Fox News journalist and political analyst Brit Hume had a positive reaction to President Donald Trump’s speech before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, calling it one of the most “effective” he’d seen in five decades of covering politics.
“This was the most boisterous, the longest, the most partisan speech I’ve ever heard a president give in this kind of setting, and I go back about maybe 50 years on this,” Hume said. “I also think it may have been the most effective. If you ever doubted that Donald Trump is the colossus, the political colossus of our time and our nation, this night and this speech should’ve put that to rest.”
Hume also called out the behavior of Democrats during Trump&#8217;s address, which included Rep. Al Green (D-TX) being escorted out of the chamber for his disruptions shortly after the speech began. The Dems who stayed remained silent and refused to stand during key moments, holding small signs with words of protest.
“The Democrats seem to be falling into trap after trap after trap as he recognized people and celebrated the people he pointed to in the gallery and their stories, while the Democrats sat glumly on their hands through all of that. It was a terrible look,” Hume continued. “Al Green’s attempt to disrupt the speech was a bad look for the Democrats. This was pretty powerful stuff, politically speaking, as powerful as I think I’ve heard.”
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High praise from Fox News&#39; Brit Hume for Trump&#39;s speech:
&quot;This was the most boisterous, the longest, the most partisan speech I&#39;ve ever heard a president give in this kind of setting, and I go back about may be 50 years on this. I also think it may have been the most effective.… <a href="https://t.co/k0a7WpNyTS">pic.twitter.com/k0a7WpNyTS</a>
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Trump broke the record for the longest address to a joint session of Congress after speaking for one hour and 40 minutes. The speech included personal stories about Americans along with a list of his administration’s accomplishments and promises for the future.
His <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-trump-touts-accomplishments-in-powerful-address-americas-momentum-is-back">speech</a> singled out specific individuals, including January Littlejohn, who Trump said was kept in the dark as her 13-year-old daughter was &#8220;secretly transitioned&#8221; by her school, and the family of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old woman brutally killed by an illegal immigrant. Trump also mentioned Corey Comperatore, who was fatally shot during the assassination attempt on Trump at a political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
One emotional moment came when Trump made 13-year-old brain cancer survivor Devarjaye &#8220;DJ&#8221; Daniels an honorary member of the U.S. Secret Service.

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Brit Hume Says Trump Delivered ‘Most Effective’ Address Ever, Is ‘Political Colossus Of Our Time’

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Former First Lady Michelle Obama has hit the campaign trail for Vice President Kamala Harris — but critics are panning her 11th-hour sales pitch as &#8220;racist&#8221; and &#8220;sexist&#8221; and saying that her words reveal more about her than they do about Harris.
Obama ignored the possibility that Harris — who catapulted to the top of the Democratic ticket on the tidal wave of President Joe Biden&#8217;s ouster from the race — was simply a weak and unlikable candidate, and instead argued that the voters were the only possible weak link in the chain. That, she claimed, was the result of racism and sexism in the electorate.
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🚨Michele Obama suggests Americans who don’t vote to elect Kamala Harris are sexist and racist:
“I lay awake at night wondering what in the world is going on. The qustion for me isn&#39;t whether Kamala is ready for this moment&#8230;the real question is, as a country, are we ready for… <a href="https://t.co/4Muun9vhZ2">pic.twitter.com/4Muun9vhZ2</a>
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&#8220;I gotta ask myself, why on earth is this race even close?&#8221; Obama began. &#8220;I lay awake at night wondering what in the world is going on. And it&#8217;s clear to me that the question isn&#8217;t whether Kamala is ready for this moment because by every measure, she has demonstrated that she&#8217;s ready. The real — the real question is, as a country, are we ready for this moment?&#8221;
&#8220;Poor Michele. America is always disappointing her,&#8221; Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume said, referencing the former first lady&#8217;s claim that she could finally be proud of the United States after her husband was elected the first black president.
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Poor Michele. America is always disappointing her. <a href="https://t.co/5gGudrN8ve">https://t.co/5gGudrN8ve</a>
&mdash; Brit Hume (@brithume) <a href="https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1850324051723436385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The problem isn’t their phony, extreme, deeply unimpressive candidate, you see. It’s America. Tiresome schtick,&#8221; Guy Benson added.
