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Fox News Channel Is Not Afraid To Wish You A Merry Christmas

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For some, the best gift this season is sitting back and observing warring media outlets debate the “War on Christmas” in between posting on the 10 Best Holiday Gifts for Bisexual Fashionista Tech Geeks or producing news segments on how gift cards are impacting global warming.

This morning, The New Republic offered several views on this jolliest of wars, highlighting how the holiday season is especially tough on Christians, who are forced to deal with such living nightmares as crowded Christmas masses and long lines at Mrs. Field’s this time of year. TNR then points to a particular inconsistency by those who would have every “Happy Holidays” become an emphatic “Merry Christmas”:

The problem is that religious/cultural conservatives want two things changed about the way our culture observes Christmas.

They want the holiday to be more religious (“Jesus is the reason for the season”) and they want it to be observed more universally (“Christmas is our national holiday.”) You can’t do both.

Fox News Channel, long the protector of Christmas’ sanctity, is taking a characteristically confident stance on the holiday season by running a special holiday birthday message for its viewers. For those among us who emphasize that an impoverished Jewish carpenter is, indeed, the reason for the season, the clip is a welcome — and blunt — message standing apart from the pesky commercialism and multi-culturalism coloring rhetoric about this time of year:

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  • CosmosDan

    All I want is the gift of truth, thanks folks

  • lonestar77

    They also weren’t afraid to wish everyone a Happy Hanukkah a couple weeks ago.

  • lazzzlo

    That clip works for me!

  • ROCKSTEADY

    This is disgusting.From the so called christians repugs who do not believe in helping anyone but the rich.Jessus is weeping for he would be turned away if he were alive today for being an impoverished Jewish carpenter.

  • writer

    Unlike Democrats such as Louis Farrakhan, who welcome all Jews with open arms.

  • The Real Royal King

    ROCKSTEADY said:
    This is disgusting.From the so called christians repugs who do not believe in helping anyone but the rich.Jessus is weeping for he would be turned away if he were alive today for being an impoverished Jewish carpenter.

    I’m pretty sure there would be no room for the Holy Family in the homes of any of our usual rightist friends here.

  • writer

    But don’t mention any bias against Jews coming from Louie. Makes the King cry. Besides, Louie isn’t ‘present’.

  • The Real Royal King

    The card doesn’t seem to be at all religious. I guess saying “Christmas” is enough.

    Since the origin of “Christmas” is Cristes Maesse, the Mass of Christ, I shouldn’t wonder that some Protestants aren’t offended by it.

  • The Real Royal King

    writer said:
    But don’t mention any bias against Jews coming from Louie. Makes the King cry. Besides, Louie isn’t ‘present’.

    Why should I mention it Kumquat. You’re always here to to toss it out along with the other irrelevancies you so willingly share from your Kollosal Kart ‘o Krap.

  • lonestar77

    ROCKSTEADY said:
    This is disgusting.From the so called christians repugs who do not believe in helping anyone but the rich.Jessus is weeping for he would be turned away if he were alive today for being an impoverished Jewish carpenter.

    Source? Conservatives, regardless of personal wealth (or lack thereof), give more money to charity than liberals of the same financial means. Oh, we also donate more time & give more blood. Also, religious people, or “Christians repugs” as you like to call them, are not only more likely to give to charity, they give about 400% more than non-religious/non”Christian repugs” folks.
    http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2682730&tqkw=&tqshow=2020&page=1
    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/conservatives_more_liberal_giv.html

    But, facts don’t matter when you can just name call & carpet bomb. You’d fit in well over at MSNBC.

  • Moderate

    Jesse Jackson would tell Jesus to go back to Hymie-town.

  • writer

    You shouldn’t mention it, King. It’s politically incorrect to point out that the Nation of Islam hates Jews. Didn’t want you to start bawling again, right here at Christmas time.

  • Moderate

    “they give about 400% more than non-religious”

    Progressives see charity as a responsibility of government (some else’s money).

