The Fair and Balanced Grinches Who Stole Christmas

Tom Tomorrow vents on the affect this War on Christmas crap has had on holiday spirit...

He hits the nail right on the head.

We put up our Christmas tree yesterday. It doesn’t have much to do with my faith, or more specifically, my lack thereof — it’s been a few years since Sunday School, but I don’t recall that Jesus had much to say about the relative merits of Douglas Firs vs. Scotch Pines. But it’s still an important ritual, providing a sense of continuity to the scattered threads of my life.

And you know what? I don’t want the spectral presence of Bill O’Reilly hovering over that room. I don’t want that moment to be about politics. I don’t want the yearly bittersweet act of hanging the handcrafted ornaments I inherited when my mother died to feel like some sort of concession to the right-wing knuckleheads.

Atrios said it well a few days back — these people have managed to spoil Christmas. It’s the story of the Grinch, re-told, except this time, the Grinch has learned to be even sneakier — he’s sucking the joy out of Christmas by posing as its biggest defender, creating conflict and strife where none need exist.

But to regain some holiday cheer, watch Air America's Sam Seder on CNN on a 'War on Christmas' segment. Seder, bless him, refuses to take the subject seriously at all, using it to discuss/mock the actual war going on. Bob Knight from the Culture and Family Institute felt he was underestimating this war on Christmas and these poor, persecuted Christians! Seder, in turns, wonders how Knight would ever get on TV if he wasn't pretending to be attacked:
Sam Seder and the War on Christmas

"Listen, as far as the war on Christmas goes, I feel like we should be waging a war on Christmas. I mean, I believe that Christmas, it's almost proven that Christmas has nuclear weapons, can be an imminent threat to this country, that they have operative ties with terrorists and I believe that we should sacrifice thousands of American lives in pursuit of this war on Christmas. And hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money... We have intelligence... We tortured an elf."