Comments on: More Fox Follies

By: Zappa

Zappa — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:07:21 +0000

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…

By: TomY

TomY — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 17:07:08 +0000

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

By: The nTrain

The nTrain — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:07:51 +0000

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…

By: Dugger

Dugger — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:07:37 +0000

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

By: PSU94

PSU94 — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:07:35 +0000

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.

By: rocker

rocker — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 04:07:49 +0000

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.

By: Say Anything

Say Anything — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 03:07:12 +0000

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…

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 03:07:00 +0000

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,

By: JD

JD — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 02:07:54 +0000

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

By: JD

JD — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 02:07:52 +0000

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.

By: Mouse

Mouse — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 02:07:26 +0000

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.

By: evergreen

evergreen — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:07:21 +0000

Classic Fox News. Expect nothing better.