{"id":135700,"date":"2017-12-18T09:33:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T16:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135700"},"modified":"2017-12-19T00:22:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T07:22:39","slug":"a-very-breitbart-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/18\/a-very-breitbart-christmas.html","title":{"rendered":"A Very Breitbart Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I ran across that online store while pursuing some other information. I didn’t draw this particular connection, though (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n

For years, Breitbart has repeatedly complained about the \u201cwar on Christmas\u201d as if the most culturally dominant holiday in America was under attack. Now, it has encouraged its readers to do their Christmas shopping in an online store hawking goods that are starkly at odds with everything for which the holiday is supposed to stand<\/b>. The website, like the president it loves, has put politics upstream of Christmas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Something to consider as you hear people bemoaning the #WarOnChristmas<\/a> — to what extent are the most fervently ostensible counter-warriors doing so in the spirit of what it is they are claiming to defend?<\/p>\n


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\nA Very Breitbart Christmas – The Atlantic<\/a><\/span>
\nBreitbart is peddling holiday goods. But whatever happened to peace on earth and good will?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yeah, I ran across that online store while pursuing some other information. I didn’t draw this particular connection, though (emphasis mine): For years, Breitbart has repeatedly complained about the \u201cwar on Christmas\u201d as if the most culturally dominant holiday in America was under attack. Now, it has encouraged its readers to do their Christmas shopping … Continue reading “A Very Breitbart Christmas”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,12,68,378],"tags":[1361],"class_list":["post-135700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-fourth-estate","category-holidays","category-intolerance-persecution","tag-waronchristmas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unnamed-38.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135621,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/war-christmas-internment-camp.html","url_meta":{"origin":135700,"position":0},"title":"The War on Christmas Internment Camp","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Dec-17 3:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Heh. 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