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Can Faux news be any more moronic?

If Vonnegut was irrelevant, why in hell did they waste airtime speaking about him and his passing? Envy is large in small minds.

Long after these bozos are history (soon we pray) Vonnegut will be read and appreciated for his insights into the human condition.

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Bob, Bob, Bob...why put yourself through the joke that is FOX news??

Vonnegut is only "irrelevent" to someone who couldn't get through a lit class without cliffnotes, which includes most of the talking heads on FOX news.

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Leave it to Faux News to sink this low. I heart Vonnegut and this reporter just doesnt get it because Vonnegut is too subtle for Neoconservatives to understand

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Do you people seriously not use your brains??? LOL.

ok. I'm going to alienate myself here, but...

You guys are way too sensitive and accusatory. If you watch the video, it's actually very well done. I didn't think it was meant to be disrespectful, and it didn't come across that way...so get over yourselves...and Vonnegut. He is dead after all, let him live in peace....even if he was "unhappy".

Oh and BTW, it is, if you will, a respectful obit, done by James Rosen, who, though he gave a thoughtfull and very decent obit, is not O'Reilly or Ailes who rep Fox News in their sleep. I'm not saying its not "official". I'm just saying, its James Rosen. Anyway, go ahead, yell and scream at me now. I'm sure it's coming.

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Dear Liberal Bob,
Sorry to see that you are still obsessed with Fox News. The Blogosphere awaits your long overdue posting on how unfairly republicans are demagogue by harsh labeling over at the NYT Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, TIME, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN. Until then, your postings carry very little credibility, except for those who truly do believe Fox News to be the evil empire. Your post belongs in the echo chambers over at the Daily Kos.

Stick to TV and avoid politics. You come off as an elitist ass.

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In Vonnegut's own words he said he had lost his desire to write in the post Vietnam war era and had high hopes for the planet. He likened himself to a flower that fully bloomed, so at that point it would be accurate and Vonnegut himself would have said, at that point in time, that he was indeed irrelevant. That isn't an insult, but rather a description of that particular point in time. It wasn't stating that his overall career and influence on readers was irrelevant.

As for the failure at suicide, I think you are just picking nits. Many suicide survivors would later be proud to be called a failure at that.

I know it's popular to pick on Fox, but Geez, we are really reaching here aren't we?

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Bobby Boy-

I must say that your literary abilities, particularly the meticulous exposition of Fox's flash in the news media's frying pan prove that, at best you are able to contrive some hidden agenda from a simple obituary, but at the worst, you are absolutely lost and incapable of grasping reality.

Look up the obit on Fox's web site- it is very matter of fact, e.g., the last line says:” He retired from novel writing in his later years, but continued to publish short articles. He had a best-seller in 2005 with "A Man Without a Country," a collection of his nonfiction."

The conclusion from these few postings seem accurate and should be taken as a positive exhortation to "Get a real life!"

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NYT Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, TIME, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN

You forgot People, Mad Magazine, and Highlights.

When your viewpoint is that far to the right, everything else seems extremely left.

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Someone who is so obviously unbiased in all of his writings deserves to be able to nitpick like this.

Does the far left slant of Keith Olbermann bother you also, or does bias only bother you if it isn't shared by you?

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Whaaaaa! Fox News! Whaaa! Someone change my diaper! That's about the level to which these attacks sink, especially when the writer ignores hundreds, maybe thousands of instances of bias on other networks.

Whatever. Don't like it? Change the channel.

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Tim that is one of the best responses ever.

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Bob never lets silly things like facts get in the way of his poorly thought out ranting, which would honestly be fine if he weren't being paid for his work. The only reason Bob watches Fox News is so he can write agenda-driven rants. It's obvious he hates the network and equally obvious that he enjoys the adoration of like-minded comments that follow.

Most of us change the channel or avoid a network completely if it consists of programming we dislike and a few reasons I can think of to do otherwise would be: 1) to see if the programming has improved, 2) to fuel your hate-driven agenda, or 3) because you're just plain-old nuts. Bob gets at least a 2 out of 3 here.

The quickest and simplest way to improve the overall quality of this site would be to dump Bob, but it is becoming very clear that TV Squad has no interest in improving. In the time I've been here it's been in a steady state of decline and shows no signs of change for the better.

The fact that Bob posts the most (and I use the following word loosely) *articles* here indicates that TV Squad probably considers him their best writer. I should have never expected anything better from an AOL property anyway. They hired Bob, support Bob and agree with Bob. If they didn't why would they keep him when so many complain about the quality, or lack thereof, of his articles?

Companies interested in all varieties of clientale don't make a habit of placing a mediocre employee who alienates a large percentage of customers, and potential customers, at the forefront of their business. That sort of move is only done when the true goal of said company is also agenda-driven. This should tell you volumes about TV Squad and AOL.

They protest and deny these kinds of conclusions, but never change their practices...and that speaks louder than any denial ever could.

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I second that. Lovely comment.

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Kurt Vonnegut was a great man, a great writer, and an icon of our generation.

Slaughterhouse Five will always, ALWAYS have a place in my bookcase, among his other classics.

I don't want to get into the Fox News thing, other than to say it is petty, cheap, and really shows what kind of people run the media empires that place everything before our eyes and in our ears.

In death, anyone should be honored, especially those that went that extra mile to shape a society and a generation with their work. The fact that Fox chose to take the low road in this case makes me ill and and is basically a flashpoint for all of the right wing media out there. Cheap, untruthful, needlessly hurtful, stupid, ignorant and misguided...that about sum it up?

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So, liberals are petty and whiny when they point out how petty and whiny Fox News is? Fox News defenders are douchebags.

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Some of us like Bob. *wave*

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RedStarRevolution: "In death, anyone should be honored, especially those that went that extra mile to shape a society and a generation with their work."

Hitler shaped a society and a generation. should we, in death, honor him for his reshaping of the German society? no.

Before you get all psycho liberal on me, no, Vonnegut isn't Hitler. But the point is your statement is WRONG.

Fox didn't say Vonnegut wasn't a great author. they gave a respectful and thought provoking obit.

PS. I like Bob. I like Studio 60...I like FoxNews. I like Bill O'Reilly. I'm not a "conservative" I'm a moderate. Just because I like Bob and SOME of his opinions, doesn't mean I like he opinion on Fox or his liberal leaning "articles"

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Are we talking about Bob at Accountemps, who can't seem to hold a job, or the Bob who takes that herbal remedy because he can't get it up.

Something said on TV is an opinion. An Obituary you read in a newspaper. Typical liberal, taking the spoken word and twisting it to fit the "agenda".

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The Fox news obit was respectful to K.V. What better way to pay tribute to K.V. than to use the same sense of humor K.V. wrote with. Not by poorly imitating his style, but by directly quoting him and showing clips of K.V.'s interviews. If Bob et. al. had actually watched Fox's obit of K.V. they should have been pleased with it. Just a suggstion Bob--instead of showing off those trophy K.V. books on the shelf, try taking them off the shelf and read them.

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During high school I read many of Kurt Vonnegut's works. I believe his writings were made irrelevant in this news cast as they focused on his personal life. Why honor a writer after he has died if your only going to bash him?

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