Fox News host on mentally ill people who commit crimes: “Just kill them”

https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/fox-news-host-mentally-ill-people-who-commit-crimes-just-kill-them

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52998578

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criss_cross@lemmy.world · 115 pts · 328d (3 replies)

Is he gonna get fired for spreading hate and advocating violence? No that only applies to news outlets we don’t like? Got it.

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 328d (1 reply)

Cancel that fucker!

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 328d

Though the professional crybabies among the Confederates always are moping about "cancel culture", no such thing really exists for Republicans. It is only a thing for anyone to the left of Hannity.

devolution@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 328d

Open cabinet position in the administration probably.

ileftreddit@piefed.social · 73 pts · 328d (3 replies)
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some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 328d (2 replies)

Nazi huntin’ skips a generation.

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 328d (1 reply)

It must be passed down on the mother's side

vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 328d

The portion of my mom's side who actually participated in WW2 worked on Stukas, V1s, and V2s. So no Nazi killing amongst my family that I know of. My great grandfather was on the right side of history though even if he was a bastard, Navy had him doing R&D on whatever the boys in Europe jacked.

Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 328d

No apology. No consequences. At all. This is fine, because it's a conservative saying it.

NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social · 22 pts · 328d

Certainly sounds like the opinion of a mentally stable individual.

TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 328d (1 reply)

So... conservatives?

logicbomb@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 328d

They do seem to have a lot of conspiracy theorists.

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 328d (3 replies)

They haven’t been following the news.

Or maybe they want to kill right-wingers.

whiwake@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 328d

Everything is scripted.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 328d (1 reply)

Gonna be a lot of state-sanctioned TPUSA-on-groyper violence, I guess?

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 328d

That'd be unfortunate.

Hanrahan@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 328d (1 reply)

Is he talking about killing Trump?

onslaught545@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 327d

Trump is a mentally ill person who committed crimes.

Atropos@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 328d

Private prison lobby is not gonna like this.

Keep your grifters in mind, MAGA. SMH.

cabron_offsets@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 328d (1 reply)
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Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 328d

And all the lunatics calling for civil war and death to their "opponents" before knowing it was conservative gang violence? Are we sure they're not mentally ill? In which case, not death, but help. Except they gotta get their shit together first. Stop blaming the wrong people!

A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 9 pts · 328d

Just in: Mass Suicide in FOX studios!

TuffNutzes@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 328d

Are they talking about ICE personnel?

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 328d

Hey, that's sounds like my mother

abcdqfr@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 328d

That sounds like a pretty mental thing to say. Haven't committed any petty crimes, have we? Check yourself.

kibiz0r@midwest.social · 6 pts · 328d

Just for context, this was before Kirk got merc’d

DrFistington@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 328d

But if they kill all of their viewers, how are they gonna brainwash people for profit?

popjam@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 328d
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betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 328d

I agree with the headline if you remove everything after "host" until the colon.

SuperEars@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 328d (3 replies)

Hey friends,

Take it from an ally - this is a misleading headline.

The utterance was uttered in the context of things one would want to avoid. It doesn't even strike me as a threat by Brian Kilmeade, and is more of a gaffe.

The whole clip is STILL a steamy shitty take.

They are saying "mental illness sufferers, particularly the subset who are inclined to commit public violence, need to 'come to Jesus' and take the overly-bountiful government assistance available to them. That silver bullet will cure them of their issues such that they'll no longer threaten poor old me. And if any refuse, they deserve whatever else might happen to them which, as stated earlier, is to be involuntarily placed into a mental institution."

And then Brian Kilmeade, the homunculus muppet that he is, thinks "I'm helping," grabs the bag of Shake'n Bake his parents never gave him, and chimes in "and other bad things could happen, uhh hyuck, even inVoLuntaRy letHaL injEcTion (as a consequence of the implied context of a person who refuses help for their mental illness, who later takes a life during a mental episode, and who will suffer ramifications up to and including being tried for murder and sentenced to death).

Maybe it would have been a dog whistle call to violence if anyone other than Brian Kilmeade said it.

Maybe it's foolish of me to disregard the words because the words were still aired, on a network with a vested interest in launching wind-up murder meatbots towards the left. If this is the point of the report, then this is a criminal choice of headline.

livejamie@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 328d

I think you're suggesting that it's misleading not to mention the initial "If they don't take help" part of the statement, because it gives the impression that they want to kill everyone by default.

A more accurate title would be "Fox News host on mentally ill criminals who refuse help: 'Just kill them'"

dtaylor84@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 328d

I watched the whole clip. Your framing is more misleading than the headline.

porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 328d

No, the headline is a pretty accurate representation of the clip actually

FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 328d (1 reply)

Since when is the death penalty used for anything less than murder?

jj4211@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 328d

Judging from the transcript, they are specifically talking about a fatal stabbing on a bus in Charlotte.

They've jumped all over this because:

  • It's a stabbing so they don't have to worry about the gun control debate
  • The city had a Democrat mayor and NC has a Democrat governor they can pretend made the stabbing happen to villify the Democrats

Bonus points, they threw Thom Tillis (R) under the bus, because he actually said that maybe sometimes he didn't fully agree with Trump.

iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 328d

Soooo....most billionaires?

JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 327d

Sure. Start from the top.

mineralfellow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 328d

How very Himmler of him.