Hagette is slipping, I mean seriously slipping.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:43 pmWhy don’t his moronic fans remember that?
Comment by Bluedog49 — November 28, 2006 @ 6:26 pm
My principal commented that there are a couple of students in one of my classes who clearly hate the fact that I am not lecturing all period so they can sleep or zone out or something along those lines. She said that they obviously cannot stand the fact that I am making them do critical thinking work that they can’t just avoid.
I think those two, and those like them, are future O’Reilly viewers. Easier to be a sheep.
November 28th, 2006 at 6:45 pm#68 - “Go volunteer all your free time posting comments to help feed the needy or something truly magnanimous.” Comment by unbelievable —
November 28th, 2006 at 6:46 pm******Tell you what - YOU feed them - I already defend them…..(As I explain to wealthy, white collar clients, “working for you allows the indigent good representation”….)
I mean he is complaining about one little word…
Comment by New Prog — November 28, 2006 @ 6:39 pm
Just like the neocons - get all caught up in absurd sematics…
I’ll be happy when Bill runs out of hot air. If that is possible…
November 28th, 2006 at 7:02 pmTell you what - YOU feed them - I already defend them…..(As I explain to wealthy, white collar clients, “working for you allows the indigent good representationâ€â€¦.)
Comment by mighty aphrodite — November 28, 2006 @ 6:46 pm
I do feed them.
You don’t defend anyone. We know you’re not really a laywer. You just play one on Think Progress.
November 28th, 2006 at 7:04 pmUnbelievable
Nobody as ridiculous as MA could actually be a lawyer. I mean come on she complains about how “SPs” are destroying Amerca and are waging a war on Christmas. She really has no sense of intelligence, so I believe she must be ummm…. an intern for FOX NEWS?
November 28th, 2006 at 7:17 pmWe know you’re not REALLY an architect-turned-school marm….although you remind me of the Demi Moore character in a “Few Good Men”. The Cruise character asks, “Why are you always giving me your resume?” I sense a touch of insecurity……
November 28th, 2006 at 7:20 pmNew Frog - I don’t recall using the term SP. I use the terms “Speakette” - “Prog” and “Progettes” and “secualr humanists” - - you seem confused.
November 28th, 2006 at 7:22 pmMA
Nice job being an idiot yet again. Would you get a life, please? Oh by the way I am a Mult-millionaire who donates 75% of my wealth to noble causes…
lol not true but neither are you…
November 28th, 2006 at 7:24 pmMA well excuse me Princess…(eyes roll)
Are you really that dense? I mean we start a thread discussing the stupidity that is Billdo’s “War on Christmas” and you hijack it. Bravo. You and St.Daryll should meet up sometime to plan your next attack on a abortion clinic or San Fransisco…
November 28th, 2006 at 7:26 pmOH MA
Its SECULAR HUMANIST not secualr humanist…
Just thought I would let you know princess…
November 28th, 2006 at 7:27 pmHe is repulsive and painful to watch. Who gives a crap who says what during the holiday season… What a waste of time. Using something so petty to smear more innocent Americans, just trying to make a buck, because they don’t follow the rules. Stay in line or we will crush you into the ground, during the busiest season of the year for retail AND we will make you look like the party promoter for terrorists. He made it sound lke Crate and Barrel would be substituting “merry christmas ” For “welcome terrorists” thensend them home with a party favor. SHAME on this bastard. Just when you think the bar can’t drop lower…..
November 28th, 2006 at 7:48 pmEarlier, Mighty A-hole chastised someone for pointing out that women can be their own worst enemies. Later, Mighty A-hole proudly uses the term “Speakette.” Yikes!
November 28th, 2006 at 7:53 pmI’m still anxiously waiting for his 15 minutes of infamy to lapse.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:00 pmGot Loffa?
#83 - “Earlier, Mighty A-hole chastised someone for pointing out that women can be their own worst enemies. Later, Mighty A-hole proudly uses the term “Speakette.†Yikes!” Comment by Bluedog49
********Dear BluePup - My heartiest congratulations are conveyed to the Speakette EVERY time I use that term. She will soon occupy a role reserved historically for men. The fact that I find her politics repulsive and her treatment of agricultural employees hypocritical has NOTHING to do with the fact she is the first female speaker of the House.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:03 pmIs O’RiledUp’s head about to explode in this photo?
