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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.

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Brit Hume
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 22
Journalist
Washington
District of Columbia
Alexander Britton Hume Sr.
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