Journalists Of Color Demand Fox News Apologize For Brian Kilmeade Comments

UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc., a "multicultural coalition of national journalism organizations with an outreach to over 10,000 supporters," has issued a petition calling on Fox News and its parent company, News Corp. to take steps to remedy recent offending remarks made by "Fox and Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade on the show's July 8 episode.

The remarks in question came during a discussion of a recent survey that found that married people in Sweden and Finland are less susceptible to the symptoms of Alzheimer's than unmarried people. Kilmeade disregarded the relevancy of the survey for Americans, saying "we [Americans] keep marrying other species and other ethnicities . . . Swedes have pure genes . . . in America we marry everybody..."

WATCH KILMEADE MAKE THAT STATEMENT HERE

UNITY called Kilmeade's statement "beyond silly and worthy of ridicule", based on "the basest of white supremacist ideologies, the notion that white people and non-white people are of different species, with the white race as 'pure.'"

UNITY has called upon Fox News to "issue an immediate apology for Mr. Kilmeade's offensive comments" and "enter into a serious discussion on the program regarding intermarriage and the value of diversity in our society."

The petition is available online here.

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Comments

[joewalters]

I..... "marginally dislike" ...... News Corporation.

[Mustang Sally]

Faux News: Ign0rant AND r a c i s t. Wow.

[GeorgeP922]

Shocking how there is one post here shamelessly promoting one conservative pundit and this one tearing him to pieces.

What is up with editorial in the media section, choose a side, either be conservative 100% of the time, or liberal.
You can't praise Rupert Murdoch one day, then bash his company the next.

[JazzSax UT]

Why not? Intelligent people can have thoughts on a wide range of issues.

[retromega]

Sorry! I guess we didn't realize this religious aspect. We'll try to be more diligent in following the Truth and not stray into error. Have you published the creed yet?

[biglover]

At least they are holding their feet to the fire. It is up to Faux to step up to the plate which they won't but the more people who show their outrage, the better for all mankind

[shel3364]

"beyond silly and worthy of ridicule"

Much more accurate than "fair and balanced".­... think they'll change it?

[Jebbushnot]

This guy does a three hour radio show five days a week on FoxRadio on XM, Sirius and the net.
He says all kinds of things including he had no problem bringing German War Criminals to the
us in 1945 as long as they had something to contribute to America's future security.

[sisterdebmac]

Well, that's actually true. Google Operation Paperclip, and Werner von Braun.

[RobinLandseadel]

Operation Paperclip led directly to MKULTRA---involving [among all sorts of other transparently illegal activities] dosing unsuspecting Johns with LSD and filming their resulting activities with hookers through one-way mirrors in CIA safe-houses in San Francisco in the fifties and sixties.

Ahhhh, the good old days. . .

[gpeach36]

Other species-dogs & cats? Get real.

[bowthai]

As long as they are Swedish or Finnish dogs and cats.

[pizzmoe]

I'm sure Fox is proud of his statement. It was probably written for him to read on the air.

[sasidechick]

Fox will wear this as a badge of honor.

[dagnome27]

Good luck with this - it will never happen (Faux has NO conscience), but go ahead on and try!