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Rick Santorum is about to see the kitchen sink up-close. So far he hasn’t been a threat, so he hasn’t faced much harsh scrutiny, much less the attacks that are about to come his way. His candidacy is for real, and Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney both know it. While Gingrich thought he could isolate Romney and become his lone real competitor, yesterday’s results, combined with a deflating Gingrich campaign, have allowed Santorum to leapfrog Gingrich as the more viable Romney alternative today. It’s not in Gingrich’s nature to give up. Attacking Romney hasn’t gotten him to where he thought...

Although the political world grinds to a seeming halt when the president addresses Congress every year in January, that doesn’t necessarily mean anything interesting comes out of the ordeal. And on Tuesday’s coverage of the State of the Union address on the Fox News Channel, senior political analyst Brit Hume said this year’s from President Barack Obama was no different. “I’ve covered about 35 of these things and I thought they were always a murderous assignment for any president,” Hume said. “For one thing they are too long and for certain political reasons in Washington, they need to be because...

While former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain’s poll numbers have been sky-high in recent weeks, the honeymoon may soon be over for him, says Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume. On Sunday’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Hume chided Cain for a series of gaffes and missteps in explaining his stance on issues such as abortion and negotiating with terrorists. “I think serious damage has been done,” Hume said. “For all of the disaffection for professional politicians that we see in this cycle and to some extent in the congressional election, in the end, particularly when you are running...

While former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain’s poll numbers have been sky-high in recent weeks, the honeymoon may soon be over for him, says Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume. “The abortion blunder was inexplicable,” Hume continued. “It doesn’t walk it back when you say it ought to be the person’s choice but it is also illegal. I’m sorry — that doesn’t help. I suspect Herman Cain may have peaked and may begin to decline.”

On Thursday night, many eyes will turn toward President Barack Obama as he gives an address to a joint session of Congress to unveil his latest plan for the economy. But is the timing right for Obama to use that platform to roll out new proposals? On Tuesday’s “Special Report,” senior Fox News political analyst Brit Hume declared the timing ill-advised. According to Hume, Obama is desperately seeking better results for the economy — and the clock is ticking.

Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 12:17 PM The tolerant left strikes again… Liberals create a video game where tea partiers are murdered. Via Pundit Press: “Tea Party Zombies Must Die” They don’t want to discuss the issue. They just want you dead. In the latest “game” for far left activists you get to watch your favorite conservative pundits get slaughtered in front of your eyes – Including: Brit Hume, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich.

The party of civility is at it again. Refusing to have a legitimate discussion on the merits of each side's economic ideology, the Left has just gone ahead and decided that Tea Partiers are zombies. And those zombies must die! Thus is the premise of the online video game "Tea Party Zombies Must Die!"... Among those that the Left wants murdered are Brit Hume, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity: Along with Glenn Beck:

FOX News Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume slammed Republican Michele Bachmann last night on The O’Reilly Factor. Hume said, “In the end she would prove too toxic to independents much like Sarah Palin did… They would think she is just too much.” Too conservative = Too Toxic

Brit Hume trashed Newt on Fox and called him nothing less than a Bomb thrower.  That's an understatement. Brit said that Newt attacked Paul Ryan and handed a talking point to the Democrats......"vote for a Republican and Medicare will be gone."  All that on day 5 of his campaign. Brit pretty much said that Newt is going to implode even faster than he did as Speaker of the House. He complimented Ryan for his detailed plan and ridicules Newt for not offering anything but a lot of noise.

As more pundits react to Sarah Palin’s video response on the Arizona shooting, Fox’s Brit Hume professed he’s never in his life seen someone receive such vicious media coverage as Palin and attempted to broadly define the “Sarah Palin Problem” on Fox News Sunday. Before Hume summed Palin up, Fox commentator Juan Williams shared his bewilderment over Palin’s tone and word choice in the video, and thought the whole thing was “unnecessary.” This “just gave her opponents such an opportunity then to excoriate her . . . and did not raise her stature,” Williams concluded. Brit Hume offered up his...

Was National Public Radio correct to fire Juan Williams, their National News Analyst, for saying, “…when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they're identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous”? The answer is a simple one: you betchya. This is, as the Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan wrote, "anti-religious bigotry in its purest, clearest form." How could NPR employ an ostensibly unbiased “National News Analyst” who admits an irrational bias against Arabs and Muslims? What would our reaction...

