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The conservative news channels only real power is in riling up liberals, who by this point should know better.
There aint no sanity clause, Chico Marx told Groucho. There is also no Santa Claus. And there was no sanity in the Santa fracas that became an embarrassing liberal-media fixation just before Christmas. For those who missed it, what happened was this: A Fox News anchor, Megyn Kelly, came upon a tongue-in-cheek blog post at Slate in which a black writer, Aisha Harris, proposed that Santa be recast as a penguin for the sake of racial inclusiveness. After tossing this scrap of red meat to her all-white panel of prime-time guests, Kelly reassured any kids watching (this was nearing 10 p.m.) that Santa just is white. (For good measure, she added, Jesus was a white man, too.) Soon and sure enough, Kellys sound bites were being masticated in op-ed pieces, online, and especially on cable, where a passing wisecrack best left to the satirical stylings of Stewart and Colbert became a call to arms. At CNN, one anchor brought on Santas of four races to debunk Kelly. BuzzFeed reported that MSNBC *programs hopped on the story fourteen times in a single week.
Of course what Kelly said was dumb. But the reaction was even dumber. Every year, Fox News whips up some phantom war on Christmas plotted by what the networks blowhard-in-chief Bill OReilly calls secular progressives. This seasonal stunt has long been old news, yet many in the liberal media still cant resist the bait. You had to feel for the NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker, who was drafted into filing a Kelly-Santa story on the Today show for no *discernible reason other than that she is not white.
When this supposed national firestorm (as Al Sharpton inflated it on his MSNBC show) finally died down, only two things had been accomplished beyond the waste of everyones time. Liberals had played right into Foxs stereotype of themas killjoy p.c. police. And Fox News could once again brag about its power to set an agenda for its adversaries even as it also played the woebegone *victim.
Luddy, you've arrived. You've got absolutely nothing on RDean. Do you shine a flashlight into dark rooms before you enter, knowing that those evil Republican Conservatives are lurking behind every corner just waiting to make you recite the ten commandments under duress?
This is what takes up your time? As one of your comrade in arms is so fond of saying: "Evil pub dupes. Turn the channel." Maybe you understand that... I never have.
Frank Rich on Fox News, Roger Ailes -- New York Magazine
The conservative news channels only real power is in riling up liberals, who by this point should know better.
There aint no sanity clause, Chico Marx told Groucho. There is also no Santa Claus. And there was no sanity in the Santa fracas that became an embarrassing liberal-media fixation just before Christmas. For those who missed it, what happened was this: A Fox News anchor, Megyn Kelly, came upon a tongue-in-cheek blog post at Slate in which a black writer, Aisha Harris, proposed that Santa be recast as a penguin for the sake of racial inclusiveness. After tossing this scrap of red meat to her all-white panel of prime-time guests, Kelly reassured any kids watching (this was nearing 10 p.m.) that Santa just is white. (For good measure, she added, Jesus was a white man, too.) Soon and sure enough, Kellys sound bites were being masticated in op-ed pieces, online, and especially on cable, where a passing wisecrack best left to the satirical stylings of Stewart and Colbert became a call to arms. At CNN, one anchor brought on Santas of four races to debunk Kelly. BuzzFeed reported that MSNBC *programs hopped on the story fourteen times in a single week.
Of course what Kelly said was dumb. But the reaction was even dumber. Every year, Fox News whips up some phantom war on Christmas plotted by what the networks blowhard-in-chief Bill OReilly calls secular progressives. This seasonal stunt has long been old news, yet many in the liberal media still cant resist the bait. You had to feel for the NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker, who was drafted into filing a Kelly-Santa story on the Today show for no *discernible reason other than that she is not white.
When this supposed national firestorm (as Al Sharpton inflated it on his MSNBC show) finally died down, only two things had been accomplished beyond the waste of everyones time. Liberals had played right into Foxs stereotype of themas killjoy p.c. police. And Fox News could once again brag about its power to set an agenda for its adversaries even as it also played the woebegone *victim.
Left or right, when it comes to the idiocy that is fox, we all need to consider the source and just get on with real life and real news.
