We're going to ask -- get some questions or comments from the audience.

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"We believe the comptroller's staff did him a disservice on some of the comments made in this report, which we think misrepresent or just totally get wrong some of the things that are in the budget, " Mr. Cuomo's budget director, Robert Megna, said in a conference call.

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Some comments do succeed in winding up players or opposition managers and this affects their focus.

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Some will see this as an attempt to justify or excuse comments that are simply inexcusable.

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Recently, state Senator Darling made some comments accusing teachers of trying to take more money or scrapping more money off the barrel.

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Whether you like Sarah Palin or not, you ought to be applying some fair standard to her extemporaneous comments.

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Yet, some of the more affirming comments came from people who identified themselves as either present or past employees of Wal-Mart.

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Also, the line separating freedom of speech and inappropriate postings can be unclear - for example, derisive comments about a student's institution or profession might not be considered unprofessional by some, they said.

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It was -- every day he had some economic plan out there, and every day it was AIG, or Geithner, or the comments on Leno.

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On Twitter, most of the comments appeared to be negative, with some dismissing his suicide as an act of "terrorism" or labelling him a "Nazi".

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