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Video of the Day: Fox News wishes you ‘Happy Holidays’ (War on Christmas Fail)

Juan Cole 12/21/2013

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Cenk Uygur of Young Turks reports on Fox Cable News’ hypocrisy in hyping a mythical “war on Christmas” that allegedly involves forbidding the phrase “Merry Christmas,” and then turning around and using the phrase themselves.

Some companies prefer ‘Happy Holidays’ because they have significant numbers of customers who are not Christians. In New York, e.g., you are sometimes greeting Jews, while in the Detroit area you might well be talking to a Muslim.

Fox “anchors” such as O’Reilly are essentially complaining that Americans are sensitive to the feelings of their Jewish compatriots. That is, the “war on Christmas” meme is a form of antisemitism.

Filed Under: Popular Culture, US politics

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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