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Speaking of stealing Christmas …
Two days after First Baptist Church of Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress debuted his Grinch Alert website — because he will “not bow to the strident voices of a minority who object to the holiday” — he went on CNN’s American Morning to discuss the naughty-or-nice list with host John Roberts. The video follows, and in it Jeffress says of the site’s moniker: “When Dr. Seuss wrote his book, it wasn’t How the Grinch Stole Hanukkah or Kwanzaa or some generic happy holiday.” Sure, but look what I found. A day too late too. Damn it.
Update at 11:35 a.m.: Media Matters wonders this morning: “Why is the media giving a platform to pastor with history of inflammatory rhetoric?” Then it catalogs the pastor’s “long history of inflammatory attacks on gays, Muslims, Mormons, and Hindus.” And: It includes his appearance this morning on FOX News with none other than former KXAS’er Gretchen Carlson … or, as Jon Stewart called her Monday, The Gretch Who Saved the War on Christmas. The circle is now complete.
