Bill O'Reilly's War on Christmas the Constitution

Over on the Huffington Post, Larisa Alexandrovna (who, for the sake of slow typing bloggers everywhere should seriously give some thought to changing her name to "Lisa Alexander" or something like that) has written a long, detailed, thoughtful piece on exactly why Bill O'Reilly is more full of crap than a Christmas, ... errr, ... holiday goose. Her point goes well beyond pointing out the inherent mendacity in Bill's "war on Christmas" theme, and takes on the larger issue of why Bill actually hates the Constitution - specifically the Bill of Rights - yet more specifically, the first amendment.

In truth, Mr. OÂ’Reilly, for all your ravings about who is a traitor and who is not, you forget the most basic definition of treason, and you also seem to forget where that definition is located. I suggest you turn to the actual document that this nation is built on, the Constitution (not the Bible), which starts with something called the Bill of Rights.

Now, while you have managed to make racial slurs against anyone who simply prefers to use one word over another to refer to a specific holiday, you may have missed something key in this particular document, the Constitution, that is. You may have missed that allegiance to and defense of the Constitution is the first responsibility of a patriot, followed by allegiance to and defense of the nation. Note: The country as a whole is second to the Constitution on the loyalty scale. Against this backdrop, the real stage of history, you, Mr. OÂ’Reilly, would fall very much on the wrong side of the good fight.

Her essay goes into great detail about how Bill's rantings against the ACLU constitute treason in its most basic form. Because O'Reilly wishes to use his rights of free speech and the press to act as an impediment to those same rights when employed by others, he stands as the perfect definition of hypocritete and a traitor. Let's not even get started on his track record as a liar. Larisa covers the whole spectrum in a beautiful piece of prose, so lend her your ears and eyes.