Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
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Nightline's Ted Koppel seemed astounded on Thursday when Michael Brown, Federal Emergency Management Agency chief, said his organization had just learned of death and depredation in refugee centers in New Orleans. Don't you watch television ... Don't you listen to the radio
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-developed as they were before I went.
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He and I joked...that between the two of us, we'd put in 83 years at ABC News.
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It's their broadcast in the final analysis, ... I've always taken the position it's our job to make the program as attractive to the audience as we could possibly make it, but there are limits. You don't bring on dancing girls.
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