Profiles in Fake Outrage Vol. XV

It's been two years now that Bill O'Reilly has been yelling about the plot to hijack Christmas, the far left progressive secular heathen liberal plot to kill the anniversary of Christ's birth by changing all the signs in stores to say "Happy Holidays." Because, you know, I'm sure the original intent of Christmas was to have everyone trample each other getting into stores so they could be faced by "Happy Holidays" signs to begin with. As far as I know, the only people who make this decision are the stores themselves, who want to appeal to the greatest number of people, and think that de-Christianizing signs for the holiday season will do that (though I personally could give a shit, and I suspect that's the mainstream view). If anything, Bill's beef is with capitalism.

Here's the funny thing. O'Reilly's OWN Fox News website sells The O'Reilly Factor HOLIDAY Ornament. Says it right there on the website. Bill's beef, then, is with his employer. Last year, it was discovered that Fox News was having a holiday party. So this is nothing new. I wonder if FNC will get on his "enemies list" now.

Clearly this is trumped-up, fake outrage to get his audience all in a tizzy by pushing a totally meaningless story, and all the while using the same "mass appeal" philosophy he decries in others to peddle his own tacky crap.

And the etymology of "holidays" is a contraction of "Holy Days." So even his initial point is stupid. What a loser.