Bye bye, Hume
By John Amato Tuesday Jul 15, 2008 11:00am
Brit Hume, a top anchor and executive with Fox News since the channel was launched 12 years ago, plans to step down at year's end. But he won't disappear entirely...read on
For some comedic relief, read MM's post on Roger Ailes trying to defend FNC as 'fair and balanced' on CSPAN. I watched this at the time and couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Here's a little Hume for you.
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Brit Hume tries to dismiss McCain’s misstatements on the Iran/al Qaeda connections as a “senior moment” for McCain.
Hume: I think it’s probably just a blip, but it was a bigger blip than he wanted or needed at the time.I think the overall impression of the trip was this is a man welcomed by, knowledgeable of and comfortable with foreign leaders across a big part of the globe. But the mistake, nonetheless, raises questions not about his knowledgability—we all kinda believe he has that—the question, perhaps, about his age, which is an issue. You know, the feeling was not that he’s a dope, didn’t know his way around, that he might have had a senior moment there, and I think that’s unfortunate for him. But I think probably the trip was a net plus.
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I will so miss Brit Hume. I am glad I will be able to see him everyday in the grocery store if not on Fox. Frankenberry is my favorite cereal.
One reich wing propagandist down, umpteen to go.
The MsM ivory tower "journalism" factories are churning out more just like him. Mindless automatons programmed to tell the
Nascar Dads and Soccer moms what they want to hear.
Good riddance Shit Spume
Maybe he'll take a job at the white house and follow in Tony Snow's footprints...
... all the way.
What, did he get an offer from the AP?
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
A list of possible replacements:
1. MAnn Coulter
2. Anchor Baby Malkin
3. Billy Krystol
4. Charlie Krauthammer
5. Freddie Barnes
6. Michael Weiner-Savage
7. Michael Reagan
8. Kevin James
9. Ricky man-on-dog Sanatorium
10. Misnomer Morganism
11. A steaming pile of pig feces
What, no pine box?
I dont' call myself "Miss Skeptic" for nothing. I don't believe for one second that Hume is leaving entirely of his own volition. I think he' s proved himself to be Bush and the neocons' main man, the Big Apologist, the Water Carrier for the Cons. And now the Cons are crashing and burning, and I think those who jumped on that wagon are leaving town with the rest (how's that for a bunch of mixed metaphors?) I've heard that O'Reilly may leave after the election also - "retirement" was the word he used. And Hume is going to spend more time with his family - yeah, right. Mark my words, it's all bullshit.
In other news: Bush claims executive privilege for his regime's outing of Valerie Plame.
Surprise, surprise. How many executive privileges claims does this make for this traitor, like a 1000??
top anchorman at fox news is an oxymoron.
Ruthless "The Whiner" People @ 11:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080716/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 8:
I vote for #11, that would represent a substantial improvement over Hume and the other 10 malignant tumors.
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The SouthPark in me cries:
"Does he have ana1 cancer too?"
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"A blip?" Get serious, Hume. If McSame ever said anything that wasn't a symptom of senile dementia, that would be a blip.
It'll be quite hard to miss this fleshy headed, used rubber, pile of shit since I've never watched any of his programs.
miss skeptic @ 10:
And just in time for the election they bring in new faces whose partiality is uncertain, or so they hope we'll believe.
Dr, don't forget :
* Mark Fuhrman
* David Duke
* Dog the Bounty Hunter Chapman
* Steven baldwin
* Gallagher
.......But the mistake, nonetheless, raises questions not about his knowledgability—we all kinda believe he has that—......
How exactly do we kinda believe that McSame has any knowledge of forgeign affairs again ? Is it just because he wants war with every country, or is there some other reason ? If so, I havent seen it.
Another rigtwing idiot that won't be missed!! See ya around douchebag.
Now the entire network has been ex-Humed.
StirFry @ 19:
Gallagher is still alive? hmmmm.
Actually, KKKarl Rove is probably the leading candidate for his replacement.
My favorite Brit Hume moment was when he announced the Scooter Libby convictions with the graphic below him reading, "Scooter Libby Found Not Guilty of Lying to FBI Investigators."
Get your John McCain NOPE T-Shirts & Stickers today!
Hume willl be in charge of the incontinence
And the flatulence
And the Depends
And the Viagra commercials
Just not at the same time.
You know what they say about rats and sinking ships.
Mark @ News Corpse @ 24:
Remember when Hume had a hissy fit on air when there was an unflattering chyron about herr dubyah? In mid sentence, Hume stopped what he was talking about and yelled at the producers to take down the chyron....and the entire studio staff started cheering. This could only happen on Faux.
Ahhhh, Just what the USA needs, a senile old cranky guy who can't tell the difference between seemingly many things, who WAN'T's to be at war and has his finger on the Nuclear button.
Yeah, that's comfortable. ... (((((shiver))))))
Good riddance bozo, maybe now you can get a real job as a Wal Mart greeter.
"But he won't disappear entirely"
Dang! Get my hopes up, then cruelly dash them...
He's moving on to a brisk career in making fire starter briquettes (i.e. he'll write a book).
I can remember when Sh*t Fume was actually a relatively honest news correspondent on ABC. But when Emperor Palpatine Murdoch and Darth Ailes showed him the Dark Side, he gleefully became another talking head lying bastard.
Don't let the door hitya in th' ass on the way out, ya jerk. By the way, did I forget to call you an asshole?
Between the news coming from the USA and the eight straight days of Monsoons and electric storms I'm getting depressed.
Guess I'll head for the bed.
Arrivederci l'America ed ha una buona notte.
ciao
Exotic Blue Lensman @ 18:
I'm afraid working for any of the MSM means one is automatically without credibility. And if they have any to begin with they won't when they leave.
JudyLou @ 30:
Look at it this way, when a neocon leaves anything voluntarily these days there's a fifty fifty chance they're actually dying of cancer.
brit hume... hee hee, i can't keep a straight face even just typing his name
brit hume... the man is a walking punchline
A cynical, smarmy privileged hack. He took the profession of journalism down several notches singlehandedly.
Won't be missed.
Mike the Riverine @ 32:
the differences btwn abc and faux are minimal at best.
but, i hear you... he did have a thimble-full of integrity at one point in his media whore career.
My 4 year old said..
"Good fukin riddence! He is a foul prick.. When does he die Daddy?"
"Soon darling... Soon"
The man looks like he has a rectum for a mouth...and judging from the stuff that usually comes out of it on Faux Newz, the comparison is fitting!
at least he's not dying so no one is forced to have sympathy for him.
Is he retiring officially as an anchor or as a conservative commentator?
And the bigger question: On Fox, is there a difference?
Retiring to become a cabana boy for Rupert
Roger Ailes pulls his hand out of Brit Hume and places him in a suitcase, opens another suitcase and pulls out Charlie McCarthy.
I feel strongly that Glen Beck is the ideal replacement for Brit Hume.
Same ideology, mannerisms, Bias, style in reporting.
GLEN BECK IS MY CHOICE TO REPLACE HUME
"Old soldiers never die, they just fade away..."
I guess he will have to turn in his kneepads for the next guy.
Miserable pretentious GOP pimp. He was the first TV reporter I saw that was able to get his personal politics into his assignments back when he was a reporter at ABC. He went downhill from there. I doubt he would be capable of journalism anymore, since its been decades since he even tried.
As for a replacement: Dick Cheney or Ari Fleischer.
A M F...
Who will take his lying-ass place?
BaScOmBe hearts Lara Logan @ 41:
Don't tell that to my kids..
please
How about this guy to replace Hume?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6OpDGpekkg
He will be back as King Shit of turd island
during the nov elections
OK, Mr. Hume, let's say McCain really was having a senior moment.
I'm sorry, I don't want the next president having senior fucking moments!!!
I want a president who can complete sentences and articulate thoughts and be fucking smart as hell!!!
Is that asking too much?
Although the dork-meister is the saddest man on TV, there was a time before he sold out when he was a decent journalist with potential. Too bad he didn't pursue a path of veracity and honesty, but of course it probably wouldn't have been as lucrative.
Yep, Karl Rove would be a perfect as rep for our state sponsored propaganda outlet.
Brit Hume proving that having a deep voice and talking slow does not make you any less a liar
The loss of Brit Hume is inconsequential for Hume has become totally irrelevant to today's political landscape. His comments are bigoted and racist. His level of complicity with the Bush Administration is clear and he's realizing that when Bush leaves office, it will be fair game to sue EVERY journalist who knowingly spun the lies from pre war intel to Plame to Rove. I suspect that FAUX NEWS will find themselves in such financial straights as well as total irrelevancy that they will be no more as well by year's end.
We can shout hooray when one of the biggest media whores like Hume decides that it's "time to take a leave" which in CYA jargon means "time to get out of Dodge". Maybe he'll join Reich Rove and Dumbo in Paraguay in exile?
Does anyone else think Brit Hume talks and acts like he hasn't taken a shit in about 20 years?
Brit Hume - The people will hold you to your word and your sorry butt will be sued along with all of the other whoring sycophants who knowingly spew propaganda. Anyone say: Class Action??
honuman @ 58:
That's because he looks more like a "human sphincter muscle"!