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The problem isn’t their phony, extreme, deeply unimpressive candidate, you see. It’s America. Tiresome schtick. <a href="https://t.co/aJ3wo398Gh">https://t.co/aJ3wo398Gh</a>
&mdash; Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href="https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/1850297639461601313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Obama didn&#8217;t stop with just that, however. She went on to trash Trump repeatedly, suggesting that his supporters were at the very least &#8220;indifferent&#8221; to all of the terrible things he would bring with him into the Oval Office if elected to a second term.
&#8220;I hope that you will forgive me if I&#8217;m a little frustrated that some of us are choosing to ignore Donald Trump’s gross incompetence while asking Kamala to dazzle us at every turn. I hope that you will forgive me if I&#8217;m a little angry that we are indifferent to Donald Trump&#8217;s erratic behavior. His obvious mental decline, his history as a convicted felon, a known slumlord, a predator found liable for sexual abuse. All of this while we pick apart Kamala&#8217;s answers from interviews that he doesn&#8217;t even have the courage to do,&#8221; she said on a Michigan stage just hours after Trump&#8217;s three-hour Joe Rogan interview — which Harris refused to do — went live.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/MichelleObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MichelleObama</a>: I hope that you will forgive me if I&#39;m a little angry that we are indifferent to Donald Trump’s erratic behavior. His obvious mental decline, his history as a convicted felon, a known slumlord, a predator found liable for sexual abuse. All of this while we pick… <a href="https://t.co/a2RrXJbWN9">pic.twitter.com/a2RrXJbWN9</a>
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Megyn Kelly unloaded on Obama for that comment, arguing that no one expected Harris to &#8220;dazzle&#8221; anyone — they just wanted a coherent answer to a question or two about policy.
&#8220;Expecting Kamala to &#8216;dazzle&#8217; us? What we want is for her to spit out two coherent sentences that reflect ANY evidence — any at all — of a deep thinking, considered, authentic person,&#8221; she said.
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Expecting Kamala to “dazzle” us? What we want is for her to spit out two coherent sentences that reflect ANY evidence &#8211; any at all &#8211; of a deep thinking, considered, authentic person. <a href="https://t.co/l4HoPKOQ3l">https://t.co/l4HoPKOQ3l</a>
&mdash; Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) <a href="https://twitter.com/megynkelly/status/1850296824826839403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Democratic President Nominee Kamala Harris Campaigns With Former First Lady Michelle Obama In Kalamazoo, MI

‘America Is Always Disappointing Her’: Michelle Obama Trashed For ‘Racist’ Last-Ditch Kamala Pitch

'America Is Always Disappointing Her': Michelle Obama Trashed For 'Racist' Last-Ditch Kamala Pitch

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MSNBC host Joy Reid responded to President Joe Biden&#8217;s second State of the Union address — which, according to a number of people watching, was <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/nonsensical-and-random-yelling-biden-criticized-for-fumbles-repeated-lies-in-sotu-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">riddled with slurred words</a> and fumbles — by claiming it was proof positive that age was not a limiting factor for him. Fox News political analyst Brit Hume said the opposite.
Reid offered her take after the speech wrapped, saying, &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of anxiety in the Democratic political world about Biden’s age. He shattered that tonight. He&#8217;s obviously &#8230; it&#8217;s similar to what Nancy Pelosi is able to do. There&#8217;s certain things that an experienced politician can do &#8230; that an inexperienced politician, even a Kevin McCarthy, who’s been around a long time, but is obviously not as ready for primetime as Joe Biden.&#8221;
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Joy Reid: &quot;There&#39;s a lot of anxiety in the Democratic political world about Biden’s age. He shattered that tonight &#8230; even Kevin McCarthy, who’s been around a long time, but is obviously not as ready for primetime as Joe Biden.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/jPbHq4raDP">pic.twitter.com/jPbHq4raDP</a>
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Reid then suggested that Biden had drawn from his experience negotiating as a U.S. Senator, adding that he had negotiated personally with a lot of the people in the room and had drawn from that as president.
As Fox News&#8217; senior political analyst, Hume argued that Biden&#8217;s speech had not been reassuring at all for those who might be concerned that age was getting the best of him.
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Joined by <a href="https://twitter.com/brithume?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@brithume</a> tonight with his take on the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SOTU</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FoxNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FoxNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/boSrGa2cHC">pic.twitter.com/boSrGa2cHC</a>
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Noting that he had seen a number of State of the Union speeches, Hume continued, &#8220;And looking at this one and this man giving it, I think that there are two ways to look at this speech.&#8221;
He went on to say that people could look at the content of the speech and whether or not it was based in fact and made an impact simply based on what was being said, or they could look at Biden and how he looked and sounded while delivering the speech.
