Megyn Kelly - it was just a joke...but she and Fox News are victims
After touching off a firestorm of controversy over her suggestion earlier in the week that Santa is white, Megyn Kelly took on her critics Friday, reminding them that her comments were tongue-in-cheek.
“Humor is what we try to bring to this show, but that’s lost on the humorless,” Kelly said on “The Kelly File.” “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.”
"We continually see St. Nick as a white man in modern-day America,” Kelly continued. “Should that change? Well, that debate got lost because so many couldn’t get past the fact that I acknowledged, as Harris did, that the most commonly depicted image of Santa, does, in fact, have white skin.”
“The fact that an off-hand jest I made during a segment about whether Santa should be replaced by a penguin has now become a national firestorm says two things,” Kelly said. “Race is still an incredibly volatile issue in this country, and Fox News, and yours truly, are big targets for many people.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/13/megyn-kelly-responds-to-critics-over-santa-is-white-flap/
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And honestly, it may be true that Santa *is* typically imagined with white skin in the West. But it doesn't change the fact that she was being insensitive & dismissive towards Mrs. Harris, on that front alone.....and honestly, why did she even care in the first place? I wouldn't care if Santa was black, white, tanned, or fucking green.
And certainly, nothing excuses the Jesus comments either. It's a well established fact that he was a Semite. No question. 
