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Synnical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 10:06 PM
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From the 2005 Archive: Fuck Christmas
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5588809&mesg_id=5588809

http://www.fuckchristmas.org/

Oh man, fuck Christmas.

Seriously – are you kidding me with this “There’s a war on Christmas” bullshit? FOX News wasn’t raking in enough cash already from all the Christmas commercials for Kill ‘em All Barbie and Girls Gone Wild Brand Toddler Gear? They had to start publishing books about some bogus attack on Christianity? And who did they pick to lead this particular charge?

John fucking Gibson. This guy has wiener written all over him.

Bill O’Reilly gets all the credit as the biggest nutcase in FOXville, but Gibson really deserves his own special wing in the happy house. This motherfucker’s embedded assignment reads “Up Karl Rove’s ass.”

What makes him such a dick? I mean, besides making a fortune by screaming hysterically about how oppressed Christians are by the other twenty percent? How about advocating bombing countries that don’t vote the way we want in their own elections? Way to encourage democracy, fuckhead. And maybe he was kidding when he wished, on air, that the French had gotten the 2012 Olympics instead of the Brits so the terrorists would “blow up Paris,” but it might have been just a touch over the top to call for it again on the day of the London train bombings. Classy move, asshole.

And really? That’s just scratching the fucking surface. Anyone remember who was responsible for the bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma City? John does: Iraq. And speaking of Iraq, Gibson thinks Rove deserves a fucking medal for outing that CIA agent. And, like any good reporter, he wanted to burn the Florida ballots after his buddy Bush got “elected” rather than, I don’t know, count them? “Is this a case where knowing the facts actually would be worse than not knowing?” That right there is why sometimes it’s useful for journalists to go to, what do you call that fucking place? Oh yeah, journalism school.

And now he’s all worked up about Christmas being stolen. What is this, the fucking Fairytale Network? It’s a national fucking holiday and we’re spending gobs of our hard-earned tax dollars on wreaths and lights for your special Santa day. But these bastards are all “But they call them Holiday trees!” Here’s a clue: no, they fucking don’t. Ok, maybe in a couple places, like on FOXNews.com and at the White House, but if Christmas is under attack, I’m Kris fucking Kringle.

And guess who’s stealing Christmas, according to Gibson. Go on — guess. “A cabal of secularists, so-called humanists, trial lawyers, cultural relativists, and liberal, guilt-wracked Christians — not just Jewish people.” (Emphasis mine. Pure, unadulterated anti-semitism, his.) A cabal? Are you fucking kidding me? Could we try to be a little more fucking original with our Jew-hating?

Speaking of Jew-hating, Pat Buchanan has joined the hype-a-thon of the supposed Attack on Christmas, too. Or, as he put it, “What we’re witnessing here are hate crimes against Christianity.” Sorry? We’re not so hot on paying for an inflatable camel for your goddamn nativity scene and suddenly we’re Slobodan fucking Milosevic? Fuck you. Get some goddamn perspective, you little prick. When they start hunting Christians in the streets, it’ll be time to start yelling “Hate crime.” And no, it won’t count when they start chasing you with the torches. That’ll be called “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.”

And Bill O’Reilly, Gibson’s cellmate in the silly shack, is doing his part to save Christmas, too. He’s been going after New York’s Mayor Bloomberg (that Commie) because he says the Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center has been renamed a “Holiday Tree,” and “No Christian Christmas symbols are allowed in the public schools.” The only problem? Neither of those things is even remotely fucking true.

It takes some super-sized balls for O’Reilly to get all lathered up about sinners and their fictional anti-Christian crusade. Every fucking person on the planet has hard and fast evidence that Bill is a world-class pervert, but still he feels totally justified lecturing the rest of us on our moral inferiority.

How fucked up is Bill O’Reilly? Pretty fucked up. Everyone got so crazyfaced about him confusing a sponge and a Middle Eastern snackcake (pretty fucking funny, mind you), that they missed the scary bit: what he meant to say. Old Bill wanted to get all funky on his intern like this: (you’ll excuse my foul language, I’m quoting an award-winning newscaster here) “I’d take the other hand with the thing and put it on your pussy.”

loofah (lū’fə) noun. A natural exfoliating sponge.

exfoliate (ĕks-fō’lē-āt’) verb. To remove (a layer of bark or skin, for example) in flakes or scales; peel.

That’s right. Bill O’Reilly, fount of morals, is super familiar with the female anatomy. So much so, that he knows how good it feels to have one’s pussy exfoliated. We’re talking h – o – t, Hot. That’s exactly who I’m going to for my life lessons.

Sorry, where were we? Oh yeah, fuck Christmas.

Can we back up just a couple steps here? At what point did a basic understanding of the separation of church and state become a fucking war on religion? And how did we get to the point where you can call an organization set up to defend our civil liberties “Terrorists” on national television and no one fires your ass? Enough. Fuck all of you lying little shitheads who wish the world was out to get you so you could play the poor oppressed victims. Wake up assholes — you’re the cowboys, not the fucking Indians.

“But we want to display our Christmas tree on city property!” You can, go right ahead. “They’re stopping us from praying in school!” They’re not, so fuck off. “We’re not allowed to say ‘Merry Christmas’ anymore!” Are you fucking kidding me? Knock yourself out. Say it at work, scream it in your high school lunch room, hell, tattoo it on your fucking forehead for all we care. Guess who’s gonna be there defending your right to do every one of those things? The fucking ACLU. One of these days you bastards are going to drive those fuckers out of business, and then you’ll see some actual attacks on your religious liberties. I thought conservatives were supposed to be all proud and independent? When did they turn into a bunch of fucking crybabies?

