‘Fox & Friends’ hosts fail ‘manhood’ test after tire change ends in near disaster

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The hosts of Fox & Friends nearly caused serious damage to a rental car on Tuesday while trying to prove their “manhood” by changing a tire.

Fox News — and Fox & Friends in particular — have set a high bar for painful television news, and hosts Scott Brown and Brian Kilmeade kept the tradition alive on Tuesday when they tried to take retired Navy SEAL Derrick Van Orden’s “manhood” test.

Round one of the test was to tie a necktie, which Kilmeade accomplished with the help of his teeth and his co-host.

Kilmeade and Brown teamed up once again for changing a tire on a car that had been loaned by Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

Confusion immediately ensued as Brown began cranking the jack while Kilmeade sent lug nuts rolling across the pavement.

“This is what a man does, not just a male,” Van Orden noted.

“Whoa, watch it, Brian!” Brown exclaimed as the car began to roll forward, suggesting that the parking brake had not been engaged.

“Jack it up?” Kilmeade asked.

“No, it’s jacked,” Brown noted.

“Okay, so lug nuts are out,” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck chimed in.

“Watch your feet, Elisabeth,” Brown warned. “The jack is falling.”

“The jack is falling?” Kilmeade said while attempt to push the car back onto the jack.

“The jack is falling,” Brown repeated.

“We’ve got teamwork going on right now,” Hasselbeck remarked.

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[jtuck004]

1. People of color, take note. With these as role models, it won't be long now. n/t

[Raine1967]

5. I noticed they praised this guy as not having a dad.

where were fox and friends when Rand Paul criticized all of Baltimore for not having fathers??

[daleanime]

9. +1

[notadmblnd]

2. Well if there's anyone that need man lessons, it's the Fox morning guys

[Schema Thing]

3. lol. And they, including the exSEAL, didn't respond correctly

they should have re-threaded on at least a couple of the lug-nuts they had just taken off, as far as they would go, before letting the jack down.

[mike dub]

7. Classic stuff, Schema Thing!

And they totally unthreaded the nuts waaaay too much with the near-full weight of the front left side of the car still on the lugs!! I always just wrench untorque them, (barely untorqued) and ***then raise the vehicle! ?..and unscrew em full once there's a gap between the bottom of the tire and the ground!!! But that's just me. Lol!

[BlueJazz]

12. That's the way people who "Have experiance in life" do it.

[Schema Thing]

13. Yep.

I don't know what's worse, ex Special Forces members writing books glorifying themselves (while giving operational info) or ex Special Forces writing what are essentially Cosmopolitan Magazine articles, lol.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. What's sad is there's a market for it.

[d_r]

27. yeah

that was a load of clueless

[alfredo]

37. did they check the parking brake? What about chocking the wheel?

[Raine1967]

4. I know the author meant well with his book,

but…

I must be a hellova man, since I can tie a tie, change a tire, tie a knot — etc. What is up with this BS?




Not being able to change a tire doesn't make you less of a man, it makes you unprepared for emergencies. It should not be sex based. That is what I find a little offensive.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

19. "What is up with this BS?"

There are guys out there having a panic attack that they might be mistaken for *gasp* GAY.

[Raine1967]

21. ooOOoo — Totally missed that! I knew something was off with this,

and you damn well nailed it.

GAH! thank you.

[d_r]

28. yeah i agree

and come on, a square knot

[exboyfil]

6. The jack supplied for tire changes is of such inferior

quality I prefer to pay for someone to use a real jack and get it done right. As far as I am concerned the jack is only provided for when you are in Death Valley and need to change the tire immediately.

I have changed quite a few tires using the provided jack over the years so I can do it - just don't see the need.

[MillennialDem]

42. My car is so low I need to use a spare tire jack to start to jack it up before slipping the floor

jack under the k-member.

Either that or I drive it up on ramps and then jack it up - but obviously that doesn't work if the car doesn't start or is otherwise immobile.

[ladywnch]

8. I must be a better "man" than any of them

I learned how to change a tire (by myself) when I was 17 before I left for college. He told me there wouldn't always be a guy around when you needed him so I better learn how.

I already knew I was more of a man Kilmeade or Doozey........and standing in front of a car slipping off the jack and trying to push it back on?!?!?!?!!!!!! how stupid is that! great way to get run over........ahhhhhh we couldn't get that lucky.

What morons!

[jtuck004]

10. If that guy was REALLY a SEAL, he would have thrown his head under the wheel to stop it. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. I'll never forget the time I was visiting over at a friend's house...

It was a typical weekend get together of shade tree mechanics and beer. A mutual friend of ours who was a really BIG Morongo Indian was working under a car when it fell off of the jack with a loud "BANG!!!". We were all caught slack jawed looking at his seemingly lifeless legs sticking out from under the car. Just then a voice came from underneath saying, "Okay, NOW I'm sober."

[BlueJazz]

14. My father told me "Buy a floor jack..even a small one and 2 jack stands" and never, ever let me..

...catch you using the Toy that comes with a car."

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. This guy was using wood blocks and a bumper jack,....on a slope.

[BlueJazz]

17. You know, since it was the Fox guys...something wonderful could have come from all that.

[Plucketeer]

18. LOL !!!

Shows to go ya that these FOX types are truly "Roll Models".

