please enjoy this

[solarbird]

In the wake of the "changing the complexion" racist rampage in Pennsylvania, please enjoy this from Fox News and Washington Monthly:

[Fox and Friends host Brian] Kilmeade was reflecting on a study that found married people fare better when it comes to Alzheimer's than divorcees. Fox News is "pro-family," so it might seem like the kind of study Kilmeade would approve of.

Alas, no. The Fox News personality took issue with where the study was done, which he said discredited the results. Alex Koppelman, who posted the video, explains:

Kilmeade and two colleagues were discussing a study that, based on research done in Finland and Sweden, showed people who stay married are less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's. Kilmeade questioned the results, though, saying, "We are -- we keep marrying other species and other ethnics and other ..."

At this point, his co-host tried to -- in that jokey morning show way -- tell Kilmeade he needed to shut up, and quick, for his own sake. But he didn't get the message, adding, "See, the problem is the Swedes have pure genes. Because they marry other Swedes.... Finns marry other Finns, so they have a pure society."

And now, the Grand Canyon!we're off to Disneyland.

Comments

[maellenkleth]

wha' thank you! I will henceforth regard Fox News as the prime vendor of bread-and-circusses prole feed. :(

enjoy subverting the dominant aradigm in Anaheim.... ^_^

[solarbird]

Just henceforth? Not before now?

[reileen.livejournal.com]

WTF. WTFFFFFFF. I love (read: am WTFing) at how Kilmeade casually mentions that we marry "other species" and "other ethnics" in the same breath.

I just.

Whaaaat?!

[janne.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha! Swedes tend to be the butt of Norwegian jokes (and the reverse), I can see some definite potential in the 'other species' part of that. Pure society. Heehee!

(I did a quick check of statistics... 10 percent of Norwegian men from 'the rest of the population' (which is apparently the current PC term for ethnic norwegians) who got married in 2007 married somebody who wasn't a norwegian. I suspect the statistics are pretty similar in Sweden.)

ETA: Source http://www.ssb.no/emner/02/02/30/rapp_200841/

[lickingtoad.livejournal.com]

Seems like a combination of nationalism and ignorance. (On FOX News?! The Devil, you say!)

[zeightyfiv.livejournal.com]

Seems like a bona-fide exception to Godwin's law? :P

[lickingtoad.livejournal.com]

Now, now -- it's not as if they have a monopoly on the idea of racial and genetic 'purity.' (It's just ironical that the reverse is beneficial for survivability.)

I point to the Hapsburgs and laugh -- Europe's royal families inbred with staggering rapidity. My favorite example is the portraiture of the Spanish royals. Eventually you get a monarch who can't close his mouth and thus drools constantly, on account of a jaw defect.

Classy.

[sarakate.livejournal.com]

On reflection, I find I like the notion that Brian Kilmeade is not of my species.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

*golfclap*