Ed Schultz Attacks Fox News For Waging Culture War Over Halloween

Ed Schultz tore into Fox News' "Fox and Friends" for waging what he described as "a cultural war" over a report on classroom Halloween celebrations.

During his Monday night show, Schultz played a clip from the morning news program that featured "Fox and Friends" host Brian Kilmeade discussing what he called an "assault on Halloween." According to Kilmeade, "schools across the country" were to canceling Halloween celebrations in school "because it may offend immigrants."

"Yes, Halloween is the perfect holiday for the folks at 'Fox and Friends' to fear-monger over immigration," Schultz said.

He then reported on the same story and said that "a few schools" decided to forgo Halloween celebrations "for a wide range of reasons, cultural sensitivity being one of them."

He also highlighted an article from a Michigan newspaper that reportedly mentioned the disappointment found among parents because Halloween celebrations were canceled.

"Ed Show" producers cut back to host Gretchen Carlson sharing her point of view on the topic. She said that she "was just sad" at the thought of her two children not seeing "the American traditions" of celebrating Halloween.

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Comments

[Gilbert Albright]

09:57 AM on 10/27/2011

Yeah the same schools that will do away with Halloween celebrations which are an American tradition, will have no problem putting up Mexican "Cinco De Mayo" May Day posters and have the kids bash a Mexican Pinata in class for a Mexican kid's birthday claiming its all about educating the kids about other countries traditions.

They will show no concern about offending the kids and American Parents with Mexican Traditions!

[aznurse]

05:15 AM on 10/27/2011

all the devout Christians I know are really against Halloween.
But look at the bright side The Christmas trees are already up in Walmart.

[momoluvsu]

09:01 AM on 10/27/2011

some christian churches also do Bible themed costumes, or stick to stuff that is "not scary' to celebrate Halloween. It can be modified for schools, if they want to...........I don't have a strong feeling on way or the other.

[FreelanceWriter]

02:08 AM on 10/27/2011

QUOTE from the article: "Yes, Halloween is the perfect holiday for the folks at 'Fox and Friends' to fear-monger over immigration," Schultz said. He then reported on the same story and said that "a few schools" decided to forgo Halloween celebrations "for a wide range of reasons, cultural sensitivity being one of them."

LOL -- meaning that Brian Kilmeade's comment that (quote) ""schools across the country were canceling Halloween celebrations because it may offend immigrants" was basically CORRECT. And Schultz -- in his usual blundering way -- is actually AGREEING with the core point that Kilmeade was making, it's just that Schultz wants to play the usual game of "let's spin this as politically correct as we can."

The total CROCK and IRONY being that he's doing that with regards to a story where political correctness actually HAS run amuck once again.

For crying out loud, it's Halloween!
Let kids be kids and let them have their fun!

[LaoShur]

02:03 AM on 10/27/2011

"According to Kilmeade, "schools across the country" were to canceling Halloween celebrations in school "because it may offend immigrants."

What immigrants are those? Christian fundamentalists have been attacking Halloween as being "satanic" for 20 years!!

[retrievals]

01:29 AM on 10/27/2011

Celebrate it, like religion, at home if you want.

[grover5995]

01:04 AM on 10/27/2011

Sounds like a replay of the "assault on Christmas" we heard about earlier. Maybe that will come later.

[bluecar]

12:50 AM on 10/27/2011

In my experience it is Christian groups that object to Halloween and it has been renamed "harvest celebration" in schools around me for years. I am baffled by the idea that it is about immigrants as many cultures have some form of the celebration, especially day of the dead celebrations.
On a side note, as Halloween coincides with Nevada's statehood celebration and my sister grew up there while I grew up in England I was 17 before I realized that all American kids did NOT get the day off school for all hallows eve!!

[Dbos]

11:52 PM on 10/26/2011

"The day of the dead" Gordo celebration in all latin American countries,They all dress up like Nancy Grace dancing the rumba in a dress that makes her look like a mule in buggy harness.

[RGKahn]

11:20 PM on 10/26/2011

The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before All Hallows Day. Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English (ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556.

All Saints' Day (in the Roman Catholic Church officially the Solemnity of All Saints and also called All Hallows or Hallowmas), often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity celebrated on 1 November by parts of Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity, in honor of all the saints, known and unknown.

It can't get any more christian than than, can it?

[Yorman Amador]

10:58 PM on 10/26/2011

Here's how we feel: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150340088328333&set=vb.590153332&type=2&theater

[imfedup]

10:36 PM on 10/26/2011

What culture doesn't like Halloween?

I'd think the Christians would be the ones keeping their kids home for the Halloween parties. Maybe Jehovah's Witnesses.

[CPT America]

09:56 PM on 10/26/2011

This is the way i see it:
Fox News = GOP = Religious (extremist xtian) = ANTI-halloween.

So in essence, Fox and Friends are calling out their own viewers in their anti-halloween crusade.

just my two cents.

[Servility]

09:01 PM on 10/26/2011

Poor Ed, so desperate to be relevant.

[scottaarrg]

09:52 AM on 10/27/2011

Yes his always trying to stand up for the little guy and middle class can be so Un-Fox-like. Truth is so desperate.

[ESerafina42]

08:07 PM on 10/26/2011

Do the good people (snort!) at Faux Noise realize that some of their fundamentalist viewers consider Halloween to be Satan's birthday? Are they sure they want to be seen defending it?

[barbintheboonies]

07:42 PM on 10/26/2011

I`m sorry that schools around the country are opting out of dressing up for Halloween. I`ve heard some say that it made the kids who came from poor families feel bad that they had no money to dress up, but when we were kids we made do with an old sheet and lots of make-up. Nobody tells the kids they have to dress up. The kids that do wish to go all out now are being hurt since now they will only have an hour or two to show their creativity.

[beingthebest]

09:23 PM on 10/26/2011

Those darn poor kids. Ruining it for everybody