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McClatchy Washington Bureau | 11/10/2008 | Change comes to Washington: Fox's Brit Hume is retiring
It was, Brit Hume thought, about as low as things could go in Washington, that day in the spring of 1974 when the Watergate scandal was spinning toward its inevitable conclusion. ''You could still stand out in front of the White House all the 9/11 security stuff was years in the future and ...
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Hume: Bush has put America on an ‘amazing’ foreign policy path.
Think Progress — ... Reflecting on his final days as Fox News’ Washington managing editor, Brit Hume tells the Miami Herald’s Glenn Garvin that when people look back at the Bush era, they “will be a lot kinder to this president than the current scribes are being.” “It’s really turned out to be a very consequential presidency,” said Hume, adding that Bush has put America on an “amazing” foreign policy path: ...

Breakaway
The SideshowBrit Hume is retiring because things have become "poisonous" in Washington. Oh, and Republicans are depressed. Yeah. Well. Steve Benen thinks David Brooks gets it right when he describes the current state of the conservative movement, but I'm most interested in this sentence: "And, fundamentally, the conservative movement failed (and I've been in it my entire life) because it hasn't addressed the problems of today, the rise of China and Russia, the rise of inequality, energy, health care. It's great to worry about Reagan. I loved Reagan, but those ...

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