America has had its share of intractable wars,
but Fox News has been tracking one forever war in particular.
It's the war on Christmas.
The war on Christmas.
And there's no end in sight.
Now it feels like the war on Christmas
is coming earlier and earlier every year.
So we came to the Fox News All-American Christmas Tree
Lighting Show to talk to people about how they're surviving
the war on Christmas.
I don't feel like there's a war on Christmas.
You don't?
And I think if there was a war on Christmas,
Christmas would win.
Are you familiar with the war on Christmas?
I've heard of it.
But I don't really think it's actually a thing.
So--
- Are you serious? - Yeah.
People can't say Merry Christmas anymore.
If I say Merry Christmas to my neighbor
ten times in a row, he looks at me like I'm crazy.
Do you think that this tree-lighting ceremony
is so much smaller this year because Fox lost so much
money in the Dominion lawsuit?
That's very possible.
But I haven't really put a lot of thought into that.
Are you at all worried that there'll be no tree lighting
ceremony next year when Smartmatic comes in and takes
the rest of the cash?
- Not really, no. - No?
No.
But how will people even know it's Christmas outside
of those Christmas decorations and those Christmas
and those--
Rockefeller.
Rockefeller, trees over back here.
There's a Santa.
Finally, we spoke to some civilians who truly have
experienced the nog of war.
Fox has talked a lot about how
there is a war on Christmas.
I think there is.
If I were to say happy holidays,
how would that make you feel?
I might correct you. [laughs]
Some people talk about saying happy holidays.
Fox is really proud about saying Merry Christmas.
They say there's a war on Christmas.
There is.
- There's a war on Christmas? - I believe it.
- We feel like. - Look around you.
Look at all the businesses, look
at the corporations that have not allowed you to say that.
I, think that people are scared to speak
up about their Christianity, about their faith.
Sure.
There is a war on Christmas.
And the group facing the most vitriol,
for sure, are Christians?
- I think so. - I do.
Christians? Specifically?
Yes.
Right now?
Like right now.
But is defending Christmas enough to put
them on Santa's nice list?
Or does Saint Nick reconsider when Fox News
hosts say things like this?
I want to say something about Arab-Americans.
We've had it with them.
OK, so naughty or nice.
Someone at Fox News said, we've had it with them,
referencing Arabs in general.
No, he's nice.
So Jesse Watters would be in the nice-- nice category.
Maybe because I'm a New Yorker
and I'm pretty used to stuff.
Used to stuff?
- You know, I've been mugged. - Have you been mugged?
Yeah.
And so, that's led to an irrational fear
that you basically project onto an entire group of people?
Yeah, so.
We got The Five right here. Judge Jeanine.
- Yes. - Naughty or nice?
- Nice. - Nice.
I love the judge.
She sees the world, call it as she sees it.
Exactly.
That lady knows her way around--
- Exactly. - A bar.
A bar.
What do you think about Donald Trump? Naughty or nice?
Okay, Donald Trump. He's naughty, definitely.
But the country did well. The problem with Donald is -
That hand. Reminds me of something bad.
When you say this, are we talking...
We're talking this? It reminds you of Adolf.
- Is that a dealbreaker? - I'll have to explore that.
Naughty or nice, Fox News?
- Nice. - Nice.
Yes.
What about when they lied to the American people
about the election results?
- That's naughty. - That's naughty.
That is naughty.
We can acknowledge that's naughty.
- But overall, Fox News? - Nice.
Nice.
We all make mistakes.
Who hasn't threatened the entire nation's
trust in democracy?
We all deserve one mulligan, right?
- Or 91. - Right.
We finally arrived at the moment
to declare mission accomplished on the war on Christmas.
Three, two, one!
[cheering]
Happy holiday--
Merry Christmas.
Until next year.