Defeating Christmas: The Battle Is On for the Soul of Toys R Us.
Bill O’Reilly has thrown the first shot in the ring. He will try to bring down this (hee hee hee hee) HOLIDAY Season.
O’REILLY: “Back of the Book” segment tonight: We continue our reporting on which American stores are using “Christmas” in advertising this Christmas season and which are not. So far, here’s the list. Again, our litmus test is which operations are using the greeting “Merry Christmas” in their advertising and which are not. OK, using — you can see JCPenney’s, Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, Dillard’s. Not using, there they are. Now, Kohl’s, still giving us a hard time, but their advertising has been all “Happy Holidays” so I don’t know what they want. The company says the clerks are free to say “Merry Christmas.” Yeah, OK, that’s nice. Again, this investigation is designed to spotlight retailers who have knocked the word “Christmas” out of the Christmas season. We’re not too interested with the word “merry.” Don’t really care about “merry.” On the toy store front, here’s what we found out. Toys “R” Us simply is not going to answer our questions, so we assume that means they’re not using “Merry Christmas.” Not using for sure, KB Toys and FAO Schwarz. But FAO Schwarz says that their people in the store can shout “Merry Christmas” as loud as they want.
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O’REILLY: Yeah, but surely they understand, because they do understand. We called Toys “R” Us. They knew right away — […] OK, that they’re in waters they don’t want to be in. So surely, they understand the anger that’s going to be engendered by millions of Americans who believe that their cherished holiday is being denigrated, disrespected.
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I commend Toys R Us for destroying Christmas, and what America thinks of as the Christmas Season. We shall see how Bill O’Reilly’s list-making of stores that use the phrase “Merry Christmas” verses stores that use the phrase “Happy Holidays” measure up. Hopefully, Toys R Us can sustain Bill O’Reilly’s and his cretins’ frontal attacks against this washed up holiday.
Worse than you thought? They’re onto us, by Golly! They know about this blog and its sort of beneath the radar screen attack on Holy Christmas!! Well, then… I guess I’ll just have to stop using the pawns and move on to the knights. (Those are the horsey pieces, right?)
[Note: It appears that Toys R Us the corporation was bought by some big corporation a year or two ago, which makes it useless to stick up a graphic of how the stock is doing. Ah well.]