The War on Christmas is a right wing conspiracy being played out for political reasons, in my opinion.
Every holiday season, the right-wing outrage machine fires up the masses by feeding them misleading, anecdotal stories about a "war on Christmas." The typical war on Christmas story follows a simple pattern: a small town or an obscure group of people make a tiny, harmless gesture toward secularism; local media gets a hold of it; and an echo chamber of outrage, from The Blaze to AM radio to Fox News escalates the situation to a fever pitch, making villains of the secular scrooges and heroes of the persecuted Christians.
3. O’Reilly flunkie Jesse Watters harrases mayor in grocery story parking lot over alleged Christmas crimes.
Every year in the town of Plantation, Florida, Mark and Kathy Hyatt string 200,000 lights in their front yard and install a 20-foot ferris wheel as part of the “Hyatt Extreme Christmas” that draws thousands of spectators. This year, the town's mayor, Diane Veltri Bendekovic, sued the Hyatts to recoup the added cost to the city for hiring policemen and traffic cops to manage the spectacle, and lo and behold, the dogs of Christmas war were unleashed.
Noted stalker and Long Island fratboy Jesse Watters quickly descended on Plantation, hunting down the demure mayor in a grocery store parking lot where he berated her with his patented line of loaded and bad faith questions. Watch watch the shameful episode below if you can stomach it.
Click through on Alternet for the other 7 Worst 'War-on-Christmas' Stories. Yes, Christmas is a Christian observance, but many people of many faiths also celebrate Christmas, not as a religious observance, but as a time of compassion, love, unity and hope. To celebrate these qualities requires the actions of good people, nothing more.
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Amen!
A Barf Bag Alert…!
No doubt. I figured a picture of O'Lielly was alert enough.
The "pathetic" in the title is the perfect description of each and every one of the stories.
It's beyond me why people get payed to waste so much of other people's valuable time.
Excuse the jetlag: "paid" was the word I was looking for.
Does anything show more than the phone "War on Christmas" that what the right REALLY cares about is hate and anger? 300-400 years ago these same people were OUTLAWING Christmas.
What Republicans "celebrate" has nothing whatsoever to do with Christmas.
I agree with the political agenda perception.
Glenn Beck…Glenn Beck, oh, was that not the name of Lucifer's last bit of flatus? Just asking?
If the right wants to be more like Jesus, they would have to change and that is very hard to do . . . like getting a camel through the eye of a needle. Mitch is correct, they only want to use Jesus, not be like him. They are narcissistic money changers.
I stand by my statement that Christmas is a Christian observance, but many people of many faiths also celebrate Christmas, not as a religious observance, but as a time of compassion, love, unity and hope. To celebrate these qualities requires the actions of good people, nothing more.
Thanks everyone!