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Christmas Warrior Rick Perry Has ‘Happy Holiday’ Skeletons In His Closet

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Texas Governor and fallen former presidential frontrunner Rick Perry continues to revive his campaign by picking culture war fights with President Obama, releasing an ad that decries, among other things, that ” our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.”

As American Bridge PAC points out, though, Gov. Perry is a “Happy Holidays” hipster who took the “Christ” out of Christmas way before it was cool.

RELATED: Rick Perry Pledges To End Obama’s ‘War On Religion,’ Dings ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ In New Ad

Perry’s ad also predictably hits President Obama on his support for gay rights, again falsely equating legal discrimination with “people of faith,” blissfully feigning ignorance of the fact that some “people of faith” once supported slavery on the same basis (including, apparently, whoever named Perry’s hunting camp). Lots of other people of faith did not.

RELATED: Bill O’Reilly Does Epic Segment On The ‘War On Christmas™’

But it’s Perry’s invocation of the War On Christmas™ that provides the entertainment value in Perry’s ad. While he tries to get in on the Yulepocalypse Now! fervor, his own past shows he was on the “Happy Holidays” team as recently as 2008…and as far back as 1992, long before anyone knew the War was coming. I guess he’s the Che Guevara of the secular liberal anti-Christmas revolution:


For shame, Rick Perry, for shame! How can we expect our kids to “openly celebrate Christmas” if you won’t even say its name? Go get him, Bill O’Reilly! Have at him, Fox and Friends! I’m just glad I could play my part in this existential struggle. “Happy Holidays” indeed!

You can see Perry’s new ad here, his full 2008 Holiday message here, and download his 1992 Holiday Message here.

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  • Anonymous

    Rick Perry, hypocrite, flip flopper, or both?

  • Mo Fokker

    Wow. Well done Tommy.  More fundie hypocrisy on display.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    Just another GREAT example of the media/networks/FOX -along with political figures who KNOW the average American is as DUMB as a rock- performing great revisionist history service because they know Americans dont read -we cant- and wont research any claims -because we are the she-ople-. Do what ever you have to do Perry. Make that BUCK!

  • Centrist79

    Should add stupid for Perry not thinking anyone would check.

  • Anonymous

    “Fallen Former Presidential Frontrunner”? It ain’t over until the fat lady (Moochell) sings baby!

  • http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

    Only the dumbest of the low IQ Conservatives/Tea Baggers/Republicans really believe that there is a war on Christmas going on.

    These dumbbells also think that Fox News is ‘fair and balanced’. 

  • Anonymous

    swag

  • Anonymous

    Like.  The pandering on display is amazing…committing suicide in the general.

  • Anonymous

    Texas or Kansas…oh wait a minute, that is a Barak story not a Perry story, so we won’t read about it here.  Sorry…carry on.  If it were a Perry story it would be headlined, but since it is a Barak story it is spiked.

    Hohum.

  • Anonymous

    …Ooops!!!

  • Anonymous

    LOL Happy Holiday Rick…

  • Hout Bosques

    Not even they think that.

    It’s a dog whistle. 

    The GOP is the fundy party, the Jeebus-beliebing religious right party, the party of Chrisitian intolerance, whereas Dems accept anyone. And bonus for the past few years of WOC, President Obama takes seriously his commitment to be president to all law-abiding citizens, that includes Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and Atheists, none of which see Christmas as having the least religious significance. It’s like a two-fer!

  • Anonymous

    yeah, and it’s amazing that rather than an obvious story like the ‘British embassy’ gaffe of kansas/texas gaffe, they literally have to dig hard to find a jab at a republican nominee.

    Next up “Romney once forgot his mother’s birthday’…  

  • Anonymous

    Shocker….Tommy Christopher writes another article bashing a Republican.  Who would’ve thunk it?  Hey Tommy, how about doing some reporting on the many shortcomings of your idol, Barack “We Need To Spread The Wealth Around” Obama.

