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Superbelt · 10-09-2003, 08:45 AM

I don't think Terry handled that unfairly.

First, Franken is a satirist first. And he came on to promote his book and talk about his lawsuit. And he also talked about O'Reilly's attacks on him. The book actually only had about 10 minutes of actual discussion, all the other controversy took up the rest of the hour.

Then in the interest of fairness she actually gives Bill a forum to refute all that. That is truly being fair. She asked her questions, many of which were open ended and allowed him to talk as much as he wanted. I don't think she ever interupted him once when he was giving a speech.
She did talk about the book, and his personal life and beliefs. And did so for much longer than she talked about Frankens book or his personal life. So she went onto the real Bill O'Reilly topics which is the controversy over his lies and short temper.
He was given the chance to explain for himself. I could hear the anger rearly on, And I even did cringe at some of Terry's questions. But I think he did an admirable job up to the end where he acted like a baby and ran away.

See, it wasn't a biased interview. There is just more negative press about O'Reilly out there that had to be responded to. It is what is relevant to him.

Terry could have been biased and... cut his mike or talked over him screaming SHUT UP! SHUT UP! But she didn't. She handled herself with class and allowed him to talk.

10-09-2003, 08:45 AM	#8 (permalink)
Superbelt This vexes me. I am terribly vexed. Location: Grantville, Pa	I don't think Terry handled that unfairly. First, Franken is a satirist first. And he came on to promote his book and talk about his lawsuit. And he also talked about O'Reilly's attacks on him. The book actually only had about 10 minutes of actual discussion, all the other controversy took up the rest of the hour. Then in the interest of fairness she actually gives Bill a forum to refute all that. That is truly being fair. She asked her questions, many of which were open ended and allowed him to talk as much as he wanted. I don't think she ever interupted him once when he was giving a speech. She did talk about the book, and his personal life and beliefs. And did so for much longer than she talked about Frankens book or his personal life. So she went onto the real Bill O'Reilly topics which is the controversy over his lies and short temper. He was given the chance to explain for himself. I could hear the anger rearly on, And I even did cringe at some of Terry's questions. But I think he did an admirable job up to the end where he acted like a baby and ran away. See, it wasn't a biased interview. There is just more negative press about O'Reilly out there that had to be responded to. It is what is relevant to him. Terry could have been biased and... cut his mike or talked over him screaming SHUT UP! SHUT UP! But she didn't. She handled herself with class and allowed him to talk.