War on what now?

[flewellyn]

Now that it's over, I suppose I should make mention of what I thought of the whole "War on Christmas" nonsense.

To be honest, not much. I spent both Erev Christmas, and Yom Noel itself, pretty much zonked. (Thank my mother for the silly names for it.)

So, um, yeah. War on Christmas? I honestly wasn't paying attention. I was preoccupied with trying to sleep off my bout of the flu. I think most everyone else was preoccupied with getting or giving presents, or in the case of my Jewish friends, ordering Chinese food and watching DVDs. There's not a whole lot of actual "war" in the "war" on Christmas. Just more bloviating from the right-wing blowhards.

If you ask me, I'm more concerned about the president openly admitting that he has authorized, and will continue to authorize, warrantless wiretaps on American citizens in the name of the "war on terror". Why isn't there more talk about that, folks? Why did everybody get caught up in this "war on Christmas" business?

Couldn't be that the whole thing was just a convenient distraction, could it?

Comments

[minkrose]

I never got a clear sense of what the hell this was all about, so I ignored it. I heard that there WAS a war on Xmas but I didn't actually, at any point, hear anyone attacking it.

definitely seemed like some trumped up bullshit to me.