nicholas center which is dedicated to the truth of santa claus. he was originally greek. >> kelly has since said her santa comment was tongue in cheek and has been blown way out of proportion. >> for me the fact that an off hand jest i made about whether santa should be replaced by a penguin has now become a national firestorm says two things, race is a volatile issue in this country and fox news and you your truly are big targets. >> for "the 11th hour," martin savage, cnn. >>> here to talk about this is an author of a book called "zealot." >> i want to play megan's response to her comments. >> this would be funny if it was not so telling. the knee jerk instinct by so many to race bait and assume the worst in people. >> bill you think she has a point but you say that santa is white? >> there is no question about it. he is st. nick. nick was greek. the last time i checked greeks weren't black. it is much ado about nothing. i never met a racist at fox or cnn in my life and god knows that megan kelly doesn't have a racist bone in her body. people nee

. >> so in slate, they have a piece on dot-com, santa claus should not be a white man anymore. and when i saw this headline, i kind of laughed and said, this is so ridiculous. yet another person claiming it's racist to have a white santa, you know. 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 because someone wrote about it, kids. >> okay, there are several things wrong with that clip we just played and we'll talk about all of them with the woman who wrote that slave piece, next. ♪ [ male announcer ] ever wonder why no other mouthwash feels like listerine®? because no other mouthwash works like listerine®. in your mouth, bacteria forms in layers. listerine® penetrates these layers deeper than other mouthwashes, killing bacteria all the way down to the bottom layer. so for a cleaner, healthier mouth, go with the mouthwash dentists recommend more than all others combined. #1 dentist recommended listerine®... pow

. >> so in slate, they have a piece on dot-com, santa claus should not be a white man anymore. and when i saw this headline, i kind of laughed and said, this is so ridiculous. yet another person claiming it's racist to have a white santa, you know. 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 because someone wrote about it, kids. >> okay, there are several things wrong with that clip we just played and we'll talk about all of them with the woman who wrote that slave piece, next. [ coughs, sneezes ] i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can't rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. they don't? alka seltzer plus night fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a decongestant. [ inhales deeply ] oh. what a relief it is. to help secure retirements and protect financial futures. to help communities recover and rebuild. for companies going from garage

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you are the author of "santa claus, a biography." one of the things i noticed when i moved to france is the difference in the santa outfit. he wears a long robe, big hood. why are there differences? version is a descendent more of saint nicholas and his if this couple outfit. -- his his at thi episcopal outfit. rotunds a fatter, more north american santa claus that comes out of their early 19th century in north america, where saint nicholas, who had been brought to north america by dutch colonists, is changed into a secularized, rather plump and elfish, north america version. >> is it true that that version is linked to coca cola? >> absolutely not. single claim that coke can make on santa. the red and white uniform, the richness of his complexion, and his fatness were all standardized in the world about 30 years before coke began their famous ads. >> santa has been getting a bit controversial in north america this season. there has been a big debate about what is santa's race. what is that all about? commentator on american tv made

is there a santa claus?r she received to that question. this time to the next generation of children sitting right before her. >> yes, virginia, there is a santa claus. he exists as certainly as love and generosity exists. >> reporter: all of those years later, virginia was still moved by what they wrote back to her. >> alas, how dreary would be the world if there were no santa claus? it would be as dreary as if there were no virginias. >> reporter: virginia would share her story through the years. just listen to this very serious radio interview we discovered from 1937. >> first we'd like to know your own reactions to the letter. >> i took the editorial very literally but found it overwhelmingly convincing. >> will you tell us something about your christmas in 1897? was it particularly happy? >> oh, my goodness. it was very happy. >> reporter: more than a century later, the windows in new york city telling her story all over again. virginia answering the most important question of them all. >> do you still

since then the operation got bigger every year. >> this santa claus project has been going on 101 years. it's just amazing through world war ii, world war i. >> reporter: 63-year-old man has been an anonymous santa for seven years. he's a retired elementary school teacher. >> during christmas hanukkah season i would do a lot of shopping for kids in the class for this time of year, so i miss it. >> reporter: this year he chose a letter from a 13-year-old boy who wants toys and clothes for himself and his two siblings. the boy says his parents are poor. he spent a good two days looking for gifts for the three kids and their parents. >> purple is a nice color. art came back to the main post offi office. >> there are living entities that either can be considered santa claus or are santa claus. >> reporter: thousands of christmas dpifts are on their way to children in need. what new yorkers call the christmas miracle will surely happen again this year. nhk world, new york. >> the smiles on their faces. a storm is looming over western europe causing havoc. our meteorologist robert speta has b

