Sunday, February 18, 2007

Hume Slams Murtha

Think Progress » Hume: Murtha Is Senile, Doesn’t Have ‘The Foggiest Awareness’ Of What’s Going On In The World

This morning on Fox News, Brit Hume launched a scathing diatribe against Rep. John Murtha’s (D-PA) character. “It’s time a few things be said about him,” Hume said. “This guy is long past the day when he had anything but the foggiest awareness of what the heck is going on in the world.” Hume called Murtha an “absolute fountain” of “naivete....”

(Think Progress has the video here.)

"....Murtha has long been the subject of smear attacks from the right. When he first came out in support of redeployment from Iraq in late 2005, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said Murtha had “never been a big thinker,” and that he had “become too emotional” because he “goes to funerals.” The White House said it was “baffling that he is endorsing the policy positions of Michael Moore and the extreme liberal wing....”

If Murtha is senile, then how does Hume's mental acuity rank?

2 comments:

Taylor Marsh said...

Brit Hume is the worst. As for judging his mental acuity, I'd say Bush's boy Brit ranks just below The Village Idiot.

Bob Harrison said...

I thought Tony Snow had that job.