"The War On Christmas: A History" | Classic Episode
The Michael Knowles Show
The Michael Knowles Show
4.7 • 29.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:26.9 | Slack.com slash DHQ. Hey, everybody. Michael Knowles here, host of the Michael Knowles |
| 0:32.7 | show. One thing I know a lot of people like to do at Christmas is take a look back. Go |
| 0:37.8 | back and look at old scrapbooks and photographs and family movies. So we're going to do the |
| 0:43.0 | same thing. We're going to go all the way back to episode 71 of this show years ago to |
| 0:49.8 | the war on Christmas, a history. I know a lot of conservatives even deny that the war |
| 0:54.3 | on Christmas exists. All the leftists deny that the war on Christmas exists, but it does. |
| 1:00.7 | So for your delight, for your edification, for the cause of fighting the war on Christmas |
| 1:09.3 | and defending the Christmas side of that in which I consider myself a three-star general, |
| 1:14.5 | please enjoy this classic episode and Merry Christmas to everybody. |
| 1:18.9 | Today I assume the role of candy cane, shopping, Douglas MacArthur in the war on Christmas. |
| 1:24.3 | Does it exist? Are we winning? I will explain why the war on Christmas really matters and |
| 1:29.4 | I will be wearing this helmet the whole time in case any lefties try to break in and attack |
| 1:33.9 | me with you from Mystic language. Plus the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the |
| 1:37.7 | Michael Knowles show. Is there a war on Christmas? Of course there's a war on Christmas. Stop |
| 1:50.5 | trying to be a cool guy and get the New York Times to like you by pretending there isn't. |
| 1:54.5 | There obviously is. It's now fashionable in some conservative circles where people care |
| 1:59.1 | what the New York Times thinks to say that the war on Christmas is some crazy illusion |
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