father christmas arguing that he has german origins and is in danger of being sidelined by america's santa claus. wow. oh, oh, oh, germany going after santa? looks like someone didn't learn their lesson about invading the poles. folks, i tell you, i tell you what right now, folks-- (applause) these scrooge mcdeutschelanders claim that father christmas was born in the mid 19th century when a munich magazine published a mack of a grim looking man in a hooded coat carrying a christmas tree through the snow. bad news, germany, that's not a beloved christmas symbol, that's just a homeless guy, okay. he thinks the tree is his wife. (laughter) but evidently father christmas is white, so he could come up with santa claus forming a kind of axis of racial purity. there's no way that could go wrong. for more on this christmas culture war please welcome germany's ambassador to the united nations, the honorable hines beinholz, thank you, mr. ambassador. thank you much. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: please, now, now mr. ambassador, thank you so much for joining us. tell me, who, to the german people who i

i grew up with a black santa claus. all our santa clauss were black.a and that's perfectly line. i think isha harris's idea is fine, since there's so many americans, maybe we should take race out of the question isn't bad at all. if we're trying to err on the side of exclusivity, it makes sense, but to get outraged at the idea there's non-white santas is ridiculous because i guarantee you right now if you walk into the home of an african-american person almost anywhere in the country, you would find a black santa claus and a black angel and a black jesus. >> i think you would find a black santa claus in every home because santa claus is black in black homes and santa claus is white in white homes. santa claus is mexican in mexican homes. so let me just tell you, santa claus to me is a black man. now, eric, i want to ask you this. i was with her. i understood what she meant in the beginning, i think what she meant. i don't want to put words in her mouth. but if you look at the depiction of santa claus, the popular representation of santa claus, if you l

. >> on slate.com they have a piece about santa claus should not be a white person anymore. for all you kids at home, santa is white but people want a black santa. but we're just debating this because santa is what he is but we're debating it because someone wrote about it, kids. [laughter] >> jon: (bleep) just got real. sabta -- santa is just white. and who are you actually talking to? [laughter] children who are sophisticated enough to be watching 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 if he isn't white. [ laughter ] [cheers and applause] that's such a narrow -- yes, west virginia, there is a santa claus. [laughter] but since we're pretending to debate this, carry on. >> the author seems to have, you know she's african-american and she seems to have real pain at having grown up with this image of a white santa. just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change. >> jon: actually i think that is the official slogan of oppression. [ laughter ] oppression: just becau

i mean, santa claus should be whatever kids imagined that santa claus is, and the fact it has racial over tones and we were discussing this on my own program, makes me sad. >> i completely agree with you, as always, barbara walters. let's turn to the obvious second question, which is why are you retiring? to me you're the preeminent interviewer in the world on television. why are you going? >> well, you have to go sometime. i mean, maybe you don't, but i want to go while people say what you just said to me, why are you going rather than is she still here? [ laughter ] it isn't that i interviewed everybody but every president since richard nixon. i interviewed almost every big movie star and i just felt it was time to go. now, when i leave, am i going to say i should have gone another week, another month? maybe. in my gut i feel it's time to go, and i look forward to not having to do homework, and not having to show up at a particular time. piers, you and i were talking and i'll give you my best advice and tell you you should never retire but it feels right to me. >> let's turn to the

called the am and need to miscarry up the mushroom it's a mushroom and it's a mushroom that has santa claus's it's a red mushroom with white spots on it and it's like santa is perennial costume colors and the shamans go flying when they ingest that ceremonial mushroom and i found out of the caribou the reindeer of the northern country also eat the m. and even the scarier now one of the things about just a poisonous mushroom so one of the ways that you can have a high effect without getting poisoned is that you. drink the urine of another shopman who has taken the hit so to speak for you and so sr sherman's pee in a glass jar and they can give to drink eight apprentice shermans but the caribou also know the same thing so they eat each other's yellow snow the shamans eat the caribou as yellow snow the caribou eat the shermans yellow snow so they all get high without getting poisoned while somebody who ever has first seen snow in a marsh from is getting poisoned with. it but they survive after after a while the body gets used to it ok that hits the liver i think it's and it's really bad so what