&#8220;The other way is looking at this man, this 80-year-old man, the oldest president I guess ever, and whether he got through the speech well,&#8221; Hume continued. &#8220;It seemed to me there was an awful lot of stumbling and slurring and words left out and so on. So the question becomes this: does someone sitting at home worried about the future of our country — perhaps suffering from inflation and the other maladies, worried about crime, worried about the border — look at this man delivering this speech tonight and say, &#8216;I have confidence to give him four more years. He&#8217;s the man who&#8217;s led our nation so well, he&#8217;s fully in command’?”
&#8220;Or do they have doubts?&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;Doubts that they may already harbor based on Afghanistan and certain other things. I have considerable doubt as to whether this was a confidence-inspiring speech tonight.&#8221;

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Joy Reid Claims Biden’s Garbled Speech Is Proof His Age Is Not A Factor – Brit Hume Disagrees

Joy Reid Claims Biden's Garbled Speech Is Proof His Age Is Not A Factor – Brit Hume Disagrees

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Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume said this week that President Joe Biden is &#8220;clearly deteriorating&#8221; and &#8220;clearly senile.&#8221; He also called into question if POTUS will even be able to finish out this term.
Hume made the comments after it was announced that Biden would be running for a second term. The senior political analyst didn&#8217;t buy it, calling the proclamation &#8220;political.&#8221;
“I don’t think it’s at all clear that he intends to run again, but I do think as a political matter, you have to say that,” Hume said on &#8220;Special Report,&#8221; Mediaite <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-brit-hume-doesnt-think-biden-will-serve-full-term-in-office-hes-clearly-deteriorating-and-senile/">reported</a>.
If Biden were to admit he&#8217;s not running again, he becomes a lame duck, “and lame duck presidents don’t do well,&#8221; added Hume.
Expanding on the matter, Hume said Biden wouldn&#8217;t &#8220;be in any condition&#8221; to run again, anyway, and called into question Biden&#8217;s ability to even finish this term.
&#8220;In fact, I think the thing we have to watch is the question of whether he serves out his first term,&#8221; Hume said of the president. &#8220;He’s clearly deteriorating, he’s clearly senile, and his health is — despite his doctor&#8217;s claims to the contrary — you know, when you’re falling downstairs and so on, as he did climbing the stairs to Air Force One, that’s worrisome.&#8221;
Last month, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), a former White House physician who served under former Presidents George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/age-related-cognitive-decline-former-wh-doctor-talks-biden-says-obama-wrote-him-scathing-email-over-betrayal">said</a> Biden, now 79 years old, has “age-related cognitive decline” and is not “mentally fit” to serve as president.
“All I know is that he’s got age-related cognitive decline, right. He is not mentally fit right now,” Jackson said on the <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1429045/9469516">podcast</a>, the Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/washington-secrets/obama-accused-ronny-jackson-of-betrayal-for-talking-biden-decline">reported</a>. “You don’t need to be a physician to look at him and to look at his behavior and some of the other stuff, just the way he shuffles away, stares off into space.”
“I know what that job entails, both physically and mentally, and how demanding it is. And I can tell you right now, I’m 100% sure that Joe Biden is incapable of doing that job,” the doctor added.
Following a fumbling speech from Biden back in August, Jackson posted critical commentary of the president. “That was embarrassing,” he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/physician-gop-senator-wants-annual-senility-tests-for-aging-politicians">tweeted</a>. “There is something so obviously wrong with Biden’s cognitive fitness it was hard to watch. He should NOT remain President for another SECOND. We deserve better – MUCH better.”
Jackson also ridiculed the media’s double standard in treatment toward Trump compared to how they treat Biden, the Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/washington-secrets/obama-accused-ronny-jackson-of-betrayal-for-talking-biden-decline">outlined</a>:
<blockquote>The first-term lawmaker said the event showed how the media and Democrats have a double standard when judging presidents. He viewed Trump as strong-minded but convinced him to take a cognitive test to quiet critics. He said Trump answered all questions correctly.
