,. Good to go, all right. Hello, new york. Thank you for joining us, live at in new york city for this very, very Special Edition of why is this happening . He is insightful, he is big hearted, very, very very smart. Admit it, hes taller than you expected. Please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, and msnbcs chris hayes. [applause] hello, everybody. Hello thank you. Oh, stop. [applause] stop it [applause] how are you . Good . Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Sit down, sit down, sit down. Thank you, thats extremely kind. I hate attention and positive feedback. Really, really hard 20 seconds for me. Thank you for cutting it short. Its amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city, ive got some family here. Tonight, were gonna talk about democracy. In that word, weve probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had in all of my time before than i would say. Even that as a topic seems weird, we know americas democracy. Ther
,. good to go, all right. hello, new york. thank you for joining us, live at in new york city for this very, very special edition of why is this happening? he is insightful, he is big hearted, very, very very smart. admit it, he s taller than you expected. please give a warm welcome to my friend, my beloved colleague, and msnbc s chris hayes. [applause] hello, everybody. hello! thank you. oh, stop. [applause] stop it! [applause] how are you? good? thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. sit down, sit down, sit down. thank you, that s extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. really, really hard 20 seconds for me. thank you for cutting it short. it s amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city, i ve got some family here. tonight, we re gonna talk about democracy. in that word, we ve probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years that i had in all of my time before than i would say. even that as a topic seems weird, we know a
when a notorious wingnut organization known as the john birch society was busy alerting americans of an assault on christmas at the hands of the united nations. warning that there were secret orders at department stores throughout the country, to utilize u.n. symbols and emblems as christmas decorations. now, that sounds a bit mid-century, tinfoil hat to ya, check out more contemporary echoes from the 1920s when a henry ford backed publication opined that last christmas, most people had a hard time finding christmas cards that indicated, in any way, that christmas commemorated someone s birth. and who was to blame for allegedly taking the christ out of christmas? here is a hint. the name of the series of articles was the international jew the world s foremost problem. yeah. it s really ugly, anti-semitic stuff. but that s kind of the point, right? i mean, accusations of a war on christmas are rooted in what we would now call, in political terms, negative partisanship. the idea that y