Thursday night, President Biden gave a speech from the Oval Office that many believe was thoughtful and well done. Those things are hard to gauge these days, with the media giving such wildly differing narratives.

But one Fox News host — Brit Hume, no less, their chief political analyst — had some serious praise for the speech. And it cost him a little reputation from his Democrat-hating colleagues at the network.

Right at the outset of the Fox coverage of Biden’s speech, Hume called it “one of the best, if not the best, speeches of his presidency.” That did not sit well with network costars Dana Perino, Sean Hannity, Martha MacCallum, John Roberts, and Bret Baier.

In true Fox fashion, Hume’s coworkers had absolutely nothing nice to say, given that Fox exists primarily to disparage Democrats. MacCallum immediately questioned Biden’s leadership. Perino said she wanted to like the speech, then compared it to one a high school student had messed up.

Roberts spoke along the same vein as Perino, asking “Where was the Ronald Reagan and the Kennedy moment and the George Bush moment to fire a warning shot across Iran’s bow and not just say don’t, don’t, don’t, but stay out of this?”

I’d really rather not even dignify Sean Hannity’s comments. It’s not that they’re so awful, just that he’s an idiot who doesn’t deserve keystrokes.

Then Baier, presuming that Hume would walk back some of his praise, gave him the chance to do so, saying “Brit, I want to have you respond. You’ve now sat around after your first statement. What are your thoughts?”

And then it got good. Laughing a little, Hume responded:

HUME: I’m a little bruised here… Well, with all respect to my colleagues, I would make this point: the case that Iran and particularly Hamas, Islamic Jihad and these terrorists are the bad guys and our friends, the Israelis, are the victims. And the good guys, was made by the events of October 7th and by the subsequent comments by the president and countless others. Since it is an overwhelming majority view, what is not such an overwhelming majority view and what is clearly on the president’s mind is keeping going our commitment in Ukraine, which, by the way, has involved not a single American soldier in any combat role or any role at all, really. And yes, a lot of money, but a tiny fraction of our defense budget, which has had the effect, may I add, of gravely weakening Vladimir Putin’s army and armaments and his regime and his place in the world, it is subjected. As he pointed out, Putin took the loss of a huge slice of the territory he thought he’d gained in Ukraine. And given the weakness displayed by Mr. Biden in pulling out of Afghanistan, it created a situation in which we are where we are there. And if we pulled out of Ukraine, the penalty would be awful, I think, in terms of our standing in the world, in Iran and in in China and Russia and elsewhere.

So I think he was wise to focus as much of the speech as he did on Ukraine. And whether it seemed jumbled to to people listening to the speech, I doubt actually, I think he was he was trying very much to weigh the two together, and that’s why he went back and forth between them. I don’t think that was a fault in the speech.

Well. So much for trying to back Brit Hume into a corner.

Let's just say Brit Hume's coworkers were not happy that he praised Biden speech so much! pic.twitter.com/0qOfA56Mik

— Nicole Hickman James (@nicolejames) October 21, 2023