Happy Holidays!
Thursday, December 8th, 2005Did I just offend you with that headline?
If you’re Joseph Farah, editor of WorldNetDaily.com, then I did.
Farah is deeply offended by Bush sending him a Christmas card marked “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.” The article reads:
Bush “claims to be a born-again, evangelical Christian. But he sure doesn’t act like one,” said Joseph Farah, editor of the conservative Web site WorldNetDaily.com. “I threw out my White House card as soon as I got it.”
Well, you ingrate, maybe the White House has better things to do with their time than to keep a database of the religious preferences of the thousands of people they send Christmas Holiday Cards to. You could just be glad to get a card from the White House. It’s more than I got.
And, incidentally, according to an article on Slate.Com, describing a White House Christmas party:
The Bush White House isn’t hiding the baby Jesus. There He is among the wise men and barnyard creatures in the 18th-century Italian crèche. Mrs. Bush calls the 18-and-a-half-foot Fraser fir from Laurel Springs, N.C., a Christmas, not a “holiday,” tree.
Happy?
People use the phrase “Happy Holidays” because, in case you might not have been aware of this, there are at least two holidays other than Christmas which fall in the month of December. They are trying to be nice; it’s not an attack on the country’s morals.
On the other hand, responding to someone’s attempt to be nice with a mean-spirited retort is just rude. Shame on ya.
