A Malkin Christmas.

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Political Christmas wishes
Glenn Greenwald

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...one of the most joyous aspects of this holiday is that people who devote every day, all year long, to spewing unbridled anger, resentment, hostility and palpable hatred towards an ever-expanding roster of Enemies -- immigrants, liberals, Muslims, war opponents, treasonous journalists -- put all that aside for part of a day and publicly show everyone that they realize what is truly important, who they really are:

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That soulful Christmas message was embedded in a blog post and accompanied by this title: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."

On the same exact page where one finds that publicly broadcast prayer, one also finds featured the following:

* bitter complaints that displaced Katrina victims are still in need of rent subsidies and therefore pushing "the limits of compassion";

* a scary warning that "Mohammed is now the second most popular boys' name in Britain" (!!);

* an item somehow blaming "Planned Parenthood and environmental zealots" for an attempt by a Dutch couple to return a Korean child they adopted; and

* a cackling screed proclaiming "schadenfreude" (the very un-Christmas emotion of deriving pleasure from others' misery) over the failure of the "Unhinged," "Petulant," "Back-stabbing" Democrats to stop the war in Iraq.

In other words: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."

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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/12/25/christmas/index.html

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1. Isn't she lovely?

Some day I hope she and I can be BFFs. We'll do each other's hair, go shopping, giggle at cute boys in teen magazines, eat popcorn till we're bloated and round up all the immigrants and take them to immigrant camp. :+

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2. Something interesting from the first paragraph

Mike Huckabee's Christmas ad -- like everything Huckabee does -- provoked all sorts of vehement, angry, un-Christmas-like attacks from Republican pundits. The GOP establishment almost uniformly claimed that the edges of the bookshelf behind Huckabee formed the shape of a cross, which -- along with Huckabee's mention of the word "Christ" -- rendered Huckabee guilty of making a highly inappropriate, overt religious appeal for votes.

Suddenly the GOP pundits are becoming sensitive to religious references by their candidates?

ho, ho, ho!

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3. A Christmas wish...