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FOX News Sunday: Brit Hume Says Republicans Aren't Populists

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Mike Huckabee's populist rhetoric, which is scoring big with voters, has the punditocracy on FOXNews in a tizzy. How can you scorn Democrats for missing the boat if the leading candidate in your party is talking about the little guy too? Brit Hume issues the warning shot across the bow to Huckabee:

This is a party that if you’re going to be a populist, you better be for a lot of things that say, Ronald Reagan was for. You better be in favor of a lot of the…you don’t want to be a candidate associated with possible tax increases, policies that would require increased regulation and so on down the line. You can’t…I don’t think the anti-corporate message…it isn’t even selling very well in the Democratic party and I certainly don’t think it’s going to sell in the Republican party.



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BECAUSE IT IS NEVER "FOX - NEWS!"

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What IS that word that Brit rhymes with? I can't quite put my finger on it.

Brit Hume illustrates why McDonald's always has its tv's set to Fox News...

Huckabee and Paul are their worst nightmares. It's fun watching Faux run scared.

Brit! Reagan is DEAD. Get over it and allow candidates to be whatever they are.

D E A D. Say it again. Reagan is Dead.

Let's remember how much they "value the constitution":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJGIq1ibNm0

Brit Hume: consistently wrong about absolutely everything for the last 7 years.

hey, britt, just squat down with your mouth open wide under the bush/cheney
butt kissing dough hole and take your daily dose. no need to use that big spoon anymore.

FOX is State Sponsored TV

Looks like they ran out of words to say at Fox. It's now meaningless spam words from these lazy propagandists.

Yes! Reagan is dead. But so is Hume. He just doesn't know it yet! Like the rest of Faux Opinion Network who can't recognize the smell of death for what it is, Hume goes along with the same tired Republic BS that they have been pushing since their lil' god Reagan brought them to life with his neo-facist policies. More than eight years of Republic rule has virtually destroyed this country and these asswipes are too stupid (or brain dead) to notice.

Brit Hume should do PSA's on the dangers of drinking Kool-aid.

He would be the "after" picture above a caption that says:

"This is your brain. This is your brain on Kool-aid. Any questions?"

"... you better be for a lot of things that say, Ronald Reagan was for."

KETCHUP is a VEGETABLE! yea!

IMO, Hume touches on the core issue for both Right and Left: anti-corporate sentiment.

Thr Right loathes the Left, and vice versa. Each is distracted by the other.

Meanwhile, huge corporations rape the planet, screw the people, and rake in billions.

The Right and Left are like two dogs that have been put into an enclosure to fight. Each dog regards the other as the enemy. The dogs' real enemies, of course, are those who put them in that position.

Er, ok. But who cares what that partisan hack, that corporate stooge has to say?

Hopefully the Evangelicals are seeing Republicans for who they are.
I welcome Evangelicals to my Democratic party. Maybe then we can have a REAL debate about the value of life without burning down clinics and criminalizing women and thier vaginas.

kablooie @ 2:

Brit Hume illustrates why McDonald's always has its tv's set to Fox News...

I didn't know that. But then again, it's been almost 2 decades since I was last in a McDonald's, I'm in SoCal and there are so many choices for fast food I don't know why anyone would pick McDonald's. :(

With comments like McCains this morning on MTP I wonder why....Duh!

When Russett got onto the subject of staying in Iraq for 100 years my blood began to boil. St. McCain said, well we’ve been in Japan for sixty years and have bases all around the world. My question has been and still is, why are we in Japan, Germany and other countries when they don’t have bases in our country? What purpose does it serve draining our dollars from being put to better use here in America? This is exactly the point Ron Paul made yesterday while the rest of his fellow R’pubs snickered and made faces.
Why throw billions away if not trillions over the years into countries acting as the worlds policeman? Just doesn’t make sense, when those dollars could be put to better use here at home in areas like education and rebuiding a crumbling infrastructure.
But as usual, the MSM never really gets around to asking anything other than soft ball questions and not holding a politicians feet to the fire.

Brit says that most republicans are doing well. What about the rest of the country Brit? Another play on words. 70% of the country say that we aqre headed in the wrong direction.

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
-- Thomas Jefferson

"We hold it to be a prime duty of the people to free our government from the control of money."
--Theodore Roosevelt

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I don't get the impression anyone has ever paid much attention to the anti-corporatist message. Sadly, Hume needn't worry that anyone will pay attention now.

