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  • 2018-12-07 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Kid Rock and Ted Nugent Raise More Than $10 Million to Fight the War on Christmas? (en)
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  • December 2018 saw the arrival of a new wrinkle in the so-called War on Christmas, namely the claim that conservative-leaning entertainers were holding fundraising activities to help save the holiday from annihilation by Christmas-hating liberals. Specifically, according to a 6 December article on the consistently misinformative America's Last Line of Defense (LLOD) website, Detroit rock-and-rollers Ted Nugent and Kid Rock together raised more than $10 million for the cause: However, neither entertainer announced their participation in such a tour (before or after it was supposedly completed), nor did any such report appear in the pages of Rolling Stone. The so-called expert on Motown quoted above, Art Tubolls, exists nowhere except on the pages of LLOD, which frequently cites that name, along with a constantly rotating set of credentials, whenever an expert source is required for quotation purposes. The network of websites and social media accounts comprising LLOD publishes fictional stories with clickbait headlines calculated to attract likes and shares for their politically divisive content. Their About Us page describes that content as satire: As to the War on Christmas, any funds currently being raised in the interests of defending the supposedly embattled holiday ought to be regarded as superfluous. Sometime conservative icon and Christmas warrior Bill O'Reilly declared the war over during a segment of his Fox News Channel show in 2006. According to O'Reilly, Christmas won. (en)
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