america's mr happy holidays of christmas tree or holiday tree which should it be
and u_s_
we've seen controversy most notably prompted by the white house it send out
cards this card matter fact wishing the holiday season of hope and happiness a
mention of christmas
some thoughts now on the subject sent to your host the show majority report on
air america radio bob knight is the director of the culture and family
institute is affiliated with the christian conservative organization
concerned women for america john engraved eddie with me thanks for having
us on all right well let's start with the holiday card what do you think sam
well i listen to you know as far as the world christmas coz i feel like we
should be waging war on christmas
i mean i believe that christmas it's it's it's almost prove annette walker
christmas
has uh... nuclear weapons
can be a democrat to this country
that uh... they have operated size with parents
and i believe that we should sacrifice thousands of american lives
uh... in pursuit of this war on christmas
and there are hundreds of billions of dollars taxpayer money well senator
warren christopher
so warm crest in cell one pull over political correctness artist a lot of
people have way too much time on their hands
well i would say
probably if i was to be serious about it too much time on their heads
but i'd like to get back to the operational ties between santa claus and
al-qaeda
i don't think that exist bop as well uh... we had a bad year we have
intelligent you can tell you at intel
and wherever the syrian tell come from
well we have tortured an elf
and that's uh... exactly how we got the same information from out of me at the
exactly the same way the bush administration deficit info about the
operational ties between
parkinson off okay bob knight that sam is is tiny and now the lack of
information regarding weapons of mass destruction and somehow moving that into
standard clots that help me out here what's going on and it is is there so
warren christians a warrant christmas is this
too much political correctness
together well it was very first i want to compliment among on his dry humor but
uh... this is actually a very serious subject because
a lot of people are waking up to realize that the war on christmas is really
uh... the culmination of all
war on faith and the idea that public square has to be cleansed of any
religious expression
particularly christian religious expression you know one time happy
holidays was unwelcome addition to merry christmas' so you would say the same
thing over and over again
but a lot of people now see it as a substitute
and it's very gratuitous at times
and it's house actually insulting when you're talking about christmas day or
christmas tree and you can't bring yourself to use the word for fear of
offending someone island of diversity were less free country when that happens
it's interesting sam because i mean this is a time where
addy
if anything we want to be even more sensitive to diverse city considering
everything that's happening
with regard to warrant air were laying still makes it more about different
religions different ethnicities and trying to become more of one verses
uh... being segregated
yeah whatever i mean i listened yet
i would like bob to tell me who is the person who's been offended by someone
saying merry christmas and i've never met that person i don't celebrate
christmas later if someone says merry christmas to me uh... and i do think
both a little bit audits like me saying happy birthday to you on my birthday but
uh... i you know no one cares but i'll tell you this as we head into the war on
the war on the war on the war on christmas on our radio show
newscorp
foxnews those people
who had started this uh... entire a war on christmas name
fake war
they're having a holiday party
president bush
saying happy holidays tokyo rose laura bush saying happy holidays to her dogs
in the video i'm sure you've seen it i mean these are the things that we
shouldn't
talking about
when we are waging this war in iraq we should be equating it to a warm
christmas what else would bomb might have an opportunity to health we get on
television if you want to pretending to be attacked
down this would be funny accepted a serious to a lot of people who've seen
their faith cleansed from the public square system out of our users passing a
law that someone can celebrate christmas in america
i mean i don't know that i wasn't looking i think the gallery here dot dot
but bob you're talking about things like in ridgeway wisconsin where
the school children in the public school were told they couldn't stay silent
night
states so they substituted all coldnite
you know i think when you take jesus out of anything it gets pretty cold with us
so it's an apt
but it's outrageous that children actually singing a bastardized version
of silent night well i don't think i think that israel on holiday tree like
specialize in synergies as the messiah
if if you're gonna have to meet you praise jesus i'm gonna be a little
offended one that i don't think the singing of the song you can find other
songs to sing so what about family night somalia because you're offended none of
those other kids to celebrate the great heritage of i'm not going to have a good
news that
no i'm not so your grandfather outside the front door
why are you trying to force conversions on people
god rescued while being a christmas heroically let me ask let me ask you
