After a brand new interview. Well tell you why. W. Good day at 9a starts now. . . We hope you stick around fof the full two hours we havee special surprises for you onr y this thursday morning. An hour past a minute past p hour. Ur. Im steve alongside maureen anda wisdom. Allison here today. Allison re t holly has the morning off. G o good to see you my friend. En hello. Also ahead this morning sis of the season and the end of ann era. Tonit celebrate their last White House Christmas Tree Lighting and juss like in years past there will bb starstudded event. Ed event. Well take you there life. Lif first though lets talk aboua the weather, lk ashall we, becae it wont feel much like decembem down on the ellipse. Llip. Temperatures little bit warmer than form normal for this timehi of the year. S tucker is off this morning. Mike thomas in in the game right now and hes talking all about o the weather. Weaer did everybody thought it was aot little warm,. Warm,. It was nice. Compared to years
whiechlt how did i demand ask insist he must be white. well, he said he just is white. that is the case. it s not. i was trying to explain this in talking points we ve given the spoiler alert at the top of the show. we know there is no santa. right. it s a mythical character. so only santa sant i could have been referring to is a commercial santa. and that is the very same thing okay knowledged in her piece arguing needs to chafrjt we re on the same page about the fact that the image in the country of santa is white shed she said it, and described him as melanin deficient.
0 another person claiming it s racist to have a white santa. by the way, santa just is white. but this person is arguing we should have a black santa. santa is what he is. we re just debating it. wanted to get that straight. when i read the piece, the author seems to have, you know, she s african american and seems to have real pain in having grown up with this image of a white santa. she speaks about it kind of honestly saying i don t understand why that had to be. i realized the piece by harris went on to argue harris should be a penguin was tongue in cheek. that is in part why we covered the story. humor is a part of what we try to bring to the show. sometimes that is lost. cue the fire storm of controversy over my declaring santa s skin color. many questioning whether i understand santa is a mythical figure. not real figure must be white. all fictional people are white. in the bible, what kids are watching fox news at home? there is weird kids. outraged? well this, would be f