I honestly don't know how these Fixed News Lackies can look at themselves in the mirror in the morning.Its just pathetic,this constant diet of mis-info-tainment.

SadButTrue @ 18:

“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”
-- Thomas Jefferson

"We hold it to be a prime duty of the people to free our government from the control of money."
--Theodore Roosevelt

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group.”
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I don't get the impression anyone has ever paid much attention to the anti-corporatist message. Sadly, Hume needn't worry that anyone will pay attention now.

One can always hope that the American electorate will wake up from its coma and take back its government.

Fox News Corporation really doesnt like a populist message

"how can people profit from a war if we dont have one?"

He wasn't able to say what Republicans are actually *for* but only what they shouldn't be for. Typical of a party with no new ideas or anything worthwhile to offer voters.

"Why throw billions away if not trillions over the years into countries acting as the worlds policeman?"

"Trillions".

I'm no fan of Fox News for sure but Hume might be right about one thing when it comes to Huckabee. His elimination of all taxes and replacing them with a flat tax on all goods we buy could lead to a HUGE tax increase. Imagine a 25% to 30% or more flat tax added onto your favorite soda you just bought at 7-11. Then imagine what your grocery or department store purchases would look like.

Yeah, "Let's stay in Iraq for 1000 years" doesn't really have a populist ring, Brit.

Busted! I admit I've taken the toddler to McDonald's for the quickie pancake breakfast, ever since I found out they sell that iced hazelnut coffee (addictive substance.)

How anyone could try to make a case against populism after seeing the numbers in Iowa is bizarrely sad.

Well see, Hume. May I call you Hume? Huck is a friend of Jesus so maybe he's thinking about what would Jesus do instead of what would an asshole Republican do.

Joe O. @ 24:

I'm no fan of Fox News for sure but Hume might be right about one thing when it comes to Huckabee. His elimination of all taxes and replacing them with a flat tax on all goods we buy could lead to a HUGE tax increase. Imagine a 25% to 30% or more flat tax added onto your favorite soda you just bought at 7-11. Then imagine what your grocery or department store purchases would look like.

A flat tax is a terrible idea.Of course Hume wants to keep the Status Quo:regressive taxation.

Fox News has a problem...so they can't admit that millions of their watchers that they view as Repug might not be little guy at Nascar that is unemployed with no health insurance and facing losing his house ?( The Numbers of Disenfranchised under Bush has swelled massively)....WHO of the Repug Candidates Can that guy Vote for ?
WHO ? Willard ? nope.....
Freddy? nope....
Rudy ? nope.....
WHO.....there is no one else addressing their needs...
( and guess what some of them are even..gasp...looking at Obama...and they call in early in the morning to cspan....)

Fox's Reagon Train is off the Tracks....

Insane McCain: ten more years in Iraq? One hundred more years in Iraq? One thousand more years in Iraq? One million more years in Iraq? Of course, this is coming out of the mouth of He who said, "Bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran..."

Get a clue Brit. Whomever the next president turns out to be,regardless of party, gender or race, one thing is certain
the government needs more money. Read my lips, taxes will be raised because there is no way to begin to pay down the national debt and continue to fund the existing government programs without generating more revenue.
If any candidate from either party tells you that they won't raise taxes, you know that they are lying.
The current fiscal peril facing this country is largely the result of a war that should not have been fought combined with tax give aways that should never have been approved.
The average person in this country knows this, and it is pretty certain that all but the dumbest politicians(George Bush, Rudy, and Mitt) know it as well, but fear to say it because it tends to turn off the electorate.(Walter Mondale)
It's not bad enough Brit that you don't know the story, you don't even know the questions to ask to get the whole story.
As usual, if it's Fox it's fu--ed!

Maybe the Huckabee surge is due to the Republican party getting down to its murky dregs, the percenters who (like Huckabee) reject science (including evolution).

Consider why Huckabee was Governor in ARKANSAS and ask yourself: Could this man have gotten elected Governor anywhere else BUT Arkansas?

POP #27....I loved what you wrote.....tooo funny.....may we need Someone to show up Repug events and ask What would Jesus Do ?

pissed off patricia @ 27:

Well see, Hume. May I call you Hume? Huck is a friend of Jesus so maybe he's thinking about what would Jesus do instead of what would an asshole Republican do.

:)

The Huckabeast got this funny notion that Bush was SERIOUS about this "Compassionate Conservatism" angle.Now he's gonna have to be put down hard.

"You had better not be for tax increases," presumes Hume, after which he leaves the Fox station in his chauffered limousine, heads home to his palatial spread, sips his top-shelf liquor, gets out of his custom-tailored business suit, and surveys his opulent surroundings, all of which were made more affordable by his Bush-inspired tax reduction.

So in touch with the masses...

If the neo-cons were in charge during the second world war America would have gone bankrupt and we'd be singing the praises of Hitler in school. The fact is conservatives are lazy and selfish. Huckabee raised taxes and improved the schools in Arkansas. That pissed of conservatives who want to shut down the schools just to continue their class war and end the Middle Class and cripple the poor.

coffeequeen @ 35:

"You had better not be for tax increases," presumes Hume, after which he leaves the Fox station in his chauffered limousine, heads home to his palatial spread, sips his top-shelf liquor, gets out of his custom-tailored business suit, and surveys his opulent surroundings, all of which were made more affordable by his Bush-inspired tax reduction.

So in touch with the masses...

Him and Lou Dobbs the "populist".

Republicans are Reaganists.

Reagan is dead.

Poor Brit. A partisan hack without a party.

Brit is suffering from pudicratis insignificas.

The Iowa Caucus shot the status quo squarely in the heart (forget about across the bow) that told EVERYONE who is not in total denial, that the one thing that ALL voters agree on, is that it is time from a change from the corporatocracy that has taken over OUR government.

Brit Hume may think he is talking to Mike Huckabee, but who he is really talking to is the voters who voted FOR Mike Huckabee. The VOTERS want change!!!! ALL VOTERS. REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ALIKE!!!! Brit and the other pundits are soooooo wrong when they say this anti corporate message isn't selling. It is exactly what is selling. People are tired of the corporatists and they want the out of OUR government.

THE PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING OUT AND IN BOTH PARTIES WANT ALL OF YOU GUYS OUT!!!!! THE GREAT SLEEPING GIANT THAT IS MIDDLE AMERICA HAS BEEN AWAKENED.

We should start seeing some heads exploding like in 'Scanners' soon.

Ronald Reagen is dead just like FoxNoise and Fume. The voters want something new not the past.

Twit Hume is a studdering, bumbling, Reslug idiot with the biggest wart on his Herman Munster face.

It's pretty sad when you have to result to humping Reagan's ghost as a role model. Any guy who legislates by astrology, sleeps through cabinet meetings, and calls his wife "Mommy" is not getting my vote. Reagan started this shit. Reagan was the first photogenic, corporate Republican TOOL. He set the idiot precedent that gave us our current Moron in Chief.

Populism. Also known as: "liberty and justice for all." It's not a fad, Brit. You stupid shill.

In a related item from Think Progress it seems that the memo has been distributed at FOX - democracy is out, bashing populism is in. The will of the people has been replaced by the will of one withered up ultrarich Australian.

Why would Hume think that the takeover of America by the corporations is a good thing. It's Fascism stupid.

katy @ 11:

"... you better be for a lot of things that say, Ronald Reagan was for."

KETCHUP is a VEGETABLE! yea!

Most pollution is caused by cow farts.

I like the part where Hume puts down McCain for being "smug" and such. Hume is very consistent on this point. He always puts down politicians who are smug or arrogant. And consistency in a pundit is key.

pc @ 4:

Brit! Reagan is DEAD. Get over it and allow candidates to be whatever they are.

D E A D. Say it again. Reagan is Dead.

your sure about that? the great inumerator er communicator is dead? my god when did this happen? dead as in stopped breathing no more tephlon donisim , the man who single handed defeated russia the man who personally took a bull dozer and tore down the berlin wall, the first cut and run republican that ran screaming with the marines comeing behind him from lebannon , the man who traded arms for hostages , the republican god who helped destry americas unions , the man who proved all americans bennifited from trickle down tax cuts the man who even with alzhiners was able to lift his head off his desk in the oval office long enough to keep his deadender repub dolts alive long enough to become the bush enabelers , my god the ledgend is dead!

JTM @ 49:

I like the part where Hume puts down McCain for being "smug" and such. Hume is very consistent on this point. He always puts down politicians who are smug or arrogant. And consistency in a pundit is key.

JTM @ 49:

I like the part where Hume puts down McCain for being "smug" and such. Hume is very consistent on this point. He always puts down politicians who are smug or arrogant. And consistency in a pundit is key.

