'Fox & Friends' Host Brian Kilmeade Fears 'Diseases' Brought by Migrant Caravan

[DonViejo]

Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade has found a new way to whip up fear about the group of people—dubbed the migrant caravan—making their way toward the U.S. from Central America: disease. “What about diseases?” Kilmeade asked Monday morning during a segment on the marchers who are making their way through southern Mexico. “There’s a reason why you can’t bring a kid to school unless he’s inoculated.” He went on to complain about the level of taxable income used for social programs, and said: “Is it too much to say we just can’t have countries, entire populations, come in here without being looked at as hard-hearted? To me it’s a practical way of having a nation that everyone looks up to and wants to be a part of. That’s part of the reason why America’s America—there’s a process.” Migrants in the initial caravan, now estimated at 4,000 people, rested Sunday and reportedly plan to resume their journey to the U.S. on Monday.

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[Docreed2003]

1. Hey Bryan...there is a process you moron

It's called asylum and we used to be a compassionate country that supported that "process"

[ck4829]

2. If that's the case, shouldn't we also stop Americans from going to other countries

And bringing diseases back?

Between this rhetoric and the wall... I wonder if this is what the far right actually wants... nobody in, and nobody out.

[TexasTowelie]

3. Brian needs to get his vaccinations updated

or is he an anti-vaxxer?

[tanyev]

4. Funny you should ask that.

Fox & Friends host reveals he’s an anti-vaxxer during segment on deadly flu outbreak

“The flu shot, which I still say everybody out there should get, is about 30-percent effective, but it actually decreases spread around the household, it decreases severity, and it’s very smart to get it. Of the children that have died, 80 percent of them in the past hadn’t gotten a flu shot,” Siegel said.

At the very end of the segment, Siegel asked if the three Fox hosts — Brian Kilmeade, Steve Doocy, and Ainsley Earhardt — had gotten their flu shot. “No, I have not gotten one,” Kilmeade said.

Earhardt then revealed that Kilmeade refuses to get flu shots. Kilmeade confirmed that and dismissed flu shots as only 30 percent effective — a point that Siegel had already addressed. When Siegel told Kilmeade he should get the flu shot to protect his children, Kilmeade said that he would not because his kids needed to “build up their immunity.”

https://thinkprogress.org/fox-brian-kilmeade-flu-vaccine-986e047891aa/

[Girard442]

5. We could, y'know, treat them.

I'm mean, it's not like anybody in the Bible did that, but still.

[Freethinker65]

6. Fear of scary minority caravan evidently is not working as intended

Taking a cue from the "block immigrants because of Ebola" scare a few years ago that seemed to work before an election. Will voters fall for this again?

I believe last time they tried to quarantine health care workers not based on science to prevent disease, but to create fear.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. how much?

How much do we spend on "social programs" versus corporate welfare? How much of rich talking heads' income goes to taxes? How much of that subsidizes the entertainment industry?

[Soxfan58]

8. This may be true

Some may be coming for medical treatment. So they should be met at our border with a overwelming force of .. Doctors ,and Nurses, with blankets, water, medicine, and food.

[greymattermom]

9. They are walking, right?

So the sick won't make it. Only the most healthy will be able to walk that far. This doesn't make sense at all.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

15. That's what I was thinking.

Most likely they are healthy than the majority of Americans.

[Guilded Lilly]

10. Kilmeade and his ilk ARE the disease. And it is here and now. Innoculate that hate.

[The Genealogist]

11. This disease crap reminds me of my maternal grandmother's disgusting racism

She was off the wall with her racism. Her family wasn't like that so I don't know where she picked it up. But she was adamant that black people were absolutely invfsted with diseases, and should be avoided. It was irrational and ignorant. When i hear this argument about this caravan, i hear it hrough the filter of my grandmother's ignorance, and it sickens me.

[Tom Rinaldo]

12. So who is it who cuts funding for the Center for Disease Control? n/t

[Liberal In Texas]

13. Be afraid, be very afraid. The brown people are coming to give you ebola or leprosy!

What utter nonsense. No wonder their viewers are brainwashed.

[democratisphere]

14. "Fox and Fiends" is a disease that needs to be eradicated

from our society. Brian Kilmeade is a carrier of the disease.

[dalton99a]

16. +1

[Cha]

17. Brian Kilmeade is a toxic

disease on America. How does it feel to rot your viewers' brains, Brian?

[Initech]

18. Actually I fear diseases being brought back by anti vaccination crusaders.

Polio? Measels? Mumps? Small pox? They're bringing it back! Because something something autism.