Looks like Brit Hume wasn’t listening to fashion superstar RuPaul this weekend when he went on tour in New Hampshire to clarify that he is not Rep. Ron Paul. Hume’s assessment of the results of the New Hampshire primary today took into consideration Rep. Paul’s second place finish, but continued to argue that Rep. Paul had “as much of a chance as RuPaul” of getting the nomination.

While the latest polls are showing that, in light of Herman Cain‘s exit from the presidential race, Republicans are increasingly confident in running with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, though not everyone agrees. On The O’Reilly Factor tonight, Brit Hume argued the point that too many voters don’t remember what Gingrich was like as Speaker, making him a ticking time bomb President Obama and his campaign would love to detonate in the general election.

With Rep. Ron Paul consistently near the top of Republican polls since the presidential campaigns started at full speed, the Congressman’s libertarian policies are receiving increased scrutiny. On tonight’s O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly and Brit Hume discussed Rep. Paul’s appearance on Face the Nation, where host Bob Schieffer took him to task on his position on a nuclear Iran. Rep. Paul’s answers, O’Reilly contended, were “dangerous stuff,” for someone who would want to be President.

Today has not been a particularly good day in publicity for Newt Gingrich on the Sunday talk show circuit. After This Week featured a particularly derisive George Will, the Fox News Sunday panel went to town on him, beginning with Brit Hume highlighting his many vulnerabilities, Juan Williams comparing him to a Thanksgiving Day parade float and only Bill Kristol putting in a good word for the former Speaker.

First it was Donald Trump, then Michele Bachmann, then Rick Perry, now Herman Cain, and it looks like the next Republican presidential candidate to get his chance in the spotlight is none other than Newt Gingrich. The latest CBS News poll has Gingrich tied with Mitt Romney in second place behind Cain, and on Fox News Sunday today, Chris Wallace and the panel discussed how Gingrich became the “flavor of the week” this time around.

On Monday’s Special Report With Bret Baier, Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume thought Herman Cain‘s political days were numbered with the latest revelation coming out and an accuser speaking out publicly. “I didn’t think he could survive the other allegations,” Hume expounded. “Although I have misgivings about how they came about and the whole case, I think now it’s almost impossible.”

In the latest installment of What Divisive Political Issue Has Mitt Romney Suddenly Changed His Position On This Week?, Chris Wallace and the Fox News Sunday panel parsed Romney’s words last week when he claimed we do not know what causes global warming, when he had stated the opposite several months ago.

On Fox News Sunday today, Chris Wallace and panel debated the targeted killing of U.S. citizen and al-Qaeda member Anwar al-Awlaki and whether or not it was within the legal rights of the United States government to carry out that military action. Wallace highlighted the position taken by some liberals and conservatives that since al-Awlaki was an American citizen, he should have been subjected to the American justice system instead of being taken out on foreign soil.

On Fox News Sunday today, Chris Wallace and the panel talked about Rick Perry’s future chances to secure the GOP nomination after his less-than-impressive showing during last week’s debate. Brit Hume started out by arguing that Perry not only stumbled, he “really did throw up all over himself in the debate at a time when he needed to raise his game.”

Fox News’ Brit Hume offered an editorial yesterday afternoon about President Barack Obama’s defecit plan, which Hume feels that the President himself knows “cannot possibly pass:”

For the second time in a week, President Obama has presented a plan that cannot possibly pass, and that he almost certainly does not expect to pass. Last week’s jobs bill was simply another stimulus of the kind that he and his party ran through two years ago and which has manifestly failed to do what the White House said it would do. One thing it did do is to help balloon the federal deficit to levels so high they became a major issue in the mid-term elections, won overwhelmingly by the Republicans. Does Mr. Obama really think House Republicans who voted unanimously against the first stimulus will now vote in favor of a second one?

In an extra segment taped for the Fox News website, Fox News Sunday continued a panel discussion on the ongoing controversy regarding the “Fast and Furious” operation and what the role of the Justice Department was in the program. As Congress investigates the details of the gun tracking program that resulted in American firearms ending up in the hands of Mexican drug gangs, Brit Hume concluded “this is a real scandal.”

Liberal radio and TV host Thom Hartmann has been engaged in a bit of a feud with Glenn Beck’s The Blaze website over comments Hartmann made on his cable show The Big Picture. A few weeks ago, Hartmann suggested that President Obama retaliate against GOP opposition to raising the debt ceiling by having Tim Geithner [...]

