Fox News political analyst Britt Hume had a different take on Spike Lee’s Oscar speech on Sunday evening than the President, who pegged the address as “racist” in a tweet on Monday.
Hume called Trump’s response to the episode — which Hume said was neither “racist” nor “particularly anti-Trump” — “out of line.”
“I don’t think he was racist. And I don’t even think it was particularly anti-Trump. He didn’t mention the President,” Hume told Fox News host Chris Wallace. “Look, Chris, you may have heard me on this before, I think the way the word ‘racist’ is flung around these days is a terrible thing. It was a great triumph for the civil rights movement, the national consensus – overwhelming national consensus against racism – and the word has been weaponized in politics.”
“I think the President is out of line on this,” he continued. “I think Spike Lee — I mean, he said some pretty strong things before, but that was kind of a unifying message he said, ‘love versus hate,’ I think. Chris, you and I are both for love versus hate. I would think if you asked the President, he’d say he was too. So I don’t think it’s his finest moment, that response.”
Fox's Britt Hume: Trump was "out of line" calling Spike Lee "racist" pic.twitter.com/wf6d8lgMs4
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