{"id":51388,"date":"2021-12-01T12:53:36","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51388"},"modified":"2021-12-01T12:53:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:53:36","slug":"fox-news-escalates-the-war-on-christmas-with-report-on-bidens-nationwide-santa-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51388","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Escalates the War on Christmas with Report on Biden&#8217;s &#8216;Nationwide Santa Shortage&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;The most wonderful time of the year&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> is upon us again: The War on Christmas! This annual observance of asininity by right-wing armies of derp celebrates the imaginary assault on the winter holiday that purports revere the Christian Prince of Peace. So Fox News considers it appropriate to wage a contrived war on unsuspecting holiday revelers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/scary-christmas-coronavirus.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Christmas, Coronavirus\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47932\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest front in this battle of twits took place during Wednesday&#8217;s episode of Fox&#8217;s American Newsroom. Co-host Bill Hemmer introduced the segment saying that <em>&#8220;Thanks to a growing shortage of Santas, HireSanta [dot com] reports a 10% decrease in Santas this year versus a 121% increase in demand.<\/em> Hemmer speculated, therefore, that <em>&#8220;Even Santa doesn&#8217;t want to work in this economy.&#8221;<\/em> And of course, this is all President Biden&#8217;s fault, as was pointed out in the tweet of this breaking news by the Republican National Committee:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: Fox News reports on the nationwide Santa shortage affecting Americans this Christmas under Joe Biden. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C0Ot9jPTEM\">pic.twitter.com\/C0Ot9jPTEM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1465704609997983766?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot that Fox News left out of this shocking and exclusive expos\u00e9. For instance, what role did the global supply chain disruption play in the unavailability of Santas in America? And what is Biden doing to address it? Are there Santas backlogged on cargo ships in clogged port facilities?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, is Biden responsible for a decline in Christmas spirit due to this seasonally inconvenient Santa shortage? Or, conversely, does the higher demand for Santas this year mean that the spirit of Christmas is stronger during Biden&#8217;s term than during that of Donald Trump?<\/p>\n<p>Fox News also failed to investigate the possible reasons for this unsettling Santa deficit. Could it have something to do with the COVID pandemic? After all, the coronavirus disproportionately impacts the demographic from which Santas are recruited: older people and those who are overweight.<\/p>\n<p>There may be many of those potential Santas who succumbed to COVID in the past couple of years. The survivors may be hesitant to place themselves in jeopardy. Particularly with all of the unvaccinated children who would be sitting on their laps and possibly coughing and sneezing in close proximity.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to the framing of Fox News, the scarcity of Santas is most likely <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51191\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">due to Fox News itself for disseminating blatant disinformation<\/a><\/strong> about the pandemic. And <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51186\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump and his administration&#8217;s aversion to mitigation measures<\/a><\/strong>, such as vaccines, masks, and social distancing is equally responsibly for the dearth of Santas. Had the public health experts been heeded, this pandemic might have ended long ago and Santas would be plentiful. Instead, Santa&#8217;s Village may be somewhat desolate this year, unless younger Santas with pillows take up the slack.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The most wonderful time of the year&#8230;&#8221; is upon us again: The War on Christmas! This annual observance of asininity by right-wing armies of derp celebrates the imaginary assault on the winter holiday that purports revere the Christian Prince of Peace. So Fox News considers it appropriate to wage a contrived war on unsuspecting holiday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,15,684,16],"tags":[520,98,554,33,377,470],"class_list":["post-51388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-humor","category-media-bias","category-wankery","tag-bill-hemmer","tag-christmas","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-joe-biden","tag-war-on-christmas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/scary-christmas-coronavirus.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-dmQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48393,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48393","url_meta":{"origin":51388,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Denies There Was A Post-Holiday COVID Surge In Bid To Kill More Americans","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/25\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Fox News is struggling to construct a new foundation for the their rightist propaganda network now that they have lost Donald Trump as the deified focus of their cult movement. 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