DUMB ASS!!! News Caster gets on national TV saying THERE IS NO SANTA

[bigdarryl]

JESUS!!!! I tell you some people just act ignorant http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/02/news-anchor-santa-denial-_n_1125422.html

[Turbineguy]

1. But it's Fox News

So it's OK. They do moron well.

[MissDeeds]

7. Yeah,

How about that Fox war on Christmas, telling kiddies there is no Santa?

[Cigar11]

13. Santa is a Liberal thang n/

[Tanuki]

2. And she is from Fox Chicago!

Why does Fox News hate Christmas?:rofl:

[MADem]

8. Why does Fauxsnooze hate SANTA?? They must be a hotbed of ... Muslim EXTREMISTS!!! nt

[eShirl]

3. It's true...

...but it isn't news.
:shrug:

[Ian David]

4. Also, Santa used to make gay male bondage porn.

Not Yet Fired Fox Reporter Who Outed Teacher's Porn Past Defends Actions
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=158x16863

[LatteLibertine]

5. I'd rather

parents stop telling lies to their own children.

What do you say to your child if they ask you why you lied?

Everyone does it? It doesn't matter? It's tradition?

No, it's bullshit and a betrayal of trust.

It's fitting in a symbolic sense though. Your "god" is a lie too.

[saras]

10. No fiction. No mythology. No movies. No TV. No stories. Got it. Great way to raise a kid.

I was about seven or eight years old when I quit believing in Santa Claus.

I was in my mid-twenties before I realized that for most people, "I quit believing in Santa Claus" doesn't mean you've realized your parents are neither infinitely wealthy nor perfectly skilled at choosing appropriate gifts, but instead meant you had just abandoned an actual literal belief in a Peter-Pan-like never-aging, superpowered, sleigh-flying man who lived in a compound with elf slaves in the Arctic wilderness.

It STILL baffles the shit out of me. I mean, come off it. Most TWO-year-olds I've encountered are smarter than that.

If you're going to teach them about Jesus, I say teach Santa, and the tooth fairy, first, so you can break the news to them gradually about what Jesus means to the society they are born into. That is, it's easier to move Jesus into the "myth" category if you already have some practice.

"God" is no more or less a lie than "brotherhood", "equality", "freedom", "human rights", "liberty", or any other personification of something larger than our personal experience can encompass.

If you want to kill Jehovah, just say so. Eris thinks the idea of god being a lie is pretty damned funny, and actually a pretty workable proposition, since lies do better than beliefs these days.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. True story.

Back in the Seventies, before anyone knew who Jerry Falwell was, his university was just Liberty Baptist College. One student teacher from LBC went into the Lynchburg public elementary schools for training. It was Christmas time. This goofball told a bunch of kindergarteners that there was no such thing as Santa. The kids had an expected collective meltdown, complete with crying, weeping, sobbing, being inconsolable. The student teacher tried to cheer them up, telling them there was something much better than Santa, and his name is Jesus Christ.

The student teacher was yanked and it was years before LBS could send anymore students teachers for assignments in the public schools.

[LatteLibertine]

9. I

have zero problems with celebrating love, compassion and giving. You don't need myth or lies to promote those things.

Honestly, I was much more disappointed in my parents for lying to me about Santa Claus, than I was in discovering there wasn't a real Santa Claus. This isn't one lie, this a delusion that is promoted and maintained over >years<.

Many tell their children not to bow to peer pressure or not to do things simply because their friends do, and that is precisely what many parents are doing when lying about Santa Claus to their children.

IMO it's hard to sell truth telling and integrity to your kids when you create this sort of situation early in their life from birth until they discover it's a lie on their own.

[woodsprite]

11. When my kids got to an age, I told them that

the person we recognize as Santa was a real person named "St. Nicholas". I explained that he protected and gave to the children and poor in his community. It's his tradition of giving that we celebrate at Christmas time with giving gifts of time/money and goods to each other and to the community, with a special emphasis on children. It's part of the fun for parents to pass down the tradition of 'Santa' to the kids in the family, and when the kids get old enough, they get to join in on the 'secret'. With St. Nicholas and the baby Jesus, there are two reasons to celebrate this time of year.

That's what I told my kids and they seemed to enjoy being 'let in' on the explaination (at about 7-8yo), and have helped us do more in community/church service since we can do it as a family now that they're older.

[dballance]

12. Good for her for being honest

Oh, and there is no tooth fairy or Easter Bunny. Get over it and grow up.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. Aww! I'm so sorry you had to find out that way, little buddy. nt

[BluegrassDem]

15. So someone actually tells the truth on Fox and they get in trouble

but yet, it's okay to lie and lie without any punishment?

[Generic Brad]

16. So children watch the news now?

And if the news is on, children actually pay attention to it? It seems to me that the outrage over this is a little over the top.

Also - a newscaster reported the truth? How awful.