Reply #22: Here's my partial transcript from the rebroadcast ... [View All]

[skeptic9]

I bet Chris Wallace wishes he'd called on someone other than Hume to speak first. Wallace's intro for the segment was,

"Why are some people up in arms about a few jokes the President told at a dinner this weekend?... I still think it's funny ... the day after some Democrats and the families of some American soldiers in Iraq, some who died in Iraq, said they were offended by this kidding about the missing WMDs. Brit?

Hume: We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is apply for and receive 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 and in America today if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously....

I thought it was a good natured performance...

You have to feel like saying to people, 'JUST GET OVER IT'"

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Evidently realizing the enormity of what Hume was saying, both Chris Wallace and Juan Williams loudly tried to talk over the last part of Hume's last sentence, but they did not entirely succeed. I missed "Just get over it!" the first time I heard Hume, but fortunately I had my VCR on. If you're listening for Hume's voice rather than Wallace's or Williams's, you'll hear it very clearly.