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Dispatches From the War on Xmas
In New York City, on the night of December 7, someone who is now in police custody set the Fox News headquarters Christmas tree on fire, upsetting Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt.
“It’s a tree that unites us, that brings us together. It is about the Christmas spirit, it is about the holiday season, it is about Jesus, it is about Hanukkah,” Earhardt said. “It is about everything we stand for as a country and being able to worship the way you want to worship. It makes me so mad.”
Shouldn’t it matter, just a tiny little bit, that Fox practically invented the “War on Christmas” bullshit?
Now, the network that spent the better part of the last fifteen years stoking outrage over what it called politically correct terms like “holiday tree” conveniently invokes the broader spectrum of seasonal holidays, with a specific mention of Hanukkah, to draw more sympathetic outrage from its audience. Give us a break.
Back in the year of our Lord 2005, conservative radio host John Gibson published his book The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the…