For Fox News, The War on Christmas comes every year. As you can see from this Talking Points Memo montage, America’s most popular news channel was already raging against The War on Christmas before Thanksgiving, even as an actual battle was being fought in Gaza.
However, 2012’s War on Christmas threatens to be the most explosive ever, with an unlikely new foe joining the fray — the Pope.
In his new book, Pope Benedict XVI plays mythbuster to many of the Christmas conventions that have come to mark the tradition. In this declaration of war on Christmas, the Pope says we have the date of the holiday wrong, no animals were at the nativity scene and angels did not sing when Jesus was born.
When it comes to waging war on Christmas, this is the equivalent of using landmines filled with child soldiers, LSD and uranium.
Why doesn’t the Pope just tell us that the Three Wise Men wished Jesus “Happy Holidays”?
If I know Fox News, and I think I do, they will not let this stand. They will never apologize for Christmas. Don’t be surprised if Bill O’Reilly, brave veteran of 15 Wars on Christmas, is on his way to the Vatican right now.
h/t @word_34
