Brit Hume’s last show was Tuesday night. He was probably the most even-handed news anchor in a generation. I know our recent spate of trolls will disagree, but only because Hume told both sides of the story. The Left loves to hate Fox News but only because of shows like O’Reilly and Hannity which aren’t really news shows – shows that I haven’t watched since 2000. Hume’s hour was purely unbiased – anyone who spent time watching it actually learned about a particular issue instead of being fed the party line on how to think about it.<\/p>\n
In case you didn’t know it, Brit Hume was one of the early Berkeley radicals in his college days during the early 60s (according to David Horowitz in his book “Radical Son”). So Hume made the journey to conservatism just like the rest of us.<\/p>\n
I remember one night the fire alarm went off in the studio. As the bureau chief, Hume shooed everyone out of the building, but as anchor, he stayed and did the next segment alone.<\/p>\n
Brett Baier will be taking his place. I met Brett when he was the Fox News Pentagon reporter and he seemed like a nice guy for the few minutes I chatted with him. Out of all of the networks, Baier probably covered the Pentagon better than any other network in the months following the 9\/11 attack, but I don’t envy him having to fill Humes shoes.<\/p>\n
Here are the closing moments of last night’s show in case you missed it (from Hot Air<\/a>, by way of Ace of Spades<\/a>)
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