Is Hume going to [directly] work for Bush now?
lurch has been a walking dead man for years....it's just that nobody ever took his pulse until now.
This propaganda scumbag will be missed...in a good way....by this country. He is stone faced when he spins lies and covers for this inept administration of crime, and he has been a clown for years on this disgusting network of bullshit artists.
I think it's great that he's leaving. I wish they would ALL leave, and then maybe they could be tried for their crimes of leading this country into an illegal war with the horse's ass in the White House and his cronies.
Good riddance.
Don't let the door knob hit you in the ass on your way out stupid.
Nada @ 35:
Or they are being outed for being a self hating homosexual. In Brittany's case, I hope it's both.
Roast in pieces Brittany. I pray to the great spaghetti monster in the sky that KKKristal is next.
Brit Hume is a nauseating pseudo-human being with absolutely no integrity.
JR @ 61:
I thought that was Dick's job.
bshock @ 16:
And then Hume said, with a funny grin on his face like he was laughing on the inside, "the trip was a net plus". Sounded like the whole excursion was a "blip".
It's about time the Mother Ship returned and retrieved his sorry ass.
miss skeptic @ 10:
I love a good conspiracy but what exactly are you saying? That FOX news is suddenly having an epiphany and is quietly getting rid of all its talentless hacks? Who is going to be left? I wish it were true that somehow the Neocons were crashing and burning and that now that they realize they've been wrong about absolutely everything they will all leave town in disgrace. I don't think so though. Remember FOX really gained ascendency during the Clinton years, spewing out one lie and BS non-story after another. If Obama is elected I expect you ain't seen nothing yet. Suddenly the neocons will wake up to the fact that we have an out of control deficit, an over extended military, a crumbling infrastructure and economy, and it will all be the fault of Obama and the dems when they don't fix it after being in power for a month.
Hume is a prick both on the air and off. I shared a bus ride with him across an airstrip in Kiev during a Clinton overseas swing through prague and points east. It was very late 2-3 AM and the drive to the press plane was a long one and it was, of course, cold. Everybody was quiet and tired, not Hume. He spent the majority of the 15 minute bus ride berating the poor bus driver for not going faster, accused him of being lost, laughed at him and made fun of the guy's country. What a jerk and good riddance.
Good riddance indeed. Too bad he'll still be on the air part-time.
BFD, he'll just be replaced by some NILF...
NILF?
NILF = No one I would Like to F**K
Remember the 60's cartoon "milton the monster".. (ABC ironically)..Brit kinda reminds me of ol' Milton...
But saying so is an Insult to Milton himself!
There's just gotta be a Ted Baxter type out there to replace this Ted Baxter type anchor.
He's actually leaving........
to become McCain's VP!!
Floridiot @ 4:
I don't need to add anything more. Thanks. My sentiments exxxactly.
outside it's america @ 70:
Why am I not surprised by this story?
I see Americans do that all the time, here in Korea. If they get angry they start up with, "We saved your motherfucking asses, now give me this parking space... " etc....
I was really disappointed at NPR's coverage of this yesterday. I think it was Robt. Siegel who discussed Hume's purported ability to report the news straight and not inject his own opinions (when on the "news"/ not opinion desk) on Faux!, his "razor sharp wit" and "skepticism of all things liberal".
Just disgusting "tribute" to an openly racist, hate-filled, lying scumbag. Much like the Washington insider pols who think FISA Telco immunity and the Iraq carnage are wonderful ideas, the national press corps seems to be an "old boys' club" (well, a few "girls" like Mrs. Greenspan are let in) who scratch each others' backs & piss on the rest of us (aka "the reality-based community").
He always reminded me of an old tape-playing walkman when the batteries were just about dead.
Hey Hume, SPIN ON THIS!!!!!
good riddance to that lickspittle dickwad.
One morose motherf**ker.
So Brit "I love my dead gay son!" Hume is leaving eh? Probably taken a desk job at Blackwater.
Hume epitomizes the sanctimonious, condescending, asshole arrogance that is the archetype of the republican party.
Let me just say, good riddance.
Good riddance
Good Riddance
GOOD RIDDANCE!
miss skeptic @ 10:
I wish the Dems would realize the fascists are typical bullies. In other words, gutless pimps. The only way to deal with them is to confront the assholes. Smash them, take them on. I guarantee they will put their tail between their legs and scurry off like the cowards they are. Hume, like the rest of his ilk, is a prime example, he is only a bit ahead of the curve.
A dream I dreamt...Jerry Falwell, Jesse Helms, Tony Snow, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Brit Hume...
Alas! But only a dream.
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