Here’s What Happened When Fox & Friends Interviewed A Transgendered Guest

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by Colby Hall | 2:51 pm, September 7th, 2010

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Ever wonder how producers of Fox & Friends would treat an on-air guest who is transgendered? Well it seems like we now know the answer: choose to depict a lot of b-roll of the topic at hand (in this case the LA subway system), ignoring the visual of the transgendered guest (in this case, Kymberleigh Richards, Governance Councilmember at Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Host Brian Kilmeade leads the interview, which can be viewed below.

When first introduced by Kimeade, the host appears to be a bit confused, saying “Now joining us, Kymberleigh Richards, he, uh, she is a public and legislative affairs director for Southern California transit advocates.” Ms. Richards appears to be yet another local administrator asked to provide insight and expertise to the story of government waste, which in this case centers around the LA mass transit system.

Yet when the deep baritone voice of Ms. Richards comes through the airwaves, one can easily imagine the surprise of Fox and Friends viewers across the land as they slowly realize that the voice is of a man, and the image is of the woman. It appears producers in the booth may have been caught off-guard as well, as the Ms. Richards’ visage is presented on-air but for a few seconds in the 3:00 minute clip.

Brian Kilmeade, Fox & Friends, Fox and Friends, Kymberleigh Richards, Transgendered Guest

Penguin60

Damn, I want that 3 minutes of my life back.
PureFreedom

lmao, If I was Brian I could not keep it straight, once she said in that voice “hello Brian” I would have been rolling.
Your right what a waste of time on this report!
Haimerej

It bothers me that people say, “Ms.” when talking to men dressed as women and vice versa. To me, that’s no different than calling that weird guy who models as animals on Youtube by the name of the animal he’s dressed as. This is simply feeding the delusion these people are living.

Also, I don’t care if you had surgery, this still applies.
puck30

“When first introduced by Kilmeade, the host appears to be a bit confused…”

That’s our man Kilmeade.

Kymberleigh Richards? That’s LA.
Kitsune

Slow news day, eh, Mediaite?

But then, I’ve known so many M -> F TGs (all pre-op, however) that I don’t blink an eye at it anymore.

Aren’t there more important things to be covering?
mikepower

In fairness to the host they are dealing with monitors all over the studio with different streams and when this happened he could have thought he had the wrong stream he was looking at so it very well could have threw him.

What does Rush call this…… cutadickoffomy
ChuckfromTacoma

I was listening to F&F this morning while doing chores. I thought it odd when Kilmeade introduced Kymberleigh but only a man spoke. Now I understand.
Smeg

I’d like to thank LA for blowing $46M so that I can LMAO @ Kymberleigh “Richardless.” What a load of freaks Cali is.
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HahhhhAHAHAHAhahahAHHAHAA!!!!!!11 This woMAN is nothing more than a FREAK and I’m GLAD she was dealt with with the MATURITY I expect from the Fine American Journalists at Fox n’ Friends!!!!111 HahahAHAHAHahahhaAHAHAHa I bet she hangs out with RacHELL MANdow!!!1111 LOL!!!1
Sunnyr

I love Brian! He’s so funny without even trying to be. And I mean that in a good way. WTG, Brian!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Nick-Matonak/1808620940 Nick Matonak

I have known Kymberleigh for over three years in the Transit Advocate circles and I have to give her a lot of respect and admiration for appearing on any show on Fox News. Brian Kimeade has his facts all wrong (which Ms Richards politely pointed out) and Kimeade only seemed concerned about yelling out his misinformed opinions. Transgendered people deserve the same kind of respect as anyone else. I think she did an excellent job considered what an idiot she was dealing with on the show.
Judging from the above comments (where the majority of the posters above seemed to have never advanced from the fourth grade) I am glad that I never watch anything on the Fox network, much less anything that they call “news”
Grow up People!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Helen-Nordo/100000884291530 Helen Nordo

It would have been considerate of Ms Richards to politely consider the impact this would have since Brian had not been aware of her present situation. I think these people expect a certain amount of controversy if they had not made known their sexual orientation but to pull this “shock stunt” on an honest man like Brian Kilmeade, was in my estimation….poor judgment! besides, I LOVE Fox News so they are always right!!!