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Fox News cuts and runs from War on Christmas

December 22, 2009 2:30 pm ET

Aired during the December 22 broadcast of Fox News' The Live Desk:

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Previously:

Doocy slips, discusses Fox & Friends' "Holiday Party" before correcting himself

Priest doesn't take Doocy's War on Christmas bait, says he's not "hand-wringing" over it

Holiday Hypocrisy: O'Reilly says Catastrophe "makes a great Christmas/holiday/Chanukah book, gift, whatever."

On behalf of Fox News, Garrett wishes Obama and his family "a very happy and joyous 2009 holiday season"

O'Reilly to school principal targeted in "War on Christmas": "I have to tell you, madam, that you'll appear on this program one way or the other ... because we're not letting it go"

What Grinch? Fox's Hemmer and Camerota mislead on "War on Christmas" story

Fox Nation announces first shots fired in annual War on Christmas

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    • Author by nerzog (December 22, 2009 2:37 pm ET)
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      See? These guys know they're full of sh*t. They're just playing to the drooling knuckledraggers in their audience.
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      • Author by JoshSN (December 22, 2009 3:01 pm ET)
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        That's not fair. It isn't like it is _one_ knuckle dragger _both_ making the advertising and jumping around like a monkey in front of the camera.
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    • Author by pete592 (December 22, 2009 2:45 pm ET)
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      How long has Fock Snooze been fighting in the War on Christmas?

      [http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y250/sabra2277/oreilly.jpg]


      Five years now? Yet still, they clumsily can't adhere to their own moral standards.
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      • Author by mary59 (December 22, 2009 2:51 pm ET)
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        What an ugly Christmas ornament. Even a beautiful evergreen tree & lights can't help it. And $9.95???!! This "holiday ornament" should definitely be recycled into something better....
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        • Author by bilbo_dies (December 22, 2009 3:28 pm ET)
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          Think "collectable". Some time in the future (thousand of years from now), people will want these for history museums to show just how jaded we were in the "Dark Ages".
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          • Author by neon desert (December 22, 2009 4:25 pm ET)
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            And, when you consider this is the only single time of the year when Jesus officially lends his name to materialism, I feel it would be sacrilegious NOT to put one of those ornaments on my credit card.
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            • Author by mary59 (December 22, 2009 4:32 pm ET)
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              I feel it would be sacrilegious NOT to put one of those ornaments on my credit card.

              Perhaps, but you'll have a hard time putting the card back in your wallet....
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          • Author by John Paradox (December 22, 2009 11:37 pm ET)
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            December 23,3009
            Archaeologist's report:
            Discovered: Round glass item, with 'stem' included, and printing on one side. This is obviously a religious item, resembling some form of fruit similar to an apple. The printing on the side is the name of the god that was worshiped, while the 'stem' with a loop was used to hold the item to a string so it could be carried as a 'luck' totem wherever the believer went.
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        • Author by MickD (December 22, 2009 3:28 pm ET)
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          I'd definitely be drinking if I saw that on the tree at any holiday party besides Fox News. At a Fox News Xmas party, I would be mainlining smack.

          Happy Holidays to the MMFA thread crowd. You guys rock, and are constantly entertaining.
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        • Author by Limit Corp. Ownership (December 22, 2009 4:24 pm ET)
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          You can get the O'Reilly ornament and Palin's book, a package deal thing, on line for $1.49. With free shipping.
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      • Author by liberalXtian (December 22, 2009 6:08 pm ET)
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        An O'Reilly Christmas tree ornament is so about Jesus!
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      • Author by pragmatic-progressive (December 22, 2009 6:23 pm ET)
           
        The following is a quote from Bill-O's website:

        One of the good things about being a media loudmouth is that occasionally you get invited somewhere you actually want to go. This year, I was lucky enough to get an invitation to the White House media holiday party which would have been called a Christmas party if U.S. Grant was still president.


        http://www.billoreilly.com/currentarticle

        Rank hypocrisy.
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    • Author by scubcap647 (December 22, 2009 2:49 pm ET)
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      It always got to me how a network full of people who will wave the banner for Isreal no matter what will turn around and talk about this war on Christmas stuff. Since Christmas isn't recognized by those who are Jewish, aren't they affraid of offending someone. I guess now we know. I wonder if a host will rant about how their producer or even Ailes and Murdock are too politically correct.

      Happy Holidays everyone. Merry Christmahanukwanzikah!
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      • Author by epkklk851 (December 22, 2009 3:16 pm ET)
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        Fox is pro-Israel because Israel has to exist for the Messiah to return and begin the End Times. I am quite sure that Roger and Ruprick don't give a rotten fig for the Apocalypse, but large parts of their audience are sure they are in the end times and waiting for The Rapture at any moment. Some of them are nice enough to have bumper stickers to warn you that they will be taken, and to use caution behind them. (They have medication for these sorts of hallucinations and delusions.)
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    • Author by carlh (December 22, 2009 2:57 pm ET)
         
      HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

      I can't help but laugh.
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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (December 22, 2009 3:04 pm ET)
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      We have to get rid of those atheist, fascist, nazi types over at Fox News. What is this world coming to?

