But we were there before him—in 2008, when Gibson and his book were getting some attention, Max Blumenthal of the Daily Beast wrote hit piece titled Who Started the War on Christmas? | 'The War on Christmas' started in a white nationalist cabal and spread to conservative media. December 9, 2008, which assigns the blame/gives the credit to Peter Brimelow and VDARE.com and which we answered at length here.