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Fox News really needs to fire this idiot. Look at this clip where Brian Kilmeade is, for some unknown reason, trying to dismiss a study that found that married people were at a lower risk for Alzheimer's disease. I have no knowledge of the study, but his reasons for dismissing its applicability to Americans are bizarre.
BRIAN KILMEADE: We keep marrying other species and other ethnics--
GRETCHEN CARLSON: Are you sure they are not suffering from some of the causes of dementia right now?
BRIAN KILMEADE: The problem is the Swedes have pure genes. They marry other Swedes, that's the rule. Finns marry other Finns; they have a pure society. In America we marry everybody. We will marry Italians and Irish.
WTF? Italians and Irish are not part of "we"? They're a different species? Intermarriage between ethnicities is a problem?
This is something like 19th century racism. By the way, Kilmeade is a vocal conservative Christian.
Comments
Posted by: William | July 8, 2009 8:08 PM
I like the look on that woman's face.
Posted by: Larry | July 8, 2009 8:10 PM
Fixed the quote for you there, Doc.
Posted by: cameron | July 8, 2009 8:11 PM
Just letting it all hang out for everybody to see. Nice.
Posted by: Josh
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July 8, 2009 8:11 PM
Can Faux News do anything that doesn't make them an embarrassment to anyone who has ever had a thought?
Posted by: Steve | July 8, 2009 8:11 PM
I'm pretty sure Carlson's saying "Are you sure you're not suffering from..." Seems like a relevant difference.
Posted by: AF Comm Guy | July 8, 2009 8:11 PM
I could be wrong about this but aren't mixed breed animals usually healthier than pure breed ones? I'm thinking of pure bred dogs and horses as just a couple of examples. It has been my experience that the mutts tend to suffer from fewer genetic illnesses and other problems. It seems to me that it would be the same for humans. Granted, I'm no geneticist. I'm not even an animal breeder so I could be way off the mark. Anyone care to comment?
What did Warren Beatty say in Bullworth? "We need to keep fucking each other till we all look the same." Granted, that was a social commentary about racism and not genetic health but you get the idea.
Posted by: ckitching | July 8, 2009 8:13 PM
Good to see that stupid racism is alive and well. Don't marry outside your ethnicity -- God hates it, or something.
Posted by: Desert Son
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July 8, 2009 8:13 PM
Wow, that's . . . that's appalling. I'd suggest a quick dispatch of a copy of Steven Selden's 1999 book Inheriting Shame: The Story of Eugenics and Racism in America (ISBN: 0-8077-3812-3), but I'm not sure it would do any good.
Seriously, wtf? Marrying other species? There's a rule that Swedes only marry Swedes?
It always scares the shit out of me when I hear someone use the phrase "pure society."
No kings,
Robert
Posted by: Martin | July 8, 2009 8:13 PM
Your last sentence was a bit on the obvious side, eh? As if someone with Kilmeades benighted bigotry would be anything else.
Posted by: Bill | July 8, 2009 8:17 PM
And besides... While Sweden and Finland may be more ethnically homogenized than the US they are definitely NOT what this idiot considers a "pure" society.
Posted by: Benjamin Geiger | July 8, 2009 8:18 PM
Yeah, if by "fire" you mean "send on a one-way trip to the ha ha hut".
Posted by: pcarini | July 8, 2009 8:19 PM
Who knew that Gretchen Carlson has a limit beyond which a comment is be too bigoted?
Posted by: Becca Stareyes
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July 8, 2009 8:19 PM
Wow. That's... painful.
AF Comm Guy @ 6
An actual biologist or animal breeder can correct me, but a lot of breeds of animals start from a small initial population (say, a line of animals with an interesting mutation) and are bred mostly within that population. So if one person has a bad gene, even if it isn't expressed, it will come out much more than in a large population, even if you avoid breeding with close family. (You do see the effect in small groups of humans that are genetically isolated.) There's also the matter that some breeds of animals are bred for exaggerated characteristics, so are more likely to have the downsides that come with them.
Posted by: Steve_C | July 8, 2009 8:19 PM
"By the way, Kilmeade is a vocal conservative Christian."
And a douche bag.
Posted by: ollie | July 8, 2009 8:20 PM
Isn't the issue being discussed here the issue of homogeneity versus heterogeneity? In other words, medical data from a homogeneous population might not extrapolate to a population that isn't as homogeneous?
We know that is the case; for example homogeneous populations are more open to harmful mutations such as those causing Tay-Sachs (sp), etc.
BTW, I despise Faux News but I want to smack them when they clearly deserve it, and it appears to me that this was the case of someone who doesn't really know what he is talking about trying to make a point.
Posted by: Hoonser | July 8, 2009 8:21 PM
I can see why they keep that guy on tv. I'd tune in every day just to see what sort of insane crap he'd say.
Posted by: MAJeff, OM | July 8, 2009 8:21 PM
Gretchen Carlson. Minnesota should hang its collective head in shame for that one.
Posted by: Kevpod | July 8, 2009 8:23 PM
I'm not a biologist, but I like to look at jars of organs.
Anyway, isn't there something called "hybrid vigor?"
Posted by: Alan Kellogg | July 8, 2009 8:25 PM
"Kilmeade". You know, that sounds suspiciously Irish.
Posted by: Lehooo | July 8, 2009 8:27 PM
Ehhh, I don't know where this guy gets his information. I'm a swede and yet strangely enough, I've never heard of this rule. Sweden takes in a LOT of immigrants and I can assure you that mixed marriages do occur. Even looking back historically, the vikings had alot of contact with the rest of europe and beyond, something which involved bringing home wives of different ethnic backgrounds. To use Sweden as an example of so called "ethnic purity" or "purity of genes" is a bit... weird, to say the least.
Posted by: JHS
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July 8, 2009 8:27 PM
Damn. Stick a stovepipe hat on him, and he'd be Bill the Butcher incarnate. What a bizarre yet virulent strain of racism.
Posted by: Desert Son
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July 8, 2009 8:28 PM
On the plus side, I suppose, is the fact that this guy just declared himself a grade A first class shithead with bells on during a national television broadcast, and with any luck, will be soundly ushered from every public space in a hail of jeering invective from now until the end of his pathetic days.
No kings,
Robert
Posted by: pcarini | July 8, 2009 8:29 PM
Ahem, grammar and typing fail on my part. I meant to say that it surprises me that anything can be too bigoted for Mrs. Carlson. Or perhaps she hasn't actually been listening to the guests this entire time?
