O’Reilly surrenders to the War on Christmas: Touts his ‘holiday reading list.’
By on Nov 19th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
O’Reilly surrenders to the War on Christmas: Touts his ‘holiday reading list.’
For years, Bill O’Reilly has been ranting about an alleged “War on Christmas,” claiming liberals are unjustly replacing “Christmas” festivities with “Holiday” festivities. News Hounds notes that O’Reilly isn’t practicing what he preaches, as he is showing off a “holiday reading list” on his website:
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war on christmas? is that worse than a right wing war on factual information, reason, scientific evidence, critical thinking and aestetic education?..and which god whose birthday is on december 25 should we celebrate bill; mythraa, horus, krishna, dionyses or any of the other sun god deifications?
November 19th, 2008 at 3:52 pmHappy Mithrais everyone!
November 19th, 2008 at 3:52 pmJoyous Festivus everyone!
November 19th, 2008 at 3:54 pmbill will be frantically waving the white loofah of defeat on his show tonight.
November 19th, 2008 at 3:54 pmOh that poor webmaster… you just know that Bill O’Reilly’s screaming at him as we speak for making him look bad… hope he can find a new job in this economy.
November 19th, 2008 at 3:55 pmyou mean to tell me o’lielly “cut n run” on the baby jeeebus? that’s LOW
November 19th, 2008 at 3:56 pmI’m Jewish and I still celebrate Christmas to some degree. I despise political correctness, but I despise self-aggrandizing assholes like O’Reilly exponentially more.
November 19th, 2008 at 3:58 pmHow about having a ‘war on Rethuglic party reichwing nuts’?
You know, Brillo, Trannie Coulter, Blush Limpdick, insane Hannity, Stupid Savage, et al. Just in time for the Holiday season.
November 19th, 2008 at 3:59 pmUncle Ho,
November 19th, 2008 at 4:00 pmyou forgot my favorite: tokyo rose malkin
Damn, I just ordered exploding light bulbs. I was going to go around and switch them on lights on people’s houses. And all those Christmas cards I ordered that say “Christmas is for the Devil” and “Don’t celebrate Christmas” with bat crap inside.
Oh well, maybe Bill O will come up with another cause I can anti-embrace!
November 19th, 2008 at 4:00 pmBill Orally says:
November 19th, 2008 at 4:01 pmWe’ll do the Holiday live! We’ll do it FCKING LIVE!
Everyone should send billy a Christmas present.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:03 pmA box of rocks.
I bet the Jewish people who work at Faux News just pulled their coup on Billo!
This just in: Faux News HQ has fallen to the Happy Holidays secularists.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:03 pmBozo; oops, my bad. I stand corrected.
That’s all for me today, folks.
Good night, and good luck.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:04 pmBill-o is pro-Jesus when it suits him — when it comes to making money, however, Bill-o is very ecumenical, wanting to sell to persons of all faiths and non-faiths.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:04 pmWhat he really worships is the dollar sign.
Billo: “Here are the books I’m recommending for the winter season.”
Huh? Do people actually look to this doosh for reading suggestions?
November 19th, 2008 at 4:11 pmThis is all Steve Doocy’s fault. He probably let in Santa and his pals, so Doocy could tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas. Then seven minutes later, Doocy is out cold with “Happy Holidays” written on his face.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:14 pmCleanup on Aisle 11. Readers spewing water all over the place.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:16 pmUncle Ho, Bozo, when you’re listing the goofs who spew repukian claptrap please be sure to include Little Billy Kristol with his peer group.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:20 pmYuletide Greetings, everyone!
November 19th, 2008 at 4:21 pmLet’s all sing ‘The Holly and the Ivy!”
and then O Tannenbaum, where we celebrate Odin hanging from Yggdrasil to gain wisdom!
And then let’s kiss under the mistletoe!
Joyeux Noël!