Nice sarcasm. You are joking right?

The hypocricy of Hume calling someone else smug is priceless.

I don’t think the anti-corporate message…it isn’t even selling very well in the Democratic party and I certainly don’t think it’s going to sell in the Republican party.

That's right .. Huckabee nor Edwards nor Obama seem to be doing at all well ..

/snark

When I saw James Webb -- with his Progressive Populist message -- win the Senate seat in Virginia, I knew Populism was on the rise in this country.

And after all that's the MAJOR political battle in BOTH parties -- Populists vs Corporatists.

The old labels (Liberal v Conservative, Democrat v Republican) are rather meaningless by comparison to Populist v Corporatist.

Then there's the issue of Right Wing Demagogic Populist VS Progressive Populist.

Which is precisely the confrontation we're seeing now between the front runners in the two parties.

Could get real interesting .. hope no one gets shot .. the Corporatists play real dirty.

The anchors on Faux News are are in a tizzy. I don"t understand why the average American can support these idiots. These anchors earn a lot of money spewing this garbage. The average worker deserves job security and insurance. That is why they are terrified of Huckabee and to some degree Ron Paul. Anybody who is not for big business is to be skewered. I just hope the people who watch Faux News wise up and for once do the right thing that will benefit ALL Americans.

Here's what Patty Davis had to say about the current crop of republics running for office:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/82384

Ouch.

Can we start calling them "publicans"?

I love the way war-mongers like Guiliani repeatedly invoke the name Reagan as their godlike hero.

Say, that wouldn't be the same Reagan who CUT AND RUN from Beirut after Islamic Jihadist Terrorists attacked U.S. Marines, would it?

Too bad debate moderators are too lazy and feeble-minded to call them on it.

Brit Hume is the p[icture perfect caricature of a GOP programmed informationbot running until it is programmed to turn off.

Here is some help Brit, this is what the Republicans have been for the past 7 years, a compelete description. And the first one is debatable and under review:

Superficial charm and good "intelligence"
Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking
Absence of "nervousness" or psychoneurotic manifestations
Unreliability
Untruthfulness and insincerity
Lack of remorse and shame
Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience
Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love
General poverty in major affective reactions
Specific loss of insight
Unresponsiveness in general interpersonal relations
Fantastic and uninviting behavior with drink and sometimes without
Suicide rarely carried out
Sex life impersonal, trivial, and poorly integrated
Failure to follow any life plan

pc @ 4:

Brit! Reagan is DEAD. Get over it and allow candidates to be whatever they are.

D E A D. Say it again. Reagan is Dead.

That won't stop hardcore wingnut propagandists like Britt's Fumes from digging up THE GIPPER'S corpse [deleted -- OTT]!

Well I'll be delighted to see a Democratic president elected, and to see Fox "News" and Brit Hume fade into complete irrelevance. I'm sure they see it too, and it scares the crap out of them.

Considering Humes track record he's a natural for the Anchor spot over on the Fox Business Network. The man's a joke but at least on FoxBizNet... no one will be watching.

Show the adult(s) in your life you love them... use parental control and lockout all FOXNews (sic) programing.

repubs hate everyone that isn't a trust fund baby or employed by the Clear Channel. Newscorp and Salem Radio Network axis of gilded age evil

i think before to much more time has past that every republican should gather at regans crypt!!!!!!!!and nancy should raise the crypt lid and reverently allow each republican to sniff in the essence of ronald regan!!!!!!!im sure that many who worked for ronny will proclaim that he smells the same as he did while alive, and by god he hasnt aged a day , still looks good for his age!

i want Huckabee to continue to perform well just to scorn Fox and Friends. South Carolina, make Huckabee win please

"You can’t…I don’t think the anti-corporate message…it isn’t even selling very well in the Democratic party and I certainly don’t think it’s going to sell in the Republican party." -Hume

How can you "sell" it if the MSM won't "advertise" it.

Edwards who?

Duh.

You know how to increase taxes without increasing taxes?

You give incentives and deep tax cuts to the top 1% so that the bulk of financial responsibility shifts further to the middle class. Viola! Bait and switch!

Just wish the small folks who vote for 'Reaganites' understood this simple carnival act...

FOX News Sunday: Brit Hume Says Republicans Aren’t Populists

That's a news flash.

:P

VietVet8666 @ 12:

IMO, Hume touches on the core issue for both Right and Left: anti-corporate sentiment.

