Source: www.rawstory.com – Tuesday, December 03, 2013
Jon Stewart waded into the “war on Christmas” on The Daily Convey on Tuesday, mocking conservative personalities like Bill O’Reilly, who was once pushed to ask “what vacation is Santa celebrating?” after seeing a Macy’s advert depicting Santa Claus helping buyers with a “vacation present checklist,” as opposed to a Christmas gift checklist. “That could be a excellent question,” Stewart stated paradoxically. “Santa, or Sinterklass, is celebrating the Feast of Saint Nicholas, which originated in the Netherlands in the Heart Ages and occurs each December sixth. But you could now not have heard about that as a result of like each different December vacation, it was once long ago sucked into the insatiable black hole that is Christmas.” Besides dinging him for complaining Macy’s wasn’t “invoking Christ’s title enough” all the way through the season (“I assumed Christians used to whinge that the holidays are getting commercialized”), Stewart also shot down O’Reilly’s try to assert that the phrase “Satisfied holidays” did not practice this 12 months because there have been no vacation trips between Hannukah and Christmas. “It sounds as if that you could’t embrace the rest earlier Christmas, like Kwanzaa, Epiphany or New Year’s,” Stewart stated. “Despite the fact that by using that logic, it signifies that up until Hannukah, which you could most effective say, ‘Chuffed Hannukah,’ however who the f*ck cares about that?” Stewart also took on every other Fox Information favorite, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, showing her keep away from a query about executive displays of the Christian faith all the way through the
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