No Doubt: Brian Kilmeade Says 'Mein Kampf' Was Part Of His High School Curriculum
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Fox News host Brian Kilmeade left many people slack-jawed when he claimed on “Fox & Friends” Monday that he read Adolf Hitler’s notorious manifesto “Mein Kampf” as part of his high school curriculum.
He was apparently trying to keep up with Gen. Mark Milley, who said during congressional testimony last week that he believed members of the armed forces should be “open minded,” “widely read” and educated about issues, including critical race theory.
“I’ve read Mao Tse-tung. I’ve read Karl Marx. I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist,” explained Milley, who chairs the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “What is wrong with understanding?”
Kilmeade said he thought Miley “totally missed the point.”
“He said, ‘Oh, I read Mao, I read Stalin.’ That has nothing to do with it,” Kilmeade insisted.
“We read ‘Mein Kampf’ in school. No one thought we were Nazis,” said Kilmeade. “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.”
Critics on Twitter weren’t buying Kilmeade’s story about reading Hitler’s notorious anti-Semitic, world-domination screed as part of any public high school curriculum in America. Even guest Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) seemed to suppress a smile when Kilmeade made the outlandish claim.
Aaron Rupar
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Brian Kilmeade claims he read Mein Kampf in schoolLink to tweet
(And the tweets follow at the jump)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brian-kilmeade-hitler-mein-kampf-fox-and-firends-milley_n_60da9f8ce4b0360565caca1f
Probably the first truthful thing that he'd said in a while, but I think he's confusing school with his home life.
No Doubt -- 100% he read it though. Probably placed a copy on his night table like TFG.
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..."Mein Kampf" in high school. There was an addendum list. The world history book was the only "required" reading. Plus, I think we had to select books for book reports. We did discuss Hitler's book in class, but it was not required. The school library had the supplemental books. It was a bore, so I did skim through some of it... he was a dull writer. I don't think anyone did their book report on Hitler's book. We did have to report to the class.
Where would he have even gotten a copy? Assuming his high school years were pre-Amazon... I don't recall Barnes&Noble or my local independent bookstore stocking it at all, and definitely not in the area they put books from the local schools' booklists. Maybe there was more demand for it in his neighborhood... 
Brian Kilmeade is full of shit.
