"We Say Merry Christmas Here," says Christian Supremacist Bill O'Reilly

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Talk show host Bill O'Reilly, who rumor has it is on the verge of losing his radio syndication, is selling bumper stickers for people who are offended by including other holidays into the Christmas season.

 "We Say Merry Christmas Here" they say, inviting some of you to perhaps shop elsewhere.

O'Reilly, who has always had trouble with the truth, claims to be giving the stickers away. In fact, he includes them when you buy one of his other products. The guy sells everything, his soul included. That's cheap, I'm sure.

Anyway, tis the season when O'Reilly attacks people he claims are attacking Christmas. No one I know has ever seen one of those attackers. Near as I can tell, the holiday is ubiquitous, with goods hitting shelves around August, and radio stations playing nonstop Christmas music starting the first week of October.

But O'Reilly thinks that saying "Happy Holidays" is an attack on Christmas, even though it includes those who may be Muslim, Jewish, atheist, Hindu, Buddhist, Scientologist, agnostic, a follower of Zeus and Athena, or Zoroastrian, to name a few.

Of course, even serious Christians are offended by the holiday's revolting commercialism, which truly is taking the Christ out of Christmas, but that's another story.

WWJD? Would he put a bumper sticker like that on his SUV? Only if Bill O'Reilly can fit through the eye of a needle.

I've heard reports that O'Reilly may hang up his radio spot at the end of the year. I'm told he's far more successful on Fox TV, where he is the Walter Cronkite of the don't-give-me-news-I'll-stick-to-yelled-opinions crowd.

But here's a great irony in this announcement. I actually like O'Reily's radio show....or at least, he's a breath of moderation in the great single direction flying right-wing, the host who comes most close to being independent. I mean, he may not have known that African Americans eat the same way as white people do, as he announced after visiting a Harlem restaurant with Al Sharpton.

But at least he eats dinner with some black guys, which I suspect, is more than could be said for most of his peers on the dial.

And he was against the war after he was for the war, but he never really had the guts to hammer that one too much, because some days he was for the war and some days he was against the war, depending on whether he was calling John Kerry or some Dem a flip-flopper, or attacking the Dixie Chicks or making up to them later.

Still, he's got a little complexity, which again, is more than you can say for the cigar smoking golfing guy, the king of conservative talk.

My favorite O'Reilly videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCY

and the brilliant dance remix seen by more than 2 million viewers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2YDq6FkVE