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Fox and Friends‘ Brian Kilmeade Is NOT Happy About Time Magazine’s ‘Person Of The Year’

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Wednesday morning, Time magazine named their annual “Person of the Year” live on Today. The choice? The Protester. “From Arab Spring to Athens, From Occupy Wall Street to Moscow,” the cover reads. Coming in second place was Admiral William H. McRaven, the man who organized the SEAL Team Six raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden.

Hearing news of the announcement, Fox and Friends host Brian Kilmeade let out an audible “augh” over the news being read by Gretchen Carlson.

“The magazine honoring protesters and their movements all across the globe,” Carlson read, “from the revolts in Egypt against Hosni Mubarak to the Occupy Wall Street movement.”

“You can equate both of them in this article?” Kilmeade asked. “Are you kidding me?!”

The hosts batted around others that could have won, including Steve Jobs, SEAL Team Six, and Gabby Giffords. But Kilmeade wasn’t done expressing his disgust:

“That’s unbelievable,” he said. “They equate the uprising of the Egyptian people after fifteen years of repression to a bunch of people in Zuccotti Park who don’t like Wall Street bankers.”

Carlson tried to play devil’s advocate for the selection, but Kilmeade brushed it off, still upset over the choice.

Watch video of the exchange below, courtesy of Fox News:

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  • http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/630-E-Lovell-Dr-Troy-MI-48085/24509418_zpid/ Louisa Gismonde Calcaterra

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  • Anonymous

    A magazine who didn’t even acknowledge the Tea Party in 2009, chooses defecating malcontents as it’s Person of the Year.  

    Not shocked in the least.  Time Magazine is the epitome of a rag.

  • Anonymous

    He hates free speech.

  • Gloves E. Donahue

    Makes sense.

    Got a rabble rouser in the White House, costing the country untold billions and doing irreparable damage.

    Got rabble in the street, cost cities millions, causing nothing but mayhem.

  • Anonymous

    The tea party trying to get politicians to answer their concerns and not force an unread bill that changes 20% of our economy on us without knowing what was in the bill was free speech, and look how Time and the rest of the liberal media treated them.

  • http://twitter.com/JVelez80 Mr. Velez

    Didn’t the protests in Iran happen in the same time? And they gave it to….Bernanke.

    Sad but predictable…..

  • Anonymous

    Who are these people?  I can’t believe that they actually have jobs as on-air news readers.  They’re not interesting.  They’re not thoughtful.  They’re not as pretty as some of the others.  Not that this is of importance to me personally, as I prefer substance over swag, but it seems that most Fox viewers like to be distracted.  But I suppose in a way they are distracting.  So much going on in the world and they’re concerned about a magazine cover.  What’s next, the WAR ON CHRISTMAS?

  • Anonymous

    I don’t get your comment…is it just complete bias that makes up your opinion? I don’t follow Time magazine myself but it is my understanding that they have been around for close to a century and are a pretty reputable news magazine. Now clearly you, as a conservative I assume, are not allowed to like anything even remotely related to occupy wall street but there is no denying that their movement has changed the narrative a bit in this country for better or for worse plus protesters in general have kind of been a big deal this year no?

  • Anonymous

    They said the person of the year is protester. Protesting is an important part of democracy. I don’t understand how can someone be against that choice.

  • Anonymous

    If you consider shitting in the street, never taking a bath, living and smelling like pigs
    and refusing to work for a living, then, yes, they are kinda a big deal.

  • Anonymous

    Fox News fake outrage machine is working again!

    “Protester” is simply someone who wants his/her opinion to be heard. This is a good choise in my opinion but obviously conservatives have to be against this because OWS people are protesters.

  • Anonymous

    ““They equate the uprising of the Egyptian people after fifteen years of repression” – I think that pretty much sums up Kilmeade’s greasy grasp on history

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    How that Man with the Curly Black Hair seated next to Gretchen O’Van Karlsen  can so hate democracy is something of a surprise to me. Certainly, in a meritocracy he would be a Good Humor Man.

