It's been a big year for incendiary talk-show chatter. Sometimes a host gets viewers irate. Sometimes it's the guest. Sometimes that guest is even the president of the United States. Here's a look back at some of the comments this year that made people mad.
1) Who: Glenn Beck on Fox News' Fox and Friends
What he said: On the July 28th edition, Beck said President Obama has "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." He added, "I'm not saying that he doesn't like white people. I'm saying that he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist."
The fallout: Geico and Lawyers.com have pulled advertising from Beck's show, The Glenn Beck Program.
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There's nothing like a genuine surprise. While some things on TV this week took predictable turns — feuding cable hosts are feuding again, and a relationship born on the Bachelorette hit a bump — the two events at the top of our list caught us off-guard. One might even change the world. And no, it's not the dance contest.
See the full list after the jump.
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Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly take pride in not backing down from anyone, especially each other. But did they give in to their bosses by agreeing to conclude their feud?
The MSNBC and Fox News hosts have engaged in an often-personal war of words for years. But they put their differences aside — or at least agreed to stop talking about them on-air — because of an intervention by the heads of their companies, The New York Times reports.
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David Letterman wasted no time launching jabs at Bill O'Reilly on The Late Show.
"I think of you as a goon," Letterman quipped, barely ...
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Warning: Potty-Mouth Language It's been quite a week or two for on-air personalities between newscaster Sue Simmons' f-bomb heard by all of New York and Bill O'Reilly's conniption over his show lines. And as expected, one video savvy user has pieced together a compilation of the top ten on-camera meltdowns for our viewing pleasure (Sue and Bill included, of course). Nothing starts the week out right than a montage of bitter rage and fury!
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