Oh, Give It the Hell Up!
So Bill O’Reilly has seen Santa Claus in person and says that Megyn Kelly is right — he’s white.
And Megyn, who has not been told that her show is videotaped, is now claiming that she was just joking. Sure, that’s why everybody was laughing with her and not at her.
Okay, let’s strap both of them and force them with listen to Sweet Baby James.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR5vupwpRJc
Somewhere, someplace, insecure white people, fearful of losing their exceptionalism is cussin’ an angel for letting little children see the Santa they want to see and the Jesus they can understand.
Thanks to Aggieland Liz for the heads up.
What an absolutely “fair and balanced” way to illustrate out shared humanity. Rather than focusing on the lightness or darkness of an individual, we should be trying to see the child within us all, full of love and hope. Of course, that may be asking way too much of the dimwits at Fox.
1It is really unbelievable that we are discussing the color of a made up entity. Seriously??
2As for Jesus, what part of the world did he come from? Yeah, I’m pretty sure he couldn’t make it thru airport security.
sigh…what year is this???
Be kind and love one another.
3Fox nuts roasting on an open fire
Rushbots quibbling with the Pope
Jingle Bell Rock being sung by Karl Rove
O’Reilly acting like a dope.
Yes it IS beginning to look a lot like Kwanzaa.
4I love that song. I love y’all too.
5Mark Twain put it well .. “it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to talk and remove all doubt.”
Abe Lincoln said:
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt
Whether Lincoln or Twain or some anonymous person said it first, Megyn Kelly demonstrates the modern version on steroids. In the season of the Winter Solstice, most could be persuaded to forgive her. She was in error, but who has never been in error? But no, not only will she not admit her error and accept the smack downs that have come with it, she and the cast of clowns at Cluster Fox have escalated their imaginary war on Christmas and are taking verbal hostages of all children who do not fit their definition of white. Please, we beg you, Rupert and Roger, pull the plug on this insanity. Ujima, dudes!
6Megyn pretty clearly doesn’t realize that the Santa she has in mind is the one that was made up by Macy’s as an advertising gimmick to push Christmas sales–in probably the strongest salvo ever in the war to put commercialism into Christmas.
I’m thinking she’d have a really hard time connecting the dots between a white Santa pimping Macy’s to an elite white audience and the hugely non-xtian activities that surround the holiday now….
Sweet Baby Janes!
7The day that these white supremacists (or any other type of supremacist) can show me before they were born how they were able to chose, other than thru POEM*, the time, place, race, parents, IQ, good health, attractiveness, gifts, etc., is the day that I will give some credence to what they propound. I submit that the only thing any of us can choose is how to use whatever tools were given to us, period.
8*POEM = posterior orifice extraction methodology
Now my apology to all who celebrate Kwanzaa. I meant no disrespect to the celebration beginning December 26th and that Ujima is the greeting for the third day of celebration. I borrowed Ujima for the beauty of the message: To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers’ and sisters’ problems our problems, and to solve them together. Please accept my apology.
9I must have come from another planet. When I was a pup it was perfectly all right with whatever clergy to view Sweet Jesus in any and all colors. Their point was not the externals of Jesus but the ethical code that came with him.
When did the world get so damn dumb that they can’t see such a very simple point? Please don’t ask anyone on Faux Noose cuz I’m damn sure this is beyond them.
10The point was not the externals of Jesus but the ethical code that came with him not the Xmas poem-age.
11One of the truer adherents to the philosophy espoused by Christmas was MLK,and they shot him.
12Well, I did not find that music video helpful. It basically supports Kelly’s and Fox News’s position. The children are all beautifully diverse but Jesus is shown as definitely white. So, what did we learn? Sorry to be a grinch.
13Disclaimer: I am hard of hearing and may have missed lyrics that redeem the whole thing. If so, I apologize for my Grinchy-ness. But the visuals show Jesus as white, no matter what the children may wish to see.
14Don A — Thanks, GREAT song! I’m still waiting for information from FOX on the elves. I want to know if the elves are slaves, as they appear to be, and, if so, what color are they? Just saw a card that says the reindeer are all female — how else could they get all that done in one night? If we didn’t have FOX to give us all the facts, what, oh what, would we do? Phffffft!
15This boils down to:
“God looks like me. Not like you.”