  • Anonymous

    Wow.  You not only fell for the Rethug meme hook, line and sinker you drank the Kool-Aid as well.  You must be one of the “know nothing” Fox viewers I’ve read so much about.  

  • Anonymous

    No.  Only dirty, smelly hippies protest.  Didn’t you get the memo?  That’s what they told us about 1000 times on Fox News.  They’re “Fair & Balanced” so what they tell us must be true.  Right?  Right?  It’s true right?

  • Anonymous

    Why care this much? Kate Middleton was number 5 on this list. Really shows what TIME is all about. Why anyone gets upset over any magazines list is beyond me.

  • Anonymous

    Their ‘War on Christmas’ started about two weeks before Thanksgiving.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Kilmeade’s opinion doesn’t matter, everyone who watches the show knows he was obviously dropped on his head a couple times when he was a baby!!

  • Hout Bosques

    That’s because the TP 2009 thingee was more a rebranding of the John Birch Society membership ranks than anything else, and that sort of thing happens periodically, and with periodic success; in other words, it’s not “news” news, it’s recycling old political stratagems.

    Whereas there are a number of different ways in which one can expect the Occupy movement to be proven quite a bit different than protests in the past decades going back at least to the 1960s, and it’s not at all just a matter of cosmetic re-branding.

    Do you understand yet why it is that the Fuppets spend so much time and energy dissing the Occupy movement? I’m not asking if you LIKE it, that is, the Occupy movement or FNC – we can easily guess your views on both – but the question is, Do you even GET it?

    [By the way, your avatar name really really sucks; it means to me that you're actually one of hte wingnut regulars who's been spanked here lately and you're trying to hide amount the nut husks.]

  • Anonymous

    Even if you hate FOX, this is a ludicrous choice by Time Magazine. Just plain disrespectful to compare people who overthrew a dictator to those screaming that other people should pay off their student loan debts.

  • Anonymous

    Even if you hate the selection by Time, this is ludicrous complaining by Kilmeade. He can make his own list and put whoever he likes on it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKEQSTA4WOBYU5Z7QNSBUR2LXI MASSMURDERMEDIA

    how dare a magazine i never read choose someone i disapprove of…

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    did the protests in Iran lead to the fall of that government?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    There is a big mistake he made here that no one caught, 15 years??? The militaristic government that Mubarik was part of has been in power since 1981.  Guess who supported it?

  • Pablo

    Yeah! I mean, what’s not to like?

    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Pablo

    Oh, no. Here’s the Kool-Aid.

    #OCCUPYPARENTING!!

  • Pablo

    It’s dopey. Almost as dopey as this selection.

    If this is the way they wanted to go, they should have named Mohamed Bouazizi. That would make sense, while also being, you know, a person.

  • Pablo

    No, only dirty smelly hippies and anarchists and socialists and other ne’er-do-wells move into public parks. All kinds of people protest.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    Hey Kiljoy, I’ll bet you think you deserve it. It’s about what can potentially shape the globe, not a one time action or incident, such as Seal Team-6, the death of Steve Jobs, or the shooting of Gabby Giffords. These single events don’t shape or reshape the world as did the protests in Tunisia and Egypt, which served as inspiration for Libya, Yemen, and Syria.

  • Pablo

    Try 1953. Mubarak became President in 1981, but the government didn’t change. He merely took over for the assassinated Sadat.

    Guess who supported it

    Ooooh! I know! Jimmy Carter!

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Jimmy Carter was president in 1981???

  • Anonymous

    Tea Party are protesters, so therefore they are included in the person of the year qualifications. 

  • Anonymous

    LOL

    THSES DOLTS
    ARE
    FUNNIER THAN COMMUNITY!!!

  • Pablo

    Jimmy Carter instituted our billions of dollars of aid (much of it military) to the Egyptian government. Camp David Accords. You might have heard of them. The Egyptian government was a party to them, the same government Mubarak became President of. Egypt has been rather serene, internationally speaking, since then.

