In case you didn’t get the Daily Show clip I posted earlier, all you need to know is that Fox blowhard Bill O’Reilly has decided to, uh, “defend Christmas.” I’m not really sure against whom, but apparently O’Reilly and a number of right wing groups are upset about people saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. They then, apparently, blame that on liberals or secularists.
I was showing the clip to a coworker and mentioned that I don’t really get the whole “war on Christmas” claim… I’m a left-of-center moderate (who’s not Christian) and I live with a very liberal woman and neither one of us mind people saying Merry Christmas. Heck, we even say it ourselves. After thinking about it for a while, we couldn’t think of one person we knew who minds seeing Merry Christmas. Heidi lays it out on her blog.
I just don’t get the victim complex of these right wing fundamentalists. It’s completely baffling.






December 9th, 2005 at 3:58 pm
Ah, the poor oppressed Christian minority. Oh wait, they are not a minority! This stuff just makes me laugh. As a Jew, I don’t get offended when people wish me a Merry Christmas. Maybe I should go around saying Happy Hanukkah to everyone and see if anyone gets offended.