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Wow, Adam. Way to start off with liberal jabs instead of keeping it strictly television.

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Ah, more knocks against Bill O'Reilly. I guess we should expect another fawning TVSquad article about how great Keith Olberman later this week.

I'm with the erroneous_nick. Why isn't this strictly about tv?

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"cutting mics, gesticulating toward the camera and telling people to shut up"

Is that the "jab" you guys are talking about? If so, you are pretty sensitive--those are all things that O'Reilly is known to do.

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Guys, if Bill can take it so can we. I can sleep at night knowing that O'Reilly has a top-rated cable show and that Donahue's show is [where did that show go?]. I agree that starting the article by saying that Bill "made his name" by cutting mics may be a little slanted. But we can take it!

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A funny aside, Bill claims that Inside Edition won two Peabody Awards. Just to clarify, he said that Inside Edition, who's biggest rival was A Current Affair, won not one, but two international awards given for excellence in radio and television.

And don't be bothered too much Adam. erroneous and Mike are basically commenting you. They are saying you are so famous that you are not allowed to have an opinion, just like George Clooney or Sean Penn. Only people who use anonymous names are allowed to state their opinion on the internet. Famous people must never form an opinion, let alone share it with someone.

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What I'm saying is that since I've been reading tvsquad, which hasn't been very long, admittedly, there hasn't been a single article regarding Fox News or one of their reporters, where someone hasn't made some snide comment. Whether it's about Fox News being fake news, conservative news, a shill for the Republicans, etc., it seems like the lion's share of the whining comes from liberals constantly bashing anything they see as not fitting their agenda. If "Fox News" is somewhere in the article, you can bet there'll be a liberal having an aneurism and typing something negative.

I don't like to start political or religious arguments, although sometimes I'm guilty of that, but I'll usually respond when someone starts something. I guess it comes from being brought up in a household where both the political and religious beliefs were disparate amongst members of said family.

That being said, I'm not a big fan of Bill O'Reilly myself, although, and this is no surprise, I will more often agree with his sentiments, than disagree. I think he enjoys starting conflict though, and that's where I have a problem with him.

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Adam,

To answer this, "I'd be interested to know what you mean by 'strictly tv/television.'"

Here's an example, using this article.

Where you bothered to type, "...long before Bill O'Reilly made a name for himself on Fox News cutting mics, gesticulating toward the camera and telling people to shut up...", a more-than-sufficient amount of information would've been simply, "...long before Bill O'Reilly made a name for himself on Fox News...". Where I have a problem is you continued to elaborate, meandering into policical opinion instead of getting back to the gist of the article.

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HUH???? That's not an opinion, HE DOES THAT STUFF.

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Adam,

Agreeing to disagree is fine, but browse articles on this site about Fox news and CNN and show me one time that something disparaging about conservatives/Fox was *not* said without any provocatoin, then show me one time the same thing happened about CNN. You'll find instigation of snide remarks coming from the liberal side and mainly responses coming from the conservatives. It gets old and my fuse has grown considerably shorter with such predictable behavior.

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e_nick -- For someone who hates people who start conflict, your first comment seems quite contradictory of yourself.

Like Adam says, the bloggers here have differing opinions and we don't all get together and talk about who we're all going to hate/like every week. If we have more posts leaning left/right than right/left, that's just how it goes. I'm not going to hire people just because we're leaning too far one way.

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Like I said before, I don't like "start something" and I usually don't (although this case was a glaring exception), but the incessant sniping at Fox news and conservatives has taken "beating a dead horse" to a whole new level. In fairness, it hasn't been from you guys at TVSquad, just from commenters.

My anger may have been misplaced, but my point about the constant liberal whining/sniping is still correct. For the record, I don't think the TVSquad leans perceptively in either direction.

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Nick,

I hope you stick around as a TV Squad reader. If you leave, you'll miss our "Keith Olbermann Week" we have coming up! All Keith Olbermann posts all week long: interviews with him, reviews of his show, recipes from Keith (he makes a chili that is simpley *incredible*), and a contest where people send in their favorite Keith memories or drawings of Keith.

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Bob,

GAAAAAH!

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The problem is that e_nick and mike are defining "liberal" as "anyone who isn't conservative."

Fox News IS conservative, it's a shill for the Republican party. These things are demonstrable. Pointing that out doesn't define one as liberal, just as someone who finds Fox News obnoxious.

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I rest my case.

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Adam,

I don't know if you read these comments after they've been pushed back a few pages, but I hope you do since this is the most appropriate and public place I can think of to say this to you.

I want to apologize for what was clearly an overreaction on my part. What you said about O'Reilly was in no way partisan and I jumped on you, um, erroneously. (That in no way discounts my earlier contention that there's always snide comments at every mention of Fox News or conservatives, but that's beside the point.)

What I wanted to do here is let you, and everyone reading this, know that after "sleeping on it", I realized I was wrong to snap at you about what you wrote. You said to me, "That's how I'm wired...", and the silly thing is I'm wired pretty much the same way, too. So there's also irony in my earlier outrage because I'm just as prone to be a "smartass", (I mean that in a good way, honestly) in fact, maybe more.

So in a nutshell, I was an erroneous, raging hypocrite with regards to my comments directed at you.

I hope you can accept my apology and that maybe one day we can kiss and make up...I just hope you don't have a moustache or halitosis.

erroneous_nick

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