Wednesday, February 15th

Tool

It's been a pretty ho hum couple of days over at the "Grapevine." Basically just Brit Hume being Brit Hume... that is... a tool for the Republian party. Today's Grapevine provides an example as Hume decides to use his program to run interference for the Vice President's office:

As if taking a cue from the White House press corps, Senate Democrats came out in full swing Tuesday attacking the administration for its delay in releasing information on Vice President Cheney's hunting accident. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called the Bush administration the most secretive in modern history and compared the hunting incident to the Valerie Plame leak investigation and the White House response to Hurricane Katrina.

He also called on the vice president to appear publicly to talk about what happened. New York Senator Hillary Clinton chimed in that the administration has a tendency to withhold information from the public and resists legitimate requests for information.

I think it's pretty illustrative of Hume's paranoia that he now seems to think that, not only is the mainstream press a Marxist fifth column threatening the values of this great nation, but that the Democratic party is in fact little more than the media's bitch. Democrats aren't actually criticizing the Whitehouse because it is, in fact "the most secretive in modern history"... no... rather, they're doing so because their handlers at the New York Times, The Washington Post and The L.A. Times got together over the weekend, in some smoky room and decided this was a good time for the party to go on the attack. I exaggerate, of course, but Hume is certainly taking a page out of the Republican party playbook and insinuating that there's a nefarious and incestuous relationship between the Democratic party and the mainstream press.

And for his troubles what does Fox News' bestest propagandist get? It appears that Hume has scored an exclusive interview with the V.P.. Way to go, Brit 'ol boy! You worked hard fo it. You deserve it!