December 24, 2007
WAR
AGAINST CHRISTMAS 2007 COMPETITION
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See also: War Against Christmas
2006,
2005,
2004,
2003,
2002,
2001,
2000,
1999
War Against Christmas 2007 Competition [V]: Merry Christmas From VDARE.COM!
Email War Against Christmas competition entries to us at
christmas@vdare.com.
By
James
Fulford
Christmas is here, and with it, not
only the War On Christmas, but
the claim that
"There is no War On Christmas”.
Not only does a Google News search for the exact
phrase
"No War On Christmas,"
come up with 10 results today, it's been set to music.
You can actually download an MP3,
with glockenspiel music, of a tune called
There Is No War On Christmas
, [MP3]by
Adam Schabow, of
Madison Wisconsin.
The Northwest Herald in
McHenry County,
Illinois
has an editorial called
No War On Christmas.
[December 18, 2007]
In St. Cloud, Minnesota, there's an
editorial that includes the phrase "No War On
Christmas," but the headline is actually, possibly
by editorial reflex,
There is no attack on the
holiday season. [By Karen Cyson, [Send
her
mail] St. Cloud
Times, December 21, 2007]
The Arkansas Times, a
left-wing paper of the kind that's given away free to
promote advertisers, usually
local restaurants, theaters, and
massage parlors,
has an editorial which attacks the concept of the War On
Christmas, while bashing
John Gibson, Bill O'Reilly,
and Fox News. Which is predictable, but they
aren't the source of the objections—the American people
are.
“The
Grinch who steals
Christmas is just a children's television program, no
more to be taken seriously than Fox News.
Coincidentally, certain Fox performers have suggested
that somebody is trying to put a stop to Christmas, but
the Foxers are only being playful, in a tasteless sort
of way. There's no war on tastelessness, either. A
right-wing lawyers' group called
Liberty Counsel is selling a tacky button
that says
“I [drawing of a red heart]
Christmas”, and that sure doesn't add to our
enjoyment of the season. It's the kind of thing Frosty
would wear.
“Even
though it was clearly done in a spirit of fun, a Fox
commentator named John Gibson may have carried bad taste
too far in writing a book, “The War On Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought.
”
But
no harm done. The book was not a best-seller; used
copies are available for a penny apiece online. [Arkansas
News, Editorial, December 20, 2007]
The group they're criticizing,
Liberty Counsel, has written two memos, Legal Memo
About Public Christmas Celebrations, [PDF]
and Legal Memo About Celebrating Christmas in the
Workplace,[PDF]
the bottom line of which is that if your employer
forbids you from wishing people "Merry Christmas",
they may be violating your rights under
Title VII of the
Civil Rights act of 1964.
Of course, that's just what the law
says—the
bureaucrats may find that
Title VII has been violated by your habit of
viciously, and with malice aforethought,
saying
"Merry Christmas,!"
or wearing something red and green in a
manner calculated to cause emotional pain. However, it
would be nice to see
Title VII doing
some actual good.
In 2005,
David Brock's Media
Matters proclaimed that there was no War On Christmas,
pointing to the fact that the majority of Mainstream
Media writers said so, so there must be no
War On Christmas. [Newspapers, commentators agree:
Virginia, there is no War On Christmas, December 23,
2005]
Patrick Cleburne replied with this:
If there’s no War On
Christmas, how come they deployed an Army?.
That is to say, why is it that so
many Mainstream Media types see the need to deny what we
can see with our own eyes?
Well, because they're starting to
lose this war, because ordinary people are fighting
back. The War On Christmas didn't start when
Bill O'Reilly
noticed it in 2005, we've been noting it here
since 1999, and Tom
Piatak
pointed out that in its modern form, the War On Christmas goes
back to
at least 1906.
But there are now people like us
protesting it, and
with your help, we
expect to continue to do so. Merry Christmas, everyone!
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