16I want to see another remake of Planet of the Apes – – with a scene where the Monkey Claus delivers gifts to the ape children. Off to the side from a metal cage Megyn, Bill O, & Rush look on in disbelief, hands on faces in a see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil pose.
17The protector/advocate of the war on Christmas shoots and eats Santa’s reindeer for sport. She fired the first six shots in the war on Christmas a couple years ago(before Rudolph mercifully obeyed her command to die,damnit). Winter food for the Palin clan assayed at 40% lead.
18Dang it. I’m a contrarian. Now that every single email i get starts with HAPPY HOLIDAYS I think MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU TOO. I go around the stores saying MERRY CHRISTMAS! I don’t want folks to be afraid to say MERRY CHRISTMAS. So there.
19Hi Sandy! I started this kerfuffle so, from Lyrics.com:
Some children see Him lily white,
The baby Jesus born this night.
Some children see Him lily white,
With tresses soft and fair.
Some children see Him bronzed and brown,
The Lord of heav’n to earth come down.
Some children see Him bronzed and brown,
With dark and heavy hair.
Some children see Him almond-eyed,
This Savior whom we kneel beside.
Some children see Him almond-eyed,
With skin of yellow hue.
Some children see Him dark as they,
Sweet Mary’s Son to whom we pray.
Some children see him dark as they,
And, ah! they love Him, too!
The children in each different place
Will see the baby Jesus’ face
Like theirs, but bright with heavenly grace,
And filled with holy light.
O lay aside each earthly thing
And with thy heart as offering,
Come worship now the infant King.
‘Tis love that’s born this night.
It at least bears out and explores the idea that Jesus came for everyone, and everyone experiences him differently – or even, perhaps not at all.
20So, Bing Crosby was part of the War on Christmas back 71 years ago with “Happy Holidays” from that heathen “Holiday Inn” movie, and the conspirator Andy Williams had a big hit with it in the ’60’s. Who knew?
21My sainted father, a man built more for action and less for thought, took the cigar out of his mouth for a few nanoseconds in fall, 1968 or so and stammered out to me and my brothers something along the lines of “This ‘black’, ‘white’, ‘yellow’, ‘brown’ bizness confuses people. Yall aint smart nuff to decide. Think like we’re all ‘green’. Some of us are dark green and some of us are real light green.” Then with a jovial “now STFU” he replaced the cigar and we didn’t hear him speak (much) again until about 1973, at my wedding reception.
22Thanks Aggieland Liz–
23Nice lyrics.
When I went to my cousins last year to be as supportive as I could be for his mothers passing..he and I were talking about Jesus and I said the he was Jewish. After being there for a week, we were driving together and I asked how he was doing.
His reply was that he still hadn’t assimilated my statement about Jesus being a Jew. I added in that the “Christian” religion wasn’t solidly established until the 7th council of Nicaea, (787) where they came up with the Nicean creed. All many years after the death of Jesus and that several of the arguments at the council was whether or not you needed to become a Jew before you could join the Christian cult, separating Easter from Passover, stuff like that…pretty much blew the conversation out of the water…I think about the birth of Jesus, most likely in spring early summer, because of counting lambs for tax purposes…and the Holy Roman Catholic Church which overlaid the celebrations to fit the already established Empire winter celebrations–Mithras, born on Dec 25 –stuff like that
Jesus is one very successful Jewish mystic! Happy Holidays (Holy days the root of that) to everyone, they are all about the return of the sun/son and light in the darkness, the turning of the seasons that give us our world, so full of color and beauty.
Thanks, Aggieland Liz. Truly lovely.
24I don’t understand why we are even talking about this. OF COURSE Jesus was dark-skinned. OF COURSE Santa is whoever Macy’s wants him to be… The part of Megyn’s remarks that slayed me was when she said he was a historical figure. Uh, she must not know what “historical” means. The part that is MORE important is: why did he lay his finger beside his nose? What was Clement Moore thinking? Historically, I mean…
25It’s amazing. These people are paid to do/say this stuff.
I bet we can all agree that lil’ Megyn is a HYSTERICAL figure, and on many levels, at that!
26Megan–Santa is not a real person. Most people figure this out by the age of 10. Its is a myth. Grow up Megan.
27Every time I see MeGYN, I think of my gynecologist
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