eebmore: Two Very Good Reasons to be Completely Fed Up With, and Want To Vomit Over Anything Remotely Resembling Political Punditry

Two Very Good Reasons to be Completely Fed Up With, and Want To Vomit Over Anything Remotely Resembling Political Punditry

October 27, 2005

1. How the Republicans Stole Christmas: The Republican Party’s Declared Monopoly on Religion and What Democrats Can Do to Take it Back
by Bill Press

2. The War on Christmas: How the Conspiracy to Suppress the Sacred Christian Holiday is Worse Than You Thought
by John Gibson

Well, waddaya know, nice of both publishing companies to release these in time for holidays. I smell stocking stuffers for the kids! This makes me want to join a group of carolers, visit all of my neighbors, and urinate on the decorations of everyone who has the gaul to look at the world differently than myself.

Perhaps, since I’m a secular liberal, I should bend over and pinch out a nice steamy load on top of the Baby Jesus in their nativity. Of course, they may retaliate by engaging in some good old fashioned iconoclasm and destroy all of my secular, pagan and commercial symbols of yule. But that’s okay, I’ll just stand on my porch and scream at them... while they stand on their porch and scream at me... on Christmas.

Fa-La-Effing-La, Mother-La-Fers.

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Comments

This is why I celebrate Festivus.

Posted by: AnonymousCoworker at October 27, 2005 12:38 PM

communist

Posted by: eebmore at October 27, 2005 01:14 PM

hell- if you can't politicize Christmas what CAN you politicize? hurricanes?

Oh, yeah.

Posted by: Neckbone at October 28, 2005 03:24 PM

Somehow, the spirit of Christmas is being lost in all of this hype. You need to remember that Christmas is the one day of the year where we celebrate the birth of endless profit margins for Walmart and oil companies. Oh yeah, and that Jesus thing, too.

Posted by: tfg at October 30, 2005 10:19 AM

"Christmas is the one day of the year where we celebrate the birth of endless profit margins for Walmart..." of course, but hey, the marketing is the best part of christmas.

"...and oil companies..." ummm, yeah, I think one would have a very difficult time finding the nefarious influence of the Oil Kabal on Christmas. Unless one saw the toy Hess trucks as part of a vast right wing conspiracy. I'm going to file that in the same place I do when right wingers drop Hillary Clinton, Jane Fonda or Chappaquiddick into the dialogue when they/it are not contextually relivent to the issue at hand.

Posted by: eebmore at October 30, 2005 11:11 AM

>> I think one would have a very difficult time finding the nefarious influence of the Oil Kabal on Christmas.<<

Well, a lot of people heat their houses with gas, and it IS cold around Christmastime...

Posted by: bob mcboober at October 30, 2005 04:23 PM

mcboober: heh. I didn't consider that. Now that I think about it, winter must be part of the vast right wing conspiracy.

Posted by: eebmore at October 31, 2005 08:29 AM

Excellent point. Mentioning the controversial profit margins of petroleum interests was entirely inappropriate in the context of the post. On Christmas morning, when we are burning our trees for warmth, I'll try to keep that in mind.

Posted by: tgg at November 2, 2005 07:51 PM

burning CHRISTMAS trees! While the children cry. ;)

Posted by: eebmore at November 3, 2005 12:28 AM

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