It is current event because the War on Christmas is already beginning.
One recent example here: https://www.toddstarnes.com/entertainment/christian-actress-leaves-the-hallmark-channel-to-put-christ-back-in-christmas/
...a random New York City man made his mark on history by allegedly setting ablaze the 50-foot USA-themed Christmas tree outside the Fox News Channel’s headquarters. The fire was almost certainly not a political statement, having been set by a homeless man who recently exposed himself to reporters covering a trial elsewhere. But the rogue arsonist played a perfect part in a narrative that Fox largely invented, and has propagated relentlessly over the past two decades: the “War on Christmas,” a never-ending cultural conflict during which traditional, explicitly Christian celebrations of the holiday season are under assault from the sinister forces of secular pluralism.
You’d be forgiven for thinking the War on Christmas ended a long time ago, if it ever existed. Dec. 25 is still a holiday. Christmas trees, eggnog and lights are ubiquitous, seemingly more so every year. And if there was any doubt, Donald Trump — who proclaimed himself the war’s General Patton during the 2016 presidential campaign — took a victory lap of sorts on a recent Mike Huckabee-hosted Newsmax Christmas special: “When I started campaigning, I said, ‘You’re going to say “Merry Christmas” again,’ and now, people are saying it.”
Oh yes and this one is a doozy (my, AProudLefty, words).
What that cessation of hostilities would even look like depends on where you stand. Fortunately for those who benefit from the grievance-industrial complex, there’s a robust media infrastructure in place to ensure neither side achieves complete satisfaction.
Another doozy:
Anyone remember this?
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/18/war-on-christmas-525273
This IS THE REAL WAR ON CHRISTMAS. Yep. Real as in live ammo/bombs and people getting killed. Yeppers. All of those above is silly considering.
One recent example here: https://www.toddstarnes.com/entertainment/christian-actress-leaves-the-hallmark-channel-to-put-christ-back-in-christmas/
...a random New York City man made his mark on history by allegedly setting ablaze the 50-foot USA-themed Christmas tree outside the Fox News Channel’s headquarters. The fire was almost certainly not a political statement, having been set by a homeless man who recently exposed himself to reporters covering a trial elsewhere. But the rogue arsonist played a perfect part in a narrative that Fox largely invented, and has propagated relentlessly over the past two decades: the “War on Christmas,” a never-ending cultural conflict during which traditional, explicitly Christian celebrations of the holiday season are under assault from the sinister forces of secular pluralism.
You’d be forgiven for thinking the War on Christmas ended a long time ago, if it ever existed. Dec. 25 is still a holiday. Christmas trees, eggnog and lights are ubiquitous, seemingly more so every year. And if there was any doubt, Donald Trump — who proclaimed himself the war’s General Patton during the 2016 presidential campaign — took a victory lap of sorts on a recent Mike Huckabee-hosted Newsmax Christmas special: “When I started campaigning, I said, ‘You’re going to say “Merry Christmas” again,’ and now, people are saying it.”
Oh yes and this one is a doozy (my, AProudLefty, words).
What that cessation of hostilities would even look like depends on where you stand. Fortunately for those who benefit from the grievance-industrial complex, there’s a robust media infrastructure in place to ensure neither side achieves complete satisfaction.
Another doozy:
In 2004 O’Reilly devoted a segment of his blockbuster weeknight program to “Christmas Under Siege.” Complaining of blue cities’ and big corporations’ shifts to non-denominational signage like “Happy Holidays,” he offered a laundry list of horrors (gay marriage, legalized drugs, taxes) and warned: “if the secularists can destroy religion in the public arena, the brave new progressive world is a possibility.”
Anyone remember this?
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/18/war-on-christmas-525273
This IS THE REAL WAR ON CHRISTMAS. Yep. Real as in live ammo/bombs and people getting killed. Yeppers. All of those above is silly considering.
