Hit the Road, Brit

In other Torture Party Republican-engineered media shenanigans, Faux News' Brit Hume is caught in a blatant misquoting of FDR on the subject of Social Security privatization. It seems that Hume took a few sentences from a Roosevelt speech out of context (Horrors! A Faux News guy putting spin on a report?!?) to try to show that the President who gave us the SS program in the first place would now somehow be in favor of the Bushist plan to destroy privatize it.

Media Matters for America has more on the subject:

"MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and former Social Security associate commissioner James Roosevelt Jr. examined how FOX News Washington managing editor Brit Hume and other pundits distorted a quote by Roosevelt Jr.'s grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in order to claim that the former president would have supported privatizing Social Security.

During their discussion, Olbermann referenced the distortions by Hume, nationally syndicated radio host and former Reagan administration official William J. Bennett, and Wall Street Journal columnist John Fund -- which Media Matters for America has documented. Roosevelt Jr. echoed Air America Radio host Al Franken's call for Hume to resign, saying that 'he rearranged those sentences in an outrageous distortion, one that really calls for a retraction, an apology, maybe even a resignation.'"

So we here at The Generik Brand say hit the bricks, Brit, you fucking partisan hack, and don't let the door smack you in the ass on the way out.

On second thought, go ahead and let it hit you, dick-brain.

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