Today's Fox News excuse for ginning up resentment, anger and victimhood in the name of Jesus is Cadbury's decision to remove the word "Easter" from its candy eggs. Oh, the horror!
"Is chocolate maker Cadbury trying to erase Easter?" Fox & Friends cohost Anna Kooiman asked accusingly. "The popular British candy maker is accused of dropping the holiday's name from a lot of their products to make a more secular product. They deny the allegations, saying they're obviously Easter eggs and other products inside their packaging."
This news was deemed so important to the "fair and balanced" network that it was aired on Fox & Friends yesterday, publicized on the Fox News Insider blog and posted to Fox Nation. I'm waiting for an hour-long O'Reilly Factor "investigation." Or maybe there will be a book, "Killing Easter."
The "civil," "tolerant" Fox Nation community took the matter to heart and reacted with just the kind of dedication to Christian principles, we have come to expect from them.
Watch Kooiman report on this indignity below, from the March 26th Fox & Friends.
(H/T Barbara S)
No matter. One could easily spin packages labeled “Easter Eggs” another way to outrage the Fox fanboy and fangirl far right. Attack Cadbury for mocking Christianity for profits by commercializing some strong Christian symbols in chocolate.
You see, unsaid by the über Christians on Fox News is the real story behind Easter eggs. They symbolize the empty tomb of Christ and traditionally were only dyed red to symbolize the blood of Christ.
Fox News then could thump their chest it’s evil Satanic liberals who have turned Easter eggs into hunts, bags of egg shaped confectionaries, and multi-colored dye jobs to distract America from it’s Christian faith.
I did see an article on “The Blaze” website that mentioned Cadbury (in the UK) was dropping “Easter” from one specific packaging and that the “controversy” only seemed to develop in response to a presumably evangelical/right-wing Christian company’s branding itself as the “real Easter” cream egg.
Jeez, if ya don’t believe me, just read through a Texas public school history book. It’s all in there — with plenty of pictures so Goober’s obese sophomore can get his G.E.D. before he turns 23.
Yeah, I went there.