Fox News Host Likens 9/11 Memorial For Flight 93 To Confederate Statues

[DonViejo]

By NICOLE LAFOND Published SEPTEMBER 11, 2017 9:21 AM

During an interview Monday with Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, a “Fox and Friends” co-host compared the 9/11 national monument for the victims of Flight 93 to Confederate monuments.

Zinke, who was a Navy SEAL instructor on 9/11, appeared on Fox from Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where he was visiting the Flight 93 memorial with Vice President Mike Pence on the 16th anniversary of the terrorist attack Monday. He called the monument an “example of Americans sticking together.”

“They are heroes and this monument, if you have not seen it, you know, drive out and take a look at it, it’s magnificently designed and magnificently done,” Zinke said.

“Do you worry 100 years from now someone is going to take that memorial down like they are trying to remake our memorials today?” co-host Brian Kilmeade asked, referencing moves to take down Confederate monuments and statues across the country in the wake of a violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last month.

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[spanone]

1. the words 'fox' and 'news' should never appear on the same page.

[Orrex]

2. Who can forget how the passengers of flight 93 enslaved millions for centuries?

[exboyfil]

3. Brian Kilmeade

who thinks those of African descent are a different species? That Brian Kilmeade.

[Docreed2003]

4. Because nothing says "Americans sticking together" like a GD civil war!!!

Ugh, leave it to "Fox and Fiends" to not only politicize a day of rememberance but turn that tragedy into the most ugly and mean spirited way. Brian Kilmeade is a moron and a racist. His Botoxed face is as ridiculous as his comment.

[oasis]

5. Kilmeade has got to keep up his quota of stupid statements before

he finds himself replaced by the more than capable, Jason Chaffetz.

[Phoenix61]

6. "Since we don't put up statues of Jesus

We fall morally short". What!!!

[Historic NY]

7. What an asshat...........

he seems to forget that most confederates are buried in cemeteries.....

These memorials are the cemeteries for the survivors as many bodies were never recovered, in fact this many years later the process of trying to identify even one scrap of DNA goes on. I've be out there its was a hole in the ground in an abandoned sand/gravel quarry.

[Javaman]

8. Huffing crack. nt