guys about the pressure that's been put on on stores for example uh... it
american family association called to the boycott of target stores that we can
every thanksgiving accusing the chain of getting the phrase merry christmas
from its stores a chart that target denies pressure from conservative groups
that look like they have an impact here complaints from the catholic league
wal-mart agreed to create a crisis page on its website rather than a holiday
page
and then macy's which is you know perhaps uh... more closely decisions
business than any other retailers that activism letter accounting issues of
merry christmas and added store windows after it was the target of a small scale
boycott last year
i think this is pretty amazing all these boycotts of pressuring all these stores
these businesses bob while these businesses are taking millions and
millions of dollars in firm christians in particular and others who celebrate
christmas giving gifts
in the name of the christmas season
and yet there
so worried about offending people like my opponent here that they don't want to
mention the word christmas
people are going to have a holiday time i'm not your opponent
about doing real work while you are idu agree with bob that i think what should
happen is company should calculate how much money they're getting
from people who are celebrating christmas
and provide exactly dot much of my love merry christmas
because that is exactly how
i would want any type of religious holiday to be celebrate
well ya when i haven't answered my email account monica
i'm curious
what would we have the same effect
would argued about how does not the same as christmas is not a major holiday for
one thing and and this is the christmas season that's like
billions of dollars are really being spent its christmas play well sort of
resources for management
obviously argue that that that hannukah is just as big as christmas
does not and i would have known it was wrong
i don't agree with a lot of phenomenon that says monica's has been a lot of it
is not a high holiday i don't have the russian shine on your right for
which i'm sure bobby's then
has been protesting why there aren't uh... more
don't report sales are russia china sells
well i mean why should they be rebel if that was associated with that holiday
then maybe i will join you but uh... it never has balls and i'm delighted and
martin luther king day not being celebrated i mean you're is that when
people don't say
happy martin luther king day a month out in advance you know let's let's put this
in perspective when it let me and then but i want to be able to respond with
indigenous c_n_a_
u_s_a_ today gallup poll
add the question was is it okay for people to save merry christmas eighty
percent said yes eleven percent said no
yet while ninety six percent of americans celebrate christmas
uh... so why would we care about the lesson la four percent that get offended
by it anne-marie buddy who defend our someone wishing someone right right here
why are we making all the changes bob i mean we can get my bob where's the war
worker morale lines and the you can tell me how i would not have the found that a
man in one school in wisconsin
that is one example that's not the totality so don't don't want anyone else
allentown
the totality is eighty you brought it up
the totality of the seventy eight percent of the american population has
no problem with it you don't care about the people who don't celebrate christmas
but i don't celebrate christmas and i don't care
so why wouldn't waste in everybody's time
is that you can fundraise that's why bob headline i think you know that's about
it
but i can't get the final final thought ok you know when the nazis moved into
austria not all that is extensive
by immediately rains not through the school's that is that about italy and i
thought so i stand up and it looks like a lot of money so i go ahead bob okay
maria trap wrote the story of the straps on yours that's a in the sound of music
and she said she sent her kids to school after the nazis took over and they came
home and said mama we can say the word christmas anymore it's now winter
holiday i think that water obtuse therapy right now that you had a kind of
attitude in this country the puritans also outlawed christmas
the founding fathers of this country
i would fly u_n_ in massachusetts a few celebrate christmas at the beginning so
don't talk about nazis bob i think that's really inappropriate why do you
have to bring the soviet union restaurants and hotels in cost that's so
sad bawa it's not ok ordering the book you're so bothers glad that you have to
raise nazis when you're talking about
christmas in the holiday season
and we all know that person is actually
uh... tannenbaum is a german holiday
that bob uh... really really disappointed and and i'm sorry to
disappoint you but if you're if you can understand that the the force of history
to bring up are not gone now thing up
we'll tell you know i have a phone calling and not wait outlet if they are
not we could probably do you watch their stamps here
there are a little earlier bob knight cricket both affiliates it gentlemen
ideally it's a discussion everyone's talking about it that is because there
are a lot of people tell you that i should say not just curious so i say
merry christmas happy holidays have happy height which people well i'd like
to say merry christmas and i am matram no timeline from
war on christmas
thanks gentlemen calculator thank you