“Respectable” conservatives love to blame Muslims for just about everything, including the War on Christmas. That’s just ridiculous; it’s people like Nina Totenburg (see video below) who hate Christmas and everything for which it truly stands.



Companies, cities, and organizations started replacing references to Christmas decades ago, and it wasn’t to placate Muslims. It was to placate Jewish sensibilities, because saying “Merry Christmas” supposedly ignored the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.

The little known fact of the matter is that National Public Radio informed us a couple years back that Hanukkah is pretty much a completely made up holiday, just like the ridiculous Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa was invented in California in the 1960s, and Hanukkah was invented in Cincinnati around 1870.

There is nearly no record of people celebrating Hanukkah just a couple of centuries ago. But it began to be an important Jewish holiday in the second half of the 19th century when two rabbis in Cincinnati noticed their Jewish children didn’t have much connection to the synagogue. The rabbis developed a new celebration for children during Hanukkah that was held in the synagogue and included giving presents. National newspapers publicized the new celebration, and it was soon being celebrated all around the country. “They didn’t see Christmas as something they could do easily because it’s Christian, but they did want to do something like that because it was American.”- Dianne Ashton, professor of American Studies at Rowan University in New Jersey

To each their own, but this is America, and America was intended to be a Christian nation. If creeps like Nina Totenburg don’t like it they are always free to leave.

For what it’s worth, we say Merry Christmas here at The Political Cesspool.