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Home Front: Culture Wars
CNN Pimps Children's Book About Santa And His Husband
2017-12-21
[Newsbusters] On CNN's New Day Sunday, the show devoted a four-minute segment to the new children's book, Santa's Husband, which portrays Santa Claus as a gay man who gets married to another man. The segment included as guests the author, Daniel Kibblesmith, and illustrator Ashley Quach, with Kibblesmith recalling that he was partially inspired to write the book because of the complaints that are made each year about a "war on Christmas."

At 6:12 a.m. ET, CNN co-anchor Christi Paul plugged the interview: "There's a new children's book out this Christmas -- takes us inside Santa's wedding. We meet Santa's husband David. We're going to talk to the author and illustrator ahead."
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  Flesh that story out, JohnQC, and you just might have something.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-12-21 19:09  

#4  6:12 AM - there's a coveted viewing slot right there...
Posted by: Raj   2017-12-21 18:46  

#3  Oh, David, natch.

Ya know, thread the other day it was discussed what real people think about the media...

I can lead with, at least Billy Mays had personality.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-12-21 12:27  

#2  The author was not very imaginative. He could have made Santa and his partner drug addicted, black, "jolly" men who were unsatisfied with their male genders. They decided to have gender reassignment operations and were undergoing the process but Christmas stressed them out and resulted in a great deal of dysfunction in the relationship. This led to a break-up of the marriage and they ended up on the street, homeless and plying their trade in the oldest profession. (It wasn't bell-ringing for the Salvation Army and saying ho, ho, ho.) Both decided to go to therapy to work out their problems which went on for years. The climate-change believing children of earth were very disappointed for years until Santa and her partner were re-united and doing the work of Santa again. CNN would was very, very happy with this story.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-12-21 11:05  

#1  I always thought Santa is a woman - I mean, this fake bird, and this fake "Ho, ho, ho".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-12-21 07:24  

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