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60 Minutes: Mike Wallace Takes On Bill O’Reilly

By: SilentPatriot on Monday, February 26th, 2007 at 9:06 AM - PST

On 60 Minutes last night, Mike Wallace went head to head with Bill O'Reilly in the Big Talking Head's second profile.

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Some highlights from the transcript at CBS.com:

What does he think of talk show host Rush Limbaugh?

"I respect Limbaugh for basically making a success out of himself and putting on an entertaining program. But he's not a primary source of information, or shouldn't be," says O'Reilly. "He's an entertainer. … I'm a journalist who provides a program that is entertaining."

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"I'll never win any awards for stuff I'm doing now," says O'Reilly. "Because the intelligentsia who distributes the awards thinks that I'm misguided. I'm a barbarian. I am a Hun."