Brian Kilmeade Apologizes For Racist "Pure Species" Comment

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 [Americans] 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 [is a] huge melting pot, and that is what makes us such a great country..."

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Comments

[robert234]

America has a new holiday---Apology a day, and Republicans, conservatives, religous right , right wing media make a mockery of it. Thre is no sincerity or sorrow: it's just a way to get away with something and knowing that there won't be any consequences. They should be indicted for semanticide and fired, NO second chances!

[Farzan]

Very short and finished nicely with "all right". Lets go back to business-as-usual at Fox.
"Is Obama black enough to address the NAACP? Next on Fox..."

[Rjchinook]

"we [Americans] keep marrying other species and other ethnicities . . . Swedes have pure genes . . . in America we marry everybody.­.."

Is there another species here that I didn't know about?

[gbee]

No s#!t - he wasn't being racist, just stupid! Plus, apparently he's never BEEN to Sweden - it's not nearly as heterogeneous as he imagines.

[alsm9]

He was ABSOLUTELY being racist. How can you say that he wasn't?? Bizzare.

[sallythewerewolf]

You mean "homogenous".

[tbone99]

evidentlyl Kilmeade admits to being a reptile that only wants to breed with his own kind.

[vet-of4renwarz]

I think he is asexual actually..­.

[ARTIST50]

How insincere.

[MorpheusXNYC]

Conservatism should be classified as what it is - an ideology of hate and the Republican Party should be reclassified as a hate group.

[lisa36]

I agree :)

[crayola 08b]

cosign.

[roblabrousse]

He looks like some kind of genetics experiment himself.

[wonkguy]

The question is, what was his intention? What did he think he was saying?

[clearthinker2008]

He was saying Hail Hitler.

[Mahi Joe]

It took him almost two weeks to come up with that weak excuse for an apology? No need for an apology, we expect this type of ignorant opinionism because, it's Faux News.

[phantom5551]

The only reason he apologized is to save his a***. what he said is EXACTLY what he believes.

[BambooHarvester]

Where is the fox " A P O L O G Y " to Dr. George Tiller's FAMILY !
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[IcedTee63]

You should have gotten with Chris Brown to learn how to apologize correctly!

[BambooHarvester]

Apology not necessarily . . . fox "news" apologies Stopped Counting Long Ago !
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[Jakealoper]

Oh, who really cares as if this really matters?

[dmyron]

Apology NOT accepted!

[1differentdrummer]

Isn't it interesting what a peek into the Faux Nooz "mind" shows? Talk about someone to ignore.