For five years, Bill O’Reilly has made Great Barrington a front in the supposed War on Christmas. In 2007, the Fox News host knocked town officials for installing a 10 p.m. curfew on holiday lights in order to limit the town’s carbon footprint. This year, O’Reilly reported that Great Barrington has banned Main Street holiday lights. “The town that hates Christmas,” he called it.
But anyone who visits would see holiday cheer and, yes, even Christmas spirit. Decorations put up by community groups and local businesses include wreaths, lights, and two large Christmas trees on the town lawn. “We even have a 12-foot-high, 300-pound Santa Claus!” said Betsy Andrus, executive director of Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce. The annual downtown holiday event, attended by 3,000 people, featured fireworks, a snow machine, and a fire engine carrying a live Santa.
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O'reilly is nothing more than a bloviating, bellicose, tenedentious clown.
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Happy Holidays All,
In response to HH, who's a liberal idealogue at the Globe?
Bill who?
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Responding to that bozo is a waste of time. He and his ignorant followers are more like the Grinch who stole Xmas than they are Santa's helpers.
What a cheap easy way for the Globe to try and increase its circulation -- attack a pompous personality from Fox News. Can't you find better material for an editorial?
I would of thought the imporant issue would of been, is the Globe accurate about Bill O'Reilly?
The answer is: yes.
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Follow the money. O'Reilly knows being a right wing media idiot pays well.
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On the other hand, I like what he says about Lincoln Chaffee and the "holiday tree."
Any Globe headline that mentionsa "War on Facts" is by definition, a JOKE, since the entire purpose of this newspaper is to engage in a "War on Facts". For the latest "Globe War on facts", just read today's Globe editorial about the US Debt Limit.
Glad to see you subscribe.
A short editorial to defend a Massachustts town falsely being anti-Christmas is perfectly appropriate.