We are a little behind here, the Catholic League issued a press release saying CHRISTMAS CENSORS ALREADY AT WORK at the beginning of last month.

Only 21 more censoring days until Christmas! More from the Catholic League here and here.

The blog Tonguetied has a whole category on Christmas censorship.

Also from Tonguetied:last month, the Provincetown board of selectmen voted to remove a Max Bohm painting of the Pilgrims signing the Mayflower Compact. The reason? There were no women in the picture, and the one Indian in the picture didn’t look like he had a vote. The Boston Globe thought that was too PC.

It’s all part of the same picture: a Cultural Revolution against the American nation.

Remember this? When Peter Brimelow started Vdare.com just befor Christmas, 1999, he wrote this.

However, you can sometimes see them naively reported in the local press. Thus Long Island’s Southampton Press (Donna Giacontieri, Is Town Seal Offensive? September 24, 1999) has carried a story about a local version of the Virginia Dare phenomenon: the local “Anti-Bias Task Force” called on the town to abolish its seal, which depicts a Pilgrim and the words “First English settlement in the State of New York.“

The grounds: it “features an offensive representation of one gender, one race and one historical period . . .”

“One historical period . . .”?

Yeah. It’s called America.

Merry Christmas! While it lasts.

The thing most maddening about the MSM is how they routinely report on the various socially approved brutalities of the world (often against women), yet continue to preach the failed ideology of multiculturalism, which asserts all cultures are morally equal.

Unsurprisingly, the New York Times is the leader of the pack.

This week’s Times magazine ran a long and detailed article, “The New Berlin Wall”, an excellent piece about the unhappy awakening of Germans to the hostile Muslims in their midst. Front and center is the monstrous treatment of women, from honor killings to outright slavery.

But the books of the three Muslim dissidents now tell us what Germans like me didn’t care to know. What they report seems almost unbelievable. They describe an everyday life of oppression, isolation, imprisonment and brutal corporal punishment for Muslim women and girls in Germany, a situation for which there is only one word: slavery.

But when Americans seek to slow immigration and allow the assimilation engine to revive, the NYT accuses pro-border citizens of being “vigilantes” and maintains the drumbeat of immigrant sob stories.

Mostly it acts as the nanny press’ sheep-in-chief, purposefully leading lesser journalistic lights in calming the crazed conservatives of the heartland, or so it apparently believes. Without the Times’ constant nagging that Diversity Is Good, benighted Red Staters would be mass-lynching every Mexican and Muslim in sight. Right.

As I’ve noted before, at least some of the elite press in Europe has snapped out of its multicultural fantasy. It’s long past time for the Grey Lady to do the same. Question diversity, anyone?

From GovExec.com:

“You could say in some ways we’re going to have a virtual fence, because we’re going to use a mix of technology and Border Patrol and infrastructure to create what is in effect a barrier to entry,” Chertoff said. “But it’s going to be a smart fence, not a stupid fence.”

This is from the head of our Homeland Security on Duncan Hunter’s plan to put a fence up across our border with Mexico. The president understands that doing so would severely effect the influx of “willing workers” into the U.S. and is therefore against it.

I would write more, but am going to rush out and see if the locks on my home and the fence around my own little piece of the American Dream qualify as a “smart” or “stupid” effort at security.

Then I am going to look at this picture of my friend Robert Vasquez and me standing three feet from the border from my last trip to Arizona and try to decide if the border security Bush has allowed for five years, four of them after 11 September, is “smart”.