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FirstLight

(13,360 posts)
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 09:00 PM Oct 2013

Brit Hume: "Obama Deliberately Ignored Major Networks at Presser to Avoid Tough Questions"

Just stumbled across this I guess the subtlety of avoiding them to make a point that they SUCK is lost on him

Fox News’ Brit Hume was bewildered at the complete lack of hard-hitting questions at President Obama‘s press conference on Tuesday, calling out Obama for ignoring the network TV correspondents because, as Hume saw it, they are traditionally tougher on presidents than other journalists.


Just passing this on for us to chew up & spit out
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Brit Hume: "Obama Deliberately Ignored Major Networks at Presser to Avoid Tough Questions" (Original Post) FirstLight Oct 2013 OP
few things are as irrelevant in life as Brit Hume. NRaleighLiberal Oct 2013 #1
Agreed! Owl Oct 2013 #13
lol.. brit who? Cha Oct 2013 #15
aka Butt Fume. TheCowsCameHome Oct 2013 #16
Brit Exhume graywarrior Oct 2013 #20
I hold dog shit that I scrape off of my shoe in higher esteem than Brit Hume. eom Mika Oct 2013 #23
Plus Infinity with a cherry on top. Uncle Joe Oct 2013 #26
There are no journalists on Mr Hume's Network. Mr.Bill Oct 2013 #2
Stupid questions maybe Proud Liberal Dem Oct 2013 #3
You do not matter to him. Get a clue! Glimmer of Hope Oct 2013 #4
Waaaaaaaaahhhhh!! BumRushDaShow Oct 2013 #5
Hahaha Southside Oct 2013 #7
Poor babies Southside Oct 2013 #6
Fuck you horse face n/t doc03 Oct 2013 #8
Britt Hume and Fox "News" have no credibility, it's much harder to get that virtue back Uncle Joe Oct 2013 #9
exactly! FirstLight Oct 2013 #21
"Avoid Tough Questions" NO... Avoiding illiterate, dumb-shit, Bogus, FoxCrap Question..YES BlueJazz Oct 2013 #10
LOL! City Lights Oct 2013 #11
Mr. Hot-Pizza-Sliding-Off-A-Tray Face is upset? TheCowsCameHome Oct 2013 #12
his bfee paycheck is not subject to shutdowns nt UTUSN Oct 2013 #14
One positive aspect of the economic crisis: xfundy Oct 2013 #17
What? No Jeff Gannon? nt Link Speed Oct 2013 #18
He did it to avoid clown questions... Salviati Oct 2013 #19
Oh and I read Pres Obama is going on Four Local Stations Cha Oct 2013 #22
Brit HUme is a piece of shit and always has been. gopiscrap Oct 2013 #24
That he missed the point, I think SUMS UP the (President's) point quite nicely... Volaris Oct 2013 #25
Brit. The copy of my birth certificate - both copies are on WhiteHouse.gov You can't keep asking... Tigress DEM Oct 2013 #27
Um, no. nt Deep13 Oct 2013 #28
Which is it, Brit the Twit? alp227 Oct 2013 #29
John Boehner ignores the press all the time. When he does answer, it is no more than two mfcorey1 Oct 2013 #30
"Hume faults President for not allowing forum... JHB Oct 2013 #31

Southside

(338 posts)
6. Poor babies
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 09:05 PM
Oct 2013

Run to Paula Dean, she has some southern comfort waiting for you, with black men in suits, but they don't act like Obama.

Uncle Joe

(58,366 posts)
9. Britt Hume and Fox "News" have no credibility, it's much harder to get that virtue back
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 09:15 PM
Oct 2013

once you have squandered it.

Thanks for the thread, FirstLight.

FirstLight

(13,360 posts)
21. exactly!
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 09:32 PM
Oct 2013

you're welcome...thought it was quite ironic, and funny he's "bewildered"...thought most everyone at FOX was already there.

xfundy

(5,105 posts)
17. One positive aspect of the economic crisis:
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 09:27 PM
Oct 2013

People are shutting out cable tv and "religious" programming that does the same thing.

Cha

(297,322 posts)
22. Oh and I read Pres Obama is going on Four Local Stations
Tue Oct 8, 2013, 09:33 PM
Oct 2013

tomorrow for interviews regarding teabagger shutdown and their impending debt limit crisis.

Can't find anything yet.. just a tweet I read..

Mark Knoller ✔ @markknoller

Also tomorrow at the WH: Pres Obama sits for interviews with four local TV news anchors to discuss the Govt shutdown & Debt Limit.1:40 PM - 8 Oct 2013

11 Retweets 1 favorite ReplyRetweet

http://theobamadiary.com/2013/10/08/a-tweet-or-two-10/

Volaris

(10,272 posts)
25. That he missed the point, I think SUMS UP the (President's) point quite nicely...
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 02:31 AM
Oct 2013

can we re-instate the fairness doctrine and Publicly Subsidize print newspapers already?

Oh, also, hard-hitting questions? The front row of the White House Press Room should look like this:
Rachel Maddow, Chris Hedges, Jeremy Scahill, Lee Pappa, Bill Moyers, Cornell West.

Otherwise, go fuck yourself, Brit. You and yours are Court Stenographers, too dumb to know that you just got given the finger by the single most powerful human being on the planet. ON NATIONAL FUCKING TELEVISION no less.

Tigress DEM

(7,887 posts)
27. Brit. The copy of my birth certificate - both copies are on WhiteHouse.gov You can't keep asking...
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 03:03 AM
Oct 2013

All he was avoiding was bigoted, egotistical racist opinionated BS....


Yah, ya'll are saying, "So tell us how you really feel"


PG board here. Can't go there.


FAUX News.

alp227

(32,034 posts)
29. Which is it, Brit the Twit?
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 04:11 AM
Oct 2013

Are the major networks liberally biased pro Obama propaganda a la Pravda or too intimidating to the president? Quit talking out both sides of your mouth.

mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
30. John Boehner ignores the press all the time. When he does answer, it is no more than two
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 04:49 AM
Oct 2013

questions with snarky answers.

JHB

(37,161 posts)
31. "Hume faults President for not allowing forum...
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 05:34 AM
Oct 2013

...for Hume to prove that there IS such a thing as a stupid question. Film at 11."

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