Brit Hume to Step Down as Fox News Anchor

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: Washington Post

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.

Sources familiar with the situation say that Hume, 65, will give up his job as Washington managing editor and anchor of "Special Report." They say he is near a deal to continue with Fox in a senior statesman role, not unlike that of Tom Brokaw at NBC, for roughly 100 days a year.

In his new role, Hume would be a senior political analyst, anchor special events, serve as a panelist on "Fox News Sunday" and occasionally substitute for the host, Chris Wallace.

A former ABC correspondent who never hid his conservative views in his broadcast television days, Hume has been a central part of Fox's success. He has anchored on election nights and at political conventions and moderated a number of presidential debates. Hume has enjoyed good access to top Bush administration officials; when Vice President Cheney was under intense criticism after accidentally shooting a hunting companion two years ago, he did one interview, with Hume....

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/15/AR2008071501744.html?hpid=topnews

[thereismore]

1. scumbag. nt

[saigon68]

17. Faux NEWS = Mos Eisley ( "wretched hive of scum and villainy." )

Obi-Wan Kenobi described Mos Eisley as a "wretched hive of scum and villainy."

[swimmernsecretsea]

37. Hahaha!

Is Brit the one with the Ass-Face who later Obi rescues Luke from?

[AndyA]

2. Asshole hypocrite.

:puke:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Will he return to his original starring role as Droopy?

[mr_hat]

6. Who was the dog of the same era that got ecstatic

when given a biscuit? I want to show my border collie.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. The only one i can think of is Scooby Doo w/ the snacks. If not I'm

drawing a blank now.

[mr_hat]

18. Thanks. Wasn't Scooby, though. Def a Hanna-Barbera dog...

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

19. If you can find it here let me know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hanna-Barbera_characters

Now you got me thinking.

[Beausoleil]

21. Snuffles

http://www.toontracker.com/huck/quickdraw.htm

"When given the biscuit, Snuffles would moan in joy, hug himself, float up into the air and slowly return to the ground in total ecstasy."

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

23. Damn! I had forgotten about him completetely. I used to watch all of these in Spanish back in

the day.

[Beausoleil]

26. Quick Draw McGraw was one of my favorites!

"I'll do the thinnin' around here!"

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

28. He was the shit. Was Mr Jinx the one who would "Exit stage left."? n/t

[Frisbee]

38. Wasn't that Snagglepuss? n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

50. You're right, n/t

[tledford]

57. Jinx's line was "I hate meeces to pieces!" in reference to Pixie and Dixie. eom

[Politicalboi]

43. Maybe Muttley

Was his name. He was on the Penelope Pitstop cartoon.

[brucefan]

32. I think it was Precious.

[Pastiche423]

31. That was Quick Draw McGraw's dog, Snuffles

A Hanna-Barbara cartoon.

[tularetom]

4. So I don't get accused of pissing on his grave when he croaks

This is the best I can say about him right now - He is a carbon based life form.

[LynneSin]

7. he's a waste of carbon based life-forms

think of the things that could have been created with that Carbon

[LynneSin]

5. Rumor has it Darth Vadar in talks to replace him. Good Riddance Brit!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

46. Moe Hume.

"Special" indeed.

[Jefferson23]

8. Hume is a lucky bastard. What conservative views does this guy have

he is a worthless neocon.

[Hugin]

9. Gettn' while the Gettn's good I see...

Wow.

[TooBigaTent]

10. I am shocked to read the negative things some are saying about Brit. He deserves the same

adulation that Saint Tony received, especially in E. Edward's eulogy/thread praising that good man.

[niyad]

12. I will say the same for him as I did for snowball and the others: "may you receive everything you

deserve"

If I were to believe in a christian hell, I would have to think that a new circle has to have been invented for these lying scumbags.

[niyad]

11. you won't be missed, brit. good riddance to all you enabling scum.

[The Stranger]

14. Are we prohibited from saying anything bad about him? Just want to make sure.

Because I hope he goes and fucks himself.

[Arugula Latte]

47. Only if he dies.

Then we have to pretend he was a great guy and a great husband and father and we're so sad he croaked and blah blah blah...

[bunkerbuster1]

15. my favorite Brit Hume truthiness moment...

was when he carried water for Bush's Social Security Piratization scheme, in early '05.

from

http://mediamatters.org/items/200502040010

In an attempt to promote President Bush's plan to partially privatize Social Security, nationally syndicated radio host and former Reagan administration official William J. Bennett and FOX News managing editor and anchor Brit Hume falsely claimed that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt advocated replacing Social Security with private accounts. In fact, while Roosevelt advocated "voluntary contributory annuities" to supplement guaranteed Social Security benefits, he never proposed replacing those benefits with private accounts.