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    • Author by AB-001 (December 22, 2009 3:04 pm ET)
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      Shhhhhh! Don't let Gretchen Carlson find out about this. She'll have a hissy fit to end all hissy fits and that pouty lip serious face she makes will burn holes in TV screens across the country!
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    • Author by Boxer1979 (December 22, 2009 3:13 pm ET)
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      Fox News cuts and runs in War on Christmas

      OH NO! They have Happy Holidays on their advertisement. What happened to the Merry Christmas, because we are christians and it needs to be said more?

      LMAO!

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    • Author by highliter (December 22, 2009 3:15 pm ET)
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      They are also running Happy Hanukah and Merry Christmas spots but I guess MMFA won’t bring that up as it hurts there BS spin!
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      • Author by vysotsky (December 22, 2009 3:29 pm ET)
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        "They are also running Happy Hanukah and Merry Christmas spots but I guess MMFA won't bring that up as it hurts there [sic] BS spin!"

        No, that would actually contribute positively to MMFA's position. Season's greetings, highliter.
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        • Author by Limit Corp. Ownership (December 22, 2009 4:31 pm ET)
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          I love it when they inadvertantly shoot themselves in the foot.

          Happy Holidays, Highlighter!
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      • Author by jjamele2880 (December 22, 2009 3:48 pm ET)
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        Wow, talk about letting the point fly right over your head there, highliter.

        The POINT (listen carefully now) is that Fox hosts are constantly berating us "liberals" for trying to include respect for Jews, etc. by demanding that everyone says "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays." That they turn around and run "Happy Hanukah" spots isn't just beside the point, it's just proof of their hypocricy. As is O'Reilly's "Holiday Ornament."

        Care to try again?
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      • Author by PurpleState (December 22, 2009 4:27 pm ET)
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        Why bring it up? It means that Fox is still being hypocritical.

        The inclusion of "Happy Holidays" is damage enough.
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    • Author by epkklk851 (December 22, 2009 3:21 pm ET)
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      I have to laugh, not a single Christian symbol. Kids in jammies running to a pagan symbol, Santa, as described by Clement Clark Moore and drawn by Sundblom, ornaments on the same pagan tree and a snowy house. No nativity, no star, no Wise Men, no Madonna and Child. Gotta love it.
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    • Author by vysotsky (December 22, 2009 3:25 pm ET)
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      "wishing you and yours... a very safe and... happy holidays"


      I'm not an expert on these things, but isn't the word "holidays" grammatically plural?
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      • Author by Don Hussein Fabuloso (December 22, 2009 3:48 pm ET)
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        In the spirit of the season, Vy, I'm gonna say, close enough for the idiots at Fox "news". At least they didn't put an apostrophe in "yours".
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    • Author by WoodstockNation1969 (December 22, 2009 3:44 pm ET)
         
      a taste of history:
      1.Following the Protestant Reformation, groups such as the Puritans strongly condemned the celebration of Christmas, considering it a Catholic invention and the "trappings of popery" or the "rags of the Beast."[67] The Catholic Church responded by promoting the festival in a more religiously oriented form.
      2.Following the Parliamentarian victory over Charles I during the English Civil War, England's Puritan rulers banned Christmas in 1647.
      3. The Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 ended the ban, but many clergymen still disapproved of Christmas celebration. In Scotland, the Presbyterian Church of Scotland also discouraged observance of Christmas.
      4.In Colonial America, the Puritans of New England shared radical Protestant disapproval of Christmas. Celebration was outlawed in Boston from 1659 to 1681. The ban by the Pilgrims was revoked in 1681 by English governor Sir Edmund Andros, however it wasn't until the mid 1800's that celebrating Christmas became fashionable in the Boston region.
      5. Christmas fell out of favor in the United States after the American Revolution, when it was considered an English custom.[72] George Washington attacked Hessian mercenaries on Christmas during the Battle of Trenton in 1777.
      6 Christmas fell out of favor in the United States after the American Revolution, when it was considered an English custom.[72] George Washington attacked Hessian mercenaries on Christmas during the Battle of Trenton in 1777.
      .............End of Line
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    • Author by WoodstockNation1969 (December 22, 2009 8:01 pm ET)
         
      The War on Christmas started in 1942:
      "Happy Holiday" (sometimes performed as "Happy Holidays") is a popular song composed by Irving Berlin in 1942.
      The song was first performed by Bing Crosby in the 1942 film Holiday Inn. In the context of the film, the song refers to holidays in general; however, it has come to be associated most commonly with the Christmas season (presumably due to its context).
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    • Author by eweston8542983 (December 22, 2009 11:23 pm ET)
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      "You cowards! Hand me my swordflask varlet!"
      If I can't enter into righteous holiday combat. Then the only reasonable option is to get sauced.

      OT,May the Noodly One bless you all real good.
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