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Posted on 10/30/2004 6:25:21 AM PDT by kristinn
After spending a highly visible lifetime in a relatively small city where information -- particularly about media and politics -- is the coin of the realm, Brit Hume may be one of the best-known people in Washington.
The basics: He's the managing editor and chief Washington correspondent for the Fox News Channel and has long been a rabble-rouser in a trade where one rarely earns popularity points for rousing the rabble. As a young reporter he drew the wrath of Richard M. Nixon and had the distinction of being shadowed by the CIA for several months. The spooks' code name for Hume was "Eggnog," in wry tribute to his youth and his light blond hair.
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...Hume was once a close, personal friend of John Kerry.
Kerry and Hume pals? In what universe? For those readers gobsmacked by that information, consider that the future presidential candidate and TV news power broker were only about 4 feet tall and shared a passion for cartoons instead of politics. They met in kindergarten and hung together through fifth grade.
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Hume learned he had the soul of a muckraker -- journalism's fond name for those hardy investigative types who stir up the muck to expose misconduct -- and would later land a job with one of its masters, Jack Anderson.
With the aid of assistants, Anderson wrote a widely syndicated column called Washington Merry-Go-Round. But Hume, who joined his staff in 1970, quickly became the star pupil by making one of the column's most sensational scoops when he got hold of a memo that proved International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. had contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund the 1972 GOP convention in return for which the Nixon administration dropped an antitrust investigation against the company.
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(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
Brit, You da man!
ping...
He shines even more brightly when compared to idiots like Shepard Smith.
Won't get any argument here.
without a doubt.
lame...
>>"Special Report with Brit Hume" is the best news show on TV!<<
I agree, I haven't missed his show in over 4 years. One of the most straight, down the line reporters around.
>>I think the likes of Hannity, et al, cheapen Fox News.<<
Hannity's 'tv' personality is annoying as hell. His radio persona, which is a bit more pragmatic is much more tolerable.
now Cheney and Hume, well--talk about sharp...
Brit wrote a very good book about the UMW and the killing of JocK Yablonski, who challenged the corrupt UNW boss,
Tony Boyle. It was called "Death in the Mines". Same story as the Charles Bronson TV movie ACT OF VENGEANCE.
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