On the panel on Fox News Sunday.

On Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume condemned NPR for its “howling double standard” in firing Juan Williams for expressing an opinion, a standard “manifestly not being applied to other NPR people.” He forwarded the theory that “in the culture of NPR, appearing on Fox is a sin” and “for an African-American man” to “be kind of a Bill Cosby liberal, not a down-the-line liberal, is a sin as well.” Hume’s assessment came after host Chris Wallace read from a column in which Cokie Roberts denounced Glenn Beck as “worse than a clown. He’s more like a terrorist,”

Brit Hume is hosting a documentary on the conservative movement airing on the Fox News Channel tonight at 9 p.m. EST.

The White House’s current effort to disparage the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is an act of desperation in light of the low poll numbers of the Democratic Party going into the November midterm, as some have pointed out. But perhaps President Barack Obama should address some questions about his own fundraising before attacking other organizations. On the Oct. 11 broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Special Report with Bret Baier,” former host and network contributor Brit Hume took on the issue of administration officials using the bully pulpit to push these charges. According to Hume, the charges are baseless and even...

"The news of what is in that celebrated Arizona immigration law must not have reached the Obama Administration"...Brit Hume commentary on Fox News Special Report (Video)

So we have a health care reform entitlement now, along with various unfunded liabilities, courtesy of the federal government. The next question is - how are we going to pay for all of it? Last week following the passage of health care legislation, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer predicted a value-added tax (or VAT) could be in the works, which is a consumption tax that is placed on a product whenever value is added at a stage of production and at final sale. However, former Fox News "Special Report" anchor Brit Hume, now a senior political analyst for network, said there...

It's certainly not business as usual in Washington, D.C., but that's probably not what the American people had in mind when they elected President Barack Obama to come to the White House and usher in a new era of change. And this diversion from business as usual is something former Fox News "Special Report" anchor Brit Hume, now a senior political analyst for network, said he had never seen before. The veteran Washington, D.C. journalist said on the March 16 broadcast of FNC's "America Live" that with the potential of the House invoking the Slaughter Rule and the potential 51-vote...

Woods goes off the apology cart path today and starts talking about Buddism and what it means to him, and how his mother taught him Buddhism at a young age...Brit Hume flashback: "He's said to be a Buddhist, I don't think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption as the Christian faith,...My message to Tiger would be, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world" (2 Videos side by side)

Here is video of the Fox News Sunday Panel discussing the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts and what it means. They agreed that voters in Massachusetts rejected Obama's policies, and the tactics used to try and push through ObamaCare legislation. Chris Wallace thinks Obama's huge mistake was to let the Health Care Debate drag on for so long without passing anything. Both Pelosi and Reid have failed miserably in not getting something passed. Brit Hume said that America is a "Center-Right Country," and Obama has been pushing a "Left-of-Center Agenda." The public will tolerate that as long as it likes...

Here is video of Brit Hume telling Bill O'Reilly that Martha Coakley losing would actually help the Democrats in the long run. (Video)Brit Hume said, "If Martha Coakley loses tomorrow it will be long term, and perhaps even short term the best thing that could ever happen to Democrats." Hume explained that a Coakley loss would stop the Democrats from being able to ram the "wildly unpopular health care reform bill through the congress." Hume said if Democrats fail to pass the health care bill "the public anger over it will subside, not completely, but it will subside quite a...

Journalist Brit Hume who urged Tiger Woods to “turn to the Christian faith” was right when he drew distinction between Buddhism and Christianity in terms of the concept of forgiveness and redemption, said a prominent evangelical theologian. “I admire Brit Hume for saying something that was at the risk of bringing on this controversy because it really puts on the table the fundamental distinction of worldview: worldview A being Buddhism, worldview B being Christianity,” said Albert Mohler, Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., on his eponymous radio program last week. Mohler, a sought-after commentator who...

Not too many things raise my eyebrows in these days of through-the-looking-glass America, where I fully expect up to be down, left to be right, and right to be wrong. It's not that I'm a pessimist -- just a realist. And this is why hearing mainstream-media newsman Brit Hume recommend Christianity over Buddhism on FOX News Sunday -- well, made my eyebrows say "bonjour" to my hairline. In case you missed the story, Hume was addressing Tiger Woods' womanizing woes and recommended that the golfer seek his answers in Christianity, saying, "I don't think that faith [Woods' Buddhism] offers the...

