Mommy, Why Do Liberals Hate Christmas?
08 December 2006 5:00 pm by Taylor Marsh
Mommy, Why Do Liberals Hate Christmas?
guest post by Ed Encho
Here we go again! It’s time for the annual bait and switch between the bloody truths of the real war in Iraq and the faux Liberal War On Christmas as promoted by cable television blowhards like O’Reilly, Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter and the newest up and comer in the burgeoning stable of reich wing nutballs: Katharine DeBrecht.
Crazy Katie is the author of charming children’s books for reactionary fascist parents seeking to wean their brood on fare like Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed and her latest offering out just in time for those Christmas stockings that are hung by the chimney with care in idyllic little red state Pleasantvilles throughout the land:
Help! Mom! The 9th Circuit Nabbed the Nativity!
The braying jackasses and perpetually angry cranks on the right are very obviously into this childhood indoctrination thing and regularly borrow tactics from both \’Mickey D\’s\’ and the ultra-radical Islamic madrassas (as well as the Hitler-Jugend for that matter), this little gem of a book which comes in the aftermath of the highly controversial film Jesus Camp that featured children being indoctrinated into extremist fundamentalist Christian zealotry that included cult style psychological brainwashing tactics as well as the children at the ‘Kids On Fire’ camp appearing to worship a cardboard figure of none other than George W. Bush and also had an appearance by fallen angel Pastor Ted Haggard but I digress. The sickness of these people in filling the tabula rasas of impressionable children with the poison of extremist ideology is nothing short of immoral and sinister and the Help Mom series are just another example of just how deep that America hating extremists are willing to sink.
Now only because my words alone cannot possible do justice to Ms.DeBrecht’s little fable I give you the review from that immense font of democratic knowledge and wisdom for ditto heads who actually trouble themselves to actually read something (other than the comics, box scores or the latest edition of Penthouse Forum)The Conservative Book Store
The story in a nutshell: Johnny and Luke loved being in Miss Bardin’s third-grade class—especially at Christmas time, when the class put on its annual pageant, complete with a nativity scene and even an obliging donkey! But when Senator Weary, Al Snore, Congresswoman Clunkton and the whole Ninth Circuit court show up demanding an end to the fun and festivities in the name of diversity, global warming and stinky French cheese, all is almost lost.
Can these busybody liberals take the “ho ho ho” out of the holidays? Not with Mom on the case! Join gifted storyteller Katharine DeBrecht and award-winning illustrator Jim Hummel as they share another small but important lesson in conservatism.
Like every HELP! MOM! book, The Ninth Circuit Nabbed the Nativity! has something for both kids and their parents. Young readers will love following along with the lively story, while parents will enjoy the cartoon antics of prominent liberals doing what they do best — minding everyone else’s business.
And you never know, if they need to juice sales they may even decide to offer a special Christmas deal where they’ll throw in the trade paperback edition of Mein Kampf along with free shipping if you buy this little treasure! It’s enough to make you want to gag on your egg nog.
It’s all just more of the standard divisive Republican demagogy to use emotional wedge issues target marketed to knuckle dragging morons to distract from the catastrophic problems that they have created during their looting spree and establishment of a surveillance society. It’s much easier for the ignorant masses to relate to the vast liberal conspiracy that challenges their God, their security and their exceptionalism than to bother with the inconvenient truths that tens of millions are uninsured, the economy is circling the drain (no matter what the cooked official stats say), the body bags keep coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan and parents are putting their kids to bed cold and hungry and without Christmas gifts at all due to the fallout from the rapacious Reagan era war on the middle class and the culture of corporate cruelty that truly affect their lives. It\’s always easy for scapegoats to be produced and this annual orgy of ugliness has become all too effective a ritual in recent years.
Karl Rove and the disciples of Leo Strauss otherwise known as the neo cons are vigorous adherents to the tactic of using religion to distract and divide in order to exercise control over the masses and this is yet another wonderful example of just how effective that the strategy can be in pitting the poor against the poor and allowing for the ruling elite to focus on the larger goals of laying wasted to the system itself. In an interesting footnote one early proponent of the taking the ‘Christ out of Christmas’ theory was none other than the John Birch Society and in 1959 issued a pamphlet entitled \”There Goes Christmas?!\” which undoubtedly is included in the Rove library of propaganda although the JBS can probably now be considered moderates in comparison to the crazed Republican junta that has declared war on America.
American Christmas is in and of itself the ultimate triumph of propaganda as it is far more geared towards getting consumers out to the malls and big box stores to participate in the gross annual pagan festival of rampant consumerism that is the holiday shopping season than in celebrating any religious aspects. In America Jesus Christ was long ago banished to playing second banana to Santa Claus in the land where the ultimate holiday season currency is not frankincense and muir but Visa and Mastercard.
Stress and spending overkill, racking the plastic and indulging the already spoiled and ignorant brood with increasingly expensive toys and electronic gadgets are what really make the bells jingle or more precisely beep now that cash registers have become high tech. Ho Ho Ho, Santa’s on his way and be it the politically correct ‘Season’s Greetings’ or the traditionalist and currently under siege by the liberal heathens ‘Merry Christmas’ you can count on one thing and that is that that the banks and credit card companies are singing Joy to the World off our national profligate holiday spending spree.
This year due to tapped out consumers unable to continue to use their homes as piggy banks due to the deflating housing bubble Wal-Mart has caved in to right wing pressure and will wish shoppers a “Merry Christmas” but don’t worry, if you happen to be a Jew who celebrates Hanukah or if you are black and celebrate Kwanzaa don’t worry, the all-American folks at your neighborhood superstore will still gladly accept your money for foreign manufactured crap whether you are a true American (aka Christian) or not.
The firing up of the lunatic fringe is a given as demagogues like O’Reilly and his fellow GOP shills throw yule log after yule log on the smoldering fire of divisiveness and ill will towards men that is not only contrary to the peaceful meaning of the holiday spirit that Christmas is supposed to be about but ironically it is all for a cause that is as phony as that of old Saint Nick flying through the skies in a reindeer driven sleigh: brace yourself for this one…Christmas Day is more than likely not even the birthday of Jesus Christ! That’s right, December 25 is an arbitrary day picked by the Roman emperor Constantine. The true birthday of Jesus could be on Halloween, St. Patricks Day (most likely), Martin Luther King Day or even….GASP…Gay Pride Day.
And to further rebut the fallacious lie of the right I decided to do an experiment last night by hopping into my sled for a trip trough several local neighborhoods where I observed with my own eyes the blowup snowmen, grinches, santas and even a Homer Simpson that outnumbered the presence of inflatable Jesus and/or nativity scenes by 46 to 5 and I live in a RED STATE.
HO HO HO! Let the wingnuts go stick that in their stockings!
