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Megyn Kelly Responds to Santa Claus Critics: Get a Sense of Humor
NewsBusters ^ | Matthew Sheffield

Posted on 12/13/2013 8:02:36 PM PST by RatherBiased.com

Fox News Channel host Megyn Kelly took on the left-wing hate mob that has come after her following a humorous segment that she featured on her program Wednesday evening in which she and her guests staged a mock debate over the racial identity of Santa Claus.

To the haters, Kelly had a message tonight: Lighten up and learn to realize what satire is. “Humor is a part of what we try to bring to this show but sometimes that is lost on the humorless,” she said.

Since the Wednesday segment, an absurd controversy has been swirling around the newly minted primetime host in which Foxophobic television and internet outlets seemed unable (or unwilling) to comprehend that the entire segment, which began with a satirical disclaimer to “kids at home” that Santa was white and did exist, was not to be taken seriously.

After playing several clips of various television shows reacting to her remarks, Kelly commented further on the response: “This would be funny if it were not so telling about our society. In particular, the knee-jerk instinct by so many to race bait and to assume the worst in people, especially people employed by the very powerful Fox News channel.”

Indeed. As we noted yesterday, it seems that many leftists in this country seem to be psychologically disturbed that there is one television channel which is not controlled by Democratic partisans and therefore they seek to turn even the tiniest molehills into mountains when it comes to Fox News. The entire segment was a joke and for people to pretend otherwise speaks negatively of their intelligence or their honesty.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: christmas; megynkelly; race
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To: DManA

Uh, listen genius, Santa Claus is based on the true St. Nickolaus, not a pagan


21 posted on 12/13/2013 8:36:11 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: RatherBiased.com

She’s backtracking.


22 posted on 12/13/2013 8:37:41 PM PST by Bon of Babble (Don't want to brag...but I can still fit into the earrings I wore in high school!!)
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To: sickoflibs

Never noticed it before now, but Megyn has the boniest fingers.


23 posted on 12/13/2013 8:38:33 PM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: RatherBiased.com
I don't watch Fox or any of the other alphabet networks out there for the simple reason that each and everyone of them is selling a point of view..

None give you the whole story, a network branding itself Conservative or Liberal is the same in my view of the peddlers of snake oil a hundred years ago..

“News” is boring and off everyone’s radar screen. Having photogenic air heads present a ratings scripted monolog day after day marketed to a targeted audience makes a profit.

The alphabet networks, in most cases, are not giving anybody nothing more than a slant on a particular days events from a particular marketing point of view..

I as most here don't trust any of them..

24 posted on 12/13/2013 8:41:17 PM PST by montanajoe
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To: Viennacon
When I wuz a kid, race was about a number of physical features, skin color and religion (muzzies) not among them.

I may be wrong but I'd guess that many turks of yore were Caucasians.

25 posted on 12/13/2013 8:43:07 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: yldstrk

Right, St, Nickolaous lived on the North Po;e and brings gifts to “good” children.

It stings on so many levels.


26 posted on 12/13/2013 8:44:33 PM PST by DManA
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To: Delta Dawn

Her fingers are fine.


27 posted on 12/13/2013 8:44:49 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: RatherBiased.com

So what color is Kwanzaa Klaus going to be?


28 posted on 12/13/2013 8:44:49 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Trust No One.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Mulatto?


29 posted on 12/13/2013 8:46:31 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Delta Dawn

You should be ashamed of yourself making a comment like that on a serious topic like this.

Billions of peoples lives depend on the race of Santa.


30 posted on 12/13/2013 8:55:56 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: Paladin2

Oh, St. Nick was white, but it would likely be a kind of Greek white (he was ethnically Greek as far as we know). So more tan than the Scandinavian look he has, but still white. He sure as hell wasn’t black or whatever the woman who wrote the original article was proposing.

Note to race-hustlers: If we made every historical figure black, things would be incredibly unrealistic. Especially confusing would be any parts of history with racial tensions.


31 posted on 12/13/2013 8:57:27 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: Viennacon
I'm going to try this again:

SKIN COLOR <> RACE. Period.

32 posted on 12/13/2013 9:01:27 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: chopperman

Of course he is white, he doesn’t break into your house to steal your gifts.


33 posted on 12/13/2013 9:07:51 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: Paladin2

Yes, I see what you’re saying. There are images of St. Nicholas, although its hard to tell how accurate they are.

https://www.google.com/search?q=st.+nicholas&client=firefox-a&hs=wNO&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=feerUtXAJ4n5oATOkILQCQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1467&bih=704#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=Vc8181mbXAxkqM%3A%3BEG6yarXachlkxM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fupload.wikimedia.org%252Fwikipedia%252Fcommons%252Ff%252Ff8%252FRussian_icon_Instaplanet_Saint_Nicholas.JPG%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fen.wikipedia.org%252Fwiki%252FBasilica_di_San_Nicola%3B441%3B548

What race would you say that was?


34 posted on 12/13/2013 9:07:53 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: sickoflibs

35 posted on 12/13/2013 9:10:47 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: DManA

Nickolaus


36 posted on 12/13/2013 9:12:27 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: DManA

Why do self righteous twits distort things?


37 posted on 12/13/2013 9:13:23 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Viennacon
NOT West African, nor Kenyan.

Not Chinese, Japanese, Philippine, Oceanisnian, etc.

38 posted on 12/13/2013 9:13:24 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: DManA

He’s not a god; Saint Nicholas was a bishop of the church, and lived in what is now Turkey.


39 posted on 12/13/2013 9:15:13 PM PST by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF USA CITIZEN PARENTS)
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To: Paladin2

If I ever want to judge someone’s Kenyan-ness, I compare them to Obama. At least he’s good for something :)


40 posted on 12/13/2013 9:15:41 PM PST by Viennacon
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