Here is video of Brit Hume on "The O'Reilly Factor," where he defended his comments urging Tiger Woods to "Turn to the Christian Faith." (Video)Brit Hume said, "I'm still glad I said it, and I'd say it again, and I'll reiterate it here." Hume said "the attacks on me have been more extensive than I expected...but it really isn't about me Bill, it's really about what I said and about the remarkably explosive impact that discussions of Christ and Christianity seem to bring about in the public square, it wasn't always so, but it's so today."

Not too many things raise my eyebrows in these days of through-the-looking-glass America, where I fully expect up to be down, left to be right, and right to be wrong. It's not that I'm a pessimist -- just a realist. And this is why hearing mainstream-media newsman Brit Hume recommend Christianity over Buddhism on FOX News Sunday -- well, made my eyebrows say "bonjour" to my hairline...

The week-old story of Brit Hume's Christianity vs. Buddhism remarks is apparently still fodder for a good laugh, and comedienne Wanda Sykes attempted to squeeze out one more. The late-night talk show host arguably stepped over the line with a skit this week when she jokingly entertained ‘the notion that Jesus was willing to give Tiger Woods crabs. The Jan. 9 broadcast of Fox's "The Wanda Sykes Show" featured a sketch in which two actors playing Jesus and Buddha appeared as "guests" on the Fox News Channel show "The O'Reilly Factor" during which the former Fox News anchor expounded on...

"The suggestion here is that the American public, being racist, would not accept someone who talked like an African-American and who was particularly dark-skinned. That really does amount to an accusation of racism against the American people."

Here is video of a Fox News Sunday Panel discussing Harry Reid's comments during 2008 that Barack Obama had a chance to win because he was "light-skinned" and had "no Negro Dialect." The comments have surfaced in a new book by Mark Halperin. Reid has apologized for the remarks, and Obama has accepted his apology. Brit Hume starts off in the video by saying he thinks Reid owes the American Public an apology because the comment is really an accusation that Americans are racist: "The suggestion here is that the American public, being racist, would not accept someone who talked...

Unless you've been living under a rock or were recently abducted by aliens, chances are you've heard about Tiger Woods' humiliating exposure as a serial adulterer and the resulting damage to his marriage and career.  The Woods scandal has filled the front pages and dominated the airwaves, inviting commentary from pundits from CNN to ESPN to TMZ.  While folks like Dennis Rodman and Hugh Hefner are speaking out in defense of the golfer - justifying his plight by blaming the pressure of fame or mocking the concept of marital fidelity - it's clear to most people that Mr. Woods' marital...

In life it doesn't really matter if you attain the highest heights if in the process of doing so you lose your wife, your family, your children, or you destroy the world your children will grow in to. What matters is not who in this world likes you, but whether God is satisfied with your condition. It is not so much about winning your fellow human being's popularity as much as it is important to have personal character. Our nation faces grave circumstances. On President Obama's watch no less than four terror attacks have been unleashed against Americans in America....

Brit HumeBrit Hume stated: “If Tiger WoodsTiger Woods made a true conversion we would know it. It would show through in his being and he would know it above all. And he would feel the extraordinary blessing that that would be. . .It would be a shining light. It would be a magnificent thing to Woods.”

... of some essential differences between Christianity and Buddhism: In his Fundamentals of the Faith, Peter Kreeft writes that "there have only been two people in history who so astonished people that they asked not 'Who are you?' but 'What are you? A man or a god' They were Jesus and Buddha." He then contrasts the striking differences between the two men: "Buddha's clear answer to this question was: 'I am a man, not a god'; Christ's clear answer was: 'I am both son of Man and Son of God.' Buddha said, 'Look not to me, look to my dharma...

From repost at http://www.solidprinciples.com Poor Bill O’Reilly and Brit Hume. There they were on the O’Reilly show a few weeks ago, puzzling over why Barack Obama and the Democrats are doing so many things that are damaging to our country. Bill and Brit agreed that they couldn’t possibly be harming the nation intentionally, because negative voter reaction would redound to them politically and electorally. Can’t the Democrats see this? Did they suddenly get stupid politically? This is so unlike them. How to explain this anomaly? Poor Bill and Brit, and many others, indeed. It is time to think the unthinkable...

