{"id":23021,"date":"2014-12-03T10:53:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T18:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=23021"},"modified":"2014-12-03T16:29:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T00:29:45","slug":"christmas-warrior-bill-oreilly-links-phony-war-to-climate-change-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=23021","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Warrior Bill O’Reilly Links Phony War To Climate Change Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"

The war on Christmas began in earnest in October when Fox News went into a frenzy<\/a> over new federal regulations aimed at reducing the number of injuries and deaths caused by faulty electric holiday decorations. After all, losing a few Christian soldiers in the name of festive light displays is totally justifiable.<\/p>\n

Today the battle rages on as Bill O’Reilly, Fox’s general in the annual war, uncovers evidence that the combat has only just begun (video below). And in the process he equates his fairy tale war with the scientifically confirmed dangers of Climate Change.<\/p>\n

O’Reilly:<\/strong> We do have a bunch of “War on Christmas” deniers who say that I, and others, are making the whole thing up. Well, here’s the first evidence this year. A billboard put up by an atheist group telling children to skip church on Christmas day. […] If somebody denies global warming they’re all over them, but [the War on Christmas is] right before your eyes. There’s the sign. What generates that denial?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What O’Reilly is presenting as proof of the Christmas conflagration is the appearance of a single billboard in Tennessee that depicts a young girl’s letter to Santa saying that “All I want for Christmas is to skip church. I’m too old for fairy tales.”<\/em> If that is all the evidence that is required to validate O’Reilly’s Christmas War theory, then he has a pretty low bar for validation. It is rather remarkable that he is so easily convinced on this matter, but he and other Climate Change deniers remain skeptical even after 97% of the scientists who study atmospheric science agree that Climate Change is occurring and is man made.<\/p>\n

The segment on O’Reilly’s program consisted mainly of his interview of a psychotherapist wherein they spent the better part of five minutes maligning atheists as sadistic, nasty bullies. It was a display of overt hostility toward nonbelievers, even as they complained, without evidence, that nonbelievers were themselves hostile. They agreed that the billboard was “horrifically insulting”<\/em> and an affront to the traditional values of this season of goodwill. Which is interesting because O’Reilly never expressed any outrage over the politicization and commercialization of Christmas by the Republican Party last year when the NRCC sold a tee-shirt proclaiming that \u201cAll I want for Christmas is to be rid of ObamaCare.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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So it’s perfectly OK to wish for the abolition of a program that has literally saved lives and made it possible for millions of Americans to get health insurance for the first time – people who previously could not afford it or who were denied due to preexisting conditions – but to wish to voluntarily exclude oneself from a ceremonial assembly in which one does not believe is a declaration of war. That is the sort of hypocrisy that Fox News is foisting on their faithful and dimwitted viewers during this season of joy. So just go to church and God will provide for your sick child. And Merry (War on) Christmas.<\/p>\n

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