Brit Hume: "We Were Knocked Out" By "Strikingly Attractive" Megyn Kelly's Audition Tape

Washington Post:

What makes [Megyn] Kelly unusual is the sheer speed of her ascent. "She has learned television news very quickly," says Bill Hemmer, her co-anchor. "She cares about the news, she studies it, and she has a wicked sense of humor. There is a chemistry that's required, this Fred-and-Ginger dance you have to perform every day on the fly."

Kelly, who grew up in an Albany, N.Y., suburb, was practicing law in Chicago -- securities law, contract disputes and the like -- when she took some journalism classes and served an internship at the NBC station in town. After moving to Washington in 2003, she reduced her legal load and persuaded WJLA, the ABC affiliate, to give her reporting assignments a couple of days a week.

Within a year, Kelly sent Fox a tape, which immediately impressed Brit Hume, the Washington managing editor, and his wife Kim, then the bureau chief.

"Here is this woman who was strikingly attractive but has tremendous air presence and a very strong voice," Hume says. "We were knocked out. It was screamingly obvious that this was someone with tremendous potential."

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Comments

[iPolitics]

I wonder if any of these women at Fox News are afraid after hearing about the lawsuit by Andrea Mackris alleging Bill O'Reilly "subjected her to repeated instances of sexual harassment and spoke often, and explicitly, to her about phone sex, vibrators, threesomes, masturbation, the loss of his virginity, and sexual fantasies.­"

[JJI]

Yeah. Now defend Courtney Friel

[samuraijack]

Brit Hume is married? No way. Hemer is an idiot. I remember the day on air for CNN he started reaing the co-anchor's prompter and said his name was Carol.

[Cedman]

Fox News sells T&A and it amazes me how many people buy this crap.

[josephjsalas]

The ultimate mortician went for the ultimate "CHEERLEADER"! On FOX? SAY IT AIN'T SO!

[samuraijack]

Hi, this is Brrrrrrrrr­rrrrrrriii­iiiiiitttt­ttttt. I have no facial muscles.

[ErnestineBass]

Brit Hume looks like a basset hound.

[43P04T34]

Hume is dreaming that his network, or any U.S. network could possibly locate a woman to read the news the way that Melissa Theuriau does.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vedia/sets/530783/

I am dreaming that Hume will retire and go to Antarctica to collect soil samples.

[Bluedog12]

Looks like Britt got a fat lip from the "knockout".

[danceswithyids]

She'd give a dog a bone.
Schaaaawing!

[andyboy]

Brit Hume was masturbating screamingly when he saw Megyn.

She may even keep him awake during newscasts. This would be a first.

[DesertLight]

How juvenile. Perhaps, after you graduate high school, you could elevate your thoughts beyond hormonal rage.

[jnratliff]

You have to understand that fox has lowered the bar so far that brit humas can be called a news caster/reporter, why not this woman? All she has to be able to do is read the lies they give her with conviction, lawschool should help with that, Plus lawyers don't mind lying for a buck!

[maddog2112]

"This Fred and ginger dance you have to perform" I find it revealing (but not surprising at all) that Faux news admits that they look at the news as putting on a show. It is now an entertainment venue, lots of shiny things, bright colors and pretty girls. If you have all that, you can make up content and stories to talk about, after all the only thing that matters is ratings.

The sadest thing is all this would be alright for Faux news to do. They can hire strippers to tell the news and blow colored smoke on stage and have midgets rideing unicycles around waving American flags and sparklers if they want to. All of this would be fine if they simply stopped the lying, the half truths, the made up stories and the agenda driven questions.

"How would you feel if you heard that Shawn Hannity was arrested for repeatably molesting 4 boys, ages 9 through 11, for a period of over 6 years?"

Ask that question around the internet. - Just to be " fair and balanced"

[samuraijack]

Is Bill admitting some gayness? Fred and Ginger?? That won't make Heraldo take you on his next field trip, Billy.

[andyboy]

What makes Kelly unusual is the sheer speed of her ascent. "She has learned television news very quickly," says Bill Hemmer, her co-anchor.

Wow! Megyn lernt thet news all quick-like. What a woman.

And she's strikingly attractive too boot! What a combonation.

Do any of these bimbos ever firgure out that the FOX NEWS guys like Britt Hume and Brian Kilmead pick the female members of the team based on two things? Length (or lack thereof) of skirt and stupidity (the stupider the better).

Look at the raving shrew Bridgette Carlson. She's just as dumb as that retard on the View but has much better legs.

[CaptainHowdy]

"Strikingly attractive"?

These guys need to get out more often. She's just average looking.

[transendentilist]

I've head righties say.."Ann Coulter is hot." That gives you an idea their idea of what they think "hot," is. Pardon me, now I have to go shower. eeeewwwwww.

[drauz]

I'm a FoxNewsBabe-watcher because my cable sys doesn't offer pretty girls exercise/workout programs anymore. For the audio track I listen to Sibelius. I absolve myself by not patronizing their advertisers.

[Dendera]

Oi now, slow down. Megyn Kelly is blonde, but she is not stupid. This is a very bright, engaging person with a lot of talent, brains, and more feel for news reportage than 99.9% of anyone on Faux News.

She's also a right-wing neo-con danger mouse.... but no one is perfect. Just don't diss her just for being brainy and pretty at the same time.

Just diss her for her views please and leave her hair out of it.

[TheRebel82]

This is the Faux News formula of using blond bimbos to try and cater to the nascar demograpic for ratings.

Faux News isn't a serious network. More like the National Enquirer of news.