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SEDER: Listen, as far as the war on Christmas goes, I feel like we
should be waging a war on Christmas. I mean, I believe that Christmas,
it's almost proven that Christmas has nuclear weapons, can be an
imminent threat to this country, that they have operative ties with
terrorists and I believe that we should sacrifice thousands of American
lives in pursuit of this war on Christmas. And hundreds of billions of
dollars of taxpayer money.
PHILLIPS: Is it a war on Christmas, a war Christians, a war on
over-political correctness or just a lot of people with way too much
time on their hands?
SEDER: I would say probably, if I was to be serious about it, too much
time on their hands, but I'd like to get back to the operational ties
between Santa Claus and al Qaeda.
PHILLIPS: I don't think that exists. Bob? Help me out here.
SEDER: We have intelligence, we have intelligence.
PHILLIPS: You have intel. Where exactly does your intel come from?
SEDER: Well, we have tortured an elf and it's actually how we got the
same information from Al Libbi. It's exactly the same way the Bush
administration got this info about the operational ties between al
Qaeda and Saddam.
...
Yes, well, Kyra, I mean, listen, I would like Bob to tell me who is the
person who has been offended by someone saying Merry Christmas to them?
I've never met that person.
I don't celebrate Christmas. But if someone says Merry Christmas to
me, I either think, well, it's a little bit odd, it's like me saying
happy birthday to you on my birthday, but no one cares.
But I will tell you this, as we wage the war on the war on the war on
the war on Christmas on our radio show. News Corp., Fox News, those
people who have started this entire war on Christmas mean, fake war,
they're having a holiday party.
President Bush saying Happy Holidays. Tokyo Rose, Laura Bush, saying
Happy Holidays to her dogs in the video, I'm sure you've seen it. I
mean, these are the things that we should be talking about when we are
waging this war in Iraq, we should be equating it to the war on
Christmas.
What else would Bob Knight have an opportunity to do, how else would he
get on television if he wasn't pretending to be attacked.
KINGHT: This would be funny except it is serious to a lot of people who
have seen their faith cleansed from the public square systemically.
SEDER: Are you suggesting, Bob, that someone can't celebrate Christmas
in America? Tell me about the person who can escape the celebration.
...
SEDER: I do agree with Bob. I think what should happen is companies
should calculate how much money they're getting from people who are
celebrating Christmas and provide exactly that much amount of Merry
Christmas, because that is exactly how I would want any type of
religious holiday to be celebrated.
...
SEDER: Hannukah is not a high holiday. Our high holidays are Rosh
Hashanna and Yom Kippur, which I'm sure Bob has been protesting why
there are not more Yom Kippur sales or Rosh Hashanah sales during those
holidays. Why shouldn't there be, right Bob?
...
SEDER: Bob, have you ever protested Martin Luther King Day not being
celebrated. Do you resent when people don't say Happy Martin Luther
King Day a month out in advance?
...
PHILLIPS: Bob, I'm going to let you have the final thought.
KNIGHT: OK. You know, when the Nazis moved into Austria in 1936...
SEDER: Oh, that's offensive, Bob, to raise Nazis. KNIGHT: They
immediately removed from the schools. You can read about it in...
PHILLIPS: Hold on, Sam. Let Bob make his point. Let Bob make his point.
Go ahead, Bob.
KNIGHT: You can't even let me speak. Can you? You're so...
Maria Trapp wrote the story of the Trapp singers that's in The Sound
of Music, and she said she sent her kids to school after the Nazis
took over. And they came home and said mama, we can't say the word
Christmas anymore. It's now winter holiday.
I think that ought to disturb people...
SEDER: Kyra, that's offensive.
KNIGHT: ...that we're moving toward that kind of attitude in this
country.
SEDER: The Puritans also outlawed Christmas. The founding fathers of
this country would fine you in Massachusetts if you celebrated
Christmas in the beginning. So don't talk about Nazis, Bob. I think
that's really inappropriate.
Why do you have to bring hate to this Christmas and holiday season?
That's so sad, Bob.
KNIGHT: Well, let's go to the Soviet Union then too. They had
grandfather frost.
Well, it's the truth. You ought to read the book yourself, and maybe
you'll change your mind.
SEDER: It's just sad that you have to raise Nazis when you're talking
about Christmas and the holiday season. And we all know that Christmas
actually, Tannenbaum, it's a German holiday. Bob, I'm really, really
disappointed in you.
KNIGHT: I'm sorry to disappoint you, but if you can't understand the
force of history...
SEDER: To bring up Nazis, Bob.
KNIGHT: I'm not calling