    The 1953 revolution overthrew King Farouk, aka “His Majesty Farouk I, by the grace of God, King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, of Kordofan, and of Darfur.” He wasn’t what you’d call democratically elected, what with being a monarch and all. He succeeded his father Fuad I.

    Where did you learn your history?

  • Anonymous

    I’d heard him say 50yrs, not 15.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Well it is very good he was continuing the trend started by Eisenhower and continued by Reagan.

    http://www.iranchamber.com/history/coup53/coup53p1.php

    http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB126/index.htm

    http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

    Where did you learn it from? I am betting public schools.

    I also love how again you are wrong, yet double down. You are tenacious in your trolling.

    Oh you thought I was talking about Egypt!

  • Anonymous

    Kilmeade is a moron. It’s a toss up between he and douchy I can’t decide who’s the dumbest.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe you should but down the Limbaugh Newsletter once in a while and start thinking objectively about what the point of the protests were about. Any intelligent analysis of what has happened in this country economically and the actions of the bankers, combined with the absolute refusal of both parties to hold these people accountable is pathetic.  Were there some assclowns in the crowd, sure there were, so what, there are jerks in every movement.

  • Pablo

    You weren’t talking about Egypt? When you said this?

    “The militaristic government that Mubarik was part of has been in power since 1981.”

    Hush, child.

  • Anonymous

    I love it, TIME didn’t even give the Tea Party an honorable mention, but OWS gets the cover.  Nope, no liberal bias there!!

  • shle896

    Just another day for Fox “News” and the simpleton’s who watch it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/marla.louise Marla Louise

    Before criticizing or applauding the Time Person of the Year, I highly recommend actually reading the article.   Then form an opinion.   That’s generally how something like this should work.

  • http://profiles.google.com/lanie940 Elaine Steskal

    Let me say this, it isn’t the “protesters” doing what you think is disgusting, it is the real homeless indigents being told they could do these disgusting things. Many of the Protesters have full-time jobs, some are Dr’s and nurses, the homeless were TOLD  by police they could go get food and shelter from the protesters. Fox News makes sure they show the picture they want you to believe are the protesters, who actually go home and get baths. So there!

  • Anonymous

    You just replied to a conservative extremist with reason and objectivity?  Careful not to mention science and fact:  you’re perilously close to giving him a heart attack or something!

  • Anonymous

    Uh, isn’t that the wrong year, honey?  It’s the “Person of the Year” cover, not the “Person of Previous Years” …

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think conservative extremists who blindly hate Obama, OWS, science, facts, and all sources of news other than FNC and conservative talk radio are likely to read the article, much less make an objective evaluation.  Nice advice, though.

  • Pablo

    So who’s doing the rioting?

  • Anonymous

    Um, I was referring to the year the Tea Party was the big story.  I’m pretty sure anyone with a brain got that. 

  • Anonymous

    Sure Elaine.  Own your thugs. 

  • Anonymous

    Occupy Portland Mom Places 4-Year-Old Daughter On Train Tracks During Protest To Shut Down Port of Portland…

    Look for the liberals to nominate her for mother of the year. 

  • http://twitter.com/MerryMarjie MerryMarjie

    It bothers me that you use Edward G. Robinson’s picture for your avatar, and yet you say the most hateful things.  Robinson, besides being a great actor, was a highly sophisticated art collector, a gentle man in real life, who immigrated from Romania in the early 1900′s, and who managed to create a wonderful life here in America.

    Barack Obama is not a rabble rouser, and has not cost this country “untold billions.”  The only “irreparable damage” done was accomplished by the previous occupant who managed to sully our name throughout the world.  The Occupy Wall Street people are bringing attention to the fact that inequities exist in this country that harm so many, and maybe we should heed the wake up call we’re being given.

