Brit Hume Quotes

• Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

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• There have been two Geraldo Riveras through his long career. One of them was a reporter who has done some remarkable work. The other was a television show host who did what it took to get an audience.

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• The president’s poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn’t disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.

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• This is a tough environment, and it’s tough for everybody.

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• The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we’re proud of, because we recognize we’re up against a formidable operation there at CNN.

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• There’s a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.

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• We had a couple of minor coups that made a big difference. We snared away from a competitor a correspondent already on the ground in Afghanistan. That was an enormous help to us, because there we were.

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• We need more foreign reach; no question about that. And we’re working on getting that. We need more people abroad; we need some more bureaus. That is really an important job.

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• When you’re five years old, and you’re running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

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• We’ve had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we’ve kept a lot of them.

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• 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.

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• We had more viewers on the broadcast network than we did on the cable channel.

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• We’ve had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

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• What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

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• You can make an argument that Bill O’Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill’s kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.

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• You know, the market was down yesterday… my first thought when I heard-just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, Time to buy.

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Brit Hume (36)

Birth:	22nd June, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Political Analyst

About

Brit Hume was born in Washington, D.C., United States. He is a political commentator and television journalist. Hume had a 23-year career with ABC News, where he contributed to World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Nightline and This Week. He served as ABC's chief White House correspondent from 1989 through 1996. He then spent 12 years as the Washington, D.C., managing editor of the Fox News Channel and the anchor of Special Report with Brit Hume. Since 2008, he has been the senior political analyst for Fox News and a regular public-affairs panelist for the television program Fox News Sunday. He graduated from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a Bachelor of Arts in English during 1965.

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