Our first day without Brit

| December 24, 2008

Brit Hume’s last show was Tuesday night. He was probably the most even-handed news anchor in a generation. I know our recent spate of trolls will disagree, but only because Hume told both sides of the story. The Left loves to hate Fox News but only because of shows like O’Reilly and Hannity which aren’t really news shows – shows that I haven’t watched since 2000. Hume’s hour was purely unbiased – anyone who spent time watching it actually learned about a particular issue instead of being fed the party line on how to think about it.

In case you didn’t know it, Brit Hume was one of the early Berkeley radicals in his college days during the early 60s (according to David Horowitz in his book “Radical Son”). So Hume made the journey to conservatism just like the rest of us.

I remember one night the fire alarm went off in the studio. As the bureau chief, Hume shooed everyone out of the building, but as anchor, he stayed and did the next segment alone.

Brett Baier will be taking his place. I met Brett when he was the Fox News Pentagon reporter and he seemed like a nice guy for the few minutes I chatted with him. Out of all of the networks, Baier probably covered the Pentagon better than any other network in the months following the 9/11 attack, but I don’t envy him having to fill Humes shoes.

Here are the closing moments of last night’s show in case you missed it (from Hot Air, by way of Ace of Spades)

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Stix

It is going to be very hard to fill the shoes of Britt Hume.

Martino

All you need to know about Hume is that Al Franken called him an a**hole. That puts Hume in good company.

UpNorth

And if anyone would know an a**hole, it would be Al Franken. Britt will be missed, but whoever they had subbing for him last night(12-24) called the lame stream media out, calling them lap dogs for Obama. I think I’d nominate him to fill in for Britt.

richard wheeler

Adding Glen Beck and losing Holmes continues to show how unbalanced Fox really is.I believe O’Reilly is the best,Hannity and Beck high school educated right wing hacks.Greta is an embarrassment and I thought Hume very dull.Huckabee is likeable though a true evangelical mindset.Honestly, if not for the smart good looking babes(usually on O’Reilly) I’d probably never watch Fox except when wanting to hear extreme right wing diatribe.

richard wheeler

meant “Colmes” Thanks RW

TSO

You thank yourself?
Or are you sockpuppeting again?

TSO

Or was there supposed to be a comma in there?

richard wheeler

TSO Always the observant, future barrister.Happy New Year.

Eddie Willers

I’ll chime in for the trolls and admit I’m no fan of Brit Hume. Saying he was the most even-handed of of today’s newscasters is like saying he’s the cleanest woman in a whorehouse. Hume’s bias was on display every Sunday morning as a member of the roundtable group on Fox News Sunday, and his performance as moderator during the Republican primaries was deplorable. His treatment of Ron Paul was especially unprofessional.

Out with the old, in with the new. I’m sure Baier will be no different in his loyalty to the State.