Fox's Brit Hume tells families of dead American soldiers to 'get over it'

[SeveneightyWhoa]

www.counterbias.com/news004.html

There was a thread about this last night--and now there's this intoxicatingly disgusting news story. What a True American Patriot Brit Hume is, if you ask moi!

[Jack_Dawson]

1. Wasn't his Dad a legit journalist?

What the hell happened to his son? Or am I thinking of someone else? I could've sworn there once was a "Hume" who worked for ABC News who was legitimate.

[tom_paine]

3. The usualy sins: corruption, greed, ego, hatred of America

Brit just wants to be treated like the Superior Being he is. Unfortunately, Medeval England is the place for him, not Free America.

So he is helping bring Medeval Englans here.

[Bunny]

21. Brit Hume used to work for ABC News.

Went to Faux, and the rest is history.

Oh, and Brit Hume's son? Suicide. Several years ago. He knows what it's like to lose a child, and still thinks the families should get over it. What a douchebag.

[trogdor]

35. No, he's an ASSHOLE.

I calls 'em like I sees 'em.

[Bunny]

36. I won't argue with you on that one!

;)

[wryter2000]

2. Ye gods

:speechless:

[liberalhistorian]

11. Me, too,

words just fail me right now. I don't think there are words adequate enough to describe that POS right now. I wonder if he'd look the families in the eyes directly and tell them to "get over it?"

That seems to be their favorite mantra, "get over it."

So we stole an election right out from under the people, and against the true will of the American people, so what, "get over it."

So we sent thousands of soldiers to Iraq for NOTHING, causing the deaths of hundreds and the injuries of hundreds more, not to mention thousands of Iraqis, so what, that's the American way, "get over it!"

But if a (legitimately elected) president gets a blow job in the Oval Office, well, hell, then, that's the worst crime of all and we'll NEVER "get over it", and how dare you tell us to just "get over it!"

I truly have to wonder what the reaction would be if a liberal/Dem/progressive had made such a statement? I think we all know the answer to that.

[wryter2000]

19. Victim?

Right on.

I'm wondering...in his world is it possible for anyone to legitimately claim to be victimized? If so, doesn't loosing a child for no good reason qualify you?

[rfranklin]

4. What Hume and the Republicans are revealing is...

that they have the habit of dehumanizing eveyone who isn't one of "them." This is the same psychological pattern that led to the concentration camps in Nazi Germany, the killing fields of Cambodia, and the mass murders of Rwanda. It's a only a small step to cross that line.

[jean]

10. right on, rfranklin!

[wryter2000]

20. Speaking as a psychologist

Every last one of them, starting with Reagan, have no empathy whatsoever. It's a total inability to care for other people and experience emotions vicariously. That's the prime hallmark of a socio/psychopath.

[donsu]

27. do socio/psychopaths recognize each other and bond?

is that what happened in the formation of the bushgang? birds of a feather flock together.

[wryter2000]

37. Good question

They'll do anything that they think will advance their own interests.

[underpants]

5. So Wallace was interviewing Hume?

THe news caster has become (very suddenly) the news maker. That is utterly unbelieveable. Disgusting.

[SeveneightyWhoa]

7. No, I think this was a panel discussion.

I didnt see it but I'm under the impression that its a four-man panel discussion in which all four individuals are able to spew their own despicable 'opinions'.

[salinen]

6. The conservatives want

an 11th commandment, "Thou shalt just get over it"

[liberalhistorian]

12. Yeah, except when

it comes to Clinton, that is! They're STILL trying to prove Vince Foster was "murdered", among other Clintonian obsessions.

[Felix Mala]

8. Echoes of Rummy

It's not unlike Rummy's comments last week that the lost lives of soldiers aren't quite so tragic because these were soldiers who "volunteered" to go to Iraq. And I thought they just wanted a cheap education and a little extra cash every month. I didn't realize they were suicidal... I feel so much better. Come on liberals, cast off these "old world" feelings about guilt and sentimentality... You'll feel so much better once you let go...

[liberalhistorian]

14. Of course, remember Rummy

made the same comments about drafted soldiers and how they had added little to the military. He didn't even change his tune when someone pointed out to him all the tens of thousands of deaths of those "useless" soldiers who were just "drafted."

[JeebusH]

9. fits with Brit's past ....

his son committed suicide in part because he was a closeted homosexual who had a relationship with former Rep. (and GOP slezyball) Bill Paxton. Remember when Paxton was so close to being House Speaker and suddenly resigned, rumor was that Dick Armey was doing to out the whole thing.

Brit knew about this and still continues to shill for his GOP masters ... true scum

[DemLikr]

13. Thank you, Jeeb. I agree. Hume is scum.

[adriennui]

17. gossip or reality?

there were rumors about brit's son and rep. paxton....but not in relation to each other.

isn't it sad when someone can't be true to themselves? i wonder if susan molinari knew about paxton's sexual orientation before she married him.

[mhr]

15. Speechless!

As one without television, the vile putrid reality of these people leaves one speechless.

How can anyone tell another person to "get over it" when they have lost someone to an illegal war is beyond my comprehension.

This man is just as out of touch as *.

[yellowcanine]

16. Hume really put his foot in it on this one

HUME: Well, we have a society in which one of the greatest things
you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the
qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings
about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.


"exquisitely tender feelings"??????? Why don't you jusk go and kick the crutches out from under some Iraq war veteran, Brit? Or maybe call up a war widow and ask her if she is still living in government housing?

