More Fox Follies

5:07 pm EST July 7th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 12 Comments

Coming up… another Fox personality looks favorably on the terror attacks – includes video evidence…

UPDATE: Hume’s “first thought” on hearing of London attacks: It’s “time to buy” futures

During Fox News’ coverage of the July 7 London bombings, Washington managing editor Brit Hume told host Shepard Smith that his “first thought,” when he “heard there had been this attack” and saw the low futures market, was “Hmmm, time to buy.” Smith had asked Hume to comment on the lack of a negative U.S. stock market reaction to the London attacks.

You should contact Brit Hume at brit.hume@foxnews.com and ask him why he thinks a terrorist attack is a “time to buy”.

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12 Responses to “More Fox Follies”

  1. evergreen says:
    July 7, 2005 at 6:07 pm

    Classic Fox News. Expect nothing better.

  2. Mouse says:
    July 7, 2005 at 9:07 pm

    JD, the point is that his “first thought” upon hearing of the attacks and their effect on the stock market was “time to buy”.

    It seems not a little callous under the circumstances.

  3. JD says:
    July 7, 2005 at 9:07 pm

    First thought when he heard there had been this attack AND saw the low futures market. Now, I know you are all more than willing to believe the worst in all that do not sing from the same hymn book as you, but reasonable people could arrive at that exact same conclusion in the context of the conversation in which he was participating.

  4. JD says:
    July 7, 2005 at 9:07 pm

    I frankly do not see your point. He was having a conversation about how the stock markets reacted to the recent attacks.

  5. Frank_D says:
    July 7, 2005 at 10:07 pm

    I’m sure if he voiced some real concern about the incidents, you would have said he was shedding “crocodile tears”.

    Not to mention the fact that he wouldn’t be the first, or the last, person to say something wildly inappropriate in the face of a disaster.

    Not to mention the fact that, before he got in front of the camera, he might have fallen to his knees, eyes filled with tears, fac purple with rage, and roared, “God bless you London, and damn you, al Qaeda”, before he composed himslf and appeared on television.

    You don’t know – it could have happened,

  6. Say Anything says:
    July 7, 2005 at 10:07 pm

    Brit Hume Sees Terror Attack As Time To Profit?

    Here s the latest  Fox News Is Evil story lefties will be hyperventilating over for the next few days:
    During Fox News coverage of the July 7 London bombings, Washington managing editor Brit Hume told host Shepard Smith that his…

  7. rocker says:
    July 7, 2005 at 11:07 pm

    For all you Fox Lovers, I am not hyperventilating, not by a long shot. What Brit Hume has to say doesn’t bother me at all because I never watch Fox News. Instead of whining about what the “talking heads” in the news media have to say, Conservative or Liberal, we as Americans need to get busy figuring out where to harden our own transportation systems and making less vulnerable. We need to start bending the ears of our Congressional representatives to get to work, instead of making speeches about Supreme Court appointees that dont even exist yet.

  8. PSU94 says:
    July 8, 2005 at 10:07 am

    After contacting Brit Hume, you can contact the folks at Media Matters for America and ask them why their first reaction to the London bombings was not outrage or anger or sorrow, but rather to run to their TV’s and turn on Fox News, and hope like hell someone said something they could get mad at.

  9. Dugger says:
    July 8, 2005 at 11:07 am

    Whats the fuss, anyway? I thought Brit Hume had been fired. Something to do with misinterpreting Roosevelt on Social Security and some highly moral and thoughtful public interest group led a campaign to get him fired. At least I think I remember that happening.

    Dugger

  10. The nTrain says:
    July 8, 2005 at 11:07 am

    Misconstrued

    Brit Hume with an alleged gaffe regarding the London bombings:
    SMITH: Some of the things you might expect to happen, for instance, a drop in the stock market and some degree of uncertainty across this country  none of that really seen today, a…

  11. TomY says:
    July 8, 2005 at 12:07 pm

    If it had been, say, Peter Jennings who’d said this, it would be the top story on Drudge for a month.

  12. Zappa says:
    July 8, 2005 at 1:07 pm

    PSU94 – so did you not work yesterday? I am pretty sure that Media Matters job is to watch and report – should they have not done their job?

    I seriously doubt that they had to ‘hope like hell’ to find something on Fox…it’s like playing t-ball with them…