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

[beagledave]

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-...073194.php

Did you know a San Francisco elementary school suspended a student for wishing an atheist teacher a merry Christmas?

No?

That's because it didn't happen.

But an Internet hoax had people across the country believing it did, resulting in e-mail tirades and more than 75 phone complaints and veiled threats of violence against the fictitious teacher or the actual principal. And taxpayers picked up the tab for beefed-up security and staff time to deal with the phony story.

[decay]

[hal]

Here's one of those sites that Charlie likes so much - they fell for it:

http://conservativefrontline.com/9-year-...s-teacher/

[cbelt3]

It's OK... in Pakistan and Egypt (both receiving military aid from the US), Christian churches are simply being bombed and the churchgoers slain.

Now THAT is a War on Christmas !

[August West]

:nuts:

[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.

[cbelt3]

August.. now that's just sadly unfortunate. A hoax perpetrated by some nutsoid produces a threat potential that requires a response. Terrorist hoaxsters win.

[SteveG]

I prefer more traditional Christmas celebrations:

Warsaw Pogrom of 1881
On Christmas Day 1881 the outbreak of panic after a false warning of fire in the crowded Holy Cross Church resulted in the deaths of twenty-nine persons in a stampede. It was believed that the false alarm was raised by pickpockets, who used the ruse to allow them to rob people during the panic. A crowd gathered on the scene of the event and some unknown persons started to spread a rumor, which subsequently proved to be unfounded, that two Jewish pickpockets had been caught in the church.

The mob began to attack Jews, Jewish stores, businesses, and residences in the streets adjoining the Holy Cross Church. The riots in Warsaw continued for three days, until Russian authorities (who controlled the police as well as military in the city) intervened, arresting 2,600 people. During the Warsaw pogrom two people were left dead and twenty-four injured. The pogrom also left about a thousand Jewish families financially devastated. In the months afterwards about one thousand Warsaw Jews emigrated to the United States.

[cbelt3]

G... sad... celebrate the birth of a Jewish boy by killing... Jewish boys. :facepalm:

[SteveG]

cbelt3 wrote:
G... sad... celebrate the birth of a Jewish boy by killing... Jewish boys. :facepalm:

That ain't the half of it...