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On Fox's Nov. 22 "Fox News Sunday," former "Special Report" anchor and Fox News senior political correspondent was dead spot on target in many regards when it came to criticizing the tack President Barack Obama has taken with his foreign policy gestures. First, Hume reflected on how Obama reacted on his trip to Asia last week. He noted that Obama was in a tough position, having to rely on borrowed Chinese money. However, "embracing weakness" was not the proper way for Obama to represent the country in Hume's view (emphasis added). "Look, the president is in a weaker position than...

In a nutshell: Americans are right of center.

We already know where Jake Tapper stands on this point, but the real question is why more journalists in the White House aren’t making their position clear. Brit Hume wondered whether American journalists from other news organizations really will become the lackeys of the Obama administration by ignoring news stories originating at Fox, just because Robert Gibbs disapproves of Fox. Toby Harnden of the London Telegraph channels Pastor Niemoller in his blog today: "Those journalists sitting this one out need to ask themselves what they will do when the White House comes after them or their news organisation."

Succint yet descriptive.

On target as always.

Obama's half hearted condemnation is called out by Foxnews' Brit Hume, this is from the webcast of Foxnews Panel Plus...

More on the ongoing Joe Wilson story.

He talks to Bill O'Reilly.

Here is video of the Fox News Panel today on Fox News Sunday analyzing President Obama's handling of the firestorm created by his statement that the Cambridge, Massachusetts Police Department "acted stupidly" in arresting Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Brit Hume bluntly said it was striking that "this President who travels the world apologizing for his country couldn't quite apologize for himself." Mara Liason thinks Obama went a long way to putting the issue to rest, but Juan Williams believes it has hurt Obama and will continue to hurt him as it stays in the news over the week...

Spot-on as always.

Jury's out.

Brit Hume Warns Obama: The Honeymoon Won’t Last Forever By Sam Theodosopoulos Created 2009-06-23 15:48 As Media Research Center VP for Research and Publications Brent Baker reported two days ago, the roundtable for ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday took up the media’s favoritism toward President Obama. Host George Stephanopoulos marveled at “how obsessed the President and the White House are with Fox News,” prompting columnist George Will to observe that’s because “it’s the discordant note in an otherwise harmonious chorus.” Hume responded by acknowledging that: “Every president has a honeymoon period when critics lay off,” but usually when a president...

More reasons to oppose ObamaCare.

President and CEO.

Another great contribution.

And a lesson to other GOP leaders to not be so easily cowed by Obama and the Dems!Well worth two minutes and thirty two seconds of your time: [video at site] (Excerpt) Read more at Flopping Aces ...

A great observation.

Brit Hume discusses.

Another flip-flop.

Brit Hume reports.

I think it's odd that this dog was donated by Ted Kennedy. That said, the puppy is cute and Sasha and Malia are off limits for criticism. They are adorable, well-mannered kids who are off limits. Hume: Uhhhh....Bo's not my type of dog. I like the name but it doesn't seem to fit that little, sort of girly little dog. Chris Wallace says "as the host of this show, there will be no Bo bashing on this show!" Haha! Pets in The White House are always a great source of humor.

Rhetoric vs. Reality.

Brit Hume discusses an issue that Obama doesn't want to face.

March 3, 2009 O'Reilly doesn't get it O'reilly doesn't get it. He's telling Brit Hume that the market pulling back 1,200% must be shaking him up... the American people may turn against him...” O'Reilly doesn't get the fact that Hussein doesn't CARE. The media have not yet gotten what I've been saying for many months – he WANTS to tear it down. He WANTS to destroy our economy. He WANTS to tear apart our country. It is not a coincidence that he, from the day he declared his candidacy, has been setting himself up before the nation as a form...

Setting the facts straight in less than 2 minutes.

He's settling into his new role quite nicely.

Fox names Bret to succeed Brit By: Mike Allen December 23, 2008 03:01 PM EST Fox News has chosen Bret Baier, chief White House correspondent, to succeed Brit Hume as primary anchor of "Special Report," the Washington bureau's signature nightly newscast. Hume's farewell program is Tuesday night, but he will continue at Fox News as a senior political analyst in what what the network calls "a Brokaw-like capacity," working 100 days a year. Here is Baier's Fox bio: Bret Baier is the chief White House correspondent for FOX News Channel. In this capacity Baier reports on presidential activities on a...

