Santa fights back

America's right rally to protect a Christmas 'under siege'

Julian Borger
(From: The Guardian)

The appearance of Santa Clauses, fir trees and fairy lights are a sure sign that it is combat season once more in America's culture war. But this time it is a do-or-die battle, some of the nation's best-known conservatives are warning.
They claim there is a stealthy "war on Christmas" under way, and they are gathering their forces, mostly lawyers and talk-show hosts, to fight back.

They argue that Christmas has become almost a dirty word in a politically correct society, where "merry Christmas" is being replaced by "happy holiday" on greetings cards and public displays so as not to make people of other faiths feel excluded.

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Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel has spearheaded the media offensive. One of its leading talking heads, John Gibson, has published an angry polemic entitled The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought.

He claims the assault on Christmas has reached "a shocking level this year". His colleague, Bill O'Reilly, has launched an on-air "Christmas under siege" campaign outing shops and department stores for failing to use the word Christmas.

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