  • Arthur (Not a Political Comic)

    writer said:
    Unlike Democrats such as Louis Farrakhan, who welcome all Jews with open arms.

    Seriously, your example of modern Democrats is Louis Farrakhan? Don’t tell Bernard Sanders.

  • Harry Flashman

    Rocksteady said:

    “….but the rich.Jessus is weeping….”

    I’ve noted recently that whenever the left has something ugly or snarky or critical to say directly about Jesus Christ they rarely spell “Jesus” correctly.

    Check out the liberal blogs and look at the comments there. I’ve seen “Jeebus” and “JC” when they mock Christ but I don’t recall EVER seeing one of the mockers actually write “Jesus Christ” when they show how cool they are by sniping at Christianity.

    Why is that, I wonder?

    Really, nevermind the question. I know the answer – and so do they.

  • The Real Royal King

    Moderate said:
    Jesse Jackson would tell Jesus to go back to Hymie-town.

    Who should we blame for “Cracker Babies”?

  • lonestar77

    Moderate said:
    “they give about 400% more than non-religious”

    Progressives see charity as a responsibility of government (some else’s money).

    Exactly! They’re all about giving to the poor…with other people’s money.

  • http://MsUnderestimated.com MsUnderestimated

    Ah, I’ve been waiting to see how long it was going to take before someone pointed this out as some kind of anomaly because Fox did it. This ranks a post? Seriously? *sigh*

  • writer

    Who should we blame for “Cracker Babies”?

    You’ll notice how the King always diverts the subject when confronted with racism coming from the Nation of Islam, Jesse Jackson, or Al Sharpton. It doesn’t fit his extreme left mantra that only whites can be racist.

  • SpineCrusher

    lonestar77 said:
    Source? Conservatives, regardless of personal wealth (or lack thereof), give more money to charity than liberals of the same financial means. Oh, we also donate more time & give more blood. Also, religious people, or “Christians repugs” as you like to call them, are not only more likely to give to charity, they give about 400% more than non-religious/non”Christian repugs” folks.http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2682730&tqkw=&tqshow=2020&page=1http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/conservatives_more_liberal_giv.html But, facts don’t matter when you can just name call & carpet bomb. You’d fit in well over at MSNBC.

    Ah..another canard.

    They give more $$$ overall (and they have MUCH MUCH more of those), but they give less percentage-wise.

    Better yet, let me quote your first link from ABC, since you obviously don’t even read the article you’re linking to:

    “But while the rich do give more in overall dollars, according to the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, people at the lower end of the income scale give almost 30 percent more of their income. ”

    30% more!! 30%!!

    thanks for playing

  • writer

    “Cracker babies.”

    Evidently, the King’s hatred even extends to infants. What a psychopath.

  • SpineCrusher

    so baby Jeebus is 2010 years old this year, how quaint.

    So when are the New Christians going to write the New New Testament so that they can include Santa, his elves and flying reindeer?

  • SpineCrusher

    writer said:
    “Cracker babies.” Evidently, the King’s hatred even extends to infants. What a psychopath.

    Hatred?

    It’s a right-wing rally cry

    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/beck-rally-participant-demands-protect-white-cracker-babies.php

  • writer

    Way to go, Spine Crusher. Totally ignore the King’s psychopathic hatred. He’s one of yours.

  • The Real Royal King

    SpineCrusher said:
    So when are the New Christians going to write the New New Testament so that they can include Santa, his elves and flying reindeer?

    My favorite part of the Season is Mass during the four (4) Sundays in Advent, Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, and the Sundays leading up to Epiphany. All of the secular “stuff” can be fun, but the religious aspect are so wondrous, so contemplative, so fulfilling, it is good to be able to focus on them. Plus, I loathe “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” and that song about the little boy and the red shoes.

