Brit Hume on Edwards: "My heart was moved... My bowels were moved."

[BurtWorm]

:wtf:

From salon.com's War Room:

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html#black_eyed_peas


"Why the long face, Brit?" I asked. He didn't pause a beat. "I've never experienced a more emotional political night in my life," he said in deadpan style. "Edwards' speech was the most emotional thing I've ever heard in my life. When I heard John Edwards talking about mothers sitting at their kitchen tables I was moved. My heart was moved ... my bowels were moved."

I was somewhat flummoxed by this response, and it was unusual enough that I instantly hit the mental "save" button. I'm not accustomed to hearing about the bowel movements of TV personalities, so the precise wording burned itself into my mind (and five minutes later into my notebook).

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Good thing..the guy looks like he hasn't taken a good shit in 30 years

[PA Democrat]

3. LOL! He does indeed have that pained look of

constipation permanently on his face.

[lottie244]

56. The pundits will praise Edwards because they know he didn't say much

they will stay away from Carter's speech and Clinton's speech because they were of substance. Nor will they tout Obama or Sharpton. And Jesse said the one thing my heart was longing to hear: Bring the troops home!!! As soon as possible. I'm not bashing Edwards, but his speech was good but not all that moving or substantive. I think it was just a long, quieter scream.

[lapislzi]

4. Well, he'd better not take one of mine...

I'm saving them for the weekend.

(Sorry, couldn't resist. You can slap me. Or, I'll slap myself)

:spank:

[ashling]

5. I think its that corncob stuck up his ass

[BurtWorm]

8. Ha ha!!

:insert smiley spewing coffee on computer:

[LynneSin]

40. Here's the smilie - bookmark it for future use

I need it too

[BurtWorm]

41. You're an angel!

:yourock:

[pmbryant]

37. The perfect response!

:bounce:

Peter

[Swede]

60. Do you think you will hear any journalist say something similar at the RNC

I don't think so.

[MaineDem]

2. Words can't describe how despicable that is.

How in hell do they get away with saying stuff like that?

I really don't understand this.

[doctorbombeigh]

10. He works for FOX - this is acceptable and required of them.

Hume's been a waste of air-time for years.

[Cha]

6. Consider the source. brit hume is a twit...

who shits his pants.

[tom_paine]

7. That sound EXACTLY like a Nazi comment about Jews

These people are monsters. Every day and in every way they reveal it.

They are NOT Americans. They are Amerikans.

[doctorbombeigh]

18. Hmm... they always strike me as more Afrikaan

Generally acknowledged to be the worst people in the world (in general - not everyone). Wait until you get a look at the Republican convention next month - it's always an eye-opener. Whenever I watch their convention, I keep looking for P.W. Botha to show up as a delegate.

[lapislzi]

31. methinks die groot krokodil died a few years back

but his legacy lives on in RW paramilitary groups in the countryside. What people don't realize about Afrikaners is that they're really just a bunch of farmers. They are completely ill-at-ease in the modern world. The smart ones got out.

Just some info for ya on South Africa. I used to live there.

Any expat Afrikaners out there care to comment?

[AnnInLa]

9. Wow, what a classy guy!

[Tight_rope]

57. Yes...he truly represents the classyness of the Republican party!

[AspenRose]

11. That's not witty, that's just disgusting

Go get some raisin bran already!

[camero]

12. You know what that means

It means he's so full of shit his eyes are brown.

[koopie57]

13. Well

I always thought humes was nothing more than a pile of shit anyway. But I was not aware he had a heart. Something might have moved around, but it was certainly not his heart. I suspect maybe it was a burp.

[BurtWorm]

19. How about we call him Brick Hume from here on in.

:hurts:

Or Brick Fumes?

[Cha]

21. brick fumes it is!

:hurts:

[Must_B_Free]

30. Shit Fume: My bowels were moved

is his official name

[tabasco]

14. This is what passes for professional journalism in neoAmerica.

I wonder how so many educated newsreaders reconcile working as a part of a propaganda machine. They are intelligent enough to know that the neocon agenda's end state is a severely damaged USA. Do they care so little for their home country to take part in this deception? Is money all that matters to these traitors?

[kaitykaity]

15. Yep, Brit has class, dontcha know.

:puke:

[Mz Pip]

16. Maybe we should all

send him some Bean-O to help alleviate all that hot air he's been accumulating. What a jerk.

