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Brit Hume Steps Down
Brit Hume Steps Down
Fox News anchor Brit Hume, host of "Special Report" will be stepping down after tonight's show. His successor is scheduled to be Bret Baier, currently the chief White House correspondent for the network. Hume is not quitting the network entirely however. He is expected to continue on ...
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Bye bye, Brit
Sister Toldjah — ... in the mainstream media, Fox News Special Report’s Brit Hume, was retiring from anchoring the news effective the end of the year. Well, today was his last day as host of Special Report. Newsbusters has the vid of the last few minutes of tonight’s broadcast. ...

What Could Only Be Called
N/A — ... “The whole general tone of politics in this country has turned so sour and so bitter and so partisan,” he said, his gravelly baritone more morose than usual. “It makes news, but after a while, it’s dispiriting to cover it.” In case you missed Hume’s self view, he’s a journalist first. ““I’m a journalist first and a conservative second or third.”  A real newsman.  Hume’s last night as a journalist was his sign off December 24, 2008 ...

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