I agree with you about Brit. I went back and read the post someone referred to.
Losing a child has to be the most devastating thing that can happen to one and it certainly has changed Brit Hume.
I wonder why he thinks Newt ‘outed’ his son and what does that mean?
Would being outed as gay cause someone to commit suicide in these days? Hard to imagine. Well, it’s a sad story and I feel very sorry for Brit, but, that being said, he should not be commenting when he has this personal issue.
Just to set the chronology. Newt’s son was 28 and a journalist in his own right (Hill, I think). He committed suicide and THEN the rumor was floated about him and Paxon.
As that story was breaking, Paxon suddenly resigned, so with one dead and one out of power, and being a tad tawdry, the story just hung out there in the rumor mill. BUT, it was related to the whole business of the GOP leadership (Armey/Boehner/Paxon) going to Newt to insist he resign as Speaker. Apparently THAT story was broken by none other than, ta da .. young Mr. Hume.
Then, as the story goes, there was in-fighting among the triumvirate, with a split between Armey/Paxon. Thus, it is thought in some quarters that it was Armey, not Newt, who dropped the Paxon/Hume rumor.
I don’t know that Newt with his lesbian sister would think that either young Hume’s or Paxon’s being gay would be such a big deal. Stuff happens. In the best of families.
But the ‘outing’ wasn’t the underlying cause for young Mr. Hume’s suicide as best I recollect.
Nonetheless, if there is that deep, emotional, highly personal animus by Brit for Newt, justified or not, he should NOT be covering this election. Shame on him. Like a judge, as an influential opinion shaper, Brit should recuse himself from covering this election, or make clear the basis of his animus. As it is, his faithful followers of many years are just puzzled that the normally mild mannered reporter has taken to being so hateful.