On the February 3 edition of FOX News' Hannity & Colmes, Bennett declared: "Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the guy who established Social Security, said that it would be good to have it replaced by private investment over time. Private investment would be the way to really carry this thing through."

Earlier that evening, on FOX News' Special Report with Brit Hume, Hume provided the alleged historical basis for Bennett's claim:

HUME: In a written statement to Congress in 1935, Roosevelt said that any Social Security plans should include, quote, "Voluntary contributory annuities, by which individual initiative can increase the annual amounts received in old age," adding that government funding, quote, "ought to ultimately be supplanted by self-supporting annuity plans."

But Roosevelt was not advocating that the present system of guaranteed Social Security benefits "ought to ultimately be supplanted by self-supporting annuity plans." Rather, he was proposing that both mandatory contributions and voluntary annuities would eventually eliminate the need for a different fund which was established to provide pension benefits to Americans who were already too old in 1935 to contribute payroll taxes to the Social Security system.

What an aristocratic, lying little dick!

Door, ass... you know the rest, Brit.

[Submariner]

16. Brit ostracized his son who later committed suicide

Between the Bush's and Brit bad fathering must be a repuke trait.

[WriteDown]

25. I guess all parent's who's child commits suicide are to blame..

Stupid argument. I am reticent to blame any one person for anothers suicide.

[6000eliot]

34. Yes, but the kid was gay, and that prick Hume is a dirty homophobe.

[WriteDown]

35. I try not to get caught up in that sort of speculation....

I have no clue why anyone commits suicide. I do think his son was an alcoholic though. That disease takes many lives.

[SpiralHawk]

20. Hume is republicon homelander Knee Bender & Butt Kisser

of the first order.

He ain't no journalist. He's a Corporate Propagandist.

Ptooey.

[onehandle]

22. Fuck you, Hume.

Get off my planet.

[Political Heretic]

24. I first read that as "for roughly 100 years" :P Dude is OLD!

[WriteDown]

27. Good for him....

I disagreed with him on just about everything, but its always a good thing when someone can retire. I hope I am not working well into my eighties.

[Ian David]

29. He's resigning to spend more time trying to find his face n/t

[calimary]

36. No. His soul. Since he sold out long ago. Probably wanted to start searching while

he's still relatively young. Seriously, though, I'll bet Tony Snow's passing jogged something in him. Something about maybe spending more time smelling the flowers or some such thing. That and Tim Russert's recent death - I bet a LOT of 'em are thinking about it, whether or not they actually do anything about it.

[Ian David]

55. Maybe he's spending time with Tony Snow's widow? n/t

[islandmkl]

30. this asshat ties oxyboy for my attention span/blood pressure alert....

about 1 minute MAX...

so i can hardly qualify as being able to miss him...

knowing he isn't there does little to improve my opinion of faux, either...

good f***ing riddance...take some of your pals with you...cross the aisle if you like...hit the other networks for their stooges, too...

[Hulk]

33. Someone took his pulse and they realized he's been dead for years....

What a washed up shill for the neocon fascist party. Hey...he won't go far. The propaganda network will keep his services because he can lie straight faced and looks like he really believes his own bullshit.

The perfect definition of "a stuffed suit". Lurch, from the Adam's Family.

[DarthDem]

39. Good Riddance to this Jackass n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

40. Senior statemen

and Britt Hume should never be used in the same sentence.

[undeterred]

41. How much do we have to pay to make him disappear entirely?

[IDemo]

42. To spend more time with Rove's family?

[UTUSN]

44. Snow-Hume, the parallel universe to Russert-Brokaw. n/t

[trthnd4jstc]

45. Senior Statesman? n.t.

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[Efilroft Sul]

49. Brit's stepping down? Oh, the Hume Hannity!

[specimenfred1984]

51. Let's praise the hell out of the traitor when he gets sick

We can invent a lot of lies about what a great contribution he's made, talk about what a wonderful guy he is in person and talk about all the respect he deserves as if he didn't spend his entire life lying to America on a grand scale.

[Olney Blue]

52. Leaving town with the rest of the GOP cabal.

[Snarkturian Clone]

53. Back to Easter Island with him. NT

[Catch22Dem]

54. The corn in my shit is more deserving of a paycheck than Hume

How he manages to get rich while others starve is one of the great tragedies.

[BearSquirrel2]

56. Hume Commented ...

When asked about his move, Hume responded "Braahhh bbahhh baahhh raaaabaabbaaa baahhh rarrr baaabaaa rraaaa braaaa". And it explains everything. Too bad he doesn't have cancer.