Posted on 12/15/2013 5:53:11 PM PST by Kaslin
My nomination for the dumbest comment of the week by a television host on a news channel goes to CNN's Brian Stelter.
While talking to Slate's Aisha Harris about the reaction to her article calling for Santa Claus to be a penguin, the new Reliable Sources host wondered if Megyn Kelly wouldn't have been so adamant about Santa being white if Fox News had more black viewers (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BRIAN STELTER: You know, to tell you what I think for a minute, I kind of wonder if FOX had a different audience demographic, if she would have commented differently about Santa. You know, data from 2012 shows that about 1.4 percent of FOX's prime time audience is African- American. If that was 24 percent, I'm wondering if she would have said something differently. But, of course, that's not something we can know.
So Kelly's opinions might be determined by the racial makeup of her audience? Does Stelter think that's the way all hosts on news channels behave, or just those on Fox?
Regardless of the answer, this whole episode is just another example of how all those media proclamations that racism would end if we elected a black president were utter nonsense.
Would there have even been a reaction to Kelly's segment last week if the current White House resident wasn't an African-American?
If the answer is "No," that means there's more racial sensitivity today than there was before Barack Obama was elected.
Sadly, people in the media always quick to play the race card to advance their agenda are largely to blame.
Maybe one day we'll have a colorblind society, but be assured that the left and their media minions will do everything in their power to prevent it from happening.
How stupid.
CNN is such an amateur outfit anymore.
She would say Santa is black if 14% of Fox Viewers were black?
would CNN tell everyone that MLK Jr was white if they had more white viewers?
I’m guessing that black viewers make up a small minority of Megyn’s audience.
And I’m betting that even so, her number of black viewers is still significantly larger than CNN’s total viewership these days.
If you think Santa is a fictional character, then he can be any color you want him to be. If you believe Santa is based on the real life St. Nicholas (270 - 343 a.d.), then he was, indeed, white. He was also Greek, so it was an olvie-skinned white.
So I take it that black people are upset if they have a white Santa Claus in there house? That sounds racist to me.
Her comment was dumb. Insisting on the race of a fictional character is needless, and she hurt what was becoming a promising career.
This is the kind thing that you would expect from those that make race an issue. Really a shame though as they could make him any race that they wanted - for this fictional character.
Ya. Really dumb considering that Santa WAS WHITE.
This settles the question for me: http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/home/
Santa appears white. http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/who-is-st-nicholas/
I’ll give up a White Santa Claus when they give up a black man playing Mandella in all the movies to come.
I can’t help it if they don’t have any culture that equates to the same sorts of things from Africa. 100 years ago, I suppose they could claim slavery for that. Now they can’t.
Why should the West have to give up everything to make others feel comfortable? Don’t we have a right to comfort and our own culture?
Hell yes we do!
If we use this logic we would have to assume that MSNBC and CNN only have black viewers.
And I’m betting that even so, her number of black viewers is still significantly larger than CNN’s total viewership these days.
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I am betting that they are a lot smarter than CNN’s black viewers.
I didn’t think this little controversy could get stupider, but reality gone and done surprised me, again.
And I suppose that Harold Gray's "right wing politics" were also redacted from the film adaptations.
I know nothing of the people involved but it it stupid crap like this that gives TV infotainment and teapot tempests bad names.
“I kind of wonder if FOX had a different audience demographic, if she would have commented differently about Santa”
If this ignorant punk at CNN had more than a dozen viewers in total he wouldn’t be so envious of FOX and wouldn’t make such stupid statements.
There are black characters in the Thor movies. I didn’t know that there were black Norse gods.
They may be fictional characters but it is still racist to shoehorn in black casting where it was never written that way.
Sgt. Fury/Nick Fury, Little Orphan Annie, etc etc.
Maybe the next Shaft film could star a Chinaman.
I wanna see Jesus and the Apostles as Chinamen!
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