Excuse Me?
Nobody watches Fox and Friends for enlightenment. Okay, maybe that’s a stretch. Obviously, some people watch for enlightenment, but it surely isn’t anyone that is actually enlightened. Brian Kilmeade uttered pretty much the dumbest thing ever on the show and that is saying a great deal. You can enjoy the Seth Meyers video below. The Fox and Friends segment is embedded inside.
For those that don’t want to go down the rabbit hole, I will summarize the brilliant comments from Kilmeade. It seems that his partner in crime was actually throwing out facts on the virus and vaccine. He admitted that 99 percent of the people currently being hospitalized for COVID were people that had not been vaccinated.
This is where Kilmeade pounced on his opportunity to offer his educated opinion. It’s not the government’s job to protect people. Yup, you heard that right. It is not their job to protect us. Somehow, I don’t remember that being the case, but it’s been a hot minute since I’ve sat through a political science class. Let’s double check.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…”
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution>
Okay, I was right. It’s right there in the preamble to the constitution. They even added promote the general welfare in case there was any confusion. So, let’s say that Kilmeade was right and that it isn’t the government’s job to protect us. Okay, why do we have a defense department? Why do we have branches of the military (including Space Force)?
Moreover, why do we have a Food and Drug Administration. Why do we have a Securities and Exchange Commission? Why do we have an EEOC? Why do we have an FCC? Why do we have a CDC? I could go on and on, but I think most Americans get the idea. Brian Kilmeade is an idiot.
His partner in crime inadvertently admitted the vaccine was effective. So, what’s the problem? Well, the problem is that Fox and Friends, other talking heads at Fox, OANN, and other conservative pundits have spent their time discrediting the vaccine even as they themselves got the vaccine. It’s a staggering example of hypocrisy that you rarely see on this grand a scale.
The goal I suppose is to make sure Joe Biden and the Democratic Congress is ultimately unsuccessful. That sentiment is normal. However, there have always been unspoken rules that both parties used to follow. Politics used to end at our shores and politics used to end when the public was in danger. You know, all the general welfare stuff.
Apparently, there are no more rules of engagement. We are fighting a vaccine we know is effective. We are fighting a 1/6 commission when we all saw a violent insurrection live on television. We are fighting the idea that everyone eligible to vote should be able to vote relatively easily. Kilmeade’s comments fit perfectly. It’s not the government’s job to do the only real job spelled out in the constitution. Makes perfect sense.
Living down to their standards as usual
1You aced this one Nick.
The hypocrisy of the RWNJ propagandists is incredible, but the idiotic gullibility of their audience of MAGAots, tRumpanzees, Teabaggers, et al, is simply limitless.
This sure reads like the Founders believed that the main reason for revolting from under the rule of the British king was to seek freedom and a government ‘by and for the people’, and –their– protection and welfare, as opposed to the sole benefit of a monarchy [or oligarchy].
But then we all know that the Rethuglikan’s dream is to doom us all to life under the bootheel of some fascist autocrat or even a monarch [who looks exactly like that DiJioT piece of shit]:
“We the People of the United States,
in Order to form a more perfect Union,
establish Justice,
insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for the common defense,
promote the general Welfare,
and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…”
Preamble to the U.S. Constitution>
2Paul – they have standards?!! When did this happen? This is a “news” network whose lawyers admitted in court that Fox isn’t a news network, they are an “entertainment network”.
3Both Sean Hannity (gag) and Tucker-damn traitor-Carlson have been quoted in the last day or so backpedaling wildly on their vaccine opinions, Hannity pleading w the audience to go get their shots.
Apparently, it has just occurred to them that with the Delta variant targeting the unvaccinated their little pet base of magat morons is thinning, perhaps rapidly. I’m betting it’s too little, too late, and think it’s Karma rounding up the “let God sort them out” crowd. Go Karma go!!
4Apparently Brian Kilmeade wants to defund the police. After all, police are part of government, and the police are there to protect us. So if it isn’t government’s job to protect us, they obviously shouldn’t be providing police services.
5Did he say what the government is for if not to protect people? To invade countries that pose no threat to us for reasons we may eventually discover? To conduct guided tours of public buildings? To erect statues? I need to know.
6Apparently Hannity’s and Carlson’s portfolios have taken a dive.
7You forgot to mention that in Texas it will now be up to nosy noodles to sue women who’ve had an abortion in what they assume to too late.
8“Brian Kilmeade uttered pretty much the dumbest thing ever on the show and that is saying a great deal.”
Astute observation Nick.
Fox News should probably stop waving the American flag in their graphics, since they‘ve proven themselves against the Preamble to the Constitution, woke generals, and the American people by dishing out COVID advice almost guaranteed to kill them.
Talk about enemies foreign and domestic. Fox could qualify as a twofer. Australian Rupert Murdoch setting up shop right here on our shores.
9This may not be true but “someone” told me that a bus ran over Brian Kilmeade
The bus died
10Well, it’s the job of ministers, preachers, and Gawd Almighty to protect us. Oh, wait:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pastor-pleas-covid-summer-camp-b1884232.html
Well, we can still count on God. I’m sure he/she will get right onto protecting those 125 children, now that Pastor Numbskull has offered up a prayer. “Lord, we didn’t want to be in the news, at least not for this, maybe for serving or some extreme generosity, but not this,” he said.
By the way, just a few years ago the Supreme Court ruled that the police have no obligation to protect us citizens. It’s been real handy for police that don’t want to waste their time enforcing protection orders for women who have stalkers and abusive partners.
11OT but it’s all related to 45. Trumpf inauguration chairman arrested for being an unregistered agent of a foreign government. Wish they’d get him for fraud in the money raised for the inauguration, too.
12I believe the courts have held that the Preamble is not law.
Nor is the Declaration of Independence.
They can be used as very general guidelines to interpreting the Constitution.
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