NBC Nightly News covers Megyn Kelly's blackface controversy, pointing to her Fox News past

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The Megyn Kelly Today host's controversial comments defending blackface and her subsequent apology received nearly two minutes of coverage on NBC News' evening newscast on Tuesday night. NBC News correspondent Morgan Radford's report not only brought up the backlash she's received from numerous people, including her colleagues, but also pointed to her history of racially charged comments on Fox News Channel, mentioning that “this is not the first time Kelly has come under fire for comments about race.” The report then played a clip of Kelly  in 2013 defending the portrayals of Santa Claus and Jesus Christ as white men. “Yet another person claiming it’s racist to have a white Santa,” Kelly said at the time, adding: “And, by the way for all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white… Jesus was a white man too.” The segment also covered Kelly's apology, in which she said: “I realize now that such behavior is indeed wrong and I am sorry...The history of blackface in our culture is abhorrent; the wounds too deep.” ALSO: Kelly's all-white panel discussing blackface is an example of why more diversity is needed in media.