But when he called for the same thing for Biden, he was assailed.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/age-related-cognitive-decline-former-wh-doctor-talks-biden-says-obama-wrote-him-scathing-email-over-betrayal">‘Age-Related Cognitive Decline’: Former WH Doctor Talks Biden, Says Obama Wrote Him ‘Scathing’ Email Over ‘Betrayal’</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/physician-gop-senator-wants-annual-senility-tests-for-aging-politicians">Physician GOP Senator Wants Annual Senility Tests For Aging Politicians</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/obamas-wh-doctor-bidens-cognitive-decline-is-on-full-display-must-be-forced-out-immediately">Obama’s WH Doctor: Biden’s ‘Cognitive Decline Is On Full Display,’ Must Be Forced Out Immediately</a>

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Brit Hume: Biden ‘Clearly Deteriorating,’ ‘Clearly Senile,’ Might Not Finish Term

On Monday, after a leftist political commentator characterized questions about combating the pandemic directed at President Joe Biden by Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy as “dripping in bad faith,” Fox News anchor Brit Hume fired back, “Bad faith my a**.”
In reference to Biden&#8217;s stated goal of vaccinating 100 million people in the first 100 days of his presidential tenure, Doocy pointed out that we were already on track to hit that rate per day when Biden took office. Doocy went on to note that Biden recently stated, “There’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.”
In response, commentator Brian Tyler Cohen tweeted, &#8220;This question is dripping in bad faith, and yet still Biden knocks it out of the park. But Doocy shouldn&#8217;t be there wasting time in the first place.&#8221;
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This question is dripping in bad faith, and yet still Biden knocks it out of the park. But Doocy shouldn&#39;t be there wasting time in the first place. <a href="https://t.co/PH4TdTqeoA">https://t.co/PH4TdTqeoA</a>
&mdash; Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) <a href="https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1353815994674802688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Hume blasted, “Bad faith my a**. It led to Biden acknowledging that he misspoke, then proceeding to raise his oft-repeated vaccination goal of 100 million after it had become clear that we were already in the way to achieving that when he took office. So much for @PDoocy being there ‘wasting time.’”
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Bad faith my a**. It led to Biden acknowledging that he misspoke, then proceeding to raise his oft-repeated vaccination goal of 100 million after it had become clear we were already on the way to achieving that when he took office. So much for <a href="https://twitter.com/pdoocy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PDoocy</a> being there “wasting time.” <a href="https://t.co/NYh5yhnri3">https://t.co/NYh5yhnri3</a>
&mdash; Brit Hume (@brithume) <a href="https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1353844147476688896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 25, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Given that in three weeks or so we’ll be at the point where there are a million vaccines per day,&#8221; Doocy began in his question to Biden, &#8220;but it seems like —&#8221;
Biden, acknowledging that the goal of vaccinating one million people had already been reached, stated, “I think we’ll get there before that. I said — I hope — I misspoke — I hope we’ll be able to increase as we go on until we get to the 1,500,000 a day. That’s my hope.”
&#8220;And then, the follow-up to that would be,&#8221; Doocy replied. &#8220;Now that you’re president and you’re saying, &#8216;There’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months,&#8217; what happened to two months ago when you were talking declaratively about, &#8216;I am going to shut down the virus?'&#8221;
&#8220;I am going to shut down the virus, but no — I never said I’d do it in two months; I said it took a long time to get here; it’s going to take a long time to beat it,&#8221; Biden replied.
On December 8, speaking in Wilmington, Delaware, Biden stated about his vaccination goal:
<blockquote>This team will help get at the latest at the last 100 million COVID-19 vaccine, at least 100 million COVID vaccine shots into the arms of the American people in the first 100 days. 100 million shots in the first 100 days. And we’ll follow the guidance of science to get the vaccines to those most at risk. That includes healthcare professionals, people in longterm care and as soon as possible, we will include educators. This will be the most efficient mass vaccination plan in U.S. history. I credit everyone who has gotten us up to this point. But developing a vaccine is only one Herculean task. Distributing it is another Herculean task. Vaccines in a vial only work if they’re injected into an arm of people, especially those most at risk.</blockquote>
Biden also slammed the Trump administration on its distribution plans:
<blockquote>Our preliminary view of the Trump administration’s vaccine distribution plans confirms media reports. Without urgent action by this Congress this month to put sufficient resources into vaccine distribution and manufacturing, which the bipartisan group was working on, there’s a real chance that after an early round of vaccinations, the effort will slow and stall.
Let me repeat. We need Congress to finish the bipartisan work underway now, or millions of Americans may wait months longer to get the vaccine, months longer than they otherwise would have to wait to get the vaccine, vaccination. Look, and then we’re going to need additional action next year to fund the rest of the distribution efforts. We also need the Trump administration to act now though, to purchase the doses it has negotiated with Pfizer and Moderna and to work swiftly to scale, manufacturing to U.S. populations and the world. This can be fixed. If it is fixed, my team will be able to get at least 100 million vaccinations done in my first 100 days.</blockquote>

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‘Bad Faith My A**’: Brit Hume Scorches Leftist Attacking Fox News Reporter

For three years, the U.S. media were all in on allegations that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election (which Trump won in a landslide, crushing Hillary Clinton 304-227 in the Electoral College).
Then the whole house of cards collapsed after special counsel Robert Mueller released his report — after a two-year investigation — that showed &#8230; nothing.
The media, long intent on derailing Trump, simply moved on to a new alleged scandal.
But one longtime journalist isn&#8217;t giving the press a free pass.
&#8220;As for the journalism involved in the pursuit of that story, the collusion narrative that we lived with for so very long before it was blown up in the Mueller report, it was the worst journalistic fiasco of my more than 50-some years of journalism,&#8221; Brit Hume said on <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/brit-hume-russia-investigation-worst-journalistic-fiasco">Fox News</a>&#8216;s &#8220;The Story&#8221; with Martha MacCallum on Tuesday. &#8220;It was a disaster.&#8221;
Hume began his career in journalism in 1970, then worked for 23 years with ABC News before becoming anchor and managing editor of “Special Report” on Fox News. During his time with ABC, Hume served as chief White House correspondent from 1989 to 1996, so he knows a thing or two about covering the President of the United States.
In his interview on Fox, the veteran journalist noted that New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet admitted last year that the Times had &#8220;built our newsroom to cover one story&#8221; — the Mueller investigation.
&#8220;It ended up going nowhere. It was a terrible journalistic misjudgment and it was rooted in their view, in my opinion, of Donald Trump that when this charge arose, they thought so little of him and that he was such a terrible person that it had to be true,&#8221; Hume said.
&#8220;The Washington Post and The New York Times pursued it relentlessly: Their coverage did not reflect any real doubt that it may not turn out to be true at any time, and in the end it all blew up,&#8221; he said.
The media went all in on the alleged blockbuster. “ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts produced a combined 2,284 minutes of ‘collusion’ coverage,” <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2019/03/24/fizzle-nets-gave-whopping-2284-minutes-russia-probe">Newsbusters</a> reported in March 2019. “That’s an average of roughly three minutes a night, every night, for an astonishing 791 days.”
The MSM also became hysterical. “The noose is tightening,” MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said. “Does the public understand just how much trouble the president is in? If not, that is a failing of the press,” CNN’s Brian Stelter said. “There is tons of proof of potential collusion,” CNN’s Chris Cuomo said.
In the end, poof, the story disappeared.
Trump was investigated for 675 days by Mueller and a team of 19 lawyers. Despite 2,800 subpoenas and 500 witness interviews, the counsel’s office found no evidence “that any U.S. person or Trump campaign official or associate” conspired or “knowingly coordinated” with Russians during the 2016 campaign.
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Brit Hume: Russiagate ‘Worst Journalistic Fiasco’ He’s Seen In 50-Year News Career

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Journalist Brit Hume worked for 23 years with ABC News before becoming anchor and managing editor of &#8220;Special Report&#8221; on Fox News. During his time with ABC, Hume served as chief White House correspondent from 1989 to 1996, so he knows a thing or two about covering the President of the United States.
On Friday, Hume weighed in on the heated exchange between NBC correspondent Peter Alexander, who asked what President Trump considered a &#8220;nasty question.&#8221; Hume responded to a post on Twitter by journalist David French, who wrote, &#8220;This was a legitimate question, the response is inexcusable.&#8221;
&#8220;Legitimate question my a**,&#8221; Hume wrote. &#8220;It was the kind of bullsh*t gotcha question which hack WH reporters have been asking for decades. But instead of going off on the reporter, Trump should have said the whole briefing in all its particulars was a message to people who are scared,&#8221; Hume added.
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Legitimate question my a**. It was the kind of bullsh*t gotcha question which hack WH reporters have been asking for decades. But instead of going off on the reporter, Trump should have said the whole briefing in all its particulars was a message to people who are scared. <a href="https://t.co/Qg0lYC1fxk">https://t.co/Qg0lYC1fxk</a>
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On Friday, Alexander asked the president why he was optimistic about a new drug that may be useful in combating the effects of the virus when the situation is so dire.