[johnnyrocket]

20. The supplied jack will work fine, as long as it's placed correctly...

...also, protip: "break" the lug nuts loose before you lift the vehicle up. Changing a tire is not complicated.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. Exactly

It's easier that way. If you try to loosen the nuts when the car's jacked up the wheel may spin on you.

[A Simple Game]

23. I think those lug nuts were already broken, it only took 3 turns to remove them.

It looked to me like the car was prepped and they still screwed it all up while the "expert" stood and watched them.

[MADem]

25. That former "The View" co-host probably did that before the segment.

Wasn't she some kind of athlete out of BC, and isn't that how she got the "Survivor" gig that launched her to fame (or infamy, depending)?

I think Ralphie (A Christmas Story) would have done a better job, alone!


Oh, FUDGE!!!'

[d_r]

29. yeah it was three turns

we don't make it that easy for 10-year-old cub scouts. Who learn all these things by the way.

[MillennialDem]

44. Yeah. I'd never get underneath the car supported by the spare tire jack - of course I'd never get

underneath the car supported only by a floor jack either.

It has to be supported by jackstands or ramps.

[sdfernando]

24. I must be all sorts of manly maleness cause I can change a car

tire all by myself....and a tie, really?...I do those with my eyes closed...not only that, when I wear a bow-tie, which is often for my gigs, no clips ons for me, I do it the old fashioned way and tie it by hand!

Anyone in need of my spare manliness?!

[benld74]

26. The Stooges did a better job, while ACTING!!!!!

[d_r]

30. One thing I really don't understand

I mean I can figure out most of it, but the guy said "this used to be a country where people tied their own ties." What in the world does that mean? How else are you going to get your tie tied?

[jmowreader]

34. Clip-on.

This also used to be a country where people would worry about being eaten by bears on their way home from work.

[d_r]

40. I don't think they wear clip ons on TV

I think it is they have wardrobe people dressing them. I didn't think about that at first.

[jmowreader]

41. Fox News has staffers to assemble the on-air rabble rousers before camera time

The three qualifications to work at Fox News: beautiful face, political views that make Benito Mussolini look like Abby Hoffman, and the ability to sit in a chair with your eyes closed for two hours.

[tclambert]

36. Your personal assistant ties your ties. Or your trophy wife.

Or the guy at the tie store, and you never untie it.

[d_r]

39. Yeah, I think I get it

I couldn't understand how a guy on tv news didn't tie a tie, but I guess they have wardrobe people doing it for them and just figure that everyone does or something.

[hollysmom]

31. I passed the test

used to tie my ex's ties and changed all my own tires - does that mean I qualify as a man now? or is there a penalty if a woman can do this? do I get anything? I could use some things?

[MillennialDem]

43. I must really get penalized because I've pulled an engine, a transmission, and a rear axle.

[hollysmom]

45. I put a new gasket into a car once but that was when it e3asy

no computers and you could stand under the hood because there was no air conditioning or any of that fancy stuff. Hey, I was poor and it was my first new (well than 14 years old) car. but a transmission - I am impressed.
I got hit and the rear axle left my car and was laying in the street, not as good.

[MillennialDem]

46. Transmission is actually fairly easy (under 2 hours). Rear axle is not overly bad either - engine is

a giant pain in the ass though.

[Hulk]

32. ALWAYS at least two "bobble-heads" rattling at the same time in this clip.

Almost funny, if they weren't such nauseating turd-balls to watch at all. Notice, as you suffer through this stupid clip, that they are ALL trying to be clever, cute, or whatever they are trying to be; and the blond bimbo is trying to ask questions to anyone who is listening to her, which is no one.
Funny in the sense that two and often three people are rattling off crap at the same time this dense "seal" is trying to gain publicity for his stupid stunt.
A WASTE of time. But great food for the empty brains over at fox-nonsense. Such low lifes.

[tularetom]

33. I'll give you a "manhood test"

The last flat tire I had was on a winding 2 lane mountain road with a very narrow loose gravel shoulder on either side. The shoulder fell away from the road at about a 20 degree angle. I was able to pull all 4 wheels onto the shoulder but since the flat was on the driver's side I didn't want to use the supplied jack to lift the left side of the car because I was afraid I'd raise the center of gravity so high that the whole car would tip over. So I did what any man would do, if he had a brain. I called road service. They came out with their hydraulic jacks took one look and decided that they didn't want to try to change the tire where it was so they called out the tow truck and winched the entire car up onto the platform, hauled it back to the garage, replaced the flat and sent me on my way.

[The Jungle 1]

35. Ugg

The car rolled and I am guessing the E break was not engaged.
Don't take the lug nuts off before you jack the car. Just loosen them. Then when the car is jacked up and STABLE take the nuts off.
When this car rolled the first thing that should have been done is to put a couple of the lug nuts back on.
This stuff is no joke. I know people who have been killed working under cars that fell of jacks.
AAA is a very good service. Use it.

[tclambert]

38. You're also supposed to block one or two wheels so it won't roll.

Real flat tire changing, though, involves trying to crack corroded lug nuts loose that have been overtightened and possibly cross-threaded by tire store mechanics who used air-powered wrenches, then finding out the spare has no air in it. (Hint: check the spare before investing time in removing the flat.)