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.”
Don’t care fire him
From a cannon.
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.
This piece of human shit should have been fired on the spot.
Wasn’t there a guy on another network (MSNBC?) that was fired even AFTER he apologized for making Charlie Kirk remarks?
He didn’t even make a Charlie Kirk remark he simply said hate begets hate.
“No? Too far? Aright ‘sorry’, let’s move on.”
I don’t buy their fake apologies. He said it, he meant it. When people show you who they are, believe them.
And yet he’s still employed after calling for The Final Solution on live TV.
But god forbid someone remind others that Charlie Kirk was a fascist christian nationalist neo-nazi who praised and advocated for the murder of children and minorities. That would be wrong.
Why not lose his job like some others did last week for saying things?
Because Fox’s entire corporate structure agrees with him.
They said anti-Nazi things though.
You’d have to have ethics. Billionaire news stations just have billionaire opinions that they use talking heads like this nazi to spread. This is just what the rich class think: “Murder all homeless people! Now! No laws. No reality. Just murder.”
The apology literally does not matter.
The fact is, for all three of them - they felt perfectly comfortable saying that unhoused people and people with mental health issues should be murdered by the state. Without flinching. On a very popular national television show.
And the network broadcast it. Not a single person involved in “Should we let this go to air?” went “Hold the fuck on.” The network hasn’t suspended anyone, hasn’t put the show on hold while they think about what they should be doing here, and so far as I know hasn’t said a fucking word about it.
Yes, there are a lot of people condemning these statements, rightly so. Take serious notice of who isn’t. They’re okay with state-sponsored murder of people who have not committed any crime.
I’ve said this before: If they come for you, you’re going. Fight like your life depends on it, because it does. Fight like all of our lives depend on it, because they do.
Winter is coming.
“* They’re okay with state-sponsored murder of people who have not committed any crime.”
And thats why they keep trying to make being homeless or any activity that homeless people do illegal.
Point out Kirk showed division and promoted violence: firing
Openly advocating the murder of mentally ill homeless people: keep your job as long as you issue a mandated ‘apology’
Fuck this country.
It’s pretty twisted, for sure.
Why not apologize on Monday morning when all of your viewers are watching?
For that matter, why say it in the first place?
It’s not like he was reading a bunch of statistics and came up with this as an informed opinion. No, out of nowhere he just decided that it was okay to murder millions of innocent Americans.
This is not an opinion that a moral person can say, even accidentally.
And he felt safe advocating for it on national television.
Hundreds of thousands, not millions. Gotta be fAiR
Hundreds of thousands are just the first batch. Then they raise the rent, until there’s another hundred thousand for them to exterminate. Then they raise rent again. and again, and again. Historically, until the poor people kill them all.
This is a guy who said who stated ”We (America) need to keep the bloodlines pure” sixteen years ago on tv. I don’t believe he is sincere
Wtf was going on with the Universe and last Wednesday in particular that made everybody act like they were living through a wild fever fueled nightmare?
I definitely think he probably would have said that regardless, but the fact that last Wednesday in particular was just so jam packed with surreal what the fuck is actually happening moments. Was it some kind of secret right wing day of significance that didn’t go according to plan? Something in the air? Weird planetary alignments?
That whole day kicked off with Russian drones “accidentally” going into Polish airspace right before midnight in Poland.
This guy apparently lets his genocidal fantasy for undesirable populations slip on air, which ends up being too much for even Fox News to just brush off as casual commentary
Then the House and Senate try to get Republicans to tell them wtf is in the Epstein/J.P. Morgan/Peter Thiel/Elon Musk files, but they are blocked.
Then before anybody can even really notice that happened, Charlie Kirk is assassinated. Some old man in the crowd immediately screams he did it and tells the crowd to shoot him. He ends up hauled off in handcuffs with his pants around his ankles. It turns out he’s just a local well known right wing political agitator, who also slept on a cot in Ronald Reagan’s secretary of education’s hotel room at the '88 Republican National Convention? As he’s being hauled away with his pants down, the real killer jumps from a roof and escapes.
Then some guy with a pellet gun is arrested and released.
Then we finally end the night with Trump calling Kirk a martyr for free speech and Trump accusing the vitriol of the left (again the same day Fox News talks about executing homeless people) of being responsible for Kirk’s murder.
We all go to bed with no clue wtf is actually happening before easing into the next day, which happens to be the anniversary of 9/11.
Wtf was that day?
When you’re born into this world, you’re given a ticket to the freak show. If you’re born in America you get a front row seat. -George Carlin
Not to mention there was a school shooting in Colorado, the state widely seen as the beginning of the wave of school shootings that haven’t ceased since.
Thank you for recognizing this. I felt crazy but it really did seem like everything bumped up a notch last week.
Hm, isn’t this part of the Nazi platform? Didn’t they go after trans and the disabled first?
I’m surprised a mouthpiece on state media is being made to apologize. I just figured this was in their plans for Gilead.
Just like JD Vance and his techbros have said.
