Garrison Keillor Objects to Jews Writing Christmas Songs

First I found this cool Punjab "Jingle Bells" - then Ron Chusid of Liberal Values blog told me about this bizarre Garrison Keillor thing.

 

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  Garrison wrote:

If you don’t believe Jesus was God, OK, go write your own damn “Silent Night” and leave ours alone. This is spiritual piracy and cultural elitism, and we Christians have stood for it long enough. And all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the chestnuts and the rest of that dreck. Did one of our guys write “Grab your loafers, come along if you wanna, and we’ll blow that shofar for Rosh Hashanah“? No, we didn’t.

Christmas is a Christian holiday – if you’re not in the club, then buzz off. Celebrate Yule instead or dance around in druid robes for the solstice. Go light a big log, go wassailing and falalaing until you fall down, eat figgy pudding until you puke, but don’t mess with the Messiah.

.... So on his blog, Ron points out that Irving Berlin (Jewish) wrote "White Christmas," and in fact, Orrin Hatch (Mormon) wrote a Yiddish song.  He also had some other funny, ironic, ludicrous examples.

Comments

[Anon Y Mous]

'tis humor. We should take it as such.

[kayakbiker]

Don't the models on the runway eat figgy pudding till they puke? I thought he was serious.