Fox betrays Christmas crusade, sells “Holiday” ornaments for your “Holiday tree”

Although Fox News hosts Bill O'Reilly and John Gibson have lambasted what they see as a “secular” “war on Christmas,” Fox News' own online store advertises “Holiday” ornaments rather than “Christmas” ornaments, as apparently first noted on the weblog Daily Kos. The items are grouped under the category “Holiday Ideas.”

O'Reilly, host of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, has recently waged a campaign against corporations that greet customers with “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.” For his part, Gibson, the host of Fox News' The Big Story with John Gibson, has published a book titled The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought (Sentinel, October 2005).

Despite O'Reilly's specific criticism of those who use the term “holiday tree” instead of “Christmas tree,” an O'Reilly Factor ornament for sale at the Fox News store features this tagline: “Put your holiday tree in 'The No Spin Zone' with this silver glass 'O'Reilly Factor' ornament.”