[mac1000a]

18. Email Faux News and tell 'em

what you think. I did yesterday. I know it's not not going to lead to any changes in Faux policy, but they have to get used to the fact that if they're going to behave this atrociously, they're going to get a response from real Americans.

[liberalhistorian]

23. Got an email address

we can use? Normally, I pay no attention to Faux News, but I simply cannot let this pass.

[mac1000a]

26. Use this

You can email the show, "Special Report with Brit Hume" at [e-mail]

[Zookeeper]

29. I can see that you're going to be an asset to DU!

Welcome mac1000a! :hi:

[mac1000a]

32. Muchas Gracias!

[swinney]

22. Fox employees parrot the owner.

They must do as told by Roger"Whale" Ailes and Rupert "adulterer" Muddock.

When you locate a full time Fox employee with character and integrity notify me.

[liberalhistorian]

24. Maybe we should all tell

Hume he should just "get over" his son's suicide? Something tells me that wouldn't go over too damned well with him.

[mac1000a]

25. That's exactly what I did

I have to admit I fell a little guilty about it. I mean, there can't be anything worse than losing a child to suicide. But hey, this is a man that has whored himself to pump up an illegal and bogus war that has caused the deaths of thousands, and they were all someone's children too. And then he tells them to get over it? My guilt is lessened...

[NuttyFluffers]

28. different strategy!

don't e-mail complaints to FOX news, e-mail complaints to your congressional representative AND CNN! :)

competing news organizations, not owned by the same parent company, dirt on "the enemy," and a scandal which requires no real research, but endless punditing. it's absolutely perfect. this could get Hume fired and more.

let the media tear EACH OTHER apart. let this be one of those never ending scandals. janet jackson showed her booby, brit hume showed his sociopathy. :)

[Zookeeper]

30. Yes! Welcome to Du, NuttyFluffers.... n/t

[mac1000a]

31. It's worth a try

And thank you for your suggestion. I'll do it. But I would still email Fox, and here's why. I worked for over a year at an ABC affiliated television station, all through last year. It was during the war and afterwards. I was completely disgusted with the coverage I saw coming out of the media, but I can tell you one thing. Often times, the shitty coverage that you see is not the result of the reporters being vindictive or intentionally misleading. It's simply because they don't have a clue. Now I know that Brit Hume is pushing an agenda, and he is very conscious of it. But one thing I learned about media people is that they have EXTREMELY sensitive egos. That should come as no surprise to most of you. When they get criticism, it hurts them. I know it doesn't seem that way a lot of the time, but I can tell you that it's true. A lot of these reporters that you see on TV now were the geeky kids in high school that were always in the library and never got invited to any of the cool parties. Believe those memories are still with them, and when someone goes to the mat with them, they don't like it. I met quite a few people like Brit Hume who aren't as well known, and I can tell you that if theres' one thing they don't like, it's to be criticized. They like the fact that they are now on TV and viewed as smart (by some people at least) and important. It makes up for the insecurity that a lot of them feel.

[Bluzmann57]

33. Thank you for the advice

I did email Fox "news" about that reprehensible statement, but you bring up an excellent point about the rivals wanting to out dirt each other. And welcome to DU from me too!

[Triple H]

34. My God...

telling people to "get over it" because their children's lives were lost over weapons of mass destruction that have never existed. What a true American patriot he is, eh? I mean, your child died two months ago in the Iraq war, then "Get over it." :eyes:

Someone should tell him to "get over it" over the suicide of his son. I wonder how that would make him feel, then.

Thank you, Mr. Hume, for showing America how much of a patriot you--and the Bush administration--really are. :eyes:

It's people like him that give America a bad name.

[VOX]

38. Mind-boggling. These people have no heart whatsoever...

I'll gladly take a liberal "bleeding heart" any day, thank you.

I cannot even begin to fathom how anyone can feel so cold!
:scared:

[Catherine Vincent]

39. I think this guy should apologize.

For looking like lurch but mostly for offending military families with that comment of his.

[skeptic9]

40. Here's a combined transcript of Brit Hume's OUTRAGEOUS outburst ...

... from me and from another DUer who posted in ulTRAX's previous thread on this, at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1301980
WALLACE: 'Why are some people up in arms about a few jokes the President told at a dinner this weekend? ... <COMMERCIAL> ... And one that got a big laugh in the room that day -- and I must say, I still think it's funny.... The day after, some Democrats and the families of some American soldiers in Iraq, some who died in Iraq, said they were offended by this kidding about the missing weapons of mass destruction.Brit?'

HUME: 'Well, we have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is apply for and victim status. And one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended. And in America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

My own view of this is, the president's there poking fun at himself over what goes down, I think, as one of his failures. And I thought it was a good-natured performance, and it made him look good only in the sense that it showed he could poke fun at himself. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction.

And you have to feel like saying to people, "JUST GET OVER IT."'

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Evidently realizing the enormity of what Hume was saying, both Chris Wallace and Juan Williams loudly tried to talk over the last part of Hume's last sentence, but they did not entirely succeed. I missed "Just get over it!" the first time I heard Hume, but fortunately I had my VCR on. If you're listening for Hume's voice rather than Wallace's or Williams's, you'll hear it very clearly.

[ElementaryPenguin]

41. These are bad, bad people! Disgusting, evil, evil human beings!

Well below pond scum - truly akin to Nazi war criminals!

:puke:
:argh:
:mad: