Brian Kilmeade
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| Brian Kilmeade | |
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 Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy At Barnes and Noble in Westbury, NY |
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| Born | May 7, 1964 |
| Education | Long Island University (B.A.) |
| Occupation | Co-host of Fox & Friends (Fox News Channel) and Brian and the Judge |
| Website http://www.briankilmeade.com |
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Brian Kilmeade (born May 7, 1964) is a Fox News Channel personality. Weekdays, he co-hosts Fox's morning show, Fox & Friends, along with Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson. Since April 2006, Kilmeade has co-hosted Brian and the Judge, a talk-news radio show on Fox News Radio, with Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, filling the void and time slot of former Fox anchor Tony Snow, who left the network to become Press Secretary in the George W. Bush Administration.
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[edit] Career
Kilmeade joined the network in December 1997 and also works there as a sports anchor. He has reported on sports stories such as various Super Bowls and the Kobe Bryant rape case, as well as news items such as the September 11 terrorist attacks. He worked as a sports anchor at several Ultimate Fighting Championship events, along with NFL Hall of Famer Jim Brown.
Kilmeade is the author of The Games Do Count: America's Best and Brightest on the Power of Sports[1] and It's How You Play the Game.[2]
[edit] Racism Controversy
On July 8, 2009, Kilmeade and two co-hosts were discussing a study that, based on research done in Finland and Sweden, showed people who stay married are less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Kilmeade commented, "[In the United States] we keep marrying other species and other ethnics...". Ignoring attempts by co-host Gretchen Carlson to interrupt him, he added, "See, the problem is the Swedes have pure genes. Because they marry other Swedes .... Finns marry other Finns, so they have a pure society. In America we marry everybody, we marry Italians and Irish."[3][4] On July 20, 2009, Kilmeade apologized for the controversial comments he made on the July 8 episode of "Fox and Friends." Saying, "I made comments that were offensive to many people. That was not my intention, and looking back at those comments I realize they were inappropriate. For that I sincerely apologize. America [is a] huge melting pot, and that is what makes us such a great country..."[5]
[edit] References
- ^ ISBN 0-06-9736-9
- ^ ISBN 0061237264
- ^ Alex Koppelman (July 8, 2009). "'Fox News' Kilmeade: We 'marry other species,' Finns 'pure'". Salon.com. http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/07/08/qotd/index.html. Retrieved July 14, 2009.
- ^ "'Brian Kilmeade is a bigot'". Isabigot.com. July 14, 2009. http://www.isabigot.com/2009/07/brian-kilmeade-is-a-bigot/. Retrieved July 14, 2009.
- ^ Peter Drivas (July 20, 2009). "Brian Kilmeade Apologizes For Racist 'Pure Species' Comment". The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/20/brian-kilmeade-apologizes_n_241135.html. Retrieved July 20, 2009.
[edit] External links
- Brian Kilmeade's official website
- Fox & Friends
- Brian Kilmeade's biography on Foxnews.com
- Brian and The Judge
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