When you lose Brit Hume.....

[kpete]

@brithume

This is ridiculous.Brit Hume added,

@realDonaldTrump
Study the late Joseph McCarthy, because we are now in period with Mueller and his gang that make Joseph McCarthy look like a baby! Rigged Witch Hunt!
9:43 AM - 19 Aug 2018

Link to tweet

[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. Huh? Sounds like Brit standing with trump???

[Beartracks]

3. Brit's comment is the part that says "This is ridiculous."

Where " this" refers to Trump's ridiculous McCarthy tweet.

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[Achilleaze]

14. But it's far more than "ridiculous" It is Ugly Dangerous.

Hume is minimizing the KGOP republican fascism.

[knightmaar]

21. Maybe ... or maybe he's agreeing with Trump.

Saying "Right on, Mr. President. This witch hunt IS ridiculous"

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

26. Could read it BOTH ways... but more likely criticizing the Shitstain-in-Chief.

[JHB]

2. Hmmm, what would your pal Roy Cohn have to say about that, Donnie?

Or did we just read it?

[brewens]

4. It's now getting critical. If you're in media and want to come out of this with any decent

reputation at all, it's time to denounce Trump and all his bullshit. Same with the Republican's in Congress. I'll still take a white flag from friends and family that voted for him, but it better come quick. I can still see how a few felt that Trump might be the only one running that might do anything for them. They got burned, but I can see maybe just a glimmer of logic to it. They had better own up to making a big mistake soon though, much longer and they become like the Nazi collaborators. It's probably beyond that, but if they wise up, we could use their help fixing things.

[hermetic]

17. Truly

I cannot begin to imagine how this is all going to play out. I suspect it's going to be pretty ugly, though.

[oasis]

5. Brit's playing it safe. There's something for both sides here. nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. It reads to me as if he's standing by Trump.

That last sentence is exactly what Trump says and tweets all the time. Plus no indication of sarcasm or irony.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

7. Brit Hume had one sentence.

“This is ridiculous.”

Everything else is Trump’s tweet, which Hume was referring to.

[knightmaar]

22. Right, he's referring to Trump Tweet.

And possibly AGREEing that the witch hunt is ridiculous.

I don't see how you can tell.

[Blue Owl]

8. Oh, the Humeanity...

n/t

[underpants]

9. LOL

[dchill]

10. Brit Hume KNOWS ridiculous...

He sees it in the mirror everyday!

[lunatica]

11. Trump probably has no idea what the McCarthy era was about.

Maybe he thinks they were hunting witches.

He has strange ideas which no amount of facts can dispel.

[Mr.Bill]

13. I'm sure he doesn't.

He was a child then, so the only way he could have an understanding of it would be if he read about it.

And we know that sure didn't happen.

[maddiemom]

20. Well, the McCarthy hearings were practically ALL that was on TV at that time.

(or all my parents watched). As a child around the same age as Trump, I remember how bored I was with it. As a result, it was a solid memory from that time, even though I only understood the details many years later. I think most of my generation grew up aware of McCarthy and "McCarthyism." Now saying that Trump spent his teenage and adult years UNDERSTANDING it, is another story. In retrospect, I'b be surprised if his "knowledge" mainly came from "The Manchurian Candidate."

[Beartracks]

16. Somewhere he probably heard McCarthyism called a "witch hunt" so...

... now he clearly understands the entirety of what it was all about.



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[Hekate]

18. His grasp of history is shallow & limited to catch-phrases, but Roy Cohn was his early mentor...

Young Trump was taught by the Best of the Evil.

[Demovictory9]

12. yep.

[bringthePaine]

15. ok funny, but

even funnier if Charlie McCarthy...

[Different Drummer]

19. Brit Hume added to the Dumpster Fire enemies list in 3...2...1. n/t

[D23MIURG23]

24. Its an ambiguous statement.

We don't know from context whether Brit thinks dumps words are ridiculous or the situation that dump is describing. He hasn't said much since he wrote this, but yesterday he tweeted about how "the case against John Brennan having a security clearance is a slam dunk". In context I don't think dump has lost Brit yet.

[D_Master81]

25. I think he's clearly denouncing Trump

He retweets the whole quote with his input being "This is ridiculous". I think some of you always want to read too much into things.