Yes, a holiday as in happy holidays. Evidence that he never thinks about what comes out of his own mouth? It's included!

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...have finally stolen Christmas--from Jesus! Truly this is the worst Christmas/Holiday season I remember. The hate mongers of the Religious Right (which as the bumper sticker says, is neither) have ruined it for everyone. Everyone is angrier than usual, traffic is a deathtrap. Just try to work a temp phone job--you'll have a breakdown. When are people going to get the message that these people are nothing but terrorists?

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This man has got to be stopped. He's completely power crazed and out of control. What moral ground does he have to stand on? Please someone do the investigative piece on him NOW!

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So, I haven't heard: had Billy Boy been at our hallowed commander in chief, yet? considering the flap over the white house greeting cards........

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....and call him Torquemada!

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Falwellian

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He's got good old saint Nic confused with Satan!

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He's not real; a construct, a golem, if you will (not from the trilogy, either, the trilogy of any kind, if you get my drift). What kind of mind gave life to this sad panorama?

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There are great spiritual messages and allegory in the bible but the writing of truth is written all over the natural world including humanity. A human being is a sublime and great creature, our potential is barely appreciated.

I'm fine with all religions, whether I understand or agree with them is not important to me. But when they come out of the churches by millions, to kill and hurt people as today, supporting the war in Iraq and the persons of the Republican leadership and Bush administration, I have a problem with that.

Diss the War Churches. Seriously. It's time for frank and direct criticism of whatever lunatic ideology tells them that War is morally to be tolerated. It is time for lampooning all their ridiculous superstitions and holidays and reducing their reputation and regard in the public dialog.

And Diss the war Mullahs and Ayatollahs, and Rabbis, and Catholic priests and bishops as well.

Todd BOyle Kirkland WA

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WHAT'S missing from the White House Christmas card? Christmas. This month, as in every December since he took office, President George Bush sent out cards with a generic message wishing 1.4 million friends and supporters a happy "holiday season".
"This clearly demonstrates that the Bush Administration has suffered a loss of will and that they have capitulated to the worst elements in our culture," said William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.

Mr Bush "claims to be a born-again, evangelical Christian. But he sure doesn't act like one," said Joseph Farah, editor of a conservative website (worldnetdaily.com). "I threw out my White House card."

Religious conservatives are angry because they have been pressuring stores to advertise Christmas sales rather than "holiday specials" and urging schools to let students out for Christmas holidays rather than for "winter break". Then along comes a generic season's greeting from the White House.

"Certainly President and Mrs Bush, because of their faith, celebrate Christmas," said Susan Whitson, Laura Bush's press secretary.

"Their cards in recent years have included best wishes for a holiday season, rather than Christmas wishes, because they are sent to people of all faiths."

"I think it's more important to put Christ back into our war planning than into our Christmas cards," said the council's general secretary, the Reverend Bob Edgar.

But the White House's explanation does not satisfy groups that believe there is, in the words of the Heritage Foundation, a "war on Christmas" involving an "ever-stronger push towards a neutered holiday season so that non-Christians won't be even the slightest bit offended".

One of the generals on the pro-Christmas side is Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.

"Sometimes it's hard to tell whether this is sinister — it's the purging of Christ from Christmas — or whether it's just political correctness run amok," he said. "I think in the case of the White House, it's just political correctness."

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Just like Jimi Hendrix was the 2nd coming of Jesus, Bill O'reilly is the modern day human form of Satan. It is really that simple.

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I don't know that much about Bill O'Reilly, save that he hates we Canadians (but so does Pat Buchanan -- ooh, we're soooo scared!) -- and is typically part of the USA that, unfortunately, your nearest neighbours (not to mention the rest of the world) have come increasingly to confuse with the authentic USA we know and admire.
Anyhow, when O'Reilly says "I will not allow..." or some other imperative, does anyone ever respond to him with:

"Mr. O'Reilly, please tell us what function, exactly, you have within the federal government of the United States. Are you that close to the Administration that you actually have a principal role in foreign policy-making? If so, is this typical for a phoney-populist right-wing journalist, viz., to wield such power over a nation and a govermment as complex as yours? Shit la merde, am I impressed!"

I mean, has anyone called this buffoon on his political delusions of grandeur? Or (perish the thought) is this ill-educated, shallow, bombastic bigot really that influential? Please say it isn't so! If it is so, will fellow-traveller Pat Robertson tell his fellow Christers to assassinate our Prime Minister as he, uh, "recommended" with Venezuela?

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This man of many millions and a giant ego, rides the current wave of Christian self righteousness. His world is black and white and I would not want to be in his shoes for all his wealth.
He reminds me of an alcoholic I once knew proclaiming his serenity while pounding on a table enraged because he wasn't being taken seriously.

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Please dear readers. Pass this on to the suits at FOX TV. I, a little-known, 42-year-old nobody, (a grad student and bookworm) do hereby publicly challenge Bill O'Reilly to a fight.

Oh sure, I could debate him and crush him like an insect (actually I don't even crush insects, I have more respect for them than I do O'Reilly) but he'd just cut my mic on the air and yell at me. So I propose a fight: boxing, cage match, catch-as-catch-can. . .We could work those details out later. We could donate the money to some charity or organization ( I propose forming a "Hugo Chavez for President" campaign and donating the money to that).
What say you Bill? Here's your chance to publicly (try) and kick a red-blooded (as in commie-red) member of the so-called "intellectual elite's" ass. . .in public or private. It makes no difference to me.
I'll be waiting. . .
Sincerely sick of your gas,
Steven Chamberlin

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O'Reilly couldn't lick his way out of a wet paper bag. He's all mouth. That this guy actually has listeners and viewers is a tribute to the monumental stupidity of this semi-comatose public. What does it say about the people that pay him big bucks to spread his venality and hatred?

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Billy was probably the fat little boy that got tossed around the play ground every morning. He has such rage for things that he dosen't understand. Also, at times (very few though they may be) when he does understand something, he hates it anyway, just because it dosen't stand up to his noble moral fiber. What a crock of shit. How on earth has this man convinced people to let him be on television? I fear for my future.

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Many of us who share a love of Christmas have no desire to share the season with a man whose venomous spirit and words seem somehow at odds with the fellowship at the heart of the Christmas message. You have 364 days of the year to spew your vitriol over the airwaves. Perhaps, on Christmas Day, you could quiet your anger, and join us in listening to what Jesus may be telling us...a little different from your message. And he doesn't need radio or television to get his point across.

Peace and Merry Christmas!

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Love your brother, or I'll kill ya both, right?

The Christian Wrong strikes again... 1Timothy chap 4 -- these are the days we live in.

Why do people listen to this vitriolic crap on the airwaves? A fart machine is funny once or twice, but C'MON... Do we have to listen to lying liars lie libelous lies about the lying lies of other liars? (I didn't read Franken's book, either) I'm glad I still have a brain to decide I have better things to do, Mr O'stuffit in your yule log.

Christ was/is always - in all ways - more than the holiday. He would hate the idea of it, if you think about it. God will not be fooled with lip service.

What was that? It's not what goes in the mouth that defiles a man, but what comes out?

Rev Don

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Just something funny (but true -- it really happened) to show you can't be too serious without looking like a dink... which seems to be a serious problem for Billy.

Fox now selling "Christmas" ornaments for "Christmas" trees

Seems for a while they were calling the ornaments and tree to hang them on something other than the Billy officially approved moniker. Check out the screen shots!

Pass it on so everyone knows what a joke Billy (and Fox) really is!


PS. Seems the Fox Fans really are sending letters to the corporations. Check out Planet Feedback. There's lots of reasons to boycott Wal-Mart but not for:


WAL-MART HAS TOOK CHRIST OUT OF CHRISTMAS this year!!!!

And

Walmart is anti-christian in its advertising

Maybe Wal-Mart needs the liberals afterall?

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I can't get anybody to tell me I'm wrong about this conclusion of mine about the evangelistic Christians in general.
That Hitler really expresses exactly how they think.

BTW, I prefer the original holiday "solstice" which handily rhymes with "christmas". Let's replace Christ with the Sun Star ? I can't even get any one to tell me how to say "solstice" in Hebrew and Arabic.

I wish you a merry solstice and a happy new year.
How's that for scientific historical evolution and mutation?


Mein Kampf Jew
"And so I believe to-day that my conduct is in accordance with the will
of the Almighty Creator. In standing guard against the Jew I am defending the
handiwork of the Lord

Here we meet the insolent objection, which is Jewish in its
inspiration and is typical of the modern pacifist. It says: "Man can
control even Nature."

Here also everything is copied, or
rather stolen; for the Jew could not possess any religious institution
which had developed out of his own consciousness, seeing
that he lacks every kind of idealism; which means that belief in a life
beyond this terrestrial existence is foreign to him. In the
Aryan mind no religion can ever be imagined unless it embodies the
conviction that life in some form or other will continue after
death. As a matter of fact, the Talmud is not a book that lays down
principles according to which the individual should prepare
for the life to come. It only furnishes rules for a practical and
convenient life in this world.

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Reminds me of the good old Puritans, so holy they took to burning women who paid attention to intuition and the cycles of nature.

I saw Bill recently soothing poor old Anne Coulter who has "those Nazi's" on the left writing bad things about her on the web! And then those mean people in Connecticut who had the nerve to boo her at a recent university event. They are sooo mean to her and why?! She's never said an unkind word about anyone in her life! Bill was ready to kick ass. At one point I thought she might come over and sit in his lap so he could really make it all better.

The really sad thing is, I believe this is all more serious than we think.

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We make it so easy for them!

Connect the dots, folks ..

The entire Enormous Right Wing Conspiracy (that does not exist) is marching in lockstep to the Christmas War ... Fallell, O'Reilly, Robertson, Hannity ... even James Pinkerton.

It's not a big secret why. The Liberty Council placed full page ads in the NY Times, for heaven's sake! This is about pressuring wavering senators to confirm Samuel Alito. Alito is supposed to be the faith-friendly judge who will "save Christmas", from "bigoted jews, spiteful secularists, and Wal Mart executives."

So ... just as we did with the Intelligent Design 'controversy' ... 'we' all concentrate on the ploy (religious fanaticisim) and ignore the political maneuver (employing religious fanaticsism to advance corporatist interests).

We make it so easy ...

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To hell with it, I am going to celebrate it as it was originally meant to be celebrated - as a pagan holiday! Ho Ho Ho!!!

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So now that spewer of hate and venom is defending Christmas, Jesus, love and God. Wow, maybe he had better read up on his Conrad and beware of going up rivers of which he has no knowledge.

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Seventh Day Adventists and members of the Church of Christ contend that there's no basis in scripture for observing Christ's birthday, so they don't. But they don't take a back seat to anybody in their belief in the Son of God.

What's O'Reilly gonna do to them?

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we've let, yet again, the conservatives and the media to blow a non-issue out of proportion. the sense of plurality (however cynical it may be on the corporate money grubbing side) that led to accepting that not everyone celebrates xmas, would also accept that some people do - i don't imagine anyone has ever told mr. o'reilly he can't celebrate xmas in whatever way he cares to (as long as it's at home with friends and family).

someone earlier commented that the religious right is talking about this so we miss their agenda - there has to be at least some truth in that. and by letting mr. o'reilly's non-debate become a debate, we've let them waste our time and intellectual/moral energies.

have happy holidays (whatever holidays you care to celebrate)

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Yeah, and I'm not going to let the Moon fall on George W. Bush's head!

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Oh, yes, we need a little horror
Right this very minute,
Bricks thrown through the window,
Axes at the spinet...

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O'Reilly with his politics of moral outrage now directed at Christmas. My, I wonder what Jesus would think of a war which has killed 30,000 Iraqis to 2,000+ American troops plus an unknown number of casualties...a 15 to 1 ratio. Or what would Jesus think of a $50,000 billion tax cut which directly impacts the poor?

But never mind let's get "outraged" at K-Mart and Target.

This is the politics of the disingenous and insincere at its height.

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