Bill O’Reilly began his program today with a rather celebratory Talking Points Memo. The occasion was a combative one, a twofold victory that once again demonstrated his and Fox News’ place in the media world: Orbitz’s rebuke of Media Matters for trying to get them not to advertise on the network, and O’Reilly’s personal victory as America’s most trusted journalist (after “Don’t Know” and “Nobody”).

Although some like Sarah Palin and Mark Levin think the Tea Party should be disappointed or angry with the budget deal, most of the commentators on the Fox News Sunday panel think the Tea Party should be proud of what they accomplished. Only Juan Williams predicted Republicans misread their mandate by pursuing huge budget cuts and will pay for it in the future.

President Obama’s speech explaining America’s objectives in Libya strayed far from the partisan and, judging by the immediate response on the O’Reilly Factor, it may have won him some points on the right. Bill O’Reilly and Brit Hume assumed the task of giving the first reaction to his comments on Fox News, and while they were both somewhat disappointed in the lack of urgency, there was a mutual appreciation for his “emphasis on effectiveness” and American exceptionalism.

More than two years of President Obama being in power, a good number of Americans have no idea what his religious background is– a plurality admitting they have no idea, while an alarming number suggesting he is Muslim. This despite the President discussing his religion publicly and make clear that he is a Christian. Even this latter action, however, seems to be irking some conservatives, like Charles Krauthammer, who considered his recent trips to church “ostentatious” and “somewhat distasteful.”

President Barack Obama delivered his third State of the Union speech tonight, and in an age in which opinion media so dominates political will, the reaction to the delivered text by various pundits is almost as interesting as the text itself. Take for example the initial reaction by the Fox News panel that seemed primarily unimpressed by what some may have seen as a significant move to the center by the Democratic president. Charles Krauthammer did not demure, calling the speech “flat and uninspired” and “remarkably against the trend of what the electorate said this November.”

As more pundits react to Sarah Palin‘s video response on the Arizona shooting, Fox‘s Brit Hume professed he’s never in his life seen someone receive such vicious media coverage as Palin and attempted to broadly define the “Sarah Palin Problem” on Fox News Sunday.

The first impressions in light of President Obama’s speech at tonight’s memorial for the victims of the Arizona shooting, and, at least on Fox News, the reviews are overwhelming positive. Charles Krauthammer, Chris Wallace, and Brit Hume seemed a bit uncomfortable with all the hootin’ and hollerin’, but all seemed blown away by the President’s words.

The attacks on right-wing figures after the tragic shooting in Tuscon, Arizona on Saturday formed the chief target of discussion on tonight’s O’Reilly Factor, where, after a powerful Talking Points Memo segment, Brit Hume joined Bill O’Reilly to expand upon his comments earlier this evening on the response: a “reflex” on the American Left of questionable sincerity.

Fox host Megyn Kelly and her viewers were wondering whether it was customary for the outgoing Speaker of the House to give a speech during the swearing in ceremony for the new Speaker? Fox’s senior analyst Brit Hume was on hand to provide his historical perspective that he remembered past Speakers only provided very brief comments, if they spoke at all. However, the trailblazing first woman Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi had other plans.

On Fox News Channel’s O’Reilly Factor last night, host Bill O’Reilly told senior political analyst Brit Hume that, in his opinion, New York Representative Peter King holds more power in the Republican party than incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner. More like the O Rly Factor, amiright?

From August of 2009 to March of 2010, the debate over health care reform was effectively story number one on cable news, in part because, it seemed a perfect metaphor for the new Obama administration. As expected, some saw it as an effort to assist the uninsured and powerless, others predictably saw it as government intervention run amok. A new memo from Fox News Managing Editor Bill Sammon leaked by Media Matters (and later reported by The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz confirms that the news staff was directed to cover the Health Care debate that some are certain to claim neither fair nor balanced.

It’s no secret that Fox News’ Megyn Kelly is a bit of a sex symbol– her America Live desk would probably not be made of glass if that weren’t the case. But this week she’s taken a leap from the coy to the boldly forward with a sexy photo shoot in GQ in celebration of being named one of 2010′s premier media personalities, and the results lie somewhere between the impressively attractive and the uncomfortable superficial.

It was rally around Juan Williams this morning on Fox News Sunday. Williams, who is a regular panelist on the Fox Sunday show (where he often crosses swords with Bill Kristol) appeared this morning along with Kristol, Brit Hume, Nina Easton, and host Chris Wallace, and was the recipient of much love, support and indignation.