I swear, War On Christmas season just gets earlier every year. The Dobsonites can’t even wait for Thanksgiving:
Focus on the Family wants shoppers to know which retailers are naughty and which ones are nice – at least when it comes to holiday lingo.
On Thursday the Colorado Springs-based ministry’s political action arm launched its second-annual holiday campaign by posting an online shoppers guide with three categories: "Christmas-friendly" retailers, "Christmas-negligent" retailers and "Christmas-offensive" retailers.
The "friendly" retailers are so designated because they prominently use "Merry Christmas" and other Christmas-specific references in their catalogs and in-store promotions. Those on the Christmas-offensive list use secular phrases such as "happy holidays" and have "apparently abandoned" the use of the word "Christmas," Focus said. Christmas-negligent companies "marginalize" their message by using "Christmas" in some cases and "holidays" in others.
(…)
"It is not a boycott," said Sonja Swiatkiewicz, Focus’ director of issues response. "Consumers can do what they wish with the information."
Mullah Dobson has clearly been studying the Bush Doctrine. His minions will probably be napalming trick-or-treaters next.
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If I were a retailer, I’d hope to be in the offensive category.
CNN’s Dana Bash reporting Christmas coming early to Lie-berman [oh, the irony!] — likely to keep DHS chair.
The Democrats can haz backstabber/obstructor Joe or they can haz Prairie Sunshine. They can’t haz both.
Sorry, OT :)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — More than 100 retired generals and admirals called Monday for repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays so they can serve openly, according to a statement obtained by The Associated Press.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..02395.html
I’m sure they got all sorts of Very Serious Promises from Joe in exchange for letting him keep his gavel, right?
…Right?
My understanding is that it has already begun in some parts of the rural South and Alaska.
Can Focus on the Family wage a proper counteroffensive in the War on Christmas after all those layoffs?
They might need to reinstate the draft.
When you don’t even hear the famously loyal Don Imus speaking out for Joe Lie-berman, you have to wonder WTF is in the coffee they serve in the Senate Democratic Cloakroom.
Have these guys no understanding at all of the contempt in which Lie-berman is held for the twin actions during the campaign against Democratic candidates and the reprehensible aggressive obstruction of oversight on the DHS committee?
If Lie-berman prevails, I shall presume that each Senator on this committee voted in his favor…and against the people’s.
Talk about a lump of coal in the Christmas stocking.
Thank you for your Christmas-friendly post. Love, James Dobson.
I have this theory that Joe is possessed of superhuman sexual magnetism so powerful that he is able to manipulate the minds of men and women alike. And our Democratic Senators are so weak that they’re like fish in a barrel.
[head explodes]
No-one ever likes my theory.
I’m wid you.
I don’t figure the Senate Dems have the spine to shine Short Ride on so I guess it’s just full frontal assault on ‘em from here on out.
O’Reilly was selling “Merry Christmas” bumper stickers on his radio program this morning. I think he was offering them to “premium” listeners for 1/2 price. Such a deal.
Just for Eli.
Those are ones over 65 and in Depends, right?
Private Beguiner reporting for duty. Ready for my X-mas bashing orders from DFH-central command. (I’m a true blue Heathen Semite, so might I suggest Catholic girl seduction duty?)
McCain voters, yes.
Okay, that didn’t work. Try this.
Isn’t it funny how these right wingers can simultaneously criticize people for not paying homage to Christmas and in practically the same breath they can say that Christmas is too commercialized.
They’re the ones who pay $25.00 or so to subscribe to his extra goodies, like action dolls of Bill in Brownshirt regalia, with a black leather loofah holster….
Retailers will be happy if their aisles aren’t bowling allies this holiday season. It’s gonna be the worst one in a long long time.
Excellent. If ya speak Spanish.
One last try.
I hate Mondays.
Yeah, I’m expecting some especially shameless marketing. Already started, really; the Hell-Mart where my MIL works started playing carols at midnight on Halloween.
Focus on the Fascism.
-G
I hate Xmas caroles; loved them as a kid, but muzak version in stores drives me nuts. Try not to enter a single one at this time of year.
I don’t blame you a bit. We have a CD of Nat King Cole singing carols; usually play it while decorating, and then I’ve had enough for another year.
If Focus on the Family is making these boycott-style lists for Christmas suggesting to their followers places of business they may want to avoid shopping at, how can they criticize the Gay community as being hateful for making their boycott lists? Hypocrites.
Olle Joe jus’ turned his withering gaze on the Senatorial Jellyfishes and they went all gooey … and the stench … on them sunny beaches … when they’s all washed up is noisome fer sure.
Ya gotta work for this one. It’s the way the site’s set up. Click on enter site, then click on multimedia, then click on Trudell Music, then click on the third song down, “Hangin’ From The Cross.”
Think I’ll send the link to Billo.
not surprising they’d take out the wise men first.
Yoda in the ultimate disguise.
But it’s different. Fuckers on the Family is made up of the saved, and therefore unassailable.
