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Grinchy MSNBC Calls for NORAD to End Santa-Tracking Tradition

by Mark Pellin


If there’s a way to tarnish a Christmas tradition, the holiday buzz kills at MSNBC are sure to find it.

The dubious honor this time goes to Hayes Brown, who proclaimed that it’s time to abolish the decades-long custom of kids tracking Santa’s flight around the globe on Christmas Eve.

As background for the unfamiliar, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) began tracking Santa’s annual trek in 1955, when “a young child, trying to reach Santa, dialed the misprinted phone number from a department store ad in the local newspaper. Instead of calling Santa, the child called the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD)…


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