Fox's Brian Kilmeade apologizes for "pure species" comment from two weeks ago.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

Brian Kilmeade apologized Monday for controversial comments he made on the July 8 episode of "Fox and Friends."

The controversy arose when Kilmeade and his co-hosts were discussing a Swedish and Finnish study which found that married people were less susceptible to Alzheimer's disease than unmarried ones. Kilmeade downplayed the study's significance in America, saying "we keep marrying other species and other ethnicities . . . Swedes have pure genes . . . in America we marry everybody..."

The comment prompted an outcry for an apology, including a petition from UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc., which said that Kilmeade's statement was based on "the basest of white supremacist ideologies".

Kilmeade apologized this morning, saying "I made comments that were offensive to many people. That was not my intention, and looking back at those comments I realize they were inappropriate. For that I sincerely apologize. America huge melting pot, and that is what makes us such a great country..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/20/brian-kilmeade-apologizes_n_241135.html


For those that missed the original, here it is:

BROWN HAIRED GUY: We keep marrying other species and other ethnics--


GRETCHEN CARLSON: Are you sure you are not suffering from some of the causes of dementia right now?

BROWN HAIRED GUY: The problem is the Swedes have pure genes. They marry other Swedes, that's the rule. Finns marry other Finns; they have a pure society. In America we marry everybody. We will marry Italians and Irish.

DAVE BRIGGS: This study does not apply?

BROWN HAIRED GUY: Does not apply to us.



DAVE BRIGGS: Huh.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/08/fox-news-host-americans-k_n_228209.html

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. sheesh

sounds like there's been a little too much intermarrying in his family

[tsuki]

7. Maybe too much interspecies marrying...

[tishaLA]

2. The sincerity of his apology was deeply moving.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

4. I believed every word.

[Posteritatis]

10. At least he used most of the correct words for a change

The fact that it took him two weeks to say it suggests to me like they were talking internally about whether to bother for awhile, and frankly I don't think anybody who'd say what he said, even inadvertently, is going to care if he offends people with it.

That said, at least it wasn't an "I'm sorry the mud people were upset at being called mud people" type apology like I expect from people tossing that kind of language around. So he's only, oh, a dozen points in the hole now!

[AspenRose]

3. And it only took two weeks!

*sigh*

[KansDem]

5. DAMN HIM!!! And I've been out dating other species in hopes of finding "Ms Right"

Now I find out I've been wasting my time!

Well, not so, maybe. The Calico I saw last weekend seemed kind of nice...

[Chulanowa]

6. "Other species"

Sex with ducks? Yeah, ducks!

[WorseBeforeBetter]

8. Doesn't matter -- it's out there and reinforces FUX viewers' beliefs.

You have to wonder if he cries himself to sleep at night, especially after segments like the one in which Jesse Ventura schooled him. He's not slick and manipulative the way O'Lielly and Crybaby Beck are, but a total dolt.

[Blue For You]

9. Kilmeade, "America is a huge melting pot..." To which I say,

"Kilmeade is a huge flash in the pan"!