During the Roman Empire’s secularist era those who acknowledged the deity of Christ were frequently fed to the lions to entertain – for lack of a better word – the “progressive” elites of the day. There’s little doubt that if many of today’s secular-“progressives” (more accurately: “moonbat liberals”) had their way, Caesar Obama would call out the lions once again. Nothing makes the left lose its collective noodle like an open proclamation of Christian faith. You don’t see it when Muslims proselytize in government schools; the ACLU doesn’t sue when Wiccans share their witchy ways; militant “gay” activists don’t picket...

Brit Hume, former Fox News Anchor, now a commentator, touched off a firestorm when he made some compassionate remarks about Tiger Woods on a Sunday Fox show: "Tiger Woods will recover as a golfer. Whether he can recover as a person I think is a very open question. It is a tragic situation. He has lost his family. It is not clear to me whether he will have a relationship with his children. "The Tiger Woods who emerges once his news value dies out of this scandal - the extent to which he can recover seems to me to depend...

Brit Hume's Tiger Woods Remarks Shine Light On True intolerance By Michael Gerson January 8, 2010 After urging Tiger Woods to accept the "forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith" -- and comparing Buddhism unfavorably to that hope -- journalist Brit Hume insisted he was not proselytizing. In this, he is wrong. His words exemplify proselytization. For this, Hume has been savaged. Post media critic Tom Shales put him in the category of a "sanctimonious busybody" engaged in "telling people what religious beliefs they ought to have." Blogger Andrew Sullivan criticized Hume's "pure sectarianism," which helps abolish...

FACES PUBLIC CENSURE! MEDIA DEMANDS APOLOGY! thelastcrusade.org The most offensive two words in the English language are not “Barack Obama,” “George Bush,” “staunch liberal” or “compassionate conservative.” Neither are the words “f*** you,” nor any other expletive. The words, according to Fox News Analyst Brit Hume, are “Jesus Christ.” Mr. Hume has faced a maelstrom of criticism for suggesting that Tiger Woods, the professional golfer, turn to Jesus Christ in order to makeover his personal life. Woods marriage has been wrecked by scandals of adulterous behavior not only with golf groupies but also professional prostitutes. On Fox News Sunday,...

The first rule of dinner-table conversation is no hot talk about politics or religion. Apparently, there's a rule regarding the discussion of religion during political talk shows, too. On "Fox News Sunday" on Jan. 3, the panelists had advanced to that light part of the discussion where they focusing on movies and crime novelists. Venerated newsman Brit Hume turned to sports, and predicted Tiger Woods would return to success as a golfer. But if he really wanted to recover as a person, Hume suggested, he should consider Christianity. Woods is a Buddhist, he said, but Christianity offered the forgiveness and...

Brit Hume said he was “not surprised” by the media backlash over his remarks to Tiger Woods on “Fox News Sunday” this week. There is a “double-standard” when it comes to speaking publicly about Christianity versus other religions, he said. Hume, a Fox News analyst, told CNSNews.com: “There is a double standard. If I had said, for example, that what Tiger Woods needed to do was become more deeply engaged in his Buddhist faith or to adopt the ideas of Hinduism, which I think would be of great spiritual value to him, I doubt anybody would have said anything.”

Brit Hume, Tiger Woods and Buddha   By Bill O'Reilly for BillOReilly.com   Thursday, January 7, 2010 My colleague Brit Hume has aroused the ire of some secularists as well as some Buddhists by advising Tiger Woods to seek redemption through Christianity in place of his mother's religion of Buddhism. Said Mr. Hume about Mr. Woods, "He's said to be a Buddhist. I don't think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. So my message to Tiger would be, 'Tiger, turn your faith—turn to the Christian faith and you can...

[In light of being a Christian first and a Conservative second - Ann Coulter's post today in which Ann defended Brit Hume's reaching out to Tiger Woods gets our praise from us at the IGNORANT FISHERMEN BLOG. The Gospel message must go out first and the conservative ideal which is derived from the Bible (Almighty God's Word) is to follow. Oh the Grace of Almighty God to all of those who have turn to Him for pardon!" May we be faithful FIRST to the one who SAVED us and WASHED us in His own blood. SINNERS WELCOMED! NO MAN DENIED!]

