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 == Superbowl ITN  == 

 Perhaps you are unaware that bloody is an obscenity, and that ""stupid bloody . . . yankee"" is insulting whether or not it applies to Americans or just northerners?  And ""silly decision"" is also an implied criticism of editors, not the game.  I suggest you be more even handed in your threats and actions.  I don't see any warning to you from Lihaas for his out of line comment.  Were I an editor I would simply have removed his slander - an action which you could have taken, but didn't.  "