Posted by: Sophist | July 8, 2009 8:32 PM
Yeah, everone knows that when different races breed you get subnormal atavistic throwbacks like Salma Hayek, Tiger Woods, Jessica Alba and Barack Obama. Clearly miscegenation, if left unchecked, will be the destruction of us all.
Posted by: IceFarmer | July 8, 2009 8:37 PM
I think he forgot his white hood and bed sheets at home under his Fun With Hitler videos before he did the interview. What a jackass. He has absolutely no concept of what he's talking about and is apparently unaware of the issues inbreeding causes. He was probably home schooled by his sister-mom. Douche bag.
Posted by: IceFarmer | July 8, 2009 8:39 PM
I think he forgot his white hood and bed sheets at home under his Fun With Hitler videos before he did the interview. What a jackass. He has absolutely no concept of what he's talking about. Pure genes? He is apparently unaware of the issues inbreeding can lead to. He was probably home schooled by his sister-mom. Douche bag.
Posted by: yoyo | July 8, 2009 8:41 PM
It's things like this that make me love the internet, no matter where this fundie wack job goes, his fundie rascist nuttery is only a click away. He can never escape the youtube. MWAA MWAA
Posted by: IceFarmer | July 8, 2009 8:41 PM
I think he forgot his white hood and bed sheets at home under his Fun With Hitler videos before he did the interview. What a jackass. He has absolutely no concept of what he's talking about. Pure genes? He is apparently unaware of the issues inbreeding can lead to. He was probably home schooled by his sister-mom. Douche bag.
Posted by: Sophist | July 8, 2009 8:42 PM
Oh, and "other species"? Are there people out there somewhere having children with frogs that I haven't heard about, or does he just think Eye-talians and Paddies are differnt species of lemur?
Posted by: 'Tis Himself
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July 8, 2009 8:42 PM
There are some incredibly stupid people in the world, but Kilmeade achieves a special kind of stupidity. He's also a racist douchebag, but a really, really, really stupid one.
Posted by: arrakis
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July 8, 2009 8:42 PM
Fox News and eugenics...quelle surprise.
Posted by: yoyo | July 8, 2009 8:43 PM
It's things like this that make me love the internet, no matter where this fundie wack job goes, his fundie rascist nuttery is only a click away. He can never escape the youtube. MWAA MWAA
Posted by: Bronze Dog | July 8, 2009 8:44 PM
...You know, I've always accused the Religious Right of being far behind the times, but they seem to be accelerating backwards.
Posted by: HombreMoleculos | July 8, 2009 8:44 PM
Marrying other species. Hmmmm... Isn't that what the anti gay marriage crowd is saying will happen. I love my dog but it's only platonic.
What a maroon.
Posted by: Sili
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July 8, 2009 8:48 PM
Interesting. But his argumentation being purebred leads to atheism, so he should be overjoyed that you're all fucking eachother over there. Conservative Christianity must obviously be a result of interbreeding.
To be fair, if I were a CC, I think I'd savour the sweet embrase of senility, too.
Posted by: soboco | July 8, 2009 8:54 PM
You could literally see the wheels turning in Gretchen Carlson's head as she was realizing what he was saying. She knew that was an "oh shit" moment.
Posted by: Kel, OM | July 8, 2009 8:56 PM
Fuck, that's terrible news for me. Guess all I can do is wait for my finnish fiance to break ot off with me, thanks Fox News for letting me down gently.Posted by: koko | July 8, 2009 9:02 PM
No big surprise. I already knew that Brown-Haired-Who's-Not-Steve-Ducey is an inadequate son-of-a-bitch and an ignoramus.
Posted by: Jim Lippard | July 8, 2009 9:05 PM
This was too much even for Gretchen Carlson. Amazing. Good to know that she has some contact with reality.
Posted by: Dorkman | July 8, 2009 9:05 PM
Wow. When even Gretchen Carlson gives the camera the "Are you HEARING this shit?" look, that's a really special kind of idiocy.
Posted by: Rey Fox | July 8, 2009 9:12 PM
"You could literally see the wheels turning in Gretchen Carlson's head"
Literally see the wheels?
Posted by: JiminKy | July 8, 2009 9:12 PM
I wonder if Kilmeade's ancestors preserved their genetic purity by marrying their siblings for the last dozen generations.
Posted by: Dale Husband | July 8, 2009 9:14 PM
And I'll bet that Keith Olbermann of MSNBC will feature Kilmeade as one of the "Worst Persons in the World" on his Countdown show.
Posted by: Onkel Bob | July 8, 2009 9:15 PM
@42 JiminKy For the win! Wicked funny.
Posted by: SafirXP | July 8, 2009 9:21 PM
Sigh.. its sad I live in the Stupid Age! A friend forwarded me this video - http://www.snotr.com/video/2830
Didn't make me laugh for some reason.
Posted by: Felix | July 8, 2009 9:24 PM
Yay! That's the video to which I posted the link in t'other thread. I feel recognized! woopee! yeehah!
carry on.
Posted by: Caine | July 8, 2009 9:26 PM
Marrying other species? I love my dogs, my cats, my rat, but I'm not marrying 'em. My husband would be jealous. ;)
Posted by: Roger
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July 8, 2009 9:29 PM
Ok, and WHY does this ugly bag of mostly water still have a job?
Posted by: Tom | July 8, 2009 9:29 PM
If any of you get the hankering, read the book Dying for a Hamburger by Murray Waldman, MD. It's a wonderful book that connects Alzheimer's with prions, and predicts that Alzheimer's is an epidemic that was promulgated by the meat industry starting in the early 1900s.
Posted by: The Rockridge Brother | July 8, 2009 9:29 PM
hmm... If all goes according to plan, I'll be marrying my wonderful, beautiful american girlfriend within a couple of years so we can move back to the US after I finish my degree here in Sweden.
I guess I'll get some thank you's from you genetically challenged americans for bringing my prime, pure, hunky-in-a-manly-way genes over there.. ? ;-D
Seriously, that is about the dummest things I've ever heard.
@42: hilarious!
Posted by: ImprobableJoe
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July 8, 2009 9:37 PM
Racist idiots on Fox "News" what a surprise. I'm not sure exactly what "ethnics" are, or what magically pure American race that Kilmeade belongs to, but he needs to have someone educate him. I'm trying to shame everyone I know who watches Fox "News" into stopping, and this is the best sort of help I can get.
Posted by: Andyo
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July 8, 2009 9:37 PM
Hey, is that The Black-Haired Guy Who Isn't The Brown-Haired Guy Who Isn't Steve Doocy?
I was wondering if we'd finally get to know his name.
