Brian Kilmeade
| Brian Kilmeade | |
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 Brian Kilmeade (left) and Steve Doocy At Barnes and Noble in Westbury, NY |
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| Born | May 7, 1964 |
| Education | C.W. Post (B.A.) |
| Occupation | Co-host of Fox & Friends (Fox News Channel) and Brian and the Judge Host of Kilmeade and Friends (Fox News Radio) |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
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| http://www.briankilmeade.com | |
Brian Kilmeade (born May 7, 1964) a Fox News Channel television personality. Weekdays, he co-hosts Fox's morning show, Fox & Friends, along with Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson. Kilmeade also co-hosts Brian and the Judge, a talk-news radio show on Fox News Radio, with Judge Andrew P. Napolitano. He also hosts the Fox News Radio program Kilmeade and Friends[1]
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[edit] Career
After graduating from Massapequa High School in 1982, Kilmeade attended C.W. Post, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1986. He began his career as a correspondent on Channel One, a daily national high school television news program. He later served as an anchor and host for KHSC-TV in Ontario, California. He co-hosted The Jim Brown Show on XTRA-AM, an all-sports radio network. In 1993, Kilmeade joined Brown as part of the announcing team for the inaugural Ultimate Fighting Championship event, conducting post-fight interviews. He would move into the play-by-play role for UFC 2 and UFC 3 in 1994.
Kilmeade was as a freelance sports anchor for WVIT (NBC) in Hartford. He was a sideline reporter for the MSG Network, where he covered the New York/New Jersey Metro-Stars, a major league soccer team based in Giants Stadium.
Later, he worked as a feature reporter and anchor for Newsport TV, where he hosted Newsport Journal, a daily magazine show for the national sports network. Additionally, he also anchored Scoreboard Central, a live half-hour general sports program. He has seven years of experience as a stand-up comedian.
Kilmeade joined NBC, where he also worked as a sports anchor, in December 1997.
Kilmeade is the author of The Games Do Count: America's Best and Brightest on the Power of Sports[2] and It's How You Play the Game.[3] He is a frequent guest-panelist on Fox News' late-night satire program Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld, and has hosted the show for Greg Gutfeld. In April 2006, he filled in the Fox News Radio time slot of former Fox anchor Tony Snow, who had left the network to become Press Secretary in the George W. Bush Administration.
[edit] Controversies
[edit] Racism remark
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 {Who is Swedish} 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."[4]
On July 20, 2009, Kilmeade apologized for his remarks, 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] "All terrorists are Muslims" remark
In a follow-up discussion to Bill O'Reilly's appearance on The View on October 14, 2010 — in which Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walked off after O'Reilly said that people did not want a mosque built at Ground Zero because "...Muslims killed us on 9/11" — Kilmeade dismissed the View debate as "elementary" and said:
They were outraged that somebody was saying ...
| “ | There was a certain group of people that attacked us on 9/11. It wasn't just one person, it was one religion. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.[6] | ” |
Back on his radio show Monday, Mr. Kilmeade said,
| “ | What I should have said, and I’d like to clarify, is all terrorists who killed us on 9/11; with the Cole; and the Khobar; and the ‘98 embassies; that’s what I should have said.[7] | ” |
Kilmeade's remarks have been criticized[8][9][10] and called "both inaccurate and prejudiced", as groups other than Muslims have committed terrorist acts.[11]
[edit] References
- ^ Kilmeade and Friends program page at radio.foxnews.com
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Brian Kilmeade: 'All Terrorists Are Muslims'". The Huffington Post. 10-15-2010 01:48 PM. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/15/brian-kilmeade-all-terror_n_764472.html.
- ^ "Fox Host Says He ‘Misspoke’ About Muslims". The New York Times. 10-18-2010 2:01 PM. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/fox-host-says-he-mis-spoke-about-muslims/.
- ^ Pierce, Tony. "Two out of three 'Fox & Friends' think 'all terrorists are Muslim'". Los Angeles Times. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/10/all-terrorists-are-muslim.html.
- ^ Elliot, Justin (October 15, 2010). "Fox host: "All terrorists are Muslim"". Salon.com. http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/10/15/brian_kilmeade_all_terrorists_are_muslim/index.html.
- ^ "All Terrorists Are Muslims". The Atlantic. http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/10/all-terrorists-are-muslim.html.
- ^ Wilmouth, Brad. "Olbermann Slams FNC’s Kilmeade as ‘Un-American Bastard’". Newsbusters.org. http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2010/10/15/olbermann-slams-fnc%E2%80%99s-kilmeade-%E2%80%98un-american-bastard%E2%80%99.
[edit] External links
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