Quote# 54412
This being the holiday season, the word “tolerance” gets tossed around like a beach ball at an L.A. Dodgers game. By and large, it’s liberals who carry on as if they have the word copyrighted. Which would be funny if there weren’t serious repercussions. One of which is the misnamed Fairness Doctrine, which hangs by a slender thread, like the sword of Damocles, over the heads of conservative talk show hosts.
Liberals are so intolerant they often can’t even bear to have people say “Merry Christmas” in their presence. In fact, they can’t even bring themselves to recognize it as a celebration of a specific event. Instead, they dismiss it as the holiday season or the winter solstice. Isn’t it funny how nobody feels the compulsion to exchange gifts or attend church services or decorate their homes for the summer solstice? Well, in spite of Kwanzaa and Chanukah, this is Christmas season because most Americans are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. Even though I’m Jewish, even I have to acknowledge it’s a special occasion, and those who feel entitled to disparage it are worse than Scrooge. They are bigoted, intolerant, ignoramuses.
Burt Prelutsky,
Townhall.com, "Sheep and Goats" 34 Comments [12/16/2008 10:36:47 PM]
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Submitted By: GreenEyedLilo
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#814156
Philbert McAdamia
The Dodgers? Beach balls?
THE Dodgers?
Why . . . why . . . Those Bums!
12/17/2008 4:23:49 AM
#814168
Panjandrum
Do you seriously get that much enjoyment over such a commonly said phrase? Next time someone says Good morning, i'm going to get really pissed off at them, because they should have said Good day, and next time someone says Good night, i'm going to REALLY enjoy it and hope that they meant it as earnestly as possible.
people say these things as a courtesy, they don't actually care or think about it.
12/17/2008 4:31:42 AM
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Jon
Maybe I'm out of the loop, but why would anyone throw beach balls at a Dodgers game? Did they change their sport?
12/17/2008 6:10:52 AM
#814256
aaa
Most people celebrate because of the gifts.
12/17/2008 6:34:18 AM
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fundiesRtehlulz
Learn the true history of Christmas and shut the fuck up
12/17/2008 9:06:17 AM
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JackH
"Isn’t it funny how nobody feels the compulsion to exchange gifts or attend church services or decorate their homes for the summer solstice?"
here in the UK we do, but then we're all wiccans (it even lists wiccan holidays on government calendars!)
12/17/2008 11:15:32 AM
#814457
El Zorro
How many Liberals object if someone says "Merry Christmas"? Not many, I'd bet.
12/17/2008 12:38:53 PM
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Orion
Hey Dickhead!
I'm from the Southern Hemisphere, where your "Christmas" occurs in Summer. Isn't it funny how nobody in Australia feels the compulsion to exchange gifts or attend church services or decorate their homes for the winter solstice around here?
Learn that you are not the only nation on the planet. Most Americans I believe would be celebrating time off from school, the years end and a good excuse to express their fraternal love for their fellow man through gifts.
Truly a time to eat, drink and be merry!
Who cares whose birthday it is?
12/17/2008 12:53:44 PM
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Churchy La Femme
"Isn’t it funny how nobody feels the compulsion to exchange gifts or attend church services or decorate their homes for the summer solstice?"
says someone who's never seen news coverage of the gatherings at Stonehenge during the Summer Solstice.
12/17/2008 8:33:42 PM
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