Posted by: Kerry Maxwell | July 8, 2009 9:43 PM
I've listened a few times, and I'm pretty sure I'm not hallucinating that cartoon "slips on banana peel" sound effect when the "sure you're not suffering from dementia" question is asked. Is that really where we're at with TV news commentary?
Posted by: Skemono | July 8, 2009 9:47 PM
Oh my god... this is fabulous! I've read this sort of tripe before, but to hear it uttered in 2009... it's a god-send!
Posted by: not a gator | July 8, 2009 9:51 PM
Somehow, this reminds me of that scene in "Patterns of Force" when some d-bag Nazi is pointing out (notorious result of exogamy) Spock's racially inferior features.
Glad to know my German mother marrying my Irish father was interspecies breeding. Wait, does that mean I'm sterile?
Posted by: Feynmaniac | July 8, 2009 9:54 PM
When Gretchen Carlson becomes the reasonable one you know you've lost it. I mean she's quite the ignoramus.
However, I do take Fox & Friends' report on the secret to a long life seriously and have adjusted my lifestyle.
Posted by: Phil | July 8, 2009 10:06 PM
Clearly Kilmeade must be another species then.
Posted by: Mena | July 8, 2009 10:12 PM
What's a Brian Kilmeade and what does it do? Never heard of him...
Posted by: Helene | July 8, 2009 10:12 PM
Wow, can't believe this creepy asshole was on the news. Oh, wait a minute, it's FOX.
Marring a different ethnicity is akin to inter-species breeding???? Oh Please! !!! Kilmeade is a total moron - not worthy to be a sub-prime example of pure dog doo. (And the guy seriously creeps me out too - something about his eyes.)
Makes me glad my German father hooked up with my Sicilian mother.
Posted by: Jafafa Hots | July 8, 2009 10:13 PM
If Fox needs to fire him, wouldn't that mean that they also needs to fire everyone else, including those who do the firing?
This was no an aberration, this is the standard Fox line. He was speaking directly to their loyal audience.
Hell, he probably got brownie points for this, an "attaboy" directly from Roger Ailes.
Posted by: Helene | July 8, 2009 10:14 PM
Wow, can't believe this creepy asshole was on the news. Oh, wait a minute, it's FOX.
Marring a different ethnicity is akin to inter-species breeding???? Oh Please! !!! Kilmeade is a total moron - not worthy to be a sub-prime example of pure dog doo. (And the guy seriously creeps me out too - something about his eyes.)
Makes me glad my German father hooked up with my Sicilian mother.
Posted by: Graham | July 8, 2009 10:19 PM
BRIAN KILMEADE: We keep marrying other species...
OMG...Rick Santorum was proved right!
Posted by: OurDeadSelves | July 8, 2009 10:21 PM
*headdesk*
Posted by: Kobra | July 8, 2009 10:32 PM
Argh! Why does my optimism always get raped every time I hear about Faux news?
Posted by: aarrgghh | July 8, 2009 10:36 PM
roger @ 48:
*picardfacepalm*
Posted by: Burning Umbrella | July 8, 2009 10:41 PM
Well, having had no wars for the last couple of centuries, Sweden has acquired many people from different places people fleeing this or that, war or famine, and I seem to recall reading something about the area of modern Finland being quite a melting pot between east and west shortly after the last ice age. Of course, according to Kilmeade the planet probably didn't even exist that far back.
Posted by: Rich Lawler | July 8, 2009 10:42 PM
Wow, what a huge dumb cunt that guy is...
Posted by: cultus | July 8, 2009 10:44 PM
Did someone in the studio start whistling "If I Only Had A Brain" from the Wizard of Oz at the end of the clip?
Posted by: Seokso | July 8, 2009 10:51 PM
@49
Don't trust sciencey books that lack references.
Posted by: Arnold T Pants | July 8, 2009 11:04 PM
I guess this assbag doesn't know much about the founder effect.
Posted by: TuxedoCartman
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July 8, 2009 11:11 PM
Um, actually... he might be right. The day gay marriage became legal in Iowa, I ran right out and married my turtle Boxxy. Our love will keep Alzheimer's at bay, though.
Posted by: Hampus | July 8, 2009 11:14 PM
This guy is weird. And probably harbour racist views, racist views, racist views, he probably harbour racist views, he doesn't think asians drive well.
Being a swede myself and having visited the US a few times I gotta say, America is a heckuva lot more segregated than Sweden, or Finland for that matter. I think we'd prolly go berserk if someone suggested to name a part of a city "Chinatown" or "Little Italy".
Posted by: Paul Burnett | July 8, 2009 11:37 PM
Just one more reason why I do not use the term "Fox News" in public - I refer to it (particularly when in polite society) as "F-Word News."
Posted by: mdh | July 8, 2009 11:37 PM
Wait. Did he just call me a half-breed?
Posted by: littlejohn | July 8, 2009 11:38 PM
I married a love monkey. Does that mean anything?
Posted by: Marion Delgado | July 8, 2009 11:51 PM
I *like* Kilmeade and he is what I expect from Fox News.
More, please!
;)
Posted by: Cliff Hendroval | July 9, 2009 12:03 AM
Of course, he ignores that if a Swede marries another Swede, they're quite likely to breed a litter of godless socialist atheists with national healthcare.
Posted by: Bing | July 9, 2009 12:11 AM
Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot?
"Don't be stupid, be a smarty/come and join the Nazi party!"
HJ
Posted by: NickG
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July 9, 2009 12:11 AM
Wow. Its bad when you breach Faux News' standards of decency.
Posted by: Crudely Wrott | July 9, 2009 12:13 AM
@ Mena, #58, who asks:
Why, he's a Derwood Kirby, a more rarefied kind of Ed McMahon.
Posted by: False Prophet
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July 9, 2009 12:39 AM
So clearly, this Italian-Canadian needs to stop sharing jokes and funny stories with his Irish and Irish-American coworkers, since they're a different species. Obviously they're going to be a threat to my hunting grounds and cave so I should bash their heads in with a rock right away. What a buffoon.
Posted by: 386sx | July 9, 2009 12:57 AM
Wow, somebody dumber than Steve Doocy. Amazing...
Posted by: Matt | July 9, 2009 1:00 AM
Finnish people have a heavy burden of hereditary diseases, and that's mainly because finns have been marrying only other finns for so long.
Posted by: bastion of sass | July 9, 2009 1:04 AM
Oh dear.
I am the product of two ethnic groups. My husband's ancestors came from three different ethnic groups.
Alas, it looks like we're going to have to divorce, after all these years together, so we can lessen our odds of developing Alzheimer's.
A shame, really.
