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August 5, 2006 - Culture Warrior reviews are coming in. It ain't pretty.
In his latest screed, the host of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor mobilizes fellow "traditionalists"
against a "secular-progressive movement" supposedly led by billionaire George Soros ("public
enemy number one") and the liberal rhetorician George Lakoff. O'Reilly condemns the "erosion
of societal discipline" flowing from an alleged "S-P [secular-progressive]" agenda of drug
legalization, teenagers' rights, moral relativism, church-state separation, therapy instead of
punishment for criminals and, above all, the "communist" freeloader's doctrine that the
government should tax the rich to fund housing, health care and early-childhood education for
the poor.
None of this coheres well, but O'Reilly keeps fans stoked with red meat, including tales of ACLU
Christmas-bashers who wanted schools to stop teaching kids to sing carols, and permissive
judges who go easy on child molesters. Too often, though, he feuds with personal enemies like
"smear-merchant" Al Franken, Hollywood liberals, press critics and unnamed "black-hearted
websites." As a result, his populist swagger subsides into kvetching ("Clooney's press agent, a
guy named Stan Rosenfield, began badmouthing me and Fox News around Hollywood") and
paranoia ("S-P power-brokers... will command their forces to attack me in every way possible").
More resentful and self-pitying than feisty, O'Reilly may be suffering from battle fatigue.
Now we hate to say we told you so, but we proved this in our book, Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly.
It should be noted that when the PW review refers to the "resentful and self-pitying" O'Reilly, who
suffers from bouts of "paranoia" and "battle fatigue," they are just trying to find a nice way of saying
that the number one man in cable news is losing his mind.
Now, how do you think O'Reilly is going to react to all this?
against a "secular-progressive movement" supposedly led by billionaire George Soros ("public
enemy number one") and the liberal rhetorician George Lakoff. O'Reilly condemns the "erosion
of societal discipline" flowing from an alleged "S-P [secular-progressive]" agenda of drug
legalization, teenagers' rights, moral relativism, church-state separation, therapy instead of
punishment for criminals and, above all, the "communist" freeloader's doctrine that the
government should tax the rich to fund housing, health care and early-childhood education for
the poor.
None of this coheres well, but O'Reilly keeps fans stoked with red meat, including tales of ACLU
Christmas-bashers who wanted schools to stop teaching kids to sing carols, and permissive
judges who go easy on child molesters. Too often, though, he feuds with personal enemies like
"smear-merchant" Al Franken, Hollywood liberals, press critics and unnamed "black-hearted
websites." As a result, his populist swagger subsides into kvetching ("Clooney's press agent, a
guy named Stan Rosenfield, began badmouthing me and Fox News around Hollywood") and
paranoia ("S-P power-brokers... will command their forces to attack me in every way possible").
More resentful and self-pitying than feisty, O'Reilly may be suffering from battle fatigue.
Now we hate to say we told you so, but we proved this in our book, Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O'Reilly.
It should be noted that when the PW review refers to the "resentful and self-pitying" O'Reilly, who
suffers from bouts of "paranoia" and "battle fatigue," they are just trying to find a nice way of saying
that the number one man in cable news is losing his mind.
Now, how do you think O'Reilly is going to react to all this?
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If you're a regular visitor to this site, you'll remember back in
March when we first introduced the world to the cover of the new
O'Reilly book due out in September. At that time we dubbed it
"the creepiest O’Reilly picture ever taken" and wrote that from
"the unnerving smile to the wolfman hands tucked neatly behind
the title, the creepiness factor is high. The picture brings to mind
overly attentive T-ball coaches and Catholic day camp with
Father Phil. Thank God this isn’t a kids’ book."
Well, the early reviews are coming in and it appears that the
book proves our point about O'Reilly's declining mental health.
Worse, due to recent poll data from the Pew Research Center,
it turns out there isn't much of a culture war after all. It's actually
O'Reilly and his Fox News brethren trying to divide the country so
they can line their own pockets with royalty checks from crappy
books like the aforementioned.
Check out the review from Publisher's Weekly:
March when we first introduced the world to the cover of the new
O'Reilly book due out in September. At that time we dubbed it
"the creepiest O’Reilly picture ever taken" and wrote that from
"the unnerving smile to the wolfman hands tucked neatly behind
the title, the creepiness factor is high. The picture brings to mind
overly attentive T-ball coaches and Catholic day camp with
Father Phil. Thank God this isn’t a kids’ book."
Well, the early reviews are coming in and it appears that the
book proves our point about O'Reilly's declining mental health.
Worse, due to recent poll data from the Pew Research Center,
it turns out there isn't much of a culture war after all. It's actually
O'Reilly and his Fox News brethren trying to divide the country so
they can line their own pockets with royalty checks from crappy
books like the aforementioned.
Check out the review from Publisher's Weekly: