I think in the end, we were fair. He was riding a wave that overtook him. I don't think that was our fault.

I think we're riding a wave of xenophobia.

I'm just riding the wave until it hits the shore.

We were riding a really good wave. But when you've been around this game long enough, you know you're going to hit some storms.

Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.

The notion of a neutral, mainstream national media gained dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.