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Fight! Fight! Fight!

Hundreds of people have complained to British media regulator Ofcom about the heated exchange between Sky News political editor Adam Boulton and former Blair adviser Alistair Campbell, captured in the video above.

The Guardian reported that the interview between the two men “errupted into a spectacular bunfight” with the news anchor telling Mr Campbell ““I’m fed up with you telling me what I think” and also included a number of pointed finger-jabs.

Many of the complaining members of the British public were said to have been offended by Adam Boulton’s lack of “professionalism” during the exchange. But what do you think? Watch the video and share your thoughts here.

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- S.L says:
  
  05:07pm | 12/05/10
  
  I wish some politicians over here would give some interviewers their own medicine back. One shock jock on Sydney radio rants and raves and shouts giving the impression he’s on top of an argument (just like when he’s calling the league on weekends) when the interviewee has to sit there and keep up a calm demeanor or they know they’ll be front page news for all the wrong reasons.
  Adam Boulton should have copped a right hander in my opinion.
  
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- Matt says:
  
  05:07pm | 12/05/10
  
  Onya Alastair!
  
  The British press is terribly partisan (and you know and accept it, as infuriating as it is), but Boulton was way over the top in his coverage.
  
  Campbell has been, IMO, wrongly maligned by the British press who needed an evil Machiavelli archetype.
  
  He’s a very good spin-doctor and before that was a very good journalist - one who never made any secret of his political leanings, whicvh is another infuriating/refreshing thing about Fleet st.
  
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- Steve says:
  
  10:14pm | 18/05/10
  
  I wish someone over here would give Kerry O’B a good right hander.
  
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