12.18.2005
Political Interlude
CNN reports today about the apparent controversy over people saying "Happy Holidays" and not "Merry Christmas." This isn't a controversy, this isn't a national debate, a national conversation, or a national anything. This is a bunch of right wing politicians and activists complaining, as usual. If they don't get the Ten Commandments in a courthouse, they complain and send out the lawyers. If they don't get to call a Celebratory Tree a "Christmas Tree," they complain, write op-eds, and send out the lawyers.
Aren't these the same exact people who complain about complainers? Aren't these the same exact people who complain about our overly litigious culture?
I'm not going to call them "hypocrites" here; I'm just going to call them idiots.
Aren't these the same exact people who complain about complainers? Aren't these the same exact people who complain about our overly litigious culture?
I'm not going to call them "hypocrites" here; I'm just going to call them idiots.
# posted by Vanity @ 16:19 
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Where the hell did this come from, by the way? The debate, I mean. I woke up one day and discovered that it was en vogue vogue to bitch about this. It's a national controversy only because everyone seems to act like it's a national controversy. I was blog-surfing last night and I ran into some douche wailing about how he felt like his Christianity was under assault. He also wailed about his horrible messy divorce and wrote link-cutting poems to his future ex-. Which seems to me like a weasel way of doing things.
See, that's my point, exactly. This is manufactured news, and it proves that the news media isn't liberal. It's just boring, and in need of a "story" -- even an obviously made-up one.
Ah! A logical fallacy! It has nothing to do with whether or not the media is liberal. In this particular instance, it shows that the media has not championed special interest groups who want to stomp out Christmas, contrary to what the Bill O'Reilly types say. But that has nothing to do with their overall character or tendencies.
So you say! I think I am still correct and was not making a fallacy in my comment. My comment was a negative one - that the media isn't of an overall "liberal" stripe in America and is only seriously driven by commercial interests (what sells). So when you say that it shows instead that the "media has not championed special interest groups who want to stomp out Christmas" you are pretty much agreeing with me!
Unless, of course, you disagree with what you said!
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