Hume: Mainstream Media ‘Remarkably Reticent’ to Pursue Benghazi Co

October 28th, 2012 4:56 PM
Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume upbraided the press for its lack of interest in pursuing the Obama administration’s misstatements and dissembling on what they knew before and after the Benghazi terrorist attacks, lamenting on Fox News Sunday that “one of the problems we’re having here is, that it has fallen to this news organization, Fox News and a couple others, to do all the heavy…

Ingraham and Hume Scold NYT’s Zeleny and Media for Not Pursuing Obam

October 14th, 2012 2:42 PM
With New York Times political reporter Jeff Zeleny sitting next to her on the Fox News Sunday set, radio host Laura Ingraham demanded: “I would hope that the New York Times, as they camped outside of Scooter Libby’s house, during the whole Valerie Plame thing -- are you guys camped out of the Susan Rice residence?” After reciting the administration’s dissembling, she concluded: “This is…

Brit Hume: During My Entire Career Media Have Been Biased But Tilt

September 28th, 2012 11:57 AM
On September 25, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell was joined by numerous other conservatives in an open letter to ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN executives protesting their blatant bias and noting that they are encouraging Americans to get their news from other, more balanced sources. The following night, Fox News's Greta Van Susteren referenced the letter in a segment with fellow FNCer Brit Hume,…

Brit Hume on Holder Contempt Vote: People Will Say 'They Wouldn’t Do

June 11th, 2012 8:47 PM
Fox News's Brit Hume on Monday said leaders of Congress "might want to think twice" about voting in favor of contempt charges against Eric Holder, "the first African-American Attorney General." Appearing on The O'Reilly Factor, Hume added, "Everybody will be saying, ‘He wouldn’t do this, they wouldn’t do this to him if he were white.’ You know that’s coming."

CBS Again Cites Negative Bush Numbers in Poll Which Under-Represented

November 3rd, 2005 8:05 PM
In a Thursday CBS Evening News story on how Karl Rove is a “distraction” in the West Wing, Gloria Borger cited how “a new CBS News poll shows that only 39 percent of Americans say that President Bush has more honesty and integrity than most people in public life, down eleven points since early last year.” But that number comes from the same poll, it turns out, that CBS News skewed by weighing it…