The Hosts Battling to Be Fox News' Next Tucker Carlson

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A week ago, just one day after a gunman killed 10 people at a supermarket in Colorado and one week after another gunman killed eight people at a series of massage parlors in Georgia, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade convened a segment about the folly of gun control. His guest, Sen. John Kennedy, said that “America is a big country, we’re free, and one of the prices we pay for that freedom is that you’re always going to have some people who abuse it.” The Louisiana Republican went on to say that “freedom is risk,” and that “we do not need more gun control. We need more idiot control.” Kilmeade nodded silently.

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A few minutes later, having dispensed with guns, Kilmeade moved on to idiots, which Fox News has long found to be a much more fertile topic. Kilmeade was guest-hosting Fox News Primetime, the network’s new early-evening program. Alongside guest Brit Hume, Kilmeade blasted teachers unions for standing in the way of school reopenings. He grinned broadly as guest Glenn Greenwald mocked the institutional motto that the Washington Post adopted during the Trump years: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” And he welcomed University of Tennessee law professor Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds for a rousing segment on the most imminent danger facing America today: cancel culture.

“They bully people and they threaten them and they go after them and people just want them all to go away, so they give in,” Reynolds observed of the supposedly woke. “We can’t let a minority of bullies take over our culture and terrorize the public.” How does the public seize power back from these woke bullies, Kilmeade asked? “Well, you have to take it back. That’s how you get power back everywhere, through all time,” said Reynolds.

This was a form of idiot control that Kilmeade could get behind. The Dumb Fux & Friends co-host is currently vying to become the permanent anchor of Fox News Primetime, an amorphous, news-adjacent program that might be the most revealing window into the choices Fox faces as it seeks to define itself in the Biden era. Kilmeade’s strategy in his live-on-air auditions is the exact same strategy that Fox will deploy in the months and years to come: waging the culture wars while validating and encouraging the worst-faith arguments from the least credible actors in American politics. Opposing cancel culture, Kilmeade said, “is a matter of saving the country,” as though he hadn’t been discussing two mass murders less than an hour before.

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Kilmeade is just the brain dead sycophant Fux Noise is looking for.

[louis-t]

1. They both look like something out of a movie about

space aliens.

[UTUSN]

2. Heard years ago that Ijit KILMEADE started as intern on LETTERMAN's show.

I'm sure that ideology is not a factor for entertainment interns, or rather that few at tender ages are rooted in ideology.

[Rustyeye77]

3. What a horrible thing to aspire to...

The next Tucker Carlson

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4. One of those used to be on in FL and lied all of the time.