When I saw this headline I kind of laughed, and I said, ‘This is so ridiculous. Yet another person claiming it’s racist to have a white Santa,’ And by the way, for all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white. But this person is just arguing that maybe we should also have a black Santa, but Santa is what he is, and just so you know, we’re just debating this ’cause someone wrote about it, kids.
She compared the issue to that of the portrayal of Jesus.
“Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean it has to change,” she said. “Jesus was a white man, too … He was a historical figure, that’s a verifiable fact, as is Santa. I just want the kids watching to know that.”
The legend of Santa Claus was based on St. Nicholas, then a bishop in what is present-day Turkey. According to Sojourners magazine, "a composite, made from forensic anthropologists who reconstructed his skeleton from his crypt in Bari, Italy, shows that he looked very much like modern-day Turkish men." Jesus was a Palestinian Jew ("Palestinian" and "Jew" not being mutually exclusive) in 1st century Nazareth and "According to forensic anthropologists who examined countless remains from that time period to find the most likely image, he looked like a Middle-Eastern male of Arabic descent."
Kelly later acknowledged she had said "stupid things." But last week, now a professional podcaster, she joked
about NBC’s swift response to host Savannah Guthrie testing positive for Covid-19 in the middle of the Today Show.
On Sirius XM’s The Megyn Kelly Show, Kelly spoke with the hosts of the Ruthless Podcast, Comfortably Smug, Josh Holmes, Michael Duncan, and John Ashbrook.
Guthrie hosted just 20 minutes of Tuesday’s broadcast before she disappeared from the set. Later in the show, her co-hosts announced she had tested positive for Covid and gone home.
Kelly — who previously hosted her own iteration of the Today Show before leaving NBC — pointed out that Al Roker slowly distanced himself from other co-hosts as they explained that Guthrie had tested positive for Covid.
Notably, Roker was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2020 and was recently hospitalized for several weeks due to blood clots in his lungs.
“Do you believe they’re like canceling her, she’s running home from the set! Covid! I mean, at this point, seriously?” Kelly said.
“They’re getting pretty low on the desk chart. I mean, we’re gonna come back from commercial break and Matt Lauer’s gonna be back,” Holmes joked.
“Like, is anyone still even testing for Covid?” Kelly asked.
“I love that Al Roker is disappearing like the Homer Simpson meme into the hedge,” Duncan said.
As the conversation continued, Kelly argued that many people on the left are still gripped by fear of Covid.
“I mean, it’s amazing to me. These guys are leftists and it’s amazing to me to see how the leftists still live. Like under the grip of Covid, terrified,” Kelly said.
“She’s gotta leave the set immediately. Even to say like, I’m gonna take the Covid test. I don’t test for Covid anymore. Who’s testing for Covid still?” Kelly said.
“By the way, this is reportedly Savannah’s third bout of Covid, and I guarantee you she’s had all the vaccines and the boosters, because you won’t be able to go into 30 Rock without them,” Kelly said.
The world has changed a great deal since 2013. In a way, it's comforting to know that despite everything that has gone on, some things never change. One of them is Megyn Kelly and whatever combination of bigotry, stupid, and nastiness she embodies.
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