The media has a serious case of myopic tunnel vision. Unfortunately the conservatives like Bill O'Reilly has co-opted this disease for their own benefit. They have proclaimed that they are under siege in an all out War on Christmas. I am surprised that Bill O'Reilly didn't trademark the phrase "War on Christmas" so he could make some cash on the idea as well.
The strategy of the conservatives is to deflect all the bad news about the conservative heroes who have been far from living up to the Christian ideal. Tom DeLay, Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Jack Abramoff, Bill Frist have all been on the skewer for basically cheating in the game of politics. The solution to this problem has been to shift the attention of the American people to another topic.
However, sadder than the intentional diversion of the attention of the American public by the conservatives is the willingness of Americans to follow in suite. The conservatives at the top of the heap are jumping up and down cheering as the general American public are bombarded with this fake story on the "War on Christmas." Instead of focusing on the continuation of the investigation into Karl Rove and the CIA Leak Scandal Democrats have begun to defend themselves in this fake War. Why not redirect our energy toward pointing out the continued malfeasance in the Republican funding scandal. Jack Abramoff is the big story, not the "War on Christmas.
And, the big story that is bringing down the Republican Party is the debacle in Iraq. George W Bush continues to stumble and misunderstand the damage that he is doing to a generation of people in the Middle East. But we are worry about a fake "War on Christmas."
My suggestion is to ignore the conservative charges on the "War on Christmas." Tell the idiots on the right that they can boycott stores to make them commercialize Christmas if you want, but we have more important issues to deal with. After all it wasn't too long ago that these very same Christians were complaining that there was too much commercialization in Christmas as the stores used Christmas to sell their goods and create new ones to make more money. Visions of the money changers in the Temple came flooding from the mouths of these so-called preachers. The truth is that these people don't care about true religion, they care about taking religion into the US government and making their religion more powerful.
So go back to the important issues rind the news from every mountaintop. The Republicans are a bunch of power hungry politicians who want to control the government and they don't give a damn about you.
The Republican agenda is nonsense!
Es nicht gestiegen und nicht geflogen!