&#8220;What do you say to the Americans who are scared, though, I guess,&#8221; Alexander said. &#8220;Nearly 200 dead, 14,000 who are sick, millions, as you witnessed, who are scared right now. What do you say to Americans who are watching right now who are scared?&#8221;
Said Trump: “I say that you’re a terrible reporter, that’s what I say. I think that&#8217;s a very nasty question, and I think it&#8217;s a very bad signal that you&#8217;re putting out to the American people. The American people are looking for answers and they’re looking for hope, and you’re doing sensationalism. Let&#8217;s see if it works. It might, and it might not. I happen to feel good about it, but who knows. I&#8217;ve been right — a lot. Let&#8217;s see what happens.”
“Let me just tell you something, that’s really bad reporting, and you oughta&#8217; get back to reporting instead of sensationalism,&#8221; Trump scolded. &#8220;You should be ashamed of yourself.”
Alexander later explained his view of the tiff. &#8220;I am sure there are plenty of baseball fans watching right now. In TV terms, we call this a softball. I was trying to provide the president an opportunity to reassure&#8221; the public, he said.
Members of the mainstream media rushed to Alexander&#8217;s defense.
CNN&#8217;s John King, who covered the White House for a decade, said, &#8220;It was a perfectly valid question, and what the president did to Peter Alexander was reprehensible. The American people are looking for answers. They do want hope. They do want support, Mr. President. That was a very fair question.”
“This is a Trump trademark,&#8221; King said. &#8220;It was striking that this came, forgive me, this bullsh** attack, on fake news came just moments after the Secretary of State said that the American people needed to be careful about where they get their information and go to a source they can trust. I get that there [are], at times, disagreements; there are, at times, tension between politicians and reporters. That was a one hundred percent legitimate questions with no hype, no shape, no bias. He just wanted to attack.”
&#8220;Asked to perform one of the key duties of the presidency – to reassure the American public during a crisis – Trump instead attacked,&#8221; The Washington Post&#8217;s Ashley Parker said.
ABC News&#8217; White House correspondent Jonathan Karl added: &#8220;It&#8217;s outrageous to use the presidential bully pulpit to bully a journalist like Peter – especially at a time like this.&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper said: &#8220;If the president isn&#8217;t capable of leading stably and effectively, he should at least for his own reputation and for the good of the country stop making things worse and consider leaving the podium to others. The Hippocratic Oath – first do not harm – that applies to President Trump, too.&#8221;
And MSNBC&#8217;s Rachel Maddow went even further. &#8220;If Trump is going to keep lying like he has been every day on stuff this important, we should, all of us, stop broadcasting it. Honestly, it&#8217;s going to cost lives,&#8221; the Maddow Blog posted on Twitter.
Watch the exchange below:
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Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume said during a television segment that there was no doubt in his mind that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, 77, was becoming &#8220;senile.&#8221;
Hume&#8217;s remarks came in response to Biden&#8217;s outburst on Tuesday when he snapped at a voter who pressed Biden on his extreme anti-Second Amendment agenda.
Biden lashed out, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youre-full-of-sh-joe-biden-rages-at-michigan-auto-worker-over-gun-rights">yelling</a> at the man that he was &#8220;full of s**t,&#8221; and was a &#8220;horse&#8217;s a*s,&#8221; before threatening to &#8220;slap&#8221; him in the &#8220;face.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve known him a long time and he can sometimes work himself up into a passion in speeches and so on when he was arguing about issues in a debate, but I don&#8217;t remember him exploding at voters like he did in this incident today and hurling profanity the way he did, telling the guy he was full of [s**t],&#8221; Hume said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a number of things that are new about Joe Biden. He&#8217;s always tended to make gaffes and if you&#8217;ve known him long enough you kind of get used to that and you think they&#8217;re kind of funny and they&#8217;re just part of who he is and they&#8217;re kind of harmless.&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s a genuinely nice guy, I&#8217;ve always liked him on a personal basis very much,&#8221; Hume continued. &#8220;More recently, however, he’s begun to forget things. He didn’t know what state he is in. He couldn’t remember exactly where he was when he met with the Parkland students when he said he was in the White House, it was long after he had been out of the White House and that sort of thing, suggesting that he, like so many his age, is losing his memory and is getting senile.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t think there is any doubt about it. I have traces of this myself. I know what it feels like,&#8221; Hume continued. &#8220;Sometimes you get confused, sometimes you can&#8217;t remember what you&#8217;re supposed to do the next morning and I&#8217;m not running for president and it’s probably a good thing I’m not. And I think that over time, the danger for him and for his party is that he may say something that is so outlandish and so suggestive, that his cognitive faculties have failed him that the Democratic voters will say, oh, my lord, what do we got here?&#8221;
Hume concluded, &#8220;At the moment, they are so eager to deny Bernie Sanders the nomination and to press forward with someone more familiar that I think this step is lost on Democratic voters. But over time under the pressures of a campaign, who knows what will happen.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s episode was apparently was so alarming to top Democrats that House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-clyburn-shut-down-primaries-debates-to-protect-biden-from-saying-something-he-cannot-overcome">told</a> NPR on Tuesday that the DNC should move to cancel the remaining primaries and debates to protect Biden from doing or saying something that would destroy his campaign.