Tonight is Brit Hume's final night as anchor of Special Report on the Fox News Channel.Free Republic honored Mr. Hume in 2000, as reported by World Net Daily:Despite the group's criticism of what has been called the "establishment" press, three journalists were presented with the "Endangered Species Award" -- including WND's Farah and Sperry -- "for being true to the First Amendment by pursuing and reporting the facts." Fox News' Brit Hume was the third recipient of the Endangered Species award.Freepers presented the award to Mr. Hume at his office at the Fox News bureau in Washington.Mr. Hume is one...

The man behind 'fair and balanced' By: Michael Calderone October 29, 2008 04:35 AM EST Fox News anchor Brit Hume, reflecting on his 12 years at the cable news network, recalled that during its formative stages, a New York Times television writer said the news division of Rupert Murdch’s network was like an “imaginary friend.” So it was “quite amusing,” Hume said in a interview this week, to see the same Times writer liken the network’s current line-up to the New York Yankees — a testament to how much Fox has grown in influence and acceptance in the media world....

Fox News just had an unexpected guest on it's "Special Report" segment tonight. Barack Obama dropped by to discuss the financial crisis with Fox News' Britt Hume. Watch the video and give us your thoughts and comments . . . . . (see video at link)

As a free nation, a democratic nation, and a global superpower, America’s fate, today more than ever, is to midwife and manage the emergence of the first world generation. Not an easy task, as technology and globalization make every surviving cultural tradition anywhere suddenly replaced or confronted by every other on this shrinking planet, and our polity grapples with it all.  It would be surprising indeed if America were not also considered a troubled nation, inflicting and incurring heartbreaking trauma every day in this imperfect world.  But America’s fate is also a stroke of exceptional luck and opportunity.The message for Americans to send the modernizing, globalizing...

Brit Hume, a top anchor and executive with Fox News since the channel was launched 12 years ago, plans to step down at year's end. But he won't disappear entirely. Sources familiar with the situation say that Hume, 65, will give up his job as Washington managing editor and anchor of "Special Report." They say he is near a deal to continue with Fox in a senior statesman role, not unlike that of Tom Brokaw at NBC, for roughly 100 days a year. In his new role, Hume would be a senior political analyst, substitute for Chris Wallace as host...

Anchor Away Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw chided "Late Show" host David Letterman, Monday, for his claims that the nation is in a horrible state because of President Bush. Letterman said, "Everything has gone so lousy in the last eight years." But Brokaw snapped back, saying, "Let me remind you that 40 years ago... Dr. King was killed, Bobby Kennedy was killed, we had the Chicago riots, 16,000 people were killed in Vietnam... the Kerner Commission said we are two societies — one white, one black." He said the 1968 election was "as contentious... an election as we've ever...

David Hume was a Scottish philospoher well known for his attack on the principle of causality - the principle that nothing can occur or exist without a cause. He believed that although one event (set of impressions) always preceded another, this did not prove that the first event caused the second. The constant conjunction of two events, he said, built up the expectation that the second event would take place after the first. But this was nothing more than a strong belief or habit of mind taught by experience. One could never prove that there were causal connections among impressions....

Brit Hume has some blunt advice for conservative Republicans: lay off McCain if you don't want a Dem president. At the very end of today's Fox News Sunday panel segment, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol was first to make a point along similar lines. BILL KRISTOL: I'm more conservative than John McCain but I think it would be a mistake for him to just make himself into an orthodox conservative in this election. The reason he is a stronger candidate than a lot of other Republicans would be is that he is a little bit heterodox. He's got his own...

Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #14 – Milford, New Hampshire 01/06/08 - Official Discussion Thread Fox News Channel; Roundtable format Candidates the gatekeepers are allowing to participating: Rudy Giuliani Mike Huckabee John McCain Mitt Romney Fred Thompson

Brit Hume and panel on Fox News channel implies that Fred Thompson's campaign is Dead.

Hume, Father of Postmodernism and Anti-rationalism—Part 4 by Reginald Firehammer The Roots of Collectivism There is something else Gramsci and Hume had in common—they are both thoroughgoing collectivists. Gramsci's Marxism is obviously collectivist but it may not be as obvious that Hume was an unabashed collectivist, as well. [Note: By collectivism I mean that principle, which in any form, stands against its opposite, Individualism. Collectivism, in most people's minds, is usually associated with a government or political system, but collectivism is a fundamental concept, of which collectivists states are only one manifestation. Collectivism is anything that subordinates the individual to...

