FOX News: We Invent The News, You Ignore Reality

I want to meet the retard who decided this would make a great idea for a pundit discussion:

Caption: ECONOMIC DISASTER IF LIBERALS WIN THE “WAR ON CHRISTMAS” (Crooks and Liars)

Ok… So first they make up some conspiracy that liberals are trying to kill the true reason for christmas (aka the birth of Christ). They get all upset because some people prefer to say “Happy Holidays” instead of assuming everyone is a practicing christan. Oh the nerve of all those non-practicing christians in this country!

So FOX News gets some pundits on and gets their head asshat Bill O’Reilly to start blathering on about some crusade against Christmas which simply didn’t exist to begin with. Then they have the retarded pundit discussion whose topic is shown in the above image.

So now I’m left trying to figure out what exactly is FOX’s logic. If the vast liberals conspiracy (*vomit*) somehow is successful in killing the true religious meaning of christmas and they somehow turn it into a secular holiday it will ruin the economy. People won’t buy as much at christmas and it would start a downward spiral and ruin our great country. Some how crass commercialism where people generate massive amounts of debt to buy things to make themselves and others temporarily happy (aka the massive accumulation of material wealth) must now be a concept central to the average christian american. God wants you to spend yourself into debt each and every christmas to celebrate him and Jesus’s sacrifice for our souls by being a FOX watching credit card using moron.

I’m sorry, I must have missed that bit at Bible School when I was a kid.

These days I am pretty secular but I had no problems saying “Merry Christmas”. I enjoy traditional christian music for its aesthetic and emotional qualities and didn’t mind it being played in public venues, etc. But all this has made me realize that perhaps I shouldn’t be so comfortable with these religious references. Perhaps there are downsides to being tolerant to them when they are being used by radical religious elements as a reason to mock and ridicule opposing viewpoints? Perhaps it is against my own self interest as a secular american to not fight against such concepts because of their abuse by evangelical radical christians as shown by mouthpieces such as FOX News and certain elementals of our current federal government?