Following the defense of her comments on the skin color of both Santa Claus and Jesus Christ, Jon Stewart dedicated a segment of "The Daily Show" to respond to Megyn Kelly's rationale on Monday, the Huffington Post reported.
"Like most debates, it started by giving you the definitive answer first," Stewart began.
In response Kelly's criticism of the viewers she called "humorless," Stewart said "I guess we all owe you an apology. What appeared to me to be another example of a Fox News segment expressing anger and victimization over the loss of absolute power and reframing that as persecution of Real America by minorities, freeloaders and socialists."
On Friday, Kelly took time to defend herself against the remarks she made earlier in the week when she and three guests discussed the Slate.com piece written by Aisha Harris, which suggested that Santa Claus should be depicted as an animal instead of a white man.
"Humor is what we try to bring to this show, but that's lost on the humorless," Kelly said on "The Kelly File." "This would be funny if it were not so telling about our society, in particular, the knee-jerk instinct by so many to race-bait and to assume the worst in people, especially people employed by the very powerful Fox News Channel."
Kelly's controverial comments were made last Wednesday when she criticized the article by Harris, warning any children watching the show that Santa "just is" white.
"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," she said. "But Santa is what he is, and just so you know, we're just debating this because someone wrote about it."
In addition to Stewart's comedic response, Harris also issued a response to the discussion of her piece on "The Kelly File."
"And yet Kelly and her guests not only say repeatedly that Santa is real and definitely white, they also equate him with Jesus, who, historians generally agree, was a Jewish man who grew up in Galilee," Harris wrote. "Was he white? Probably not. But the truest answer is that we really don't know. Also, whiteness is a historical construct. And, again, Santa isn't real."
