Dennis Prager (former right wing nut job radio host until he found out he could scam more money by hawking religion) was on FOX.

KILMEADE: “Dennis, nobody knows more about religion, all types of religion, and theories and traditions than you. Why does merry Christmas matter?”

PRAGER: “It matters because it’s a national holiday, first of all. People have to understand I’m a Jew, OK? Christmas is not my religious holiday, but Christmas is my national holiday, on de facto and legal grounds. On the legal grounds it’s a national holiday. I honor my country. Number two, the vast majority of my fellow citizens celebrate this holiday. It’s — the notion — and this is the most important point — the notion that if you don’t celebrate Christmas or if you’re not a Christian you are offended by it, is so preposterous that words fail me. Preposterous is an understatement. Why would I be offended as a Jew if you said to me, as a non-Christian if you said to me merry Christmas? The idea is so narcissistic and so absurd, this is the holiday of the season. And it’s — to deny that there is a war on Christmas is to lie.”

“Merry Christmas” only became popular after “A Christmas Carol” was published.

Too bad conservatives don’t feel the same way (on legal grounds) about Labor Day or Martin Luther King, Jr’s birthday, which are also national holidays.

So what if the vast majority of your fellow citizens celebrate the holiday, and your strawman about non-Christians should spontaneously combust. (Speaking of lying, Dennis.)

grabien.com (with video, 4:19)