The Jews are ruining Christmas

My friend Janet sent me a newspaper column with this Garrison Keillor excerpt:

"Unitarians listen to the Inner Voice and so they have no creed that they all stand up and recite in unison, and that's their perfect right, but it is wrong, wrong, wrong [for them] to rewrite 'Silent Night'. If you don't believe Jesus was God, OK, go write your own damn 'Silent Night' and leave ours alone. This is spiritual piracy and cultural elitism and we Christians have stood for it long enough. And all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the chestnuts and the rest of that dreck. Did one of our guys write 'Grab your loafers, come along if you wanna, and we'll blow that shofar for Rosh Hashanah'? No, we didn't. Christmas is a Christian holiday – if you're not in the club, then buzz off ... don't mess with the Messiah."

I can't believe Garrison Keillor said that stuff! Most of those songs were written for movies and Broadway shows - the writers had no idea the songs would become standards played endlessly throughout the season. More importantly, to imply that Jews are deliberately trying to denigrate Christmas is so unexpected coming from him.