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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox News host Megyn Kelly stands by ‘Santa is white’ comments, calls critics ‘humorless’
"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
(7,875 posts)Stay tuned...
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Tanelorn
(359 posts)Saying that Ronald McDonald was born in Bethlehem would be funny
Mz Pip
(27,453 posts)Didn't sound like it. It sounded like a judgmental lecture which is how Kelly usually rolls.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Warpy
(111,327 posts)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
(1,593 posts)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
(23,340 posts)"I was only joking!"
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)Last edited Sat Dec 14, 2013, 01:05 PM - Edit history (1)
pangaia
(24,324 posts)That's an insult to Jack.
robbob
(3,537 posts)Heath?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Didn't see the Heath version.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Heath took crazy to a level that Jack couldn't touch (or wasn't allowed to)
Atman
(31,464 posts)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?
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
(7,875 posts)...just none of them are famous because they all suck.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Seriously, I'd like to check some out on Youtube...
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)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
(24,324 posts)I'll go check it out.
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)His friends call him Rush Limbaugh.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Just a disturbed psychopath.
aggiesal
(8,922 posts)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
(57,157 posts)aggiesal
(8,922 posts)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
(57,157 posts)Alittleliberal
(528 posts)For something to be humorous to people it needs to let them relate to real feelings/experience.
marble falls
(57,157 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)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
(12,723 posts)but he too is a RW tool.
marble falls
(57,157 posts)Johonny
(20,878 posts)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
(5,105 posts)Was that a "joke" too?
caraher
(6,279 posts)She's walked it back a little...
As Ive learned in the past two days, that is far from settled, Kelly acknowledged.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)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
(13,186 posts)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
(30,676 posts)dang--no image of megyn in clown makeup available. What gives, photoshoppers?
WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)But I went with The Joker instead. Seemed more fitting.
librechik
(30,676 posts)well done!
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)why can't African Americans make up their own Santa Claus?
Initech
(100,099 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)I never heard of her before this...just another racist dumb ass Fox News teleprompter reader.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)i feel about this. others, not so much.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Hekate
(90,773 posts)Warpy
(111,327 posts)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
(90,356 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)"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
(38,517 posts)Is just a humorous type joke - that none of us "get."
Atman
(31,464 posts)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
(153,174 posts)sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)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
(18,124 posts)Hekate
(90,773 posts)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
(18,124 posts)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
(18,775 posts)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
(90,773 posts)... 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
(18,124 posts)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
(57,157 posts)Is she playing the Victim card or the Idiot card? It's sorta hard to tell.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)She has no cards to play.
fujiyama
(15,185 posts)That's something conservatives always accuse liberals of doing.
QuestForSense
(653 posts)She's about as funny as a poke in the eye.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)"4- As has been stated before in different words, the utter stupidity of this woman is stunning to behold.... "
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)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
(24,324 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)VPStoltz
(1,295 posts)(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
(30,540 posts)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
(7,403 posts)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
(2,088 posts)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
(8,922 posts)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.
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
(18,638 posts)Now, Ms. Kelly, define "humor".
merrily
(45,251 posts)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
(90,773 posts)Yeah, I know that one, because it's been used on me. It's basically a lie to cover verbal aggression.
merrily
(45,251 posts)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
(13,570 posts)Skittles
(153,174 posts)and she knows it
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)Here I was thinking it was a brain fart from a bigoted bleach blond moron.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Javaman
(62,532 posts)"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.