Merry holidaze, Bill
Seen at billoreilly.com:
Kos had a note on this and I had to try it myself! For the record, I celebrate the winter solstice because I was born right on it. And I am perfectly happy with a warm Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or whatever. There’s far too little love in the world for us to rip on each other about what greeting we use.
December 8th, 2005 at 06:38
Bill O’Reilly (paraphrase): I am not going to let oppressive, totalitarian, anti-Christian forces in this country diminish & denigrate holiday & celebration… I’m gonna use all the power that I have on radio and television to bring horror into their world… | 01 | 02 |
December 8th, 2005 at 06:47
Utterly crazed…
December 8th, 2005 at 07:31
Where do you begin? A parent-teacher meeting with Bill and his mother in order to voice concerns regarding Bill’s cognitive abilities might be a start. Then we could go on to his ability to reflect and criticise both his own statements and the sources he bases his opinions on. Bill must have spent an extremely abandoned youth, academically at least.
December 10th, 2005 at 20:35
I’m a little late getting to this one, but I wanted to underline what you said about Merry Christmas. Not only do I agree that “there’s far too little love in the world for us to rip on each other about what greeting we use,” the liberal substitute of “Happy Holidays” is just patently absurd.
Kwanzaa is not a holiday, it is a radical, secular, anti-holy-day celebration.
As for Hanukkah, it isn’t even one of the top five events on the Jewish calendar, popular in the United States only because of its proximity to Christmas and the ease with which it could be subsumed into the consumer culture of the season. Even if the Yamim Nuraim overlapped with Advent season, Happy Holidays would still just be a specifically religious greeting celebrating the centrality of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Besides, the Christmas season dating when it does is at best a dubious calculation. If I had my way, I’d go with the celebration Christmas encroached upon– the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. Business ceased, wars were halted, and slaves were freed. Of coure all of this was null and void by the following morning, so you won’t hear me wishing anyone a Happy Saturnalia, either.
Until the Revolution I think I’ll stick with Merry Christmas on December 25th.
December 10th, 2005 at 20:41
“Felicem Saturnalium” is what I’d meant to type. Misclicked the publish button and ruined one of my punch lines. Such is life.
(and now I keep getting a weird haloscan error saying I’ve sent this message already…)