Fox News demonstrated the fundamental hypocrisy of its claim that progressives are engaged in a war on Christmas by expressing outrage at Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee because he uses the term “holiday tree” rather “Christmas tree” to refer to the tree that will adorn the statehouse during the holiday season. However, minutes later, Fox announced that it would host its own “holiday wish list” segment.

Fox News has repeatedly attacked people and organizations who use the term holiday when the network would prefer them to use the term Christmas, claiming that they are engaging in a “war on Christmas.”

On Fox & Friends First, co-host Heather Nauert claimed Chafee made the “decision to kill Christmas,” alluding to a decision by the governor not to host a tree lighting ceremony at the statehouse this year. 

Chafee reportedly made the decision because in 2011, protesters attended the tree lighting ceremony to criticize the governor for using the term “holiday tree.” Fox played its part in creating controversy over the tree, enlisting viewers in a feverish and overblown campaign against the governor and the words “holiday tree.”

But only minutes after Fox complained of the Governor's use of the word “holiday” in place of “Christmas,” Nauert  announced a new segment called "Fox & Friends First's Holiday Wish list":

This is not the first time that Fox's “War on Christmas” them has been undermined by the channel's own use of the word holiday rather than Christmas.