I don't think too highly of Ben Stein, but I agree with the part attributed to him. I'm happy enough for people to wish me a merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, or a Tip-Top Tet if that's what they're into. I'll probably even return the regards.
Now, as for this war on Christmas garbage that the right keeps harping on, if it actually does exist, Christmas is kicking the shit out of it's enemies. Truth be told, modern Christmas is merely an adjunct of our consumer based society, and as such, it's invincible. Wal-Mart, Best Buy and De Beers will never, ever let it be harmed. It is those entities that propagate the whole "war on Christmas" bullshit by couching all of the rhetoric to try and avoid offending the 1% that might be put off by it. The right latches onto that because it loves getting riled up about anything with a hint of political correctness. In the mean time, the holiday season begins one whole month earlier than it did 8 years ago, and the people who fear that Christmas is under attack run out to buy a new HDTV every year from the store that still calls it Christmas and complains that the atheists are out to get them.
Seems to me that the Christians are probably right to feel threatened regarding their holiday beliefs, but it isn't the atheists or the democrats that are their concern. It's the wild West of capitalism that's fucking up their holiday.