It's a Christmas Tree. Stop the liberal lunacy already.
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.3 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Portland refuses to call it a Christmas tree. A school board wages a civil war over “Christmas break” vs. “holiday break.” Now there’s even a fruitcake packaging controversy. If hearing Merry Christmas throws you this far off balance, the problem isn’t the greeting. It’s your coping skills. Wishing all of you, a very Merry Christmas, plainly, kindly, and without apology.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, you've probably heard me say that you need to pick your battles. |
| 0:03.8 | And when I say pick your battles, I mean you need to pick what you want to go to battle about. |
| 0:08.7 | And that means you get to choose when you discuss it, where you discuss it, the topic, the battleground, the weapons you use, whether they're emotions or words or you're throwing |
| 0:25.3 | snowballs or whatever you're going to do. |
| 0:28.2 | You get to pick your battles, and you don't have to pick every battle that comes along. |
| 0:33.5 | And we need to really think when we start challenging really valued traditions, is this a battle we want to pick? |
| 0:44.5 | We've got a bunch of activists running around right now that are picking battles that are meant to tear down family and society. And the battle that people are picking right now |
| 0:57.9 | is a battle about Christmas. It's that time of year when religion haters on the left try to turn |
| 1:05.9 | the Christmas season into the generic holiday season. And why do they do that? |
| 1:11.6 | Well, they say they do it so is not to offend anyone who doesn't celebrate Christmas. |
| 1:17.4 | The big problem with that is it's not really offensive to people who don't celebrate Christmas |
| 1:26.7 | to have someone say to them on the sidewalk or... to people who don't celebrate Christmas, |
| 1:33.3 | to have someone say to them on the sidewalk or in the mall or in a restaurant, |
| 1:34.5 | Merry Christmas. |
| 1:35.7 | Merry Christmas. |
| 1:37.5 | Merry Christmas. |
| 1:39.8 | I mean, really, is that offensive? |
| 1:46.7 | Is it really offensive for somebody to say to you, Merry Christmas, if you don't celebrate Christmas? |
| 1:48.8 | I've asked a lot of friends that. |
| 1:50.4 | I've asked my Jewish friends. |
| 1:53.6 | If I say Merry Christmas to them, they don't celebrate Christmas. |
| 1:54.8 | Are they wounded? |
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