Fox News host Megyn Kelly stands by ‘Santa is white’ comments, calls critics ‘humorless’

[pangaia]

"Fox News Channel host Megyn Kelly returned to her show Friday night and refused to apologize for earlier comments in which she insisted that both Santa Claus and Jesus Christ are white men .
“Apparently we ignited quite a controversy the other night,” Kelly said near the top of her show. The host did not appear on her program , “The Kelly File,” Thursday night due to a cold.

“Humor is a part of what we try to bring to this show but sometimes that is lost on the humorless,” Kelly said, attempting to turn the tables on her critics, who have accused Kelly of being everything from insensitive to an outright racist.".......


BOLD ABOVE IS MINE...
OK..where to start with this one.
1-What do you mean WE white man?

2-Oh, NOW it's HUMOR. There was nothing denoting humor in your delivery, sweetie.
In 1996 Bill Murray, part owner of the Saint Paul Saints dressed up as Marge Schott and rode a St. Bernard out to coach first base. THAT, my dear, is humor. YOU, whatever you are, are NOT humorous.
3- You're a republican..and you work for fox.. that eliminates any sense of humor, right there, or irony, or inner reflection, or sense of self, or responsibility, or....

4- As has been stated before in different words, the utter stupidity of this woman is stunning to behold....


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/megyn-kelly-stands-by-%E2%80%98santa-is-white--comments--calls-critics-%E2%80%98humorless-023320042.html

[WhoIsNumberNone]

1. I feel a meme coming on

Stay tuned...

[Coyotl]

16. Caption this: Megyn Kelly

Caption this: Megyn Kelly
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024168944

[Tanelorn]

61. Where is the humour in this comment

Saying that Ronald McDonald was born in Bethlehem would be funny

[Mz Pip]

2. Was she trying to be funny?

Didn't sound like it. It sounded like a judgmental lecture which is how Kelly usually rolls.

[pangaia]

3. That was exactly my take, as well.

[Warpy]

5. Yeah, it was

And since she's a Republican and on Pox News, there is nothing to do about it but double down and tell people who have been laughing at her that they have no sense of humor.

[chemenger]

83. Well Megyn my dear ... I can only say that George Carlin, Robin Williams, Sarah Silverman,

Amy Poehler, Tina Fey and a host of other very funny and topical comedians have NOTHING to fear from you. You are a dim, racist Faux Snooze poopyhead.

[kwassa]

4. What a weak, lame-ass excuse. It's like a kid's apology for being mean.

"I was only joking!"

[WhoIsNumberNone]

6. One has to remember, when right wingers make jokes, only right wingers think they're funny

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[pangaia]

24. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiii

That's an insult to Jack.

[robbob]

55. ummmmm.....i think you mean

Heath?

[pangaia]

69. No, I mean Jack. :>))

Didn't see the Heath version.

[awoke_in_2003]

74. You need to...

Heath took crazy to a level that Jack couldn't touch (or wasn't allowed to)

[Atman]

7. How could that possibly be construed as a JOKE?

To whom was it directed? How was it supposed to be funny? As others have pointed out, Republicans lack any sense of real "humor." Their idea of being funny is just to be mean and make fun of those different from themselves. Have you EVER seen a Republican making fun of rich white guys the way someone like Dave Chappell or Key & Peale make fun of themselves? Republicans just can't do it. That is why NO Republican humor program has ever succeeded. Are you listening Dennis Miller? Remember when you used to be famous?

[pangaia]

8. Exactly..

How many 'republican' comedians are there? How many artists, ballet or modern dancers, classical musicians. Creative people in general tend to be just the opposite of what republicans tend to be..
Being creative requires being able to question and carry two or more ideas about the same thing at the same time..

[WhoIsNumberNone]

11. There are plenty...

...just none of them are famous because they all suck.

[pangaia]

14. Who are some right wing, or conservative or whatever we want to call them,comedians?

Seriously, I'd like to check some out on Youtube...

[WhoIsNumberNone]

15. Well, there are those assholes on Red Eye

That dickhead who got knocked down at the Right To Work protest in Wisconsin last year is supposedly a comedian (At least he claims he is) At the CPAC before last, there were videos going around of a conservative "comedian" entertaining the RWNJ's (Spoiler: All of his "punch lines" had to do with shooting/killing something/someone, and/or doing things to annoy liberals) Then there's those dildos at PJ Media who right wingers supposedly find funny, and of course there's Pig Boy, who doesn't bill himself as a comedian, but he does make a lot of "jokes" which conservatives consider funny.

