Poor ol' Megyn Kelly.
It all started earlier this week with these unfortunate comments:
For all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white ... Santa is what he is, and just so you know, we're just debating this because someone wrote about it, kids ...
But just because it makes you feel uncomfortable, doesn’t mean it has to change. Jesus was a white man, too. He was an historical figure (that's a verifiable fact) as is Santa. I just want the kids watching to know that.
oops.
Did you realize that you just told every little boy and girl whose house is decorated with black Santas that they're Santa isn't the real Santa?
Now I rolled my eyes plenty over your god-awful blunder along with everyone else. After all, you stepped in it up to your knees and everyone could smell the results from coast to coast. When I heard you were going to respond to the collective pan, my ears pricked. I honestly thought you might offer up a hat-in-hand apology.
Yeah, right.
Instead you got defensive, saying you were misunderstood. Your comments were tongue in cheek. This was to be a lighthearted segment. No one has a sense of humor anymore. You were just saying the exact same thing as Aisha Harris. You were joking around. The fault lies at the feet of your evil critics with their race baiting.
As for the racism factor, I do not believe you will ever see your folly, but here's a hint: indignantly blurting out "Jesus was a white man" in front of a host of television cameras pretty much says it all. In your response video, you even admitted your white Jesus mistake, but you didn't apologize for it.
This, little Megyn, is not how a straight up news anchor behaves. Your response was worse than the original clip. The additional nine minutes of it's-not-my-fault footage only made matters worse.
Fox should fire you, but it will not. That said, you have probably killed any chance you had at becoming anything other than a Fox opinion bubble head. The trouble with shamelessly pandering to the far right is that in today's world, the rest of us can hear you loud and clear; and we see you for what you are.
So keep looking good and stroking that collective conservative member. It's all you've got left.
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36 comments:
Whoa, u go Erin!.. Wonder if Fox network feels the same way that Megan does? I don't favor that network mainly because they're so slanted to the right... now am I racist or just telling the truth.. ( no, I am not defending Megan)
btw, our front page newspaper shows a black Santa who is the favorite of a mall in L.A. Megan would be shocked to see the joy on the face of the child sitting on Santa's lap.. This Santa is being lauded w/ increasing the traditions of black families... so smoke that in your pipe Megan.
Maybe Megyn thinks that since she looks like Barbie, Santa has to look like her Grampie.
Got humor? And, has anyone addressed the income disparity between Santa and the Elves? Holy shit people!
Bill, you go back to her original comments and tell me which of them was supposed to be humorous. Go on ahead and give me the exact quote that cracked you up when she said it.
The "Personal Responsibility" imperative only applies to us godless liberals.
Bill is the paradigm of the member stroked by Megyn. They'll have to die out before we're rid of their idiocy. Turn off the tv, save yourself the misery.
RJ
I am Santa Claus.
Well, Santa Finch, it's about goddamn time you got here.
I just thought you should know that when I go to Megyn's house, I am white.
You come on over here in any color you want, Santa Finch, just bring a bottle of low grade whiskey.
To get hired at Fox, one must pass the thought and feeling test and prove they are barren.
Allow me to share a letter I received recently...
Dear Santa,
Please stop with the bottom-shelf Canadian whisky you leave us each Christmas. I know my wife likes it, but - and please don't tell her this - every day after Christmas, when she thinks I am off at work, I am really at the hospital getting my stomach pumped. Not only that, but she's been saving the bottles and now she wants me to put up more shelves on which to display them. I indulged her with the jigsaw puzzle shelves, but I need help drawing the line before I become known as the Neville Chamberlain of living-room decor.
your friend,
The Goat
And now I know ...
Let's put it this way, Erin. It's all funny to me. What difference, really, does it make what Megyn says. We're talking Santa here. And, RJ. "They'll have to die out"? Watch Oprah much?
"I was just joking! You know I didn't mean it!"-That's been a staple of playground bullies caught red-handed since the first Cro-Magnon kid was caught playing pin-the-tail-on-the-Neanderthal kid.
MR
Bill, you and I both know there was nothing funny about the initial segment. It was just another poorly thought out skirmish in Fox's imaginary war on Christmas.
Now the libs and the brown people are attacking the whiteness of our beloved Santa!
The whole thing, including Kelly's pathetic "response" is indefensible. But kudos to you for towing the party line.
Uncle.
