I just looked over on Drudge...

[Rosco T.]

.. ok I had to, I was curious...

what's the big headline?

OBAMA'S CHRISTMAS TREE TAX

(I kid you not)

[Lex]

1. Glad they are keeping their heads firmly up

their own asses.

[gateley]

2. Only a Muslim would tax a Christmas tree! nt

[monmouth]

3. Bwahahahha...Oh dog that made me laugh. I'm so tired I'm spacey but

that woke me right up. You're on a roll gateley...LOL..

[gratuitous]

4. Thank you for your service

And I had to click on the post, just to confirm again what I already knew. Newsrooms across the country have their marching orders from America's Assignment Editor, Matt Drudge.

[muntrv]

5. Tell me again where in the Bible does it mention Christmas tree etiquette?

Oh yeah, NO WHERE!

[temporary311]

6. Actually, in Jeremiah 10:2-4

2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

;)

[freshwest]

7. You missed the first book of Macy's. Right after the book of Revelation. LOL.

[Skittles]

8. it works fast on teabaggers - coworker already called me over to wail about it

I googled and in less than a minute found it was bullshit - just the start of the artificial "WAR ON CHRISTMAS"

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201111090001

[pinboy3niner]

9. Artificial War On Christmas Campaign Launches Fake Obama "Christmas Tree Tax"

Source: Media Matters

November 09, 2011 12:38 am ET by Jeremy Holden


Right-wing media figures are accusing the Obama administration of seeking to impose a tax on Christmas trees; but the Christmas tree industry has been working since 2008 -- before President Obama was elected -- to partner with the Department of Agriculture and establish a marketing campaign funded by tree growers in order to promote the sale of fresh Christmas trees.

On November 8, the Federal Register published a rule establishing a program within the U.S. Department of Agriculture "to strengthen the position of fresh cut Christmas trees in the marketplace and maintain and expand markets for Christmas trees within the United States":

...


Led by the Drudge Report and Fox Nation, right-wing media figures immediately leaped on the rule, calling it President Obama's "Christmas tree tax":




Gateway Pundit blogger Jim Hoft said the "Christmas Tree Tax" illustrated that "Barack Obama hates Christians."

Far from a tax initiated by the Obama administration, the proposal to create an assessment on tree growers to fund a research and promotion program through the USDA was begun by the industry during the Bush administration.

...


http://mediamatters.org/blog/201111090001

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Oh goody that time of the year when we spread spleen and hate on all

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

12. the only War on Christmas comes from rightwing pundits

who want to use the holiday season as just another political football in their game of spreading lies and misinformation.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. True, true but they bagged Rudolph.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fj6yC7x35ew/SU_XNsbjjjI/AAAAAAAAAp8/XlsZbTWFcvM/s200/rudolf2.bmp

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. I can't wait to see the political cartoons n2doc posts tomorrow :)

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

14. someone ought to screengrab this hackneyed display

for posterity's sake