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Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 01:44 PM Dec 2013

Jon Stewart Demolishes Megyn Kelly and the Fox News White Xmas Freak Out

Last edited Sat Dec 14, 2013, 06:56 PM - Edit history (1)

Kelly now claims her racism was an "offhand jest" and that the skin color of Jesus remains an unsettled question.

Why does Martin Bashir lose his job for criticizing Palin's racism while Megyn Kelly's goes back on camera and claims her racism is comedy?

Sorry Megyn, but racism is NOT comedy! Megyn's after-the-fact dodge falls as flat as her would-be humor.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-12-2013/war-on-christmas---s--t-s-getting-weird-edition

December 12, 2013 - Jon Stewart is really getting tired of Fox News still flogging this War on Christmas nonsense, and Thursday night, he said that "shit's getting real." He took on both Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly Thursday night for freaking out about a Festivus pole and black Santa. Stewart mocked Fox's "manger danger warnings" before getting to the "crazy" stuff Kelly said about why Santa is white, period. Stewart explained the historical person Santa is based on actually had a darker skin pigmentation. And on the follow-up point that Jesus was white, Stewart said, "You do know Jesus wasn't born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, right?"

Jessica Williams then joined Stewart to explain that black people feeling uncomfortable about a white Santa need to get over it, while anything at all that makes white people feel uncomfortable has to be fixed immediately.

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


Jon Stewart/Others Ridicule Megyn Kelly – She Backtracks On White Santa (VIDEO)
December 14, 2013 by Egberto Willies
http://egbertowillies.com/2013/12/14/megyn-kelly-white-santa-jon-stewart/

Megan Kelly was apparently forced to backtrack from her comments. She simply could not believe the uproar that it caused. After all, ‘she was only joking.’


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Jon Stewart Demolishes Megyn Kelly and the Fox News White Xmas Freak Out (Original Post) Coyotl Dec 2013 OP
bleh Voice for Peace Dec 2013 #1
I'd like to have some shares in the brand of makeup she uses; greiner3 Dec 2013 #3
When you are on TV, you have to pile on the makeup RebelOne Dec 2013 #4
you can't put makeup on that kind of ugly. Voice for Peace Dec 2013 #19
She is wandesfull, and she is wright. Santa is white. why not? Eljo_Don Dec 2013 #17
no, the Lion is King of the Jungle. Voice for Peace Dec 2013 #18
This stuck in my mind and is bothering me. Damn you Megyn Kelly!! Just kidding, my own fault Voice for Peace Dec 2013 #2
She says Fox and she are... JimboBillyBubbaBob Dec 2013 #5
That is off their game play. "We are surrounded on all sides!!" (by the liberal media) underpants Dec 2013 #8
Racists never admit they are racists. bvar22 Dec 2013 #6
And no way will Fox News fire her for being racist. Coyotl Dec 2013 #7
"As I have learned in the last two days, that is far from settled" underpants Dec 2013 #9
In other words, "Jesus and Santa are/might well be white like I said, since I'm always right... Coyotl Dec 2013 #11
Spot on underpants Dec 2013 #13
This is why Fox "News" is the last stop in a career.... Spitfire of ATJ Dec 2013 #10
here is the clip the youtube clip got pulled Heather MC Dec 2013 #12
Thanks. OP updated with link to Daily Show. Coyotl Dec 2013 #15
Jon was in good form Gothmog Dec 2013 #14
SAnta is white. Why not? Eljo_Don Dec 2013 #16
. Iggo Dec 2013 #20

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
4. When you are on TV, you have to pile on the makeup
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 03:00 PM
Dec 2013

because the lights will wash out your complexion. I know as I was on the Sally Jessie show once and she made me go heavy on the makeup, especially the blush. The male guests even had to borrow my blush.

Eljo_Don

(100 posts)
17. She is wandesfull, and she is wright. Santa is white. why not?
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 09:02 PM
Dec 2013

Africa is the continent where most black people live. Who is the king of the jungle? Tarzan is; a white man.

