Brit Hume of Fox gets it wrong...lies on air (SHOCKING HUH?)

[texpatriot2004]

"WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- On the Sept. 19 edition of Fox News' Special Report, host Brit Hume claimed that President Clinton, in a recent interview on ABC's This Week, did something that President George H.W. Bush "did not do, and that is criticize the sitting president and his administration." But contrary to Hume's assertion, says Media Matters for America, Bush repeatedly criticized Clinton administration policies while Clinton was in office:"

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=53698

[okieinpain]

1. yeah, but see he wasn't a potus then. see that's the difference.

:~)

[Mr_Spock]

13. ???

What do you mean?

[okieinpain]

15. well see now when bush was calling clinton every dirty name in the

book, he was just a citzen. now bill clinton well see he's a out of office president. surely you see how it not proper for clinton to critize the great one.

:~)

[Mr_Spock]

17. Bush SENIOR

I think you may have missed that...

[okieinpain]

18. damnit, spock do you have to be right all of the time.

damn volcan.

:~)

[sepia_steel]

2. I dunno why...

i just don't get it. I can't watch Faux or listen to Rush, seems like a waste of time... but whatever...

[CottonBear]

3. Hey Brit: It's called free speech, you RW bastard! eom

[thecodewarrior]

5. Brit Hume

Could put a speed freak to sleep, the man is a walking Droopy, boring as shit, dumb as Dumbsfield is.

[tsuki]

4. Hume got the Saudi memo, I see. "Destroy America." eom

[gratuitous]

6. Yeah, another nonsense talking point

I first saw it a week or so ago, a throwaway comment in the lede to a story about Clinton's remarks. "Breaking with tradition" bullshit, like there was some kind of "tradition" or unspoken rule about outgoing presidents not criticizing incoming presidents, or whatever. But it's nefariously designed to delegitimize whatever critique is being made.

Clinton's in unique position to know what the powers and the capabilities of the office of the president are, and even though he's been remarkably quiet about his successor and his administration, the egregious, murderous incompetence of Bush and his henchmen cried out for comment.

Hume's fuming because he know how right and knowledgeable Clinton is, and the only way to gainsay his points is to somehow deny them legitimacy. So Hume runs to his favorite tool, the lie.

[sendero]

16. The right....

... and their zombie minions love to blather on about tradition, until it is the tradition of the Senate to allow filibuster, then they have no use for it.

There is not one single subject on which they are not blatant flaming hycocrites.

[killbotfactory]

7. Can we make it illegal to intentionally lie

on the public airwaves?

[texpatriot2004]

10. Good idea n/t

[Amy6627]

12. The Supreme Court says that Corporations have a right to lie.

It is protected by free speech! Kasky vs. Nike or Buckley vs. Veleo:

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/rdc/index.php/Q&A_on_corporate_personhood_and_money_as_speech

[DemInDistress]

8. John Gibson is also a scumbag.....

and a creep.I caught the tail end of his show,he said,on Friday/Saturday before Katrina Gibson says,the Hurricane Center called
to warn Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin.He totally and deliberately
left out the Hurricane Center also warned the Whitehouse but Gibson the creep left out that warning to the Bush Crime Family...

[still_one]

9. There has never been a president this bad

[BootinUp]

11. lol.

[firefox]

14. They are not reporting news. They are manufacturing reality n/t

[cantstandbush]

19. OK, so Clinton sets a new precedent. He's entitled.

I know for a fact that Bush criticized Clinton's policies while in office and he made some personal attacks to boot.

[gratuitous]

20. It's neither a precedent nor tradition

It's a made-up talking point (I didn't make that clear in my post above) with no basis in fact or reality. Former presidents have had a long history of offering critical comment on their successors, and as you rightly note, Poppy had all sorts of snotty little comments to make about Clinton.

[DancingBear]

21. Could be worse - you could live close by Brit The Simpleton

Like me.

[Arugula Latte]

22. Brit lied ... In other news, the sun came up in the morning. eom

[StudentOfDarrow]

23. No, no.

It's okay when Republicans lie. :sarcasm: