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Chris Wallace's "FOX News Sunday" interview with Bill Clinton was one of six TV appearances the former president made last week. But despite Mr. Clinton's highly publicized objections to the recent ABC docudrama about 9/11, no one other than Wallace asked him about the aggressiveness of his pursuit of Usama bin Laden. As for Mr. Clinton's assertion that Wallace did not challenge the Bush administration's pre-9/11 record on terrorism? In 2004, Wallace asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to answer the charge that "the Bush Administration largely ignored the threat from Al Qaeda," before 9/11,adding, "Mr. Secretary, it sure sounds like...

Kim Hume, one of the founding Fox News Channel hires, will leave her post as VP and Washington bureau chief after the mid-term elections. There was no immediate word about what might be next for Ms. Hume, who preceded her husband, Brit, to Fox News by several months in 1996. John Moody, Fox News senior VP for news and editorial, told the D.C. bureau staff Thursday morning that Ms. Hume had raised the prospect a couple of months ago. "I want to be direct and clear. This is Kim's decision," he said. A Fox News spokeswoman said deputy bureau chief...

Marital sniping may have led to the departure of Brit Hume's wife, Kim, from Fox News last week. Kim Hume's imminent exit as Fox's D.C. bureau chief was announced Thursday. The buzz out of Washington is that she and the anchorman had been tattletaling on each other to the chairman and CEO of Fox Television Stations.

We’ve been over this scenario a thousand times. Your grandson has been kidnapped and is trapped in an unknown place underground with limited air to breathe. You have the kidnapper’s accomplice who knows where the boy is, but isn’t talking. Your grandson has hours and perhaps minutes to live if the guy doesn’t tell you where he is. So far, Congress cannot seem to grasp that interrogators might occasionally face a situation like this. Yes, we respect the basic human rights of all persons, and yes, western and American values make us recoil from the thought, but when we face...

In a desperate attempt to sabotage the ABC movie, The Path To 9/11, the DUmmies have plotted to set off a "Google Bomb" in order to present their fictional version of 9/11 events as you can see in this THREAD titled, "The Great 2006 Google/Technorati 9-11 movie info bomb!" Apparently Fox News Washington managing editor, Brit Hume, got word of this "Google Bomb" plot and reported on it in his Political Grapevine report yesterday (to watch this report go to this Fox News PAGE and click on VIDEO). Of course, the DUmmies reacted angrily to their "Google Bomb" plot...

They aired the German TV clip of Green Helmet at Qana last week and tonight they covered the atrocity that wasn’t. Is that why they’re known as “Faux News”? Because they’re willing to look critically at faux news that Greg Mitchell is only too gullibly happy to swallow? Kudos to Zombie, of course, and to the forgotten man in all this — Dan Riehl, who was blogging the ambulance hoax as far back as August 1. Click to see video.

I just spent about ten minutes combing the archives with various different keywords, titles and phrases. I searched google, and I did a Fox News search. I can't find what I'm looking for. It was a thread (I believe I was the poster, which is why I remember it!) where Brit Hume's Grapevine talked about a climate researcher whose global warming models operated on simulations that did not account for mountains, wind, storms or clouds. Sometimes all it takes is one Freeper with a good memory or a better command of search engines, because I can't find it. I'm looking...

by Mark Finkelstein July 12, 2006 - 20:09 Was it Robert Novak who jolted aficionados of the vendetta-against-Joe-Wilson conspiracy theory, or was the message coming from . . . a Higher Authority? You be the judge, after having a look at the screen capture from this evening's Special Report with Brit Hume on FNC. Yes, that's a lightning bolt. No, it wasn't photo-shopped - it's the real thing. The bolt hit while the panel was discussing the implications of the just-aired interview of Bob Novak by Brit Hume. Hume questioned Novak about his disclosure of Valerie Plame's employment by the...

Robert Novak sits down with Brit Hume to discuss the Varlie Plame case; tonight during the 6:00 EST hour.

Patrick Henry College, founded in 2000, just celebrated its fifth graduation on its Purcellville, Va., campus. The 49 graduates received bachelor's degrees. Supported by the Home School Legal Defense Association, PHC is dedicated to preparing Christian men and women to lead our nation and to shape our culture using biblical values they learned from their parents and churches, as well as PHC. The college is unique among conservative Christian colleges because of its emphasis on classical liberal arts and on the preparation of its students for public service, advocacy and citizen leadership, as well as a commitment to apprenticeship.

Did anyone notice the blooper on Fox News Channel while Brit Hume was discussing the Supreme Court 5-4 whistleblower decision? The crawler at the bottom of the screen said something about "JEWFISH settlers on the West Bank"...

