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I am a Fox News JUNKIE; however, I no longer watch the weekend edition of Fox & Friends; I stopped doing so weeks ago...In my case, I can tolerate differences of opinion. My objection to Phillips is the friction that he causes on that show and his inability to present his beliefs in an articulate manner.

Welcome to FR, Fawnn. You have made one of my points. People tune in to what they want to hear and, alternatively, tune out to what they find "offensive." People seek to listen to views they share. I don't watch much, either, on the weekends, because of Julian---he's typical, in my opinion, of all liberals: they almost always display an "inability to present [their] beliefs in an articulate manner." However, liberals will listen to other liberals. There are usually two other conservatives on with Julian, who don't agree with him. So, while the libs tune in (and us conservatives tune out) on the weekend, they're listening to refutations made in a fairly articulate manner (on the other hand, the weekend crew is not a shining star of articulation). Perhaps the remedy would be to have stronger, more articulate weekend hosts for Fox and Friends.

My point was: It's not that I won't listen to the liberal POV. (Anyone who's watched booktv knows they focus on far more liberal authors than they do conservatives.)

Fox News is a blessing because there's finally a television source for news presented mostly by those who appear to share my point of view. (I'm an OpinionJournal.com/Best of the Web and SnappleFace.com junkie for the same reason.) ... But, that doesn't mean I automatically dismiss someone because he or she doesn't think like I do.

I do dismiss somebody, however, when I find the manner in which s/he presents those opinions to be offensive -- either because s/he cites faked information (the cartoon of the social security granny being pushed down the stairs comes to mind), or, in Julian's case, when he's spouting the liberal lines meant to set things up so that no matter what happens and what way Operation Iraqi Freedom played out, those of that mindset could say that President Bush had failed. (It didn't take those predicted weeks and weeks of house-to-house combat, so now it's back to failing to grant the military a fraction of the time to find WMD the liberals insisted we give the inspectors, harping about *our* failure at diplomacy, the preemptive consequences garbage, or insisting that a coalition of 50ish countries equals a unilateral action.)

I get fed up with anyone who is a party to the "repeat a lie enough times it becomes the truth" -- like the FORMER Pres. Clinton and "it was all about sex" mentality. Julian Phillips seems to me to be the type too lazy to do enough research to formulate his own opinions, so he repeats those lies and thinks that makes him profound.