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PROGRESSIVE! Garrison Keillor Doesn?t Like Jews Writing Christmas Songs. Garrison Keillor, sel?

By Glenn Reynolds

PROGRESSIVE! Garrison Keillor Doesn?t Like Jews Writing Christmas Songs.

Garrison Keillor, self-appointed cultural representative of regular old Americans, ruffled some feathers yesterday with a mildly xenophobic rant about Christmas. After lambasting a Unitarian church in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for ?spiritual piracy and cultural elitism??tweaking the lyrics of ?Silent Night? for a singalong, in layman?s terms?he turned his ire in a different direction:

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.

Does this mean my Eid carols don’t have a future?

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on December 18, 2009 (boomark / email).