December 23, 2006
FROM THE ARCHIVES: BULLSEYE!:
A Very Wary Christmas: Retailers and governments heed the wrath of Christians who seek recognition of the sanctity of the occasion. Attorneys are standing by. (Stephanie Simon, December 9, 2005, LA Times)
Christmas is back.A few weeks ago, banners outside every Lowe's store in the nation announced a sale on "Holiday Trees." Hundreds of Christians called to complain that the home-improvement chain was shunning Christmas.
The banners came down. Now the fake firs and pines are clearly labeled "Christmas Trees."
Target, too, started the season with a generic marketing theme. It pushed holiday plates, holiday leggings, holiday ornaments, holiday trees � with nary a mention of Christmas. Then, more than 500,000 shoppers signed an online pledge to boycott the chain. This week, Target promised to bring more Christmas into its stores as Dec. 25 approaches.
For the third year in a row, Christians nationwide have mobilized to put the holy back in the holiday. And they are winning battle after battle.
You'd think the Democrats would be at least as smart as 5 and 10s.
(Originally posted: 12/09/05)
If they had to turn a profit, they would be.
If liberals were trying to strip the religious significance away from Christmas, their efforts have backfired. Commercialism was doing that all on its own. A decade ago everyone was bemoaning the secularization of Christmas. By consciously trying to excise the "Christ" from the holiday, they've prodded the religious conscience back into righteous action. OJ is right, they really are stupid.
Posted by: Robert Duquette at December 9, 2005 10:38 AMFanaticism seldom makes you act smarter.
Posted by: oj at December 9, 2005 10:49 AMThose people really are stupid, as you say, the most stupid thing about them beiong their arrogance. They are sort of like Germans thinking Poles are too stupid to crack their codes.
They consistently underestimate us, choosing to dream on that anyone who adheres to a socially conservative position is some kind of Neanderthal yahoo.
This bias is very pronounced surrounding gun-rights issues. Even though gun people are somewhat in advance of the general population in terms of education and income, (it's not cheap, and you have to have a clean criminal record) liberals firmly believe the opposite.
Similar observations may obtain regarding the right to life and to economic freedom. I suggest that their sblilndness is self-inflicted. Tactically, they have decided to deny the reasonableness of any positions but their own, they talk only among themselves, and thus they are fatally surprised, again and again..
Posted by: Lou Gots at December 9, 2005 11:18 AMThere are other valid reasons to boycott Target like its Frogginess
Posted by: erp at December 9, 2005 12:03 PMBut isn't this a victory for the Left of my youth?
Power to the People!
Posted by: Pat Garnaas at December 9, 2005 12:23 PMDitto Lou's comments on guns. I've managed to link Christmas and guns on my blog.
Posted by: Robert Duquette at December 9, 2005 12:54 PMThis is the same Target that banished the Salvation Army last year?
Posted by: ed at December 9, 2005 3:22 PMGuys: I want you to know that you have my full support in calling the Christmas Trees ... um ... Christmas Trees.
Posted by: David Cohen at December 9, 2005 4:18 PMi like to call this time of year "a celebration of softwood".
Posted by: margaret trudeau's bush at December 9, 2005 6:30 PM