Reply #18: Finally a war Conservatives can feel good about.

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The War on Terror is so passe. Iraq War? TIE-URD! The war all the cool conservatives are ranting about is so much more fun: The War Against Christmas!

This is one of the GOPs more transparent big distractions. Transparent that is if you have half a brain. So it’s scary to think about how much buys this garbage and commences foaming at the mouth. The other day I heard one of these GOP morons bitching on Air America radio about how they went into WalMart (where else) and were told “Happy Holidays”. I mean, what the fuck, do I LOOK like a jew? It’s fucking CHRISTMAS you goddamn communist.

Lets ponder for a minute. If Jesus were around today do you think he’d support his followers declaring a “war” over people not mentioning the celebration of his birth BY NAME? I kinda doubt it, but then again i’m not a “Christian.”

No matter. The GOP has dispatched thier flying monkey brigade pundit corp. People like Bill O’reily are all over the the airways these days with the latest GOP talking points in hand, breathlessly warning us all about the evil liberal/secular conspiracy to off Christianity by eliminating Christmas. It’d be hillarious if it weren’t so damn effective for the GOP.

Why do Conservatives hate Liberals? Because we love to kill babys (not embryos), because we want to grant pedophiles the right to marry seven year olds, and because we are trying to kill Christmas. This is how a lot of these people think. Oh and remember Kerry’s first act in office was going to be an executive order banning the Bible (this was actually mailed to GOP voters in the South.)

Media Matters:

Fox’s Gibson: Christians tolerate those who are “following the wrong religion … as long as they’re civil and behave”

Throughout his promotion of his book, The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought (Sentinel, October 2005), Fox News host John Gibson has remained vague about exactly who he believes is orchestrating the alleged attack on Christmas beyond the “liberals” in the book’s title. For instance, as Media Matters for America documented, during an appearance on the October 20 edition of The O’Reilly Factor, Gibson limited his criticism of those supposedly undermining Christmas to “liberals.” O’Reilly, on the other hand, was compelled to narrow the focus of their offensive: “I think you made a mistake by saying it’s a liberal plot,” O’Reilly told Gibson. “It’s the far left. It’s the loony left, the Kool-Aid secular progressive ACLU America-haters. That’s who’s doing this.”

Gibson was more pointed, however, during a November 17 appearance on Janet Parshall’s nationally syndicated radio program. During a discussion about the alleged “war on Christmas,” Gibson suggested that people “following the wrong religion” were not reciprocating the tolerance afforded to them by “the majority religion — Christianity.” He also said that as long as adherents of minority religions “are civil and they behave,” Christians will tolerate them “without causing any trouble” — a view endorsed by Parshall.

GIBSON: No, no, no. If you figure that — listen, we get a little theological here, and it’s probably a bit over my head, but I would think if somebody is going to be — have to answer for following the wrong religion, they’re not going to have to answer to me. We know who they’re going to have to answer to.

PARSHALL: Right.

GIBSON: And that’s fine. Let ‘em. But in the meantime, as long as they’re civil and behave, we tolerate the presence of other religions around us without causing trouble, and I think most Americans are fine with that tradition.

PARSHALL: I agree.

GIBSON: In other words, they’d like it in return.