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Negative connotation: “Christmas Party”

by YankeeJim | December 21, 2010 at 07:45 am

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What makes this story is Fox “news.” Apparently they are joining the intellectual elite in parsing a reference Nina Totenberg made about attending a “Christmas Party” after which she and NPR got concerned about her using it?

Jesus Christ got all muddy again.

I am surprised Fox News didn’t bring up the fact that Barack Obama nominated Nina’s sister Amy to the US District Court in Atlanta in March of this year.

“NPR's Totenberg Expresses Regret for Using Term 'Christmas Party'

Published December 20, 2010

FoxNews.com

Eggnog tasting. Red-and-green theme party. Holiday get-together.

Perhaps these would be acceptable terms. But "Christmas Party"? Put it on the naughty list.

NPR's Nina Totenberg suggests that using the word "Christmas" to describe all those winter-weather parties is somehow inappropriate, as she excused herself over the weekend for using it during an on-air discussion.

The peculiar remark came as Totenberg was making a point about the budget. She asked her fellow panelists to "forgive the expression" when she mentioned a Christmas party she attended.

"I want to say one thing about the budget that didn't get passed, the omnibus bill. You know, we talk a lot about -- we just passed this huge tax cut in part because business said, you know, we have to plan, we have to know what kind of tax cuts we have. Well, these agencies, including the Defense Department, don't know how much money they've got and for what," she said. "And I was at -- forgive the expression -- a Christmas party at the Department of Justice and people actually (were) really worried about this."

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Totenberg, the legal affairs correspondent for NPR, was participating in a roundtable on "Inside Washington," a show produced by ABC's Washington affiliate and distributed to PBS stations. Sunday's airing of the show did not include the discussion in question. But a representative with the Media Research Center, which originally posted the clip online, said the version of the show which aired Friday on PBS' Washington affiliate WETA included the uncut section.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/...as-party/#ixzz18lEH16Qf”