  • http://www.dregstudios.com Brandt Hardin

    TIME is providing some much needed acknowledgement to the
    importance of protest.  The Occupy and
    Arab Spring Movements are NECESSARY for our citizens to expose the corruption
    which Big Business has infected our Government with.  Every single person occupying the streets and
    protesting Corporations is a hero and a patriot.  I was compelled to lend a hand and create
    some new posters for the movement which you can download for free on my
    artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/11/propaganda-for-occupy-movement.html

  • Anonymous

    Maybe if the Tea Party had been in the same year as the Arab Spring, it would have been included.  (Also, if it had not ended up being a corporate subsidiary of Koch industries it may have had a better shot, too.)

  • Anonymous

    Do not mess with Pablo.

  • http://twitter.com/kelly396 kelly murphy

    What a stupid thing to say!!.. You don’t think the death of Bin Laden changed the world?  You don’t think losing Steve Jobs who was the visionary for Apple will affect the products the company puts out into the marketplace in the future?  How myopic of you. 

  • Anonymous

    Ready for the story any day now in which Time is auctioned off for a dollar – just like Newsweek.

  • Anonymous

    plus Edward G. Robinson was a well known LIBERAL! Maybe Gloves needs to change his picture to a great conservative actor like Chuck Norris or Stephen Baldwin

  • Anonymous

    Time Magazine?  What do they publish?

  • Anonymous

    Given all the hoorah in 2011, from the Arab Spring to OWS to the Tea Party, it’s a pretty good choice.  After all, Time’s POTY has run the gamut from Gahndi and MLK to Hitler and Ronald Reagan.  It’s the consequence of the person for good or evil.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Or what?

  • Anonymous

    This ranks right up there with Obimbo’s Nobel prize.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    You have a new handle! Did you get banned?… Again?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Source? Cite please.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4MGB7XXHNJVZMQJKLG36A2UDUI Ann

    Most normal thinking Americans think the same way.  I think it is hilarious as Time Magazine continues to shoe their dumbness.  

  • http://profiles.google.com/lblucher13 Larry Blucher

    Time’s Person of the Year award lost any last remaining credibility when it went to Ben Bernanke in 2009.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4MGB7XXHNJVZMQJKLG36A2UDUI Ann

    News flash —- America is a republic not a democracy, especially how Obama and ilk define democracy.  Besides that, protesting is a right.  But no one has a right to block federal land marks or private property, cr@p on private property, trash up whole sections of federal and private properties.  Time Magazine is a joke.  Can’t believe they are still in business.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4MGB7XXHNJVZMQJKLG36A2UDUI Ann

    So you watch Fox all the time, do you?  You must in order to have those talking points down.

  • Anonymous

    Ranks right up there with “Time’s” 1938 choice!

    (Some Austrian born guy “from” Germany.)

  • Pablo

    Or you look stupid…er.

  • Pablo

    In fairness, the choice isn’t supposed to be made based on popularity, but on newsworthiness. So Hitler certainly fit the bill when they picked him. The real problem is twofold. The first part is that they don’t seem to feel the need to pick actual people to be The Person of the Year anymore.  The second part is that the once-venerable Time has become a hack rag and they have a roomful of nose-pickers and navel-gazers choosing their favorite story and mashing it into the POTY mold.

  • doug daluga

    “shoe”?

  • doug daluga

    and I suppose you don’t defecate…
    or is it you just think yours doesn’t stink?

  • doug daluga

    and you guys would have bitched about that, too

  • doug daluga

    irreparable damage like making sure kids can get health insurance?
    The irrational right speaks again.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Yes, I am being called stupid and told history by some one who claims the founding fathers never compromised. But I am sure that is all that “reading” you are doing.

    As did I, 12 years to be exact and a few semesters at a catholic college. You may of heard of it. They get pretty popular during the fall.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah that was annoying to see. Because the duchess or whatever is SO important to the rest of the world.

  • Anonymous

    How did she get banned? I’ve seen her die hard comments on this site under just michelle I think but I don’t remember her completely losing her head. Was it homophobic comments?

  • Anonymous

    Hey everybody on the LEFT and RIGHT! This comment on Bernanke is something that we can agree on!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=624006080 Damon Arial

    Because the teabaggers are a hate group. Derp de derp derp…

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