Oh, sure, it seems like a fun occasion, but who paid for the presents that are supposed to go under that tree? Certainly not the little children, since, to Newt Gingrich's dismay, we still have child labor laws that punish our most industrious seventh-graders. Later in the show, O'Reilly berated Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee for the state's display of a "holiday tree," instead of a "Christmas tree." O'Reilly explained:

There is a tradition -- there's a tradition to it that supersedes the Governors of Rhode Island with all due respect... So guys like you come in and the previous governors and I'm sure there are people -- in other places say you know what? We don't want the Christmas tree tradition anymore and that's what tees people off. You say you want people happy? They're not happy with you, Governor. They want you to call a Christmas tree a Christmas tree. There is no holiday tree. There is no tradition of a holiday tree.

To make his point, O'Reilly showed a clip proving even President Obama one time said "Christmas tree." This clip was cut with a zooming Christmas tree cartoon, seen at right. Everyone loves a Christmas tree, O'Reilly said, except atheists, because "They want to just burn it. All right, come on you know I'm right — you know I'm right, in your heart you know I'm right." Chafee responded, "No, your show, Fox News — you guys are too angry."

But Chafee is wrong, and there's no reason to go all Tom Ricks on Fox. It's not that O'Reilly is too angry, it's that he's not angry enough about the anti-capitalist dreck forced down our throats every year. Let's look at the sacred texts of Christmas — no, not the Bible, because non-Christians enjoy Christmas just as much, O'Reilly says. Old movies from the golden age of Hollywood. Watch these films and you know Joseph McCarthy was right: The massive anti-capitalist Christmas Industrial Complex not only seeks to redeem the lazy and undeserving, it also guilt-trips those job creators who initially resist its sinister charms.

Let's take It Happened on Fifth Avenue, for example, a 1947 film that will air twice on Turner Classic Movies this year. It is about a homeless man who breaks into a 5th Avenue mansion every year while the multi-millionaire owner is away for the winter, until he decides to take in a veteran who was evicted from his apartment and hasn't been able to get a job. The veteran and his veteran friends come up with a hair-brained scheme to build affordable housing out of old barracks. The multi-millionaire's daughter goes to the mansion and pretends to be poor and falls in love with the veteran, and then convinces her mean rich dad to pretend he is poor too. The rich dad tries to use tricky business schemes to get the veteran away from his daughter, but eventually his heart melts into a puddle of bleeding heart liberal goo and he accepts the ridiculous claim that people aren't poor because they're bad. Catch it December 16 and 23 on TCM.