Woohoo!!! Great job DUers - we are now the 'Forces of Darkness' (re: War on Xmas)

[LynneSin]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200712050006

O'Reilly: "If I had not done the campaign, then the forces of darkness would have won" the "war" on Christmas

During the December 4 edition of his Fox News show, Bill O'Reilly declared victory against the secularists in his "war" on Christmas. Discussing the issue with Alexia Kelley, executive director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, O'Reilly asserted: "Now, first of all, you don't deny that, a few years ago -- and we won this war, largely -- that there was a very effective movement underway to wipe out, in the public square, all vestiges of Christmas. Stores were ordering employees not to say 'Merry Christmas.' Towns were suing to get the crèche off the public property." O'Reilly later claimed: "If I had not done the campaign, then the forces of darkness would have won. There's no question about that. We were able to rally the Alliance Defense Fund in Phoenix, Arizona, to fight the ACLU in court. We were able to convince the major retailers to not order their employees to not say 'Merry Christmas,' to stop that nonsense. We won that."

However, as Media Matters for America documented, O'Reilly previously claimed that certain businesses had ordered employees not to say "Merry Christmas" despite reported denials by representatives of the stores. For instance, on the November 29, 2006, edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, O'Reilly asserted that retailers Best Buy and Crate & Barrel are "still ordering their people not to say, 'Merry Christmas,' " and that the stores "will fire" employees who do so. O'Reilly also claimed that "ordering" employees "not to say 'Merry Christmas' " is "the worst kind of fascism you could possibly have." In a November 22, 2006, article, the Minneapolis Star Tribune quoted Crate & Barrel spokesperson Betty Kahn saying, "We would definitely not say 'Merry Christmas.' " But Think Progress reported: "Kahn said her quote was misconstrued. Crate & Barrel has no policy encouraging or discouraging store employees from saying 'Merry Christmas' or any other greeting. Kahn said she was trying to communicate that the store does not actively require employees to say 'Merry Christmas.' "

[Parche]

1. MARY F-IN CHRISTMAS

So There :hi:

[madinmaryland]

2. We won? We killed Christmas?

:rofl:

[underpants]

3. YES!!!