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Listen to Ric Santorum with Don Imus. He is completely insane. My favorite part is when Santorum talks about doing a 3-way with Imus' wife. Link:

Oh.. and Imus says something like "you're so misguided it's disturbing". Pure gold..

And in other news.. more evidence of the right wing re-writing history. In this case, it's Bill O'Liely trying to convince people (on Faux news of course) that Christmas is a traditional American holiday.

O'REILLY: By the way, if Alito is confirmed, that will be a good thing for conservatives. That's the bottom line. Because Alito will take a more traditional view than a [Supreme Court justices Stephen G.] Breyer or a [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg. OK? He'll look at things, and he'll say, "You know, the Founding Fathers didn't want partial-birth abortion. The Founding Fathers didn't want all mention of Christmas stricken from the public arena." That's what Alito will do. He's a traditionalist. He's going to rule that way.

We can only pray to Gorak that the Supreme Court uses the thinking and principals of the "founding fathers" as basis for their rulings. That would be so awesome..

Because we all know that 7/9 of them were deists, and not Christians. Can we force every child in school to memorize that? We need to shove that on the kids in public school until they are dreaming it in their sleep.

Lets also take "Under God" out of the pledge as well. I think it should be.

One secular nation. With liberty and justice for all, including gays.

Anyway.. on to the debunking of O'Liely from Media Matters and the History Channel.

And - again, this has to be stressed over and over. The Republicans and Christian right wing freaks are trying to re-write history to fit their bat-shit crazy view of the world.

According to HistoryChannel.com, celebration of Christmas in America prior to the Revolution depended largely on where one lived. In Jamestown, Virginia, one could celebrate the holiday freely. In Boston, celebration of Christmas incurred a fine of five shillings. Following the Revolution, Christmas was eschewed as "English customs fell out of favor." HistoryChannel.com noted that "Congress was in session on December 25, 1789, the first Christmas under America's new Constitution." The holiday remained unpopular for years, and Christmas was not declared a federal holiday until June 26, 1870.

O'Reilly was one of many pundits and commentators in 2004 to decry the so-called "War on Christmas" and featured a regular segment on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor titled "Christmas Under Siege."

Fox News should be forced to make an on air correction to O'Liely's lies.

And I'm not a grinch. I love Christmas, but not because it's some whacky religious thing. I loved decorating the tree, and the lights on the house and all that stuff. I liked having the entire family in one place, and having a good time.. and ya.. Christmas presents kick ass.

But please.. can't we stop lying about this shit?