O’Reilly is right about one thing: This year’s Fox News coverage of the War on Christmas, which he and his colleagues (and many on the Christian right) have been waging for years now, has been less ragingly hysterical than previous years. It was just 12 months ago that the network was losing its mind over Black Santa and a Festivus pole erected near a nativity scene on public property. (“Am I to understand that some humanoid expressed outrage that the baby Jesus was behind a pole made of beer cans?” Dan O’Keefe, who co-wrote the Seinfeld episode that gave the world Festivus, said at the time in response.)
It has long been a battle cry in conservative circles that Christmas is under siege. The ACLU and its allies are trying to undermine the holiday with lawsuits and annoying billboards. Public space is crowded with offensive, trolling Satanism in December. Mega-stores are forcing employees into the secular indignity of greeting customers with “Happy Holidays” in lieu of “MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!” Pundits, activists, and potential 2016 presidential candidates would have you believe that political correctness is annually nut-punching Jesus.
But these are all things that every patriotic American should celebrate.
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