November 28th, 2006 at 8:08 pmThen stop putting a sexual connotation on her upcoming position. “Speakette” implies that your problem is that she is a woman, whether you know it or not.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:08 pmI think YOUR problem is that not everyone thinks like YOU. Tell you what, ask your wife if it’s OK to disagree……
But seriously, thank you for NOT mentioning her non-union farm workers - - THAT might take some explanation. I don’t think you or the Speakette can tap-dance that fast……
November 28th, 2006 at 8:14 pmTo quote the Grinch:
Maybe Christmas, perhaps, doesn’t come from a store.
Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:14 pmIt was during the Christmas season that Bill O’Lielly was harassing Andrea Macris with disgusting phone calls. Poor Bill. Andrea taped the calls and O’Lielly ended up losing a lot of money. Is there a bigger jackass on television?
November 28th, 2006 at 8:17 pmMighty A-hole is very troubled by non-union farm workers, but somehow never noticed that the politicians she supports have been working to maintain a system of forced sex labor and forced abortions in the Northern Marianas. And, my wife is an intelligent person. She agrees that “speakette” is a term used by sexist pigs. She’s a lot more liberal than I am, but we agree on almost everything.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:20 pmI thought he was explaining how Ted Haggard likes HIS nipples tweaked.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:25 pmHe… is simply an idiot.
November 28th, 2006 at 8:31 pmWhat was that about imams and plains? Is he implying that Crate & Barrel support terrorsts because they won’t say merry christmas?
November 28th, 2006 at 8:34 pmThank you, BlooPuppy, for NOT discussing Speakette Pelosi’s hypocritical stance with her own agricultural workers. Hint: Mariana is NOT the first name of one Ms. Pelosi’s labourers.
Pssst…..of course, your far more liberal wife agrees with you - I should have expected differently?
Toddles……
November 28th, 2006 at 8:41 pmThanks Thinkprogress for taking up the fight to Bill O’Reilly for yet another year and battling him at every turn to prove that there is no war on Christmas. I hope you win the war you are not having by fighting it rather than just not having it instead.
November 28th, 2006 at 9:00 pmTank, we are fighting him over there so we don’t have to fight him over here.
November 28th, 2006 at 9:39 pmBO is truly an egomaniac who believes he can fire up a false “war” on Christmas so he can - only in his perverted mind - appear as a hero. The man is a nut case; he can’t accept that his ratings are sinking, his audience is aging, his channel is the subject of mockery, and he is becoming more irrelevant. He needs to feel important any way he can, likely because he has other “shortcomings.”
November 28th, 2006 at 9:50 pm#94,
November 28th, 2006 at 9:52 pmLOL!!!
He is truly delusional.
November 28th, 2006 at 9:55 pmDefinitely too much hypocrisy here. He is shooting down private businesses. That is him being fair and balanced, I guess…………….
November 28th, 2006 at 10:45 pmM.A. Don’t you have anything better to do this Holiday season, Like eating humble pie. WE WON, YOUR CRIMINAL PARTY BOYS LOST. Admit it and shut up.
If Bill Orally doesn’t shut his felafel hole up, I may have to become Jewish and celebrate Hannukah and give up Christmas.
November 29th, 2006 at 12:07 amOnly bugwits feed trolls.
November 29th, 2006 at 12:38 amBut I really must compliment Nico or whoever selected the still photo of O’Reilly. That grimace really helps illustrate how threatening….I suppose I won’t be offended when other outlets go out of their way to pick the MOST unflattering Prog pics……
Comment by mighty aphroditette—
Frankly, I can’t recall ever seeing a flattering or attractice photo of Bull O’lielly. Could it be that he simply isn’t good-looking?
November 29th, 2006 at 6:24 amThere’s a huge point missing here. I think that most of the people who get all excercised about stores that don’t say “Merry Christmas” are more in the Walmart/Target income level than the Crate and Barrel income level. I have yet to find an urban/suburban educated human being, the type who can afford the prices at Crate and Barrel, who cares about the greeting at the store. It isn’t going to cost Crate and Barrel anything if they scare off the “war on Christmas” loonies because none of them shop there anyway. On the other hand, the more urbane types who do shop there would probably be energized by O’Reilly’s disapproval. Actually, I might go order the oval bakers I’ve been eying right now!
November 29th, 2006 at 8:42 amThese people are trying to take the Sol out of Solstice.
Rabbit
BTW What idiot is going to say Merry Xmas to someone wearing a Burka?
