The Yid Who Stole Christmas
by Jeff Davis
The right wing talk radio crowd has lost a lot of credibility in recent years as they “carried George Bush’s water” to quote Rush Limbaugh. But they do have many valid points, and one of these is that there is very definitely a war on Christmas. They generally stop short of pointing the finger of guilt at the Jews, but nine out of ten times it seems to be a Jewish liberal or Jewish atheist who is filing lawsuits and waging the war on Christmas. Most recently, no less than a rabbi came forward to file one of these lawsuits.
On Friday, in Seattle, Hasidic rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky threatened to sue Sea-Tac airport if they did not include a huge, garish eight-foot-tall Jewish menorah in their decorations, along with the Christmas trees which were placed around the terminals. In a panic at the thought of appearing “anti-Semitic” and even more so at the prospect of becoming entangled with lawyers, the cowardly airport authorities pulled down all the Christmas trees in the wee hours of Saturday morning and spirited them away in the night. But much to everyone’s surprise, this particular skirmish in the Jewish war on Christmas seems to have stirred up a hornet’s nest. Ordinary Americans have had enough and no pushy little Yiddish rabbi is going to take down their Christmas trees. (more…)