In a month that’s sure to be filled with A-list parties, Fox News may have pulled off the first. Thursday night, the cable network took over Café Milano to honor its own Brit Hume, who’s going into semi-retirement (he’s given up his regular anchoring duties, although there were plenty of remarks about how much time he still spends in the newsroom).
On hand to say their “attaboys”: Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Alan Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell, Fred Thompson, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Bob and Elizabeth Dole, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, NBC’s Brian Williams, ABC’s Charlie Gibson, Sen. Joe Lieberman, local capitalists Mark Ein and Joe Robert, Oliver North, Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes — even Bo Derek, whom Hume acknowledged from the podium.
But it wasn’t Hume’s funniest shout-out to a blonde in his remarks. That went to Megyn Kelly, the beautiful, New York-based Fox anchorwoman. “I haven’t felt this honored since the rumors were going around that I was having an affair with Megyn Kelly,” Hume joked.
