Brought to you by fox news. O'Reilly, Gibson, and the entire network are pushing this thing, and I have to say that I completely don't get it. Among all the "secular progressives" I know, I don't know anyone who is against "Merry Christmas". Lots of non-religious people enjoy christmas as a secular event, myself included.
I'm sure there are a handful of crackpots out there, but I fail to see the giant conspiracy. And I don't understand what the heinous threat this poses. Is there even the slightest bit of evidence that the ACLU and George Soros are trying to get private companies to stop saying Merry Christmas?
Isn't the simpler explanation that retail companies simply choose to generify their holiday message, largely out of a risk-averse corporate strategy to appeal to as wide a base of shoppers as possible -jews, muslims, wiccans, et. al.? Is that such an offensive idea?
Yet, on fox news, it is an indisputable fact. Now, they are just breaking down the horrible consequences. Best bizarre recent quote (hat tip sadly, no!):
FOX News Financial analyst Tobin Smith says that the War on Christmas could lead to a world economic collapse:
The War on Christmas: Could the left win its crusade against Christmas and does that threaten our stock market and entire economy?
Tobin Smith: The War on Christmas is real and taken to the extreme turning Christmas into a second-class holiday would kill much of the retail specialty stores. The next target would be Easter. This definitely does hurt the economy. Retailers have fallen under the pixie dust spell of consultants and this idea of being politically correct becomes this insidious little disease.
A world economic collapse?? I don't quite know what to add to that.
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