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.
I guess Stelter doesn’t know about St. Nicholas.
Well, they can have a black Santa if they want....
...but that would be stupid.
“The mythical Santa can be anything you want him to be. In New York, Macys had, at least 20 years ago, two lines for the kids waiting to see Santa one was marked Traditional Santa and the other said Urban Santa.”
No, the mythical Santa is white also. Only the minorities and the politically correct want it to be otherwise. Anything other than a white Santa, both real and the myth based on the real, is a lie and a farce.
Yep, that's gotta be it! /sarc
Stelter might not have insisted Santa Claus be black if CNN had a viewer...
Our current version of Santa is an invention of the Coca Cola company. His suit matches the colors of Coca Cola red and white. If you go back pre Coca Cola his suit tended to be multicolored from what I have read.
24%? Where is Fox supposed to find that many black tv viewers?
1.4% sounds about right. That’s how many didn’t vote for obama.
I see liberals on Facebook having a cow over this. Somehow it’s horrible and racist for a white person to dare say Santa is white. But objecting to Santa being white sounds pretty darned racist to me!
Increasingly, whites are not allowed to have anything of their own...no heroes, no characters, no legends, no nothing. We must hand over everything, big or small, to any nonwhite who demands it.
Do we really expect CNN hosts to be smart? Not in this lifetime, my friend.
CNN’s CNN’s Brian Stelter should be made to view all of the Sanford and Sons reruns to see how the original Fox handled those issues.
It’s about destroying the culture.
It’s the leftist cultural revolution being perpetrated on the West.
It's not offensive, just dumb. The article should have been mocked completely, instead of insisting that "Santa Claus was white."
Santa isn't real, regardless of whether his image is based off of someone from the 3rd century.
It was a dumb way to respond because the article was so silly, they should have just laughed at it, instead of trying to argue over the race of friggin' Santa Claus, who is not real by the way.
There would be nothing wrong with making Shaft Asian, and it wouldn't be racist to do so.
You don't seem to understand what racism is. It has nothing to do with changing the race of fictional characters for whatever reason.
Not true, the ancient Greeks were blue eye blond hair white, well a lot of them anyway. Dido the Romans of the Roman Republic era.
I know he’s not real, but like the fictional characters of Tom Thumb or Snow White, he’s white in virtually every depiction of him.
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