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In cable news and sports talk, you get the feeling that these people not only don't respect each other, they don't even like each other. There is a very fine line that you want when you're doing an opinionated show because you want there to be conflict. But at the end of the day, as soon as the camera's off, these guys are going to go for a drink or hug it out with anything. What you end up with is a corsening, a carbon copy of a carbon copies of a carbon copy. And I think that what happens is if you watch some of these shows ... You can almost hear in the back of the person's mind, oh

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