Brit Hume Gets Ready To Step Down At Fox News

Pittsburgh Post Gazette:

During his dozen years as the anchor of Fox News' flagship nightly political newscast, "Special Report," Brit Hume has always managed to convey a certain seriousness and gravitas -- even as viewers of a liberal bent scoffed at his cable network's claim to be "fair and balanced."

But during a recent wide-ranging telephone interview to discuss his upcoming retirement, the 32-year television veteran seemed positively giddy when asked how he felt while anchoring his last election-night broadcast on Fox -- during which a Democrat won the White House. In one newspaper report he was described as looking like "the world's most depressed Bassett hound."

"I don't think any reasonable person who watched that would have come to that conclusion," Hume sputtered, seemingly caught between amusement and outrage. "We had a rollicking broadcast. We had more fun that night -- we went in with the attitude that we were going to have a great time and we did."

Now Hume, 65, is ready to let someone else have all the fun, or at least most of it. He's stepping down as anchor of "Special Report," although he'll still be on the air for about 100 days a year, serving as a senior political analyst, anchor for special events, panelist on "Fox News Sunday" and occasional substitute for its host, Chris Wallace.

Hume, whose "Special Report" is the highest-rated political program on cable television, is, quite frankly, exhausted. "If you're doing a one-hour program on a cable channel and trying to keep the quality up, you work very hard, the days are long and it's an intense competitive business, and it wears you down."

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Comments

[expired]

So long Brit Fumes. No one will miss your right-guided meanderings. The wanna be Walter Cronkite. YOu are such a throw back who's jig is finally up. For 12 years you have been a right wing mouth piece and prior to that, you were able to keep the sheet in the closet. Beat it up the trail Brit Fumes.

[northstar11]

he must have picked up a dictonary and learned the difference between news and swill and figured out he has been producing swill all along.

[greatlardini]

Rick Warren is your typical fundamentalist fra-ud, and this event just strengthens the argument.

[runnerin1]

I am still outraged at the way the so-called christian man, set up Obama, and then lied to millions.

[greatlardini]

I wonder if it bothers peolple to write "Fox News" as it does for us to read "Fox News". It is an oxymoron for the ages. And watching it is the second lowest form of human endeavor. Believing it takes home top honors.

[LightSword]

Who's gonna replace Brit? Bret?

[inluvwkeitholbermann]

they'll probably move on to the C's......maybe a 'chad' or a 'chet'

just so long as it's WASPY-sounding

anyway, his real name is Alexander

[Vyvjala]

Pee Wee Herman is his replacement.............

[inluvwkeitholbermann]

REAL REASON: it's too hard for him to treat obama with respect.....it's gonna be a rough 8 years for rethugs!!

buh-BYE, brit!!!!! good r!ddance!

[bubbuh]

Proud to say I've never seen one of his broadcasts.

[ECB]

Ditto

[white mende man]

me neither and looks like i didn't miss anything

[Deparis]

I could care less. I wouldn't miss him, because I watch only "24".

[Yermammy]

Oh, that's nice. I often wondered how long Dr. Frankenstein would let him roam the villages, before calling him back to the laboratory. Probably needs another grafting or something- maybe a brain this time.

[huffyISaHottie]

what i remember most about brit hume....one morning during his call-in appearance on the don imus show, imus asked what he thought about the big breaking news of the morning...hume had no idea what imus was talking about....the breaking news story was about that small plane that had crashed on the white house lawn.....hume was stunned..he was'nt sure if imus was serious or not...once he realized the story was true he was PISSED ....for some reason he felt imus set him up...hume was somewhat of a regular back then....i believe that morning was his last appearance...of course imus butchered hume for a few weeks

[runnerin1]

Hilarious, but why would Brit be pissed. I could see if he worked for a 'news organization' or something, and they neglected to inform him. But, he works for a propaganda machine, what would they know about breaking news?

[HeevenSteven]

Who?

[jgalvan]

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

[lynettema]

Britt, it wears you down to tell that many lies for that long a time. Or is it you don't think the job is going to be as much fun any more when you no longer have the keys to the White House?

"If you're doing a one-hour program on a cable channel and trying to keep the quality up, you work very hard, the days are long and it's an intense competitive business, and it wears you down."

[Shake-A-Spear]

Brit always looked like he could use a good sleep Retirement should suit him perfectly, as it will us.

[radiclib]

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``Gravitas?''
No way.
He has been a scowling, biased shill for wrong-headed right-wing bias.
He frames everything in Rove-ian talking points and delivers the news from false assumptions.
He's getting out now because he knows the jig is up.
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[huffyISaHottie]

i think his face suffers from too much gravity