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Senator Al Franken on Santa Claus – “Maybe, you know, he’s Jewish”

If a Jewish senator can turn a “Secret Santa” gift exchange into a tradition for his colleagues, why can’t Santa be Jewish?

That’s Sen. Al Franken’s (D-MN) take on the whole “Santa is white” debate.

“You know, there’s been a lot of controversy about the ethnicity of Santa lately,” the former “Saturday Night Live” comedian joked Wednesday on NPR’s “Morning Edition.” “Maybe, you know, he’s Jewish.”

Senate lawmakers on Tuesday night celebrated a third year of their gift exchange, which Franken came up with to bring colleagues from both sides of the aisle together for the holidays.

Among this year’s quirky gifts were presidential Pez dispensers, buffalo jerky, and an elephant statue carved from coal. That last one was a present from West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin (D) to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).

Listen below, courtesy of NPR:

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OMG! Reporter Tells Kids, “Santa is made up!”

The truth is out of the bag. Santa is out of work in Raleigh!

Parents of kids young enough to still believe in Santa Claus living in the Raleigh-Durham market were left scrambling to undo what WTVD anchor Anna Laurel did during the ABC owned station’s 4:00 p.m. newscast yesterday.

While tossing to meteorologist Chris Hohmann after a story about a school denying a black student the opportunity to be Santa, anchor Anna Laurel told viewers, “Hide your ears, but the Santa of today is made up.”

The station responded to comments on its facebook page by writing, “We obviously struck a raw nerve during our Santa story at 4 pm. We will be more mindful of our 4 pm audience in the future.”

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Another Fruitcake Insist – Santa Is White Because Martin Luther King is Black – Video

A self-described libertarian radio host on Monday defended Fox News host Megyn Kelly’s assertion that Santa Claus was white, saying he was going to “scream and complain because Martin Luther King is always portrayed as black.”

In a clip obtained by BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski, Herman Cain radio show guest host Neal Boortz speaks to a caller who called to complain that Kelly had been criticized after she recently said that both Santa and Jesus Christ were white men.

“Yeah, I’m sorry, Santa Claus is white!” Boortz exclaims. “Okay? Deal with it!”

“Everything has got to be black now, it doesn’t matter what it is,” the caller laments.

“You know, I’m going to scream and complain because Martin Luther King is always portrayed as black,” Boortz quips. “It just ain’t right.”

Boortz goes on to predict that he was going to “chase away” about 100,000 of Herman Cain’s listeners before the show was over.

Listen to the audio below from the Herman Cain Show, broadcast Dec. 16, 2013.

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Megyn Kelly Changes her Mind on Santa Claus’s Skin Color – Video

Fox Host Megyn Kelly, kicking off a discussion with her panel on Fox News, stated something she called a fact – that Santa Claus was white. Megyn went all out to make sure that any kids watching Fox News at that moment knew that Santa was a white man. Well that was then, this is now.

It seems Megyn Kelly has had a change of heart. Due to all the press her dumb statement caused, Kelly is walking back her statement, calling it “a joke.” and based on a video below she’s apparently blaming everybody for not knowing that she was joking.

In kicking off the lighthearted segment, I offered a tongue-in-cheek message for any kids watching, saying that Santa, who I joked is a real person whose race is identifiable, is white.

In her video response to the outrage her statement caused, Kelly tried a classic Republican trick, projection – turning her statement around and blaming the audience for taking her statement seriously. This projection trick is classic for Republicans. We’ve seen them play this game times before where they say something outrageous, and when called on it, they take a Holier than thou position, acting as if they were always right and you were always wrong for correctly understanding their statement.

Prepare yourself to be bulldozed. The turn the tables method demonstrated in the video below is a doozie.

“Well, this would be funny if it were not so telling about our society,” Kelly says, “in particular the knee-jerk instinct by so may to race bait and to assume the worst in people. Especially people employed by the very powerful Fox News channel.”

Bulldozed!

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