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Except that few would agree that fairness is a virtue of O'Reilly or Fox News. Even though he tells his viewers they've entered a "No Spin Zone," on the very same show featuring Halperin, O'Reilly spread the spin on thick: "The left-wing press and the terrorists in Iraq have something in common," he said. "The terrorists want to damage the Bush administration, and so does the left-wing press."

First off, the BOR show is an opinion show, not a news show, and BOR has never promoted it as such. Secondly, BOR goes to great lengths to allow the opposition to voice their opinions, although they often refuse to show up.

Finally, how is what BOR presented "spin," when it can be quantitatively be shown as fact. I once asked my aunt (who only reads the KC Star, the KC Jewish Chronicle, and US News and World Reports, and doesn't have cable, so she watches local and alphabet news) to name one thing that President Bush has done "right," according to her newspapers, or anything she's seen on the news. She thought about it for a while, and admitted that she couldn't remember ever seeing or reading anything positive about the Bush administration. You have to look long and hard to find anything in the MSM that gives the Bush Administration credit for anything good.

Mark