Fox News Channel host Brian Kilmeade apologized on Sunday for advocating for the execution of mentally ill homeless people in a discussion on the network last week, saying his remark was “extremely callous.”
Kilmeade’s initial comment came on a “Fox & Friends” episode Wednesday and began getting widespread circulation online over the weekend. Kilmeade, a host of the morning show, was talking with co-hosts Lawrence Jones and Ainsley Earhardt about the Aug. 22 stabbing murder of Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina.
A homeless and mentally ill man, Decarlos Brown Jr., was arrested for murder, and the case received extensive attention on Fox following the release of a security video of the stabbing.
Jones was talking on “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday about public money spent on trying to help homeless people and suggested that those who didn’t accept services offered to them should be jailed.
“Or involuntary lethal injection, or something,” Kilmeade said. “Just kill ‘em.”
Earhardt interjected, “Why did it have to get to this point?” Kilmeade replied, “I will say this, we’re not voting for the right people.”
“I’m very sorry that all of you are so easily offended by interpreting my words exactly as they were said.”
how about reconsidering your position instead of just regretting saying you support eugenics out loud?
and saying it on the weekened instead of primetime fox, when everyone is watching fox at the time.
“Oops pushed it a little too far there, I’ll try again after Heir Trumps death squads do more sweeps.”
But of course he’ll get to keep his job.
I went to type a sarcastic, more absurd analogy but I couldn’t get much crazier than “be rich or be executed”.
actually that sounds much like America’s military operations
the right doesn’t care if you apologize for your words. he said it, fire him.
Don’t care fire him
From a cannon.
from a missile silo, or a torpedo tube in a submarine.
Into the sun.
Off into job-land.
This piece of human shit should have been fired on the spot.
I don’t want his fucking apology, I want him fired asap. The right are having anyone who criticized Kirk death fired. Well this hateful bullshit should get him fired too. I want website dedicated to getting everyone on that show fired.
“No? Too far? Aright ‘sorry’, let’s move on.”
Schrödinger’s douchebag. “If you’re offended, then it was just a joke!”
Wasn’t there a guy on another network (MSNBC?) that was fired even AFTER he apologized for making Charlie Kirk remarks?
He was fired for saying hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions. That was all.
Also a columnist from the Washington Post was fired for simply mentioning a real Kirk quote:
Black women “do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously."…
“You have to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.”
I’ve noticed a bunch of these rags are saying her quote was “untrue” but it seems it was real, according to Snopes at least. Revisionist history at work in real time.
Yup, that’s the one. I forgot about that poor woman. The irony of her being fired for using his words, while he was honored for them.
He didn’t even make a Charlie Kirk remark he simply said hate begets hate.
Yes, but I can understand how it was offensive. He was saying that, hey you might face the consequences of your words as if being killed for speaking was ok. But he apologized for that and was still fired, while this guy literally said people should be killed for being mentally ill. Way worse. Apparently apologizing for horrible speech is ok on Fox News. You don’t even have to be sincere. Again the irony is HE’S mentally ill!
Most likely he does not mean it. Because he would not have uttered such Nazi euthanasia bullshit in the open if it had not permeated him.
Everyone listen and remember what these ghouls say.
So it’s okay now to call for the execution of Brian Kilmeade ?
Because sorry, not sorry, if you cann for the execution of my loved ones, I call for your execution
A shitty apology-because-of-backlash won’t do, asshole. You quit your job in shame.
“I’m sorry I said the quiet part out loud. I will continue to think it but will no longer voice it.”
