"Boy, you can fit that brain in a tea cup."

And if you've ever had the pleasure of watching that comedy show called Fox and Friends, you can apply that to the three bubblehead co-hosts.

Sheesh...

It was obvious Kilmeade's original remark expressed his true feelings. His apology was clearly rote reading and had no conviction.

Still, he learned a lesson and will certainly express his racism more subtly going forward, which I guess is progress of a sort.

Now, if a Democrat had said that, they would be calling for a show trial followed by a nice hangin'.

They tried that with Sonia Sotomayor. But since they don't control the Judicial Committee they couldn't have their nice hangin'. Her "wise latina" comment makes her a racist, in their eyes. Jeff Sessions, that paragon of civil rights and racial equality, is still "troubled" according to the AP. Boo hoo. All that ado about a fairly inoffensive comment about her life experience as a minority and a woman.

But this. "Other species." This is just pure racist shit, and this guy gets off with a simple non-apology apology. I'll bet Sessions isn't "troubled" by these comments. I'll bet Rush Limbaugh doesn't go on a rampage about Kilmeade being a racist.

These people are just plain ugly in every sense. The Right should hang their heads in shame. The rest of us should be very worried that this kind of naked racism is returning to the mainstream.

On the one hand they hold up Sweden as a socialist hell. On the other, it's a "pure" society they seem to envy. I mean, Damn! Make up your minds!

And, "Other species"???? That's just as low as it gets. It always amazes me how it usually some of the ugliest bastards who talk about racial purity.

I didn't do it!

Or whatever.

If you watched the original comment, one of his co-hosts even saw the train wreck coming and tried to derail him. His response, born of long habit no doubt, was to talk even faster and louder over her. Like methane rising from the bottom of a primeval bog, the thought had burbled to the surface of his idiot brain and had to be expressed. There was no stopping it.

The thing that scares me is realizing how many out in Fox land were not offended in the slightest, instead nodding there heads muttering, "So true, so true." Perhaps there were even several hallelujahs and jubilant, "There it is right there. Thank God someone finally had the guts to say it."

To his credit, he did manage to make the announcement without inserting any air quotes. "I realize my remarks may have been 'offensive' to some viewers."

Or whatever.

If you watched the original comment, one of his co-hosts even saw the train wreck coming and tried to derail him. His response, born of long habit no doubt, was to talk even faster and louder over her. Like methane rising from the bottom of a primeval bog, the thought had burbled to the surface of his idiot brain and had to be expressed. There was no stopping it.

The thing that scares me is realizing how many out in Fox land were not offended in the slightest, instead nodding there heads muttering, "So true, so true." Perhaps there were even several hallelujahs and jubilant, "There it is right there. Thank God someone finally had the guts to say it."

To his credit, he did manage to make the announcement without inserting any air quotes. "I realize my remarks may have been 'offensive' to some viewers."

Take 496. And this time guys, try to look manly and white and pure. And stuff.

into the minds of so-called conservatives. The man refers to interracial marriage as "mixing with other SPECIES" for fuck's sake. That right there is about as clear a look as you'll ever get to the mindset that pervades not only Fox News, but much of the Right in this country.

No apology can hide the fact that this is the way this man ACTUALLY THINKS. We should all send him a thank you note for pulling back the curtain for a moment to remind us just how frightening and dangerous the American Right really is.

Without the words "batshit crazy light years beyond stupid" I don't think it should count.

Other species??!! Really?

He's one of the few people who has done something so offensive and then said not only that he is sorry that he said it but that it was wrong. it seems that most of the other people who say this sort of crap say they are sorry "if anyone was offended" rather than Kimeade's "I fucked up".

... is fascist and racist. Its little-inflected persistence in all societies among certain classes of l'homme moyen sensuel is dissonantly robust in the context of a democracy, the whole culture of Fox being a predictable product of this dynamic. Only a people whose majority's collective intellect and civic virtue can solely though the force of reason indefatigably resist and eventually extinguish cyclical recrudescences of the native brutishness seen in Kilmeade's expectoration of id-stuff can succeed in lastingly stabilizing a democracy. I don't think we're up to the task.

Remember the scenes when Peter Sellers as Dr. Stranglove cannot control his arm from giving the Nazi salute. Looks to me like this was Kilmeade's "Strangelove moment." He became so worked up that he just couldn't stop himself. What a buffoon. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Cuz this guy would be a contender.

and no one believes him anyway.

If Fox waited two weeks to force this asshole to issue a half-assed apology, why did it bother? Clearly a CYA move.

Read straight off the teleprompter, in the shortest possible time, and listen to the sing-song delivery. Obviously, he was forced to retract what he really does believe. At least *management* is embarrassed to some extent, even if only for purely tactical reasons.

having to say you're sorry.

It's Brian Kilmeade who is a member of another species ... an insect, evidently a cockroach.