Posted by: Matt | July 9, 2009 1:04 AM
Finnish people have a heavy burden of hereditary diseases, and that's mainly because finns have been marrying only other finns for so long.
Many illnesses caused by genetic disorder have more carriers in Finland than in rest of the world combined.
Posted by: VitoT | July 9, 2009 1:10 AM
Some people think borders are just arbitrary lines drawn by politicians after WWI, but this guy knows better.
Posted by: Ian.A | July 9, 2009 1:17 AM
Wow, for a second there I felt like I had been kicked back in time by about a century. What in the blazes is a "pure" society?
Posted by: Bob Dobbs | July 9, 2009 1:21 AM
Another good book is Edwin Black's "War on the Weak" about the shameful history of the US' own eugenics program that sterilized thousands of US citizens deemed genetically inferior. This was done generally without their knowledge or consent at mental institutions for various vague reasons that usually revolved around being poor or of the wrong race.
And thanks to international eugenics societies this quack pseudo-science / social engineering program spread to other countries, most notably Germany. Germany under the Nazis embraced eugenics like no other, which led to monstrous crimes in pursuit of a "master race" or "pure race" as this Fox quack pseudo-journalist terms it.
Posted by: 386sx | July 9, 2009 1:24 AM
What in the blazes is a "pure" society?
Blue eyes... blond hair... you get the picture I'm sure...
Posted by: Bob Dobbs | July 9, 2009 1:26 AM
Another good book is Edwin Black's "War on the Weak" about the shameful history of the US' own eugenics program that sterilized thousands of US citizens deemed genetically inferior. This was done generally without their knowledge or consent at mental institutions for various vague reasons that usually revolved around being poor or of the wrong race.
And thanks to international eugenics societies this quack pseudo-science / social engineering program spread to other countries, most notably Germany. Germany under the Nazis embraced eugenics like no other, which led to monstrous crimes in pursuit of a "master race" or "pure race" as this Fox quack pseudo-journalist terms it.
Posted by: Matt H | July 9, 2009 1:31 AM
Ohhhh, PZ...
I can't help be feel my IQ just dropped a couple points just from watching that...you really should have something akin to a Surgeon General's warning for others...
Posted by: nails | July 9, 2009 1:56 AM
misunderstanding science? on MY foxnews??!!!
Posted by: Lancelot Link | July 9, 2009 1:57 AM
...you really should have something akin to a Surgeon General's warning for others...
There is a "warning:stupidity" label in the lower left corner of the picture.
Posted by: TheVirginian | July 9, 2009 2:20 AM
Ignorant. Idiotic. Nonsensical. And too many more putdowns than I care to list.
I normally try to cut people a bit of slack if they have to help fill lots of time talking on TV because if you talk enough, sooner or later you'll babble something that's nonsense but which, if you had time to think it over, you would not say.
What we have here, though, appears to be some genuinely held belief/ignorance, not just someone misstating an argument that, with proper composition, might be at least intelligible.
What I find most interesting is that he names the Irish and Italians as the "impure" peoples, and these are two traditionally-Catholic ethnic groups. I can't find what type of Christian cultist Kilmeade is, but I would not be surprised to learn he's a Protestant who was brought up thinking that Catholics are followers of the anti-Christ, are dumb and dirty, corrupted U.S. society (maybe he's seen "The Godfather" too many times), etc. Many conservative Protestants think Catholics are going to Hell. So he would not have to be a purebred racist (pardon the pun) but simply a conservative Protestant who identifies Catholicism with un-American qualities (however he defines those).
I hope some old, very good friends of mine who have Italian ancestry don't hear about this, or Kilmeade might find a horse's head in his bed. :) As for my good Irish friend, I shudder to think of the possibilities ...
Posted by: Graham | July 9, 2009 2:29 AM
Just being the devils advocate for a moment, isnt it possible that ethnicity has some influence ? Eg: Icelanders are far more prone to developing breast cancer than other races (the BRCA1/2 genes).
Posted by: Graham | July 9, 2009 2:43 AM
Just being the devils advocate for a moment, isnt it possible that ethnicity has some influence ? Eg: Icelanders are far more prone to developing breast cancer than other races (the BRCA1/2 genes).
Posted by: 386sx | July 9, 2009 2:44 AM
Janeane Garofalo faces down Brian Kilmeade in Feb. 2003...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JCakTroF88
Posted by: Michael X | July 9, 2009 2:48 AM
That guy just said that with a straight face...
Look, I've been reading PZ's blog for years and sometimes I'm still brought to a halt by the utter goat-fucking-sheep-herding-iron-age-stupidity of many public Christian Conservatives.
Alzheimer's is unaffected by marriage as according to the study because America isn't a pure country? Are you fucking kidding me?!?
My brain just melted...
Posted by: ramz | July 9, 2009 2:51 AM
This would have been great material for The Onion. But I guess Fox is about the same.
Posted by: terri~ | July 9, 2009 2:51 AM
"By the way, Kilmeade is a vocal conservative Christian."
No Way!?!! Lol..
Posted by: ramz | July 9, 2009 2:56 AM
This would have been great material for The Onion. But I guess Fox is about the same.
Posted by: Steven Carr | July 9, 2009 3:09 AM
I bet Brian Kilmeade is just as much an expert on evolution.
Posted by: Nomad | July 9, 2009 3:12 AM
The thing I keep thinking about is that I'm sure Brian would have preferred to not have said that in hindsight. I actually don't expect him to catch major flak for it, I doubt his job is in jeopardy or anything. But still it will lead to awkward moments for him in the future.
How many other people in similar positions hold similar beliefs, but are just smart enough not to blurt them out on national television?
Posted by: Carl | July 9, 2009 3:23 AM
The fact that he's a conservative Christian is no surprise at all. While AiG and Ken Ham, for example, insist that us evolutionists are the racists and that the creationists hold that all people are equal it seems that they get all twitchy at the thought of partners of different races.
But then conservative Christians seem to be really good at hypocrisy and espousing mutually inconsistent views.
Posted by: Citizen of the Cosmos
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July 9, 2009 3:30 AM
There's no such rule here, you braindead moron. Just because you are a racist does not mean we have a racist society. Good heavens. He seems to think that we Swedes are a different race (or even species). How stupid can a person get before someone decides he should not be on TV?
Those are nationalities, not races. Idiot.
Posted by: Mozglubov | July 9, 2009 3:32 AM
Because of the time change I read this post first thing in the morning... what a way to spoil the day.
Posted by: windy | July 9, 2009 3:41 AM
Wait, if Sweden is a society of only pure Swedes, what happened to the scary moslem hordes that are overrunning Sweden according to previous Fox reports?
