Fox News host Brian Kilmeade unloaded on critics after a viral video clip purported to call him out as a racist.
Addressing the claims on Thursday’s edition of “Fox & Friends,” Kilmeade hit back at social media accounts that shared a clip from the previous day’s show when he had been discussing the decision by Vice President Kamala Harris to attend a “college sorority” event rather than preside over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress.
Kilmeade named names as he called out those who smeared him and falsely accused him of saying the word “colored” instead of “college” sorority. In the initial discussion, he had criticized Harris, the now-presumptive Democrat nominee following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race, for plans to address the historically black Zeta Phi Beta sorority’s “Grand Boule” in Indianapolis rather than greet and hear Netanyahu.
“She will not show up for the Prime Minister’s joint session of Congress today. She’d rather address in the summer a sorority, a college sorority like she can’t get outta that,” Kilmeade had said.
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But a clip posted by Politico Playbook co-author Eugene Daniels and others claimed that the Fox News host had said “colored.” Former Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill as well as Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison shared the post, also smearing co-host Lawrence Jones for not speaking out. This set off a wave of backlash and criticism. The clip Harrison reacted to was later deleted by the user who posted it.
“Eugene Daniels’ now-deleted tweet completely misquoted and unnecessarily maligned Brian Kilmeade who clearly said college sorority,” Fox News pointed out in a statement.
Kilmeade would not remain silent after his name was falsely dragged for something he did not say.
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“So this ends up being this big thing, and it turns out the person who did it is head of the Washington Correspondents Association,” he said, referring to Daniels. “And he’s a Politico guy who does playbook every day. I ended up speaking to him at the end of the day, and that conversation remained private. But they walked it back. ”
“They corrected it, but it didn’t stop for four or five hours,” Kilmeade added. “People like Jamie Harrison, head of the DNC, calling me a clown, making racial, accusations. My direction. People across the country just see the headline and start throwing things, things out. It disparages me, disparages this company.”
“It’s a learned moment for everyone on the couch, everyone watching,” Kilmeade pointed out.
He vowed not to “back off” or apologize for criticizing Harris.
“From now on, things have changed… they’re looking to label anyone, any time a racist, sexist, misogynist. I’m not going to back off anything I say. I think it was a huge mistake her going to a college sorority instead of the prime minister’s address,” he said, “and I’m not going to apologize for it. But people who are in the media should be responsible when they report things.”
Conservative journalist and podcast host Megyn Kelly noted that Kilmeade has been on the air for decades and “if he were going to refer to black politicians as colored, it would have happened prior to now.”
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.
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