Fox News Moron-In-Residence Brian Kilmeade Driven To Make Absurdly False Statement About Muslims

What drives some of these right-wing morons on Fox News to make such outrageous anti-Muslim comments?

Are they trying to inflame their white and conservative followers?

Are they trying to create an anti-Muslim climate (even more than the one that already exists in the U.S.)?

This is from Media Matters for America:

Kilmeade: "Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims." On the October 15 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Kilmeade defended O'Reilly's comments on the October 14 edition of ABC's The View by claiming the show's hosts "were outraged that somebody was saying there's a reason -- there was a certain group of people that attacked us on 9-11. It wasn't just one person. It was one religion. Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims."

Later during his radio show, Kilmeade asserted that it's a "fact" that "every terrorist is a Muslim." On the October 15 edition of Fox News Radio's Kilmeade & Friends, Kilmeade stated: "Not every Muslim is an extremist, a terrorist, but every terrorist is a Muslim. You can't avoid that fact." From Kilmeade & Friends:

KILMEADE: Muslim extremists, Al Qaeda, blew up those buildings -- blew up the Khobar Towers, blew up the Cole, blew up the embassies, tried to blow up Times Square, tried to blow up the plane. The shoe bomber, the Times Square bomber, the underwear bomber -- they have one thing in common. They are all extremists, and they are all Muslims.

Not every Muslim is an extremist, a terrorist, but every terrorist is a Muslim. You can't avoid that fact. And that is ridiculous that we got to keep defining this - the people that equate Timothy McVeigh with the Al Qaeda terrorist organization, which is growing and a threat that exists.

Kilmeade seems to have (pun intended) whitewashed what it means to be a terrorist. He has minimized the cowardly and devastating terrorist act of Timothy McVeigh and his cohorts. Perhaps Kilmeade would have been tougher on McVeigh were he a little more Muslim.

He has minimized the wanton acts of terrorism committed by anti-abortion extremists. Because they are not Muslim (and because conservatives agree with the core principles of these anti-abortion idiots), this kind of terrorism is minimized.

I eagerly await Kilmeade's clarification of his idiotic stance. It's interesting that it will take him a whole weekend to think of the damage control he needs kick into gear.

If Kilmeade worked at a television station with ethics he probably would have gotten a pink slip. But, because he works at Fox News, he can say the most idiotic of things (as long as it is in line with far-right bigotry) and can survive.