12.02.2011

Anchor Has Hot Opinion About Santa. Gets In Trouble.


 A Chicago news anchor enraged parents when she announced during a segment on children’s gift expectations that Santa Claus isn’t real. During a conversation with her cohost about how long children should believe in Santa, Robin Robinson, a news anchor at Fox Chicago since 1987, argued that kids should learn early on that Santa isn’t real.  “Stop trying to convince your kids that Santa is Santa,” Robinson said to cohost Bob Sirott during a segment Tuesday night. “That’s why they have these high expectations. They know you can’t afford it, so what do they do? Just ask some man in a red suit. There is no Santa.”


For all you kids out there, of course there is a Santa. There is no way on Earth that your parents would lie to you about a fictional man who somehow is able to make iPads and x-Boxes in a shed at the North Pole, and then deliver those gadgets and toys all over the world in one night when the rest of us can't even make it past Denton because of all of the traffic. If they were going to lie, they'd do a heck of a lot better job than that. So don't worry about it. The anchorwoman is probably just grumpy because Santa gave her a hideous yellow jacket. 

But when you watch the video, she sounds just like Clair Huxtable on a rant. 

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Uppity much?

Anonymous said...

AMR stole Christmas, NOT the grinch

wordkyle said...

Geez, Barry. Your own rant was harshly Grinchlike itself. Are you that eager to suck all the magic out of being a child?

Anonymous said...

She may personify the phrase, "she has her panties in a wad".

My Other Brother Darryl

Diggler said...

My parents told me they never smoked pot

Anonymous said...

In the infamous words of Al Sharpton, "Resist we much, we much resist."

Anonymous said...

Ahh, the blunt honesty approach with little kids. Wonderful. She's so right; important that little kids have the proper realistic perception of things. So, while telling them there is no Santa, let's follow that up with telling the little kids "oh, and by the way, you are going to die one day".

Anonymous said...

I wish no one had ever thought of Santa! It is rediculous if you really think about it. What a let down it is when you find out the truth..your parents lied to you.

Anonymous said...

Is she a Lesbo?

Anonymous said...

WOW. Thanks lady, the only time I can get my children to mind and you have let the cat outta the bag, it works for 2 weeks

Anonymous said...

9:25, you are a bad parent if you can only get your kids to mind because of the threat that a fictional man won't deliver if the kids' behavior is poor.

The Santa story is dumb. Around age 4, when your kiddo begins to wonder, instead of perpetuating a stupid story, why not show them that critical thinking pays off. So when they question Santa's realism, they are rewarded with truth.

Anonymous said...

hey 1:30 p.m.:

you're just funner than a box of hammers, huh!

You didn't say if you had kids or not, but if you do, and you told them that, I bet you tell them to tell other kids that santa's not real. If so, what right do you have to interfere with what other parents tell their kids?

gern blansten

wordkyle said...

130 - What makes you believe that critical thinking as an adult is not enhanced by exercising one's imagination as a child? Your faith in the benefits of revealing the "truth" about Santa is based on less evidence than a child's believing in his existence. Read Joseph Campbell if you doubt the importance and the power of myths.

Anonymous said...

But you all believe and teach your children of a virgin giving birth ?