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FOX's Hume called Kerry concession speech statement "a load of crap"

November 04, 2004 6:44 pm ET

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After playing a video clip from Senator John Kerry's November 3 concession speech, FOX News Channel managing editor and chief Washington correspondent Brit Hume said "the public probably thinks" that Kerry's assertion that "what we started in this campaign will not end here" is "a load of crap."

From the November 3 edition of FOX News Channel's Special Report with Brit Hume:

KERRY: [video clip] A proud Democratic Party stands true to our best hopes and ideals. I believe that what we started in this campaign will not end here.

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FRED BARNES (Weekly Standard executive editor and FOX News Channel contributor): When Kerry says what was started in this campaign now goes on, what was he talking about that's going to go on?

HUME: Fred, politicians who have lost elections always describe their campaigns in terms of a movement that will continue without them.

BARNES: Yes. Oh, OK.

HUME: But whether they are or not remains for people like you or me to judge. I think the public probably thinks it's a load of crap. But what are you going to do?

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