Fox News Lets Kilmeade Keep His Job After Saying “Oops” About Murdering Homeless People

NEW YORK — Fox News announced Sunday that Brian Kilmeade will remain on air after apologizing for his suggestion that the solution to homelessness might be to “Just kill ’em.”

The comment, made during a segment on crime involving a mentally ill shelter resident, went largely unnoticed until Saturday, when a clip spread across social media. By Sunday morning, Kilmeade offered a brief apology, calling the remark “extremely callous,” and Fox executives promptly declared the matter resolved.

Kilmeade’s survival at the network contrasted sharply with MSNBC’s recent decision to fire anchor Thomas Dowd for observing that “hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions,” after the Charlie Kirk tragedy—a sentiment that apparently posed a greater threat to corporate tranquility than Kilmeade’s call for genocide.

Advocacy groups reacted with weary disbelief. “We’re talking about a national platform suggesting lethal injection for unhoused people, and the consequence is… nothing?” said Christine Quinn of WIN, a nonprofit that runs shelters in New York.

Kilmeade is scheduled to return to the couch Monday, where Fox sources say the only new precaution is a reminder to keep mass murder proposals off-camera until at least the second coffee break.