Daily Inspiration Quote by Brit Hume

Brit Hume’s line isn’t just a grievance; it’s a founding myth in miniature, built to make Fox News feel less like a business venture and more like a besieged insurgency. The verbs do the work. “Hated” collapses policy disagreements, regulatory scrutiny, and normal adversarial press politics into something visceral and personal. “Terrible struggle” casts media competition as trench warfare. Then comes the most strategic image: “strangle us in our crib.” It’s a brutal metaphor that turns a fledgling cable network into an infant and the Clinton White House into a would-be murderer, implying not mere hostility but illegitimate, almost criminal intent.

The context matters: Fox launched in 1996 as conservatives were already convinced the mainstream press tilted liberal, while the Clinton years were defined by scandal cycles, partisan investigations, and a growing talk-radio ecosystem that treated the administration as an enemy regime. Hume’s framing borrows from that ecosystem’s psychology: power is always scheming, institutions are never neutral, and opposition isn’t wrong so much as it’s trying to silence you.

Subtextually, the quote also absolves Fox of its own aggressiveness. If you were almost “strangled,” then hardball coverage becomes self-defense, not strategy. It flatters the audience too: if the network survived attempted suffocation, viewers aren’t consumers, they’re co-survivors. The message is clear: Fox’s posture of permanent grievance isn’t a mood; it’s an origin story designed to justify combat journalism as destiny.