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Re: Children, don't worry! Santa Claus is white. - Chakravartin - 12-13-2013 Lemon Drop wrote: That's where the reindeer and red/white outfits came from. Here's a neat take on how they got tied in (not necessary truthful,but fun to consider): http://news.yahoo.com/magic-mushrooms-may-explain-santa-flying-reindeer-210334389.html The elves are supposedly also Icelandic in origin. Re: Children, don't worry! Santa Claus is white. - Lemon Drop - 12-13-2013 Interesting! Hmmmmm..... Here's the Slate piece they were discussing on Fox, by Aisha Harris. And a great comment about it: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/holidays/2013/12/santa_claus_an_old_white_man_not_anymore_meet_santa_the_penguin_a_new_christmas.html "What? There's no such thing as a BLACK Santa Claus. Of course they used to say the same thing about cowboys, astronauts, Olympic ice skaters, quarterbacks, executives, astrophysicists, opera singers, people sitting at a Woolworth lunch counter, Barbie dolls, GI Joes, news anchors, brain surgeons, and US Presidents." Re: Children, don't worry! Santa Claus is white. - DeusxMac - 12-13-2013 Lemon Drop wrote: I know about the... the Russian Babushka Doesn't Babushka just mean grandmother? Re: Children, don't worry! Santa Claus is white. - eustacetilley - 12-13-2013 DeusxMac wrote: I know about the... the Russian Babushka Doesn't Babushka just mean grandmother? Dedushka Moroz ![]() http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz Eustace Re: Children, don't worry! Santa Claus is white. - Speedy - 12-13-2013 Megyn got the night off from her show with another Fauxy blonde filling in. Roger Ailes was probably giving her a spanking. Re: Children, don't worry! Santa Claus is white. - Lemon Drop - 12-13-2013 DeusxMac wrote: I know about the... the Russian Babushka Doesn't Babushka just mean grandmother? It does, and there is a Russian Christmas tradition for children around that: "In Russia, it is believed that an elderly woman named Babouschka purposely gave the wise men wrong directions to Bethlehem so that they couldn't find Jesus. Later, she felt remorseful, but could not find the men to undo the damage. To this day, on January 5, Babouschka visits Russian children leaving gifts at their bedsides in the hope that one of them is the baby Jesus and she will be forgiven." Re: Children, don't worry! Santa Claus is white. - Lemon Drop - 12-13-2013 Stewart nailed it. Jon Stewart hit back: "Who are you actually talking to?" He tried to imagine the kid Kelly was addressing: "Sophisticated enough to be watching a news channel at 10 o'clock at night, yet innocent enough to still believe Santa Claus is real, yet racist enough to be freaked out if he isn't white." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/13/jon-stewart-megyn-kelly-s_n_4440054.html Re: Children, don't worry! Santa Claus is white. - davester - 12-14-2013 I think the big takeaway here that everybody is missing is that Megyn Kelly actually believes there is a Santa Claus. Re: Children, don't worry! Santa Claus is white. - Lemon Drop - 12-14-2013 Her scripted on air excuse was that she was kidding. And that people criticizing her bizarre and stupid comments are just race-baiting meanies who don't like Fox News employees. (oh, the irony) She did however acknowledge that she got it wrong about Jesus. The problem is that she advertises herself regularly as a "straight journalist", not a talk show host. It's just another reason (if anyone needed one, which they shouldn't) not to take this woman, her show, or her network seriously. Re: Children, don't worry! Santa Claus is white. - Chakravartin - 12-14-2013 Jon Stewart fights boredom with the subject: http://jezebel.com/jon-stewarts-megyn-kelly-takedown-is-so-so-good-1482648941 Second slot's weird. Sliced and diced. Looks like someone at Comedy Central freaked out and cut out all the Jesus stuff. |