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[laughter] >> that's a good thing you've got, santa claus.spinning yes, indeed,. >> must have for poor -- performed like this before. >> my father gave it to me. >> some dog care in. >> season to, this week edith roosevelt to grace coolidge, weeknights at nine on c-span. >> joining us on booktv on c-span2 is josh dubois. before we get into your book, what is your day job? >> i led the face on 10 faith-based for president obama's first term. >> do you have a church? >> i don't have a church now but i attended a wonderful congregation here in d.c. >> how did you get josÉ with the president and his faith-based initiative? >> i started with them early in the senate term 2005. i was just doing outreach like a lot of other folks and i decided one day this guy needs some rethinking about his cell. decide to send them anyway -- into one morning. to know if we would respond. it was reflection on the 23rd psalm but it will be back and said this is exactly what i needed today. would you do it every single day? that was six years ago. >> when we read "th

santa claus -- >> he's got a point about turkey. >> santa claus. >> emphasis being right at the centery color you want. but the historical santa was turkish. >> whatever color he is, he loves the children. no matter what color they are. james brown had a song called santa goes straight through the ghetto. whether you go to poor whites, brown, yellow, make sure you touch every child. >> richard who works with us in makeup had a great line. he said santa claus is what every child needs him to be and the children gets to define santa claus, not some tv commentator. >> that's well said. i wish our public policy could express that in terms of the humanity of our poor children. >> at christmas, there ought to and greater capacity to slow down. the new york times series on the homeless children in new york city, it makes you think how could a country this powerful, this wealthy, not find a way to bring itself together. >> but it's, christmas brings out everyone's anxieties, though. that's the weird thing. >> i want to thank cornell west. go to facebook or twitter to weigh in on our fire back

tuvo que ser suspendida luego de que un hombre vestido como santa claus recibiera un impacto de bala hielo cubre la carretera, los Árboles, y las lÍneas de alta tensiÓn, como resultado, miles de hogares continÚan sin electricidad. otra, rama cae interrumpiendo el surtido elÉctrico, en consecuencia,muchas personas no tienen energÍa. no sabemos quÉ haremos, nos dice, si no se reestablece la electricidad. es que no han podido ni preparar la cena para esa noche, en michigan la compaÑÍa ha anunciado que no podrÁn restablecer servicios a finales de diciembre. la peligrosa combinaciÓn de lluvia, nieve e hielo, se han convertido en una pesadilla para miles de personas que intentan viajar. compaÑÍas como ups estÁn experimentando grandes retrasos, sin duda alguna, es una blanca navidad, para algunos, mÁs de lo que quisieran. >> la reforma migratoria no se logrÓ este 2013, y muchos no saben quÉ pasarÁ el prÓximo aÑo, pero muchos imaginan que la presiÓn contra los legisladores serÁ mayor para lograr la legislaciÓn, muchos aseguran que el prÓximo aÑo la lucha finalmente darÁ sus frutos. >> esta s

merry christmas again to you, santa claus is here with us. we can answer your questions. estion for you. we want to know the answer. chelsea has asked do the reindeer open presents when they get home or do they take a nap first? >> chelsea, i would like them to take a nap first but they get so excited when they get back, they run right over there to open up their presents. >> do they let rudolph join in the reindeer games? >> of course. his nose is so bright that sometimes they can't see getting into their presents so i have to ask them to dim it down. >> my question to santa, do the elves stay in their own toy department year after year or do they all switch it up? >> molly, i let them switch it up if they want to because there's so many different thing that they're making that they like to play with them too as much as i do so we let them switch it up a little bit and they have a lot of fun that way. >> here's what valley is valerie is asking. you eat so many cookies christmas night. how do you manage to get that weight off at your age? >> that is the one night mrs. clau

