Smile, When You Criticize Carols

First, let me be perfectly clear. I do not hate John Lennon. Just because I opined that “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” is one of the worst Christmas songs ever, does not make me a Lennon-hater – or worse a Beatles-basher. I also loathe “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas,” but no one has accused me of being a hippo-hater. Yet. The brouhaha began when I posted my opinion about the worst Christmas songs via various social media sites. One Facebook friend wrote, “Nothing any member of The Beatles has ever done is the worst of anything. Ever. Period. The end.” Many agreed, but one friend remarked that Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmastime” is pretty dreadful/ Cindy Hval . More here .