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Halloween is a full month away. Thanksgiving is two months nigh. Therefore, it is obviously time to start thinking about Christmas. Not an easy topic, considering the War on Christmas that has waged, lo, these many years thanks to the paranoid imaginations of the Right Wing's stable of jackasses. Like clockwork, each of them starts braying about the so-called liberal war on Christmas right around this time of year.
The "War on Christmas" is, of course, part-and-parcel of the Right Wing's attempt to tar any moderate, progressive, and/or non-Christian American as anti-Republican and anti-Christian, in that order. A recent Miller Lite beer commercial featuring the image of leather-clad homosexuals from San Francisco's Folsom St. Festival posing in a risqué parody of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper got Bill Donahue and the Catholic League angry enough to put down their beers and complain.
Right-wing radio "shock jock" Erich "Mancow" Mueller weighed in on the subject earlier this week on (where else?) FOX "News" during a panel discussion (or mob denunciation) of the ad. Briefly interrupting Mueller's attempt to channel Tom Arnold, host Andrew Napolitano made the comment that the Left "has always disliked the concept of Christianity." Actually, it's not the "concept" of Christianity that most thinking people object to, so much as how self-righteous Right Wing gasbags insist on shoving it down everyone's throats. You know, just like Jesus Himself did.
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