Thr Right loathes the Left, and vice versa. Each is distracted by the other.

Meanwhile, huge corporations rape the planet, screw the people, and rake in billions.

The Right and Left are like two dogs that have been put into an enclosure to fight. Each dog regards the other as the enemy. The dogs' real enemies, of course, are those who put them in that position.

Um, but the right are complicit - allies of the corporations - hence Fox crying about their base selecting Huckabee and Paul over Thompson (Reagan 2) and Giuliani.

The left RECOGNIZES that corporations are the enemy of our democracy.

Keep nailing that coffin shut, Brit. Ronald Reagan is dead!
And his policies of 20+ years have been an abject failure.
Keep going down that road Brit and nothing will be left of your party. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Brit Hume is so right. Repubs don't care about the general population. Their concern is for their elite Repub supporters. Cut taxes. Cut estate (death, they call it) taxes. Cut capital gains taxes. Just who does that benefit?

Has anyone read George McGovern's letter today (Washington Post) calling for the impeachment of Bush & Cheney?

3 points:

1. Asshat Hume (certainly no distance offspring of the thinking Hume) forgets all those trailerpark Christians the GOP scared into voting the big R ticket...

2. Corporate America now equals Fascist America.

3. Ronnie Raygun was merely playing a populist guy...it was his VP (former CIA chief and our current loser's father) ran the show and screwed over this country (Little Dick was not the first VP to run the country).

FOX is State Sponsored TV @ 15:

Hopefully the Evangelicals are seeing Republicans for who they are.
I welcome Evangelicals to my Democratic party. Maybe then we can have a REAL debate about the value of life without burning down clinics and criminalizing women and thier vaginas.

Sounds like a campaign issue "decriminalize vaginas!". Sounds much better than pro-choice which frames the debate.

Think about how this message is playing with Evangelicals.

Just a few short weeks ago, the punditocracy and the GOP establishment repeated over and over how Romney's mormonism shouldn't matter. Now they're saying Huckabee's populism makes him unacceptable.

They're saying very plainly that their only real priority is the corporate agenda and serving the super-wealthy, and that the whole evangelical thing is just meaningless frosting. Evangelicals are hearing he message loud and clear. It's only going to get worse for the GOP.

Huck the Populists' campaign manager was on the tube this morning singin' the praises of all the progress made during Huck's tenure as Govenator. It doesn't hurt when your starting point is a competition for dead last in everything with Ole Mississip' and 'Bammy, with Walmart Corp. right around the corner, and with all those Yankee tax dollars pourin' in.

Right wing pundits are from Uranus. They’re definitely not from this planet.

Brit Hume and Fux speak for neocons not real republicans or conservatives. Obviously the huge Huckabee win is worrying these imperialist monsters at Fux Noise. Pass the popcorn, this is getting good.

The schism is widening between the theocrats and oligarchs. Neoconservatives have created a monster they can no longer control. Despite Hume's dire predicitions. ( And WHEN have ANY of them ever been right? )

Brit Hume is what death looks like.

"This is a party that if you’re going to be a populist, you better be for a lot of things that say, Ronald Reagan was for. You better be in favor of a lot of the…you don’t want to be a candidate associated with possible tax increases, policies that would require increased regulation and so on down the line. You can’t…I don’t think the anti-corporate message…it isn’t even selling very well in the Democratic party and I certainly don’t think it’s going to sell in the Republican party."
I say nice try, but it seems as though people are waking up and the Fox candidates for each party are out. Keep it up and maybe there'll be a revival of that spirit that so many founders had while inking that experiment called the U.s. constitution. I don't think they were the big earners and spenders of the same ilk we've been force fed today. Royals Stink about it.

pinkobait @ 29:

Joe O. @ 24:

I'm no fan of Fox News for sure but Hume might be right about one thing when it comes to Huckabee. His elimination of all taxes and replacing them with a flat tax on all goods we buy could lead to a HUGE tax increase. Imagine a 25% to 30% or more flat tax added onto your favorite soda you just bought at 7-11. Then imagine what your grocery or department store purchases would look like.

A flat tax is a terrible idea.Of course Hume wants to keep the Status Quo:regressive taxation.

If there were a flat tax on consumer goods, there would be an immediate drop of 25-30% on all goods because the store/distributor/manufacturer/wholesaler would not be paying corporate, and individual taxes to bring those goods to market.

