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.
Megyn Kelly Responds to Santa Claus Critics: Get a Sense of Humor
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.
Hate to bump an old thread. Like I said, I watched the segment. If Megyn intended it as a joke (and she might have, I'm not a mind reader), it was the worst execution of a lighthearted quip in the history of cable news. She looked and sounded dead serious.
When O'Reilly makes a quip like that, you can tell by his facial expressions and his tone of voice that it's a quip. And there's nobody better at dismissively laughing off bad press.
Megyn Kelly looked and sounded dead serious. And her response where she tried to act like she and the rest of FNC were the victims was horrible. She won't lose any viewers over it and, in fact, will probably gain a few. But her reputation as a reputable journalist has taken a serious hit and that's something she's going to have to live with.
O'Reilly, after defending MK, said something about her owning him big time. Even he knows MK screwed up.
She should send A&E a Christmas card for "suspending" Phil Robertson. If they hadn't done that, she'd still be facing a relentless bombardment of much-deserved negative press.
So what race IS Santa Claus?
I'm not astonished that the bloggers who despise FOX News have managed to miss the point of the segment and fixated on the very problem they're addressing. As in, why is it relevant to adjust race at all?
I've never been fond of the blond blue-eyed Jesus, but I'm not about to change his race to suit someone's fixation, just as the Buddha, who was born in India, is largely seen as Far East Asian.
Jesus is Mexican.
I asked him where he was from the last time he cut my grass.
For a guy who brags he never watches that network, you really have a lot of comments on a lot of different Fox network personalities. Your lefty-rumor-network must be really 'Special.'
There's this thing called the Internet. You should check it out sometime.
Jesus is Mexican.
I asked him where he was from the last time he cut my grass.