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he venido en busca de santa claus.r tranquilamente con Él me han dicho que tengo que buscarlo en el bosque, en una pequeÑa casa campesina. donde refugio para revisar mapas, leer cartas y pensar en todos los niÑos del mundo. >> hola. quiÉn estÁ aquÍ! >> santa! >> jo jo jo jo. buenos dÍas! >> estoy muy emocionada por conocerte. >> bienvenida al cÍrculo polar. que placer! >> pese al frÍo y a la chimenea que nos esperaba dentro, santa quiere que conozcamos sus animales. el cachorro que tengo en brazos, de adulto es capaz de recorrer 200 km diarios tirando del trineo. sin dudarlo, se monta en uno de sus aparatos para enseÑarnos como es un viaje. >> me cuesta convencerlo, pero finalmente podemos entrar casa y conversar junto al fuego. >> quiero saber mÁs de tu vida privada. tiene familia? >> hay una persona mama claus para los amigos, con ella hemos empezado juntos. no recuerdo cuÁndo exactamente. pero no le vas a decir a ella que no me acuerdo. >> en el pueblo, el tres de sus ayudantes elfos no se detienen. recibe muchas ca

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they have a piece that santa claus shouldn't be a white man anymore. other person saying it's racist to have a white santa. by the way, for the kids at home, santa just is white but this person is arguing that maybe we should also have a black santa. santa is what he is and we are debating this because someone wrote about it. when i read the piece, the author seems to have -- you know, she's african-american. she seems the to have real pain at having grown up with the image of a white santa. she speaks honestly saying i didn't understand why that had to be. >> she wants san to be inclusive. i was thinking this is more politically correct nonsense, hyper sensitivity in the culture. it's a tribute to her writing. your realize if you were a young african-american kid and your santa claus was white, maybe you wouldn't feel a part of the tradition. she suggestions a penguin should be santa. >> and goes off the rails. >> it's interesting to have an animal which is something that kids love, bricks the cartoonish quality into it and makes kids feel welcome. >>

we've had this issue popped up of racializing santa claus. we all know where it started. h the conversation. take a listen. >> hello, everyone! merry christmas! hello! >> wow, you're santa? >> that's right. i guess the truth is out. you heard of secret santa. here's a secret for you. i'm black as hell. >> the races of all of our favorite mystical holiday figures have long been determined. santa, white. easter bunny, white. tooth fairy, latina. >> from late night to the classroom, there's one new mexico high school teacher on leave after questioning a student's decision to dress up like santa claus saying don't you know santa claus is white. and lisa robinson spoke with a black santa in baltimore and we want to show you part of that report. take a look. >> leave me some chocolate chip cookies and milk on the table. >> santa luke has faithfully come to the mall for 28 years. before that, he was at lafayette market. he knows about the black versus white santa talk going on. after 30 years in the business, he says he's heard it all. >> i get you're not dark enough or you're to

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in slate they have a piece on dot com santa claus should not be a white man anymore and when i saw this headline i kind of laughed 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 maybe we should we should also have a black santa but you know santa is what he is. in the days since savage gate the media has spent countless hours analyzing kelly's comments some pundits have come to her defense agree and says white of his have attacked or point out that the real saint nick a fourth century christian religious icon is actually turkish all politics aside though the whole maggie and kelly set of santa clause can controversy raises some interesting questions i mean why do we associate a christian holiday with a jolly fat man who lives at the north pole and what's that flying reindeer stuff all about joining me now from new paltz new york to help answer our santa questions and psychologist author of the center for symbolic studies dr steven

that's how santa claus came into being. why the bother. any talk of skin color brings out the zelots and controversy with the fox nows channel will be seized on by the media. >> i guess the truth is out. secret sant a. here is a secret for you. i am black at hell. >> that i never anyhow. >> good, better for everybody that way. you know how many preponderates i got to deliver. i can't afford to get pulled over. >> are you okay for santa being white. >> white guy attacking credit for what a black guy did. >> miss kelly is correct. santa was a white person. does it matter? no it doesn't matter. it is a spirit based on kindness to children and magical moments. but for those who despoiz the fox news channel there is nothing magical. the mainstream media was dismissive believes that abc, cnn would crush us. the liberal media attacked. they can't defeat us on the media battlefield the far left seeks to demonize fox news as a racist enterprise. and why miss megyn got headlines about a santa claus remark that was totally harmless. and that is a mem