Brit Hume’s comments on Fox News Sunday — “I don’t think that [Buddhism] offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith,” and, “My message to Tiger [Woods] would be: Tiger, turn to the Christian faith, and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world” — have unleashed a torrent of criticism from the Left, including the various circus acts over at MSNBC and the Washington Post’s Tom Shales. Shales’s criticisms in particular are manifestations of a mind that is enraged and slightly unhinged; they are ad hominem and,...

<p>Last weekend on Fox News Sunday, anchor-turned-commentator Brit Hume stirred up trouble saying that golfer/adulterer Tiger Woods should convert to Christianity from Buddhism, because Christianity uniquely offers the chance of redemption. Yesterday, in an interview with WTOP radio (h/t Ken Tucker), Hume stuck to his guns.</p>

There has been a torrent of news, blogging, raging, and opinion-shucking going on over Brit Hume's remarks about Tiger Woods, Buddhism, and Christianity, (the best I've read so far is by The Anchoress), so I thought I'd toss my thoughts into the great vacuum of blogdom (or is it "wheel of blogging dharma"?). My take on the aftermath is fairly simple: Hume offended three notable groups of people:1) Those who claim that news is meant to be completely objective and free of any opinion whatsoever.2) Those who cannot fathom someone making an unapologetic public remark about their belief that Christianity...

In a classic parallel with Islamism and in a similar response to modernity's trials, the evangelical fusion of faith with politics is gathering pace, and rapidly re-defining conservatism as a politico-religious movement. A reader writes: I realize you rarely get to travel in true "teabagger country" but here in rural Mississippi, there is an interesting phenomenon occurring that the Brit Hume brouhaha brings into clearer focus. If you travel down any road, you will see churches popping up everywhere. I've lived here my entire life, and it used to be that each community had one church, usually Baptist, with a...

IF YOU CAN FIND A BETTER DEAL, TAKE IT!January 6, 2010 Someone mentioned Christianity on television recently and liberals reacted with their usual howls of rage and blinking incomprehension. On a Fox News panel discussing Tiger Woods, Brit Hume said, perfectly accurately: "The extent to which he can recover, it seems to me, depends on his faith. He is said to be a Buddhist. I don't think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. So, my message to Tiger would be, 'Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make...

Fox shock! As was noted on WorldMagBlog yesterday, Brit Hume crossed the line of decency on Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace (and on Sunday, of all days!) by recommending “the Christian faith” to Tiger Woods as the remedy for his personal problems. In case you missed it, here’s the clip (viewer discretion advised): < snip > Was Hume abusing his position as a newsman on a panel of news analysts? Or was he just offering . . . analysis? Kyle Koster at The Chicago Sun-Times, for example, points out the oddity of “a newsman offering advice to the beleaguered...

On Fox News' #1 rated cable news program The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly interviewed guest journalist Brit Humes regarding his controversial remarks about Tiger Woods switching to Christianity made just the day before on Fox News Sunday... Bill O'Reilly played that tape, then immediately asked Hume "Is that proselytizing?" To which Brit replied "I don't think so ..." ... By definition, proselytizing is "To induce someone to convert to one's own religious faith. To induce someone to join one's own political party or to espouse one's doctrine." ... Perhaps it is the word "proselytizing" and the possible negative connotations...

If you're going to call out someone for hypocrisy, make sure you're not guilty of the same thing. Guest columnist and Christian minister Welton Gaddy, a pastor for preaching and worship at Northminster (Baptist) Church in Monroe, La. and MSNBC regular, apparently had no qualms with calling out former Fox News "Special Report" anchor Brit Hume in a Jan. 4 column, but is committing the same transgression. Gaddy took issue with the Fox News senior political analyst's 39-second spiritual commentary on redemption for the recently disgraced Tiger Woods. And although Gaddy failed to mention that Hume publicly stepped out of...

Here is video evidence that Brit Hume's comments advocating Christian Faith are making liberal heads explode. The video is of Keith Olbermann talking to another lefty as they mock and ridicule Brit Hume for having the audacity to advocate for the Christian faith - the faith he has found to be meaningful in his life, and which he urged Tiger Woods to consider. This is a perfect example of what a person can expect if they cross the "politically correct" boundary that the Left feels they have a right to impose on society. Somehow, if Hume was advocating the virtues...