I'm so used to talk-show hosts just giving you a sound bite and not really being interested.

People want an easy sound bite.

If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite.

That's just a sound bite. The fusion ticket is working very well.

Pity sidesteps complexity in favor of narratives that we're comfortable with, reducing the nuances of a person's experience to a sound bite.