Kilmeade: Americans don't have "pure genes" like Swedes because "we keep marrying other species and other ethnics"
From the July 8 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
Hat tip to Gawker.
GRETCHEN CARLSON (co-host): Speaking of spouses --
BRIAN KILMEADE (co-host): Yes.
CARLSON: -- did you know that being married is healthy for you? At least when it comes to Alzheimer's disease or dementia or things like that. This group did a study. They first interviewed middle-aged people around 50 in the 1970s and the 1980s, and then they came back to look at them 21 years later. Those who were married at that point in their life, in the midpoint of their life, ended up having much fewer cases of Alzheimer's than those who were --
DAVE BRIGGS (guest co-host): Yeah.
CARLSON: -- divorced, single, widowed, et cetera.
BRIGGS: I'm kind of conflicted on this one. Because on one hand, I think my wife keeps me sane, because I lose everything and she helps me find it. But I leave cabinets open --
CARLSON: You too, huh?
BRIGGS: Does your husband leave cabinets open?
CARLSON: That first thing you said.
BRIGGS: Losing things? Right?
CARLSON: Yeah.
BRIGGS: But I leave these cabinets open all over the house. I come back in the room, and they're closed. And sometimes I think I'm losing my marbles a little bit. Then I realize she just likes to come behind me and --
CARLSON: She's just looking out for you, Mr. Briggs.
BRIGGS: -- close things and put things away.
KILMEADE: I'm just amazed that they thought about doing this study in the -- by interviewing people in the 1970s and the 1980s.
BRIGGS: A little dated, you think?
KILMEADE: The average is 50, and they see that they keep it together. I find this -- I find this somewhat --
BRIGGS: Go ahead.
KILMEADE: Different. Leave it to the Finns and Swedes to some up with something. They literally --
CARLSON: Don't look at me, pal.
KILMEADE: Because that's a -- we are -- we're -- we're a -- we're -- we keep marrying other species and other ethnics and other --
CARLSON: Are you sure they're not suffering from some of the --
KILMEADE: I mean, the Swedes --
CARLSON: -- causes of dementia right now?
BRIGGS: What are you getting at?
KILMEADE: See, the problem is, the Swedes have pure genes.
BRIGGS: OK.
KILMEADE: Because they marry other Swedes. Because that's the rule. Finland -- Finns marry other Finns, so they have a pure society. In America, we marry everybody.
BRIGGS: OK.
KILMEADE: So, we'll marry Italians and Irish.
BRIGGS: So, this study does not apply?
KILMEADE: Does not apply to us.
BRIGGS: Huh. You are a scientist.
CARLSON: Amazing deduction, Kilmeade.
BRIGGS: Scientist.
KILMEADE: That's a -- those are --
BRIGGS: Dr. Kilmeade, it is.
KILMEADE: That's how I feel.
BRIGGS: All right.
CARLSON: Thank you for filling us in on that --
BRIGGS: Let's see how he feels --
CARLSON: -- Italian-Irish man.
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Brian, you are Kill 'n me'd
Once again the anti-science/pro-ignorance stance of Faux shines through.
Then again I don't think they even got that right...
"Because that's a -- we are -- we're -- we're a -- we're -- we keep marrying other species and other ethnics and other -- "
I also wonder what she was going to say after ethnics... fruit and vegetables??
Oh, never mind.
My apologies to all baboons.
It just didn't work out very well that time.
I really hope he doesn't think I'm another species because I'm Asian, but you got to wonder...
Unrelated news: The Swedish embassy today is reporting receiving record phone calls regarding immigration requests from citizens of the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas.
Sums it up nicely.
Kilmeade, Doocy & Carlson always act like the Three Stooges to me.
I made a reference here one time comparing some people to the Three Stooges and was forced to apologize to the Three Stooges. Just a hint..watch your back.
Upon further review, how dare you insult the 3 Stooges by putting them in the same category as the Wit Family of Fox..Dim, Nit and Half.
I was not purposely plagiarizing you. Honestly I have made this comparison before about these stooges and I have never read your reference to the Three Stooges.
I love I will purposely and shamelessly cop that from you in the future.
Plagarizing me...now that is funny.
I may change my moniker to "DIDIWRITETHIS?"
Still, pull up porky Pig, check out the brows and beady little eyes. Same thing, guess that solves which species he's mixed with. A cartoon pig. Explains a lot don't it?
