Fox and Friends Co-Host Really Just Said 'Colored'

By Dustin Rowles | TV | July 24, 2024 |

By Dustin Rowles | TV | July 24, 2024 |

Yesterday, the Republican Speaker of the House actually held a closed-door meeting with Republican Congresspeople to tell them to stop talking about race and gender, and specifically to stop calling Kamala Harris a “DEI pick.” It didn’t stop Rep. Harriet Hageman from doing that exact thing late yesterday, failing to conceal her racism.

“I mean, intellectually, just really kind of the bottom of the barrel,” Hageman said. “And from the standpoint of just who she is and the policies, the positions that she’s taken, her failure to do anything in terms of the border, that sort of thing, I think it’s just a failure from top to bottom. I think she was a DEI hire, and I think that that’s what we’re seeing,” she said. “And I just don’t think that they have anybody else. I just think that they’re in real disarray.”

Fox and Friends themselves apparently could not go 24 hours without being blatantly racist. Here’s the clip, where Brian Kilmeade says that VP Harris is skipping the Congressional session with Bibi Netanyahu to instead visit a “colored sorority.”

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It’s not just that he used a racist term from the 1960s, but he was completely dismissive of the meeting she’s having today. That’s not just any sorority. Kamala Harris is meeting with the Divine 9, a group of prestigious Black fraternities and sororities that has included, among their members over the years, Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, and John Lewis. The Divine 9 was founded largely by children and grandchildren of formerly enslaved people, and it has been instrumental in the Civil Rights Movement. This is critical outreach for her Presidential campaign because the Divine 9 has historically been crucial in mobilizing African American voters, particularly in swing states with significant African American populations.

But Kilmeade would rather Harris be on hand to oversee a war criminal speak to Congress.

And before Fox and Friends releases a statement insisting that Kilmeade said “college sorority”: No he didn’t. He said what he said. We all heard it.

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Update: Fox News did, indeed, email us to insist that Kilmeade said “college” and included this tweet from Kilmeade’s Fox and Friends co-host.

It still sounds like “colored” to me, and it also doesn’t explain why Kilmeade minimized Harris’s decision to meet with an influential group of Black fraternities and sororities over a Congressional hearing with Netanyahu that 30 other Congresspeople (and growing) are also skipping, including Nancy Pelosi, Jim Clyburn, and Dick Durbin.