Lets face facts. The annual fox war on christmas has become a little predictable. Basically imagine you can make one up like a make fox news mad libs. Lets see. So lets see. Lets try to do one of these. Last week in. I need the name of some godless liberal bastion santa monica. Jon that will do. I mean fill in santa monica there and in santa monica a group of. Give me the name of a small group of annoying people with incredibly limited control over our culture atheists jon atheists will do. Thats right. Everyones favorite uncle that lives in oregon that no one ever sees. A group of atheists have ruined christmas by forcing the removal of. I need a classic christmas symbol. laughing dam it, brian, were trying to do something here. Go sit in the car. A nativity scene jon thank you, nativity scene. Some people are still grownups over there. Okay. All right. So were done. Lets see if we can put that altogether, shall we athee i haves seemed to have ended a 60yearold christmas tradition in
Captioning sponsored by Comedy Central jon welcome to the daily show. My name is jon stewart. Got a good one for you tonight. Denis leary will be on the program, author of the new york, merry [bleep] christmas. Am i reading that title correctly . Ini can only assume its a delightful romp to Holiday Cooking and decorating. Leary loves crafting. Speaking of christmas, you probably are aware by now our nation has been embroiled in a long, bitter war. The first salvo in the war on christmas the war on Christmas Jon war on christmas not to be confused with gwar on christmas. Tremendous christmas album. For years now christmas has been under attack defended by the brave souls at fox news. Are they still up to the task . That is the subject of tonights war on christmas, friendly fire edition. Lets face facts. The annual fox war on christmas has become a little predictable. Basically imagine you can make one up like a make fox news mad libs. Lets see. So lets see. Lets try to do one of these.
Good morning, merry christmas. Welcome to al Jazeera America. Im david shuster. Members of the taliban claimed responsibility for an attack in israel. It included another strike in the city. No one was injured in a strike and Embassy Officials say all american staff have been accounted for. A pair of explosions in baghdad left 24 people dead. 20 were killed when a car bomb exploded near a Church Celebrating Christmas mass. 47 people wounded. Officials say the church was a tart. A second target at a bus terminal in the same part of town killed four, injuring a dozen more. We have a lot of pictures coming from from st. Peterss square where a christmas message is being delivered. The pope appeared on the balcony. You are listening to the trum petters. Lets listen in for a few moments. Image of the pope reminds us when he was elected. Pope francis, the belonged italian state. It was known for his radical poverty and evan gellical spirit. Pope francis is known for his attention and love for
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Tonight. T the last minute panic begin of the president obama is set to fly back to washington in the next few urs to tr to scrape out a fiscal cliff deal but hope is fading fast. If that werent bad enough, the treasury now says the u. S. Will hit the debt ceiling on new years eve. Will this be a gamechanger for reaching a deal . Plus as if the fiscal cliff wasnt bad enough, now critical ports across the u. S. Could be brought to a standstill starting this weekend. Well explain how a looming union worker strike could sink businesses across the United States. The major sports leagues do a touchdown dance after a federal judges ruling. Their lawsuit to spike sports gambling in new jersey get as crucial green light but new jersey isnt taking it sitting down. Details how that state is fighting back and preparing to give vegas a run for its money. Even when they say its not, its always about money adam thank you for joining us. We want to look first at the days market headlines. Stocks slid