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Well, with all due respect Bryan, we'll probably continue to bring lunacy to our discussions and splaying ourselves open for your rapier-like, mature and objective input. Even though we are constantly feeling humbled and humiliated by your powerful and logical presentations.

Folks are brining an interesting point here, which is that there is news on Fox News, and then there is entertainment on Fox News. I admittedly have pathetic-little experience in watching anything on Fox News, but I guess that's balanced since I watch other TV networks just as rarely. What I happened to watch recently was an episode of that O-Reilly character. It was certainly amusing to watch and listen to him twist facts, bully guests, mischaracterize events and provide information not only out of context, but he could see very early when there was a chance that the rest of the story could get some mention and was very careful to ensure that would not ruin his agenda. He was, I would say, somewhat skilled at the deliberate subterfuge he was creating, but just laughable except in the context of the entertainer he apparently is. I mean he did not anger me at all and I'm not necessarily ciriticizing his performance. He was clearly taking certain stories (four, I think) and attempting to create a specific and narrow vision or interpretation of those stories. It was truly the antithesis of all that could be termed "fair and balanced."

So now I hear that this is entertainment (I assume) which is not necessarily fair or balanced (to say the least), but that there is another, more objective, Fow News program that at least attempts to have the appearance of fairness and balance. If O'Reilly was making an attempt at appearing objective, he failed very very miserably.
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