"We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended."
"We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. What we hear people saying is thank you for being fair; thank you for being balanced."
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Source: Extended Interview: Brit Hume. PBS NewsHour with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.
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