O’Reilly isn’t practicing what he preaches
Now THERE’S a news flash.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:21 pmDoes Bill Orally’s recommended HOLIDAY reading list include the self guide book titled “How to properly arouse a woman with a green and red falafel while simultaneously stimulating yourself with a seasonally wrapped vibrator”?
November 19th, 2008 at 4:22 pmSay it isn’t soooooooooooo, Billo!!!!!!
November 19th, 2008 at 4:22 pmDayum – the War on Christmas hadn’t even gotten started this year, and WTF??? Billo has *already* cut and run.
Shame on you, Billo, waving that shameful white flag of appeasement!
Why do you hate the Baby Jesus, Bill??? Why?????
November 19th, 2008 at 4:26 pmI’m surprised there haven’t been any comments on the 4 listed books:
The only one that is tangentially connected to Christmas is The Tree Nobody Wanted.
Extreme Measures -= Yep, nothing says Christ Child like a thriller novel.
The Glory Game – For God so loved the World that He sent Football.
Tales from the Dad Side – by Steve Doocy of Fox and Friends. A bit of shameless self promotion for Fox ?
November 19th, 2008 at 4:29 pmI have already purchased my reading materials for this holiday season and they do not include any of that crap that he’s promoting.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:36 pmHey, O’Reilly. If the liberals declared war on Christmas, Christmas would be toast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qi4ezdmO08
November 19th, 2008 at 4:36 pmHow sad would it be to have to go to Bildo for your reading list.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:43 pmThe only one that is tangentially connected to Christmas is The Tree Nobody Wanted.
@Maplestreet – I assume this is Billo’s autobiography?
November 19th, 2008 at 4:55 pmHow about a war on holidays. Holidays (aka Holy days) have a clear religious connotation. What is holy about taking a few days off from work? Just call it a vacation.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:57 pmHappy Hollidays folks….we like to celebrate the greatest story ever told…that’s right dear it’s just a story. It’s about peace and love and acceptance for which we wish we had today. People say they live by the story but in reality they use the story for there own mannipulations against everything they are not. I know it’s sad but true. But for us who really know its just a story, we take to heart peace love and acceptance and try to spread those three words becuase in the story the main charactor Jesus didn’t believe in orginized religion. I know all these religiions went against what Jesus wanted but then again it is the non believer who are the ones that spread love peace and acceptance.
A holiday tale just for you!!!
November 19th, 2008 at 5:00 pmoh my. hypocrisy by a raving skank wingnut…what an unusual thing to occur.
November 19th, 2008 at 5:05 pmPlease!! O’Reilly has been on this jag for years. Why do we even continue to pay him any attention? He reminds me of my sister’s attention-starved cat.
November 19th, 2008 at 5:16 pmMoo hoo ha haah, we win! Christmas is finally destroyed, now that it’s greatest defender has bowed beneath our secular jackboots!
November 19th, 2008 at 5:26 pmUm… because it’s amusing?
November 19th, 2008 at 5:31 pmI’m just curious; will BillO send a crew to ambush himself? Will he have cameras stuck in his face as he comes out of his house/car/falafel joint, demanding to know why he hates Christmas? Will he insist that his mike be shut off when he tries to defend himself? The opportunities are Mind Boggling!
November 19th, 2008 at 5:33 pmImpeach, while There’s Still Time!
NOLIESPLEASE Says:
..celebrate the greatest story ever told…that’s right dear it’s just a story. It’s about peace and love and acceptance
…
November 19th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
“…it’s just a story…”
Unless you were a witness to many, many events, everything you know came to you as a story. This would include everything you ever learned from a book, what you might see on the evening news, and everything your parents told you about your family. These are all “…just stories…,” meaning it is reported to you. Accounts aren’t less true because they are stories.
The story of Jesus is really about whether or not one believes He is who He claimed to be: the Son of God.
John 3:16 makes it clear that this is what the story is about.
Christ is about peace and love and acceptance? Are you suggesting with such an opened ended touchy, feely remark that Christ was Ok with sin?
