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The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly
i know this guy is all the way to the right, and i also think that he is a racist but this book will give me even more time to sort it out.
The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly
I picked up this book in an attempt to balance my world view and give a fair chance to both sides. I had recently completed 'The O'Reilly Factor' and I believed that Mr. Hart would provide a compelling and insightful commentary to challenge my perceptions of Mr. O'Reilly. What I got was something quite different.As other reviewers have commented, Mr. Hart's "analysis" of Mr. O'Reilly leaves much to be desired. The book is filled with quotes from Mr. O'Reilly which are juxtaposed with other "contradictory" quotes with the intention of showing the true slant of Mr. O'Reilly's political views. The problem is that these supposedly contradictory quotes often (perhaps 50% of the time) have little or nothing to do with the previous statement and can presumably only be twisted that way if the reader already has a substantially different world view from Mr. O'Reilly. Mr. Hart doesn't even once take the time to explain the alleged contradiction for the readers that may not happen to agree with his politics. And in any event, any educated person can already see Mr. O'Reilly's conservative nature in his TV and radio shows and his written work.I can see what Mr. Hart wanted to do with this project, but in my opinion he has failed miserably. Either Mr. Hart lacks the competence to illustrate his point, or the evidence to support his conclusion eludes him. The overall impression I have is that Mr. Hart is extremely jealous of Mr. O'Reilly's popularity and has sought a vehicle to simultaneously raise his own profile and to disparage Mr. O'Reilly. Mr. Hart does considerably more damage to his own credibility with this lackluster effort.
The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly
Sensationalism sells. No two ways about this. Mr. Hart realized this, and cashed in on Bill O'Reilly's popularity.Apparently, those who hate O'Reilly have neither watched his show, nor read his books, for those paint a very different story than this book.If you want a manual on how to hate Bill O'Reilly, you've got the right book.If you actually want some substantiated arguments without sensationalism, look elsewhere.Only in the far-left's world would a pro-gun control, anti-death penalty, pro-choice, anti-"corporate weasel", bipartisan basher be considered a "far-right conservative."
The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly
Hart disputes O'Reilly's claim that the US "gives far and away more tax money for foreign coutries than anyone else....." by countering that per capita the U.S. is near the bottom of the list. O'Reilly wasn't quoted as saying "more tax money per capita".More goofy reasoning by someone who ought to know better.
The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly
I was unfortunate enough to endure FAIR's "The Way Things Aren't", a book of 100 of Rush Limbaugh's mistakes. The fact that ANY radio personality has made a mere 100 notable mistakes should be cause for celebration; most aren't that accurate. Most of these errors, in addition, are tiny mistakes, or mere areas where FAIR disagrees with the commentator.But I'm getting off topic. This new book latches onto a few errors of Bill O'Reilly. For instance, he confused two radio awards for a short period. These awards were about equivalent, but were latched onto by the media as evidence of a lying streak.If you want to read this kind of junk, go right ahead. FAIR.org stands with Al Franken, Ann Coulter, and others as vicious fact-omitting mudslingers with little room for pity.
The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly
This is a fun book, thin, but amusing in its own way. Bill O'Reilly is someone that is easily hated by the left. He is popular, well-educated, well-exposed to the public and lets the clowns out there have it. Are most of the clowns liberal Democrats? Well, "liberal Democrat" and "clown" is a tautology, and so the answer would be 'yes', but deciding that Bill O'Reilly is in the same camp as Rush Limbaugh is off the mark, as he really doesn't seem to like either Anne Coulter Donald Rumsfeld or several other conservative marks. I would consider him to be strongly conservative, however much Bill denies this. The crux of the book is that conservative-bad, liberal-good and with that in mind, the sky is the limit here.Read it with expectations of hearing what Al Franken has to say, but expect less of it and fewer smiles along the way (but for roughly the same price).