@Bill-Haven't watched Oprah in years. I am aware that she said something to the effect of "The old racists will just have to die out" before that issue will disappear as a social dynamic and I think she's right. Unfortunately I'll be dead as well so I won't get to see it. HiHo. That would be almost as satisfying to see as a Marxist Pope.
RJ
Erin, you may be interested in this anthropological (science) take on Santa's color.
Get over it: Jesus and Santa are White
Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas!
From the esteemed Mr. Venlet's link:
Arabs and Persians are technically white as well.
So it's all settled, then. Santa, Jesus and Osama bin Laden were all white guys.
So, what color were the elves?
Skin color is an accidental physical characteristic. Race is a manmade concept. There is more genetic diversity among the dark skinned inhabitants of Africa than the fair skinned inhabitants of North America and their African brothers and sisters. Google it.
RJ
What color were the elves, you ask, Erin. Well, in my favorite Santa Claus movie, an export from Finland, Rare Exports, they're white, but I really don't know, I've never seen an elf.
If you haven't seen "Rare Exports," you should. I think you'd enjoy it as much as I do. It's available on Netflix.
FYI, Erin. I think Miss Kelly's remarks were just dumb. Dumb blonde dumb, if we're gonna stick with stupid stereotyping.
The elves are closely related to the Oompa Loompas (a verifiable historic fact), and they are green. So there's that.
Funny you should mention Rare Exports. Netflix is due to deliver it tomorrow!
James Old Guy is African.
RJ
Check out the elves in The Netherlands.
Does anybody else remember when journalists--even of the "anchor" ilk--were expected to actually *know* stuff? Can any of you even imagine Walter Cronkite saying anything resembling this drek? Seriously. *shudders*
Excellent point, Mrs. C. I'm pretty sure that the most trusted man in America knew that Jesus and Santa Clause were something other than white. The closest thing we have to Walter, today, is Ed Schultz, I think.
..........Faux News probably has some sort of policy against using the term “Aryan,” which they will reconsider in time for Megyn's 2014 Christmas piece.
RJ
I had no idea, thanks for spending the time looking up my family history.
James Old Guy
Off-topic, but who is to say in a thread like this? Other Africans of note: Dr Christiaan Barnard, Robert Broom, JRR Tolkien, Athol Fugard, Steve Nash.
I had a few moments today to re-read Ms Harris's column from Slate and then to watch again Ms Kelly's original comments and her non-apology apology. I can only conclude that either a) Ms Kelly didn't read it and/or b) she didn't understand it and c)either way, discussing it was a really bad idea.
If there are any folks who haven't yet had the chance to read Ms Harris's column, I believe you'll find it worth the time. It really DID carry a humorous tone, and having read it I suspect you'll be hard-pressed to understand why Ms Kelly found it objectionable.
My opinion? None. But I believe in twenty-two states Santa had BETTER be white, because Daddy or Mom can cap him, no questions asked.
@James-
Anything for a brother.
RJ
Erin, you have to admit, you and all the politically correct liberals were punked.
This was a JOKE. So she really isn't racist. See?
Once I realized this, fearing my intestines would spill all over the floor from my incessant laughter that would result from this priceless cutting edge conservative humor, I ran to stock up on all the needle and thread I could afford.
You have to admit Erin - Megyn Kelly is hilarious. So is Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Steven Crowder. They are truly the future of comedy, following in the footsteps of Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor...there is just no limit for how funny these people can be.
So in order to save myself from literally laughing to death, I am going to shed my uptight liberal political correctness forever.
Actually, Hal, what I do find hilarious is that the new litmus test for the are-you-conservative-enough-or-just-another-RINO? bunch is whether or not you're willing to concede that Santa was a real WHITE human being.
In '07 Fox News Channel tried a 'Daily-Show' type news satire program called "The 1/2 Hour News Hour."
The aggregate critic's review service Metacritic gave it a 12 out of 100-the lowest rating given to any program they had ever reviewed.
Who would have thought that mean-spirited, heavy-handed and predictable just isn't funny?
Not Rodger Ailes!
MR
I think Hal's at least partially right. I think they're trolling us all the time and have tried to imagine doing that for a living. Couldn't hate myself for doing it long enough to make any money at it. Saw O'Reilly on Letterman one night and Letterman asked him if he believed everything he said. O'Reilly said yes.
RJ
If you like your white Santa, you can keep it.
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