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Omaha Steve

(106,993 posts)
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 03:11 PM Sunday

Fox News' Brian Kilmeade apologizes for saying mentally ill homeless people should be executed

Source: AP

By DAVID BAUDER
Updated 1:21 PM CDT, September 14, 2025

Fox News Channel host Brian Kilmeade apologized on Sunday for advocating for the execution of mentally ill homeless people in a discussion on the network last week, saying his remark was “extremely callous.”

Kilmeade’s initial comment came on a “Fox & Friends” episode Wednesday and began getting widespread circulation online over the weekend. Kilmeade, a host of the morning show, was talking with co-hosts Lawrence Jones and Ainsley Earhardt about the Aug. 22 stabbing murder of Iryna Zarutska on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina.

A homeless and mentally ill man, Decarlos Brown Jr., was arrested for murder, and the case received extensive attention on Fox following the release of a security video of the stabbing.

Jones was talking on “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday about public money spent on trying to help homeless people and suggested that those who didn’t accept services offered to them should be jailed.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/kilmeade-fox-homeless-executed-apology-bffb74e9d672b79853dc6fb8eb29afc8

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Fox News' Brian Kilmeade apologizes for saying mentally ill homeless people should be executed (Original Post) Omaha Steve Sunday OP
Not good enough! He showed his true mental unfitness to be loose in society Attilatheblond Sunday #1
And if he refuses? Deuxcents Sunday #2
If he is proven to be a danger to society he can have no say in the matter Attilatheblond Sunday #5
Here's the text of his 1/2 assed apology stuck in the middle underpants Sunday #3
Apology? chelsea0011 Sunday #4
Used to be blubunyip Sunday #29
He should be fired COL Mustard Monday #36
I disagree sarisataka Sunday #6
It Doesn"t Matter RobinA Sunday #11
Now fire him. n/t livetohike Sunday #7
I apologize for saying you are an asshole and should be eaten by wild boars. twodogsbarking Sunday #8
Why is he still employed Tribetime Sunday #9
His remark is "extremely callous"... SWBTATTReg Sunday #10
Kilmeade should be FIRED! Jilly_in_VA Sunday #12
These jackasses are making money hand over fist under trump. C Moon Sunday #13
He should be fired but it's fox so he won't be. cstanleytech Sunday #14
Killmeade is seriously demented angrychair Sunday #15
Here's what a previous Hitler thought of "The Aged and Infirm" usonian Sunday #16
If this type of talk is not pure Nazism, I don't know what is. hadEnuf Monday #41
What he probably means is that the homeless should be tried in kangaroo courts Wicked Blue Sunday #17
He's not sorry Quanto Magnus Sunday #18
Yep. THIS! calimary Sunday #30
FIRE his miserable ass. (nt) Paladin Sunday #19
Seems like some thing a spokes person republianmushroom Sunday #20
But don't call them fascists... thought crime Sunday #21
Quite Literally Psychopathic DrFunkenstein Sunday #22
Wow, so it wasn't a brain fart? He meant to say what he said? Pompoy Sunday #23
New nickname: Kill 'em Kilmeade WhatTheFlux Sunday #24
Oh. "Extremely callous"? How about a Muderous Comment, Bastard. You said it... you Own it! electric_blue68 Sunday #25
Too little toolate Randomthought Sunday #26
Fire his ass!! InAbLuEsTaTe Sunday #27
He should be fired. Matthew Dowd was fired for simply pointing out that Kirk spread hate. This guy is advocating killing tulipsandroses Sunday #28
Resign, You Ghoul! N/T tonekat Monday #31
Why wasn't he fired? creeksneakers2 Monday #32
So that's it, huh? Justice Brandeis Monday #33
Video: Internet OUTRAGE After Fox Host Makes HORRIFIC Suggestion - Really American Rhiannon12866 Monday #34
As a bonus, if we executed mentally ill homeless people, we'd probably save a lot ... JustABozoOnThisBus Monday #35
Fire his worthless ass. HarryM Monday #37
write them NewEnglandAutumn Monday #38
In a sane and decent world, he would lose his job. It is a onerous reflection of our times that he hasn't. NNadir Monday #39
Fire his Nazi ass. No exceptions. hadEnuf Monday #40
Someone should really tell him how many homeless people on the streets are veterans. Aristus Monday #42
he looked like a gun was being held to his head as he "apologized" Skittles Monday #43
I note he still has a job Hekate Monday #44
Of course. It's Fox. They are mean and proud of being mean! LeftInTX Yesterday #46
And Gutlege or whatever his name is said that the Melissa Hortman's killing was not political violence. LeftInTX Yesterday #45

Attilatheblond

(7,247 posts)
1. Not good enough! He showed his true mental unfitness to be loose in society
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 03:14 PM
Sunday

Needs mental health care in a supervised facility.

Attilatheblond

(7,247 posts)
5. If he is proven to be a danger to society he can have no say in the matter
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 03:21 PM
Sunday

We the People are generally not aware of how easily our rights can be taken, merely on the say so of certain 'accredited professionals'.

blubunyip

(246 posts)
29. Used to be
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 10:47 PM
Sunday

we rarely saw homeless people in my town. Now you see them often sleeping in the bushes or begging. These are some sad people but they deserve help and hope and dignity. Anything else is totally inhumane. But Brian Kilmeade lacks humanity.

COL Mustard

(7,577 posts)
36. He should be fired
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 06:11 AM
Monday

Of course Fox will never do that, and even if they did, he'd get a job in the Administration.

sarisataka

(21,999 posts)
6. I disagree
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 03:21 PM
Sunday

he apologized for being callous by making the lethal injection comment.

He did NOT apologize for saying they should be killed.

RobinA

(10,419 posts)
11. It Doesn"t Matter
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 04:16 PM
Sunday

if he apologizes or not. That is like saying you want to murder your mother. There's just some things that decent people don't say, and to say them means you just aren't an OK person. Standing on stage and mocking a disabled person on camera is another.

twodogsbarking

(15,712 posts)
8. I apologize for saying you are an asshole and should be eaten by wild boars.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 03:33 PM
Sunday

I'll be satisfied with you just being eaten by wild boars.

SWBTATTReg

(25,687 posts)
10. His remark is "extremely callous"...
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 04:00 PM
Sunday

And not one remark associate along w/ his remark that was thrown up w/ his ignorant remark didn't suggest more outreach to help such persons, more resources to address the increasing homeless population, more resources to help the increasing numbers of those w/o insurance, etc.

We all know what the republicans/gop stand for, All ME and nothing for no one else. Nothing!

Jilly_in_VA

(13,018 posts)
12. Kilmeade should be FIRED!
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 04:35 PM
Sunday

If Matt Dowd got fired for what he said about Charlie Kirk, which I thought was relatively innocuous (and also true), then Kelmeade should be bounced out on his azz for this one.

C Moon

(13,173 posts)
13. These jackasses are making money hand over fist under trump.
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 04:48 PM
Sunday

This Fixed news bastard makes as much as $9 million a year w a net worth of $27 million. And what does he think of the less fortunate?: shoot them.

He can apologize all day and night, but we all know this is how they think.

angrychair

(11,121 posts)
15. Killmeade is seriously demented
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 05:37 PM
Sunday

Guy is fucking twisted. There is no apology. He meant that shit.
What an asshole.

usonian

(20,465 posts)
16. Here's what a previous Hitler thought of "The Aged and Infirm"
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 05:51 PM
Sunday

No Freudian slip. These creeps believe in eugenics and ethnic cleansing.



Mass Murder of the Aged & Infirm
http://learning-from-history.de/International/Posting/8662

Wicked Blue

(8,231 posts)
17. What he probably means is that the homeless should be tried in kangaroo courts
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 05:58 PM
Sunday

and THEN executed.

Quanto Magnus

(1,253 posts)
18. He's not sorry
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 06:45 PM
Sunday

he just knows it wasn't a good look and it trying to weasel out of it.

He should be fired.

calimary

(87,817 posts)
30. Yep. THIS!
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 11:25 PM
Sunday

He did it cuz he had to. And took his own sweet time about it, also.

AND it took him til Sunday to “apologize” - for an offense committed the Wednesday before. Four days late!

What he should have done is: to jump in at the end of that same Wednesday’s show and offer an apology right then and there. Instead of four days later.

DrFunkenstein

(8,832 posts)
22. Quite Literally Psychopathic
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 08:19 PM
Sunday

Psychopathic traits include superficial charm, grandiosity, manipulation, pathological lying, lack of remorse or guilt, shallow emotions, callousness, and a lack of empathy.

How many of these traits fit Kilmeade? Other than his total lack of charm, I mean.

tulipsandroses

(7,925 posts)
28. He should be fired. Matthew Dowd was fired for simply pointing out that Kirk spread hate. This guy is advocating killing
Sun Sep 14, 2025, 09:45 PM
Sunday

people. Yet he gets to keep his job?? Its disgusting.
Did I not read something recently about the trump admin wanting to look at social media to see who says terrible things about Americans. Well here you go, live on tv. He is talking about Americans.

Justice Brandeis

(286 posts)
33. So that's it, huh?
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 01:13 AM
Monday

A mealy-mouthed, staff written half-apology and we're all just expected to move on. No consequences?

JustABozoOnThisBus

(24,341 posts)
35. As a bonus, if we executed mentally ill homeless people, we'd probably save a lot ...
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 04:41 AM
Monday

... of money in veterans' health expenses.

This would please Trump, Musk, Miller, etc.

HarryM

(427 posts)
37. Fire his worthless ass.
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 07:01 AM
Monday

Fire him and charge him with inciting murder.
If he was a Democrat, they would make sure that he, at the very least, resign.
This was not even an actual apology, it was a little aside.
It was not "extremely callous," it was criminal.
Fire him, sue him into poverty, and make him homeless.

NNadir

(36,580 posts)
39. In a sane and decent world, he would lose his job. It is a onerous reflection of our times that he hasn't.
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 08:36 AM
Monday

hadEnuf

(3,395 posts)
40. Fire his Nazi ass. No exceptions.
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 08:55 AM
Monday

People are being fired outright from their jobs over comments about an extremist right-wing pod caster they made on-line. And not just fired from MSNBC either.

This is complete BS and Fox needs to be held accountable for fomenting violence.

Aristus

(70,852 posts)
42. Someone should really tell him how many homeless people on the streets are veterans.
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 09:38 AM
Monday

Or, because he supports Trump, does he not care about them, either?

Skittles

(167,376 posts)
43. he looked like a gun was being held to his head as he "apologized"
Mon Sep 15, 2025, 10:00 PM
Monday

and he QUALIFIED it - you know, like, maybe SOME homeless folk are somewhat less deserving of the death penalty

Kilmeade is a DISGUSTING POS.

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