Just one interesting data point, the current Swedish prime minister's great grandfather was the son of a Latvian maid and an African American circus director. They weren't actually married though, but that didn't seem to prevent their genes from mixing...
Posted by: seppo | July 9, 2009 3:47 AM
"...sometimes I'm still brought to a halt by the utter goat-fucking-sheep-herding-iron-age-stupidity of many public Christian Conservatives."
Iron age? Too modern, it's bronze age.
As a finn i find remarks of our society's genetic purity hilarious. I have swedish blood from my mother's side from 17th century , russian from my father's side from 19th and who knows what else since the days homo sapiens left Africa.
Posted by: Drosera
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July 9, 2009 3:52 AM
Kilmeade’s mother is probably his aunt. Inbred moron.
Posted by: Markus Saers | July 9, 2009 4:24 AM
This is one of those times when you really want to stoop to their level and do a little guilt-by-association: "Hitler also admired us Swedes for being 'pure'!"
Posted by: Paholaisen Asianajaja | July 9, 2009 4:27 AM
By "pure Finns" he must have meant "Inbred, diseased wannabe-vikings".
Posted by: Christophe Thill | July 9, 2009 4:28 AM
Italians and Irish ! That's already bad... but God save us from the Blacks and Asians !
I have a theory... no, not about brontosaurs. It's not even about inter-ethnic marriage. It's that there would be a lot less racism if people had sex with people from different origins. Having sex implies a minimum of social interaction first, and then an intimate contact with someone else's body. In my opinion, it must have a strong effect against prejudices. I mean, of courses, if the prejudices are not so strong in the first place that they won't even let you speak with someone of a different colour...
Posted by: Markus Saers | July 9, 2009 4:30 AM
This is one of those times when you really want to stoop to their level and do a little guilt-by-association: "Hitler also admired us Swedes for being 'pure'!"
Posted by: Gaga
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July 9, 2009 4:32 AM
Funny, I'd have thought that the targets for racism had changed in the meantime. I mean, italians and irish? that's so last century...
Posted by: Paholaisen Asianajaja | July 9, 2009 4:41 AM
Hmm. My girlfriend is half Italian, a bit of Austrian, and Swedish and 1/8 Jewish.
I submit that Kilmeade is an idiot.
A Finn.
Posted by: Mike | July 9, 2009 4:48 AM
There was another man who believed in pure breeding and had a fixation with the Aryan races which is not at all dissimilar to the 'pure-bred' Swedes this idiot is talking about. Things didn’t turn out well for him.
By the way I've lived in Stockholm and it's a wonderfully culturally diverse place. Maybe this prick should get out more, then perhaps he can make sensible informed opinions based on facts.
On another note my dogs are pure breeds and they demonstrate all sorts of minor ailments due to inbreeding thanks to a limited gene pool.
Posted by: Bill Bigge | July 9, 2009 4:51 AM
I suspect that if you asked him why he regarded foreign people as a different species he would blame it on Darwin.
Posted by: MadScientist | July 9, 2009 5:36 AM
Well, Kilmeade is obviously pure - his family have only been marrying brother/sister since the creation of the earth 6000 years ago.
That retard had obviously never been to Finland/Sweden, etc. Why when I was in Finland only a few weeks ago, the majority of Finns on the flight out of Bangkok were married to Thais. In Finland itself the Finns seem to marry whomever they please (although if they marry someone of similar skin color how the hell can you tell they didn't marry a Finn - so even then it's not so obvious what fraction of the population marries a foreigner). The same goes for Sweden. That ignoramus must be in competition with the creationists for "dumbest cretin in the universe".
Posted by: Michael | July 9, 2009 5:37 AM
I....I...think I am unable to comprehend the massive stupidity in that film...
Posted by: Bruce | July 9, 2009 5:45 AM
This opinion will be of interest to the Supreme Court. There will be a lot of vacancies to fill now, if Scalia, Alito, Anthony Kennedy, and presumably Clarence Thomas are all judged to be non-humans by Fox news.
Of course, their replacements would be made by President Obama, except that Fox news doesn't believe that it is possible for a half-Kansan to exist. And of course, Fox doesn't think that an Irish-American such as Biden would be qualified. Nor House Speaker Pelosi.
I guess Fox News thinks it's all riding on Senate President Pro Tem Robert Byrd to appoint replacements for all these people. It's amazing that they never noticed that half the US Government doesn't exist.
Posted by: Penguin_Factory | July 9, 2009 5:46 AM
Did he seriously just use the phrase "pure society"?
(Ironically, given the man's surname I'm guessing he's of Irish descent himself)
Posted by: Rorschach | July 9, 2009 6:15 AM
I have always been of the opinion that it takes a certain gullibility, some might say stupidity, not necessarily IQ-wise however, to spout fascist "race purity" nonsense.
This guy seems to be a good example.And religiosity seems to help.
Add to that the fact that his nonsensical claims about "purity" of the Swedes,Finns,whatever mob, have no base whatsoever in reality.
As to news stations and content,its not only Fox,wrote a letter to CNN telling them that I will be watching Sky in the future for my news, since they think the death of pedophile drug addicts is worth being made headline news for now almost 2 weeks, while ignoring everything else that's going on in the world.
Posted by: James F | July 9, 2009 6:32 AM
Hey, keeping "pure genes" worked great for these guys!
Posted by: uriel1972 | July 9, 2009 6:33 AM
Wait ... what?! I thought we darwinists were supposed to be the big bad eugeneticists. This is a demarcation dispute, he is cutting our lunch. No seriously I remember seeing in an AIG mag (Creation?) that the theory of evolution was responsible for racism and aparthied. Talk not fighting fair.
Posted by: Didac Lopez-Martinez
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July 9, 2009 6:48 AM
It's not a matter of fun. We can imagine the situation if the Christian right movement embraced fully the idea of non-Adamic origin of Black and Asian people. They would lost all human rights (of course, they would retain animal rights). And a half-bred muslin such Obama would be not only an usurper but a half-human usurper. Kilmeade is also teaching us what happens when we avoid the term "race". Instead of "race", he speaks of species. Instead of miscegenetation he speaks of bestiality.
Posted by: BMcP | July 9, 2009 8:20 AM
Whoa.. damn, right out of the 1880's.
Clearly from my family history I am in trouble, as I have Irish, Scottish, English, Polish, and Ethiopian blood, I wonder which were the supposed separate species.. O_o
Posted by: Pere | July 9, 2009 8:30 AM
Jeezus - even the retarded woman was like "WTF??"
