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On her MSNBC show Rachel Maddow feigns outrage along with Fox’s Todd Starnes’ real outrage over the official White House Christmas card, which fails to depict Baby Jesus anywhere in the photo, but rather shows the Obama’s dog Bo sleeping in front of a Holly and Ivy adorned fireplace.
And if it’s not enough that Jesus wasn’t anywhere to be found on the card, Starnes’ and Maddow –obviously faking—attack the card’s slightly secular text, which reads, “From our family to yours, may your holidays shine with the light of the season.”
Not one to miss an opportunity for press Sarah Palin weighed in on the Christmas card controversy pondering why the Obama card features his dog rather than “family, faith and freedom.” She added that Americans appreciate traditional “American Foundational values illustrated and displayed on Christmas cards and on a Christmas tree.”
Maddow then scrolls through a few Bush-era and Reagan cards searching for the Baby Jesus to no avail.
Here's Maddow in her own words.
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Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