Clyburn told NPR, “I think when the night is over, Joe Biden will be the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic nomination, and quite frankly, if the night ends the way it has begun, I think it is time for us to shut this primary down, it is time for us to cancel the rest of these debates — because you don’t do anything but get yourself in trouble if you continue in this contest when it’s obvious that the numbers will not shake out for you.”
Clyburn later added that as the process continues to drag on that Biden will get “himself into trouble” and will say something that he “cannot overcome.”

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In a bizarre interview on Sunday, David Remnick, author of “The Bridge: The Life And Rise Of Barack Obama” and editor for The New Yorker magazine, expressed his frustration with Trump voters to CNN’s “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter. 
Responding to a question about whether anything will change following President Trump’s impeachment by House Democrats, Remnick stated that, “We’ve seen the Republicans stuck where they are. Their illusions about Trump remain,” adding that “the stakes here are immense.”
The Media Research Center <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/12/22/new-yorker-editor-future-earth-hangs-trumps-impeachment" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reports</a> that Remnick began to connect the impeachment hearing to the “future” of the planet, thereby linking it to one of the Left’s biggest political issues: Global warming.   
“It’s not just about the political future of one man, Donald Trump — it’s about the future of democracy and democratic process. And this is a trend throughout the world. It’s about the future of the Earth. We have a party that has decided to be disbelieving about climate change. It’s about issues as essential as that,” he said. 
Of course, Stelter did not bother to ask how global warming is somehow connected to the House Democrats’ move to impeach President Trump. Instead, allowing The New Yorker editor to continue to pontificate, Remnick went to discuss how the mainstream media are at a loss as to why President Trump remains popular in certain sectors of the country. 
“Right now, you have a country that is split, and to the great frustration of people like you and people like me, we don’t somehow understand,” he opined. “We don’t understand why the evidence of things, why facts don’t penetrate so many of our brothers and sisters in the United States of America. And it’s a source of great frustration for the press and for anybody who is thinking about these issues that are so important.”
He emphasized, “And this is a source of great frustration for the press. And for anyone who is thinking about these issues that are so important.”
Stelter echoed the sentiments, repeating, “for the press.” He then asked about the “eclipse of reason” of the Republican Party.
“Let’s not be deluded here. It&#8217;s not as if reason and fact and truth-telling were pervasive in any political party, much less the Republican Party. But things have gotten markedly worse,” Remnick answered. “So much of the Republican Party, their candidates, their leadership know the score. Everybody in the Senate and the House knows this is a man of low character, of ethical, of ethics run amuck. &#8230; Nobody in the Republican Party thinks this is a good and decent man. These are people who are looking to their political advantages. They think if they act against him somehow or speak against him, they&#8217;ll lose their seats. So, the only people speaking against him are people set to retire.”
This interview highlights a lack of self-awareness that is prevalent across large swaths of the news industry. As they try to connect global warming to the vote to impeach Trump, many Americans grow weary of such showboating by the press and congressional Democrats. 
The Daily Wire’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/klavan-cnn-accidentally-reveals-that-its-a-cult" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Andrew Klavan</a> has previously commented on the direction of the media and of Brian Stelter’s program, in particular. 
“I mean, it is comical that they can’t see themselves,” he said. “So it drives the Right crazy, it drives me crazy. This is the news. You turn on the news, CNN, the most trusted name in news, but that’s what you see on the news, and it drives you crazy.” 
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-yorker-editor-david-remnick-says-trumps-impeachment-is-about-the-future-of-the-earth" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Fox News</a>’ Brian Flood noted how the Remnick interview was mocked on social media, with Brit Hume pointing out, “Fortunately for the country and the planet, people seem to have sense enough not to believe this sort of claptrap.”
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Fortunately for the country and the planet, people seem to have sense enough not to believe this sort of claptrap. <a href="https://t.co/X9KyPyhiFy">https://t.co/X9KyPyhiFy</a>
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Brit Hume doesn&#8217;t mince words.
The former anchor of the Fox News nightly show &#8220;Special Report&#8221; weighs in daily on the goings on in Washington, consistently hitting the nail on the head. He did so again on Monday when he ripped the University of Virginia for canceling its 21-gun salute tradition held each Veterans Day.
“As an alumnus, I am embarrassed. What pantywaists,” Hume wrote on Twitter.
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As an alumnus, I am embarrassed. What pantywaists. <a href="https://t.co/9vMYRUzlUS">https://t.co/9vMYRUzlUS</a>
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For the last decade, UVA — designed by Thomas Jefferson — has held a 24-hour ceremony by ROTC cadets, which concluded with a 21-gun salute. The salute is the highest gun salute the U.S. military can perform, usually for heads of state or on special occasions. The number decreases in other salutes, depending on the rank of the recipient.
The decision was made by the Provost&#8217;s office and the colonel of UVA&#8217;s ROTC program for several reasons.
&#8220;One is that it would be disruptive to classes and two unfortunately with gun violence in the U.S., there was some concern that we would cause a panic if someone heard gunshots on grounds,&#8221; said UVA President Jim Ryan.
Ryan said the salute &#8220;is not a required, or even typical, part of Veteran’s Day ceremonies — as opposed to Memorial Day ceremonies, which are specifically dedicated to those who have lost their lives in service to our country.&#8221;
&#8220;Given that the plans are already in place for this year, we will follow the event organizers’ recommendation to proceed without the 21-gun salute in our Veterans Day Ceremony. Following this year’s ceremony, however, we will work with our ROTC officers and cadets to take a closer look at options for our Veterans Day events, including those that would enable us to re-introduce the 21-gun salute to the program,&#8221; Ryan said.
Other alumni were also unhappy with the school&#8217;s decision.
&#8220;As a mom of a current 4th year, I’m embarrassed by their decision. So they are telling us that very smart college kids would be upset by an announced, pre-planned 21 gun salute? On Veterans day. Ridiculous,&#8221; one Twitter user wrote.
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As a mom of a current 4th year, I’m embarasssd by their decision. So they are telling us that very smart college kids would be upset by an announced, pre-planned 21 gun salute? On Veterans day. Ridiculous.
— Rebecca (@Rebecca47630789) November 11, 2019</blockquote>
Wrote another: &#8220;How &#8216;we&#8217; reached the decision? The buck stops with you. Score one for the snowflakes.&#8221;
Another wrote: &#8220;As a @UVA #UVA student veteran, thank you for marginalizing my community. That is a direct, unmitigated slap in the face to those of us who have served, and especially to those of us who have served and lost. I am deeply sorry that you decided to make this incorrect decision.&#8221;
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How “we” reached the decision? The buck stops with you. Score one for the snowflakes.
— Dwight Carlisle (@DwightCarlisle1) November 10, 2019</blockquote>
&#8220;I am very disillusioned, very upset, and very surprised that they would make such a decision,&#8221; Jay Levine, who went through the ROTC program, told local station <a href="https://www.nbc29.com/story/41290220/uva-faces-backlash-for-removal-of-21gun-salute-from-veterans-day-ceremony">NBC-29</a>.
&#8220;Freedom isn&#8217;t free,&#8221; Levine said. &#8220;There&#8217;s a cost and that cost is born by the veterans and the families of those veterans.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailyprogress.com/opinion/opinion-editorial-uva-should-accommodate--gun-salute/article_5773c34f-028b-5d89-82c6-46c4a3277061.html">The Daily Progress</a>, a newspaper in Charlottesville where UVA is located, printed several letters blasting the school&#8217;s decision.
The decision, one letter-writer wrote, sent &#8220;an unfortunate message about students: That they are too fragile, too delicate, too distractible to deal with the ‘interruption’ of the salute. That they are too insular, too wrapped up in their own worlds to comprehend and accept this longstanding practice. That they must be protected from the reality that exists outside academia.&#8221;
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<blockquote>The reality is that UVa is out of step with many in this community, which it aspires to lead, by its decision to downplay the Veterans Day program.</blockquote>
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