Posted by: Felix | July 9, 2009 8:37 AM
Sometimes I wonder about how exactly it must feel to just be dumb. All the time. About everything except perhaps ironing your pants. Is there a sort of numbness you feel wrapped around your brain whenever you read anything or look at anything trying to understand what it is?
Please, has anyone here ever been really really dumb (I mean not just sedated by drugs or somesuch, just naturally dumb)? Please describe how it felt.
Posted by: Orange | July 9, 2009 8:49 AM
I wonder if Fox news has an online suggestion box somewhere? I feel a strong urge to send a tirade to them about this guy. Maybe if enough of us attacked him, they might consider firing him. Especially if we throw in a few "hail jesus" comments to convince Fox we are part of their loyal fanbase...
Posted by: Nfpendleton | July 9, 2009 9:01 AM
I'm 36, and this just goes to show you are never too old to say, "LOL FAIL."
Posted by: Morgan | July 9, 2009 9:06 AM
Yup - you don't want to be messing with us Paddies. We'll just play havoc with your jeans
Posted by: Charles Raymond | July 9, 2009 9:08 AM
why would they fire people like this?
As long as people keep watching to see what horrible thing he says then they are getting ratings.
Posted by: Will K. | July 9, 2009 9:12 AM
Of course he's a vocal conservative Christian. For some reason, all assholes are. Man, I wish people wouldn't screw up the religion for the rest of us normal Jeezus folk.
Posted by: Bostonian | July 9, 2009 9:34 AM
Mention that you think they are biased toward conservatives. Fox News takes constructive criticism very seriously. :-\
Posted by: Pmont | July 9, 2009 9:35 AM
Hey! My wife married an Italian and look where it's gotten her. (On second thought, don't look.)
Posted by: PGPWNIT
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July 9, 2009 9:38 AM
Don't be 'that guy'. 'This guy offended my sensibilities so he should be fired!'
Posted by: Naughtius MAximus | July 9, 2009 9:47 AM
Stop picking on the pure American.
Posted by: Hu | July 9, 2009 9:50 AM
Please remember not to drive a car or operate machinery too soon after eating the same mushrooms again. Or perhaps word-clearing "literal" suffices.
Posted by: Abby Normal | July 9, 2009 9:57 AM
Hey now, a good bloodline must be protected. That's why you should never marry outside the family unless all your cousins are taken.
Posted by: cicely
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July 9, 2009 10:03 AM
*blinkblinkblink*
Other...species.......
*shakes head in stunned amazement*
Posted by: Rakehell | July 9, 2009 10:17 AM
This has already showed up on Kilmeade's Wikipedia page. (I had o idea who he was.)
Posted by: Alverant | July 9, 2009 10:20 AM
Fox News and a science fail. Big surprise.
Recently the Ron Regan show mentioned how Fox & Friends had an 38 year employee of the EPA talk about his paper on global cooling. They called him a "man of science" leaving out how the guy wasn't an EPA scientist but an economist. Did anyone else hear about that?
Posted by: Roberto Aguirre Maturana | July 9, 2009 10:44 AM
It's just me or this guy looks just like Butthead??
Posted by: DGKnipfer | July 9, 2009 10:49 AM
So are we starting a letter campaign to Faux News about this ignorant twit or what?
Posted by: Notkieran | July 9, 2009 11:10 AM
Steve C @ #14:
But sir, surely you repeat yourself.
Posted by: epawson | July 9, 2009 11:14 AM
OMG... Hitler reincarnate... if I were to believe in that sort of rubbish.
Posted by: Andrew JS | July 9, 2009 11:39 AM
Yikes! I wonder what's going to happen to my parents. They just arent different types of Europeans, but they are from different continents! And they are different religions! I guess thats Canada for you.
Posted by: Chief | July 9, 2009 11:55 AM
WOW -- we will marry anyone? Including Irish and Italians?
I wonder how his forebears (and his wife? husband? gay lover?) feel about marrying the Irish.
http://ifhf.brsgenealogy.com/surnames.php?surname=KILMEADE
Posted by: AAB | July 9, 2009 11:58 AM
may be he is trying to say that homosexuals don't need to get married...
Posted by: AAB | July 9, 2009 12:00 PM
may be he is trying to say that homosexuals don't need to get married...
Posted by: Paul Flocken | July 9, 2009 12:38 PM
Posted by: ckitching | July 8, 2009 8:13 PM
Good to see that stupid racism is alive and well. Don't marry outside your ethnicity -- God hates it, or something.
Because we know, with scientific certainty, that there is less genetic difference between the alleged 'races' than between any two random neighbors of any American city, the chief(only?) way to tell 'races' apart is by language. And the abrahamic god is alleged to be responsible for the different languages spoken by man. That makes yahweh directly resposible for racism and, by extension, indirectly responsible for most of the genocidal warfare of the 20th century.
Posted by: A guy from Finland | July 9, 2009 1:10 PM
Finns have around 40 genetical diseases which are vary rare in other parts of the world. That's the result of hundreds of years of inbreeding.
Yeah, Kilmeade, we are so "pure".
Posted by: Tabby Lavalamp | July 9, 2009 1:28 PM
Now I don't have the time to read all the comments so I don't know if this has been touched on yet. I apologize if it has.
Is he saying marrying outside your ethnicity give you cooties that eat your brain or something? I can't see how who you marry matters, because this is about married people and Alzheimer's, not their mixed-heritage children.
Posted by: meprimate | July 9, 2009 1:59 PM
He's not that irrelevant. I occasionally wonder what
species I married.
Posted by: ZK
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July 9, 2009 2:24 PM
White Americans are ethnically Irish, Italian, English, Welsh, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Russian, Swedish, etc because they or their antecedents all came from Europe in the first place - and it wasn't that long ago either. As countries go America was born yesterday, Europe has underwear older than America. Whilst the earliest European settlers were busy sailing across the Atlantic to America kids of old at my secondary school were being clipped round the ear for messing up their Latin conjugation. By the time the really big migrations to America came along my old school had already celebrated its tricentenary.
So what's all this nonsense about "In America we marry everybody"? In America you are everybody. That and your vast naturally resources have made you the most powerful economy in the world for a long time now.
You're also the most mad country in the world sometimes.
Brilliant, but barking mad at times.
Apollo 11? Amazing! I stand and cheer you.
Operation Rescue? Um, let's not go there.
Brian Kilmeade strikes me as being a thoroughly nasty and ignorant person.
Stating the obvious, I know.