 

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)
18. no, the Lion is King of the Jungle.
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 11:11 PM
Dec 2013

Tarzan was a little white british orphan who was
raised by Apes.

 

Voice for Peace

(13,141 posts)
2. This stuck in my mind and is bothering me. Damn you Megyn Kelly!! Just kidding, my own fault
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 02:17 PM
Dec 2013

for watching.

What struck me in particular -- I almost NEVER watch
Fox news, except here in clips, or on the Daily Show --
is how she puffs up like a rooster when she speaks of the
"Powerful Fox News"

vs the hair-on-fire-race-baiters
(like Jimmy Kimmel et al.. oooh comedians)

Powerful Fox News
all puffed up
what is that?
Do they ALL say that about Fox?
Powerful Fox News

and oh... they are all "BIG TARGETS" AAAGH :hair on fire:

and by the way, race is still a big volatile issue in this
country hellooo Megyn anybody home? You are way too
mean and shiny for your own good.

phew that's better

underpants

(182,868 posts)
8. That is off their game play. "We are surrounded on all sides!!" (by the liberal media)
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 04:22 PM
Dec 2013

says every host during their show. ~cut to commercial~ [font color=red]FOX NEWS IS #1 IN CABLE NEWS!!!![/font] at almost every commercial break. They have maintained that disconnect for years. She must have gotten approval to let those worlds collide.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
6. Racists never admit they are racists.
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 03:25 PM
Dec 2013

Instead, they will lapse into long winded rationalizations that usually end with,
"I was only joking. This is YOUR problem for being bothered by my humor."
which is exactly what Kelly did in this piece.

The Black Santa

The Real Face of St. Nicholas

Modern forensic anthropology has developed tools to help discover what people looked like. These techniques are primarily used to assist in identifying unknown crime victims. However, they can be used also for historic personages when there is access to the right information. Normally, this would be skeletal remains, including the skull.

St. Nicholas' remains are buried in the crypt of the Basilica di San Nicola in Bari, Italy. These bones were temporarily removed when the crypt was repaired during the 1950s. At the Vatican's request, anatomy professor Luigi Martino from the University of Bari, took thousands of minutely-detailed measurements and x-ray photographs (roentgenography) of the skull and other bones.

The current professor of forensic pathology at the University of Bari, Francesco Introna, knew advancements in diagnostic technique could yield much more from the data gathered in the 1950s. So he engaged an expert facial anthropologist, Caroline Wilkinson, at the University of Manchester in England, to construct a model of the saint's head from the earlier measurements.

<snip>

The result of the project is the image of a Greek man, living in Asia Minor (part of the Greek Byzantine Empire), about 60-years old, 5-feet 6-inches tall, who had a heavy jaw and a broken nose.




http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/real-face/



[font size=3]"All I know is that the Santa who brought ME presents on Christmas was BLACK.[/font]--- Chris Rock

underpants

(182,868 posts)
9. "As I have learned in the last two days, that is far from settled"
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 04:30 PM
Dec 2013

You did NO research of any kind. You simply started with victimization (and returned to it), tried to include the article you were mocking in a "we were talking about the same thing" nonsense to cover yourself, and in the original segment just acted like a dick.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
11. In other words, "Jesus and Santa are/might well be white like I said, since I'm always right...
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 05:00 PM
Dec 2013

Last edited Sat Dec 14, 2013, 06:55 PM - Edit history (1)

...except when I'm not right, of course, because then I'm just joking."

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
10. This is why Fox "News" is the last stop in a career....
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 04:50 PM
Dec 2013

You can't go to any REAL newsroom and impress everyone with this dump on your resume.

Even the crew.

Eljo_Don

(100 posts)
16. SAnta is white. Why not?
Sat Dec 14, 2013, 08:54 PM
Dec 2013

Africa is the continent where most black people live. Who is the king of the jungle? Tarzan is, a white man.

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