(2012/12/24) Our annual collective waste of time (War on Christmas)
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🗓️ 24 December 2012
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Edition #559
Our annual collective waste of time
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Progressives War On Xmas and O'Reilly's Response - Young Turks Air Date: 2010
Ch. 3: Song 1: Have I got a present for you - Toby Keith
Ch. 4: Act 2: Sam wont cut and run from the war on Christmas - Majority Report Air Date: The Bush Years
Ch. 5: Song 2: Christians and Pagans - Dar Williams
Ch. 6: Act 3: Fox News Gets Trigger-Happy in the War on Christmas - Media Matters Air Date: 11-9-11
Ch. 7: Song 3: Rockin' around the Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
Ch. 8: Act 4: War on Xmas - Santa under attack - Countdown Air Date: 12-13-10
Ch. 9: Song 4: The holidays are here and we're still at war - Brett Dennen
Ch. 10: Act 5: The Blitzkrieg On Grinchitude - Colbert Report Air Date: 2010
Ch. 11: Song 5: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? - Elvis Costello, Feist, John Legend, Stephen Colbert, Toby Keith & Willie Nelson
Ch. 12: Act 6: The ACLU of Tenn. Accused of Terrorism - The Progressive Air Date: 2010
Ch. 13: Song 6: Lord's bright blessing - Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
Ch. 14: Act 7: CNN vs. FOX: War on Christmas Edition - Media Matters Air Date: 12-1-11
Ch. 15: Song 7: Whoville welcomes Christmas - How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Ch. 16: Act 8: Glenn Beck's story of the three wise men - Le Show Air Date: 2010
Ch. 17: Act 9: Interview with pro-Christmas activist - Majority Report Air Date: The Bush Years
Ch. 18: Song 9: Sleigh ride - Amy Grant
Ch. 19: Act 10: Does Fox News hate Baby Jesus? - Media Matters Air Date: 2010
Ch. 20: Song 10: Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season - Andy Williams
Ch. 21: Act 11: Church and State During the Holidays - The Progressive Air Date: 12-13-11
Ch. 22: Song 11: There are much worse things to believe in - Elvis Costello, Feist, John Legend, Stephen Colbert, Toby Keith & Willie Nelson
Ch. 23: Act 12: Scrooge was not the hero of 'A Christmas Carol' - Bill Maher Air Date: 11-11-11
Ch. 24: Song 12: Walking in the air - The Snowman
Ch. 25: Act 13: War on Christmas: Part 4 - Media Matters Air Date: 2010
Ch. 26: Song 13: Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Ch. 27: Act 14: Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat - Colbert Report Air Date: 2010
Final comments on holiday nostalgia for the present
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a bonus winter vacation release of last year's 2011's War on |
| 0:06.5 | Christmas episode. It is one of my favorites. This is the award-winning Best of |
| 0:10.3 | the Left podcast with clips today from the Young Turks, the Majority Report, |
| 0:13.9 | Media Matters, Countdown with Keith Overman, the Colbert Report, the Progressive |
| 0:18.1 | of the show and Bill Mar and stay tuned at the end for an all-new commentary if |
| 0:23.4 | you're into that sort of thing. |
| 0:29.8 | So Fox News, of course, legendary War on Christmas that they have alleged is |
| 0:37.5 | happening throughout the country. In fact, I actually went back and checked out |
| 0:40.5 | at one of their first clips in 2006 about it and it really was largely joking and |
| 0:44.8 | he kept saying, am I being dumb about this and his guests were basically saying, |
| 0:48.4 | yeah, even Michelle Malcolm wasn't really playing along. But what's interesting is, |
| 0:52.2 | since then, in the four years afterwards, they've gotten serious about it. They |
| 0:56.6 | must have gotten good audience reaction from it, being the actors that they are. They're like, |
| 0:59.7 | oh yeah, well I met the war on Christmas is totally real. I can't believe people would say |
| 1:04.8 | happy holidays. We've got a little compilation for you guys of O'Reilly on the Warpath |
| 1:09.0 | about this over the last four years. He's gotten more and more angry about it as the years went by. |
| 1:13.7 | Secular progressives, which are driving this movement, okay? Don't want Christmas. They don't |
| 1:18.6 | want it as a federal holiday. They don't want any message of spirituality or Judeo-Christian |
| 1:23.6 | tradition because that stands in the way of gay marriage, legalized drugs, euthanasia. I think |
| 1:30.4 | the backlash against stores that don't say Merry Christmas is enormous. Every company in America |
| 1:36.7 | should be on its knees thanking Jesus for being born. We now don't call it the Christmas break. |
| 1:42.0 | It's the winter break as if people worship winter. |
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