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By David Edwards
Thursday, July 24, 2014 9:12 EDT
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade this week compared to Michael Sam, the first openly-gay NFL player, to Michael Vick after he was convicted of dogfighting.
On the Wednesday edition of Fox & Friends, Kilmeade pointed out that former coach Tony Dungy had recently come under fire for saying that he would not have drafted Sam because he would have been a distraction.
Sure, is the distraction bigger than what will occur on field? co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck explained. But hes getting slammed. Tony Dungy is getting abused in the media. Its a fact that this story is a big deal in the media. You know, Michael Sam, did he make it a big deal? Who knows?
Co-host Steve Doocy defended Dungys right to express his opinion, and noted that the former coach had been called a hypocrite for helping Vick get his career back on track after he was sentenced to 23 months in federal prison for dogfighting and criminal conspiracy.
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TexasTowelie
(112,063 posts)Johnny Manziel. Teh stoopid burnz.
Behind the Aegis
(53,936 posts)LordGlenconner
(1,348 posts)And Tony Dungy is a sanctimonious asshole.
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Mike Daniels
(5,842 posts)They consistently produce the exact quality of show one should expect when you give a sportscaster, a weatherman and a reality TV contest winner three hours to pontificate on political issues and other subjects of "importance".
Her dumb-ass comments about the Obama fist-jab aside E.D Hill at least had a background in news journalism. The token blonde representatives on the show have just really dive-bombed on the intellect scale since Hill left.
Archae
(46,311 posts)Faux "news" is a sewer.
"Fox and Friends" is the bottom of that sewer.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)And it did seem like the other two were uncomfortable when he said it, but they didn't actually call him out on it.
Ugh.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)again.