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LI prof: 'Rudolph' sends wrong message

Quick ReadA CW Post professor has caused a Christmastime controversy with a book contending the 1964 TV film "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" sends the wrong message about bullying and ostracism.

CW Post professor George Giuliani at his Dix

Photo credit: Newsday/J. Conrad Williams, Jr. | CW Post professor George Giuliani at his Dix Hills home on Dec. 13, 2011. Giuliani wrote a book about Santa Claus being a bully.

Oh, deer.

A Long Island professor has caused a Christmastime controversy with a book contending the 1964 TV film "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" sends the wrong message about bullying and ostracism.

Lighten up, say defenders of the long-beloved animated classic.

"It's a cartoon!" said an exasperated Gretchen Carlson on the "Fox & Friends" show when C.W. Post special education...

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