November 29th, 2006 at 10:10 am80% is really Christian? With a “capital C?” I highly doubt that. 80% might have been raised in a Christian family or are familiar with the Christian mythology better than other myths/superstitions, but I put the actual number of “believers” around 50 max. Of course that’s not scientific, but in my life my encounters with the “faithful” have not been 80%.
90% celebrating Christmas I can believe! It’s a wonderfully fun winter solstice holiday tradition.
November 29th, 2006 at 12:52 pm“…80% is really Christian? With a “capital C?†I highly doubt that. 80% might have been raised in a Christian family or are familiar with the Christian mythology better than other myths/superstitions, but I put the actual number of “believers†around 50 max. Of course that’s not scientific, but in my life my encounters with the “faithful†have not been 80%…”
what a rediculous thing to say. 80% is a fact. just because you don’t know that many “faithful” has no bearing on the real number of the “faithful.” just because you would like it to be that way doesn’t make it so. squawk.
November 29th, 2006 at 1:43 pm116. If 80% of Americans are practicing Christians, then I’m the pope. 80% may identify with the whole heaven/hell one God thing but they’re not church-going Christians and if you believe that they are, you’re delusional or you live in an unusually concentrated area of practicing Christians.
In another note, you know, I could be screaming bloody murder because Christianity initially stole many of their traditions and holidays from paganism and saying”Merry Christmas” instead of “Mery Yule” offends me but I don’t care. Everybody, businesses included,should be able to do/say what they like, that’s why this is America. Also, I always felt that “Happy Holidays” merely encompassed Christmas, Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day. So I never understood what that big deal was. The whole thing is idiotic. If people are so Christian or so worried about keeping the “Christ” in Christmas (as I would not even call O’Reilly a pseudo- or hypochristian), why don’t they spend their time doing Christ-like things to celebrate his birth,such as helping the less fortunate, instead of wasting it pursuing this whole moronic non-war on Christmas.
November 29th, 2006 at 2:57 pmamerica is in deep do-do…finacially insecure….iraq nightmares and yet this fool rails on and commands attention on these non-issues. America WAKE UP PLEAZE!!
November 29th, 2006 at 3:14 pmI guess mr bill is so small that his brain can’t register that much information. Besides, what would he have to yell about if he actually paid attention to another person’s comments? He seems to be the only one involved in his war on Christmas. Sad little man.
November 29th, 2006 at 5:03 pmFor once, I agree with Bill! He is “that small’ and “petty”. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Yes Bill, you are wrong. I can only hope that sometime real soon, his regular viewers will come to the conclusion that their lives are better and richer when they do not tune him in. Then perhaps they will stop, and Bill can look for a more constructive line of work.
November 29th, 2006 at 7:34 pmlook it up lady. 80% consider themselves christians. i for one am not, but you can’t dispute the fact most people are. the whole issue of “merry christmas” is the fact certain places are banning people from saying it. if you are truly progressive, than you would consider that offensive as well. religious freedom is just that—free. we can’t cherry pick our freedoms.
November 29th, 2006 at 9:09 pmJust out of curiousity…why would you arrest someone for chanting?
November 30th, 2006 at 9:24 am[…] Things are getting back to normal now that Bill O’Reilly is back in town. Today, a slapdown of Crate and Barrel was in order. O’Reilly cited a recent article in which Crate & Barrel spokeswoman Betty Kahn is quoted saying, “We would definitely not say Merry Christmas.†But in an interview with ThinkProgress, Kahn said her quote was misconstrued. […]
November 30th, 2006 at 7:25 pm[…] Things are getting back to normal now that Bill O’Reilly is back in town. Today, a slapdown of Crate and Barrel was in order. O’Reilly cited a recent article in which Crate & Barrel spokeswoman Betty Kahn is quoted saying, “We would definitely not say Merry Christmas.†But in an interview with ThinkProgress, Kahn said her quote was misconstrued. […]
November 30th, 2006 at 7:43 pmThe only reason they use Season’s Greetings and Happy Holidays over Merry Christmas is that the Holiday Season itself is about three holidays, and not just one: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s.
That’s how I see it, but evidently, that’s not how O’Reilly sees it.
What, are state lotteries going to be boycotted because their scratch-off tickets say “Holiday Cash” instead of “Christmas Cash”, or “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas”?
