FOX news host Brian Kilmeade surprised viewers when he claimed to have read Adolf Hitler’s manifesto as part of his high school curriculum.
(Picture: Photo Credit: @trupar/Twitter.)Fox News host Brian Kilmeade surprised viewers when he claimed to have read Adolf Hitler’s manifesto as part of his high school curriculum.
His unexpected admission came in response to General Mark Miley’s congressional testimony, during which the Joint Chiefs of Staff advocated for diversity and inclusion in the Armed Forces.
“I do think it’s important for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read,” Miley said. “I’ve read Mao Tse-tung. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a Communist. So what is wrong with understanding?”
Gen. Mark Milley responds to Rep. Matt Gaetz on Extremism & Critical Race Theory: "I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, non-commissioned officers of being 'woke' or something else." pic.twitter.com/P1x6vg9FUr
— CSPAN (@cspan) June 23, 2021
Kilmeade took issue with the Miley’s perspective, insisting that the General was “totally missing the point.”
“He said, ‘Oh, I read Mao, I read Stalin.’ That has nothing to do with it,” Kilmeade said, before attempting to “one up” the head of the U.S. Military.
Brian Kilmeade claims he read Mein Kampf in school pic.twitter.com/E1kf62Oxrq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 28, 2021
“We read ‘Mein Kampf’ in school. No one thought we were Nazis,” Kilmeade alleged. “That is part of the curriculum. You find out about other things and other insurgencies. We get it. That has nothing to do with critical race theory.”
But Twitter users were quite confused by Kilmeade’s claim, given that Mein Kampf is customarily not assigned in US schools.
😂
— Wendy Jarvis Brennan (@mollyroxit) June 28, 2021
I’m a high school librarian and Mein Kampf is actually very popular for kids to read, but no school I know of has it as part of the curriculum.
Little known fact: Brian Kilmeade attended elementary school in Berlin in 1942.
— REFrankel (@REFrankel) June 28, 2021
Others were simply baffled that he’d go so far as to compare critical race theory to Hitler’s anti-semitic manifesto.
He’s freaking out about critical race theory possibly being in schools and he was taught Hitler’s manifesto?
— Kate Smith (@KateSmithAZ) June 28, 2021
I'm always surprised when a host on Fox claims to read a book, but not really surprised that it would be that one.
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) June 28, 2021
Sure, he might've read that, but the rest of the class was reading The Diary of Anne Frank, as required by the curriculum.
— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) June 28, 2021
However some Twitter said that they actually did read Mein Kampf it in school.
Thats not true. I read it in public high school in upstate New York. PS: Im a progressive and a liberal and Im not scared of any book.
— Dan Lascell (@dlascell) June 28, 2021
“My high school was more than 50% Jewish students and I think it was part of a history course which included the Holocaust,” they continued.
Twitter sleuths have even tweeted at Kilmeade’s alma mater, querying whether or not they truly did read the manifesto as part of the curriculum.
Hi @MassapequaPS,
— Owen Williams 🏴 (@OwsWills) June 28, 2021
Brian Kilmeade is an alumni of yours.
Is it correct that Hitler's Mein Kampf was studied at Massapequa High School in the late 70s/early 80s when Kilmeade was a student, as he states in the video above, please?
Much appreciated.
Indy100 have reached out to Massapequa Public Schools for comment.
