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Eric Bolling Reacts To Reported Federal Christmas Tree Tax…By Wearing Sparkles!

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Counteracting the devastating news that the United States’ Agricultural Department — comprised solely of crotchety old men scheduled to meet with no less than three (3) ghosts — is adding a 15 cent charge to Christmas trees, The Five panelist Eric Bolling shared his abundance of Christmas spirit. And his penchant for sparkles.

After a few requisite tree-related puns courtesy of Greg Gutfeld (I found them a bit sappy, personally. And did anyone else feel Gutfeld’s delivery was a little wooden? Fir real, y’all.), the focus turned to whether this charge would hurt President Obama’s chances at a second term (YES.), and then to Bolling’s “twisted” Christmas tree, which came adorned with a small sign reading “Obama’s Tax War on Christmas.”

RELATED: Fox News: The Christmas Tree Tax Will ‘Grinch’ Fifteen Cents Out Of Your Pocket This Year

Bob Beckel then offered something about someone’s red butt (?), which left everyone confused and worried, and cut to the core of the issue: The reason there is a push to create a pricey marketing campaign for the humble Christmas tree is because unpatriotic people like Eric Bolling are off buying “disgustingly dirty, filthy” fake trees. Bolling retaliated by blaming atheists, somehow.

Have a look, via Fox News, and discuss whether “Muslim interloper” Barack Obama will ride his Prius into your homes Christmas morning, drink the milk you left out for Santa, and eat your entire Christmas roast before informing you that you look fat in your flannel pajamas:

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  • Bob

    Well, I suppose the santa hat is a little better fashion-wise than Bolling’s usual ‘coked-up ’80s stockbroker’ look.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    I’m asking Stonepark3 get banned for calling 6 different people pedophiles without provocation on the Shepard Smith/Penn State article!!

  • Anonymous

    Too bad for the kids on “The Five” that it is not happening.

    Unfortunately the 15 cents was actually proposed by the Christmas Tree industry to promote live Christmas trees. Here is what Fox News has on the story. Sadly, nobody on “The Five” bothered to look on their own netowrk’s site.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/09/merry-christmas-agriculture-department-imposes-christmas-tree-tax/

  • Anonymous

    The “progressive” collective is pro-pedophilia. Remember when the underage girl was raped at OWS and the progpigs tried to cover it up? The reason is because they don’t view pedophilia as a crime. Such savage animals.

  • Anonymous

    Cue right-wing hysteria machine. The Kenyan muslim socialist is trying to destroy Christmas. OMG! OMG! OMG! OMG!

  • Anonymous

    Fox News already had a bad reputation for distorting the facts and giving false and misleading information to their viewers, and I didn’t think they could get any worse.  Then Fox hires Eric Bollling and what little reputation they had left is now gone.  This man is absolutely the most biased and worse pundit currently on the air.  He’s just another Aile’s puppet for Fox News along with all the others Hannity, Gretchen Carlson, Steve Doucy, Sarah Palin, and all the others.  Pay someone more then they are worth and they will say anything you want them to say.

     

  • Anonymous

    Cry baby cryMake your mother sigh She’s old enough to know betterSo cry baby cry.

    The ever present resident town “crier.”

    LMAO

    BTW, I love all the comments from posters blasting your cry baby arse!

  • Anonymous

    Fox News already had a bad reputation for distorting the facts and giving false and misleading information to their viewers”

    Like MSNBC does?

    “Rachel Maddow Falsely Claims  Wisconsin is on track to have a budget surplus this year”

    Maddow Falsely Claims Politician Had Advance Warning of Oklahoma City ”

    “Rachel Maddow  Falsely says Fox News ‘said the New Black Panther Party decided the election for Barack Obama’”

    “MSNBC Lies about Warrentless Wiretapping”

    “MSNBC Admits: ‘Unable to Verify’ False Limbaugh Quote; No Retraction or Apology”

    “Rick Perry ‘Big Black Cloud’ Quote Edited Out Of Context By MSNBC And ABC News”

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    What’s wrong?? You didn’t call M_Baker a pedophile??

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    You left out the comments from other people who believe you should be banned for you disgusting comments!!

    Anyone else with class would be embarrassed by what you said!!

  • Rex the Wonder God

    This is something Congress has jurisdiction over, but not the administration. The Congress that was in place when the proposal was made was the one voted into office in 2007, where Pelosi was the Speaker and the Ds had a working majority in the House, with a majority of Senators being D but who cares that placed is screwed up no matter who has control unless the control is a true super majority, and the president at the time, whose only power would be to veto the bill containing the proposal, was Bush. 

    But note what happened in this case: the proposal was only allowed to go forward on the basis that it would only start to take effect in 2011.

    This current Congress could pass legislation to overturn the plan, but no bill proposing to do that has been introduced into the House. That is, under Speaker Boehner and the GOP having a working majority in the House, the GOP has effectively declined to overturn it. If the House did pass such a bill, it’s not clear what the Senate would do with that or whether the current president would sign it, but those scenarios are irrelevant because the House has not even considered any bill to overturn the existing enabling legislation.

    So there’s lots of blame to go around here, if blame you wish to go with. The underlying idea of the per tree charge is research and development going to increasing American jobs by increasing domestic demand for natural tree use, but it’s revenue neutral as far as the federal government is concerned, because either people are prepared to pay the surcharge or they are not. I actually like the idea of the surcharge because it’s quite modest, it doesn’t have any effect on the budget or the deficit, and it’s left up to the industry to make it work to create more jobs or not.

    But the one office you certainly can NOT criticize for this is the White House, because the president cannot do a thing about it without a bill passed in the House and passed in the Senate that comes to his desk for signature.

  • Rex the Wonder God

    Med time, SP. Nighty night, little boyo.

  • Anonymous

    google  “fox lies” now change the subject!

  • Anonymous

    Why is there never any proof,… just “tea” propaganda?

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    that’s an understatement.

  • Anonymous

    This article was written 7 years ago and they had Fox News pegged then.  http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/networks/foxnews/foxnews.html

  • Anonymous

    Take this story about Fox News as an example.  Fox is claiming that Obama is taxing each tree by $.15.  The actual fact is the the Christmas tree growers want the tax because it will benefit them, not the government.  This type of fee is very common in specific agricultural commodities.  The growers of oranges also have a tax place on each box of oranges they produce.  The tax is used for research diseases that affect in orange trees and for marketing Florida orange juice.

    Now go back and see how Fox is reporting it.

  • Texan

    It sure was funny watching carney barker respond the question this morning. “Uh, um, uh, we won’t be doing that…”

  • Texan

    Progressive judges are turning them loose or giving them no jail time all over the US. What happens they get out? They do it, again.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Is Bolling moving to San Francisco?

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