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.”
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.