is wrong is it's christmas time so santa clause is on everyone's mind once again but thanks to meghan kelly said it has been a topic of conversation for more than the usual reasons this year fox news host unleashed a firestorm of controversy earlier this month when she said our show that father christmas is definitely one. in slate they have a piece. santa claus should not be a white man anymore and when i saw this headline i kind of laughed and i saw this is so ridiculous yet another person claiming it's racist to have a white santa you know and by the way for all you kids watching at home santa just is white but this person is just arguing that that maybe we should we should also have a black santa but you know santa is what he is. in the days since saturday gate the media has spent countless hours analyzing kelly's comments some pundits have come to her defense agreements as white others have attacked her pointing out that the real same neck a fourth century christian religious icon is actually turkish all politics aside though the whole meghan kelly set of santa clause can controversy r

the top you may recall if you've seen our program last week we had a little spirited fun with meghan kelly. we're -- meg yin kelly. her response to santa being a color other than white. >> kids at home santa is white. we're just debating this because someone wrote about it. >> jon: see. [ laughter ] like most debates it started by giving you the definitive answer first. now, unfortunately for miss kelly for fox her spram televised. -- her program is televised. and people who saw the segment or read about it expressed an opinion that what she said was wrong and defensive and oddly definitive for a discussion of a fictional character and (bleep)ed. people thought it was like really (bleep)ed up. that was actually the economists take on it. [ laughter ] but on friday miss kelly took to the airwaves to clear things up. >> in kicking off a light hearted segment i offered a tongue and cheek message for any kids watching saying that santa, who i joked is a real person whose race is identifiable is white. an offhand jest is now a national firestorm. humor is something we try to bring to the show b

the top you may recall if you've seen our program last week we had a little spirited fun with meghan kellyta being a color other than white. >> kids at home santa is white. we're just debating this because someone wrote about it. >> jon: see. [ laughter ] like most debates it started by giving you the definitive answer first. now, unfortunately for miss kelly for fox her spram televised. -- her program is televised. and people who saw the segment or read about it expressed an opinion that what she said was wrong and defensive and oddly definitive for a discussion of a fictional character and (bleep)ed. people thought it was like re

the bad meghan kelly some people say the kelly file host who is the rational person boxer called news for those people probably haven't seen what she said last night during an episode of her show discussing the slate dot com article to criticize the popular depiction of santa claus as a white man kelly both defended the idea that said as white men try to justify their argument by saying the jesus was also white chalk it up. in slate they have a piece. santa claus should not be a white man anymore and when i saw this headline i kind of laughed i sound this is so ridiculous yet another person claiming it's racist to have a white santa you know 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 we should also have a black santa just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change you know i mean jesus was a white man too but you know it's like we have he was a historical figure i mean that's a verifiable fact as actually jesus was not white at least the way he is typically the pictures of northe

bad as the media says it is we'll talk about that and more and tonight's big picture rubble and meghan kelly ignited a stocking full of controversy earlier this year with her comments about santa claus but lost in all the hoopla over whether set is white or black is the real question why do we use a big man in a jolly red suit to celebrate a christian holiday. greetings you know this netflix is coming out with a new documentary chronicle in the life of mitt romney the trailer has just been released and if you haven't seen it yet it's worth watching it opens with a scene of romney coming to grips with the fact that he is losing in the two thousand and twelve presidential election check it out. i can't believe you're going to. so we say in a concession. by the way some of them are for the president. one thing that probably won't be in netflix's romney documentary however is any discussion of the ongoing lawsuit that the former bain capital c.e.o. is involved in in southern california back in october los angeles businessman stephen haas sued mitt romney and nine others including goldman sachs o

. >> does it bother you when people like meghan kelly insist you're white?m surprised people thought i wasn't black. you ever known a white man to wear an all red suit? i mean, people want to believe the reality that's most comfortable to them. they don't want to live in a world where santa is black and one of his reindeer is gay. >> which one? >> come on, cecily. prancer! >> it was a pretty good episode, i thought. and it goes to show both the power of the member for someone to write a blog toest that gets his attention and the power of to action to get it more attention. >> definitely. >> jon stewart talk it on as well. from "the daily show" a couple nights ago when they took this topic on also. let's roll that. >> who are you actually talking to? children who are? st sophisticated enough to watch a news channel at 10:00 at night, yet innocent enough to still believe santa claus is real, yet racist enough to be freaked out that he isn't white. >> this really did take on a life of its own. i wonder if you plan on writing anything more about this. >> i wrote

when meghan kelly said -- >> for all you kids at home, santa claus is white and people are arguing wee're just debating it because someone wrote about it, kids. >> that was last week and the debate began. >> there are a lot of people out there who automatically assume that santa must be white. >> santa claus is black. he just is. >> santa is black. santa is white. santa is red. >> ms. kelly is correct. santa was a white person. >> santa claus to me is a black man. >> the point is that santa, if you believe in him, which many of us do, is a function of what you grew up with. >> my jamaican santas and cuban santas. >> get to the facts. just ask santa himself what race he is. the problem for some reason we were unable to get ahold of him. we just couldn't do it. i assume it's because it's his busy season. we wanted to ask about a religion. i always like to think of santa as a presbyterian but can i say that definitively? no. it's going to pale in comparison to the fact if we find out he's a wiccan. what about the nine ladies dancing and eight maids a milking? are they white? is frosty th

showing how kelly thomas was beaten and tasered by police officers before his death the latest on the case later in the show. it's monday december second five pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r t well starting off the news this hour a federal district court in san francisco is hearing the case today of a woman who has been fighting to remove her name from the terror watch list for over eight years now it's a list that's easy to get your name on but almost impossible to get off of stanford university ph d. student rouhani even if he was boarding a flight home to malaysia from the san francisco international airport in two thousand and five when authorities arrested her they told her she was on the terror watch list now eventually mrs even to him was allowed to travel again above her student id was for her student visa was revoked and she was not allowed back in the u.s. the evidence levied against her is unclear at this point and the government argues that revealing the information that poster on that list would jeopardize national security and mrs even if he was not alone by the end of last year the u.s. database of potential international terrori