Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Brit Hume Is An Asshole
Brit Hume of the Faux News Channel, never one to shy away from suckling at the GOP's collective meat straw, says that anyone offended by President Bush's classless joke about not finding WMD's in Iraq should "just get over it." That includes the families of those who have lost loved ones in Iraq. Here's the transcript:
WALLACE: And one that got a big laugh in the room that day -- and I must say, I still think it's funny -- the day after, some Democrats and the families of some American soldiers in Iraq, some who died in Iraq, said they were offended by this kidding about the missing weapons of mass destruction. Brit?
HUME: Well, we have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.
And in America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.
My own view of this is, the president's there poking fun at himself over what goes down, I think, as one of his failures. And I thought it was a good-natured performance, and it made him look good only in the sense that it showed he could poke fun at himself. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction.
And you have to feel like saying to people, "Just get over it."
There's more good info in this article that outlines Hume's proclivity for all things GOP. Enjoy...
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