“It kind of reinforced my point, actually,” Harris said of Kelly’s original comment that Santa just “is” white (Jesus, too). “The fact that Kelly and some of the other guests on the show were insisting that Santa is white just spoke to the reason why I wrote the piece: a lot of people out there automatically assume that Santa must be white, and it’s laughable that he should be anything else.”
Host Brian Stelter played Kelly’s response from Friday evening, in which the Fox News host mocked critics for blowing an offhand comment out of proportion.
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“I felt that they were playing the victim there,” Harris said. “And the fact that they tried to deflect it, and say that they were making
Harris also disputed Kelly’s claim that she would rather “sling the arrows from the privacy of [Slate’s] office” than appear on Fox News, arguing that their invitation to appear on Friday’s show had come at the very last moment.
“They didn’t reach out until just before the show was airing,” Harris said. “It felt like a last minute thing, almost like a slight.”
UPDATE: We reached out to a Fox News spokesperson for comment and they replied:
“Slate and Harris were contacted more than a few hours before the show.”
Watch the full clip below, via CNN:
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