He went on to say that “we’ve seen the evolution of one of their larger news personalities go from trying really hard to follow in Brit Hume’s footsteps” to looking “more like Sean Hannity every day.” Notably, Baier took over for Hume as Fox News’ lead anchor of its flagship news program in 2009.
Bret Baier returned fire on Thursday over criticisms former Meet the Press host Chuck Todd seemed to recently direct at the Fox News anchor, dryly noting that he’s about to interview United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer while Todd appears to have nothing going on.
Besides saying Fox News was “first” on a lot of significant news stories, such as former President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, Baier also took shots at other news outlets for their criticism of the conservative cable giant.
Appearing at the Semafor Media Summit on Thursday, Baier was asked by Semafor co-founder Ben Smith about Todd’s remarks, which were unsubtly about Fox News’ chief political anchor.
“And it’s a shame, you know, because I thought he really cared about that reputation and I think really actually cared about being a journalist first and wanting to sort of walk that line, understood what his audience was,” Todd continued.
