Since I got my cable installed a few weeks ago, watching Faux News has been my guilty pleasure, at least until my blood pressure reaches dangerous levels. Brit Hume once again stepped over the line between trashy right-wing punditry and straight-up racism. As Charlie Murphy of "Chappelle's Show" fame would say, Brit Hume is "a habitual line-stepper." Jaun Williams, a prominent journalist and author of a book about the Civil Rights movement (and who happens to be African-American), was discussing the political damage done to the White House by the Scooter Libby indictments. Brit Hume then offerred the ever so insightful remark, "Juan, you need to be hosed down." At best, it was a very rude and insensitive remark. At worst, he was telling Juan to get on the receiving end of a blast from a fire hose like those Southern civil rights marchers.

Watch the video over at Crooks and Liars.

It's especially shocking that Brit Hume would have the nerve to say that less than a week after Rosa Parks passed away. I'm pretty sure that if Brit Hume lived in Montgomery in 1955, he would've been the white guy on the bus telling Rosa Parks to give up her seat.

From now on, when my blood pressure level needs to be elevated, I think I'll go read RedState. Or stay up all night smoking cigars and drinking coffee, like the father of a high school classmate of mine did the night before his Army physical back in the Vietnam era (he achieved his goal, which was to "fail" due to high blood pressure).

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