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and i love the fact that they australia a santa claus pinata. all chase it. one of them has taken the insides out of santa and not sharing with the rest of6'.kr t. they also have a frozen snowman with a nose and of course this does not stay together because dogs, as we know, like to tear everything they get apart. >> and pugs are so cute with their little smooshed faces. >> but my favorite shot at the very tend really tells santa what they think of him. >> oh, pad on him. >> he's just marking him my santa. >> the holiday is here, dinging that bell, the santa claus of the salvation army collecting that change. they've created a video showing how easy it is to give. >> it's the old rube goldberg machine or device. they're all things donated to the salvation army store. you have everything from basketballs to cds. >> teddy bears. >> it's good because it's showing what you probably have laying around the house that you have don't need. >> a giant medicine ball fun. refrigerator. swings and swings and swings and n it. >> those are all xbox games. righ

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missiles and all sorts of man-made objects, but every year on christmas eve, they start tracking santa claus. the reason for this, this dates back well over 50 years. take a look at this picture. it started back in 1955 when sears, the toy store, advertise to their santa hotline, or telling them to call a number, and they were calling the number four santa claus. it was actually the defense command. told the staff to check the radar to see if they could find santa claus and it update on his location, and it is a tradition that has continued for well over 50 years. >> do you have another one? >> i do have another one. this is a quick video. ways,in many different and one of the ways that a group of canadians do christmas is to see what christmas would look like through the eyes of your favorite movie directors. ♪ >> 1972. the first christmas. mom was prepping the bird, and dad was watching tv. 10:00 a.m..t is , christmas,mas christmas ♪ ♪ it is christmas time absolutely brilliant. thank you. good to see you. direction, but stay with us here. you are watching live from paris on france 24. foll

you just need to believe in santa claus, at least the santa claus rally.ppens after that, you ask? >> joining us now, jeff hersh as well as gary goldberg. welcome to you both. jeff, i think a lot of people talk about the santa claus rally as something in the run up to christmas. you say it really happens in the days after. >> yeah. it's something we discovered back in '72. it's the last five trading days of the year averages 17% on the s&p 500. friend did a study in the "the journal" back to 1986 better than any other seven day period of the year. >> eeb with the gains we've seen in the last 12 months, does that skew the possibility of this seasonal trend to happen this year? >> not necessarily. these gains have been quite seasonally, you know, expected as well. first half of december tends to be weak. i think after a couple weeks of softness here, we can get a santa claus rally get a small cap effect, a january effect. the important part other than the nice little gain can you get out of a santa claus rally is a phrase yale -- my father came up with if sa

los alejó del a violencia, un santa claus en washington se recupera de un disparo de una escopeta>> cada vez más grandes y poderosas, esta metralladora calibre 50 de uso militar fue hallada en una cárcel, en manos de una banda de poresos desde hace 3 años y fue utilizada en el último motín que dejó 16 muertos para combatir con bandas rivales, tras el motín la cárcel fue desalojada y cerrada, en meses se realizo una revisión y hallaron rosita, como llamaban los reos a la metralladora en honor a una modelo . >>> armas de fuego, parte de sistema de armas, cargadores para armas de fuego, municiones, explosivos. >>> expertos estiman que con los materiales hallados los reos podrían tener una guerra de 6 meses, la ministra reconoció que hay complicidad con los reos . >>> hay dos funcionarios que tienen un informe y hay una investigación, dos funcionarios de la guardia nacional y hay funcionarios administrativos . >>> una situación que ha empeorado en el gobierno, el gobierno dice que ha intervenido 16 de las 24 cárceles del país, en intensas batallas donde han intervenido autoridades mil

was be awayurnalist when this man'-- man dressed as santa claus was shot with a pellet gun. he intends the play is santa next year again. >> this is where i got shot. with a santa suit comes story that is too to pray to to believe especially on christmas eve. >> every year we come back and give back to the community. >> tuesday morning and an army of volunteers were about to deliver toys in southeast washington when the unthinkable happened. >> this is op -- awesome though. merry christmas. >> his voice faltered after being hit. -- i am hit. >> someone shot a man dressed as santa claus in the back with children all around. an act of violence -- appalling on more levels than we can fathom. >> the mindset -- it is all good. >> the toys were dropped off and he was rushed to the hospital. >> someone shot me. we caught up with him at a local market. it pains him to know that a man bearing gifts to the community would become a victim of violence. alive and iod i am am grateful no one else got hit. >> as we close the year out, we are taking a look back at the big stories in 2013. se