Let’s back up even fucking further, shall we? Can anyone tell me how old Christmas is? Anyone? Two thousand years, give or take, right? Gee, who’s been reading their No Child Left Behind History Textbooks? Try fucking four thousand years. Huh. Twice as fucking long as your little baby king has been around. How could that possibly be, unless. . . waitaminute. . .

Christmas isn’t fucking Christian. Ok, now we’re talking.

That’s right, that Yuletide cheer you’re spreading? What exactly do you think Yule is? It's the fucking Pagan celebration of solstice. And those “Christmas” traditions? They’re not just like Pagan rituals, they fucking are Pagan rituals. Way before your Jesus got all magical with the bread and fishes, the Romans were celebrating the birth of Mithra on . . . guess? Go on – guess. December fucking twenty fifth. What a weird coincidence. Practically the whole thing is ripped off from the fucking Druids and the Romans. Twelve days? Check. Exchanging gifts? Check. Mistletoe? Check. And you’d better fucking believe that those decorated trees that Gibson and Co. are so bent out of shape over are as Pagan as the Rune and Crystal Shack at Pentagramfest 2005. You might as well be building miniature fucking Stonehenges in your den.

And don’t you read your own goddamn Bibles? Jesus was born when? In the middle of winter? Lot of Shepherds out watching their flocks around that time of year in Bethlehem? No, because they’d be freezing their fucking asses off. Tell you what – y’all go figure out which one of the different Bible stories about the birth of Baby Jesus® you want to believe, and then we’ll argue about whether it fucking happened like that or not.

Christians just stole a bunch of traditions from other cultures, slapped them together, stuck a fucking tinfoil star on top and called it the Most Important Holiday of the Year. Modern American Christmas makes Michael Jackson look positively organic.

But you boys at FOX still freak out every year about how everyone's out to get your special trees. This is really the most important thing you have to talk about? Whether Target says Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas? Here’s a brainstorm: there’s a fucking war on. Our soldiers are out there dying while you guys do your 14th live feed of the day from WalMart to show us what good little consumers we are. What Would Jesus Do? He’d jump over that newsdesk and kick your ass for that shit. Are you sure you want to hang your journalism credentials on a story about what some guy calls a tree?

Well we’ve fucking had it. You want to play bullshit games and scream about how God’s fucking judgment is gonna come raining down on us if we don't start watching our vocabulary? Go right the fuck ahead. But let me clue you in on something: fire and brimstone ain’t no deterrent for us. We’re not going to hell, assholes, we’re fucking in hell. We live with you.

And fuck Easter too, you fertility–rite–celebrating, whiny, self-righteous, don’t–know–the– history–of–your–own–religion assholes. Fuck off.
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ewoden Donating Member (634 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 10:23 PM
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1. Sometimes I got to stop and wonder
How folks get so worked up about other folks celebrating, whenever it might be, the birth of a human (or child of God?) who basically preached "love your neighbor", "here I am love me too", and "let God sort out the righteous and the non-righteous". Geeze I wish there were more folks around to spark that kind of celebration, and heck I'd even borrow some Burning Man dances and glowsticks to keep such a loving party going.

I guess this anger, and impatience is because some of my brothers and sisters in Christ still can't let go of the martyrdom complex. It goes something like, our predecessors got fed to lions and such so it must follow that we must struggle against the world to keep our claim to faith. I never really got that. I figured God, Jesus, the Holy spook and I have a deal. I acknowledge their existence, I try to place them above the X-men and Elvis when it comes to my devotion and prayers, I work really hard at loving my fellow man (and woman) though i' often fail at that, and I let them (God et al.) decide who's been naughty and who's nice. Doing that basically makes us all copacetic (sp?). I figure all the other religions follow suite on that same basic set of live and let live stuff.

Somebody wants a war on Christmas? I say cool, only what if we had such a war and nobody came?
Ooooo I heard that somewhere a long time ago.
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Synnical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 10:57 PM
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7. Thanks for this - Live and Let Live
Remember that? Seems to have been forgotten by our Repuke "leaders" and "reporters" at Faux News.

-Cindy in Fort Lauderdale
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 01:32 AM
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10. See, but that's just the thing: NO ONE gets "worked up" over people celebrating Christmas.
The "War On Christmas" doesn't exist.
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Viva_La_Revolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 10:27 PM
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2. I remember that!
I laughed my ass off through the whole thing this time too.

Thanks! and Happy fucking Holidays! :)
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diamidue Donating Member (606 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 10:28 PM
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3. Speaking of John Gibson and DU Archives:
I remember finding this entry interesting, because I used to watch Gibson back when he worked for Channel 3 in Sacramento. He was just a news reader then and not so partisan, but I guess he was just holding it all in:

originally posted by CatWoman

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5686553
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lordsummerisle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 10:33 PM
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4. Awesome Rant
I love it when someone can articulate all the outrage I've been feeling over the last 2 holiday seasons...
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 10:34 PM
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5. Shouldn't I get to know Christmas first?
?
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ewoden Donating Member (634 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-13-06 10:41 PM
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6. Now there's a loaded statement :-)
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silverojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 01:08 AM
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8. K and f*cking R, LOL! n/t
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 01:22 AM
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9. wow - just f*ucking wow
:)
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Synnical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 10:41 PM
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11. Mild Kick
For those who might be interested or enjoy the commentary.
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-14-06 11:35 PM
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12. Freakin' AWESOME!!!! One of the best rants in the history of DU!!!
I'm still giggling! :evilgrin:

Would that I could recommend it!!!!
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