Forget the appearance of Christmas toys and decorations at Costco in August. Here’s this year’s first idiocy complaining that stores are leaving Christmas out of the holidays; this from the American Family Association.
“Last week the first Christmas ad came out, and that was for Sam’s Club, owned by the Wal-Mart Stores Corporation,” the AFA spokesman explains. “The ad is clearly meant to promote Christmas decorations and Christmas tree items,” he says, “but Sam’s Club refuses to refer to Christmas as Christmas. They simply use the generic term holiday.”
And it’s not even Labor Day.
Maybe Sam’s should just go with “Noël.” French surely would be a satisfactory solution for all. It is the language of diplomacy.