we have father christmas instead of santa claus.e do the christmas crackers. >> you know the traditions, then? >> jimmy: i brought them. i know a couple of them. >> the crackers -- >> jimmy: how does it work? >> well, you hold one end, and i hold the other. >> jimmy: okay. >> that works. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: and then -- >> we pull. and i won. >> jimmy: hey. what happens with me, then? >> you lost. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah, thank you. happy christmas, yeah. >> i got a present. i got a measuring tape. >> jimmy: that's a lot of fun. for kids. measuring tape. let's do this one here. how do i make sure i win? >> i won again. >> jimmy: you grab -- you have such a good grip. but inside these guys, in crackers, don't they also -- >> one more. one more then. >> jimmy: well, they come with these crowns. >> yeah, sometimes in the cracker, you get a crown, golden crown. >> jimmy: and you put on these crowns. >> you put on the crown, they're kind of flexible designs. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: am i doing it right? is that good? >> y

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>> do you still believe in santa claus? i've had much reason to. >> reporter: but as we peered through those famous windows, the moving christmas tree, the wrapped presents below, we imagined a different front page headline. from, "is there santa?" to "is there a made in america gift under the tree?" the children in the window wondering the same thing. just look to the new numbers tonight -- the average american will spend more than $700 on holiday gifts this year, $738 to be exact. back in the 60s, nine out of 10 holiday gifts were made in america. now, easily, more than half of what we buy is foreign made. that's all we needed to hear and we were out asking americans the questions you heard from "world news" before. are you in? one thing made in america for christmas. >> is there anything made in america this year? >> reporter: debbie and rebecca from columbus, ohio stumped. >> made in portugal. >> reporter: one last item. this group from texas and they knew us. >> "world news" tonight? >> reporter: turns out they know ab

but take a look at an ad that green peace ran using santa claus to promote their message as well and en you do this, you affect the kids. the kids want to see what santa is saying. watch this. >> there may be no alternative but to cancchristmas. >> so that fake santa thing on the bottom, we put that on. so kids are watching this on the internet and they are saying we are canceling christmas because of global warming. >> what is next. if santa is smoking an e cig, then what is next? barney? we're not saying take them off the shelves, we are saying target an audience the say way that true cigarettes are being targeted, let's regulate that much about how they are going to advertise, not to children but to adults. >> but using santa, you have to admit the kids are focused in whon santa claus comes up. but a world in which we don't influence kids negatively is a pipe dream. no pun intended. but we can't have everything based around outlawing things that might wrongly affect children. that is not the free market system we live in. we are not china or a place where the government tells every

crawls however as that every santa con participant dresses up as everyone's favorite holiday icon santa claus but these santas aren't looking for cookies they're looking for food so that as a result they often do things that would make mrs claus blush. santa con alone probably produce enough flights. to fill every stock in the city to check out this video from saturday night of a group of santas brawling on the streets of gotham. looks like somebody's going to get some call in their stockings this year megan kelly would be happy though because all those brawling santas purity white. the declaration of independence was the first founding document in the history of the world to specifically mention happiness as thomas jefferson's famous words read we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness for hundreds of years we stood by the idea that through hard work and perseverance and given the right opportunities anyone can be happy in amer

and most of us think that santa claus is a jolly old man and a bright red suit, but santa claus comesn different forms. the guy sitting next to me is like a santa claus. he is helping folks get home for christmas by giving away the air miles. what a wonderful thing you are doing to bring families together. >> thank you, governor. >> what possessed you to say i have to do something with the mills. the last thing someone who travels for business is travel. i like being home and get to know my cat and white and daughter. >> why did you mention your cat first? you better be going somewhere. >> he comes up first. last thing i want to do is travel and so last year, what if i post on my blog and so if anyone needs miles to go home. a few people said hey, if you are source. i gave away four trips. people e-mailed me photos of seeing their mom. and i have more miles and so i gave six trips and on my blog and within 24 hours, those were matched by other business travellers who want to donate and i add 12 trips and jet blue said we'll give ten trips and we sent 28 people home. >> wow, all becaus