MzPip
:dem:

[HEFFA]

17. You know how you could tell that his bowels moved?

His mouth was moving.

This guy is a douchebag of the first order.

When will this insanity at Fox be stopped? They operate on public airwaves. That means that they have a responsibility to the public to inform accurately, fairly, and to seek truth. As anyone with eyes, ears, and half a brain (wait, most Fox viewers already only have half a brain) can tell, they have violated their duty. Their license should be revoked!

Seriously, WHY is nothing being done about this? I've contacted my congressional rep. and senators' offices about it (especially after watching "Outfoxed"), but it just seems like a non-issue. This is serious!

[lectrobyte]

22. uh, Fox news is a cable network

[HEFFA]

27. And they're not licensed by the FCC? No oversight? No regs?

Uh oh....I'm embarassed.:crazy:

I guess I'll save my outrage then. Don't worry, there's plenty to go around.

[HEFFA]

32. Now wait a minute...this comes direct from the FCC's website.

Now tell me that Fox (and others) are complying by these standards.

http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/csgen.html

Political Cablecasting

Once a cable system allows a legally qualified candidate to use its facilities, it must afford "equal opportunities" to all other candidates for that office to use its facilities. The cable system may not censor the content of the candidate's "equal opportunity" material in any way, and may not discriminate between candidates in practices, regulations, facilities or services rendered pursuant to the equal opportunities rules. Candidate appearances which are exempt from the "equal opportunities" rules include appearances on a bona fide newscast, bona fide news interview, bona fide news documentary, or on-the-spot coverage of a bona fide news event.

Cable television systems may charge political candidates only the "lowest unit charge" of the system for the same class and amount of time for the same period, during the 45 days preceding a primary or runoff election and the 60 days preceding a general or special election. Candidates should be charged no more per unit than the system charges its most favored commercial advertisers for the same classes and amounts of time for the same periods. Information concerning the rates, terms, conditions and all discounts and privileges offered to commercial advertisers should be disclosed and made available to candidates.

Fairness Doctrine

Prior to the Fairness Doctrine's repeal in 1987, cable television system operators engaging in origination cablecasting were required to afford reasonable opportunity for the discussion of conflicting views on controversial issues of public importance. Although this requirement still appears in the Commission's rules, the fairness doctrine in its broadcast application and from which the cable rules is derived, is no longer enforced as a consequence of a Commission proceeding and a court decision.

Personal Attacks

When an attack is made upon the honesty, character, integrity, or like personal qualities of an identified person or group during origination cablecasting concerning controversial issues of public importance, the cable system must give the following to the person or group attacked within one week: (1) notification and identification of the cablecast, (2) a script, tape or accurate summary of the attack, and (3) an offer of a reasonable opportunity to respond over the cable facilities. The rule exempts attacks by political candidates and their associates on other candidates, including attacks that occur during "uses" by candidates such as attacks made during bona fide newscasts, bona fide news interviews and on-the-spot coverage of bona fide news events; and attacks on foreign groups or foreign public figures.

Political Editorials

Once a cable system carries an editorial endorsing or opposing a legally qualified political candidate, it must give opposing candidates (or the candidate opposed in the editorial) an opportunity to respond. Within 24 hours after the political editorial, the cable system must give to the other candidates or the candidate opposed the following: (1) notification and identification of the editorial, (2) a script or tape of the editorial, and (3) an offer of a reasonable opportunity for the candidate or his or her spokesman to respond over the cable facilities. Where an editorial is cablecast within 72 hours prior to election day, the cable system is obliged to give notice and an opportunity to respond sufficiently far in advance to enable the candidate opposed or not endorsed a reasonable opportunity to prepare a response and to present it in a timely fashion.

[lectrobyte]

43. I'm not sure, but I think that applies to community access channels etc.

my understanding is that stuff like Fox is not bound by the fairness doctrine, but I could be wrong. Either way, the fairness doctrine has (had) a lot of "weasel room", it depends on your definition of "editorial" etc. Not that I'm apologizing for Fox, I think they are evil, and are misinforming the public to serve a neocon agenda... That's why I usually tell people not to watch it -- less people watching, less ad revenue, maybe cable systems consider dropping it etc.

[HEFFA]

58. Fox carries the NFL, NASCAR, and the World Series. Do you really think

that me not watching it is going to bring them down?

