Merry Christmas! To those that don’t celebrate Christmas, I hope you’ll enjoy the extra day off you’ve gotten or will get. I hope everyone’s holiday season is going well whatever you’re doing and wherever you are.

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.

I don’t know if you guys saw the Daily Show tonight, but holy crap did they take O’Reilly to task on his misleading use of a clip from the show. You can read about it at Bradblog.com. Of course, I expect that video of this segment will be online tomorrow.

Update: As expected, C&L has the video.