Brit Hume on the "Fox News Attitude"..."Hoist a Jolly Roger, look for more throats to slit"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/26/brit-hume-on-white-house-_n_333469.html



Los Angeles Times:

If anything, the Obama administration has succeeded in reinforcing Fox News' identity as a thorn in the side of the establishment -- a role the network loves to play.

"We may be No. 1, but there is sort of an insurgent quality to Fox News," said senior political analyst Brit Hume. "And that's kind of our attitude: 'Hoist a Jolly Roger, pull out our daggers and look for more throats to slit.' This is tremendous fodder for us. My lord, we've been living on it."

Read the whole story: Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-fox-news26-2009oct26,0,3686223.story

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Yeah when the "establishment" is DEMOCRATS. Where was that Jolly Roger last year? Oh yeah.

[Roland99]

7. Or anywhere in the previous 8 years.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. Poor deluded SOB. nt

[TwilightGardener]

3. Well, if they want to double down on their obvious agenda and cartoonish slant, let them.

Fine with me--the line between actual news and "Fox News" will continue to get clearer.

[blm]

4. Brit, can you give us examples of FOX looking to 'slit' Bush administration 'throats' last 8yrs?

Thanks, Brit....take your time and get back to us on that, k?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. Great point - if anything, Dick and Chimp were Captains of the pirate ship

and Brit Hume was their cabin boy (before he became a cabin man).

[RDANGELO]

5. Thats fine.

Just don't call yourself a fair and balanced news organization.

[mitchum]

6. Croweth the sleepy-eyed shitbag

[gratuitous]

8. Another tough-talking bullying coward

I'd like to see Mr. Hume in a knife fight cage match. Although I suppose the spectacle would lose its charm once Mr. Hume had simultaneously shit and pissed his pants and threw up. Then it would just be nauseatingly but still fascinatingly pathetic. Depending on the opponent, it would be over within seconds or a couple of minutes.

"Insurgent," yeah; I get that.

[bridgit]

9. I say let them continue to slit their own

[11 Bravo]

10. Somewheree a dog pound is missing one Shar Pei.

[BeyondGeography]

11. He's a dreary human being

[Bitwit1234]

12. The whole sad thing

about Fox is the fact that there are a lot of people who WANT to believe everything they say.. I know a lot of them do no believe the crap, but they want to and that is why they protest and jump up and down at such things as the tea bag meetings...

[rd_kent]

13. Did he admit that FOX News are INSURGENTS?

[asjr]

14. Hume always looks as if he is smelling

something rancid--maybe himself?

[lxlxlxl]

15. somebody just publish their f*#$@g salaries and be done with them.

stop pussyfooting around and trying to get America to take media studies classes or whatever. the bias in FOX can be easily destroyed if people just pointed out airtime, print publishing arms, and talk radio 'synergy'....not to mention Fox Sports and Fox News's parallel rise/fall

the chairman of this company has a Chinese wife and is heavily involved in Chinese industry, and his audience base is a bunch of America Firsters? Are you kidding me this is all a sick sick sick joke, and im tired of it.

[mitchum]

16. +1

[Arkana]

17. Arrrgh, we be Retard Pirates!

[librechik]

19. Early Alzheimer's is such a tragedy--Hume seems to have forgotten

the entire last 8 years of Fox's embarrassing spreadeagle dance for Bush and his Viking Horde. (i'd be trying to forget it too, if I wanted a career...)

[fascisthunter]

20. just as quickly as Fox has risen, they are beginning to sink

due to their own stink... I think Americans are getting sick of their shit tossing, irregardless of political affiliation. I heard a couple republicans bash the hell out of Fox, stating it made conservatives such as them look stupid. One went as far as jokingly saying he wouldn't be surprised if the "liberal Media" was behind it all... yes, he was joking.