Fox Host Praises Slave Owners Then Immediately Realizes He Shouldn't Have

During a recent interview with Charlie Kirk, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade was plugging his new book when he decided to go down a dark path where he praised slave owners saying that we wouldn't have a country without slave owners. It didn't take long for Kilmeade to realize what he had just said, so he tried to soften his statement by mentioning that no one condoned slavery or said it was a good thing, even though he just made that implication moments earlier. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

So I'm back. Obviously I took a week off for Thanksgiving and, uh, during that time, unfortunately there were some issues that I missed that I definitely want to talk about. I know there's new news every day to talk about, but some important things happen that I simply cannot ignore. And one of those important things happens to be an interview that Fox News host Brian Kilmeade did with conservative talker Charlie Kirk. And in this interview with Charlie Kirk, Brian Kilmeade, while promoting a new book, he, you know, allegedly wrote, um, actually defended slave owners, not defended slavery, of course, you know, 'cause that would just be a bridge too far. But he defended the people who owned other human beings as property. Here is what Mr. Kilmeade had to say to Charlie Kirk, quote, uh, for the most part we're a country that was born. Like every other country, every continent had slaves in the south. Most houses, most plantations had slaves. Nobody condones it. But without those slave owners, we don't have a country. So you make your choice.

What, what, what, what do you mean? So you make your choice. Like the, the choices were already made hundreds of years ago. Like, what are you telling us to make a choice about right now? That, that doesn't even make any sense grammatically or intelligently. Like you make your choice, right? You wanna have slave owners or not? No, no, we don't. But none of us were alive back then, to be able to say that. So I don't know what choice you want us to make, but I think Kilmeade immediately realized how stupid his comment was because then he tried to not necessarily walk it back. 'cause he still wanted to defend the slave owners. But then he tried to soften it by saying this because of the 1619 project. W was the formal first salvo. Uh, look, I, I mean, I'm older than you, and in 1976 I was in grade school and they launched this thing called Roots. The most successful mini series ever averaged 60 million a night. It was the story of slavery in all its brutality. Nobody was ever ducking our past. I don't know what people were talking about it. No one ever said, oh, segregation not that bad. Slavery. Well, it happens.

So he's trying to say like, Hey, listen, you know, back in the day we didn't run from our history. It was on roots. And, uh, you know, nobody was defending segregation or slavery. So, you know, it was bad. But didn't you just kind of defend it? Because you said, I mean, you did say without it we wouldn't have a country. But then you're saying, but back in the day, we were taught to not defend it. And then in modern times,

Here you are quite literally defending it. So you learn nothing. is the moral of this story. You tried to soften your statement by saying, Hey, listen, I wasn't taught to defend slavery yet here I am, almost 50 years later, totally defending slave owners and by extension slavery, by telling you that there would not be a country had it not been for slave owners. Th I mean, this is like a total mask off moment for Brian Kilmeade literally admitting that he was raised. And everybody in that time was taught how bad this was. And they were taught, do not defend this. But over the decades, I guess those lessons were forgotten, weren't they, Brian?