This weekend, join host Chris Wallace for a very special edition of "FOX News Sunday" — 10 years in the making. We'll look back at a decade's worth of news-making interviews and unforgettable moments, starting with our early days broadcasting from historic homes. *snip* Plus, we'll go behind the scenes with our Sunday regulars. What do Brit Hume, Mara Liasson, Bill Kristol and Juan Williams really think of each other? You'll find out.

Exclusive interview by Brit Hume of incoming Press Secretary Tony Snow - Fox News 6 pm Eastern / 3 pm Pacific.

It was a different era, a different administration and a very different Brit Hume. Thirty-six years ago, as a long-haired reporter for columnist Jack Anderson, Hume was handed information that Spiro Agnew's son had left his wife and moved in with a male hairdresser. Hume tracked down the vice president's son in Baltimore, talked his way in with a made-up tale about reports that Randy Agnew was living in a "hippie crash pad" and confirmed the details. Although Hume expressed strong reservations about the story -- his wife thought it was disgraceful -- he convinced himself that it could be...

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Former Clinton CENTCOM commander, Anthony Zinni — the most prominent of the retired generals attacking Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld — now says that, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, "What bothered me ... [was that] I was hearing a depiction of the intelligence that didn't fit what I knew. There was no solid proof, that I ever saw, that Saddam had WMD." But in early 2000, Zinni told Congress ...

It was a fleeting victory, but one nonetheless. By taking a conservative tone with his constant broadside against illegal immigration, Lou Dobbs managed to beat Brit Hume in the 25-54 demographic last week.

SpongeBob on Brit Hume's Target List The steady creep to the top for Brit Hume's nightly Special Report on Fox--not just the No.1 Washington-originated cable show but also the fourth in all basic cable at 6 p.m.--has the host eyeing the next victim. "We've been having a series of meetings here about how we can beat Nickelodeon," he says. "We just hope that they don't put SpongeBob SquarePants up against us." Fun aside, Hume's hourlong mix of news and debate now reaches 1.5 million nightly while dominating the key 25-to-54 age demographic. And it happened in a very un-Fox-like way:...

In case you missed it, Brit Hume and his panel incinerated the Dinosaur Pres tonight on "Fox Evening News" regarding the "new secret tapes that prove Bush wanted to kill black people in New Orleans." The Left's Lies In order: 1. The "confidential tapes" breathlessly released yesterday by Al Prazeera are nothing of the sort. They were released to the entire press last August. AP has simply lied, again. 2. The NOAA weatherman on film said that there was a "20% chance the levees might be topped." Not, desroyed, topped. No one expected the levees would be breached. 3. Gov....

Brit Hume was in his morning staff meeting at Fox News yesterday when his cell phone rang. It was Dick Cheney. The network's Washington managing editor had been pressing for the interview that every news organization was hotly pursuing, and now the vice president was saying that he would talk to Hume -- and only Hume -- about the hunting accident that has put him at the center of a fierce Beltway storm. In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Vice President Cheney discusses his accidental shooting of friend Harry Whittington for the first time. "I felt the need...

Blame GOP Malaise on Bush's Team by Robert Novak Posted Feb 19, 2006 When Dick Cheney finally broke his silence by answering questions from Fox's Brit Hume last Wednesday, four days after the hunting accident, many Republicans could hardly believe it. They were stunned that the vice president indicated he had no regrets about the way the incident was handled. Every Republican I contacted had regrets in abundance. Bush-bashers delighted in exaggerating Cheney's post-accident conduct as a metaphor for everything wrong with George W. Bush's presidency in its sixth year. Nevertheless, there are supporters of the president (and the vice...

Hunting hysteria By Tony SnowFeb 17, 2006 WASHINGTON, D.C -- The politics of kneecapping failed utterly last week, when partisans tried to make hay of Vice President Dick Cheney's having shot hunting partner Harry Whittington.   The Washington press corps gloated over the circumstance, but raged because the vice president hadn't thought to contact them immediately. Broadcasters and scribes pelted White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan with complaints about process and demands for trivia: Why did Cheney wait nearly 18 hours before contacting a newspaper? Did White House aides urge him to go public earlier? Did the president order him...

Brit Hume's interview with VP Dick Cheney attracted more than 2.1 million viewers on Wednesday night, making Special Report the #1 program on cable news. The 6 p.m. time slot delivered 2,101,000 total viewers, including 513,000 in the 25-54 demographic. Hume beat O'Reilly by a few thousand viewers in P2+...