[pangaia]

19. Thanks. never heard of any of them.

I'll go check it out.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

25. You've heard of Pig Boy

His friends call him Rush Limbaugh.

[pangaia]

36. Sure but I'm not his friend and don't cvall him a comedian. :>))

Just a disturbed psychopath.

[aggiesal]

54. There are a couple I can think of . . .

Jeff Foxworthy has some pretty funny stuff and apparently a RW

Drew Carey's funny stuff is dated and apparently is also a RW.

Please let me know if I'm incorrect.

[marble falls]

70. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2169663

[aggiesal]

77. That was funny . . .

but I stand by my statement that Jeff Foxworthy is also a RW comedian and his
You-Know-You're-A-Redneck series is really good. Someone that definitely laughs
at himself.

[marble falls]

84. Foxworthy is RW and wears his religion on his sleeve, and the cable guy's very RW, too.

[Alittleliberal]

51. The premise of their humor is wrong

For something to be humorous to people it needs to let them relate to real feelings/experience.

[marble falls]

68. Dennis Miller used to be funny and famous.

[pangaia]

82. Now that you mention it,..

I think I DO remember him actually being funny somewhere, years ago. Not so outright disgusting and insulting.
Wasn't he a football announcer? Is that where I remember some good sarcastic humor?

[CBGLuthier]

76. Larry Miller and yes he was funny unlike Dennis Miller.

but he too is a RW tool.

[marble falls]

85. Dennis used to be funny on his HBO show.

[Johonny]

28. I think she means it was a joke segment

because there is so little happening in the world that FOX can spend part of their 24 hrs on fluff segments designed to lighten your heart by making fun of other races or whatever the point of her segment was.

It is the same type of thing when they put crank scientists on to discus pseudo science and when people call them on it they say it was a human interest segment or an entertainment segment and not intended to portray science. I.E. They intentionally put crap on the air because they don't want to cover actual news. I think that is what she is saying but for the record I find these excuses worse than just saying alright my statements were a little over the top and everyone in the world seems to have figured that out. But I guess she will go down with the ship. A ship that is 24 hrs of fluff segments.

[xfundy]

9. She never addressed the "Jesus was white" comment.

Was that a "joke" too?

[caraher]

34. Actually, the Yahoo! piece at the end of the OP does address this

She's walked it back a little...

Kelly was willing to give ground on one point, her second assertion that the historical figure of Jesus was a white man.

“As I’ve learned in the past two days, that is far from settled,” Kelly acknowledged.

[pangaia]

37. "As I’ve learned in the past two days, that is far from settled,” Kelly acknowledged.

HUH? She didn't know before that maybe, just MAYBE Jesus might be considered 'not white? The why is she on the boob tube. OH. because she is a boob. (No reference to any part of the female anatomy intended, just in case.)

[gulliver]

10. Megyn, you're not supposed to actually say that stuff!

She probably didn't get enough sleep the night before or she might have skipped a meal. Just look at her hair. A lot of her old white male audience were jolted out of their blonde girl revery during this performance.

[librechik]

12. Fine, megyn. At least you admit you're a clown. But we all knew that already.

dang--no image of megyn in clown makeup available. What gives, photoshoppers?

[WhoIsNumberNone]

17. I was going to do her as a clown-

But I went with The Joker instead. Seemed more fitting.

[librechik]

20. yep. i saw that after i posted

well done!

[Shankapotomus]

13. If Mormons can make up their own Jesus

why can't African Americans make up their own Santa Claus?

[Initech]

18. Just further proof that there's no such thing as republican humor.

[Jefferson23]

21. She is just sore because she knows that she has become the joke.

I never heard of her before this...just another racist dumb ass Fox News teleprompter reader.

[seabeyond]

22. we re often told lighten up, it was a joke. when clearly it was a jab. i am pretty consistent how

i feel about this. others, not so much.

[grantcart]

23. That's not very white of her.

[Hekate]

59. Damn! you made me laugh, grantcart.

That's the best use I've seen for that old canard.