Oh and charlie kirk. Lovable, sweet, truly good guy, charlie kirk. Had this to say:
We shouldn’t put up with it. They should be in mental institutions, put them in mental asylums, or give them, you know, a meal or some shelter. Treat them humanely, but get them off the streets. Enough. Okay? The vagrancy, the defecation, the drug usage, the sexual assaults, you know, look, the streets are not your home. Okay? We have to have order. You have to, clean up the filth, okay? Enough. The humane thing to do is to put them somewhere that is not on the streets.
There’s a lot of reasons to dislike Charlie Kirk, but that quote is kinda reasonable?
We should take better care of people with severe mental illnesses. Sometimes that means they should be compelled into treatment. It’s not a good thing that someone struggling with severe mental illness is just left out on the street, and many will not seek help due to those self-same illnesses. A person with schizophrenia is extremely likely to flee from help due to the intense paranoia.
It is the humane thing to do to get them off the streets and into a place where they can be taken care of. And while asylums have a pretty grotesque history, it’s one of the worst legacies of the Reagan administration that they were done away with. Massive reform was needed, and a better structure for making sure people weren’t just locked away indefinitely. More oversight and regulation, no question. But the solution we went with of just turning them all out on the street to live in tents is a huge injustice to them.
Its not reasonable by any stretch. It is coming from a place of intense selfishness: “These pointless creatures are in my way.” vs “Lets lift these fellow humans who have fallen by the wayside.”
I mean, where something is coming from isn’t necessarily tied to its reasonableness.
If I was a huge advocate for government funding for health initiatives, that’s still reasonable, even if it’s driven from a place of hating fat people.
It might make me a bad person if I believed that, but it doesn’t mean I’m pushing for bad policy.
Ending asylums began long before Regan
Regan ramped up funneling them into prisons, which is basically why the Kirk quote is disingenuous bullshit. Can supportive rehabilitative programs be the answer, even if they’re involuntary and potentially lifelong? Maybe. But that’s not what happens a lot of the time. American politicians, especially republicans, continually push to either limit funding as much as possible, end, or privatize (which only works for the more lucrative things like drug and alcohol and disability services and even those are widely considered to suffer under private equity). Of course, their solution for “end” is throw them to the wolves, which in practice means homelessness, crime, increasing drug use, etc and eventually prison when those things disrupt communities. Kirk wasn’t an idiot. He’s like Newsom, he knew the most likely place these people end up is prison and he didn’t care bc he saw them as subhuman scum
The fact of the matter is treating serious and persistent mental illness is not lucrative. In fact it is a financial sink if you choose a rehabilitative model, and even an asylum model, which is generally more cost efficient (but can be done with some dignity) is still quite expensive.
The fucked up part is that prisons are quite expensive too but less so and as a result are quite lucrative to their owners. They also are culturally built into this sense of redemptive justice, as if punishment of the offender actually does something to bring peace to the offended besides deluding them that the chaotic and violent world won’t wrong them again because one unjust act has been forcibly atoned without creating any sense of remorse before returning the person back to society (just exposing them to one of the most traumatizing and violent environments for years or decades with no support, what could go wrong?).
So we ignore mountains of evidence that rehabilitation oriented programming is overall more successful because it’s not perfect, someone will still get murdered and assaulted! And they won’t get horribly punished! And we stick with our terrible system that objectively results in much more people getting murdered and assaulted
Just to add, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act repealed Carter’s Mental Health Systems Act - effectively defunding community based health organizations that would support those tossed out of institutions and onto the street. Reagan and Republicans more generally just didn’t give a shit what happened to these people as long as it didn’t cost them any money and that is largely why the homeless situation is where it is today.
It also should not be forgotten that shortly after this, Rush Limbaugh began a decades-long campaign against the homeless on his radio show, constantly demonizing them and attempting to paint homelessness as a choice made exclusively by addicts and the societally worthless.
Very good point, I wasn’t aware of how that prisons are more profitable than asylums. It makes it seem like the prison companies and republicans might have had some motives in common to push for ending asylums. Prison companies obviously would want more
slavesprisoners to increase profit. Republicans would see it as a built in source of voter suppression in certain urban generally left leaning areas since prisoners either can’t vote or vote in different more generally rural areas. This goes to show that economic and political interests can have a big effect on issues like this that seem like more social issues at first glance.
Yes such a tragedy we will be without kirk’s contributions to society, he was such a uh, uh, something something.
This kilmeade guy is a real pos, these are just the first others they want to Target, there is a very strong backlash against the homeless in blue and red States so they want to set the precedent on this.
There is no bottom or end to this though. The ones supporting such things will be subjected to it themselves in time. And not as much time as one might think.
Straight into the abyss, without strong opposition leadership we are going full Nazi here you better believe it.
Just a reminder that Reagan closed all the mental institutions.
This not only put the mentally ill on the street with no treatment available, but it made it so that clearly narcissistic, sociopathic rich people would never, ever see the inside of a mental facility. You know, for planning and advocating mass murder openly on air. Stuff like that.
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.
