December 24, 2006
FROM THE ARCHIVES: JUST BECAUSE KAMIKAZES DIED DIDN'T MEAN THEY WEREN'T ATTACKING:
What 'War on Christmas'? (Ruth Marcus, December 10, 2005, Washington Post)
I've been hearing about this "War on Christmas," so I headed to the Heritage Foundation the other day for a briefing from one of the defending army's generals: Fox News anchor John Gibson, author of "The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought." Gibson -- and Bill O'Reilly, his comrade in the Fox-hole -- see this as a two-front war: Assaulting Christmas from the government end, they say, are pusillanimous school principals, politically corrected city managers and their ilk, bullied by the ACLU types into extirpating any trace of Christmas from the public square. Battering the holiday from the private sector are infidel retailers such as Target and Wal-Mart, which balk at using the C-word in their advertising in favor of such secularist slogans as "Happy Holidays."The assault, Gibson told the Heritage crowd, has reached a "shocking level this year."
After the lecture, I wandered over to Union Station to check out a retail battlefield. Inside and out, the station was festooned with giant You Know What wreaths. A huge You Know What tree, with presents wrapped in red and green underneath, stood in the main hall, near a placard announcing "Norwegian Christmas at Union Station." A high-tech player piano was playing "Go Tell It on the Mountain," proclaiming the birth of You Know Who; the next selection was You Know Who Else Is Coming to Town. The most generic element was a small sign reading "Happy Holidays," but even then the words were bracketed by reindeer -- and let's just say, they weren't eating latkes. It was beginning to look a lot like You Know What.
If the anti-Christmas forces are winning, then the war in Iraq is nothing short of total victory.
Of course the Christophobes aren't winning -- in fact, they're helping re-Christianize the holiday -- which just makes it all the stranger that they're waging the war.
(Originally posted: 12/10/05)
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It's not so strange that they're fighting this war. They've lost the Congress and the White House, and are in the process of losing the Courts. Their three old bearded saints, Marx, Darwin, and Freud are discredited, so their entire world view is crumbling.
And they blame this all on the evangelical Christians who they think elected Reagan, Newt, and George W. They know who their enemy is and are attacking out of desparation.
Posted by: jd watson
at December 10, 2005 1:27 PM
Robert, you beat me to the obvious punchline.
Posted by: H.D. Miller at December 10, 2005 1:40 PMThey're waging war with real Divine Wind.
Posted by: jdkelly at December 10, 2005 4:37 PMI like the last comment on the observation that the Christophobes are actually assisting to put the real meaning of the Christmas season by assisting that Christ is the real reason for the season. Target and Sears both reversed their decisions against Christmas and will be soon advertising and spreading the true Christmas Spirit.
Merry CHRISTmas!
But the war in Iraq is a total American victory.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at December 10, 2005 1:22 PM