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  • Born: 10 September 1949
  • Birthplace: New York, New York
  • Best Known As: Bombastic host of The O'Reilly Factor

Bill O'Reilly is the host of the political opinion show The O'Reilly Factor on the FOX News network and the author of the best-selling books The O'Reilly Factor and The No-Spin Zone. After 20 years as a reporter and anchor in smaller U.S. TV markets, O'Reilly landed a job as a correspondent with ABC News in 1986. From 1989-94 he hosted the tabloid news show Inside Edition, and in 1996 signed on with FOX to host his own show. It didn't take long for his in-your-face style to catch on, and his self-appointed position as the "common man" battling intellectual elites garnered him a huge audience. In 2002 he began a radio show, The Radio Factor. Although O'Reilly is right-of-center politically, he has drawn the ire from some conservative groups for his defense of homosexuality and his positions on environmental issues. His on-air provocative style has seeped into his public life as well: O'Reilly's feuds with comedian Al Franken and National Public Radio's Terry Gross have become modern media legends.

Other pundits and columnists of the same era include Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh and Maureen Dowd.

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Bill O'Reilly

Bill O'Reilly, December 2006
Born September 10, 1949 (1949-09-10) (age 60)
New York City, NY, U.S.
Residence Manhasset, New York
Education B.A., Marist College

M.A., Boston University

M.P.A., Harvard University
Occupation columnist, author, television, talk radio personality
Salary $10,000,000 (2008)[1]
Religious beliefs Roman Catholic
Spouse(s) Maureen E. McPhilmy
(two children)
Website
billoreilly.com

William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American television host, author, syndicated columnist and political commentator.[2] He is the host of the political commentary program The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel, which is the most watched cable news program on American television.[3][4][5]

O'Reilly is generally considered a conservative commentator,[6][7] though some of his positions diverge from conservative orthodoxy[8][9] and O'Reilly characterizes himself as a "traditionalist." [10] Prior to hosting The O'Reilly Factor, he served as anchor of the entertainment program Inside Edition. O'Reilly is the author of eight books, and hosted The Radio Factor until early 2009.[11] Over the years, O'Reilly's print and broadcast work has drawn both praise and criticism.

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Early life and education

O'Reilly was born in New York City to parents William James, Sr. (deceased) and Winifred Angela Drake O'Reilly, from Brooklyn, New York and Bergen County, New Jersey.[12] His father was an accountant for the oil company Caltex. In 1951, his family moved to Levittown on Long Island.[13] O'Reilly has a sister, Janet. He attended St. Brigid parochial school in Westbury. After graduating from Chaminade High School, a private Catholic boys high school in Mineola, in 1967, O'Reilly attended Marist College. While at Marist, O'Reilly played punter in the National Club Football Association,[14] and was also a writer for the school's newspaper, The Circle. An honors student, he majored in history.[15] He spent his junior year of college abroad, attending Queen Mary College at the University of London.[16] Asked by Terry Gross about his opinion of the Vietnam War, O'Reilly explained that upon his return from London during a time which he describes as the "worst time" of the war, which included the early 1968 Tet Offensive. O'Reilly described meeting returning Vietnam war veterans who described the war as going very badly and at that time he realized that the War was, in his words, "going wrong." [17] O'Reilly received his B.A. in History in 1971. He played semi-professional baseball during this time, as a pitcher for the New York Monarchs.[18] After graduating from Marist College, O'Reilly moved to Miami, Florida at age 21, where he taught English and history at Monsignor Pace High School for two years. O'Reilly later returned to school and earned an M.A. in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University. While attending Boston University, he was a reporter and columnist for various local newspapers and alternative news weeklies, including The Boston Phoenix. O'Reilly did his broadcast journalism internship in Miami during this time and was also an entertainment writer and movie critic for The Miami Herald. O'Reilly also earned a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. At Harvard, he was a student of Marvin Kalb.[19]

Broadcasting career

O'Reilly's early television news career included reporting and anchoring positions at WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he also reported the weather. At WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas, O'Reilly was awarded the Dallas Press Club Award for excellence in investigative reporting. He then moved to KMGH-TV in Denver, Colorado where he won a Local Emmy Award for his coverage of a skyjacking.[20][21] O'Reilly also worked for KATU-TV in Portland, Oregon, as well as TV stations in Hartford, Connecticut (WFSB-TV), and in Boston, Massachusetts (WNEV-TV).[21]

Bill O'Reilly in 1975 as the "Action Consumer trouble shooter" for ABC affiliate WNEP in Scranton, Pennsylvania.[22]

In 1980, O'Reilly anchored his own program on WCBS-TV in New York where he won his second Local Emmy for an investigation of corrupt city marshals. In 1982, he was promoted to the network as a CBS News correspondent and covered the wars in El Salvador and the Falkland Islands from his base in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He later left CBS over a dispute concerning the uncredited use in a report by Bob Schieffer of riot footage shot by O'Reilly's crew in Buenos Aires during the Falklands conflict.[23]

Inside Edition

In 1989, after serving as a correspondent for ABC World News Tonight since 1986, O'Reilly joined the nationally syndicated King World (now CBS) program Inside Edition, a tabloid/gossip television program in competition with A Current Affair.[24] He started as senior correspondent and backup anchor for British TV host David Frost, and subsequently became the program's anchor after Frost's termination. In addition to being one of the first American broadcasters to cover the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, O'Reilly also obtained the first exclusive interview with murderer Joel Steinberg and was the first television host from a national current affairs program on the scene of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

In 1995, O'Reilly was replaced by former NBC News and CBS News anchor Deborah Norville on Inside Edition. He then enrolled at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he received a Master's degree in Public Administration.

