New York – Fox Host Questions Whether Omar Is ‘An American First.’

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    FILE - This Jan. 17, 2018 file photo shows co-host Brian Kilmeade on the set of "Fox & Friends" in New York. Ki(AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)New York – Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said Wednesday that Fox News Channel host Brian Kilmeade is guilty of a “dangerous incitement” for questioning her loyalty to the United States, since she’s been the subject of death threats in the past.

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    Kilmeade said on a “Fox & Friends” segment about the freshman Democrat that “you have to wonder if she’s an American first.”

    Fox News had no immediate comment about Kilmeade, the second Fox personality in a month to attract attention for comments about Omar. Fox condemned and suspended Saturday host Jeanine Pirro for two weeks after she wondered aloud whether Omar’s use of a Muslim head covering indicated she was a follower of Islamic religious law.

    “My love and commitment to our country and that of my colleagues should never be questioned,” Omar said via Twitter on Wednesday. “We are ALL Americans.”

    Kilmeade’s comment came during a morning show segment that appeared inspired by an item on the conservative Daily Caller web site a day before. It was about a speech Omar gave on March 23 to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Los Angeles chapter.

    She talked at the event about how many Muslim-Americans felt like second-class citizens in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. She said the rights organization started after people were losing civil liberties because “some people did something.”

    That reference to the attacks — “some people did something” — struck some of Omar’s critics as a too-flippant description of the assailants that day.

    “I didn’t intend to question whether Rep. Omar is an American,” Kilmeade said via Twitter. “I am questioning how any American, let along a United States congresswoman, could downplay the 9/11 attacks.”

    It’s notable that neither Kilmeade nor Pirro — despite her suspension — apologized or distanced themselves from what they said once it started receiving attention.

    A spokesman for Omar did not immediately respond to questions about the criticism she has received about her reference to the attacks. Omar was due to appear later Wednesday with Stephen Colbert on CBS’s “Late Show.”

    Omar called on politicians of both parties to unite in condemning Kilmeade. He’s one of three co-hosts of Fox’s morning show along with Steve Doocy and Ainsley Earhardt.


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    favish
    favish
    4 years ago

    theres no question shes anti american by the company she keeps and her rehtoric etc .its freightening these 3 plus comunist made it to the US body of law

    puppydogs
    puppydogs
    4 years ago

    These are excellent questions by Brian

    DanielBarbaz
    DanielBarbaz
    4 years ago

    Hypocrite!!! When she incites against Jews…..that is okay??? She and her ilk, are the real cause of Islamaphobia. May she grow like an onion!

    StevenWright
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    StevenWright
    4 years ago

    She’s an American never

    bsnow
    bsnow
    4 years ago

    Every good american should question her. I hope trump does too.
    She clearly a anti Semite and anti American.
    Only dem who are also radical can’t see it.
    Time to wake up.

    StevenWright
    Member
    StevenWright
    4 years ago

    Incitement.
    Hmmmm. Like Mad Maxine?
    Nah. She’s a liberal so it’s okay.

    4 years ago

    It has been nearly 100 days since Democrats took control of the House of Representatives. It has also been almost 100 days under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi.
    A press conference was held to commemorate the event and was there that House Republican leader from California, Kevin McCarthy gave his thoughts on what Pelosi had accomplished.
    “We are three days away from the 100-day mark from Democrats holding a majority of the House. And so far, they’ve managed to sum up in three words: radicalism, resistance, and resolutions,” McCarthy shared.
    Few words have ever rung so true, yet McCarthy wasn’t done there.
    In a rhetorical question to Democrats he asked, “What have you accomplished? Name me one problem you have solved because the direction of radicalism, resistance, and resolutions is not the direction Americans want. America deserves better.”
    The scalding remarks are aptly appropriate as House GOP Whip Steve Scalise chimed in with, “If you look at the first 100 days, it’s been 100 days of failures.”

    4 years ago

    At what point is somebody going to step in?
    Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) trivialized the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history in a recent speech she gave at an event for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) — which the United Arab Emirates has designated as a terrorist organization.
    When speaking about the 9/11 terror attacks, which killed approximately 3,000 American citizens, Omar described the attacks as “some people did something.”
    “CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something, and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties,” omar said.

    Omar was met by hundreds of protesters when she attended the March event in Los Angeles, who expressed strong disapproval of her use of anti-Semitic tropes and promotion of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
    Omar responded to the “very interesting” pro-Israel demonstrators by saying: “I don’t think any of them realize that people like myself and many of the people in this room could care less about what they have to say.”
    Here are some of the responses that Omar’s comments received online:
    Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX): “First Member of Congress to ever describe terrorist

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    4 years ago

    What a silly thing to say. Does he think the Orthodox are Americans first?

    Liepa
    Liepa
    4 years ago

    When she incites with her venemous lies it’s ok, yet when others imply that she might not be so perfect, herself, to say the least, she gets all bent out of shape.

    Well listen here, omar, if you can’t stand the heat get the hexx out of the kitchen, b’hiema !!!

    4 years ago

    I wish to correct the #6 posting (President Trump), who stated that “3,000 Americans were killed on 9/11/01”. For the twentieth time, there were about 2,500 American citizens killed on 9/11/01, at Ground Zero. The other 500 victims, belonged to many different nationalities of other countries.

    PaulinSaudi
    PaulinSaudi
    4 years ago

    CAIR was established in 1994.

    4 years ago

    Don’t talk about America first while forgetting the First Americans.