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Efforts to blame network for shooting are "bulls--t."

Is the muzzle on Glenn Beck? Fox News President Roger Ailes tells Russell Simmons that he’s “told all of our guys, shut up, tone it down, make your argument intellectually.” That’s not exactly an indication, however, that he’s feeling any guilt over the Gabrielle Giffords shooting. "It’s just a bullshit way to use the death of a little girl to get Fox News in an argument,” he says. As for his instructions to "tone it down," he says, “I hope the other side does that.”

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