Santa Claus is a Republican?
The New York Post’s Liz Smith takes aim at Fox and Friends for “politicizing” Santa Claus….
But then Santa stopped over to visit the “Fox & Friends” merry morning crew. It was all very ho-ho-ho until Brian Kilmeade asked, “And so Santa, are you a Republican or a Democrat?” Santa replied that he was indeed a Republican, and then pointed to some decorations on his chest, which he said indicated “courage.” I’m sure Santa wasn’t implying that Democrats aren’t courageous. And he was probably just being polite to the Foxies. Santa was likely surprised to be drawn into a partisan discussion. (I was afraid that perhaps somebody was going to suggest not delivering presents to the children of Democrats!)
Still, I’d love to know what Santa would have said to Jon Stewart.
UPDATE: Johnny Dollar emailed in to note that this particular “Santa” was the official White House Santa and that a “regular” Santa was on the show later on. Smith left those details out of her attack. Still, the question in my mind is why is the White House Santa on at all and why does the White House Santa have to politicize anything? There’s already enough politicization of Christmas as it is along religious lines. Do we have to politicize the secular version as well?
Hmmm…If anything like this happened on CNN then Fox News would all over it and there would be a huge ruckus. Of course FNC gets to do whatever they want, just shows who the media is for, congratulations to future victories for the republican party, you can count on the media.
Comment by AnonymousHere — December 27, 2005 @ 5:39 pm
According to the GOP and Fox, God is also a Republican, so why not Santa Claus too? Frankly, I’m not surprised.
Comment by Mia2 — December 27, 2005 @ 6:35 pm
So the assumption here is that the WH sent Santa of F&F to proclaim he was a Republican..Another Karl Rove conspiracy i am sure…Lighten up blogmaster…..If Ms. Smith believes that pointing to the medals on his chest is the same thing as calling Dems wimps, please someone get that woman a shrink…………
Comment by JR — December 27, 2005 @ 6:38 pm
How anyone can characterize Ms. Smith’s vignette as an “attack” [”Smith left those details out of her attack”] is beyond me. How debased is our treatment of the English language when reporting something that doesn’t paint what is purported to be a news program in a positive light is an “attack”? My lord.
Comment by moi-meme — December 27, 2005 @ 7:16 pm
Tell me about it…It figures that Faux News would co-opt Santa the same way they’ve attempted to co-opt God and Jesus. Next stops, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy…you just know they’re Republicans, because the Easter Bunny represents a Christian holiday and the Tooth Fairy has MONEY!
Comment by tanne — December 27, 2005 @ 7:55 pm
I thought the Santa appearing on all the FNC shows was Tobin Smith who is a regular on the Saturday “Bulls and Bears” show. Given his normal views on business and the economy, it is no surprise that he is a Republican.
Comment by Ira — December 27, 2005 @ 8:26 pm
No this was Bob Phillips, who has been the official Santa at the White House and for the Secret Service for the last three years. The interview was about how he got the job, what it was like to be Santa for the White House and the SS, meeting the President, etc. The standard ho-ho-ho Santa who showed up later on the program may well have been Tobin Smith.
Comment by johnny dollar — December 27, 2005 @ 8:42 pm
Anonymous, Mia2 and tanne sure spend lots of time watching FNC. And here, all along, I thought they were the three combined viewers of CNN and Mess-NBC.
Comment by Roger C. — December 28, 2005 @ 12:05 pm
I used to have some ultra-religious neighbors who felt Santa Claus was a pagan attack on Christmas. Someone should ask Fox News why they are trying to remove Christ from Christmas and replace him with some anti-religious symbol…
Comment by RepubAnon — December 29, 2005 @ 1:28 am