On Tuesday's broadcast of Newsmax TV's "Rob Schmitt Tonight," Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) denounced affirmative action by arguing that it's "a demeaning process" that says "we do not have the intelligence to be part of this process, meritocracy, so we're going to give you a 50-yard head start. And, at some point, it begins to wear down in terms of the confidence people have in themselves" and denounced the message sent by only applying affirmative action to academia, but not other areas like physical ability.