The story of Jesus is really about his death, burial, and resurrection to atone for the sins of the world, including bit’s and yours.
November 19th, 2008 at 5:40 pmBildo’s holiday wish list:
1. Falafels that hold up in a shower.
November 19th, 2008 at 5:48 pm2. A 16″ Dildo with extra lube.
3. A underage boy toy.
4. The ability to Phuck Himself.
5. A brain.
6. A heart.
7. A soul.
8. For Santa to quit leaving lumps of coal in his stocking.
“The story of Jesus is really about his death, burial, and resurrection to atone for the sins of the world, including bit’s and yours.”
Than should not this O’Reilly jackass be complaining more about that big old fertility bunny and shut the hell up and have a happy holiday?
November 19th, 2008 at 6:27 pmGuido the Loving OBGYN Says:
I’m pretty liberal and I have never met a single person in my entire life who did not celebrate Christmas.
Bill O’reilly is a weirdo.
You don’t have any Jewish friends? I have met many people who don’t celebrate Christmas, at least Christmas as a religious holiday.
BTW, I think it’s time for Billo to update his picture on his website. That picture is at least 10 years old. Billo doesn’t look anything like that picture these days.
November 19th, 2008 at 6:31 pmThe attempt to force the word “Christmas” on everyone is an attempt to keep Jews and Arabs and other non-Christians at a distance.
It is hate speech!
November 19th, 2008 at 7:52 pmWhy do we even bother?
ralph the wonder llama Says:
Um… because it’s amusing?
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What the llama boy said…
Hey, you… ahead… me ‘n the talkin’ herbivore are playin’ thru…
Fore!!!!
November 19th, 2008 at 10:46 pmdixie blood Says:
It is hate speech!
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I don’t know if I agree that it’s hate speech.
I think it has more to do w/ a cultural issue that Dild latched onto as a wedge issue. But I don’t think it qualifies as hate speech.
November 19th, 2008 at 10:48 pmI wouldn’t call it hate speech but I would call it hilarious dumbass absurdist make me laugh every year speech. And if it makes just one fellow smile shouldn’t we all be glad.
November 19th, 2008 at 11:00 pm______
dae Says:
How about a war on holidays. Holidays (aka Holy days) have a clear religious connotation. What is holy about taking a few days off from work? Just call it a vacation.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
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Absolutely! There is certainly no precedent for abstaining from work on a Holy day. ;)
November 20th, 2008 at 12:06 amTO bitblt,
“Christ is about peace and love and acceptance? Are you suggesting with such an opened ended touchy, feely remark that Christ was Ok with sin?
The story of Jesus is really about his death, burial, and resurrection to atone for the sins of the world, including bit’s and yours.”
That’s interesting…it’s funny how on all these gods mythraa, horus, krishna, dionyses or any of the other sun god deifications were born on the 25th of December. It’s also funny how all of them died, were burried and rose from the dead three days after.
The people who wrote the bible were so insightfull that they believed the world was flat. So I guess 2000 years from now they should take every word we have written to be the absolute truth??? We as Humanity will evolve and the truth will be proven. What we do today may be right for today but the future will not respect our desissions of today…why …because they will have progressed just like we have from 2000 years ago.
Peace , love and acceptance.
oh by the way…. Moses wasn’t given the rules of the commandments…they were written on a wall in Eygpt thousands of years before….Go ask Horus…he died, burried and rose three days after and was giving eternal life…hmmm. If you want to believe that.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:42 pmIs it wrong of me to hope Santa takes a dump in Bill O’Reilly’s stocking?
December 9th, 2008 at 12:36 pmWe need to fight the War on Christmas!!! We can win this thing people… all we need is good cheer and even better Christmas music from This Guy…
http://www.thisguysingschristmas.maltesemedia.com/
You can’t run from the holy spirit forever!
-This Guy
December 9th, 2008 at 6:26 pm