The shootings come a week after Fox News host Brian Kilmeade said on air that homeless individuals with mental illness should be killed.
"That’s the way it has to be now. Or, involuntary lethal injection. Yeah. Or something. Just kill ‘em, yeah,” Kilmeade said in response to his co-host suggesting homeless people suffering from mental illness be imprisoned if they do not accept treatment.
Kilmeade has since apologized for his statement after a public backlash.
Fox News Channel commentator Bill O’Reilly has also been accused of demonizing Tiller.[71] O’Reilly was found to have mentioned Tiller by name on The O’Reilly Factor, his show on the Fox News Channel, 42 separate times prior to Tiller’s death, referring to him specifically as a “baby killer” in 24 instances.[72] O’Reilly said he was not responsible for Tiller’s death and defended his campaign against Tiller, saying:
When I heard about Tiller’s murder, I knew pro-abortion zealots and Fox News haters would attempt to blame us for the crime, and that’s exactly what has happened. […] Every single thing we said about Tiller was true, and my analysis was based on those facts. […] Now, it’s clear that the far left is exploiting — exploiting — the death of the doctor. Those vicious individuals want to stifle any criticism of people like Tiller. That — and hating Fox News — is the real agenda here.[73]
Fox News has always been a stochastic terror machine.