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Stephen Colbert sings Christmas
Well, actually it’s more about Christmas commercialization in his new CD A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All, set for a Nov. 25 release on iTunes, but Pitchforkmedia.com has the single “Another Christmas Song.” (My favorite part: the bridge about the miserable waifs and who they are).
Yes, I confess, I’m committing a pet peeve of mine: promoting Christmas before Thanksgiving. Then again, so is Focus on the Family, which is gearing up its annual holiday - excuse me, Christmas - tradition of the bogus “War on Christmas” with a three-tiered checklist for judging retailers according to how they welcome customers.
Don’t know about you, but all the recessionary doom-and-gloom about Christmas this year might get more people finding non-commercial, non-materialistic ways to celebrate the holiday, which I think gets closer to its true celebration than merchants parroting a particular phrase.
Which is worse - a retailer saying “Happy Holidays” or, as Colbert so neatly parodies, crass commercialization of Christmas?
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