{"id":36,"date":"2007-12-17T10:21:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T10:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/decemberdilemma\/2007\/12\/bill-oreillys-victory-speech.html"},"modified":"2007-12-17T10:21:04","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T10:21:04","slug":"bill-oreillys-victory-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/decemberdilemma\/2007\/12\/bill-oreillys-victory-speech.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill O’Reilly’s Victory Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFOX News <\/a>commentator Bill O’Reilly has been a driving force behind publicizing the “War on Christmas” over the past several years, calling out retailers who wish customers “Happy Holidays” and pummeling the ACLU for bringing lawsuits objecting to religious holiday displays in public places. But this year, according to his Dec. 12 “Talking Points Memo<\/a>,” the War on Christmas is over, and his side has emerged victorious.
\nCalling the war “one of the most important things we’ve done” on his show, O’Reilly blasted “SPs,” or “secular progressives” for their loss, saying that the ACLU is backing off of lawsuits this year, and fewer retailers are falling into the “Happy Holidays” trap. “The Taliban-like oppression of the holiday has largely ceased,” O’Reilly said.
\nIt seems John Lennon was right, war is over – if you want it. Or, as O’Reilly puts it, “We won. The secular progressives lost. Good.”
\nClick here to watch the video <\/a>of O’Reilly’s Talking Points Memo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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