Now, I know he's a Washington Times columist, so he's automatically among the dumbest people who get paid to pontificate for a living, but War on Christmas stuff is always the stupidest shit you'll ever see.
Beginning with Black Friday, so named because it's supposedly the day on which retailers finally make it into the black for the year, retailers' sales brochures have been bedecked with Christmas iconography - red ribbons and bows, tree ornaments, strings of lights, mistletoe and holly, Santas and the like - but with few exceptions (given due credit below), none have had banner headlines proclaiming Christmas as the reason for the buying season they were so desperately encouraging.
At J.C. Penney, it was an "After Thanksgiving furniture and mattress sale," Sears touted a catchall "Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving sale," and at Lowe's, the home-repair and hardware chain, it was "Let's Holiday" - as if holiday were a verb. Office Depot similarly turned "gift" into a verb: "Gift smarter. The holiday gifts they really want." Not to be outdone, Old Navy proclaimed an "Extravaganza humongous honkin' 3-day BIG weekend sale."
The next day, Kohl's broke the silence with its "Christmas Super Saturday." Five days after that, Kohl's touted an "Incredible Christmas 2-Day Sale," and has continued to use the word unabashedly since then.
Does anyone else think it's weird that people get offended because the commerical world isn't sufficently exploiting their deeply held religious beliefs?
Of course, this man works for a man who believes himself to be the second coming of Jesus Christ so who knows what he thinks?
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