Brit Hume Undermines '60 Minutes' Hit Job on Rove

[TheSarge]

FNC’s Brit Hume, in his Monday “Grapevine” segment, undermined CBS’s Sunday night 60 Minutes scoop about Karl Rove’s smear efforts to destroy former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, a Democrat now in federal prison for bribery, “some say, only because of his politics,” CBS’s Scott Pelley framed his story. Hume relayed how “Rove says he does not recall ever meeting the woman who is accusing him of asking her to help dig up dirt on” Siegelman “and he say he was never given a chance to respond to the charges she made Sunday on 60 Minutes.”

Specifically, Jill Simpson “said Rove asked her to get pictures of Siegelman in a compromising sexual position with an aide” but, Hume pointed out, “the Associated Press reports Simpson has never made that allegation before -- despite several hours of interviews with congressional lawyers, reporters and a sworn affidavit.” As for CBS’s claim they had “contacted Rove” for a response, Hume noted:

But Rove and his lawyer, attorney Robert Luskin, say CBS brought up the allegations only in an off-the-record telephone interview last October. Luskin says, quote: "After 60 Minutes made the decision to publicize these charges, no one from 60 Minutes approached Mr. Rove or gave him an opportunity to respond on the record," end quote.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/02/25/brit-hume-undermines-60-minutes-hit-job-rove

[Thor]

I LIKE & RESPECT Brit Hume. He's one of the few reporters that generally leaves his personal politics out of his reporting.

[TheSarge]

I LIKE & RESPECT Brit Hume. He's one of the few reporters that generally leaves his personal politics out of his reporting.

Gonna be a sad say at FNC when he leaves too.

[The Night Owl]

I LIKE & RESPECT Brit Hume. He's one of the few reporters that generally leaves his personal politics out of his reporting.

Brit Hume leaves his politics out of his reporting? Are you kidding me?

[TheSarge]

Brit Hume leaves his politics out of his reporting? Are you kidding me?

Yes he does.  And he does it better than any other tv broadcaster out there.

[NHSparky]

I LIKE & RESPECT Brit Hume. He's one of the few reporters that generally leaves his personal politics out of his reporting.

Brit Hume leaves his politics out of his reporting? Are you kidding me?

GFY, TNO--are you saying any of the alphabet reporters/talking heads do?

[DixieBelle]

Didn't Jill Simpson retract some of her earlier statements or get caught lying? I thought I read that somewhere.....

[BEG]

I LIKE & RESPECT Brit Hume. He's one of the few reporters that generally leaves his personal politics out of his reporting.

Brit Hume leaves his politics out of his reporting? Are you kidding me?

I have to agree with TNO, Brit Hume's bias shows but it usually is in the last 1/2 hour of his show when he does "The Grapevine" and has his "Special Report Panel", which is my favorite part of his show.  His bias doesn't really show when he is just reporting the news in the first half of his show but the difference is that he doesn't claim to be an unbiased reporter who simply just reports the news, it's a "news show" not the 5:00 news. 

[TheSarge]

Didn't Jill Simpson retract some of her earlier statements or get caught lying? I thought I read that somewhere.....

Newsbusters.org caught her in some lies.

So far no retractions that I'm aware of from her or the DBM.

[TheSarge]

I have to agree with TNO, Brit Hume's bias shows but it usually is in the last 1/2 hour of his show when he does "The Grapevine" and has his "Special Report Panel", which is my favorite part of his show.  His bias doesn't really show when he is just reporting the news in the first half of his show but the difference is that he doesn't claim to be an unbiased reporter who simply just reports the news, it's a "news show" not the 5:00 news. 

Grapevine is merely reporting of factual stories.  There's no opinion in what he does there.

The panel is clearly opinion from everyone seated at the table and should be obvious to anyone who watches the show.

What TNO is accusing Hume of...rather incorrectly from my professional viewpoint is opinion journalism.  That's where the reporter instead of writing and producing a "hardnews" piece on whatever they are covering...uses speculation...opinion and personal bias in every aspect of the story.

Otherwise known as what you see on the DBM every night at 5:30.

Shep Smith is good at that kind of "Journalism" where FNC is concerned on Studio B.

[BEG]

I have to agree with TNO, Brit Hume's bias shows but it usually is in the last 1/2 hour of his show when he does "The Grapevine" and has his "Special Report Panel", which is my favorite part of his show.  His bias doesn't really show when he is just reporting the news in the first half of his show but the difference is that he doesn't claim to be an unbiased reporter who simply just reports the news, it's a "news show" not the 5:00 news. 

Grapevine is merely reporting of factual stories.  There's no opinion in what he does there.

The panel is clearly opinion from everyone seated at the table and should be obvious to anyone who watches the show.

What TNO is accusing Hume of...rather incorrectly from my professional viewpoint is opinion journalism.  That's where the reporter instead of writing and producing a "hardnews" piece on whatever they are covering...uses speculation...opinion and personal bias in every aspect of the story.

Otherwise known as what you see on the DBM every night at 5:30.

Shep Smith is good at that kind of "Journalism" where FNC is concerned on Studio B.

Shepard Smith drives me nuts.

[TheSarge]

Shepard Smith drives me nuts.

I could tolerate him and even enjo his show up until the point where he went bonkers during Katrina.

He lost all sense of objectivity and focus when he was doinghis show form there.

[RedTail]

Brit Hume leaves his politics out of his reporting? Are you kidding me?

Yes he does.  And he does it better than any other tv broadcaster out there.

Damn right... you don't stick around ABC for 20 plus years (Mr. Hume's old job) skating by on bias. . .

 

Wait, yeah you do...but . . .not  the bias TNO says he does.

*TKay*

[Bh]

I would have thought SEE BS would have learned their lesson from Memo-gate, apparently not.

Brit Hume is all class, and the smartest guy in the room. Some of the faces he makes when Juan (yes I am a racist) Williams is ranting nonsense, are priceless!