If you visit the Fox News web site today (Christmas) you will find a featured editorial by regular Fox contributor Cal Thomas titled: To the NBA, Christmas Is Just Another Day to Make Money. Thomas leads off his article by saying…
“This Christmas the NBA has seen fit to schedule five, count them, five games on Christmas Day.”
Thomas’ outrage needs to be tempered with a little reality. The NBA has been scheduling games on Christmas day for more than fifty years. And if broadcasting on Christmas is some sort of affront to Jesus, is Thomas just as offended by his own network, Fox News, which has not gone dark for the holiday? Nor has Fox Entertainment, FX, Fox Sports, or the Fox Nation online that also faulted the NBA’s scheduling:
As if that weren’t bad enough, Thomas went on to advocate for the reinstatement of “blue laws,” a repressive legal relic that prohibited most forms of commerce on Sundays and religious holidays. Thomas would have us return to the days of prohibition, scarlet letters, and witch burnings.
Thomas ought to put a little more thought behind his screeds. If he is going to object to the NBA conducting its business on Christmas, he is either going to have to include himself and Fox News or shut his hypocritical, judgmental mouth.
You’re comparing a news operation to the NBA?
You have got to be kidding. Please spare me the fake outrage.
Pay attention, Dave. Fox is a lot more than a news network, and I enumerated that above. How is what the NBA is doing different than what Fox does with their many cable sports networks? The problem here has nothing to do with the nature of the business, it is the question of whether it is permissible to engage in commerce on Christmas.
And it is Cal Thomas who is spewing the outrage. I am just observing his hypocrisy.
HA HA HA!!
“The problem here has nothing to do with the nature of the business, it is the question of whether it is permissible to engage in commerce on Christmas.”
In that case why don’t we just shut down all businesses that engage in commerce on Christmas. Or, how about Easter?
Your entire premise is based on ignorance and your hate of all things Fox.
Grow up.
Thank you. You are making MY point.
I’m saying that it is ridiculous to shut down all businesses. But that is the effect of what Cal Thomas is proposing.
The premise you call “ignorant” is not mine, it’s from Thomas and Fox. And it IS ignorant. I appreciate that you are in agreement with me on that (even if you don’t realize it).
Some people have weak reading comprehension skills.
Wrong again. Cal Thomas did not call for a shutdown of all businesses. Blue laws didn’t affect all businesses either.
Nice try though.
I see Lori is also ignorant of the English language.