I love to see Fox News on the run... The Republican party as a whole is in a very interesting place right now... They can't seem to get behind any one candidate and I really don't think they will be settling on a candidate any time soon which is why I think Ron Paul will be going the distance.

FreeDUMB @ 77:

The schism is widening between the theocrats and oligarchs. Neoconservatives have created a monster they can no longer control. Despite Hume's dire predicitions. ( And WHEN have ANY of them ever been right? )

That's so true. The neoconservatives have been using the bible beaters to get elected and now those bible beaters want to run things for themselves. It's quite funny really.

I wish someone like Rachel Maddow were setting in Juan Williams chair, she would be taking cuts at those big fat pitches that Hume was serving up.

No, republicans are not populists.

But they are swindlers, liars, war profiteers, cheaters, military cowards, haters of the middle class, smear mongers, phony religious frauds, election stealers/riggers, military destroyers, torture lovers, and destroyers of our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

And let's not forget the male republicans' fondness for boys or big burly men. You remember: the Grand Old (accent on Old) Perv party? Admitting you're a man republican is--wink wink--too often code for "Show me yours and I'll show you mine."

But populists? Eeee-oooo, how disgusting!

Bush won by being populist with the religious right,
I find it ironic that now Huckabee being populist all the way is get chastised by the Right

LOL

listening to these pundits is like listening to junior high school kids predict whos gonna go out with who

"You can’t…I don’t think the anti-corporate message…it isn’t even selling very well in the Democratic party and I certainly don’t think it’s going to sell in the Republican party."

Nothing quite like someone going on TV and LYING to the viewers is there.....right Brit?

I remember Ronald Reagan as the host of Death Valley Days that was sponsored by 20 Mule Team Borax and have come to think of the current Republican party as the 20 jackasses that were pulling the borax wagons. While the power team was actually 18 mules lead by two horses I can think of Bush and Cheney as the two horses that lead the mules which translates to the current jackass Republicans blindly following two horses' asses through Death Valley.

We are counting the day's that ALL of these people are out of office. We cannot allow any of these people to fool us into electing them to the white house.

ALL REPUBLICANS NEED TO GO

Brit not only looks like Frankenstien but is a walking commercial for bad breath.

GWB got elected twice by being able to convince poor and middle class folks (like NASCAR DAD's) that voting for him was somehow in their self interest. I think that game is up now, especially now that national security is no longer the glue that can hold that whole coalition together. Huckabee won't do well in wealthy NH, but I think he's going to get the nomination by dominating in the south.

bob @ 2:

What IS that word that Brit rhymes with? I can't quite put my finger on it.

I wouldn't mind getting my finger on or in Eckland.

Lollimom @ 84:

No, republicans are not populists.

But they are swindlers, liars, war profiteers, cheaters, military cowards, haters of the middle class, smear mongers, phony religious frauds, election stealers/riggers, military destroyers, torture lovers, and destroyers of our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

...

The republicans can't be populists? The current batch of republicans consist of a small core of sycophantic puppets controlled by the top one percent and they currently control just about everything.

Populists scare the shit out of them... If the rest of us got some of what we deserve it would cost the greedy pigs a small piece of what they consider their exclusive pie.

Hume could be most threatening if he wished his hair-don't on Huckleberry, or secretly gets his personal mortician hired on in the Huckleberry campaign's makeup department.

Gerald @ 72:

FOX is State Sponsored TV @ 15:

Hopefully the Evangelicals are seeing Republicans for who they are.
I welcome Evangelicals to my Democratic party. Maybe then we can have a REAL debate about the value of life without burning down clinics and criminalizing women and thier vaginas.

Sounds like a campaign issue "decriminalize vaginas!". Sounds much better than pro-choice which frames the debate.

If ya'll wanna read an interesting article on the biological nature of most religious experiences, there was an article in the magazine Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1996, 83, 1107-1121 entitled "Feelings of Past Lives as Expected Perturbations Within the Neurocognitive Processes that Generate the Sense of Self: Contributions from Limbic Lability and Vectorial Hemisphericity."

It helps to have a few drinks first.

I must also personally vomit time and time again when I hear Ronald Reagan being hailed as some great leader of the 21st century. That is so far removed from fact that it can't be detected even by the Hubble space telescope. These guys had better stop smoking that bad homegrown shake laced with Diazinon.

Brit is correct, the regressive Republicans aren't populists, they're corporatists.