ZK
Posted by: athee | July 9, 2009 2:26 PM
Not being a FN watcher, I've never heard of this guy. I showed my friend the video and he (having watched Brian in the past) claimed that Brian has never presented himself as a "vocal conservative Christian." His bio and wiki don't have anything and a google search reveals little other than he was a sports commentator. Perhaps I'm not digging deep enough (or my work's filter won't let me get to the needed links). So, my friend then said that PZ just slapped that label on him to suit "his agenda." So, to keep us honest (in that we can back up statements with facts), can someone provide some links/video/quotes to support PZ's statement... I know just being on FN helps, but I need more to show my friend that PZ just doesn't slap "vocal conservative christian" on every one that makes a dingbat statement (although there is a high correlation between the two). Thanks everyone ... and keep up the good work PZ!
Posted by: Madeline | July 9, 2009 2:28 PM
this is the problem with you liberal brainwashed fools,....you put a 5 second clip example during the part where they're joking around,...show it in its entirety without your "spin"....you're the example of why this country is in trouble,....just keep shoveling your BS to the public,...the terrorists love it!
Posted by: Madeline | July 9, 2009 2:31 PM
this is the problem with you ignorant liberal brainwashed fools,....you put a 5 second clip example during the part where they're joking around,...show it in its entirety without your "spin"....you're the example of why this country is in trouble,....just keep shoveling your BS to the public,...the terrorists love it! Way to go, congrats!
Posted by: MAJeff, OM | July 9, 2009 2:35 PM
Madeline,
Could you please try a little harder on your imitation of a right-wing fuckwit? The stupidity just isn't coming through clearly enough.
Posted by: Watchman | July 9, 2009 2:49 PM
I don't know, Jeff. Madeline got a fair number of wingnut fear-mongering buzzwords in there, and displayed shallow thinking and poor understanding of the proper use of punctuation. Not a bad immitation. E for Effort.
As for the show, I'd be interested in seeing the whole segment. On the other hand, I'm not sure I could handle the screeching. Is there a transcript?
Posted by: Madeline | July 9, 2009 3:07 PM
this is the problem with you ignorant liberal brainwashed fools,....you put a 5 second clip example during the part where they're joking around,...show it in its entirety without your "spin"....you're the example of why this country is in trouble,....just keep shoveling your BS to the public,...the terrorists love it! Way to go, congrats!
Posted by: Michael | July 9, 2009 3:22 PM
Madeline, people like Brian Kilmeade are the terrorists.
Posted by: Natalie | July 9, 2009 4:01 PM
Well at least us ignorant liberal brainwashed fools can read an error message...
Posted by: Skeptigirl
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July 9, 2009 4:26 PM
For anyone interested, here's the study in question, open access link:
Association between mid-life marital status and cognitive function in later life: population based cohort study
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/339/jul02_2/b2462?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=dementia&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=date&resourcetype=HWCIT
Posted by: Cain | July 9, 2009 5:23 PM
I can't remember the journalist name, but he was watching a Palin interview and said, "That has got to be the worst piece of tape I have ever seen." That's how I fell about this video.
Posted by: Shawn Henry Oliver | July 9, 2009 6:17 PM
You shouldn't be too hard on the Fox N Friends trio as they aren't really journalists at all are they now? In fact, the whole comment made by what'shisname isn't really supposed to be taken seriously at all is it? Furthermore, the time slot this show airs in is not when the real news is being aired on Fax is ti? And who is watching Fox when this silly banter show is on?
You should recognize that this group of clowns is really there just to entertain the crowd and distract the bull, aren't they?
Posted by: ebohlman | July 9, 2009 6:24 PM
Hampus: While you're correct about the US being, for the most part, highly segregated, neighborhood designations like "Chinatown" or "Little Italy" generally just reflect the ethnicity of the first people to settle the neighborhood, not current arrangements. Here in Chicago, by many accounts the most segregated city in the US, most "theme" neighborhoods (officially we have Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown, a neighborhood spanned by giant metal Puerto Rican flags, and an official GLBT neighborhood with rainbow streetlight poles; there's an unofficial Koreatown) aren't primarily populated by the "official" group and most of that group's members live elsewhere.
Posted by: Qwerty | July 9, 2009 6:30 PM
I dunno' MA Jeff OM, Madeline did triple post the same comment. It seems she can't folow directions very well.
I, though, am confused as to what a brief comment on Alzheimer's has to do with terroists.
Oh, mad Madeline, could you elaborate?
Posted by: Alyson Miers | July 9, 2009 6:35 PM
Aside from the racist loonery, the jackass completely misses the point of the study. This is not about genes, it is about marriage as an environmental factor on the married individuals themselves. As in, "If YOU get married and stay that way well into old age, YOU will be less likely to develop Alzheimer's." Your progeny do not come into it. The other half of your kid's genome has absolutely no bearing on how YOUR brain progresses in old age. Asshole.
I'm pretty sure Gretchen Carlson was asking Kilmeade if HE was suffering from the causes of dementia right now. Given his reaction to the study, it's not exactly an impertinent question.
Posted by: manbearpig | July 9, 2009 6:36 PM
What's the big deal, guys? My cousin, the crocoduck, has been getting forgetful lately. Therefore, that dumbass on Fox & Friends who isn't Steve Doocy clearly knows what he's talking about. I mean, if we don't let him spout his insane quasi-racist ramblings about important medical topics on national television, we're letting the terrorists win. That's what you librels don't get. It's as simple as that.
Posted by: Christopher Cain | July 9, 2009 6:42 PM
The *cough* *cough* "journalists" they have on Fox News (or Faux News as I read further up in these comments - nice) are all morons with personal agendas. I have yet to hear anything intelligent aired on Fox News. Last night it was comical listening to them discuss how bad a socialist health care system would be in the states. I am Canadian and think our health care system is amazing (I have also had to use the health care system in London, England and was very impressed). I have the choice to see any doctor I want and can choose any hospital I want when there is an emergency (and I don't have to pay anything). Regardless of what they want you to believe, socialism does not equal communism. The true crime is the number of idiots that think Fox News is real news and believe all the rhetoric as its thrown at them.
Posted by: manbearpig | July 9, 2009 6:57 PM
@ Christopher Cain
Sure, socialized health care may work for you Canadians, but it doesn't apply to us Americans who don't play hockey, eat real bacon, and marry other species and teh ethnics.
*vomit*
Posted by: DJ Mortenson | July 9, 2009 7:53 PM
I saw this live, anyone who thought Kilmeade was being serious is a f*ing moron. God damn you liberals are a stupid lot.
Posted by: Alyson Miers | July 9, 2009 8:01 PM
And gosh darn you conservatives are a pack of assholes.
