Salon.com > Brian Kilmeade http://www.salon.com Thu, 23 May 2013 01:58:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Right-wing media push new Benghazi myths http://www.salon.com/2013/05/08/right_wing_media_push_new_benghazi_myths_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/08/right_wing_media_push_new_benghazi_myths_partner/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 13:10:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13292618 Right-wing media are using a congressional hearing to push new myths about the Obama administration's response to the September 11, 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya. In fact, these myths are discredited by previous congressional reports and testimony, which show that the politicized nature of the hearings come from right-wing media and Congressional Republicans, that the military could not have rescued personnel from the second attack, that the administration was in constant communication at all levels during the attacks, and that the intelligence community believed there was a link to an anti-Islam video at the time of the attacks.

MYTH: Latest Benghazi Hearing Is Apolitical

Fox News' Brian Kilmeade Attacks The Claim That Benghazi Hearings Are "Politically Driven." On Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade claimed that because self-identified whistleblowers are testifying at congressional hearings on Benghazi at a time that elections are not being held, the hearings can't be politically driven, saying "politics is out, and whistleblowers are in":

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/08/right_wing_media_push_new_benghazi_myths_partner/feed/ 58 Fox host: We hire from Victoria’s Secret catalog http://www.salon.com/2012/11/16/fox_host_fox_hires_from_victorias_secret_catalogue/ http://www.salon.com/2012/11/16/fox_host_fox_hires_from_victorias_secret_catalogue/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:10:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13101162 "Fox and Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade said on air Friday that Fox hires female hosts by looking at "the Victoria's Secret catalog" and asking, "Can any of these people talk?" Media Matters points out that his comment is just the latest in a string of sexist utterances on Kilmeade's and other Fox shows.

"Fox and Friends" co-host Gretchen Carlson walked off the set in June when Kilmeade remarked that "women are everywhere. We're letting them play golf and tennis now."

Media Matters noted that Kilmeade's Victoria's Secret comment came in response to a caller who complimented his guest, "Fox and Friends Weekend" co-host Alisyn Camerota, and the person who hired "all the women of Fox." Camerota, less enraged the Carlson, responded only, "You're crazy," to Kilmeade's most recent misogynist outburst.

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