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Brit Hume Asks How CNN, Others 'Like Being Patted on the Head & Given the Seal of Approval' by W.H.
Newsbusters ^ | October 20, 2009 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 10/19/2009 10:19:45 PM PDT by Rufus2007

After another round of attacks from the White House, this time from higher levels of the Obama administration, Brit Hume, a senior political analyst for Fox News, went to bat for his network.

On the Oct. 19 broadcast of Fox News Channel's "Special Report with Bret Baier," Hume gave his best effort to rationalize why White House Chief of Staff Rahm and Obama Senior Advisor David Axelrod used two Sunday morning news show appearances to beat up on the highly rated news channel. According to Hume, it was because they disapproved of the stories his channel broke over the last few months.

"It is a little hard to discern a strategy behind the White House campaign of criticism of Fox News unless it's simply this - an attempt to quarantine Fox and thereby discourage other media outlets from following up stories did originate here," Hume said. "The White House is clearly stung by the revelations about former aid Van Jones. He turned out to have harbored views that were out there where the buses don't run and he was forced to resign. And the White House could not much have cared for the hidden camera expose of ACORN - an organization with which the president had a past association and one whose voter registration drives have benefited the Democratic Party."

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KEYWORDS: bho44; brithume; cnn; foxnews; glennbeck; mediabias; staterunmedia
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Nice jab at the rest of the MSM Brit...
1 posted on 10/19/2009 10:19:45 PM PDT by Rufus2007
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To: Rufus2007

OUCH! and so true.Good for Brit.


2 posted on 10/19/2009 10:22:44 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Rufus2007

Go Brit!


3 posted on 10/19/2009 10:23:08 PM PDT by Jeb21 (www.jewsagainstobama.com)
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To: Rufus2007

Good one Brit, they are bambi’s little poodles, total journowimps. How do they even look at themselves in the mirror each morning. Pathetic.


4 posted on 10/19/2009 10:24:43 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Over, under, sideways, down, backwards, forwards, square and round.....when will it end?)
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To: Rufus2007

The Mao suit was a nice touch. He is going to have the biggest show on Cable at this rate.

Pray for America


5 posted on 10/19/2009 10:25:36 PM PDT by bray (Hope and Corruption)
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To: Jet Jaguar; 444Flyer; MestaMachine; LucyT

HumePing


6 posted on 10/19/2009 10:25:40 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (I am Jim Thompson............................Please pray for our troops....)
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To: Rufus2007

How CNN, Others ‘Like Being Patted on the Head & Given the Seal of Approval’ by W.H.

How CNN, Others like kissing Obama’s ass & turning viewers into Fox News watchers


7 posted on 10/19/2009 10:25:54 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Rufus2007

This seem so appropriate now. http://www.therockymountainfoundation.org/images/315_9-15-08_NR,_Obama_Pet_Peacock_-_jpg.jpg The fact they can’t force feed FOX has proven a problem for the administration.


8 posted on 10/19/2009 10:25:54 PM PDT by swheats (America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law!)
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To: Rufus2007

It’s amazing to watch how this admin went after Rush first, but has since shifted to Fox news.


9 posted on 10/19/2009 10:28:19 PM PDT by CommieCutter (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs/ht/qt/3013_08.html)
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To: Rufus2007

I miss Brit!

And .. this is the same tactic the dems used on Rush .. and Rush got the same result .. a bigger audience.

These dems are just plain TOO STUPID to be running a government. God have mercy on us .. only 39 months to go.


10 posted on 10/19/2009 10:29:34 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Michael Yon: "The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq.")
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To: Rufus2007

The fringe media “journalists” are whores. I never liked Helen Thomas, but at least she is showing SOME SIGNS of behaving like a REAL journalist. You can sense even SHE is getting fed up with being used by the Obama Administration (Okay, no jokes about how Helen Thomas couldn’t be a whore if she tried, but you get my point).


11 posted on 10/19/2009 10:31:17 PM PDT by historyrepeatz
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No one has mentioned this (as far as i know) :

Glen Beck (The much hated Glen Beck ) used to work for the wonderful CNN.

Was CNN bad then and is good now?

or was Glen Beck good then but is now bad ?

...its hard to figure


12 posted on 10/19/2009 10:31:50 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Rufus2007

*bump*


13 posted on 10/19/2009 10:32:40 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Rufus2007

Brit seemed to get a kick out of Beck’s Mao telephone man.

Well, who didn’t? That was gold.


14 posted on 10/19/2009 10:33:21 PM PDT by Shelayne (Thank you to ALL the 9-12 Patriots in DC and from sea-to-shining-sea!)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

“Here at Fox meanwhile the attacks have been something of a boon, especially to the highly opinionated and wildly popular Glenn Beck who has installed direct phone line on his set and invited the White House to call if anyone there has a beef,” Hume continued. “So far, no calls.”

So far, NO CALLS. CHICKENS with nowhere to roost so they sh!t all over everything including their own nest. No one cares what the other “news” channels have to offer. They know it is spoonfed from the enemy, digested and regurgitated onto the public, and the PUBLIC, WE THE PEOPLE, don’t like being “throwed up on.”


15 posted on 10/19/2009 10:33:30 PM PDT by MestaMachine (One if by land, 2 if by sea, 3 if by Air Force 1.)
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To: CommieCutter

Yeah, these thugs drove Rush’s ratings into the stratosphere and doing the same thing for FOX/Beck.

Pray for America


16 posted on 10/19/2009 10:33:30 PM PDT by bray (Hope and Corruption)
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To: Rufus2007
Does anybody else find it absolutely hilarious that Axelrod and Emanuel went on ABC and CNN and said that Fox was 'obviously in it for profits and making money'.

What the hell do they think CNN and ABC are in it for? And they told them they 'shouldn't follow Fox'. LOL.

17 posted on 10/19/2009 10:34:20 PM PDT by txroadkill ( 9/12/2009 another win for the Gipper!)
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To: Rufus2007
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18 posted on 10/19/2009 10:39:31 PM PDT by GloriaJane (http://www.last.fm/user/GloriaJane)
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To: woofie

At that time in his life it was probably just a job.


19 posted on 10/19/2009 10:41:28 PM PDT by MCF
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20 posted on 10/19/2009 10:44:36 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
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