If Brit Hume Were President…
If Brit Hume Were President…
Fox anchor Brit Hume took a creative approach this weekend to defending President Bush’s embattled U.N. nominee John Bolton. Here he is responding to the news that 59 former U.S. diplomats, including many conservatives, signed a letter condemning Bolton:
WILLIAMS: What about the 60 diplomats, including many Republicans, who have sent a letter to the Senate committee, saying we think it’s a mistake to approve John Bolton. That was based entirely on his views on the U.N.
HUME: I would hope that they would be — frankly, if I were the president and I was trying to get my foreign policy accepted, adopted, or imposed, if necessary, on the State Department, and I had someone for the U.N., I would hope there would be at least 60 diplomats and maybe many more who would find him an unattractive candidate.
See, by Hume’s logic, all you have to do to be a good candidate for the Bush administration is be considered “unattractive” by at least 60 bipartisan well-qualified observers. You have to wonder, where was Brit when Bernie Kerik needed him?
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I knew Bernie Kerik, Bernie Kerik is a favorite of mine, and John Bolton is no Bernie Kerik.
April 25th, 2005 at 5:19 pmI believe at least 60 bipartisan, well-qualified observers, including myself, have characterized Brit Hume as “unattractive.”
What a hack. Brit Hume is so lacking in spine, I think that technically he may actually be an amoeba.
April 25th, 2005 at 5:23 pmThe main qualification is that Bush’s opponents must think he’s an idiot. That way, anytime someone disagrees with him he can respond with, “You must think I’m an idiot.”
April 25th, 2005 at 5:54 pmIt never ceases to amaze me that people still watch, much less “like” Fox News, which is so unbearably intellectually void…
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April 25th, 2005 at 9:42 pmballs.
April 25th, 2005 at 10:01 pmI wonder how many of those 59 former diplomats believe Zionism is Racism, cheer UN soldiers raping girls in Africa, and dismiss the oil-for-food scandal as propaganda?
April 26th, 2005 at 6:28 amThis sounds like the “take your medicine” method of UN Ambassador seletion. Maybe the only benefit of a Bolton appointment will be a character building exercise - I mean, what else could it be?
You know, whenever you end-up doing something that you really don’t like, the silver lining always lies in the “character building” explanation…
April 26th, 2005 at 8:50 amSeems to me that the Bolton nomination is all about arrogance, both Bush’s and Bolton’s. Bolton is a “petty” tyrant and bureaucrat in every sense, who thinks that his position and status trump the truth–if you disagree with him you CANNOT be right if you are a subordinate, just as he CANNOT be right if you are a superior. I’ve worked with and under people like that. They are “good” at carrying out orders, bad at figuring out how to handle complex situations where they are not completely in control.
Bush shares that trait, explaining part of his refusal to withdraw the nomination. The rest of the explanation is that Bolton really is the best man to do the job that Bush wants done, which is not to be a great unifying intellectual force at the UN, but to weaken and eventually kill either the power of the U.N. or the relationship between it and the United States.
In other words, Bolton’s a great choice for Bush’s purposes, a lousy choice for the long term interests of the rest of us.
April 26th, 2005 at 9:57 amDon’t worry about Bolton. He’s deader than a cat in a shoebox.
April 26th, 2005 at 11:20 amJose follows the party line of “If you disagree with me on issue A, then you also believe in issues B-Z”
Bolton’s only accomplishment was removing the “Zionism is racism” text from a UN resolution. Not that it has any consequence beyond rhetoric. But then, rhetoric is the only thing this administration really has a handle on.
Bolton’s other accomplishment was handing North Korea six nuclear weapons. And ceding our influence to China.
And he did nothing to stop Cuba’s bioweapons program — which he still believes exists.
Kiss up, kick down. That’s the new American Way.
April 26th, 2005 at 12:17 pmkind of off topic, but newsman britt hume’s logic as president makes as much sense as nbc president jeffrey zucker’s wondering aloud why isn’t newsman brian williams blogging now…
April 26th, 2005 at 1:27 pm