Oh sorry Porky but it's true. I noticed none of you came to Porky's defence. RACIST GOONS
i have dubbed them Bevis (Doocy), Butthead(Kilmeade) and Daria (Carlson)
Plus, you didn't explain how it was out-of-context. In fact, you simply restated what he said. The context was provided and clear. Essentially, he's saying that in Sweden, white people stick to whites while here in America whites breed with other "species". Brilliant.
As far as humans, there has been research that shows we are wired to find others with certain genetic differences, for the benefit of our offspring. Not so much looks, but health-related issues... and it's more a subconscious action than other traits we actively seek out. Variety and adaptation are good things for survival!
by zamfir273114 (April 09, 2007 9:19 pm ET)
...I want racial quotas in basketball so that there is an equal number of non-black athletes. Am I going to get any of those things? Didn't think so.
by zamfir273114 (April 09, 2007 11:33 pm ET)
People are still people. When people talk before they think, they can say stupid and derogatory things. To cite every incidence as "racism" is overreaching.
by zamfir273114 (August 05, 2008 9:14 pm ET)
Savage has a point. Every neighborhood that illegals have migrated to has gone down the tubes. My birthplace of Van Nuys, CA is like "little Mexico" now. Shootings, rapings, pillaging, drive-by's, grafiti, prostitution, drugs, (you know, all the things that go along with the Mexican-illegal population. Even the African-American neighborhoods are in awe!
by zamfir273114 (August 05, 2008 9:27 pm ET)
Then why is it that every one of these Mexican populated areas crime-ridden? Really, all P.C. aside, can you tell me why the real estate prices decrease in these areas? One more thing, why are the prisons filled with Mexicans? P.C. aside. See, nothing ever gets done because everybody is afraid to talk about these things.
by zamfir273114 (February 15, 2008 12:38 am ET)
I don't have to agree with someone in order to value free speech. Sure, Imus et. Al. say some nasty comments; however, unless you can diminish his listenership or his value, your barking up the wrong tree. If Hillary were black, you could resort to using Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. Unfortunately, they only come running when black folk are ridiculed. Hmm, that seems a little "racist" in and of itself.
by zamfir273114 (February 14, 2008 6:35 pm ET)
That is Mr. Hussein's, I mean Obama's, name. Coulter only speaks what millions of American's think. The American people have a right to know who they are voting for. Barack Hussein Obama.
Tell that to the Swedes. If what you're saying is true about them having the highest quality of life of any country right now, it's happens to come at a time of their highest recorded levels of immigration. Among the Swedish population, 13.4 percent were not born in Sweden. You know what percentage of the US population was born abroad? 12.4 percent.
Isn't it remarkable how the facts consistently undermine arguments for racial, ethnic, national, and linguistic purity?
(You can also go private or take private health insurance, but a majority of people don't find it really necessary).
Those with no earned income also have, as far as I can see, more generous social benefits.
And very importantly-working days are shorter and holidays a lot longer; a standard working day is 8 hours and holidays roughly 5 weeks/year. Standard paid maternity leave about 1 year, with possibility to extend to up to 3 years without losing your job.
So the reasons are many.
Not everything is rosy, though, alchohol abuse (leading to violent crime) is quite common and drugs are on the increse, albeit much lower still than in the US or UK.
We pay much higher taxes on our income. In return, we have free ecucation up to tertiary level (there are cost for material and some admin costs on secondary and tertiary level, but the basic tuition is free), affordable healthcare, standard abt 1 year paid maternity leave with option to extend unpaid leave to 3 years without loosing your job, free or affordable childcare, social benefits for unemployed, disabled and also people on low income, shorter working days (standard 7.5-8 hours), longer paid holidays (5 weeks average)...just to list a few things.
Not everything is rosy, though, since the 80's health care especially has been cut down-you might have to queu a bit longer for non-urgent procedures-but nobody is left without care.
The curse of society is alchohol abuse, which is all too common and leads to violent crime. On the other hand, drugs abuse is still low comparing to the US or UK, albeit on the increase.
On the good side again, cities are smaller, which means that people live closer to the nature. Jogging, walking, swimming and skiing is a part of everyday life.
That may partly explain the high rate of suicides. Also I wonder if the long winters and the cold weather contribute to that. Montana and Alaska have the highest rates of suicide in the U.S. and they have all three of those things in common.
