New World Notes - Dispatches From the War on Christmas

This week on New World Notes: radio program #354, December 16, 2014, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m. (and on Wednesday from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.), host Kenneth Dowst takes a mostly lighthearted look at the Right Wing's favorite seasonal fantasy. Which is: that "secular progressives" have declared a "war on Christmas"--part of their alleged larger war to destroy Christianity, promote drug use and gay marriage, separate church and state, and so on.

This installment offers some ravings by Bill O'Reilly, a funny rebuttal by Jon Stewart, personal reflections by K.D., and a short history lesson. (The only real "war on Christmas" was fought by the Puritan Christians.) We end with selections from a humorous audio collage on the subject by Scooter.

Scooter produces the weekly radio show The innerSide on KPFT-FM, Houston. His Web site is www.aksisofevil.org.

This installment was previously broadcast, as NWN #302, in December 2013.

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