  • SpineCrusher

    The Real Royal King said:
    My favorite part of the Season is Mass during the four (4) Sundays in Advent, Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve, and the Sundays leading up to Epiphany. All of the secular “stuff” can be fun, but the religious aspect are so wondrous, so contemplative, so fulfilling, it is good to be able to focus on them. Plus, I loathe “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” and that song about the little boy and the red shoes.

    indoctrinization at an early age can have its benefits…for some. The brainwashing just never took for me.

  • SpineCrusher

    here’s a good piece I read the other day:

    False indoctrinization only create mental blocks and make people blind. That’s not the spirit in what Jesus Christ was talking about. Rather he was talking about the truth, which does quite the opposite. The truth makes the mind and spirit free, rather than blind. While knowing the truth makes one free, false indoctrinization creates fanatics.

    About such false indoctrinization, conjectures and import of false teachings in religion it is warned in the most clear of expression in the Final Testament, the Quran – that might offer some insight into the whole problem:

    And there are among them ignorants, who know not the Scripture, but only lies, and they do nothing but conjecture. Therefore woe be unto those who write the Scripture with their hands and then say, “This is from God,” that they may purchase a small gain therewith.

    Woe unto them for that their hands have written, and woe unto them for that they earn thereby. The Quran 2:78-79

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    ROCKSTEADY says:
    This is disgusting.From the so called christians repugs who do not believe in helping anyone but the rich.Jessus is weeping for he would be turned away if he were alive today for being an impoverished Jewish carpenter.

    If that’s true, how do you account for the FACT that conservatvies consistently outnumber libs in charitable giving? Your argument has NO merit and is false.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    I see you already pointed that out lonestar, so apologies. But it bares repeating I guess since the libs keep perpetuating this lie.

  • Davo

    I just love it when left-wing atheists lecture Christians on how to be Christians.

  • Spike1

    If you believe in Christ or not is debatable. If you do, in the Bible so it says, Christ said do not celebrate my birth, but celebrate my sacrafice. There is also some doubt about his exact birth date.

  • SpineCrusher

    Davo said:
    I just love it when left-wing atheists lecture Christians on how to be Christians.

    Not believing in the myth doesn’t mean you’re not well versed in the stories.

    ..and Christians are always telling Christians how to be Christians, what’s wrong with a little help from a moderator?

    Happy Baby Jeebus Day!

  • http://Mediaite.com uggugg

    I have to laugh at you guy at Fox News. Rupert Murdoch just tried to get into service in Britain, a duplicate of Fox News in America and they turned him down flat. That shows just shows how unpopular your guys are around the world in any days. Be nice and honest, that will make your boss look real good. This is probably the way he will be spending his tax-cut that was just voted on.

  • http://none pyrope

    lonestar77 said:
    They also weren’t afraid to wish everyone a Happy Hanukkah a couple weeks ago.

    And they weren’t afraid to wish everyone a Joyful Eid at the end of Rhamadan.

  • http://none pyrope

    uggugg said:
    I have to laugh at you guy at Fox News.

    They already have a sister network there. Ever hear of Sky News?

  • http://none pyrope

    Spike1 said:
    If you believe in Christ or not is debatable. If you do, in the Bible so it says, Christ said do not celebrate my birth, but celebrate my sacrafice. There is also some doubt about his exact birth date.

    What book, chapter, and verse is that please.

  • http://none pyrope

    CosmosDan said:
    All I want is the gift of truth, thanks folks

    You’ll find more of it at FNC than anyplace I know.

    May God bless you and yours in this Christmas season and throughout the coming year.

  • http://none pyrope

    SpineCrusher said:
    Happy Baby Jeebus Day!

    And a blessed Christmas season to you.

  • http://none pyrope

    The Real Royal King said:
    Who should we blame for “Cracker Babies”?

    You’re still a class act to me king–LOW CLASS. But Jesus love you, too.

  • http://none pyrope

    Moderate said:
    “they give about 400% more than non-religious” Progressives see charity as a responsibility of government (some else’s money).

    TRUE.

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