| | O'Reilly: Some Fox 'pinheads' don't get insult to Christmas
 Since Washington State accepted an atheist message calling religion "myth and superstition" as part of its official holiday display, requests have been pouring in from additional groups that would like to get in on the fun.
The hosts of Fox & Friends have been following the story closely, and Gretchen Carlson was particularly outraged on Wednesday morning at the prospect of a display for Festivus -- a fake holiday popularized in the 90's by the Seinfeld show. "That is the biggest insult ever to the season of Christmas," Carlson complained. "What is going to be next?"
While co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade seemed to find the idea of a Festivus display a good excuse for kidding around, Carlson was appalled. "I'm for humor and I'm all for telling jokes ... but this is an insult to Christianity," she insisted.
Carlson didn't get much support on Fox & Friends, but she later found both sympathy and an opportunity to present her point of view over at Fox's The O'Reilly Factor.
"I was watching your program this morning with those pinheads, Doocy and Kilmeade," O'Reilly began, "and they're not getting this thing."
"It's a mockery of a religion that more than 85% of the American public believes in," Carlson replied. "I'm just waiting for Jesus Christ to be in the back seat somewhere where I can't see him in the creche anymore."
"You hit the word, that's 'disrespect,' O'Reilly remarked. He then went on to express nostalgia for the good old days of twenty years ago when "none of this existed. ... There was no controversy over Christmas. There were no atheist signs. ... Jewish people said 'Merry Christmas.' Everybody said it."
"What really got me was today, when they wanted to do Festivus," Carlson commented. "That was the final straw, today. Bill, what is going to be next?"
O'Reilly responded that he expects that next "they are going to try to revoke the federal holiday" by arguing that "'you can't have a federal holiday based on religion.'"
"You wait and see," O'Reilly warned.
This video is from Fox's Fox & Friends and Fox's O'Reilly Factor, broadcast Dec. 10, 2008.
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