Hume is one of the worst of the worst...tries to suggest Romney is some sort of dark horse, positing someone else as a clear front-runner...who? Giuliani? You're funny. McCain...maybe in NH. Huck? No. And really, what does Brit Hume know about the heartland? He ain't poor. He ain't needing for anything since he sold his soul to to the Fascist branch of the Republican party. Hume will rot in the hottest of hot places in hell, with three heaters on and the door locked, at some point.

The opposite of populism is elitism.

How these people have managed to convince anyone-- even idiot Limbotomy patients-- that they are simultaneously against populism and "liberal elites" is beyond me.

pc @ 5:

Brit! Reagan is DEAD. Get over it and allow candidates to be whatever they are.

D E A D. Say it again. Reagan is Dead.

very true. and a racist as well. and so were the people who helped put him into office brit. the southern strategy won't work this time and the gopcons are scared britless.

kravitz @ 100:

pc @ 5:

Brit! Reagan is DEAD. Get over it and allow candidates to be whatever they are.

D E A D. Say it again. Reagan is Dead.

very true. and a racist as well. and so were the people who helped put him into office brit. the southern strategy won't work this time and the gopcons are scared britless.

In all honesty, he was dead while he was still in office. I never understood the fondness for that boob.

So if I understand Brit correctly - and I'm sure I don't - the bottom 99% of the country is disappointed that Huckabee and Edwards are actually attempting to speak for them. They usually don't go for that whole "you exist" thing.

How does Brit Hume know what is working among Democrats? Does he even know any Dems? I don't know any Dems who would admit to knowing him.

Ron Paul For Freedom @ 82:

FreeDUMB @ 77:

The schism is widening between the theocrats and oligarchs. Neoconservatives have created a monster they can no longer control. Despite Hume's dire predicitions. ( And WHEN have ANY of them ever been right? )

That's so true. The neoconservatives have been using the bible beaters to get elected and now those bible beaters want to run things for themselves. It's quite funny really.

Kind of reminds me of the last page of "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. The pigs had taken over the farm and now were living in the farmer's house and wearing the farmer's clothes and walking upright. And you couldn't tell the difference between the pigs and the farmer. Welcome to you reap what you sew.

This turd exemplifies everything that is repug. Just a dead wart on the butt of a pig. Seriously, anyone who looks up to this hume turd as a "role model" or "hero" is seriously mentally challenged.

"…you don’t want to be a candidate associated with possible tax increases, policies that would require increased regulation and so on down the line. You can’t…I don’t think the anti-corporate message…it isn’t even selling very well in the Democratic party and I certainly don’t think it’s going to sell in the Republican party."

That's the message Big Corporation wants everyone to keep believing...

Kathy in St. louis @ 104:

Ron Paul For Freedom @ 82:

FreeDUMB @ 77:

The schism is widening between the theocrats and oligarchs. Neoconservatives have created a monster they can no longer control. Despite Hume's dire predicitions. ( And WHEN have ANY of them ever been right? )

That's so true. The neoconservatives have been using the bible beaters to get elected and now those bible beaters want to run things for themselves. It's quite funny really.

Kind of reminds me of the last page of "Animal Farm" by George Orwell. The pigs had taken over the farm and now were living in the farmer's house and wearing the farmer's clothes and walking upright. And you couldn't tell the difference between the pigs and the farmer. Welcome to you reap what you sew.

A good reason to never cast your lot with swine.

So sad. Hume was a journalist once. How far they fall.

I agree with Brit, Reagan was no populist but he...
he cut and ran in Beirut, over 200 marines were kliied
he traded arms for hostages with a terrorist state,lied about it covered up
and made poor Ollie North a contributor on Fox news.

kablooie @ 3:

Brit Hume illustrates why McDonald's always has its tv's set to Fox News...

Wow! Are you in San Diego? I've been to two McDonalds' in this area and noticed that both had their TV set on Fox News all the time. I asked if they could change the channel and they said they couldn't (need to catapult the propaganda, I guess). It was so irritating that I just stopped going there at all (although I avoid fast food in general). Weird to hear someone else has noticed that.

This is the bag of repiglican shit that sniffed after horrible bombings in the london train stations 'this will be a good day to invest' .......... repiglicans are essentially hemmroids on the asshole of lucifer itself .. a good dose of preparation h on all of them will solve our countries problems ..

Populism: a belief in the right, wisdom and virtue of the common people to exercise sovereignty over the affairs of government.

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