Easy Redemption

by digby

Does everyone remember when the villagers all insisted that Brit Hume was a straight, objective newsman and that his very presence at the top of the Fox News hierarchy disproved all accusations of bias? Well, this ought to finally put an end to any remaining questions on that count:

Brit Hume had some advice for Tiger Woods during this week’s “Fox News Sunday.” Woods will recover as a golfer, Hume says, but it remains to be seen whether he will recover as a person.

“He’s said to be a Buddhist,” Hume said. “I don’t think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. … Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery.”

When I first read that I thought Hume might have been joking. He does have a dry sense of humor and I could see this comment being tongue in cheek. But he wasn’t:

The more ideologically marginalized these conservatives get the more their prejudices just come bursting through the surface of their “mainstream” personas.

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