  • Joke Scareborough

    If it looks like election fraud and smells like election fraud, then it must be election fraud. 
    Finally some Obama election fraud is being reported:

    Indiana 2008 Presidential Primary Election Fraud Probe Heats UpBy Eric ShawnPublished December 07, 2011| FoxNews.comCharity Rorie, a mother of four, sat in her Mishawaka, Ind., kitchen, stunned that her name appeared on a 2008 Democratic presidential primary petition for then-candidate Barack Obama.”That’s not my signature,” she told Fox News, saying her signature is “absolutely” a fake. She also said she was troubled someone forged both her signature and that of her husband, Jeff, and listed personal details such as their address and birthdays.”It’s scary,” Rorie said. “It’s shocking. It definitely is illegal. A lot of people have already lost faith in politics and the whole realm of politics, so that just solidifies all of our worries and concerns.”Robert Hunter Jr. said his name was faked, too.”I did not sign for Barack Obama,” he told Fox News, adding his signature supporting the then-Illinois senator’s effort to get on the primary ballot was also a forgery.As he examined the Obama petition he held in his hands, Hunter pointed out that “I always put ‘Junior’ after my name, every time … there’s no ‘Junior’ there.” He said the signature on the petition looks “very close” to his real one, but it clearly is not.”My wife and I actually signed a petition for Hillary Clinton,” he said. “I am an Obama fan, but not in the primaries I wasn’t.”
    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/07/indiana-2008-presidential-primary-election-fraud-probe-heats-up/#ixzz1ft17CXD

    Maybe someday the fraud that took place in Iowa and Nevada will also be revealed.

  • RW

    Take a look at every story on this website.  Nothing but Republican bashing.  What is the point of this website?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arturo-Salas/100000258870856 Arturo Salas

    He HAD to change his tune. For pete’s sake, he’s running for president.

  • Anonymous

    LMAO .. Happy Holidays!!! .. Slick Rick

  • Anonymous

    lol  at Rick Perry telling Wolf he would never be vice-president.
    He used the old quote, “Being vice-president ain’t worth a bucket of warm spit”.

    Should he win the nomination he just belittled his own running mate!

    He’s not very….err…..smart.

  • Joke Scareborough

    Republican bashing!
    It’s a Democrat Activist website.
    If they had any importance they would be probably have to register as a 501(c).

  • Anonymous

    “Take a look at almost prominent story on this website.  Nothing but Republican bashing. ”

    lol…too bad half of them are REPUBLICANS bashing other other REPUBLICANS.

  • Anonymous

    “Take a look at almost prominent story on this website.  Nothing but Republican bashing. ”

    lol…too bad half of them are REPUBLICANS bashing other other REPUBLICANS.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arturo-Salas/100000258870856 Arturo Salas

    I think you mean this;

    December 06, 2011|By Luke Broadwater, The Baltimore Sun

    A Baltimore jury Tuesday found Paul Schurick, former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.’s campaign manager, guilty of fraud and related charges for his role in an Election Day 2010 robocall — a decision hailed by government watchdog groups who say that for too long dirty tricks have tainted Maryland politics.

  • SouthernYankee

    Guess baggers are so happy with that corporate welfare.  Forget helping the senior citizens receive social security (Oh forget that according to baggers that isn’t socialist).  Well help senior citizens with medicare (oops forget that according to the baggers that is socialist also).   I guess we have alot of baggers who are in the closet (getting social security and medicare).

  • Anonymous

    @readers:disqus my best friend’s aunt makes $87 an hour on the computer. and last month her pay was $7299 , she is one of many  learned Kelly Richard’s methods in “Online income solutions”… —-MakeCash1.COM—–

  • SouthernYankee

    Wow, is that why the republican party is disenfranchising thousand of minorities?  Well long neck Coulter also voted in 2 states.   If you want to read about stealing elections go on to the Brad blog.  I don’t know much about his leanings but he has done some great work of stealing elections. 

  • RW

    It’s getting tiresome.  Politico has seen its web traffic decline the more liberal they’ve become.  So will Mediaite.  Let’s face it, a whole bunch of liberals on a comment stream are never very interesting.  A whole bunch of articles bashing conservatives aren’t very interesting either.

    Cue LeeDog the watchdog from Media Matters – “then why do you come here – go back to FoxNation”  I used to come here to read an interesting article about flubs in the media.  If I wanted this crap, I could go to Media Matters.  BTW – why are they tax exempt?

