WHO NEEDS SCIENCE WHEN YOU HAVE BRIAN KILMEADE?

[defrog]

ITEM: Researchers in Sweden and Finland release a new study finding that people who lived with a partner during middle age had much lower odds of developing dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

On Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade completely debunks the study by pointing out that the study was done by researchers in Sweden and Finland.

Seriously.

“The problem is the Swedes have pure genes. They marry other Swedes, that's the rule. Finns marry other Finns; they have a pure society. In America we marry everybody. We will marry Italians and Irish.”

What strikes me – apart from his apparent belief that Swedes and Finns are a "species" – is why he would even bother going out of his way to discredit such a study. Here you have a study showing that marriage is biologically good for you, and instead of trumpeting it as proof that the GOP is right about the importance of Family Values, he's blathering about pure genes.

Maybe he’s afraid Teh Gayz will use it to prove gay marriage should be legalized. Or maybe he’s still too freaked out over Al Franken’s victory to think clearly.

Well, haha, no. Of course it’s because he’s batshit. But he’s bankable batshit.

FUN FACT: Fox News is the most watched cable TV news program in America. And Fox & Friends is by far the top-rated morning news program. Meanwhile, the top four overall news programs are The O'Reilly Factor, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck and On the Record.

Just so you know.

On the crazy train,

This is dF

Comments

[def-fr0g-42.livejournal.com]

It's a struggle sometimes, isn't it? They just provide SO MUCH MATERIAL, and after awhile I realize I'm just repeating myself. Still, I love it when they're obviously reaching to try and find some angle to be contrary even when it's not necessary. I swear if Hillary jumped into the Potomac and saved two kids and a puppy from drowning, Kilmeade, O'Reilly and Hannity would be saying, "Should we be concerned that people who aren't certified lifeguards are trying to rescue kids and puppies, and are they really putting more lives at risk than they're saving?"

[puffdoggydaddy.livejournal.com]

Nah...it'd be a conspiracy with Hillary or her Clintonian secret agents throwing the kids and puppies into the water to create the opportunity.