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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(7,909 posts)
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 04:29 AM Nov 2022

'Too pro-Christmas': Fox News brutally mocked for claiming Biden is 'jumping the gun on Christmas'

Over the years, many critics of Fox News and its sister channel Fox Business have mocked the right-wing cable media outlets for claiming that liberals and progressives are carrying out a “War On Christmas.” It’s a claim that’s difficult to back up, as Christmas music, Christmas celebrations and Christmas decorations become ubiquitous in a long list of major U.S. cities that are overwhelmingly Democratic — from Boston and Philadelphia to Seattle to Chicago. Nonetheless, many Fox News and Fox Business hosts have insisted, year after year, that there is a movement among liberals, progressives and Democrats to attack Christmas.

But in 2022, ironically, Fox News is, according to Media Matters’ Matt Gertz, attacking centrist Democratic President Joe Biden for being “too pro-Christmas.”

At 6 PM on Monday, November 21, Fox News announced its “all-American Christmas tree lighting.” But only four later, on far-right host Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show, “The Ingraham Angle,” the following words appeared on the screen: “Biden White House Jumps the Gun on Christmas.”


In a November 22 tweet, Gertz was quick to point out how badly Fox News was contradicting itself by lighting its Christmas tree on the same day it was attacking the Biden White House for celebrating Christmas too early. And in a separate tweet, Gertz posted, “New Fox News salvo in the War on Christmas is that Joe Biden is too pro-Christmas.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/too-pro-christmas-fox-news-brutally-mocked-for-claiming-biden-is-jumping-the-gun-on-christmas/ar-AA14qe30

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'Too pro-Christmas': Fox News brutally mocked for claiming Biden is 'jumping the gun on Christmas' (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Nov 2022 OP
Conservatives are just so intensely stupid. mwb970 Nov 2022 #1
+10000000000 Celerity Nov 2022 #2
That's what happens when you let an Australian billionaire's minions do your thinking for you. Initech Nov 2022 #15
Oh for Pete's sake... calimary Nov 2022 #3
But when corporations do it in commercials. chriscan64 Nov 2022 #4
Conservative media Old Crank Nov 2022 #5
They reflexively gatekeep everything, don't they? eShirl Nov 2022 #6
No matter what happens in life LittleGirl Nov 2022 #7
Fox News began Christmas commercials before Halloween! PJMcK Nov 2022 #8
Blatantly interfering with Fox News's festive annual anti-Christmas Crusade Zambero Nov 2022 #9
Come on, Man! Deep State Witch Nov 2022 #10
The hate, anger and fear machine that is the Fox business/political plan. Marcuse Nov 2022 #11
These people Mad_Machine76 Nov 2022 #12
faux news being faux news republianmushroom Nov 2022 #13
Reminds me of an old joke SCantiGOP Nov 2022 #14
It's like no matter what Biden does, they will find faults with it. Initech Nov 2022 #16
Exactly. ificandream Nov 2022 #18
Yeah it's the classic "I know you are but what am I" argument. Initech Nov 2022 #19
Is that gun a Red Ryder bb gun with a compass in the stock? lame54 Nov 2022 #17
FOX on-air scumbags are too stupid and too well-paid to facepalm any time they get Aristus Nov 2022 #20
The GOP is a one-trick-pony. Moving the goal posts is what they do. Martin68 Nov 2022 #21
Eye roll, eye roll, eye roll. love_katz Nov 2022 #22
They're all just so damn STUPID. mwb970 Nov 2022 #23
And if a day later... declanwxyz Nov 2022 #24
"outrage porn".... great description BlueWaveNeverEnd Nov 2022 #25
idiots are from the upside down purr-rat beauty Nov 2022 #26
They are disappointed Joe didn't say "Happy Holidays" instead of Merry Christmas. twodogsbarking Nov 2022 #28
We really need to stop calling it Fox "News". The Jungle 1 Nov 2022 #27

Initech

(100,063 posts)
15. That's what happens when you let an Australian billionaire's minions do your thinking for you.
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 02:07 PM
Nov 2022

calimary

(81,220 posts)
3. Oh for Pete's sake...
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 05:32 AM
Nov 2022

Aw, Pox Noise. Always gotta accentuate the negative. Even when it makes NO sense.

How lame can they be?

chriscan64

(1,789 posts)
4. But when corporations do it in commercials.
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 05:32 AM
Nov 2022

That is free speech, or free markets? I don't know they just let that slide like it's normal to put on Christmas commercials at 8:30 pm on Halloween night.

LittleGirl

(8,282 posts)
7. No matter what happens in life
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 06:44 AM
Nov 2022

They will take the nasty way because we are the enemies now. I think or rather hope that these people see what is real and what’s not. I’m a dreamer.

PJMcK

(22,031 posts)
8. Fox News began Christmas commercials before Halloween!
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 09:26 AM
Nov 2022

What a bunch of idiots. They just have to invent something to criticize President Biden for.

Zambero

(8,964 posts)
9. Blatantly interfering with Fox News's festive annual anti-Christmas Crusade
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 09:43 AM
Nov 2022

President Biden makes it clear that he has no respect for this treasured American tradition. Has Bill O'Reilly weighed in on this yet?

Deep State Witch

(10,424 posts)
10. Come on, Man!
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 10:58 AM
Nov 2022

He's a grandfather with a huge number of grandkids. He's probably enjoys playing Santa (SCOTUS - Santa Claus of the US?). He and Dr. Jill seem like they would be Christmas people.

Fox Noise just wants to complain about something.

SCantiGOP

(13,869 posts)
14. Reminds me of an old joke
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 02:03 PM
Nov 2022

I first heard it from Jesse Jackson.
He said that he was in a boat with some people when the wind blew someone's hat off into the water. He said he stepped over the edge, walked a few feet away on the water and picked it up and brought it back.

The next day's headline was "Jesse Jackson Can't Swim."

ificandream

(9,363 posts)
18. Exactly.
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 04:08 PM
Nov 2022

Their game is to get opposing views in the ether no matter what the reason. It doesn't matter how stupid it sounds as long as their lemmings hear it.

Initech

(100,063 posts)
19. Yeah it's the classic "I know you are but what am I" argument.
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 05:14 PM
Nov 2022

It might have worked in Pee Wee's Playhouse but it doesn't work in 2022 and is getting really old, boring and tiresome.

Aristus

(66,316 posts)
20. FOX on-air scumbags are too stupid and too well-paid to facepalm any time they get
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 05:34 PM
Nov 2022

the latest contradictory memo from management. "I know this goes directly counter to what we've already put out there, but do it anyway."

And they do...

love_katz

(2,578 posts)
22. Eye roll, eye roll, eye roll.
Wed Nov 23, 2022, 07:23 PM
Nov 2022

So, apparently, their stance is that Christmas belongs exclusively to Pox, and they are not sharing it with anyone else. Their level of stupid is so huge that it is beyond description 😳.

declanwxyz

(7 posts)
24. And if a day later...
Thu Nov 24, 2022, 04:29 AM
Nov 2022

They would say he wasn't Christian enough and it was shameful the president was ignoring Christmas. You can't ever win with their outrage porn.

purr-rat beauty

(543 posts)
26. idiots are from the upside down
Thu Nov 24, 2022, 09:53 AM
Nov 2022

whatever it is they gotta flip the script

mainly.....they'll tell you to be a good christian while they will be big assholes

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