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Buzz Bissinger: 'I Shouldn't Have Used Profanity ... I Embarrassed Myself'

May 2, 2008 – 6:45 AM
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Michael David Smith

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Two days after unleashing a profane tirade about blogs on Bob Costas's HBO show, Friday Night Lights author H.G. Buzz Bissinger showed some contrition on Dan LeBatard's radio show.

Bissinger (at left in the photo, with a film executive and the director of the movie Friday Night Lights) didn't exactly embrace blogs in his radio appearance, but he did acknowledge that he took things too far (via SBB):
There were some things I should not have said. I shouldn't have used profanity, I shouldn't have been as hostile in my approach to Will Leitch...

I don't take back a word of what I said. I have a tremendous amount of problems with blogs....

I embarrassed myself and I may have embarrassed other brethren in my profession.
Bissinger also said a lot of his fellow panelists on the Costas show patted him on the back afterward. And he used the ignorance defense for part of his wrong-headed sweeping generalizations of blogs: "I'm not an expert in this field," Bissinger said. "I never want to be an expert in the field of blogs. That would be way too pathetic."
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