[RoseofTexas]

HEHEHEHE..I saw that too! Brit had a good one with that one! I LOVE BRIT! GOD BLESS HIM TOO! Poor guy he has gone through so much with the loss of his son...:(

[ArneFufkin]

Brit Hume is really the last of a kind - a professional, probing, fair and challenging journalist. He's still about the who, what, where, why and how approach. He's feared by the lefty swill - there's a guy name Brian Lambert who is a media critic for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and he did a column on Fox News with all the predictable tripe about catering to the inflammatory right wing, corporate Rupert Murdoch agenda, anti-Clinton, anti-gay, anti-minority witchunt etc. I wrote him and set him straight (LOL), and he sent back a note with a nasty comment about Brit Hume. This was right after Hume's son died, and I had noted and admired the classy and strong way he shared the tragedy with the audience and worked through it. The fact some ham 'n egger who makes his living interviewing Carrotop is ridiculing a guy who worked the White House beat for ABC News and now is the number one newsman on the top Cable News Network really irked me. I let this creep have it with both Arne-riffic howitzer barrels. I made fun of his career stagnation to wit his job watching Moesha and Buffy the Vampire for a living. I revisited his pathetically ill-fated and short lived talk-radio show. I laughed at his ill fated and short-lived TV news gig. I made fun of his botched, Carribean-hip themed MC intoduction of Jimmy Buffet at a concert I had attended 15 years earlier. "This is a guy who makes drinking fun again." LOL

Brit is a class act, his great crime was the audacity to ask Clinton real questions - and then follow up to challenge Clinton's usual meely-mouthed lie. Served with a smug blow off, of course.

It's a shame that there are so few journalists, and especially interviewers, who have a working knowledge of their guest, his/her biography and issue positions from a historical perspective. Brit does. I'd want to see him interview Tom Daschele or Terry McAullife for 60 minutes. The medium is being wasted. 75% of the TV guys/gals have no involvement in the discourse (i.e. actually listening to the answer) and totally lack the ability and knowledge to challenge inconsistencies or move into unplanned territory with a solid foundation of insight and skill. I hate the Today show/Bill O'Reilly crap - Couric is the most incompetent, scripted hack in the field, and O'Reilly is only interested in presenting his opinions. The guest is a prop. The guest is a tool for Matthews, Savage, the CNN "Capital gang", McLaughlin, and Donahue etc. to show their brilliance. Snow, Zahn, Imus, King, Lehrer, all the morning zombies ... they're all just potted plants or working the shill slot. Martha Stewart nicely tells Jane Clayson she's there to make summer doilies and not to discuss her shareholder lawsuits and Justice Department investigation into insider trading ... and Jane firms up and challenges that insult to her professional duty: "Y'know, these doilies would be acceptable at a leisure picnic or a more formal sit down dinner ..."

Brit Hume is a true professional. He can deconstruct the position of a Newt Gingrich, John McCain, David Brock or Jesse Jackson in a methodical, skillful and neutral way. Michael Medved is the best around at that. Jason Lewis here in Mineapolis is really good, Gwetta Van Susteren listens too, so does Hugh Hewitt, Hannity, Neal Cavuto (and really all the Financial reporters - they are fearless interviewers). The guy who hosts the Fox media-analysis panel is great. The C-SPAN hosts, Brian Lamb for one, are terrific interviewers on Booknotes and absolute Druids during their interviews with political guests - and especially those idiot callers. That damn "non-partisanship" facade - right. That morning show is a trip into contrived, organized disinformation. "Republican Line from Manhattan, is the caller there?" "I'd direct my outrage at President Bush, but he didn't really win the election ..."

Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, the late Barbara Olson, Mary Matalin, Victoria Tensing, E.D. Donahay ... the Pubbie/Fox women rock and they are smarter and have bigger "ones" than the men. Except for Mark Levin. I'm amazed he's got "them" the size of canned hams, and I'm amazed he can stand upright with that ballast below. He's a guy you'd like to sit next to on a barstool and rip people for a few hours. Ingraham and Coulter would be quite the twosome to club-hop with. I'll bet that's a scary good time.