We see eye to eye on the issue of their coverage, but really. We should shut them down.

[liberalmuse]

20. Gee, thanks Hume!

Thanks for digging a big hole in the ground with that one, so you could further lower the bar on what passes as 'journalism' these days. Now we can all picture our tv newsreaders straining on the crapper after listening to our representatives address truly important issues.

Then again, maybe he meant it in a figurative sense, as in moving his bowels *orally*.

[Bok_Tukalo]

23. That's an odd sense of humour

But I take it as him trying to be partisan compliment funny (shat his pants when he heard it).

[liberalmuse]

24. Yeah, but...

couldn't he come up with a better analogy? Kee-rist! That's just too much information, dude!

[DancingBear]

25. This moran lives about 8 miles away from me

I'm hoping to see him around town so I can tell him what I think of his journalistic "career."

[Must_B_Free]

33. Why don you shoot him a glare next time you chance by him

[DancingBear]

55. I NEVER see him

He lives, I kid you not, in a town named Hume.

There are quite a few people around here that you see on occasion - I see Willard Scott (from The Today Show) in the supermarket a lot, and the lovely(?) Linda Tripp shows up around town every so often, but never Brit.

Trust me, I'll "chat him up" if I ever see him. :)

[guitar man]

34. If he lived that close to me

...and I saw him around town, I'd do more than tell him off, I'd whip his ass. Not for the "bowel movement" comment, but for the "get over it" comment he made to families of troops killed in Iraq a few months ago. He is truly despicable and deserves whatever he gets.

The last time "my bowels were moved", I looked down and saw something that looked just like Brit Hume.

[w13rd0]

38. Or how about the...

..."more chance of being killed in LA" comment?

[guitar man]

45. no shit

If the SOB ever wants to experience first hand what a dangerous situation is, let him get within arm's reach of me!

[rucky]

26. You just uncovered the next RW talking point.

Listen for the word "emotional" used to describe democrats.

Next question will be "Can we trust the security of our nation to such an emotional group?"

[BurtWorm]

29. The new L word: Laxative.

:hurts:

[DS1]

28. No trophy no flowers no flash bulbs no line

He's haunted by something he can not define
Bowel shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse
Assail him, impale him with monster truck force
In his mind he's still driving still making the grades
She's hoping in time that her memories will fade
Because he's racing and pacing and plotting the course
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse

[SheepyMcSheepster]

44. He's going the distance!

he's going for speed!

[edbermac]

35. Be careful you don't move your bowels, Brit...

You could blow your brains out...:kick:

[Cocoa]

36. what's that smell?

ah, yes, the unmistakable aroma of santorum oozing from Brit Hume.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

39. Uh-oh!! I need to go take a good "Humes"!

[LynneSin]

42. I say we all mail a package of this to Brit Hume c/o FoxNews

God forbid we don't want the guy to get backed up waiting for his next bowel movement. He obviously could use some help!

[AlCzervik]

47. Make sure you send him some depends

for Edward's next speech. I gotta go, gotta unload my Humes.

[LynneSin]

52. You know, that might actually be a better choice of item to send

I mean, geez, what if they show a clip of Edward's speech during a newscast. We wouldn't want Brit shatting his undies on the nightly cable news now would we.

:shrug:

[kskiska]

48. Brit goes steady

with Ex-Lax.

[indypaul]

46. Mr. Hume you did not have to

tell us your bowels were moving, we know that
from the fact you lips are moving.

[johnfunk]

49. I dare SOMEONE to say to that sneaky, lying little shit Brit...

... that they were not surprised to hear that he'd shit his pants after hearing Edwards and realizing his boy McSmirkster is going down to defeat -- and then ask if Hume did the same thing when he heard his son had committed suicide.

Hume's viciousness is well known among the DC media world. It's time he got his own nose rubbed in it a little.

[PurityOfEssence]

50. I've heard the term "shithead", but never a "shitheart"

I must admit, though: it's mighty appropriate for conservatives...

[flordehinojos]

51. Yeah, Brit Humes' bowels moved that is why

there is such a stinking foul smell of republicanism permeating our air waves during our Democratic convention! :grr:

[Cadfael]

53. God, I HATE that basset hound

[mandyky]

54. Hmm, sounds like Edwards scared the crap outta him n/t

[peekaloo]

59. Next on FOX: Brit Hume emits shit fume after Edwards speech

:hurts: