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NNN0LHI

(67,190 posts) Thu Dec 22, 2011, 07:57 PM Dec 2011

Bill O'Reilly Covers The "War On Christmas" More Than Actual Wars

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201112220015?frontpage

December 22, 2011 2:34 pm ET by Ben Dimiero, Rob Savillo, & Jeremy Schulman

Every year, "Culture Warrior" Bill O'Reilly devotes considerable time on his Fox News show to the "War on Christmas." This December, O'Reilly has covered the imaginary "War on Christmas" more than three times as much as the actual wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

O'Reilly's years-long obsession with the "War on Christmas" has turned each winter on Fox News into an overwrought spectacle lamenting the supposed "secular-progressive" conspiracy to end Christmas. (For an example of how much the "War on Christmas" has permeated Fox's coverage, Fox & Friends spent three consecutive days earlier this month throwing a fit over the fact that Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee called the tree at the Rhode Island statehouse a "holiday tree" and not a "Christmas tree.&quot

O'Reilly's focus on the non-existent "War on Christmas" apparently comes at the expense of coverage of the actual wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over the course of December, O'Reilly spent roughly 42 minutes covering the "War on Christmas" and approximately 13 and a half minutes covering the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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Bill O'Reilly Covers The "War On Christmas" More Than Actual Wars (Original Post) NNN0LHI Dec 2011 OP

Bill-O has jumped the shark. nm rhett o rick Dec 2011 #1

That's because Bill-o is willing to lay his ass on the line in the so-called "War on Christmas". 11 Bravo Dec 2011 #2

So true! Quantess Dec 2011 #5

That is all because it is about the "baby Jesus' rustydog Dec 2011 #3

R#4 & K for, but he's a WAR CORRESPONDENT, doncher know!1 Falkland Islands!1 UTUSN Dec 2011 #4

Let me tell ya about his history on this ongoing war of his rainbow4321 Dec 2011 #6

"I've been in combat" -- Bill O'Reilly pinboy3niner Dec 2011 #7

That was great! Quantess Dec 2011 #10

Fox News love wars, even the ones they create out of thin air! B Calm Dec 2011 #8

HAPPY HOLIDAYS B Calm Dec 2011 #9

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)

1. Bill-O has jumped the shark. nm

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Thu Dec 22, 2011, 08:10 PM

Dec 2011

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)

2. That's because Bill-o is willing to lay his ass on the line in the so-called "War on Christmas".

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Thu Dec 22, 2011, 08:13 PM

Dec 2011

Now, real wars, you know, where they shoot at you and shit ... well sorry, he had and continues to have, better things to do.

Quantess

(27,630 posts)

5. So true!

Reply to 11 Bravo (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 23, 2011, 01:04 AM

Dec 2011

rustydog

(9,186 posts)

3. That is all because it is about the "baby Jesus'

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Thu Dec 22, 2011, 08:54 PM

Dec 2011

I got a feeling the only time you hear Jesus Christ mentioned in Bill Oreilly's house is when he stubs his toe.

UTUSN

(70,684 posts)

4. R#4 & K for, but he's a WAR CORRESPONDENT, doncher know!1 Falkland Islands!1

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Thu Dec 22, 2011, 09:21 PM

Dec 2011

He must have been embedded in Margaret THATCHER's skirts because he has a fuzzy grip on Spanish, like when he uses the word "wetback." But then, he had trouble with his loofahs, too!1

One of his stories about how the networks kept him down was from back then, that he had supposedly done ALL of the real reporter work but was an unknown face, and CBS flew their pretty boy Bob SCHIEFFER in to "bigfoot" him, meaning that SCHIEFFER read O'LOOFAH's story for the camera and O'LOOFAH threw a fit.

Anyway, he claims to be a war correspondent.

rainbow4321

(9,974 posts)

6. Let me tell ya about his history on this ongoing war of his

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Fri Dec 23, 2011, 01:30 AM

Dec 2011

A few years ago our Texas school district had a massive, national headline issue where an elementary school kid was told he couldn't hand out these candy canes with religious messages on them. Ever since then, every fucking year at this time it makes the local headlines because the damn lawsuit is still going on...heard today it is going to the Supreme Court because bible thumpers are still pissed about it. The then-elementary school kids are now in high school.

When the initial report first came out, Bill-o took it upon himself to INcorrectly report on his TV show that our district was banning kids from WEARING green and red colored clothes. He went on national TV and blasted our school officials for being "fascist" and if HIS kids attended our district he would dress them "head to toe in green and red clothes!!

GUESS WHAT???? There was NEVER such a policy about clothes colors!!!! He sat there and trashed our district over a FALSE report.

Now keep in mind, my city is in the reddest district in Texas, it goes 70-30 repuke every election. And they were so PISSED at him for trashing the district on national TV over his crappy, incorrect reporting. He got so much feedback, he had to go back on the air shortly after that and retract the statement! Oh, the locals were pissed at him.

Some local community group had their annual talent show or whatever it was and did a parody of him even. Mocking him.

Our city may be repuke red, but when it came to him trashing our school district, they tore him apart.

Clearly, he and his damn behind the scenes peope felt no need to think "hey, let's call the school district and clarify this before we report it on national TV".

Dumbass.