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and welcome back to take action is everybody david shuster here on a
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as we wrap things up in the weeks ahead this particular segment self one of the
leading broadcasters whether we can agree or disagree about the content is
fox news channel to channel that work for a many years ago the startup
they have a i'd believe sort of uh... done the best job just in terms of
production values on cable news there graphics are easy to watch
the lining is excellent the shots look terrific
of course i had major problems with the content but from pure production basis
that they are the um... they set the standard
but their content of course is a big problem for our a lot of us
well maybe not a problem it's just i think it's it's interesting entrusting
example one of the the great things that boxes likes the focus on this time of
year
and that is that they claim that there is a war on christmas the claim is a war
on christmas here's an example from a bill o'reilly show the or rightly factor
where he was gastric talking about this alleged war
if you are christmas is very very well
and if you ask him a book idea it in addition to in some grouchy that you
don't listen for updated even atheists and so it has to do with that that the
roar of the it there has to attend things all bore shed and and the gay
rights agenda because christianity isa is against those days and
and that's it startled but uh... that's why they're there so that's what's up
the last minute in recent years
it's a great
i absolutely agree on ever said that it stayed the diminishment of christianity
uh... is the target and christmas is the vehicle because the secularists know
their opposition to their agenda legalize drugs is in that as well art
com primarily from the judeo-christian traditionalist
hustling to get the straits caloric christmas is being um... acted upon by
progresses by democrats who are somehow trying to undermined the judeo-christian
traditions of our country
uh... because through things like our pension rights women's rights gay rights
and the victim in all of this uh... is the christmas and holiday itself
uh... no-man's what's your reaction to that end and and help us analyze what is
the political play here what is foxnews dean
by promoting this kind of stuff
ordinary you hear all the time fox news is viewership is sort of the diminishing
and bitter white demographic in this country is sort of
someone educated the generally not extremely dedicated alder white people
especially white men
and so it's obvious that they would serve the plates or their resentment
to the new
uh... oncoming immigrants
what what's astonishing to me that it is sort of the
just complete
denial of reality that it takes to sort of promote this idea of the war on
christmas specifically because
this has been in america
really secularized holiday for decades now and that was issued and literally by
many cultural figures
in the polls liberal cultural elite
back into the middle of the twentieth century on taking off
of carving berlin and singers many of whom at sears and songwriters many of
whom were jewish
who basically wrote songs like white christmas that scrub the jesus out of
christmas
that turn christmas into
a secular
winsor holiday of consumption okay
which is but we now think of it as right i mean sherv
there's a there's a there's a probably significant
of small majority of americans that still celebrate christmas for the birth
of christ
and the
there so the truth from the person's everything like that
and i and i uh... you know
i love religions a
i think that that's very powerful very moving and and
everyone should should be will be happy doing that but
we should kid ourselves into thinking that
that part of christmas somehow went to the declined only recently with the rise
of kind of the secular left this is going on for decades
whereas we're going on for decades is the is the and bitterness
sword of
declining wiley mail old right wing in this country looking for scapegoats and
senior political power adding away in finding reasons for that
mitchell ask you when i ask you about this or that the tone of the coverage of
media matters studied out how much bill o'reilly
focused on the war against christmas at compared to how much he focused on real
wars like complex in iraq afghanistan syria libya and gaza
and they found out of from december first eighteen of fifty five minutes in
ten seconds of the war on christmas
fifteen minutes and second son actual wars what's your reaction
well goodness for a rally has uh... you know as a target in mind for one he
truly want to see job any sort of ironic because
we will talk about the war on christmas as uh... as deep
non-christians declaring war on christians were i feel like it's really
firm mostar roses na christian a few of the other way around from beginning in
that christianity and all sorts of ways is being forced upon you and is being
you know when you are required to become christian into following all the
christian holidays in traditions i think it's actually on you know the war on
non-christians that is not getting any mention in this fictitious warren
christianity absolutely amanpour atheists or out there better well listen
to uh... to all this and you know the one thing that i won't hate this but i
think you know there's there's jews there seeks this muslims you know
there's a large population america that's
that's not christian that
you know i think most people these days come to appreciate of the holidays and
you know you get sick of some songs and stories but you know whatever whatever
it's it's it's christmas in and you accepted but uh... but but the other
certainly this this uh... it it could be there is the reaction is f_ lee
overreaction his is a defecating uh... agree that if we are going to call the
war i think that you have to argue that uh... the founders of our constitution
they are
on the opposite side and of of bill o'reilly and and the folks at fox is
because the the one example they like the site is that all you can no longer
have the manger scene a
uh... on government buildings are government property that somehow this is
the civil war on on jesus and and the birth of all that because he can't do
this what the fact of the metro areas
that our supreme court
in interpreting the separation of church and state
they came up with this romance is no you can't you can have these matrices but
it's got to be on private property cannot b_m_w_ and property cannot be on
the government owner
public square
that in those occasions it's gotta be a non religious sort of seen commemorating
christmas or hannukah and so
i think for folks in the right of if you're mad about that
then take it up with the court's blame the courts for taking the stuff away but
the idea that you know progressives are somehow are involved in this this morn
christmas i_q_ no i think it's malarkey but i i do think again a man so your
point does get to the politics of this is a way of uniting
the fox news viewers in and making it more of
uh... of the the air-tight box
people against against but it's sort of a denver cigs are sort of tradition over
talks as if it helps our coverage
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