VICE PRESIDENT Dick Cheney knew where to go when he finally decided to tell his story about the accidental shooting of a hunting buddy. Cheney went to Fox News, where he was guided gently through the events by interviewer Brit Hume. Cheney has not submitted himself to open-ended news conference questioning in more than three years -- and it's clear that he did not regard the aftermath of a Texas shooting as cause for him to face a White House press corps that is openly agitated about his efforts to control the story.

by Mark Finkelstein February 16, 2006 - 07:29 An unsuspecting viewer watching this morning's Today show would have thought that Fox News failed to disclose that in his interview by Brit Hume yesterday, VP Cheney acknowledged having a beer at lunch on the day of the shooting incident. But when it comes to the MSM, it pays to be 'suspecting.' Here's how NBC White House reporter Kelly O'Donnell artfully chose her words: "The official White House transcript of the interview shows Cheney said 'I had a beer at lunch.' Fox News did not show that particular clip during Brit Hume's...

Transcript: Interview of Vice President Cheney by Brit Hume, Fox News 2/15/2006 6:00:00 PM To: National Desk Contact: White House Press Office, 202-456-2580 WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a transcript of an interview of Vice President Dick Cheney by Brit Hume of Fox News: Vice President's Ceremonial Office Eisenhower Executive Office Building 2:01 P.M. EST Q: Mr. Vice President, how is Mr. Whittington? THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, the good news is he's doing very well today. I talked to him yesterday after they discovered the heart problem, but it appears now to have been pretty well...

Monday's edition of Brit Hume's Special Report, the best political show on television, had Bob Novak sitting in the first panelist chair normally occupied by a conservative. He continued spewing his Bush bashing venom from his days at CNN. I never thought I would send Brit a negative email but I did this morning. Is he trying to drive away viewers?

Fox News Channel "Special Report" anchorman Brit Hume said Sunday that violent demonstrations by radical Muslims protesting five-month-old cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Mohammed betray a "howling double standard." "This is really a disgrace," Hume told the panel on "Fox News Sunday." "And it is a disgrace because of the obvious, howling double standard involved here." "What is striking about this is what offends these Muslims who are protesting and these imams," Hume complained. "Does the slaughter of innocent people in many parts of the world in the name of Allah offend them? Is that a sacrilege worthy of protest?...

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: The number two general in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved its weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the U.S. invasion. In a new book titled "Saddam's Secrets," former general Georges Sada recounts the story of two airline pilots who told him Saddam's Republican Guard loaded chemical weapons onto two converted civilian aircraft, which the pilots then flew into neighboring Syria under the guise of humanitarian relief. Sada tells FOX News he believes the Syrian government knows exactly where the weapons are saying, "I am sure that these weapons have...

Looks like it could be interesting.

(a) Due to a serious lack of credible GOP candidates from normal political venues (b) Due to the missing "backbone" that many GOP politicians have demonstrated (eg recent Senate vote on Iraq) (c) Due to his ability to ommunicate well and telegenic presence (awesome in a debate format) (d) Due to his incisive intellect demonstated time and again for the many years we've seen him on FNC . . . he'd make a far better candidate for the Republican party than any of the others prominently mentioned

Brit talks with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in an exclusive interview you won’t want to miss! Fox News Channel, 6pm ET, 12am ET

The president spoke with FOX News' Hume on the eve of the Iraqi election for a 275-member Parliament, the first election of its kind since before Saddam and his allies grabbed power through a Ba'ath Party coup in 1968. The president said that even as tactics have changed over time, "strategy has been the same. Remove Saddam Hussein, remove the threat and establish a democracy." Bush said that as long as he is president, the United States will not lose its nerve and desert the Iraqis before it's the right time for U.S. forces to leave. "We can't be defeated...

President Bush delivered the fourth of four speeches on Iraq. Today's speech was given at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in DC. Video of the speech is available at CSPAN. Speaking about this week's elections in Iraq, President Bush told the audience, "We are living through a watershed moment in the story of freedom." Text of today's speech. Brit Hume, Fox News, interviewed President Bush at length. The interview is being broadcast now, and should be rebroadcast in Brit's "Special Report" on replay tonight. Addressing the Heritage Foundation, Condi Rice said, "The world has shirked its duty to...

• With President Bush on the offensive about Iraq, he gives Brit Hume the exclusive you can't miss! His strategy for success, plan for the troops, and blue print for victory — only on “Special Report with Brit Hume” today at 6 p.m. ET! (replay at midnight ET)

On Special Report with Brit Hume on Fox News, 13 December, 2005, Senator Joe Biden (D, Delaware) said the following in reply to President Bush’s third policy speech on Iraq in Philadelphia yesterday: “Failure to get a consensus constitution spells doom for our policy in Iraq. So what is the plan, Mr. President? That is still lacking.” After saying that means participation by the UN, NATO, and Iraq’s neighbors, Biden added: “If this time next year nothing has changed concerning in terms of our success rate, we will be out of Iraq. The American people will not sustain this.” The...

