Britt Hume HATES NEWT

Faux News

[jocon307]

I needed to see this post today, thankee!

[Erasmus]

long legs are great up to a point, however.

That is a fairly tactful description of the geometric situation.

[antceecee]

I watched Brit in the last week and yes it looks like hate. Sorry to see it. I thought Brit was better than that.

[wardaddy]

his gay boy did of the slims
or a drug od....or suicide

i cant recall

and he and Newt have history there

[Yaelle]

It sounds like Brit might have a reason to hate Newt. He would want to blame someone for his son’s suicide even if it’s not true. It’s human nature. Maybe Brit didn’t even know his son was gay, and maybe the you ger Hume was afraid of his conservative father finding out, or of embarrassing his father professionally. Brit would thus feel forever guilty, and blaming newt would be a cover.

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I found this comment interesting from someone who says he was a page and that newt was very nasty on the hill, at your link:

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Piggybacking on the earlier comment about staffer mistreatment, let me give you an illustration of Gingrich’s nastiness. Two elderly African-American sisters ran the lunch counter in the Republican Cloakroom (an operation about the size of your average wetbar, from which they served sodas, snacks, and the most delicious tuna sandwiches), and had been doing so since their childhood, when their parents ran it. Routinely, Gingrich would berate them, in public, for the smallest things (or even made-up complaints), leaving the rest of us aghast and embarrassed for the women. Look, abusing staffers is one thing — it’s part of the gig, I guess — but to not even have the decency to treat well women who’d been part of Congress’ institutional memory long before and after Gingrich says a lot about his character. It says everything about his character.

My issue with Gingrich isn’t his politics. I don’t agree with John Boehner’s politics or policy recommendations at least 90% of the time, but he is a gentleman. Ditto, Dick Armey. Ditto, (oh my, I can’t believe I’m saying this publicly) Rick Santorum, who was a Representative during my Page term. Gingrich is a cold, callous, unrepenting bastard, and he has no business being our President.

(Some other day I’ll tell you all the homophobic things he said about Hillary Clinton during the “Hillary Care” debates and the racist things he said about African-Americans during the Crime Bill debates. But none of these would surprise you — or were limited to Gingrich.)
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[humblegunner]

[bert]

-——His dislike is palpable.——

Brit definitely does not believe the newt should be the candidate.

I watched yesterday to see if i could discern animus. Bret asked if there was not bias. Britt replied he calls them as he sees them.

That answer to me meant tat he actually has a bias but in his current seat at the table his job is to enunciate what he thinks to be true. That means he truly does not believe New can win the general election and the list of reasons is why

There was a transformation on air. It came from Charles Krauthamer. I think he must have had an on the road to Damascus moment because his negative Newt views were considerably softened.

It is early....... there may be such a moment for Brit soon

[libdestroyer]

It’s a lot less insulting to me now when I hear a lib call the network Faux News. I just laugh and partially agree these days. It’s the home of the establishment GOP.

[libdestroyer]

“OK, so Fox News needs to take him off any reporting on the GINGRICH campaign.”

Seems fair to me!
I love that Newt snubbed ABC after their little smear/interview with his ex-wife. These journalists expect you to treat them fairly after they try to assassinate your character. It’s time our guys stood up to them.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

Rubio- gone (he said nice things about Romney)