“Amidst the fragility of this politically correct era, it is imperative that we stand up for our beliefs before the element of faith in a glorious and traditional holiday like Christmas is marginalized and ignored,” Palin said in a statement released through her publisher. “This will be a fun, festive, thought provoking book, which will encourage all to see what is possible when we unite in defense of our faith and ignore the politically correct Scrooges who would rather take Christ out of Christmas.”
That nonsense is straight from Sarah Palin’s 2013 Christmas book, “GOOD TIDINGS AND GREAT JOY”; Protecting the Heart of Christmas It was in the bargain bin at Barnes and Noble tonight and no, I didn’t buy it, but I did take a copy with me to the children’s reading corner (I had on a rain hoodie pulled tight around my chin), and furiously scribble down some choice passages. Sarah Palin managed to take topic that has been so over done, so is so tired and be-troped,.and make it even stupider, in a grfity, a maniacal effort to appeal to the panic-stricken, self-pitying element of stupid white people upset about the blah President. According to the Griftess, this book is not an “in-your-face political lecture,” but there is a War on Christmas – a campaign to un-sanctify the second-most important holiday in the Christian religion – and of course the Reason for the Season is making moneys.
The book blathers on about the “scrooges” who are trying to keep explicitly Christian language from having pride of place in civic life in this country. Mooselini also shares “personal memories and traditions from her own Christmases and illustrate the reasons why the celebration of Jesus Christ’s nativity is the centerpiece of her faith.” She argle bargles on about how we should all keep Christ in Christmas, even if we aren’t necessarily Christians.
“What we believe in is freedom of expressing our faith and what our beliefs are, not allowing just a few angry atheists with attorneys perhaps to tell us that we can’t celebrate the birth of Christ the way that we would like to. And it’s not an in-your-face political lecture, it’s a fun book that incorporates the solution to the challenge that is a war on Christmas that we see taking place right now. […]we have recipes in there, and we have just a lot of fun things that hopefully will spark some inspiration in other people to allow them, no matter what faith anyone is, but allow them some Christmas joy to spread…”
Go, Sarah!! Everybody knows that Christmas is a totally real, not-made-up-by-Hallmark holiday. Jesus was born on December 25th, Year Zero, and there were pine trees and holly and eggnog and snow in the Middle East, for some reason, while blonde-haired, blue-eyed, English-speaking shepherds carried AR-15s. And Santa blessed everything and lo, it became fact.
“WISH ME A MERRY CHRISTMAS” she shrieks, but such proscription, rather than normal people’s well-meaning attempts to include everyone in a happy, celebratory time of year, seems deeply antithetical to what we’re constantly reminded is the “Christmas spirit.”Leave it to modern conservatives to take any remaining joy out of Christmas by ordering us what to think and say about it. What do you say when you don’t want her to have a merry Christmas or happy holidays? Personally, I want Sarah Palin to have the kind of Christmas Mr. Scrooge has: An abjectly horrifying experience which will change her attitude towards other people in a profound and permanent way. Is there a greeting for that?