Fox News' war zone is the D.C. bureau-Brit Hume must love this

[babylonsister]

as he's such an advocate for the internet(s) and bloggers! :rofl: And I just learned Hume's wife is Fox News bureau chief!

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/455844p-383459c.html

Marital sniping may have led to the departure of Brit Hume's wife, Kim, from Fox News last week.

Kim Hume's imminent exit as Fox's D.C. bureau chief was announced Thursday. The buzz out of Washington is that she and the anchorman had been tattletaling on each other to the chairman and CEO of Fox Television Stations.

"They'd been calling Roger in New York separately," reports our source. "They'd complain to him about each other."

A Fox spokeswoman denied that either Hume has bothered Ailes. "Nothing could be further from the truth," she said. But another source told us that the couple, who together weathered the suicide of Brit Hume's son, Sandy, in 1998, often argued in front of staffers.

"Brit's not the easiest guy to get along with," said the source. "You disagree with him, and it's an argument. It's his way or the highway. is a tough cookie, but he speaks down to her in front of other people."

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[napi21]

1. So, FOX & the WH share ANOTHER thing, huh?

BOTH believe in hiring wives, husbands, and friends. Just look at how well this worked out for Shrubco!!!!!:sarcasm:

[thereismore]

2. Brit, I am sorry you lost your son. But it looks like you are hellbent to

destroy your marriage. You are a disagreeable man.

[MADem]

6. His kid worked for The Hill--and he was no kid when he killed himself

Apparently he had a problem with the sauce (probably drank to drown out the shame of his partisan pops who put down his ma). His 'big story' http://www.texasmonthly.com/mag/issues/1997-09-01/reporter.php had to do with the fight between Dick Armey (heh heh heh--I always want to follow that with Penis Navy or Schlong Air Force) and Newt Gingrich.

Despite a relatively short journalism career, the National Press Club gives out an AWARD in his name--how weird is THAT? Kill yourself, have your name slapped on an honor?

Crazed conspiracy theorists blame the CLINTONS for his demise, but they don't mention that the kid tried to hang himself while locked up in the drunk tank before he went home and did himself in with a shotgun.

What's especially CREEPY is that a guy by the same name ran for Congress in 2002(and apparently he ran 11 times previous to that as well): http://wasearch.loc.gov/e22k/20021101080134/http://www.sandyhume.com/
http://wasearch.loc.gov/e22k/20021101092244/http://www.sandyhume.com/Survey/survey.htm

Shortly after he killed himself, rumors continued to circulate, one involving Susan Molinari's ex-husband: http://www.network54.com/Forum/7980/thread/948006911/last-1035155629/Re-+Sandy+Hume's+Death

Ah, but wait, there's more--He was the WEEKEND Host of CSPAN Journal: http://planetsean.blogspot.com/2004/04/powercloset-timecapsule-1998-february.html

Some fascinating tidbits at that last link....

See what happens when people fight in public? All sorts of stuff gets churned up....!

[babylonsister]

7. Whoa! Thanks for those links, I think.

Who knew they had so much dirty laundry? It's sad, but would be
more so if Brit wasn't so despicable.

[MADem]

9. Jake Tapper wrote a devastating article about it in the Washington City

paper...you can still buy in their archives, and maybe find it on the web with a load of hunting. It goes into stark detail about what went on behind the scenes leading up to Sandy's demise.

What's odd is that Ms. Molinari and her husband continued to fundraise for TOM DELAY well after this event took place.

You know there's a story there...and I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, either!

[calimary]

3. Ahhh, cronyism is alive and well among the republi-CON holier-than-

thou's.

I never met Brit Hume, but it's interesting to read those assessments about his personality. He certainly exudes that vibration camera - when he isn't looking and sounding completely constipated, that is. And I vaguely remember reading something about him when he went over to Pox as its lead anchorman - he'd said something about being tired of having to be so objective at ABC (!) and how he was eager for the opportunity to relax a little on the reining in of his biases.


Perhaps his problem is that he simply needs a good enema?

[Supersedeas]

4. Compassionate Conservative Family Values

[MADem]

5. Good grief, I take a couple of important bits of intel from that article

First, that Brit Hume IS as big an asshole as he appears to be on TV. No wonder the poor kid killed himself--he was probably "spoken down to" just like his Mama by his sneering Pa.

Second, that Faux is VULNERABLE--they have the BALLS to want a BUCK a customer from the CABLES while their ratings are going DOWN?

Ailes — who took the top job after company potentate Rupert Murdoch's son Lachlan left — doesn't need any aggravation. Yes, the cable home of Bill O'Reilly, Geraldo Rivera and Chris Wallace is a cash cow with $454 million in ad revenue a year, and with an average of 1.5 million viewers, it has double the audience of CNN. But Fox News has seen its prime-time ratings fall for 11 months in a row (it was down 23% last quarter from the same period a year earlier), just as Murdoch is trying to get $1 per viewer instead of its current 25 cents out of cable and satellite operators. Murdoch is also eager to launch a business channel.

Imagine if a few million Americans sent an email to their cable operators asking that Fox be removed from their lineup and they be given either a twenty five cent rebate or the opportunity to choose another station. Imagine if this were done in BOYCOTT fashion. The cables would probably reduce their payments to Faux from twenty five cents per customer to something less...and it would probably be a long-ass time, if ever, before they could try to con a buck a viewer out of any signal transmission enterprise!

The final thing I get from the article is that Kim Hume is a victim of heavy-duty spouse abuse. No one deserves to be in a relationship that is "You disagree with him, and it's an argument--his way or the highway." She could probably make a rip-roaring BUNDLE on a book detailing how horrible that bastard of a husband has been to her over the years, and how he destroyed their family.

Between the appearances on the 'cicuit' (everything from OPRAH to Larry King to all the Late Nights to Doctor Phil) she could get that puppy up on the NYT bestseller list in a heartbeatand earn herself a nice payday....some agent ought to approach her! She could even parlay it into a 'relationship' program on TV or radio, seeing as she already has the background in media!

It would be a fine nail in the Faux coffin, too...Brit the Brute would have a difficult time maintaining his 'cred' if every time his big fucking head appeared on the screen, viewers hollered "Wife beating asshole!"

[TheDonkey]

8. Focusing on the family

"...it's his way or the highway. is a tough cookie, but he speaks down to her in front of other people."