UPDATED: Fox & Friends Co-Host Gretchen Carlson Walks Off After Brian Kilmeade Makes Sexist Comment
Written by Media Matters Staff & Melody Johnson
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Yesterday, Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson walked off the set of her show after co-host Brian Kilmeade made a sexist remark that “women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now.” Today, the co-hosts addressed the incident, with Carlson saying she was kidding when she left the set, and Kilmeade saying he's “pretty much not sexist.”
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But Kilmeade can't explain away his record that easily. Here are just a few highlights of Brian Kilmeade's sexist Fox & Friends commentary:
Kilmeade: Ugg boots are “a shoe brand largely popular with babes.”
Kilmeade: “Babes, chicks, what do you call them, Steve? Skirts?”
Kilmeade to co-host Molly Line: “Come on Molly, think about your quad development!... Let's take a second and think about Molly's quad development.”
Kilmeade: “Thank you Hooters. That's how I wake up every day.”
Kilmeade: Carmen Electra “is a wonderful actress, and she has a great body.”
Kilmeade on Russian Spy Anna Chapman: “Why not reward her for a nice body?”
Kilmeade to actress Christina Hendricks: “I'm pro-curve and pro-eyelash.”
Kilmeade fits right in. Sexism is par for the course at Fox News.
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On the June 14 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, after Steve Doocy talked about the gender integration of the Navy Sea Chanters, co-host Brian Kilmeade made a sexist comment that caused co-host Gretchen Carlson to walk off the set. From Fox & Friends:
KILMEADE: Women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now. It's out of control.
CARLSON: You know what? You know what.
KILMEADE: She's out.
CARLSON: You read the headlines. Since men are so great. Go ahead. Take them away.
KILMEADE: All right. Finally.
CARLSON: Take them away.
KILMEADE: OK.
CARLSON: Go ahead.
KILMEADE: Leaving an all male crew.
CARLSON: In all your glory, go for it.
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Kilmeade regularly makes sexist jokes and references on the show.
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