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Oh man, this is sort of sad! Brit Hume, by many measures one of the least offensive Fox News personalities in existence, is stepping down from the anchor’s desk after 12 years because he has lost his enthusiasm for the job. (Quick everybody, quit your job because you are bored!) Twelve years on Fox would be the equivalent of two decades with one of those companies that does the clean-up after a quadruple homicide or a sewer pipe explosion or an invasion of Mold Monsters. Not for the faint of heart. Brit Hume, we salute you! [New York Daily News]
Is this what the Hume-mans call…. boredom?
Poor guy. Bet hey, at least now there is a larger slot on FNC for Geraldo!
I used to run this website, until I too just lost the enthusiasm for cataloging Brit Hume’s bullshit.
Fux News should hire Kent Brockman. He’s more credible than all of them.
“I’ve started to lose mine. This stuff exhausts me as much as it excites me. I’m just kind of tired of doing it.”
That’s the same kind of made up crap people use to dump someone they just don’t like any more. Hey baby, I’m just exhausted. The spark’s not there.
Really, what Brit Hume is saying is that FNC has been getting clingy, needy and it’s ass has definitely gotten fatter. See ya!
Does that mean he’s be McCain’s press secretary?
Can I put these water buckets down now, Mr. Cheney?
I thought it was just his scrawny little neck that was tired of supporting what The Editors once called a “galaxy-sized head.”
I would tune in if his final broadcast had a Kent Brockmanism, like “This just in… go to hell!”
Can we get Asshannity to quit because we’re tired of him “doing it”?
I just want to see the parting liplock Charlie Krauthammer lays on him. Who needs Sarah Palin when you can have that?
If this betokens vast waves of depression, ennui, despair and self-loathing in the right wing media, I can live with that.
I think a Britt Hume faced rat just jumped off the Devil Ship Faux Newz.
This has nothing at all to do with that mopey St. Bernard Brit Hume retiring, but http://www.eisenstadtgroup.com/2008/10/15/joe-the-plumber-wurzelbacher-related-to-charles-keating-oops/
Turns out Joe The Plumbers father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate is none other than CHARLES KEATING, proving once again that all plumbers are evil thieving bastards.
Oh wait! Start the countdown clock. In the tradition of traitorous Republican ass suckers everywhere, it will surely only be a few months before Hume comes out with his tell all report about Fox News and how they manipulate and control public opinion through subliminal messages.
Lurch is just being powered down by his keepers because the amount of juice it takes to run Lurch’s daily reanimator is now more costly than his droll output is worth.
Next stop: Paraguay with Dubya and all the other GOP Nazis who’re getting the fuck outta Dodge before the indictments start flying.
See ya, suckahs!
Harold_Ignoramis: You’ve accidentally hit on a billion dollar idea. If you could assemble the animation at the same rate you assemble the news, I bet the ratings would be insane.
TJBeck: Glad I wasn’t drinking my coffee when I read that…. Coffee, sugar andcream don’t really go well with laptops!!! Too funny!
Crap. Brit Hume was good, droll, stuff. He was more Reverend Lovejoy than Kent Brockman to me, but that’s neither here nor there. He will be ‘missed’. Sort of. OK, not really. But yeah.
Also, he probably told the bosses he was voting for Hopey and they gave him his papers.
Canuckledragger: Kudos, just Kudos for a “Lurch” reference!
Now he is free to live the remainder of his life as Britney, his secret alter ego.
Funny picture ha ha ha:
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[americablog]
It’s a damned good reason.
WTF i knew prison made him gay ????????????????????????????
why doesn’t he want to legally get married to joe the plumber.
“I’m just kind of tired of doing it.”
Yeah, and I just kind of got tired of hearing him talk like he has a mouthfull of mashed potatoes. See ya later, mush mouth!
If they announce Bill Hemmer as the new anchor, this will just kill Tony Snow.
Lindsey Graham said he was tired to. I guess years of carrying water for ideologically spent political party and tying yourself into all sort of complicated rhetorical knots kinda wears you down if you have even the most tenuous relationship with reality.
Which explains why Rush isn’t even thinking of quiting.
more like Shit Broom.
Schadenfried: Does that mean he will be a cancer ridden husk of a man soon?
Cape Clod:
Rush has his Oxy and Vicoden to help erase intrusions of reality into his bubble.
ManchuCandidate: I beg your pardon, you are of course right.
Hannity, on the other hand, is simply a psychotic asshole.
He should just deal with the tedium like everyone else does: booze and posting comments about buttsecks on Wonkette.
In fact, do we know for sure he doesn’t?
It was a failed economy that finally killed Soviet style communism in Russia,
and it’ll be a failed economy that finally puts an end to modern style religious neo conservatism in the USA.
Britt Hume is smart enough to see this coming.
He’s just another rat leaving the sinking ship.
From FOX ‘news’ 10 minutes ago:
Question of the Day
Who won the final presidential debate?
John McCain 15%
Barack Obama 85%
Total Voters:470454
Brit Hume is a dick. He just has to pretend not to be one more-so than the people around him to give Fox the appearance of having at least a shred of impartiality.
Now he can get back to drinking gin gimlets and playing tennis with Poppy Bush fulltime.
ShaqsDong: Ha ha, that’s funny!
By miles, the most boring ‘news’ guy on teevee is bored? Who would’ve thought?!
When you lie too much you get cancer of the butt. Believe me, I know. I worked at fox news and now I can only sit in chairs with the bottoms cut out.
Cape Clod: Hannity is comedy for conservatives. He really is nothing more than an entertainer who uses political information as his schtick. We find it horrible, but the people who listen and watch find it entertaining. I would say informative, but being informed is not what they care about…hearing their own views in an echo chamber is.
Fox News and the rest of the talk radio crowd probably don’t give a rats ass about politics, they are simply playing a part that taps into a lucrative and underserved entertainment market.