WARNING: Stay away from Brit Hume when he's holding a carton of orange juice
By John Amato Monday Jul 21, 2008 2:15pm
Warning! Warning! "Danger, Will Robinson!" Beware Brit Hume when he gets a bit snippy.
Unfortunately, to many in the industry, his quiet patina masks a nasty streak. "He drips with sarcasm and self-importance," claims a former senior producer at Larry King Live who dealt with Hume in the past. "He used to be a class act, but he got toxic real fast after drinking too much of the Fox Kool-Aid." And while Hume is a model of restraint on air (some might call him smug), frequent outbursts behind the scenes have done little to endear him to his younger staffers. "There was one meeting a few years back when he got so pissed off he threw a full carton of orange juice across the room," says a onetime researcher who is now out of the business altogether. "He can be incredibly snippy and dismissive if you don't do things his way."
Does Kool-Aide and orange juice mix? Must be a new cocktail served up by Ailes. If only we had a video clip of that. Wasn't there video of another FOX host losing it? O'Reilly Gone Wild: F-bombs on camera.
O’Reilly: I can’t do it. We’ll do it live, we’ll do it live, f&^k it…..f*&king thing sucks…
Digby was impressed with Tucker Carlson of all people:
I particularly like Tucker Carlson saying "most people in cable news are assholes. If they're not assholes, they have dysfunctional sex lives. But they're usually assholes." I mean, self awareness is always a very rare commodity among television personalities, but Tucker ... dude
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Wow, a douchebag made of wood. Amazing.
Brit Hume has indeed drunk the Faux Noise Kool-Aid. Which is quite a feat, considering he's Frankenstein's twin.
Smug, sanctimonious, condescending -- and blessed with a typical reich-wing temper to boot.
Why are they always so angry?
If you are still having temper tantrums past the age of six, then you are a serious TOOL.
This librul blog is just taking him out of context.
I still love the clip of Colbert losing it.
Damn, and I thought Michelle Obama was supposed to be the angry one.
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The carrot with a bowtie calling other cable windbags assholes? See Tuck a l'Orange at the video store.
BigIslandDave @ 2:
not getting any sex. Or dysfunctional sex. Whatever that is. According to Tucker C.
The talking heads are a bunch of babies and wanna-bes... every single one of them needs to get a real job and see how it is to flip burgers for minimum wage. Spoiled brats each and every single one of 'em.
Okay, so THAT explains why Hume kept calling Wallace a lilly-livered lead-lined lummox, and E.D. Hill a bubble-headed booby.
But DUDE! Why didn't you WARN US about the picture of Bob Novac in that article!? I'm trying to eat LUNCH here!
Another Nadelschwanz on Fux News. They should hand them this book at orientation along with showing them where the faxes come in from the White House:
http://www.amazon.com/Asshole-Rule-Civilized-Workplace-Surviving/dp/0446...
Well...judging by his slurred words lately, he's probably spiking that OJ with some vokka! Doubt he'll be throwing it anywhere except down his bleedin piehole.
Assholes in the media, shocking, next they will tell us that they are not self-absorbed. If you want to read some stoties about how they act off air go to bitterwaiter.com to read some stories about some of your favorite celebs and how they act in resturants.
If anyone would know an asshole when he sees one it would be Tucker. He sees one every time he looks in a mirror. Trouble is he doesn't realize the truth when it is staring him in the face.
Brit Hume has been chugging Kool-Aid all his life. In his younger days he used to shill for the misbegotten IBM PCjr. Anyone remember that? He used to write a pro-PCjr column for the Capital PC Monitor, in which he kept making excuses for the limited abilities of the PCjr. I guess it was good training for his future career as a Bushjr apologist.
Fuck it! WE'LL DO IT LIVE!!!!!
BigIslandDave @ 2:
Because, according to the conservative playbook of image crafting, throwing childish temper tantrums is a sign of manliness and strength. Throwing soft drinks in the conference room, bellowing at helpless underlings on the set, or using sports metaphores is what defines the true alpha-male gorilla.
(Maybe they should get a high chair and a bib with little fire engines on it for Hume before they have the next meeting. They could tell him it's all designed to make him look more important than the other people who just have regular chairs.)
They have a virilunt form of psychopathology often found in teens. They are stunted spiritually and lack empathy for any other lifeform except that which they see in the mirror.
casper46 @ 17:
I cannot hear the BillO rant enough. Your quote by him has become a running joke in my house and gets used often because my husband knows it cracks me up every time.
A real man would have thrown a 12 year old bottle of Scotch.
I think you have to have a giant ego and be an ass to be aware of the facts and still twist them to fit your own agenda. I have to be able to lie constantly to yourself that your opinion is the most important thing and reality needs to adjust to you. Unfortunately reality has a habit of crapping on and messing up your perfect world, that is why they are so mad all the time.
Brit HummmmDrum has always been about a dull as a two week old razor blade.
About the only time I have seen him somewhat excited is when he, nightly, says:
"And now the Fox All-Star" to discuss......"
But, needless to say, he fits in oh so very well with ALL of the Faux Folks telling
Fanaic Fables of Falsehood to those Fucked Up Fox Viewers.
BigIslandDave @ 2:
Why watch Nanny 911 or the Baby Borrowers when you can tune into the Crybaby Conservative Media Elite Show?
Why would such a conservative show such hatred against the juice?
Orange ya got anything to say for yourself, Brit? What ya gonna show us, a little "Hume"ility for your outrageous life perhaps?
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 21:
Yeah, then kicked the dog on his way home to beat his wife.
To me he doesn't seem to have a soul. Also would hate to see what he looks like in the morning without his makeup on. Eeeee...
When it comes to these people, with their highly overrated, even grandiose self assessment and colossally over inflated salaries for what are pathetic excuses for journalism, being that they enable the concealment of undisclosed facts by the powerful rather than serving to uncover those facts which is the hallmark of the trade, well, for them, I have no comment. None whatsoever.
I'm shocked, I tell you, that the celebrity (in their own minds) anchors of the cable news shows are assholes! I'd also include the network news anchors (like little Katie Couric and Charlie Boy Gibson), too.
Sorry to hear that about Tucker, So what will it be, Tuck? A bottle of Viagra or sensitivity training?
Breaking:
Orange juice. It's not just for breakfast any more.
Listen up, interns!
Alice X (Chomsky Nader) - trolling for perfection - status quObama - change you can pretend in - @ 27:
:D
Love your non comment. Classic.
Frybread @ 28:
I agree, and it's much, much tooooo long a list of them for anyone to rightly include
them ALL.
when people do things like that, it usually means they're drinking a lot of something that AIN'T orange juice OR KoolAid
Is that Hume-us on your falafel or are ya just glad to see me?
Maybe he threw the orange juice because Sen. Obama turned down coffee one time and asked for orange juice instead. Remember how Chris Matthews made fun of that and suggested that real men don't drink just orange juice. My husband would beg to differ with Chris since he too does not drink coffee but instead has a glass of orange juice with breakfast.
Maybe throwing orange juice is the new way to prove one is a manly man. Or maybe Brit is just a flaming SOB.
DannyEastVillage @ 33:
Drinking the coke?
to be expected from narcisstic...sociopath...the pressure
of providing constant/bullshxt can get to you
pissed off patricia @ 35:
Or maybe he wanted some of Bill o's 'Lemonade Motherfucker'
Looks like the whaaamubulance doesn't do pickups at Fox.
Dr. Hussein Matt @ 21:
The 'liquid-lunch' has been superseded by the 'pharmaceutical brunch'. Maybe that's not fair and balanced: When do they shoot those shows?
“He can be incredibly snippy and dismissive if you don’t do things his way.”
Fox has that special penchant/penance market cornered. Why else would they be so high in the ratings?
who cares about office gossip! sheesh!
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I don't think he would want to make O.J. mad. Look at what he did to his ex and her boyfriend.
Underground Pirate @ 42:
Salad, dinner or pitch fork?
Haven't watched FOX since that nice Howard Beale was cancelled. Does the nasty man who left the horse's head in the bed still run things?
Barrett D @ 41:
We do.
hahahahaha the fork head comment made e laugh
Tucker, Tucker, Tucker. Why does it always have to be black or white with you conservatives? Either or? Some sound like both.
miss_kitty @ 38:
Or maybe some iced tea.
My husband used to work for a hot head guy. The guy's wife came to the office one time and she and her hot head husband got into a verbal fight. She went out, got in her car and was driving out of the driveway. Mr. Hot Head was so angry he ran after her car and threw his shoes at her car screaming at the top of his lungs that she was a "Jewish C*nt", as she drove away.
If Tucker is not an asshole, (a subject for a lively and colorful debate,) than he must be dysfunctional. And since he is clearly not a bleeding-heart liberal, he must bleed from somewhere else, which brings us back to where we started. Perhaps his self awareness has its root from one of those bathroom encounters of his his youth.
casper46 @ 45:
e seems to be gone. Would a spoon head comment make e laugh too?
Hey people, please show a little love. If you had a stick up your ass like Britt you would act the same way.
pissed off patricia @ 47:
What did your husband do for Senator McCain?
I can never figure Tucker out. I think maybe he's just an immature guy. I don't know. I have seen him just about lose control because he was so dedicated to the subject of the conversation and other times he acts like an imbecile.
Tucker is NOT an asshole. He's a dick.
Mike @ 51:
LOL, well he didn't vote for him.
I have a zillion stories about that past hot head boss he had. We learned never to go out to dinner with that. Being in the middle of a nice restaurant was no guarantee they wouldn't go at each other with the same zeal.
yellowdog @ 53:
Is he in Dickipedia?
