ad, who needs christ in christmas? you walk through times square, this is what you see. and the man behind a controversial atheist billboard will be here to defend his christ in christmas. the o reilly factor begins now. hi, i m in for bill o reilly. thanks for joining us tonight. let s get to our top story. infighting in the gop. the house overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan two-year spending plan yesterday in hopes of averting another government shutdown, but 94 congress people voted against it, most of them tea party conservatives who worried the deal will increase government spending in the short term, and that s not sitting well with speaker john boehner. frankly, i just think they ve lost all credibility. they pushed us into the fight to
times square to tell me that? it s not for you, then. it s for the people who are as offensive as you think a cross is to people, that s as offensive to me as someone who believes in christ. that s fine, but it s not about that. we ll have to leave this here. have a merry christmas, dave. happy holidays. in case you missed it last night of rejecting an ad for a catholic hospital because it didn t mention jesus, they reluctantly re-ran the ad. if you would like to shop in bill o reilly s christmas store, the proceeds go to charity. we have hats, pens, we ve got it all. if you sign up to be a bil
thanksgiving? it s a secular holiday. it has nothing to do with religion. celebrate it how you want. it seems mean spirited on christmas. don t you realize that some people get inspiration from this. i go to church every single day over there at st. patrick s cathedral. i light candles every day. you know why? because i like it. it makes me feel good. then go ahead, we re not stopping you from doing that. but we re saying for the people who don t care about jesus, you don t have to pretend to care. it s okay to be honest about that. it s okay not to force your family to do it, too. i m all for free speech. i m a big, big defender of the first amendment. glad to hear it. why do you need to attack christians? for the shock value? no, we re not attacking, we re improving. we re telling people you can be honest, you can celebrate the way you want to instead of the way society pressures you to. if you don t care about jesus, then don t say you do. do i need a big billboard i
stuff, he heard about benghazi, you can keep your plan, period, when you hear it on fox? i do believe it. what happens in certain administrations is certain staff want to protect their boss so well, they don t tell them what s happening. i think that s in terms of the president, in terms of the irs, in terms of benghazi as well as the website. i think that is a bigger issue in that the president needs to kind of step back and ask himself, why are the people around me not telling me what i need to hear? because if i m going out and saying things to the american people that will turn out to not be as accurate as it needs to be, that s a political problem. that s what i think he needs to fix. we re going to leave it there. directly ahead, the white house press corps furious with jay carney without access to the president. and an atheist billboard in times square is trying to take christ out of christmas. we ll talk to one of the men
atheist organization. wow, dave. wow. how mean can you be? we re not attacking anybody, we re just stating facts, that you don t need christ to celebrate christmas. millions and millions of people in this country have a great christmas without christ having anything to do with it. christians in this country don t really care about jesus. whoa, whoa, whoa. you re talking to one. some do, but christmas is not about jesus. it s about spending time with your family. you do realize that the first part of christmas is christ, and that s what it s based on. i understand the name is that. but valentine s day is named after st. valentine but it s not about a saint, it s about romance. things change over time. this is not about christ. says who? it s a fact. people don t care. this is your opinion, it can t be fact. you can t say it s a fact that christians don t care about christ in christmas. some do. many christians don t.