That's according to Brit Hume on Fox News Sunday (via Hot Air).
Transcript:
HUME: That sound bite from John Murtha suggests that it’s time a few things be said about him. Even the “Washington Post” noted he didn’t seem particularly well informed about what’s going on over there, to say the least. Look, this man has tremendous cachet among House Democrats, but he is not — this guy is long past the day when he had anything but the foggiest awareness of what the heck is going on in the world.
And that sound bite is naivete at large, and the man is an absolute fountain of such talk, and the fact that he has ascended to the position he has in the eyes of the Democrats in the House and perhaps Democrats around the country tells you a lot about how much they know or care about what’s really going on over there.
WILLIAMS: He’s chairman of the subcommittee, House Appropriations. He’ll have a lot to say about what Mara was just discussing
HUME: A lot of it will be...
I'm glad someone had the guts to point out that this windbag doesn't know what he's talking about half the time. He thinks we can manage problems in the Middle East from Okinawa, for Pete's sake.
Ian points out that ThinkProgress is claiming that Hume "smeared" Murtha, and that Republicans have been "smearing" Murtha for a year. If pointing out that the man says foolish things or is naive is smearing, what do they call comparing President Bush to Hitler?
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