What a shame that “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was preempted this week by President Obama’s speech at West Point, announcing the deployment of 30,000 additional troops in Afghanistan.
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Russell Wiseman, the mayor of Arlington, Tennessee, was apoplectic about “A Charlie Brown Christmas” not being shown Tuesday night.
“Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch ‘The Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ and our muslim president is there, what a load…..try to convince me that wasn’t done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation (sic) about it….w…hen the answer should simply be ‘yes’….”
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/dec/04/mayor-fires-at-obama-online/
But if Russell were a wise man, he would have checked the TV listings and seen that “A Charlie Brown Christmas” was already scheduled to be repeated this coming Tuesday night. Not only that, a second showing has been added for December 15th to make up for the one missed this past week.
The ABC Television Network will celebrate the joy of the holidays with the classic animated Christmas-themed PEANUTS special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, created by late cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, airing TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8 (8:00-8:30 p.m., ET) and TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15 (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET).
“It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” was aired twice in October by ABC. I wonder what Mayor Wiseman thinks of Linus’ singular belief in the Great Pumpkin?
I promise NOT to miss it! “A Garfield Ramadan:” Just plain laugh out-loud funny! We’re taking the older grandson (age 8 ) to see the 3-D “A Christmas Carol” at the Imax theatre in Harrisburg tomorrow. I know, Jim Carrey CAN be annoying, but It DID get good reviews pretty much across the board, and Molly and Johnny and I are going, too. Hey! we got four inches of gorgeous, real Charlie Brown Christmas snow today, the kind that sticks to every single tree branch. If THAT doesn’t get you feeling like singing “Christmastime is Here,” nothing will!