Who is Brit Hume?

Rush mentioned Brit Hume on his program today.

From Wikipedia:
Brit Hume (born June 22, 1943) is an American commentator and television journalist. Since 2008, he is a senior political analyst for Fox News and a regular panelist on Fox News Sunday. He previously spent ten years as the Washington, D.C. managing editor of Fox News and the anchor of Special Report with Brit Hume.

Early life
Brit Hume was born Alexander Britton Hume in Washington, D.C., the son of Virginia Powell (née Minnigerode) Hume and George Graham Hume. He attended St. Albans School and graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1965.

Career
Hume first worked for The Hartford Times, and later for United Press International and the Baltimore Evening Sun.[3] He then worked for syndicated columnist Jack Anderson from 1970 to 1972, and later for Richard Pollak, founding editor of [MORE] (a monthly media review published in the 1970s), as a Washington Editor during the mid-1970s.

During his time with [MORE], Hume worked for ABC for 23 years from 1973–1996, when he left to work for Fox News Channel. From 1973 to 1976, Hume worked as a consultant for ABC's documentary division.

From 1976 to 1988, Hume worked as Capitol Hill correspondent; in 1989, he became ABC's chief White House correspondent.

In 1991, Hume won an Emmy Award for his Gulf War coverage. He was also twice named "Best in the Business" as a White House correspondent by the American Journalism Review in a readers' poll.

In January, 1997, he left ABC for Fox News.[3] By the time Hume left, he had worked on many ABC shows including World News Tonight With Peter Jennings, Nightline, and This Week.

Hume has contributed to such publications as Harper's, The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The Weekly Standard. He has also written two books:

Hume, Brit (1971). Death and the Mines — Rebellion and Murder in the United Mine Workers. New York: Grossman. ISBN 067026105X. http://lccn.loc.gov/75106294. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
Hume, Brit (1974). Inside Story (1st ed.). Garden City, New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0385065264. http://lccn.loc.gov/73083640. Retrieved 2008-12-31. (a memoir of his days working with Jack Anderson)

Hume reported a story for Anderson's "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column that after ITT Corporation had contributed $400,000 to the 1972 Republican National Convention the Nixon Department of Justice had settled the antitrust case against ITT.

Anderson published a series of classified documents indicating the Nixon administration, contrary to its public pronouncements, had tilted in favor of Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. After those revelations, Anderson and his staff, including Hume and his family were briefly under surveillance by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1972. The agents code-named Hume "eggnog" and observed his family going about their daily business. These documents came to light during the Ford administration during Congressional hearings, and more recently as the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

On December 16, 2008, Hume appeared as a guest on The O'Reilly Factor and announced that his last day in the anchor chair would be December 23. When asked how he would spend his time in retirement, Hume stated "Three G's; God, granddaughters and golf."

On December 23, 2008, he hosted his final episode of Special Report as anchor, announcing that Bret Baier, the chief White House correspondent for Fox News, would be his replacement. He will return to Fox News as a senior political analyst (in fact, his first appearance in this role took place about ten minutes after the end of his last show on the Fox Report) and will remain a panelist on Fox News Sunday.

Political orientation
Hume has been described as a "committed conservative", and several studies have shown that his Special Report leaned to the right, although he himself avers that he is fair and balanced.[4] In accepting the William F. Buckley, Jr. Award for Media Excellence from the conservative Media Research Center, he expressed his gratitude for the tremendous amount of material that the Media Research Center provided me for so many years when I was anchoring Special Report. I don't know what we would have done without them. It was a daily, sort of a buffet of material to work from, and we - we -- we certainly made tremendous use of it.

Comments on Tiger Woods
On January 3, 2010, as a guest commentator on Fox News Sunday Hume offered advice to Tiger Woods that he might turn his faith to Christianity. Hume's comments came in the wake of the revelation of Tiger Woods' habitual adultery and the resulting deterioration of his relationship with his family. Hume stated on the show that:

Tiger Woods will recover as a golfer. Whether he can recover as a person I think is a very open question, and it's a tragic situation for him. I think he's lost his family, it's not clear to me if he'll be able to have a relationship with his children, but the Tiger Woods that emerges once the news value dies out of this scandal -- the extent to which he can recover -- seems to me to depend on his faith. He's said to be a Buddhist; I don't think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. So my message to Tiger would be, 'Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.'

Hume was criticized for these comments, but he stood firm with his remarks and reiterated them the following day on The O'Reilly Factor with Bill O'Reilly. Hume insisted to O'Reilly that he never meant to insult Buddhism, and stated that:

I was really meaning to say in those comments yesterday more about Christianity than I was about anything else. I mentioned the Buddhism only because his mother is a Buddhist and he has apparently said that he is a Buddhist. I’m not sure how seriously he practices that.

This explanation also drew criticism from his original critics as having been trying to defend his previous actions. Hume gave reason for his strong feelings on Christianity in an interview where he explained how he committed his life to Jesus Christ "in a way that was very meaningful" to him in the aftermath of his son's death by suicide in 1998.

Personal life
Previously married and divorced from Clare Jacobs Stoner, Hume is married to Kim Schiller Hume, Fox News vice president and former Washington bureau chief.

His son Washington journalist Sandy Hume was a reporter for The Hill and broke the story of the aborted 1997 coup against Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. In February 1998, Sandy Hume committed suicide. The National Press Club honors his memory with its annual Sandy Hume Memorial Award for Excellence in Political Journalism. Over a decade later, upon his 2008 departure from Special Report, Hume commented on part of the impact of his son's death:

"I want to pursue my faith more ardently than I have done. I'm not claiming it's impossible to do when you work in this business. I was kind of a nominal Christian for the longest time. When my son died, I came to Christ in a way that was very meaningful to me. If a person is a Christian and tries to face up to the implications of what you say you believe, it's a pretty big thing. If you do it part time, you're not really living it."

Awards
Hume is the recipient of several awards including:

Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalist (2003)
Emmy Award for coverage of the Gulf War (1991)
American Journalism Review "Best in the Business" award (twice) for White House coverage