December 1st, 2006 at 10:36 pmwhat an idiot!!!! first of all after reading the article it is clear that ms kahn was simply stating that crate will not be demanding it’s employees say only merry christmas. as she went on to say it about joining together with family and friends to celebrate the season. crate and barrel is a socially responsible company that is committed to all of it’s customers. furthermore- let’s all hope that is any person chose to pray at any time and anywhere is this country they would not be handcuffed, as such behavior is protected in the constitution. come on bill, i mean after all, WWJD? i doubt that Christ is that “petty and small” that such things would cause him this distress. let’s all say a prayer for bill that he might somehow dislodge his head from his ass. peace to all, and yes i do mean all, even you bill.
December 1st, 2006 at 11:32 pm[…]  A classic moment in the War on the War on Christmas… _______________________ FROM A COMMENTER AT THINK PROGRESS: “O’REILLY: I bet you they wouldn’t get handcuffed in Crate & Barrel if they started chanting and stuff.†[…]
December 2nd, 2006 at 10:11 pmI am a Christian and I am very offended that Bill O’Reilly slammed Crate & Barrel. For 3 reasons:
1. He has taken the Holy season of Christmas which should be a time of love, joy and peace on the earth, and he has turned it into a media circus. He is using it to stir up controversy and for his own financial gain. After all if we all stopped watching his nonsense and stop buying his books, he would not be as rich as he is.
2. I know someone who has worked at Crate for a very long time and she has never been told not to say “Merry Christmas”. She says it freely without reprimand.
3. As a prominent person in the media, Bill O’Reilly should be checking his facts before he makes that type of a statement on a news show. A lot of people believe him (they should also check the facts). Therefore he has a responsibility to confirm the facts and present only the facts. The Fox network should be making him apologize on his show.
December 3rd, 2006 at 3:45 pmtalk about small and ANNOYING, how small and annoying is Bill O’reilly? And he decclares this to be a christian country? Based upon what, when was this referendum held and why wasn’t I notified in advance. I think that referendum was held based upon the same criteria as the 2000 presidential election and the result is just as suspect. Let me set the record straight, this is not a christian country (where all the non-believers would be excluded from consideration and destined for hell), this is a secular nation. Or would you prefer this be run like a wonderful country like Iran where the religions run the government?. By the way, is Kirsten Powers hot enough to make you forget your name or what? Forget horse-faced skanks like Ann Coulter and Laura Ingram. And if those two conservation propaganda spouting morons made a baby with Bill O’reilly, would his or her IQ exceed thee shoe size?
December 7th, 2006 at 8:39 am[…] It’s been almost a year since I moved to Vegas and I’ve become accustomed to seeing dumb/insane/high people do incredibly strange crap in public places. That’s just how it is in this city. But watching the exchange described above made me realize that not all the wacko’s are crazy or high on meth. Some are just confused idiots. One thing’s for sure: When it comes to Christmas, there are a lot of people (on both ends of the political spectrum) who simply don’t get it! […]
December 7th, 2006 at 10:55 pmPlease, someone call this blowhard out on his radio spots that talk repeated about Homedics being an ideal ‘Holiday Gift’. His hypocrisy is staggering.
December 8th, 2006 at 1:15 pmI used to say Merry Christmas all the time. When I was in Catholic grade school in the 50’s-60’s in Pennsylvania, we used merry Chlrlistmas and Happy Holidays interchangably.
Now I’m so F*****g sick of ‘NUT CASES’ like Oriley, I’m going to say Happy Holidays all the time just out of spite.
December 12th, 2006 at 3:22 pmI’m gointg to use Happy Holidays out of spite, and you hearing from a ‘SERIOUS; Cathoic. O’Riley is
December 12th, 2006 at 3:24 pmChristianity’s worst enemy!!!!
“By the way people, watch the video. He is talking to a democratic strategist, not michelle Malkin.”
Umm.. actually he talked to a Democratic strategist *and* Michelle Malkin. Did *you* watch the video? lol…
December 12th, 2006 at 11:32 pmwhy would crate and barrel sell christmas items and then tell their employees NOT to say “merry christmas?” ridiculous. they say what they feel is appropriate, and ALWAYS have. and if their employees do not want to offend anyone they usually just say “happy holidays.” if a customer says “merry christmas” to them, they happily say it back. i would really like to personally thank bill o’reilly for making C&B’s employees life a little bit harder… do you know how many people have called or gone into their stores ranting and raving because of him misquoting the company? more than you can imagine!!!!
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