  • Anonymous

    “If I wanted this crap, I could go to Media Matters. BTW – why are they tax exempt? ”

    The same reason Heritage Foundation, AEI and Media Research Center are exempt.

  • Joke Scareborough

    Yeah I know you’re thinking “What the heck is real news doing here at Mediaite, I only come here for the Democrat activism?”

  • Anonymous

    Keep drinking the Kool-Aid fleabagger.  Your choice for president has worked out really well, hasn’t it?  Epic Failure would be the proper term to describe this president’s tenure.  

  • Anonymous

    Your musings are more effective than Ambien.

  • Anonymous

    He kinda reminds you of Joe Biden, doesn’t he?

  • Anonymous

    More proof that Republicans are not nearly as smart as a bag of rocks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arturo-Salas/100000258870856 Arturo Salas

    seriously guys? tina, lane1?

    Do you know how easy it is to bash republicans, you dont have to go to any website or “dig hard”, just look at the republican debates.
    Better yet, just look at the upcoming trump debate. Is that serious? donald trump moderating a republican primary debate?
    Could any of you point to anything similar to the freak show on the demo’s side?

  • SouthernYankee

    LOL, you tea dippers forget how Obama inherited this mess.  President Obama has kept us out of a depression.  The republicans don’t care about working people.  President Obama will be reelected.  LOL

  • SouthernYankee

    I love love love love love the liberals.  I love it that we are a thorn in your ass because we want to make sure you know we are there.  Yep, love being a liberal.

  • Anonymous

    NoPe

  • Anonymous

    Sure he will be reelected…..bwahahaha

    How much has he spent?  How is the economy better than when he became president?  Wow, delusional I tell you, delusional.

  • SouthernYankee

    Iam not delusional.  You are blinded by your hate of Obama because that what Fox News tells you.   So many of your ilk don’t even realize that Obama hasn’t raised your taxes.  Funny every time we have a republican president I always get back less.  Your president Bush or maybe it was Cheney (who really knows) went to 2 wars without paying for them.  Those are facts.  Obama when he came in put the in the budget.  Those are facts.  Bush put in the pharmacy pill program and didn’t pay for that either.  Don’t blame Obama for what your president did.  Obama hasn’t raised taxes.  Those are facts.  It doesn’t matter what you say those are facts.  Go on the independent Policfacts.  They are very independent and will give you the facts and who is lying or who is telling the truth. Please get informed.  Obama will be reelected.

  • Anonymous

    It’s time to stop treating the GOP like it’s a legitimate party. Have you seen these people’s IQs?

    Seriously, they’re too dumb to be allowed to vote! Of the top 25 states with the highest average IQs in the nation… 25 out of 25 voted for Obama. The GOP cleaned up the bottom 11 without a challenge. Not too surprising!

    I don’t know if you have to be stupid to be a Republican, but the trends surely suggest as much.

    Please people, WE NEED to start requiring an IQ test for voter eligibility. I know it’s a hard sell… obviously,if we required at least an IQ of 99, no Republican would ever win again, but it’s not about politics… It’s about smart politics! I’m sick of morons deciding who runs our country!

  • Anonymous

    Hey Clown….

    Check it out. Most of the media is bias against you. I’ll give you that. Want to know why? It’s simple… You and your entire party are a bunch of morons! Seriously, check it out. Fact-check if you know how.

    Come on. Be a responsible adult and do your research. Republicans are idiots. It’s a fact!

    The media is bias against your party because you opinions are so far from factual, most people would call them lies. The industry term is “dis-information”.

    Just a heads up… Recent studies suggest that Fox News viewers are LESS informed than people who say they don’t watch ANY news…. LOL… The 25 top states with the highest average IQs in the nation ALL voted for OBAMA.

    Is any of this getting though to you yet? Your idiots! Please stay out of politics. This is all way way to complicated for your tiny little minds! 

    Ok, go ahead and claim that in your experience, Liberals are just plain dumb. We’ve herd it plenty. No facts… but we still hear you. NOW…GO LOOK IT UP!

  • Anonymous

    Fox News… LMAO!

    Recent studies show that Fox News viewers know less than people who say they don’t watch ANY news.

    You might as well make up a story and don’t even bother with sources. No news is more informing than Fox News. Fair and balanced? LOL! In what dimension?