Mike @ 55:
Of Course http://www.dickipedia.org/dick.php?title=Tucker_Carlson
Methinks O'Reilly's was the one who leaked the Jesse Jackson N-word comment because after years of lecturing performing artist on whether or not they really needed to use that type of language that little beauty hit the internet. I guess we know who Bill needs to waterboard now!
yellowdog @ 53:
Like a riddle inside a mystery wrapped in an enigma... Tucker is a dick inside a flaming asshole wrapped in twat.
Leg Hussein Paine @ 58:
I always thought he 'dripped with sarcasm and self-importance' when he was a White House correspondent during the Clinton years. When he turned up on Faux it didn't surprise me at all.
If I was the new Democratic president I would push hard for both of these propagandists to hang from the gallows for High Treason. Not much difference between Toyko Rose and Bill O'reilly to me. They both hate America with a passion.
Leg Hussein Paine @ 58:
Is that like that thanksgiving dish called a tur-dukin. A chicken inside a duck inside a turkey? In this case it would be a dic-hol-at
The Herman Munster of Network News.
(on second thought Herman wasn't such an indisputable arsehole)
"Like a riddle inside a mystery wrapped in an enigma… Tucker is a dick inside a flaming asshole wrapped in twat."
I'll have to consult the Kama Sutra on this...
pissed off patricia @ 62:
Hmmmmm, slow roasted rotissere Dikholwat with Carlson sauce!
"Patina" is the best slam of the entire piece. Perhaps one of the best subtle, backhanded remarks I've ever heard.
Too bad nobody can restore the Statue of Liberty in order to avoid any possible association with Brit.
RancidVenison @ 66:
As associated with wood or bronze?
Thought you guys might also enjoy this "Dance Remix" of O'Reilly's flip-out: Heeheehee
By FAR one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2YDq6FkVE
Brian
pissed off patricia @ 47:
Dammit Iced Tea motherfucker. damn mistakes... :-D
pinkobait @ 66:
The orange juice incident is similar to when Herman got mad and started stomping his feet... Still, an insult to the late Fred Gwynne.
Since you're "reporting" on Hume (whom I must concur is a complete PuckwadTM ), what's the lowdown on libs like Olbermann and Madow? Are they "nice"?
I'm not particularly nice at work, either. It takes everything I've got just to perform as required. Fortunately, I'm not in a bullshit image marketing job (TV news) that depends on the public thinking that I am "nice".
That's what always happens when you fill your soul with hate and deceit.
News shares some of the same pitfalls as show business; the spotlight can give anybody an inflated sense of importance. A lamentable state of affairs to be sure, but this shouldn't come as surprise anyone. There are stories like this about Olbermann from his ESPN days. Dig deep enough and you'll find undignified behavior among any number of media figureheads. Though arguably it happens with more frequency on the right, the Left is not innocent in this regard.
If the medium is the message, we're all fooked.
One of the biggest assholes in that article was none other than Keith Olberman. Keith Olberman has undoubtably been one of the heroes of our age but, you know what? He never has a guest on that disagrees with him. And his joke delivery is so self-impressed any intelligent person should want to scream. He's a hero and an asshole and a dessert topping.
A must have Album!!!
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BigIslandDave @ 2:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
maybe we will have the joy of him being the next bill'o........and somebody please tell me "why are they so angry".....seems like they are all getting what they want.
My guess is Tucker is an asshole.
You know, if I got angry at a staff meeting and chucked a carton of orange juice across the room, I'd probably find myself fired, or at least in the doghouse for a very long time.
Then again, I've never been a Prima Donna. Some of us just can't master the drama queen mentality.
The Drama Llama says suck it up!
Wow! Twit's an A-Hole and he plays one on TV too!
Who'da Thunk!
Nothing special about MR O'Realy.
He is as common as wood.
God bless Tony Snow, but all the hoopla about, "What a great guy he was," is bullshit. How can one work for Fox "News" and help lie and distort this country into the terrible mess we're in now, and that just be seperate from who they really are.
It reminds me of Bill Press, on his AirAmerica show. He would almost monthly talk about some function he was attendiing with Bob Novak. I had to stop listening to Press for awhile, and I like him. But his buddy help to "out" a CIA agent. What the fuck gives with these folks, is it all just a game. We've got soldiers dying over these lies, but they can be buddy-buddy with these nasty, vitriolic rightwingers. At least spare me and don't talk about it.
The Hume's head now rivals Jupiter for sheer size! WOTTA HEAD!!!
Shag @ 85:
"At least spare me and don't talk about it." I think it's safe to say you've been spared?
Hieronymus Braintree @ 78:
Yep, I can fully see that; though I would like to think Rachel Maddow would be better. As for everyone picking on Tucker for being high and mighty - I didn't see anything in his comment to indicate that he excluded himself from being an asshole?
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