Your Aryan and Klan brothers thank you for your support!
But I'm with you. I hate when the PC police take a great scientist out of context because his "techno-speak" is over our heads.
Hilarious.
The truly hilarious part is that he actually paused, like he was trying to choose his words carefully before he said "another species"
That kind of racism is buried real deep... you know the kind that believes the "scientists" in the 1800s who said that "a black man's brain is physically smaller than a white man's.
I don't think it is buried racism. In order to be a racist, you must be able to differentiate between "species". Man, I would love to see some of his dates.
Kilmeade is just an idiot.
What was taken out of context? Please explain...
It's all about Kilmeade saying that Americans marry other species!
Because that's a -- we are -- we're -- we're a -- we're -- we keep marrying other species and other ethnics...
in so that it is ANYTHING but the stupidest most racist inanity ever spoken in the English language?
You are ridiculous and you are embarassing yourself. If you cant see THIS as outrageous then stop masquerading as a human being. You are embarassing inbred hicks everywhere.
Zamfir273114, where's your outrage at the P.C. police officers on the set of the show, like the other two hosts who mocked him and asked him if he was suffering from dementia, or the person on set who began whistling "If I Only Had a Brain" when Kilmeade stuck his big racial hygienic foot in his mouth? The were on the set, sitting right next to him. Did they also somehow manage to take him out of context?
And yet you leap to defend this statement. You're not having the best of luck when it comes to picking your battles these days, are you?
We can bash both at the same time. You have to do more than one thing at a time when you're an out-of-control blogger.
And, more propaganda about marriage.
yeah i can't say that with a straight face and without busting my gut laughing so hard.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/08/murdoch-papers-phone-hacking
The workings of the human brain are hard to fathom:
"You're not listening to why.. I'm not a quitter, I'm a fighter."
(I do think I'm gonna have to give up on figuring the above out.)
"Because they marry other Swedes. Because that's the rule."
What rule is that... doh!!!
Is there a special Swedes only marry Swedes rule that I'm not aware of? What rattles around in that man's head that is supposed to resemble thought?
I'm really offended.
This guy makes O'Reilly seem like Stephen Hawking.
>>>I don't think he likely Irish.
People tend to overvalue the name in determining ancestry. Mr. Kilmeade may or may not be of Irish ancestry as far as I know as a non-viewer. But I can't find him noting it anywhere. However in Al Franken's "Lies and Lying Liars Who Tell Them" (ch.26), Franken says that Kilmeade was born 'Leslie Hochsweenderson'.
My opinion - from looks alone - is that at best he's part-Irish.
Maybe he took Kilmeade as a stage name. But if it is connected to him by family, I couldn't find the name in any of the surname dictionaries I used. The various names starting with 'Kil' though can be English, Irish or Scottish in origin. 'Meade' by itself can be either English or Irish.
At the end the woman referred to him as an 'Italian Irishman'. I don't know if she meant that or was she was just mockingly repeating back to him some of what he'd said earlier.
I'll be here all week. Try the veal. Be sure to tip your waitstaff.
Ironically, one of their own is making an issue of racial impurity of his own country.
What historical figure did the same thing before he exterminated millions?
Hmmm...
That explains alot about Anne Colter!
Sweden and Finland tied for #1
U.S. at #17 and going down.
Make your inferences.
By the way, where did you get your numbers?
Meanwhile, Costa Ricans have a higher life expectancy than Americans. That kind of blows a hole in your 'brown people BAD!' theory, doesn't it racist?
Zamphir, please do the country a favor and--you choose the method--don't pass on your own genes. Seriously.
Sweden and Finland tied for NO. 1, US 17. Universal gov't financed health care; legally mandated vacations; paid education through college; non-Draconian drug laws; religion out of the public square.
I don't even get the idea of "pure genes." Our DNA isn't Perrier.