  • Anonymous

    The whole world is getting smarter. That’s good for Democrats. BAD for Republicans.

    Just check out the statistics. Republicans ARE idiots. Tests prove it. And the average IQ keeps increasing. Tests prove it.

    Tick tick tick… It’s only a matter of time before the Republicans are out forever! Smart people DO NOT vote Republican. It’s a fact!

    LOOK IT UP!

  • Anonymous

    Republicans are idiots. They should be bashed, shouldn’t be allowed to vote, etc…

    The point is…. Republicans are idiots. They should be bashed, shouldn’t be allowed to vote, etc…

    More to the point… Republicans are idiots. They should be bashed, shouldn’t be allowed to vote, etc…

    Check your IQ! You’ll see what I mean. Look at the average IQ of GOP voters! You’ll see what I mean.

    Oh, BTW, under 100 is not good! just thought I’d clear that up. And… lower is even worse! Thought I’d throw that in too. Really not sure what all ya’all can actually comprehend.

  • Anonymous

    Former Democrat…I doubt this answers your question. 

  • Anonymous

    “Of course I disposed of the body.  I’m running for president for pete’s sake!”

  • Anonymous


    that is a Barak story not a Perry story”

    ther’ ya go!

  • Anonymous

    When Obama makes ads like this, the reporting will follow. For now, we only have the Republicans.

  • Anonymous

    The study from the Farleigh-Dickinson University in New Jersey found that
    “watching Fox News makes you less informed than watching nothing at all.” 

    p.s. A search on the Fox News website did not give any results

  • Anonymous

    Speaking of which:

    “2001, after an eight-month review of 175,000 Florida ballots never counted in the 2000 election, an analysis by the National Opinion Research Center confirmed that Al Gore actually won Florida and should have been President.

    Moreover, Dr. Dennis Loo with the University of Cal Poly Pomona showed that extensive manipulation of non-paper-trail voting machines occurred in several states during the 2004 election:

    In 2004 Bush far exceeded the 85% of registered Florida Republican votes that he got in 2000, receiving more than 100% of the registered Republican votes in 47 out of 67 Florida counties, 200% of registered Republicans in 15 counties, and over 300% of registered Republicans in 4 counties. Bush managed these remarkable outcomes despite the fact that his share of the crossover votes by registered Democrats in Florida did not increase over 2000, and he lost ground among registered Independents, dropping 15 points.”

    http://tinyurl.com/bushfraud 

  • Anonymous

    This is our take:
    Looking back @ our lives, (every humanbeing, that is), we can each , retrospectively, identify things we did wrong.  As long as you are human.  Blacks, whites, jews & gentiles.  OK?  This does not need to be done openly.  In fact, this self examination must be done PRIVATELY.  And, if one identifys oneself as a GOP, a strict conservative. An evangelical, a honest & true one, THEN, one knows that from the biblical perspective.  NOW, Perry has messed up.  Perry has not slept for MONTHS now.  Perry , in this life of his, wants ONE thing more than anything else.  Perry , badly, very, very badly wants to be president.  BUT.  BUT.  BUT, Perry has a mortal sin that is preventing him from his desire.  As governor, Perry has knowingly allowed the execution of innocent folks.  Blacks & Whites, without regret & without mercy.  God does not like that.  That SIN is the ONLY “”blockage”" in Perry’s aspiration for being President.  We pray for perry.

    God bless America!

  • Anonymous

    bestoffox.blogspot.com

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    You mean God?

  • Anonymous

    Try spelling the President’s first name correctly, you mouth-breathing trailer-lump.

  • Anonymous

    The right, for all its whining about others allegedly stirring up class warfare, equates education with elitism. They think education makes people weak.  Part of their message is: Ignorance is strength. 

  • Anonymous

    Amazing what entertains simple minds… Seriously, get a life, this is stupid. Yeah, I mean both sides.

  • Larry Linn

    G*d spoke to me and told me not to vote for Perry.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    Rick Perry:  America…..I’m going to date rape you!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Go back to 4chan, Agent of so-called *cough* truth and don’t come back until you lose that longing for people to get raped.

  • Porphyry

    Commy would never hint that there’s anything wrong with the Supreme Leader.

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