Is this story about Megyn Kelly legit?

[LostOne4Ever]

[div class="excerpt" style="background-color:#dcdcdc; padding-bottom:5px; border:1px solid #bfbfbf; border-bottom:none; border-radius:0.4615em 0.4615em 0em 0em; box-shadow:3px 3px 3px #999999;"]Megyn Kelly: “Every Significant Historical Figure Has Been White” [div class="excerpt" style="background-color:#f0f0f0; border:1px solid #bfbfbf; border-top:none; border-radius:0em 0em 0.4615em 0.4615em; box-shadow:3px 3px 3px #999999;"]Megyn Kelly of Fox News is at it again. Just last week she faced a public backlash when she announced that both Santa and Jesus were white. She tried to backtrack on the comment after many late night comedians used her as fodder for their shows, pointing out that one, Santa isn’t real and the historical figure he is based on Saint Nicholas was Turkish and likely brown skinned and two, that Jesus was Middle Eastern and also brown skinned. She claimed on her next show that it was all just a joke but her true colors came out on last night’s show when the cameras turned off but her mic was still on.

The panel which included Bernard Whitman, a Democratic strategist, Arthur Aidala, a legal analyst for Fox and Monica Crowley, a conservative commentator had just finished a heated debated about the suspension of Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson for making anti-gay comments. They argued about 1st amendment rights.

When the segment concluded Whitman asked Kelly if she thought her erroneous comments about Santa and Jesus would fall under protected speech. That’s when everything went horribly wrong for Kelly. Not realizing her mic was still on and she was being recorded, she announced that she stood by her statements and thought it was ridiculous that she had to apologize. She continued stating, “Look, every significant historical figure has been white.”

Whitman was understandably shocked and countered with, “What about Gandhi?” Kelley fired back, “He was obviously white. Everyone knows that.” Aidala and Crowley agreed with Megyn’s analysis. Whitman shot back again with a list of influential figures, “Martin Luther King, Mandela, Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Cleopatra.” Her response sent Whitman storming out of the studio. “I said significant. None of those people are significant.”

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Im only seeing this on facebook and the linked website (which I have never heard of before) so far. Is this a legit story and has the Faux News corespondent really put the final nail in her own coffin?

[LadyHawkAZ]

1. Freewood Post is a satire site n/t

[LostOne4Ever]

2. Thank god I checked

I knew it sounded too good to be true.

[NYC_SKP]

3. "Related Posts" is always a good clue...

[Scuba]

4. I don't know about that, but I have it on good authority that before ....

... Andrew Brietbart died he infected her with syphilis.

[Sassysdad]

8. Hmmm

I know you are respected here and I'm just a very low post count newbie that will get beat on for this....your comment is not even good satire. It's sick.

[notadmblnd]

9. You would have to be an old timer to get what Scuba meant

there's a lot of long running sarcasm here that is based on what right wingers have had to say in the past.

BTW welcome to DU. I hope you aren't one of those people who have joined just to police the site and point out what you perceive as other's bad form.

[CJCRANE]

5. That sounds like subtle satire. It's filed under "Almost News".

It's almost believable.

[Aristus]

6. Whitman didn't do his otherwise very good case any favors by mentioning Cleopatra.

Cleopatra was white. Or at least European. She was Greek, not Egyptian. She was the product of generations of incestuous breeding by the Ptolemys, a Greek family descended from one of Alexander the Great's generals.

But still, fuck Megyn Kelly. (Although not literally, because eew!)

Gandhi? White? Really?

[JaneyVee]

7. It's satire, but the scary part is that it's becoming harder & harder to tell.

[Tx4obama]

10. For folks that do not know: The Borowitz Report, The Onion, The Currant, Free Wood Post - are SATIRE

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Life in the Fubble

Reality doesn't matter to them