At some point, I will most likely listen one time through to Jimmy Buffett’s Christmas Island, Leon Redbone’s Christmas Island, Aaron Neville’s Christmas CD and a couple of the Special Olympics Christmas CDs.
They had to. Illegal immigrants, you know. (And one of them is black.)
I am sure that Dobson’s God will be so happy if the clerks say Merry Christmas to everyone buying all of those beat em up, kill the enemy, knock them dead toys for their kiddos.
Remind me again why did we elect Obama…? I’m really getting peeved with his poor choices…
Made in China.
Lets not forget that Brennan also was instrumental in Obama’s flip-flop on FISA…! 8-(
Dobson’s God.
Bring ‘em on! If they want a Holy War this bad then let’s have it.
I generally hate all Christmas music, but Redbone’s Christmas Island is fantastic. James Brown’s Santa’s Got A Brand New Bag is pretty entertaining as well…
Looks like a great christmas gift idea /s
Yeah, I mostly agree with you on Christmas music in general. But the Buffett is similar to the Redbone in that it is not your standard Christmas music.
And Aaron Neville is worth listening to even if he were singing a telephone book.
Forget the war on Christmas, can we do something about the war on English? Are there really 100 retired gay generals and admirals? (Because if they’re retired, it’s too late for them to serve, openly or not.)
What ever happened to journalists who could construct a proper sentence?
Glenn Greenwald is reporting that
Obama could be the first President to be a total disappointment even before he hits office.
Entertaining geek Xmas musik.
Their previous assignment was covering Caribou Barbie.
The antecedent to the “they” is question is “gays.” Nothing wrong with the English.
I’m sure all the Focus on the Family employees just canned today will be sure to follow the naughty/nice list for spending their unemployment checks during the holiday season…!
I’m sure they’ll appreciate the fact they shelled out $500k on the hate prop…!
I’m dreaming of a fundie x-mas.
It’s looking like that with each and every passing day, Hugh! Did you see my 39…?
OT
Never heard this one. French soldiers trapped OBL in Afghanistan but U.S. wouldn’t let them arrest him because his being at large allowed U.S. to continue its occupation of Afghanistan.
http://www.juancole.com/2008/1…..-hunt.html
He was going to be around here no matter what he did.
Saw it. Selise & I were listening & commenting on it this morning.
But Eli, I want to war on Thanksgiving first!
Focus on the family or fundamentalist family?
Because sending a X-mas card complete with all the religious trimmings, is *just* the thing for jewish, buddhist, or atheist & agnostic friends and family. /s Not to mention some of those religious trimmings, particulary of the Dobson variety are not acceptable to persons of every Christian denomination. Like I’m sure a nice king James bible verse would not make a catholic aunt so happy, and so on.
It’s why I buy cards that say things like season’s greetings.
UPDATE: Focus on the Family announced this afternoon that 202 jobs will be cut companywide. Initial reports bring the total number of employees to around 950.
Focus on the Family is poised to announce major layoffs to its Colorado Springs-based ministry and media empire today. The cutbacks come just weeks after the group pumped more than half a million dollars into the successful effort to pass a gay-marriage ban in California.
Great. No investigation into the waste, fraud and child abuse. Shame on Obama.
Yes, so far Obama has given progressives, wait a minute, carry the three, add four multiply by zero, let’s see that comes out to … nothing, zip, nada.
New Ian upstairs
I’m sure Selise had plenty to say about it…! ;-)
Btw, Ian’s upstairs with a new post…
Wow, Focus family Inc? Don’t suppose the employees ever got unionized?
The amerikan taliban will be paying you a visit.
And not even the pleasure of a ‘reach-around’…!
ionized is more like it, turned into pillars of salt
I doubt hearing clerks say Merry Christmas is top on the priority list for people who can’t find a job or make their payments. This War on Christmas crap is even more disgusting this year.
The american taliban would probably get arrested for harassment by the police in my town, if they did so.
they won’t be shopping any goddamn way
Looks to me like we’re going backward instead of forward. This “change” is beginning to look more like a continuation to me.
Yeah, well so long as they don’t blame the “mystery of the stolen baby jeebus” on libruls. I believe that must be a teenage rite of passage for some kids.
Raven: Shopping at the food shelf is more like it.
Well we have to think of a way to hold the new president accountable, which was impossible with the old preznit.
Looks like I got to mind the shop. Bye all.
“We’ve given each other some hard lessons lately
But we ain’t learnin’
We’re the same sad story that’s a fact
One step up and two steps back…. “
950 people caused all those problems?
tip o the speat
spear
good thing no one except the whack pack gives a rats as* about the Holiday trappings of the stores they shop in – every sane Holiday shopper goes where the prices are best.
Season’s greedies.
“Jingle bells,
Santa smells,
Easter’s on its way.”
/s
isn’t ayatollah dobson nearly broke cause he had Focus donate a cool million to bankrole hate in CA?
Ho! Ho! Ho!. Oops. That’s the Jolly Green Giant. Nevermind.
Damn, they even beat O’Reilly to the punch this year.