Saturday, December 11, 2004

Media: Christmas under attack???

Bill O'Reilly says Jews should go back to Israel if they don't like being inundated with Christmas.

Pat Robertson says Kwanzaa is an absolute fraud engineered by hippies and with no roots in African heritage.

And Fox says Christmas is under attack? Do these people have brain tumors or something?

2 comments:

Garrett said...

I'm not questioning Kwanzaa's origin, but rather the implication that it has no roots before the 60's, which is a stupid thing to say.

And as for being parasitic of the holiday season, are we going to condemn Chrisitans for stealing the Yule season from the Germanic tribes, or for stealing the birthday of Mithras from the Orientals, or for stealing Saturnalia from the Romans, etc.? There's nothing almost deterministic about celebrating the darkest period of the year--we can't seem to escape the depression of the winter solstice.

yeah, I think you were pretty thorough :)

Danielle Solzman said...

I will be following the o'reilly story