You know, this is almost funny

I didn't comment on this right away, but it bears mention:

On Aug. 26, Hume reported that “U.S. soldiers have less of a chance of dying from all causes in Iraq than citizens have of being murdered in California, which is roughly the same geographical size.” California has 6.6 murders a day, he said; U.S. troops have been incurring about 1.7 deaths a day. The problem: California has 34 million people, but there are 145,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq. “Admittedly it was a crude comparison, but it was illustrative of something,” Hume says.

Yeah, it's illustrative of something, all right. I'll leave my readers to determine what that thing actually is. (cough cough britthumeisasoullesswhore cough cough)

[Updated to include more clever insult directed at Britt Hume]