This is nothing more than pure B.S. since Billdo is pushing his Lincoln book.

Connect the Billdos:

Lincoln = Greatest American Presidents = Billdo “writes” about Lincoln = Billdo the Hysteric, er, Historian = Did I mention the U.S. Civil war and MY BOOK?

What O’Reilly knows about General Grant could fit on the head of a pin with room to spare.

If Grant were alive today he would be 189 years old. Hardly capable to be conducting a raid on the mailroom or the bathroom.

However he would fit into the age group of your demographics of viewers Bill. But since he’s in Grant’s tomb, you lost one.

Does Bildo really believe this War on Christmas crap that he feeds to his moronic teabagger audience? Or is he just a charlatan?

I mean ‘whom’

I was reading something else about Fox and their ‘war’ and clicked on this article by Jim Wallis, who I gather is a progressive pastor. These last few paragraphs sum up Fox’s true agenda:

The real Christmas announces the birth of Jesus to a world of poverty, pain, and sin, and offers the hope of salvation and justice.

The Fox News Christmas heralds the steady promotion of consumerism, the defense of wealth and power, the adulation of money and markets, and the regular belittling or attacking of efforts to overcome poverty.

The real Christmas offers the joyful promise of peace and the hope of reconciliation with God and between humankind.

The Fox News Christmas proffers the constant drumbeat of war, the reliance on military solutions to every conflict, the demonizing of our enemies, and the gospel of American dominance.

The real Christmas lifts up the Virgin Mary’s song of praise for her baby boy: “He has brought the mighty down from their thrones, and lifted the lowly, he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich empty away.”

The Fox News Christmas would label Mary’s Magnificat as “class warfare.”

So if there is a war on Christmas it’s the one being waged by Fox News.

The kind of evangelical-hypocrisy-for-morons spouted by O’Reilly really sullies Christianity, especially for young people who may have little experience of church. They hear this message of hate and self-righteousness and turn away quickly. I’m not bemoaning this fact. I just find it ironic that those like O’Reilly who want to ‘save Christmas’ are little by little destroying it with every hate-filled word that falls from their lips.

Ulysses S. Grant would not have given a damn about it Bill. Another history lesson for the man that knows everything yet nothing. It took all of 15 seconds to find the truth. But I guess Bill is to busy to actually fact check anything. Maybe he should hire a staff. Dr. Newman was the person who spouted all the propaganda that most people, after US Grants death take as fact.

General Grant did not believe in the efficacy of prayer. Newman prayed, but it was not because the sick man desired his prayers. Newman was his wife’s pastor; she believed in prayer, and so he was allowed to pray.
Ex-Senator Chaffee of Colorado, whose daughter was married to one of General Grant’s sons, and who was with Grant during his illness, says:
“There has been a good deal of nonsense in the papers about Dr. Newman’s visits. General Grant does not believe that Dr. Newman’s prayers will
save him. He allows the doctor to pray simply because he does not want to hurt his feelings. He is indifferent on his own account to everything.”

Another, writing at the time of General Grant’s death, said:
“His acceptance of the effusive and offensive ministrations of the peripatetic preacher was probably due as much to his regard for the feelings of his family and his tolerance of his ministerial friend as to any faith in religion. All that the press can gather now about his religious belief is filtered through Dr. Newman, and must, therefore, largely be discounted. … As to his regard for the Sabbath and his love of prayer, Dr. Newman has overdone the matter. His anecdotes to show the General’s piety bear very strong internal evidence that they originated with himself.”
There is one thing that Newman does not claim, and that is that Grant acknowledged Christ to be the Son of God, Had Grant accepted Christ he would have avowed it, and this is the claim above all other claims that Newman would have made if true. Grant did not acknowledge Jesus Christ, and this fact proves that he was not a Christian.
The Christian Statesman says: “It is not on record that he [Grant] spoke at any time of the Savior, or expressed his sense of dependence on his atonement and mediation.”
In his published claims Newman went as far as he felt that he could go with safety. To assert that Grant was a Christian in the evangelical sense, that he accepted Jesus Christ as the divinely begotten son of God, would be so manifestly false that he knew it would be denied. In the cunningly devised statements made, which meant one thing to the friends of Grant and another to the world at large he effected as much as he could hope to effect, the general recognition of the claim that Grant was at least a nominal believer in Christianity.

To even open his show with this as a talking point is indicative of Orally’s limited world view. I am shocked (not) that he did not use the time to discuss the death of Kim II Jung like all true news journalists did that day. Nobody opened their show without this as the primary topic, except Billy.
As long as they aren’t Muslim, terrorists and far away, he doesn’t care.

How dumb IS this? I checked The Washington Examiner, where Bull O’Really? probably found this story and the cribbed it.

That article, at least, quoted the “Franking Manual” (which is quite funny in its own right, but that’s another story – can you hear people in the office asking “Where’s the ‘Franking Manual’?”).

Here’s the money quote:

“Member’s Congressional Handbook: GREETINGS-

“Expenses related to the purchase or distribution of greetings, including holiday celebrations, condolences, and congratulations for personal distinctions (wedding anniversaries, birthdays, etc.), are not reimbursable.”

“Franking Manual:

“4(a). Example of Nonfrankable Items
-Birthday, anniversary, wedding, birth, retirement or condolence messages and holiday greetings are prohibited.”

Geez – who wrote this? CONGRESS! News for Bull O’Really? – Congress makes its own rules! Who knew?

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
Ulysses S. Grant

O’Reilly reminds me of the old ‘Fractured Fairy Tales’ from Rocky and Friends, just not funny.

@mj-the same one. Good point, but of course logic is not in Bildo’s arsenal.

Oh brother! Given that POS borally is one of the most ignorant assholes when it comes to history, (just read the reviews on his factless fantasy about Lincoln), the pile of shit wouldn’t have the first clue of what Grant would or wouldn’t do.

Stick to what you know, POS borally. Like loofahs and sexual harassment.

Hahaha, great point!

You know, it just occurred to me the other day . . .

If wingnuts like BillO can use the annual re-occurrence of winter snowstorms to justify denial of global warming, why can’t they follow that logic and use the annual re-occurrence of Christmas to justify denial of a War On Christmas?

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O’Reilly: If U.S. Grant Were Alive, He Might Well Invade The U.S. Capitol Over The War On Christmas

“Christmas is not a word anyone should be ashamed of. It is the law of the land.”

I donno about you, but I’m kinda curious about what law Bill’s referring to on this one line. Seriously- can he cite the exact statue that says Christmas is law? Can whoever answers the Email I sent to his contact info asking about this do it? I know Koldys and his goons love to try correcting us, maybe they can show me this so-called law?

Oh, wait- I replayed that part and saw the eyes of Bill- he was off in his fantasy world at the time. So scratch that.