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 calls them filth.
Whatever he said, that’s how he thought of them.
Filthy people with mental disorders.
That’s how morally narrow minded he was.
Did I say anywhere in that that I liked Charlie Kirk? No.
But I don’t hate dogs just because Hitler liked them. Just because someone was bad doesn’t mean they are 100% wrong on every single thing and you must always disagree with them on every single issue.
In fact, you can even come to the same end solution using completely different reasoning. It doesn’t mean the final conclusion is wrong, even if the other person had evil motivations for how they got there.