Ptolemy, 3rd in command of Alexander the Great's Army after having his kids had his son and daughter wed to continue the egyptian tradition. that ended with Julius Caesar.
what still not good enough for you?
ok ill raise you Julio Claudian dynasty. This was Augustus' bloodline. well not directly, more his step family, and his wife's clan. and the madness of "pure blood" came to fruition in the form of Caligula (his father and mother were first cousins) and after having something of a stable personality in Claudius, you then have good ol Nero who thankfully was the last of that demented bloodline.
ya know come to think of it, Nero i think would be idolized by the neo cons today. i mean if the story was true about him "fiddling" (he would have been playing the lyre, which surprisingly enough he was actually really good at) while Rome burned, then that just embodies neo con "hands off" principles. (fact is the story wasn't true, Nero was at least a day's ride outside of Rome, and as for the rumors that he had the fire set to clear out real estate for his newest palace was crap too. anyone who knows about ancient history knows that fires were common and it was only a matter of time before Rome had a devestating fire.)
but oh wait. one thing: Nero in an act of charity, took all those that he could that had been made homeless and housed them himself at his expense in his palace the Domus Aurea (The Golden house). wait a minute thats not hands off......he was a liberal! ARGH.
I'm curious to know what exactly brainless here meant when he said... 'other species'...? Not to mention the 'other ethnics' remark.
Could this have been Freudian slip of a deep seeded racism toward blacks or other minorities (as this is a meme of the right-wing -- to dehumanize any and all that are not white or Christian as less than human... or basically... another species)?
Being that bestiality and marrying animals in America is illegal... I can not come up with another possible answer to this.
THAT'S where O'Rielly got the idea that gay marriage would lead to people marrying animals. Now it's Granny and the gator all over again!!
And they Sotomayor a racist?! Does this...? I mean... Wow. I'm stunned speechless.
"Pure Genes?" "Other species?!"
These people are PAID to spout this nonsense?! Just because you HAVE free speech doesn't mean it's always a good idea to USE it.
Oh yeah... and:
"This group did a study."
Helluva citation, huh?
What does marrying have to do with your genes? Apparently, Kilmeade assumes that if you get married, then you instantly have children. Idiot.
And of course, the opposite view is true somewhat. To form a stronger human being, the DNA needs some variety, so it's a good thing for races to inter-mingle because it builds stronger humans.
A culture that never breeds outside of itself is a form of macro-incest, the effects of which are only seen over multiple generations.
ANY other network would have a screaming boycott crowd blocking the studios!!
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Also, as a matter of definition, a species is composed of individuals who are capable of reproducing together. Thus, all members of the race Homo Sapiens are members of the same species, no matter how racially different they may appear to be. The exception to this definition would be the case of horses and donkeys, who are able to breed and produce mules as offspring. They are not considered to be of the same species, however, because the offspring of these unions are always sterile.
Eh, not to be picky, but the definition of species with which I'm familiar specifies that a species is composed of individuals capable of producing viable, fertile offspring. So there's no need to make exceptions for mules and other infertile offspring of different species.
But let's cut to the chase: Kilmeade reached for the word "race" and came up with "other species". He doesn't think it's important to distinguish between the categories "racially marked" and "non human". And despite being ridiculed for saying something so blatantly ignorant and offensive, our friend zamfir273114 is jumping to his defense, saying it's unfair for MMFA to take issue with poor Kilmeade for not saying the same thing in a "more P.C/B.S. way".
Zamfir273114: what exactly is P.C or B.S. about calling out a TV host on a cable "news" channel for saying that some U.S. citizens aren't human beings?
My parents were humans. Kilmeade looks like a dog. What breed of dog was/is his father or mother? Being half-human I do not know which of Kilmeade's parents was/is canine. Irish Setter, or the Italian Mastiff? So, Kilmeade has both a birth certificate and The Kennel Club Accreditation? One foot, one paw? Is he up on his vaccinations: canine distemper, Parvovirus, rabies, etc? Where is his collar? Which Fox News executive walks him?
It is not, that I am playing dumb. You KNOW Fox News is the basis of integrity, honesty, and the focal point of reason. Is a fox considered a canine?
I have too many questions to make sense of what he meant.
My parents were humans. Kilmeade looks like a dog. What breed of dog was/is his father or mother? Being half-human I do not know which of Kilmeade's parents was/is canine. Irish Setter, or the Italian Mastiff? So, Kilmeade has both a birth certificate and The Kennel Club Accreditation? One foot, one paw? Is he up on his vaccinations: canine distemper, Parvovirus, rabies, etc? Where is his collar? Which Fox News executive walks him?
It is not, that I am playing dumb. You KNOW Fox News is the basis of integrity, honesty, and the focal point of reason. Is a fox considered a canine?
I have too many questions to make sense of what he meant.