"We tortured an Elf to get this information."

In this great season of sanctimoniousness and hypocrisy (I didn't use to think this way; only since the religee-righty started thinkin' that somehow Christmas was in danger, you know, since they're under attack from all sides since they only control all 3 levers of US government and all) it's nice to see someone get it gloriously right.

Sam Seder from Air America, come on down. From an exchange on CNN, as quoted by Salon:

Sam Seder: Listen, as far as the war on Christmas goes, I feel like we should be waging a war on Christmas. I mean, I believe that Christmas, it's almost proven that Christmas has nuclear weapons, can be an imminent threat to this country, that they have operative ties with terrorists and I believe that we should sacrifice thousands of American lives in pursuit of this war on Christmas. And hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money.

Phillips: Is it a war on Christmas, a war on Christians, a war on over-political correctness or just a lot of people with way too much time on their hands?

Seder: I would say probably, if I was to be serious about it, too much time on their hands, but I'd like to get back to the operational ties between Santa Claus and al-Qaida. . . We have intelligence, we have intelligence.

Phillips: You have intel. Where exactly does your intel come from?

Seder: Well, we have tortured an elf and it's actually how we got the same information from Al Libi. It's exactly the same way the Bush administration got this info about the operational ties between al-Qaida and Saddam [...]

There's so much that's ooey-gooey good about this story: the fact that the spokesthingy for the Christian hordes of outrage actually brought up the Nazis -- that's right -- the Nazis, as an example of oppression when arguing about Christmas to a Jew...

...oh my sides.

But buried there, right there, in the story itself. CNN's own poll: 88% of Americans say, they have "no problem" having "Merry Christmas" said to them. Or Happy Holidays, or whatever.

In divided America, what gets 88% these days? Anyone?

The War on Christmas is the silliest non-story ever. Sam Seder gets it right. We should all respond with humor and ridicule.

Crooks and Liars has video. The Salon article is here.