This pretty much sums up the fictional "war on Christmas"

[August West]

cbelt wrote:
It's OK...

The story identified the school as Argon Elementary, which doesn’t exist, but is similar to the real-life Argonne Elementary School, whose administrators heard from some of those angry readers.

Rev. Craig Donofrio of KFUO.org in St. Louis was among those readers who contacted the real-life principal, Cami Okubu.

“Thank you for your monumental blunder, it will provide me weeks of material on my show,” Donofrio wrote. “Keep up the terrible work. It makes my job so much easier! MERRY CHRISTMAS! Craig.”

Donofrio told the San Francisco Chronicle that he was disappointed to learn he had been duped.

“It is sad that people make up such stories and agitate others into outrage in such a way,” he said in an e-mail, adding that he had apologized to the principal. “I was very happy that I did fact-checking before going on air with this story, and it has not been discussed on-air.

“I learned a valuable lesson through all of this, that being: There are complete and utter creeps out there who make up such things.”

Donofrio’s response was among the more civil to Argonne administrators, who called for an emergency teacher meeting to review security procedures and had an extra security officer assigned to the school at taxpayer expense.