Posted by: Michael X | July 9, 2009 8:16 PM
DJ,
If your assertion even were true, all it would mean is that Kilmeade has not only no real sense of humor, but the things that he thinks are funny, are actually racist.
SPIN: You're doing it wrong.
Posted by: Josh Hollyroller | July 9, 2009 9:02 PM
Yea, you liberal lefty jealous idiot. TOO BAD FOR YOU FOX NEWS BLOWS AWAY the ratings of CNN, MSNBC, CNBC COMBINED every day. AND WHO EVER READS YOUR CRAP? I CAN COUNT THEM ON ONE HAND...
Posted by: Dr. P | July 9, 2009 9:44 PM
Madeline, if the content of that clip can in any way be construed as a joke in your twisted pointy little head you just reinforce my opinion of the inbred miscreants who think Fux is REAL NEWS! And to the yokel in #177 who told you that ratings=quality content,dumbass? By your standard Jerry Springer qualified as quality television.
Posted by: Dr. P | July 9, 2009 9:50 PM
@ 170; yeah I tried to give the moron the benefit of the doubt, but I was wondering why he was bringing up homogeneity when it was obviously a study that had sociologic implications more than anything else, not a tracking of any specific trait. I couldn't figure why it would necessarily be relevent to the discussion, but then I forgot...it's Fox.
Posted by: RyogaM | July 9, 2009 9:57 PM
That clip is 25 seconds long and shows no evidence that Killmeade is joking around, however, someone felt whistling the tune, "If I Only Had a Brain" was appropriate, so....
He still seems a moron to me.
Posted by: Heidi | July 10, 2009 12:45 AM
Irish and Italians are other species? Dude, you want to come say that in Boston? Actually, I'd pay to watch that.
Posted by: BdN | July 10, 2009 12:47 AM
You're right, Madeline. Here is the whole 1:53 segment. I must really be brainwashed because I fail to see how they are only joking around. Even if he was joking, even without taking into account that it remains offensive for the ones who are the other species, it's still a stupid joke. You know, there are ways to be funny AND witty...
Right, DJ Mortenson... by the look on her face, Gretchen Carlson must be a f* moron since she seems to take him seriously. I guess she's a liberal after all...
Mr. Roller, why are you reading this crap ? Where does your immense wisdom about the number of fools reading this come from ?
Glad to know you can count. That's one more thing you can do than I thought. Now learn to use "caps lock". And stop using pleonasms.
Posted by: Hypatia's Daughter | July 10, 2009 3:53 AM
#170 Alyson Miers, That's the way I interpreted the study, too.
Sooooo, I am a little confused. Don't the religious conservative types usually have their panties in a bunch about the high divorce rate in the US? Why would Kilmeade want to discount a survey that would encourage Americans to hang in there for "til death do you part" (even if he got the reason why wrong)?
And, Gees, PZ. "Kilmeade is a vocal conservative Christian"? C'mon. That is liking saying water is wet or dogs have 4 legs. What other qualification does he need to be making social or political commentary on a FauxNews program? Like, an education in the subject matter? Some expertise on the topic? That would be sooo elitist.
Posted by: Todd S. | July 10, 2009 4:11 AM
Just wanted to point out that Canadians performed a similar study that showed people who are old and single (especially ones previously married but now single) are at significantly higher risk for dementia:
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/cdic-mcc/20-4/c_e.html
(begin sarcasm) given that canadians will "marry anyone" as well...(end sarcasm)
Mr. Myers, who is this Mr. Kilmeade and what are his qualifications for vomitting and defecating all over human decency (in both morality and intelligence)?
Posted by: Todd S. | July 10, 2009 4:18 AM
Just wanted to point out that Canadians performed a similar study that showed people who are old and single (especially ones previously married but now single) are at significantly higher risk for dementia:
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/cdic-mcc/20-4/c_e.html
(begin sarcasm) given that canadians will "marry anyone" as well...(end sarcasm)
Mr. Myers, who is this Mr. Kilmeade and what are his qualifications for vomitting and defecating all over human decency (in both morality and intelligence)?
Posted by: BdN | July 10, 2009 9:46 AM
Tsssk, tsssk, Todd S., don't you know that us, Canadians, have this rule where we marry only pure Canadians, you know, the Aboriginals ones, English ones, the French ones, Scottish, Irish, Germans, Italians, Chinese, Ukrainians...
Posted by: Alyson Miers | July 10, 2009 12:09 PM
@#183, Hypatia's Daughter, that was what I thought, too. I figured, "the conservatives should be all over this!" And I still think that those "family values" conservatives who do not fail at reading comprehension ARE excited to see news like this (but of course if you're gay, it really doesn't matter if you develop Alzheimer's). And to be honest, they should be; it's good news for marriage. But apparently Fox Noise couldn't get a non-brainless conservative on this episode.
Posted by: Susan | July 10, 2009 5:21 PM
Oh. My. Goodness! Seriously? I mean... SERIOUSLY!? This crap is just too far gone to even justify words. I'd been wondering what Faux was up to since their darling Bush was out of office. Now I see.
I wish I hadn't.
Posted by: Susan | July 10, 2009 5:23 PM
Oh. My. Goodness! Seriously? I mean... SERIOUSLY!? This crap is just too far gone to even justify words. I'd been wondering what Faux was up to since their darling Bush was out of office. Now I see.
I wish I hadn't.
Posted by: cicely
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July 10, 2009 11:27 PM
A cartoon: It's time to reclaim America from illegal immigrants.
http://www.sucksorrules.com/objects/detail/other-stuff/167593/ill-help-you-pack/
Posted by: AmandaT. | July 12, 2009 10:57 AM
I didn't read all the comments, but I'd like to make a point that I'm a touch over 1/4 Irish, 1/4 Finnish, a touch under 1/4 Scottish, 1/8 Danish, 1/16 Native American, 1/16 French Canadian. I know the degenerative joint disease my siblings and I have came straight down from our "pure Finn" grandfather, as did some of the cancer genes (the rest from his Scottish/Irish/French Canadian wife). The Alzheimer's in our family comes from the Scottish/Danish/Native American grandfather--d@amned mixed breeding!
Posted by: watches | July 21, 2009 11:06 AM
sadasdasdas
Posted by: eddie | July 28, 2009 4:24 PM
Well, just because someone has an opinion or idea that you don't agree with doesn't make them an idiot. I have fairly liberal views, but can't ever bring myself to call myself a "liberal" because too many who profess to be one proclaim that everyone's views should count. That is, as long as it agrees with what they think. Everyone has a voice, and just because you don't agree, you can't pick and choose. Plus, I think there are more mature ways to discuss ideas than by calling names, some people need to grow up.