[Warpy]

26. Uh, honey, calling people who are LAUGHING AT YOU

humorless is just a little odd, don't you think?

Oh, right, you don't think.

(Yes, I hate to see a grown woman called stuff like this if it's not by her spouse, but I'll make one exception in Kelly's case)

[uponit7771]

27. lol.... the typical conservative "it was a joke" reply

[BlueStreak]

29. Since when does a "straight news anchor" crack jokes as part of her "serious reporting"

"And on highway 20, there was a 15-car pile-up with 4 dead so far and 11 others flown to the hospital... which reminds me of a great joke. So there was this rabbi went into talk to his car mechanic ..."

If she wants to make jokes about the news, apply for an internship on The Daily Show.

[dchill]

30. So then, everything on the Fox News Channel...

Is just a humorous type joke - that none of us "get."

[Atman]

31. Even her name is a joke...Me-gyn

Seriously? Who the hell spells their name Megyn? It's as if she feels she has to point to you that she's female!

[Skittles]

65. I think that's actually her given name

[sulphurdunn]

32. Well, ya know, Santa

used to be white. when he was real. Now he's any color he needs to be or we want him to be to make kids happy, because he's a symbol now. That's the idea. As for adults, well...we're suppose to be the real Santas, Megyn, and we come in all kinds of colors and so Santa has to also. It is disturbing that you and lots of other people can't seem to grasp that.

[heaven05]

33. yet Bashir get's fired for telling the truth

[Hekate]

60. No, Martin Bashir got fired for being foul-mouthed on a real news station.

Or at least a station that aspires to broadcast real news. That was wrong.

I'm truly sorry he's gone, because I like him. I was hoping they'd just put him on unpaid leave for awhile, but the people who run the station have the final say and they said it. I hope he lands on his feet.

[heaven05]

67. so you think sarah puke got wronged?

right? You've explained yourself to me and I'm not laughing. Sarah puke is a racist pig and so is meeee-gin. Period. Bashir was explaining what racists like sarah puke did to uppity slaves and I agree, with him, that she and meee-gin should shut their mouths because that is all that is spewing from their faces garbage and you can spell that as sh..! As far as a 'real' news station, well I disagree totally. He calls out the racism and stupidity of a sarah puke and he's fired. meee-gin talks to kids, stewart did a piece on that, and and this brainless puff piece doubles down and is still going to be allowed to spew her sh.. on national television! I say throw their sh.. right back in their faces and let them smell their own garbage, just like bashir did. Now I'm wrong? So be it and proud of it.

[Matariki]

79. It has NOTHING to do with Sarah Palin

I agree with Hekate. It's really, really unprofessional to say you want to shit in someone's mouth - on air - no matter who the person you are talking about is.

I don't blame MSNBC one bit. Although I also wish they would gone with a period of unpaid leave.

[Hekate]

80. Thank you for getting it, Matariki. I don't want to waste my time on Left versions of the worst...

... of Right Wing broadcasting. The RW specializes in spew. If we descend to their level because we think our version of vomit is superior, what does that make us?

There's a saying that applies: Don't get in the mud to fight pigs. You just get filthy, and the pig likes it.

[heaven05]

81. It's all about media double standards, to me.

fluffy here talks to kids about the color of santa and jesus, which was stupid in and of itself. Not many impressionable kids would be watching her much less understand her racist reasoning. Bashir calls out a racist in a way that could be construed as not very nice and he's fired. Let me seee....ummmm....a racist talks about jesus and santa ALWAYS being white and she is still spewing her garbage on MSM. Bashir tells the truth about an historical fact analogous to sarah pukes racism and what she and meegin spew every time they open their traps and he's fired. Maybe my connection is wrong, but I agree, firing him was not the way to go. I'm just sick and tired of the stupidity of amerikkka's racism and hate based on a superficiality like skin color. My mood changes this time of year with all the stupidity dragging out my sometimes flawed reasoning. Small aside. My sister was murdered this time of year and this season just reminds me of that sad incident. Have a good holiday.

[marble falls]

72. Well put. Martin Bashir will be back. Megyn will always be ...... Megyn.

[VA_Jill]

35. Um

Is she playing the Victim card or the Idiot card? It's sorta hard to tell.

[pangaia]

38. She's playing with an empty deck.

She has no cards to play.

