{"id":1352,"date":"2009-12-19T10:31:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T14:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2009-12-19T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T14:31:50","slug":"no-christmas-spirit-in-lake-wobegon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/no-christmas-spirit-in-lake-wobegon\/","title":{"rendered":"No Christmas Spirit in Lake Wobegon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/scroll\/22606\/garrison-keillor-doesn%E2%80%99t-like-jews-writing-christmas-songs\/\">Leftist Garrison Keillor is clearly a bit fuzzy on that whole &#8220;Peace on Earth and Goodwill Toward Men&#8221; thing, at least where Jews getting involved with his holiday is concerned.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Garrison Keillor, self-appointed cultural representative of regular old Americans, ruffled some feathers yesterday with a mildly xenophobic rant about Christmas. After lambasting a Unitarian church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for \u201cspiritual piracy and cultural elitism\u201d\u2014tweaking the lyrics of \u201cSilent Night\u201d for a singalong, in layman\u2019s terms\u2014he turned his ire in a different direction:<\/p>\n<p>And all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the chestnuts and the rest of that dreck. Did one of our guys write \u2018Grab your loafers, come along if you wanna, and we\u2019ll blow that shofar for Rosh Hashanah\u2019? No, we didn\u2019t. Christmas is a Christian holiday\u2014if you\u2019re not in the club, then buzz off.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet another example to prove that there is nobody more intolerant and narrow-minded than an tolerant and open-minded liberal. \u00a0Yup, leftist are all for &#8220;diversity&#8221; as long as &#8220;those people&#8221; know, and keep, their place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist Garrison Keillor is clearly a bit fuzzy on that whole &#8220;Peace on Earth and Goodwill Toward Men&#8221; thing, at least where Jews getting involved with his holiday is concerned. Garrison Keillor, self-appointed cultural representative of regular old Americans, ruffled some feathers yesterday with a mildly xenophobic rant about Christmas. After lambasting a Unitarian church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,19],"tags":[116,203,479,486,621],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barking-moonbats","category-politics","tag-anti-semite","tag-christmas","tag-leftist-hate-speech","tag-liberal","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-lO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}