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EYE ON THE MEDIA
Fox News Host Tells Pope Francis to Leave U.S.: ‘He Doesn’t Belong Here: Capitalism is Our Savior’
Kilmeade: He damn well knows what his masters at Fox want him to say and he does it. A pathetic little man, either totally brainwashed (not improbable) or a presstitute for a corrupt status quo. Take your pick.
JUSTIN LANE | RING OF FIRE
Transcript:
The Beavis or the Butt-Head of mainstream television. You decide. Maybe both.
Kilmeade: Yeah, I’m Catholic and he could stay home. Some of his comments just have no place. He’s in the wrong country. But I tell you what —
Wallace: What? He’s in the wrong country? What does that mean?
Kilmeade: He doesn’t like capitalism. He blames us and money for what’s going on in the Middle East. He says that global warming — we’ve got to do more to have global warming — we’re doing more than anybody else. Get on China, show some courage. He’s never visited our country before, now he gets around to it and he’s critical going in? I’ve had enough, you know — take on, take on Islam, then talk to me.
[…]Kilmeade: Tired of the pope.
As always, Fox News is totally ignorant [or pretends to be—Editors]. Pope Francis has spoken out against terrorism and abuse of religion, including Islamic extremism. After the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in France, Pope Francis stated the following:
“Violence is always the product of a falsification of religion”.
“Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.”
“I express my hope that religious, political and intellectual leaders, especially those of the Muslim community, will condemn all fundamentalist and extremist interpretations of religion which attempt to justify such acts of violence.”
Listen to Kilmeade’s comments below via Media Matters.
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Addendum
BRIAN KILMEADE WORKING HIS TWO-CELLED BRAIN TO MAX TO EMBARRASS JANEANE GAROFALO DURING RAMP-UP TO WAR ON IRAQ (2/2003)
Janeane Garofalo running circles around Brian Kilmeade on Fox & Friends, February 2003. What Janeane had to say afterward: “The only time I’ve ever lost my cool is on Fox and Friends — this alleged morning news show on Fox. One of the first things one of the morning crew said to me was, “Boy, Saddam must love you.” I’m not going to put up with that shit. I don’t need to take that on a television program. You booked me, and you have a choice: You can either respect the guests you book, or book a guest you can respect. But I’m not going to come on there and have you make such an inflammatory statement. So I lost my cool. And then, of course, Fox News has run that clip ad nauseum as if it doesn’t embarrass them.”
From February 2003, about a month before the Iraq War began and just after the worldwide protests of the impending U.S.-led invasion.
2 comments
Another example of why capitalism cant be reformed, it has to be removed – utterly. This Kilmeade character perfectly and honestly represents the social layer he belongs to. They aren’t simply malignant, they are deeply, even proudly ignorant. Not only is this jackass wealthy enough, and credentialed enough to know something about which he blathers, he works for a fucking “news network” !! And yet the best commentary he can produce is “if you don’t like it why don’t you leave”…. (to the Pope, no less, who’s only here to pay an ecclesiastical visit to Roman Catholics) ..He will leave soon enough, idiot, and take with him the loyalty of approx. 300 million global Catholics . Its too bad Kilmeade is only encountered on FOX, that shrinking ghetto of disappearing white protestant privilege . As someone who desperately wants to see the downfall of capitalism, I would love to see more of Killmeades’ ilk attacking the Pope more often, and in front of more Catholics. .
Dear Marcus: We more than share your anger at these “malignant” idiots, presstitutes through and through. Kilmeade is a disgrace, and so is the rest of the corporate media, except that even in that filthy corral, some are dirtier than others, and Fox News seems to have a large contingent in there. Murdoch and Ailes—the puppetmasters of this human offal— should be tried and put in jail for telling huge political lies to the American people, lies with enormous and ugly consequences. Unfortunately, as you know, such an opportunity to settle accounts with these vermin will not take place before there’s a true new American revolution. —BP