It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?

Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas.

I also think it's important not to demonize [Donald] Trump voters.

We don't have enough folks who grew up in working class rural communities.

So that all the people who say, you know, "All the media hates America." A lot of the media does hate America but this is a case of, actually, the press doing its best, I think, to do the right by national security. So good for them.

I guess what I'm looking for here is empathy. So you [Nicholas Kristof] have traveled all around the world, famously to the worse places of the world. Darfur. Mogadishu, Ouagadougou. Probably those places much more than Modesto or Lewiston.I never read a column by you that suggest the people in those places, who support dictators oftentimes, are racists or bad people. You would never write that about a poor person in the third world but you are implying that about your fellow Americans.