My first thought when

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“My first thought when I heard – just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack [i.e., yesterday’s terrorist attack in London] and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, ‘Hmmm, time to buy.'”

Name me the major network news anchor who could survive having made such a comment as his first reaction to a major terrorist attack.

That is, one beside Brit Hume, who said it.

David Sirota has more.

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