[fujiyama]

48. I thought she was playing the race card all along.

That's something conservatives always accuse liberals of doing.

[QuestForSense]

39. Humorless? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

She's about as funny as a poke in the eye.

[Major Nikon]

40. Because racism is so funny

[Bernardo de La Paz]

41. "Humorless"? That's ok. We call her stupid. nt

[pangaia]

42. See my #4 in the OP.

"4- As has been stated before in different words, the utter stupidity of this woman is stunning to behold.... "

[Spitfire of ATJ]

43. Republicans laugh at the idea of pissing off their enemies....

Their idea of humor is driving a gas guzzling SUV through a Sierra Club picnic.

The punchline is killing a few environmentalists along the way.

HAW HAW HAW!!!!

[pangaia]

44. True, but don't some of us also laugh at pissing them off?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

47. We usually laugh when they make themselves a joke and don't know it.

[VPStoltz]

45. O.k. so I know it's unprofessional to laugh at your own jokes...

(though Phyllis Diller made a career of it). But when no one on your panel laughs, first of all who are the humorless ones, and second how could anyone tell you were joking?
Or does it just come down to being a really lousy host?

[Raine]

46. It was NOT intended as a joke, she got called out and now is lying by claiming it's a joke! Typical

of how CONservatives try to always lie their way out onstead of accepting responsibility for their big stupid mouth and what comes out of it!

[DallasNE]

49. She Bills Her Show As Straight News

I don't recall Walter Cronkite cracking jokes on his show. And if this really is an attempt at humor then you are no Jon Stewart.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

50. Megyn Kelly is a heartless, pathetic, worthless, mean-spirited, racist witch that likes to

breast feed zoo animals while dressed in a leather Bugs Bunny outfit.

Just kidding, Megyn. I'm just creating a little controversy and making a little "joke." I hope you and your defenders laugh because “Humor is a part of what we try to bring to this website but sometimes that is lost on the humorless.”

Double down some more.

[aggiesal]

52. When she said this . . .

she was not saying it in jest, she wasn't trying to be funny, and she was not making a joke.

She said with an angry tone, and a mean look on her face.

[polly7]

58. Yes.

I saw the clip and how she almost seemed disgusted when the man at the end finally got to point out Santa could be any colour. She wasn't joking.

[Kablooie]

53. "Santa is white and so is Jesus" God damn that's a funny joke! WaaHaaHaaaaa!

Now, Ms. Kelly, define "humor".

[merrily]

56. Why is someone this incapable of thought on Fox?

Surely, there have to be thousands of RW white blond females who would kill for her job and who are capable of thought. Or brunettes and redheads willing to bleach.

No don't tell me no Repubicans are capable of thought. That would probably be my knee jerk response to this post if I were not the author of this post, but it's simply not so.

[Hekate]

57. When called out on your insult, retort that the injured party is "humorless"...

Yeah, I know that one, because it's been used on me. It's basically a lie to cover verbal aggression.

[merrily]

62. "I meant every word, but don't want the consequences of having made people angry."

That is what, in my experience, "I was only kidding" has made when I have confronted someone who had just said something negative about me, followed by a deflecting laugh.

Not only that, but John Stewart has a fabulous sense of humor and he mocked the hell out of her foolish ass for that comment.

Then again, if you were she, what could you possibly say after making a remark that exposed just how few brains you have, yet somehow manage to be on television, pulling down big bucks?

[RBInMaine]

63. She's a racist with a racist audience who is using the "It was a joke." excuse.

[Skittles]

64. she has made a complete fool of herself

and she knows it

[Ganja Ninja]

66. Oh drat fooled again by Republican "humor".

Here I was thinking it was a brain fart from a bigoted bleach blond moron.

[pangaia]

71. How can there be a brain fart when there is no brain?

[Javaman]

73. Racists are like that...

"hey, I was ONLY kidding!" "It was meant to be a JOKE!" "I'm not racist (or bigot), some of my best friends...(fill in the blank)"

It seems to be "only a joke" after they get caught being a racist jerk.

Funny how that is.

[NorthCarolina]

75. Everyone, email Kelly your favorite Black Santa pic. nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

78. This Ellen Degeneres comedy clip pretty much sums up Kelly's position perfectly: