Wow. Already? It's not even Thanksgiving, and there's ALREADY a fake email going around saying that President Obama refuses to call the White House Christmas Tree a Christmas Tree. Instead he's supposedly calling it a "Holiday Tree" and that the White House told an artist not to paint religious themes on the ornaments.
Man. The hatred of Obama is just incredible. Will these people stop at NOTHING? Well...now that I think about it, when the first attacks against you are made up bullshit about you being a Muslim who was born in Kenya, then I suppose the bar has been set pretty high in the way of ludicrousness.
Here's the email going around. If you get this, rest assured it's bullshit, and Factcheck.org has already pointed this out.
White House will not do Christmas
Thought you might be interested in this information from the White House. This isn’t a rumor; this is a fact.
We have a friend at church who is a very talented artist. For several years she, among many others, has painted ornaments to be hung on the various White House Christmas trees. The WH usually sends out an invitation to send an ornament and informs the artists of the theme for the year.
She got her letter from the WH recently. It said that they would not be called Christmas trees this year. They will be called Holiday trees. And, to please not send any ornaments painted with a religious theme.
She was very upset at this development and sent back a reply telling them that she only painted the ornaments for Christmas trees and would not be sending any for display that left Christ out of Christmas.
Just thought you should know what the new residents in the WH plan for the future of America . If you missed his statement that "we do not consider ourselves a Christian Nation" this should confirm that he plans to take us away from our religious foundation as quickly as possible.
FactCheck.org does their job and exposes the stupidity here:
This e-mailed accusation has all the hallmarks of a hoax. The author isn’t identified, making it impossible to trace the source or assess his or her credibility. At best it is double hearsay, passing on something supposedly said by a second unnamed source, who is identified as little more than "a friend at church." The church isn’t named, nor is the community or even the state in which it exists, if it does. It refers to a "letter from the WH [White House]" but doesn’t say who signed it, or when it was sent. This is just the sort of unsupported gossip that any sensible person should disregard and delete rather than spreading.
And yet it is spreading like wildfire. We have had scores of inquiries about it, and it’s now the most-asked-about item in our daily Ask FactCheck inbox.
And this is how it begins folks. Completely ridiculous allegations based not in one iota of truth, get spread out there by people who already don't like Obama, and they just assume that it's true. It reinforces the negative and false opinions they have of him, so they just figure "hey, it sounds about right" and forward it on to everyone in their email address book.
Is it too much to ask people to stop and think things through before doing that? Never mind. I know the answer to that already.
Read the rest of the link for a careful debunking of everything in that email from the "secular ornaments" to the "Christmas Tree labeling", plus the obvious note that the previous President often had secular ornaments on the tree. GASP!
In the Immortal words of Fred Tupper, WAKE UP PEOPLE! Print this post
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