It's program ranker time. FNC had 9 of the top 10 shows on cable news in November, with Bill O'Reilly averaging an impressive 2,552,000 viewers. H&C was #2, Greta was #3, Shep was #4 and Hume was #5. CNN's Larry King was #7. He averaged 1,012,000 viewers in November. Notably, NewsNight with Aaron Brown averaged 795,000 viewers in November before it was yanked off the air; Anderson Cooper 360 averaged 632,000. The #1 show on MSNBC was Countdown with Keith Olbermann. It averaged a strong 462,000 viewers for the month, beating HLN's top program, Nancy Grace. Hardball was MSNBC's #2...

General Pace will be on Fox News With Brit Hume today at 6pm EST. Semppre Fi.

Go "Inside Iran" with reporter Amy Kellogg on Special Report w/ Brit Hume starting Monday, Nov. 21 at 6 p.m. ET.

Brit Hume on the Laura Ingraham radio show at the bottom of the hour.

Senator Brownback Addresses Conservatives' Hopes on Miers Friday, October 21, 2005 This is a partial transcript of "Special Report With Brit Hume" from Oct. 20, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. HUME: Conservative opponents of Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers (search) say they can't identify any Republican senator who's now against her, but they say they have high hopes for Sam Brownback of Kansas. So who better to ask about that than the senator himself? Senator Brownback, welcome. Nice to have you. SEN. SAM BROWNBACK (R), KANSAS: Thanks, Brit. Good to be here. HUME: Where do you now stand...

Clooney Says Keep Quiet Movie star George Clooney (search) is warning other Hollywood liberals to keep their mouths shut when it comes to politics, saying they're likely to hurt the candidates they're trying to help. Clooney says he declined to campaign for John Kerry last year because critics would use his involvement to paint Kerry as beholden to liberal Hollywood. But while he thinks it's dangerous for actors to go public with their politics, Clooney still defends his left-leaning views, saying, “It's pretty hard to find a time when liberals were on the wrong side of an issue."

This morning I was listening to the Laura Ingraham Show and heard her play clips of Lieutenant General Honore addressing reporters about New Orleans evacuation plan for Hurricane Rita. I agree with her assessment that this is the type of no-nonsense, take control person who should be handling press conferences regarding the war in Iraq. Here is an excerpt: "You're asking last storm questions for people who are concerned about the future storm. Don't get stuck on stupid, reporters. We are moving forward. And don't confuse the people please. You are part of the public message. So help us get...

A New York Times editor, oh, by the way, asked, "Why New Orleans’ levees remained so inadequate? Where was Congress before it wandered off to vacation engaged in slashing the budget for correcting some of the gaping holes in the area’s flood protection?" The answer may be that they were reading old "Times" editorials. In 1993, the Times wrote that Washington should, "resist pressure to spend more on flood-control projects." In 1997, the Times praised moderate Republicans for protecting the environment by blocking flood-control spending. And in April of this year, the Times ripped a Senate bill that would have...

Fox News Sunday panel discussion

Tonight on Special Report, Brit Hume did a segment concerning how the money being collected by the various national charitable agencies was being spent. Particularly what portion of the money collected was going to the evacuees. Predictably the Red Cross and the United Way were keeping 8-10% of the money for administrative costs. Even though he was heading into a break, Hume took the time to ask the reporter specifically how the Salvation Army was doing business. The reporters response was that 100% of the money the SA takes in goes directly to the evacuees. This segment, coupled with W's...

lengthy story on the turnout. 'They (Sheehan and Sharpton) were unable to drown out anti-Sheehan sentiments'

Protesting the Troops Anti-war demonstrators organized by a group backing Cindy Sheehan's Crawford vigil have taken their protests to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., home to hundreds of soldiers wounded in Iraq. Code Pink (search) and others have camped out across from the hospital's main entrance once a week since March chanting, "George Bush kills American soldiers" and lining up caskets to represent the dead in Iraq. The demonstrators say their protests and signs with slogans like "Maimed for a lie" are less offensive than the war itself. But recent patient Kevin Pannell tells Cybercast News that...

Anyone know where Brit is? His show is not the same. I miss him knocking Juan down a notch.

Why Did They Look Into It?Friday, August 05, 2005 By Brit Hume Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: The New York Times has been asking lawyers who specialize in adoption cases for advice on how to get into the sealed court records on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' two adopted children. There is no indication The Times had any evidence there was anything improper in the family's adoption of five-year-old Josie and four-year-old Jack, both born in Latin America. Sources familiar with the matter told FOX News that at least one lawyer turned the Times down flat, saying...

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: The New York Times (search) has been asking lawyers who specialize in adoption cases for advice on how to get into the sealed court records on Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' (search) two adopted children. There is no indication The Times had any evidence there was anything improper in the family's adoption of five-year-old Josie and four-year-old Jack, both born in Latin America. Sources familiar with the matter told FOX News that at least one lawyer turned the Times down flat, saying that any effort to pry into adoption case records, which...