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Fox News's Hume rips Alexander over 'gotcha' question to Trump
The Hill ^ | 03 20 2020 | Joe Concha

Posted on 03/20/2020 12:41:56 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume ripped NBC's Peter Alexander on Friday, calling his question to President Trump a "bullsh*t gotcha question."

Alexander asked if Trump was giving Americans a false sense of hope with his "impulse" to focus on the positive, and later asked what Trump had to say to Americans who were scared. Much of the back and forth centered over comments Trump has made about a malaria medicine that he hopes might be effective for coronavirus.

Time columnist David French called the question by Alexander legitimate, prompting Hume to respond on social media.

"Legitimate question my a**," Hume, a former ABC White House correspondent, replied in a tweet. "It was the kind of bullsh*t gotcha question which hack [White House] reporters have been asking for decades."

"But instead of going off on the reporter, Trump should have said the whole briefing in all its particulars was a message to people who are scared," Hume added.

SNIP

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brithume; cnbc; coronavirus; davidfrench; msnbc; nbc; nobrainscollectively; peteralexander; trump
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1 posted on 03/20/2020 12:41:56 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

So, Hume ripped the reporter, and also Trump for rising to the bait.


2 posted on 03/20/2020 12:43:45 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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NBC is Comcast.

Comcast hates both us & Trump.

Comcast subscribers should demand change.


3 posted on 03/20/2020 12:46:31 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Trump was never a career politician. Those politicians practice giving smooth responses to questions and syrupy smooth speeches for decades. Trump will never be a career politician. He is brutally frank in his responses to questions.


4 posted on 03/20/2020 12:48:25 PM PDT by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or want gov't to guarantee your wages.)
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To: entropy12

Exactly what “we, the people” need in Washington.....


5 posted on 03/20/2020 12:50:59 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: entropy12

It really pisses me off to hear people say “His speech wasn’t presidential...”


6 posted on 03/20/2020 12:51:53 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: entropy12

I copied and tailored your post in response to an American friend in Germany who praised Merkel and wished Trump could give a speech like she just did.


7 posted on 03/20/2020 12:54:22 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: Gene Eric

President Trump refers to them as CONcast.


8 posted on 03/20/2020 12:58:05 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Speaking of Germany...

With Its COVID-19 Caseload Spiking To 14,000, Here’s Why Germany’s Mortality Rate Is .002%, Or 4000 Times Lower Than Italy’s

If folks get a chance, be sure to read the entire article.

9 posted on 03/20/2020 1:00:03 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Peter is a dick.


10 posted on 03/20/2020 1:00:19 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

The difference between Merkel and Trump is that Merkel will lie to you in the most polite way possible. Trump will tell you the truth directly, and sometimes harshly if need be.


11 posted on 03/20/2020 1:00:36 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: mewzilla

I would fully expect the contagion rate in huggy, kissy Italy to be substantially higher than in cold-hearted Germany.


12 posted on 03/20/2020 1:04:46 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (BLACK LIVES MAGA)
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To: yesthatjallen

Brit Hume swearing? I never thought I’d see that. Go Brit!


13 posted on 03/20/2020 1:04:48 PM PDT by McGruff (It came from China)
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Hume is a piece of garbage wanting it both ways. He works at the right network for doing that.

If Trump were negative or somber, the eggheads in the press would say he wasn’t providing positive leadership.

I just made a trip to the gun store, a smiling picture of my president greeted me at the counter.


14 posted on 03/20/2020 1:05:18 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: yesthatjallen

they are childish hacks, not a pro in the room.


15 posted on 03/20/2020 1:06:29 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: yesthatjallen

It would not do to have me in that room with those snotty, pissy reporters still clinging to their eighth grade angst. I don’t think I could resist the urge to bitch slap the idiots out of their chairs.


16 posted on 03/20/2020 1:07:06 PM PDT by odawg
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17 posted on 03/20/2020 1:08:08 PM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Check out Der Spiegel. I think WuFlu is about to bust loose there.


18 posted on 03/20/2020 1:10:16 PM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Brit is still a putz; he’d defend Wallace.


19 posted on 03/20/2020 1:11:46 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (It's the Wuhon Corona virus, not the U.S. coroner virus. Dem panic <> pandemic.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Love it. I think he’s been reading my posts, lol


20 posted on 03/20/2020 1:12:09 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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