Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson! Beware Brit Hume when he gets a bit snippy. Unfortunately, to many in the industry, his quiet patina masks a nasty streak. He drips with sarcasm and self-importance, claims a former senior producer at Larry King Live who dealt with Hume in the past. He used to be a class act, but he got toxic real fast after drinking too much of the Fox Kool-Aid. And while Hume is a model of restraint on air (some might call him smug), frequent outbursts behind the scenes have done little to endear him to his younger staffers. There was one meeting a few years back when he got so pissed off he threw a full carton of orange juice across the room, says a onetime researcher who is now out of the business altogether. He can be incredibly snippy and dismissive if you don t do things his way. Does Kool-Aide and orange juice mix? Must be a new cocktail served up by Ailes. If only we had a video clip of that. Wasn t there video of another FOX host losing it? O Reilly Gone Wild: F-bombs on camera. Download | Play Download | Play O’Reilly: I can’t do it. We’ll do it live, we’ll do it live, f most people in cable news are assholes. If they re not assholes, they have dysfunctional sex lives. But they re usually assholes. I mean, self awareness is always a very rare commodity among television personalities, but Tucker dude
