Rachel Maddow, always far more reserved and professional than her “peers,” at say, Fox, last night revealed her ire over the GOP’s fake “War on Christmas,” calling Sarah Palin and Fox News “idiotic.” Maddow proved that their false angst would be funny — if it weren’t so “idiotic.”
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Here’s the transcript, via MSNBC:
>>> all right, america. how offended are you by this? i know, right? how dare they. i mean, bo obama on the white house christmas card? bo, a dog? a dog on the official white house christmas card? this is a holiday travesty, if you ask me. but don’t worry. fox news is on this. fox’s todd starnes is on the story, revealing that this is what it says inside the evil dog-themed white house christmas card. quote, from our family to yours, may your holiday shine with the light of the season. where i ask you is any mention of christmas, let alone christ? i mean, how are we even supposed to know it’s a christmas card? and there’s more. according to fox’s exclusive reporting, holiday presents on the card are placed on a table underneath a poinsettia instead of under a christmas tree. now, of course, some pagan traditions have poinsettias as a symbol of satan. just saying. our friends at fox knew that on a story this hot, they needed experts to weigh in. luckily they’ve got former alaska governor sarah palin on payroll. she told the network that she found this white house christmas card to be a bit unusual. quote, it’s odd, she said, wondering why the president’s christmas card highlights his dog instead of traditions like family, faith and freedom. governor palin saying, “the majority of americans appreciate more traditional, quote, american foundational values illustrated and displayed on christmas cards and on a christmas tree.” like, for example, the christmas cards of our other not secretly kenyan presidents. like the ones that they have displayed, right? on their american christmassy christian christmas cards, like look at president bush’s card from 2005. okay, well, maybe not that one. are those dogs? yeah. definitely this one from 2002. you know i’m actually sort of having a hard time locating the baby jesus in this one. i bet we can find him on some ronald reagan cards, though. no, not this one in 1983 unless he’s the chandelier. and no, not there either. turns out almost every white house christmas card features some picture of the white house. or a room in the white house. or dogs. which is not a source of outrage to fox when any other president does it. but it is a source of outrage to fox and to governor palin when this president does it. why is that, i wonder? and now is the part where i show you the very, very, very christmassy emphasis on christ christmas cards from fox itself. nothing says the little baby jesus like two foxes roasting the nbc peacock over an open flame while sheep look on in wonder. that’s the holiday card from fox business channel this year. maybe they’re secretly kenyan, too. here’s the fox news card. if you can’t make out that picture, it is fox racing down a hill and beating abc, cbs and nbc. and then there’s us. that’s us. msnbc and cnn cowering behind a big hill of snow. all right. as somebody who is being made fun of in the fox news christmas card, i think that is a funny card. it is a good christmas card. cartoony. i like that. perhaps we should call governor palin and ask her to point out where the family, faith and freedom are in that card. or maybe we should not do that. at least we shouldn’t do that and call it news because to do that would be totally, totally idiotic.