I'm so proud of my home state!

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I discovered this reading my conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/05/the_allspin_zon.html

Indiana University reports on the study:

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/5535.html

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Bill O'Reilly may proclaim at the beginning of his program that viewers are entering the "No Spin Zone," but a new study by Indiana University media researchers found that the Fox News personality consistently paints certain people and groups as villains and others as victims to present the world, as he sees it, through political rhetoric.

The IU researchers found that O'Reilly called a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average, or nearly nine times every minute during the editorials that open his program each night.

And -- the actual study:

http://journalism.indiana.edu/papers/oreilly.html