Matthew Dowd Explains Christmas on Twitter: Mary and Joseph Were 'Immigrants' and 'Refugees'

NewsBusters and Twitter ^ | December 25, 2016 | Tom Blumer

[kevcol]

The latest media person to fail to think and count to ten before hitting the "Tweet" button is Matthew Dowd.

Once a Democrat, Dowd came over to the Republican Party in 1999, and was George W. Bush's chief campaign strategist during the 2004 campaign. He became an independent in 2008 and is currently a Chief Political Analyst at ABC News. He also claims to be Catholic, but clearly has a politically twisted understanding of the first Christmas.

[kevcol]

[Olog-hai]

These same lies again. This big lie has not taken over, however.

[nickedknack]

Ignoramus.

[Robert A Cook PE]

WRONG!!!

His father was a builder and city planner (traditionally, a carpenter), and his mother was from a wealthy family. They went to Bethlehem TO PAY THEIR TAXES for the Roman census!

[samtheman]

Newsbusters was calling out fake news before calling out fake news was cool.

[Lurker]

Rules people. There are rules.

L

[E. Pluribus Unum]

And Jesus was that greatest liberal sacrilege of all, an unaborted fetus.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Matthew Dowd is an immigrant. (That is just as factual).

[VanDeKoik]

Even if you aren’t Christian, you have to know this was absolutely absurd.

[MuttTheHoople]

Rules

OOPS! Wrong Dowd.

[mj1234]

wellllll... according to Al Bore- they were

...HOMELESS and wandering around-...LOL

These guys proclaim to be Christians?-

sarc

[EEGator]

Wrong Dowd, but I'm good with rules...

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

(title):" Matthew Dowd Explains Christmas on Twitter: Mary and Joseph Were 'Immigrants' and 'Refugees'"

FAKE NEWS !

Joseph and Mary wre responding to the 'law of the land'
Which involved them returning to the place of their birth
for the purpose of taxation.
Mathew Dowd must read a different bible !

[xp38]

But right Catherine :)

[DaveA37]

im·mi·grant. [ˈiməɡrənt] NOUN 1.a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. (I may be incorrect but I do not believe it was the reason for the pair to be in Bethlehem as they did NOT intend to stay there)

[RegulatorCountry]

Somebody snoozed through vacation Bible school and never participated in a single Christmas play. Are we sure this guy’s even Christian?

[Religion and Politics]

Right, and Jesus was an anchor baby. /fake

However, Jesus truly was a political refugee in Egypt when Joseph fled Judea to get away from Herod.

[ColdOne]

these people use the Bible when they need it. Then p7ss on it.

[TigersEye]

Even if you aren’t Christian, you have to know this was absolutely absurd.

I am not and I think I do.

Weren't they returning to their home town to pay taxes? (hard to be a refugee in your own home) Weren't they turned away from the inns because the inns were full? (not really a personal rejection to be told that there's no vacancy)

[morphing libertarian]

somebody needs a history lesson