Shocking! Lurid! Tawdry! A History of American Scandals

That Time the Media Declared We're in a War on Christmas


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We hear it every year around the holidays: By saying "holidays," we're declaring war on Christmas! But this isn't just a free floating conspiracy theory—there was an actual event that launched a thousand flakes of infuriated spittle. How exactly are in a war on Christmas? And why? Well, that's both more complicated than you'd think and also not at all complicated. Kasey Howe walks Mark through why people think America is starting to hate the day of Jesus's birth.

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Shocking! Lurid! Tawdry! A History of American ScandalsBy Kasey Howe & Mark Peikert

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