Harris Faulkner Confronted Brian Kilmeade Over Racially Charged ‘Kool-Aid’ Comment
A new Los Angeles Times profile of Fox News daytime anchor Harris Faulkner includes an anecdote about one of her colleagues: Faulkner once confronted Brian Kilmeade after he made a racially charged comment to her during a Fox & Friends cooking segment.
During a painfully awkward 2015 segment (watch above, at around minute 1:30), in which Faulkner appeared with her daughter to cook a peach cobbler, Kilmeade asked her if she makes Kool-Aid.
“Do I make what?” a stunned Faulkner asked.
“Make Kool-Aid?” Kilmeade asked again.
“Uh — uh, no. I don’t make Kool-Aid,” Faulkner replied, to a comment so wild it made Steve Doocy double-take.
Well, Faulkner said in her LA Times profile that the segment prompted her to confront Kilmeade, after a video of it went viral and was mocked on late night TV:
“I went to his office,” she said. “We sat. He said, ‘I didn’t mean anything by it. I want you to know I have no idea what it really means, blah, blah, blah.’ By the end of the conversation, I apologized. He said, ‘Why are you apologizing?’ I said, ‘Because I need to hear the words ‘I’m sorry’ right now.’ So we moved on. What I learned is that if we let it, it will divide us completely… but it was very costly to stick through that moment so that the people around me could learn about [perseverance] and forgiveness. If he came to me this day and apologized, I would accept it.”
Watch the Fox & Friends segment above, via Fox News.
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