A since-deleted tweet indicated that some of those emboldened by Joe Biden’s “victory” are now eager to redouble the effort to suppress the public celebration of Christmas. Philanthropy professional Jen Bokoff, awarded a blue checkmark by Twitter, tweeted shortly before Christmas: “This is your annual reminder that not everyone celebrates Christmas. The default to ‘Merry Christmas’ as a normal greeting is also white supremacy culture at work. If someone celebrates, by all means. But so many don’t.”
Shortly after Christmas the person the
Washington Post once promoted as, I kid you not, its conservative representative, Jennifer Rubin [email her] used her Blue Checkmark to write something very similar:
J. T Waldmann
| 01/13/2008 (4 out of 5 stars) Eileen Barton s 1950 recording of If I Knew You Were Comin I d ve Baked a Cake was songwriter Bob Merrill s very first pop hit, and he went on to create such pop classics as Rosemary Clooney s Mambo Italiano, Guy Mitchell s (There s a Pawnshop on a Corner in) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Patti Page s mega-hit How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? However, Merrill s major claim to fame (infamy?) was writing . . . one of the most recognizable, most parodied, and (for non-Streisand fans) most irritating lyrics of all time: People/People who need people/Are the luckiest people in the world. (Marc Steyn, in an article posted on slate.com, dated April 9, 1998) Furthermore, writes Steyn, Merrill is the man who single-handedly produced the worst songs of the decade and so debauched the currency of mainstream Tin Pan Alley that it had no moral authority to resist rock n roll.