Hume, Father of Postmodernism and Anti-rationalism—Part 3 by Reginald Firehammer Multiculturalism and Ignorance The first of Hume's two destructive concepts referred to in the previous part of this article is found in "Section V, Sceptical Solution of These Doubts, Part I" where he introduces what he calls a "principle" that is his explanation and justification for believing in cause and effect. "This principle is Custom or Habit. For wherever the repetition of any particular act or operation produces a propensity to renew the same act or operation, without being impelled by any reasoning or process of the understanding, we always...

Hume, Father of Postmodernism and Anti-rationalism—Part 2 by Reginald Firehammer Perversion of "Empiricism" Hume's reduction of ideas to nothing more than fuzzy remembered images of actual perceptions is wrongly called empiricism. John Locke is the father of true empiricism, which is nothing more than a denial of innate (or a priori) knowledge and philosophical rationalism (the belief that knowledge can be derived by reason alone without reference to the perceived world) and insistence that all knowledge is derived and based on conscious experience of the world. For Locke, the world we are conscious of is objectively real, and it is...

Hume, Father of Postmodernism and Anti-rationalism—Part 1 by Reginald Firehammer Postmodernism, according to the Public Broadcasting System, is: A general and wide-ranging term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others. Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality. In essence, it stems from a recognition that reality is not simply mirrored in human understanding of it, but rather, is constructed as the mind tries to understand its own particular and personal reality. For this reason, postmodernism is highly skeptical of explanations which...

The Roots of Revolution by Reginald Firehammer In the opening article to this series, "Marxist Revolution of the West," I explained that the revolution that has all but destroyed Western civilization, and is in its final stages in every aspect of Western society and culture, though explicitly planned and initiated by avowed Marxists, it was contributions of other individuals, movements, and institutions that made it possible for the revolution to be so spectacularly pulled off. The interrelationships between these various contributors to the revolution is very complex. There are six major threads of influence which I have identified and in...

Republican Presidential Candidate Debate #5 – Durham, New Hampshire 09/05/07 - Official Discussion Thread Viewers of Wednesday night's Republican presidential debate in Durham, N.H., should be sure to have their computers up and running early, as FOXNews.com offers special live streaming video before, during and after the event. The debate itself, to be aired on FOX News Channel and streamed on FOXNews.com, begins at 9 p.m. EDT (6 PDT). Moderated by Brit Hume Candidates participating... Sam Brownback Rudy Giuliani Mike Huckabee Duncan Hunter John McCain Mitt Romney Ron Paul Tom Tancredo

In Friday's Washington Post, Howard Kurtz reports that the new John Edwards campaign against any Democrat accepting Rupert Murdoch contributions has a slight flaw: "John Edwards will never ask Rupert Murdoch for money -- he won't accept his money," said a statement e-mailed to supporters. Not so fast, Murdoch's people say. His publishing unit, HarperCollins, paid Edwards a $500,000 advance -- and $300,000 in expenses -- for his 2006 book "Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives." "We assume the senator is going to give back the money from his advance," News Corp. spokesman Brian Lewis said.

Video: Hume smacks down Murtha; doesn’t know “what the heck is going on in the world”Brit Hume smacked down John Murtha on this morning’s edition of Fox News Sunday. The Fox News host started his sizzling with “it’s time a few things be said about him.” Indeed. Continuing, Hume said Murtha is not “well informed about what’s going on over there [Iraq]” and he doesn’t have the “foggiest awareness of what the heck is going on in the world.”(Video at link)

David Hume was a Scottish philosopher well known for his attack on the principle of causality - the principle that nothing can happen or exist without a cause. 1.) He believed that although one event (set of impressions) always preceded another this did not prove that the first event caused the second. The constant conjunction of two events, he said, built up the expectation that the second event would take place after the first. But this was nothing more than a strong belief or habit of mind taught by experience. One could never prove that were causal connections among impressions....

Brian Wilson, just said that as of Monday he was taking over as Bureau Chief in DC. Does this mean Brit is out? They made no mention of him at all.

I hope some had an opportunity to view Brit Hume's interview with the President. A genuine, great man is in our midst. A person of principle who does his best to implement what he believes to be right. His detractors in and out of the MSM just do not understand him, his faith and those of us who support both him and his administration.

All on John McCain.

It was big news in Washington's media world last week when Fox Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief Kim Hume announced she was retiring at the end of November. She and hubby Brit Hume set up the bureau in 1996 and have watched it become a dominant cable bureau. Now she's leaving to take time off to figure out her next move. And, she swears, it was her choice. Paullyblog: When are you leaving? Hume: I'll be here through the end of November. -- snip -- Paullyblog: What's the future?... I've got something more to do; I just don't know...