Hey RW Talk Show Hosts: I've got a bone to pick with you!

[liberalpress]

I listened to your rant about how Christmas is being stolen. About how there would be no "Happy Holidays" around your house... how it would be Merry Christmas, and you'd have a Christmas Tree and sing Christmas Carols and send out Christmas cards. After hearing that, I'm offended. Because by saying Merry Christmas only I assume you don't wish me a Happy New Year.

Let me tell you something, buddy, me and mine like to celebrate the New Year. At my house, on New Year's Eve, we're gonna take down the tree, we're gonna get hammered,and we're gonna throw up in the sink. Just like we've done for countless generations, and I resent the righteous right-wing attempt to take the joy out of my holiday.

The next time I see you, don't come at me with any of that "Merry Christmas" crap. You WILL wish me a Happy New Year. I am sick and tired of the constant attacks of the ridiculous right to declare war on a holiday I hold sacred.

Not wishing me a happy new year in this land of the free is denying me my right to celebrate, and I ask you, sir, WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA!!!???

[ProdigalJunkMail]

1. ummmm...what?

if I say Merry Christmas to you your assumption is that I will not say Happy New Year? Do the RW talk show folks really do that? I don't get to the radio much during their airing times.

Enjoy your drunken pukefest...Happy New Year. I will join you in the drinking and demolishing our pagan symbol of our christian faith...but I will stop short of needing the sink for your listed purpose.

Really, you can't say happy new year if you say merry christmas???

sP

[liberalpress]

4. It's not that..

..it's just to me, Happy Holidays is all inclusive. Merry Christmas is to coin a phrase "mono-holidaic." Right Wingers feign offense at the term "Happy Holidays." They say the liberals are trying to steal the holidays. I heard a promotional announcement for one guys show, where he practically called people who wish you "Happy Holidays" terrorists!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. mono-holidaic... I like that :-)

you know...happy holidays was never a problem until a few years ago...heck, our BAPTIST church bulletin used to have Happy Holidays plastered across it.

sP

[liberalpress]

6. I know... it's really dumb

..just another RW attempt to manufacture a wedge issue.

[ellenfl]

8. i think you missed the tongue-in-cheek tone of this post.

i think the op was being facetious. maybe the sarcasm emotie would have been appropriate.

ellen fl

[liberalpress]

14. Perhaps...

... although I thought the "get hammered and throw up in the sink" line would've done it!

[ProdigalJunkMail]

16. nah...I believe full well that RW persons

mean exactly that when they say Merry Christmas v. Happy Holidays. It probably is intended to be exclusive. I got the funny parts of the OP's message...just was wondering if someone had really set off something with the Merry Christmas debate...again.

sP

[hughee99]

2. Ah, that great holiday tradition all over the land...

throwing up in the sink. It's been a cherished pastime in my family for many years now. :toast:

[NoodleBoy]

3. I fucking love this quote:

"we're gonna get hammered,and we're gonna throw up in the sink."

fuck yeah. New Year's is my favorite holiday. awesome chance to give the finger to the previous year and get so drunk you can't fall down.

this year mine will be in Ohio, where I intend to get that way with a bunch of my midwestern cousins.

god damn I'm excited about it.

[ellenfl]

7. right on! (and very funny) happy new year! eom

[ellenfl]

9. when did being sensitive to another's religion become

so abhorent? i always used 'happy holidays' if i was unsure of the religion of the recipient. i thought that was preferable to saying 'merry christmas' to a semite or any other non-christian.

ellen fl

[RobofSWVA]

10. Happy Holidays is fine to use.

The Happy Holidays vs. Merry Christmas thing is silly. As a Christian I have no problem being told Happy Holidays. Further, I think it is nice people are kind enough to greet one another in such a cheerful manner. There is enough wrong in the world today without us all going around and acting like the Grinch.

Also, just a little fyi, Semite is a bad term to use here. It refers to mainly a group of languages and not necessarily a particular race or culture (one could debate that too but try telling your average Muslim his culture is the same as a Jew's). For example, Christianity can be considered a Semitic religion. I don't mean this as an attack or anything it's just a little quirk of mine when I hear people misuse the term.

[newyawker99]

12. Hi RobofSWVA!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[RobofSWVA]

13. thanks!

Hello and Happy Holidays. I think you will find I'm a fairly cheerful person no matter what time of year it might be.

[ellenfl]

15. i used 'semite' to include all the people of the middle east.

many people are not aware that arabs are semites too, so anti-semitic could include the arab peoples of the region. no one uses 'anti-semitic' to mean 'against the hebrew language'. it refers to a people and, imo, is used incorrectly.

ellen fl

[hfojvt]

11. I think people should have to pay $10 to wish me a merry Clausmas

or a Happy Holidays. Talk is cheap after all. I prefer people to be friendly and considerate all year round. The whole "merry Clausmas to all" always seemed phony to me. It doesn't really express a sincere sentiment, it is just the thing to say this time of year. And for businesses to tell their employees to say it is even more phony. They don't want me to have a merry or a happy anything, they just want me to spend money there again. Just seems like a senseless act of insincerity.