What kind of sick apology is this ?? (Brian Killmeade after saying homeless people should be euthanized)

[drray23]

During an appearance on the “Fox & Friends” weekend show Sunday, Kilmeade said that “I wrongly said they should get lethal injection. I apologize for that extremely callous remark. I am obviously aware that not all mentally ill, homeless people act as the perpetrator did in North Carolina, and that so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion.”

So, he is saying that homeless people are mentally ill, but not all of them are murderers too, so he is sorry he conflated the two..

What the hell ?

There are plenty of people out in the streets because they fell on hard times. In fact, a 2019 study by Charles Schwab (the wealth management firm) found that 59% of US households are just one paycheck away from potential homelessness. Only 38 % of household have built up an emergency fund. This was in 2019. I think it is getting worse as we speak, given the way Trump is dismantling the social net and driving the economy into the ditch.

https://www.aboutschwab.com/modernwealth2019

The other category of homeless people who experience mental illnesses are left without support, often harassed by police instead of being helped. A legacy of Ronald Reagan's war on mental institutions.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. This apology was ordered by Fox's attorneys

[BlueKota]

2. He should be fired period.

What he said is a 100 percent worse than what Matthew Dowd said.

[EdmondDantes_]

5. That's a charitable percentage given Dowd didn't call for mass murder

Unfortunately Fox News management hasn't seen fit to fire him.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. This was a weak apology

This asshole did NOT say he was sorry

[Ping Tung]

3. There are millions of homeless peiople around the world who die of starvation, disease, or exposure and you want

to euthanize them?

Brian Kilmeade you are a monster.

[unblock]

4. He's only apologizing for being overly broad; he still apparently believes plenty of homeless people should be killed.

[doc03]

6. He said it on Fox, that is what MAGAs want to hear. I have heard the same thing from

MAGAs before he said it. I think it was calculated it would help ratings.

[LuckyCharms]

7. In a just world, he has rendered himself unemployable.

Gee, I hope he doesn't end up homeless.

Oh wait...my mistake...I forgot about the "in a just world" part.

[gulliver]

8. He should be fired for what he said

Callous? No, it was a frankly psychotic thing to say.

Homelessness is such a hard problem to solve. (I'm glad to see you used the word "homeless" instead of the politically stupid "people experiencing homelessness." )

Very many do belong in different types of mental institutions. And I do blame the Reagan era dismantlement of mental institutions and the rise of Big Pharma solutions for our lack of alternatives today.

But it's not easy. You can't just take two random homeless people and put them in a random apartment complex, for example. That could put a paranoid schizophrenic next door to a family experiencing hard times.

I think a big part of the problem is on the supply side. We need to try to make the world a better place that doesn't generate people with the kinds of problems that end up in homelessness.

[Ars Longa]

10. MSNBC should offer to Re-Hire Matt Dowd.... What he

said was really nothing at all. Perhaps his comment could have
waited a day or so.. Firing him was very rash.