Following Fox's lead, Gateway Pundit blogger Jim Hoft ran with the bogus story that a school in central Florida had banned red and green Christmas colors from classrooms. In fact, in a statement to Media Matters, the school's district spokesperson said, “There is not a ban on the colors red and green at Heathrow Elementary.”

From Hoft's November 29 post, titled, “Florida School Bans Christmas... And Christmas Colors”:

It begins... A Florida school not only banned Christmas but banned everything associated with Christmas including Christmas colors...

Because someone might be offended.

Hoft linked to a Fox Nation post that falsely claimed that the school “ban[ned] Christmas colors.”