Some suggest NY Times keep the Red Sox, sell the newspaper

In their Christmas editorial, the NY Times opens by selling their own religion-the business of so-called carbon offsets used to assuage offenders of imaginary man-made global warming. The actual reason for Christmas takes a back seat:

• (NY Times, 'When Christmas Comes,' 12/24/08): "This year, you may be wondering about the carbon equation of a Christmas tree.

• You may have replaced the old incandescent Christmas lights and their crazed, fragile bulbs with strands of L.E.D.’s that turn from green to blue. You may have given each other newly planted trees on the edge of the rain forest

or traded the promise of future services with your friends."...

• From Warner Todd Huston's Redstate post on the Times' editorial:

"And, lastly, it cannot escape notice that, as I hinted above, The New York Times does once mention the person for whom this day was named.

• Jesus Christ makes no showing at all in the Times piece.

• Why does Christmas have those “gestures of generosity and thankfulness,” anyway?

• The Times does not mention why.

It is, of course, because of the generosity and thankfulness taught us by Jesus Christ whose birthday we celebrate on December 25th.

• It certainly wasn’t for the holiday that Christmas overtook, Saturnalia. That day was a day of debauchery, mean-spirited pranks, drinking and fist fights. It was not the day of peace and love that is Christ’s birthday celebration.

So, for The New York Times, Christmas is not a day to celebrate the birth of Christ. It is a day

• to calculate a carbon footprint, a day to bemoan how far America has fallen, and a day

• to contemplate phony sentimentality devoid of its religious moorings.

Yeah. Merry Christmas, New York Times. Merry Christmas, indeed."...

• Photo of Caroline and Pinchy from Gawker, via Redstate

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