A Christmastime Song Lesson

The war on Christmas has now extended to making a list, & checking it twice, to find & identify politically incorrect offenses in songs sung @ Christmastime for decades.

 

Thanks to a frequent contributor for sending the following list of politically incorrect Christmas songs & providing the reason they are politically incorrect:

 

White Christmas = Racist 

 

O Come All Ye Faithful = Exclusive

 

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen = Anti-Feminist

 

Blue Christmas – Implies male/boy righteousness

 

The 12 Days OF Christmas = Anti-Semitic

 

Winter Wonderland = Dismisses wonderlands that don't have winter; Parson Brown demanding they get married = Forced partnership

 

It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year = Exclusive against 4th of July & summer; Everyone telling you to be of good cheer – Forced to hide depression

 

Let It Snow = Not fair to those where it does not snow

 

Do You Hear What I Hear = Insensitive to hearing impaired if not blatant disregard for them

 

The Christmas Song = Open fire? Pollution

 

Holly Jolly Christmas = Kiss her once for me – Unwanted advances

 

Santa Clause Is Coming To Town - Sees you when you are sleeping, knows when you are awake – Peeping Tom Stalker

 

Little Drummer Boy = Not gender neutral

 

Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer = Bullying

 

Frosty The Snowman = Sexist, not a snow woman

 

Jingle Bell Rock – Giddy up jingle horse, pick up your feet = Animal Abuse

 

Mistletoe & Holly – Overeating, folks stealing a kiss or two = How did this song ever see the light of day?

 

Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer = Promotes hit & run

 

All I Want For Christmas Is You – Stalking

 

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus = Promotes adultery

 

Santa Baby = Gold digger, blackmail, hooker

 

The last three on the above list are a perfect segue to the serious topic of Baby It's Could Outside, the Academy Award winner of 1949 in the best original song category, being banned  on radio stations in Cleveland, Denver, San Francisco, & Madison.  San Francisco's KOIT pulled the song after receiving over 100 complaints on December 3.

 

Now the question is do the majority of Americans want to live in a politically correct society where everything they hear has a sick minded sexual overtone?

 

There is something radically wrong for a society that has been as promiscuous as they come for decades now taking up offense to hearing Baby It's Cold Outside on the radio. 

 

Well, stations in the aforementioned cities gave all of their listeners a chance to be heard – not just the handful of complainers hiding behind political correctness as if they didn't know the way the world works.

 

In Cleveland, 97% of 500 respondent in an online poll conducted by Matt Goodrich, a country-western artist in Cleveland, voted against the ban.  In Denver, 95% of 15,000 online respondents voted against the ban – the station had been flooded with complaints after the song had been pulled.  And in San Francisco, 77% of 22,000 online voters were against the ban.

 

Station officials couldn't leave well enough alone & just reinstate the playing of the song.  They couldn't resist making politically correct statements to the portion of their audience shocked by the lyrics saying "we are sensitive to those who may be upset by some of the lyrics."

 

But Mr. Goodrich summed it up best by saying "It's just a silly Christmas song & people read too much into it" – & in this case the vast majority of people involved provided a lesson for us all – they wouldn't let their own simple enjoyments be rejected & driven out (banned) from the world.  They spoke up & were heard.  This is the lesson for us all - not accepting the latest attack surreptitiously foisted upon us by a political class that has much more in mind than banning a song written & first popularized in the 1940s.