The O'Reilly Factor

Main article: The O'Reilly Factor

After Harvard, he was hired by Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of the then startup Fox News Channel, to anchor The O'Reilly Report.[25] The show was renamed The O'Reilly Factor, after O'Reilly's friend and branding expert John Tantillo's remarks upon the "O'Reilly Factor" in any of the stories O'Reilly told.[25][26][27] The program is routinely the highest-rated show of the three major U.S. 24-hour cable news channels and began the trend toward more opinion-oriented prime-time cable news programming.[28] The show is taped late in the afternoon at a studio in New York City and airs every weekday on the Fox News Channel at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

Until early 2009, O'Reilly hosted a radio program that had more than 3.26 million listeners and was carried by more than 400 radio stations.[29] According to the talk radio industry publication Talkers Magazine, O'Reilly was #11 on the "Heavy Hundred", a list of the 100 most important talk show hosts in America.[30] Conservative Internet news site NewsMax’s "Top 25 Talk Radio Host" list selected O'Reilly to the #2 spot as most influential host in the nation.[31]

O'Reilly's life and career have not been without controversy. Progressive media watchdog organizations such as Media Matters and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting have criticized O'Reilly's reporting on a variety of issues, accusing him of distorting facts and using misleading or erroneous statistics.[32]

After the September 11 attacks, O'Reilly accused the United Way of America and American Red Cross of failing to deliver millions of dollars in donated money, raised by the organizations in the name of the disaster, to the families of those killed in the attacks.[33] O'Reilly reported that the organizations misrepresented their intentions for the money being raised by not distributing all of the 9/11 relief fund to the victims.[34] Actor George Clooney accused O'Reilly of misstating facts and harming the relief effort by inciting "panic" among potential donors.[35]

Beginning in 2005, O'Reilly periodically denounced George Tiller, a Kansas-based physician who specialized in second and third trimester abortions,[36] often referring to him as "Tiller the baby killer".[37] Tiller was murdered on May 31, 2009 by Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion activist.[38] Critics such as Salon.com's Gabriel Winant have asserted that O'Reilly's anti-Tiller rhetoric helped to create an atmosphere of violence around the doctor.[39] Jay Bookman of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote that O'Reilly "clearly went overboard in his condemnation and demonization of Tiller" but added that it was "irresponsible to link O'Reilly" to Tiller's murder.[40] O'Reilly has responded to the criticism by saying "no backpedaling here ... every single thing we said about Tiller was true".[41]

In early 2007, researchers from the Indiana University School of Journalism published a report that analyzed O'Reilly's "Talking Points Memo" segment. Using analysis techniques developed in the 1930s by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis, the study concluded that O'Reilly used propaganda, frequently engaged in name calling, and consistently cast non-Americans as threats and never "in the role of victim or hero."[42][43] O'Reilly responded, asserting that "the terms 'conservative,' 'liberal,' 'left,' 'right,' 'progressive,' 'traditional' and 'centrist' were considered name-calling if they were associated with a problem or social ill." The study's authors claimed those terms were only considered name-calling when linked to derogatory qualifiers.[44] Fox News producer Ron Mitchell wrote an op-ed in which he accused the study's authors of seeking to manipulate their research to fit a predetermined outcome. Mitchell argued that by using tools developed for examining propaganda, the researchers presupposed that O'Reilly propagandized.[45]

O'Reilly is considered the main inspiration for comedian Stephen Colbert's satirical character on the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report, which features Colbert in a "full-dress parody" of The O'Reilly Factor. On the show, Colbert refers to O'Reilly as "Papa Bear."[46] O'Reilly and Colbert exchanged appearances on each others' shows in January 2007.[47]

Speaking on ABC's Good Morning America on March 18, 2003, O'Reilly promised that "If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean...I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again." [48][49][50][51] In another appearance on the same program on February 10, 2004, O'Reilly responded to repeated requests for him to honor his pledge: "My analysis was wrong and I'm sorry. I was wrong. I'm not pleased about it at all."[48][52] With regard to never again trusting the current U.S. government, he said, "I am much more skeptical of the Bush administration now than I was at that time."

Political beliefs and public perception

Main article: Political views of Bill O'Reilly

O'Reilly has long said that his inspiration for speaking up for average Americans are his working-class roots. He has pointed to his boyhood home in Levittown, New York as a credential. In an interview with The Washington Post, O'Reilly's mother said that her family lived in Westbury,[53][dead link] which is a few miles from Levittown. Citing this interview, Al Franken and others have accused O'Reilly of distorting his background to create a more working-class image. O'Reilly countered that The Washington Post misquoted his mother,[54][dead link] and he said his mother still lives in his childhood home, which was built by William Levitt. O'Reilly placed a copy of the house's mortgage on his website; the mortgage shows a Levittown postal address.[55] O'Reilly has also said, "You don't come from any lower than I came from on an economic scale"[56] and that his father "never earned more than $35,000 a year in his life." Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting has calculated that adjusted for inflation, $35,000 in 1978 would be worth over $90,000 in 2001 dollars.[57] O'Reilly has retorted that his father's $35,000 income only came at the end of his long career.[58]

On The O'Reilly Factor and on his former talk-radio program, Bill O'Reilly has focused on news and commentary related to politics and culture.[59] O'Reilly has long said that he does not identify with any political party.[60] On December 6, 2000, The Daily News in New York reported, however, that he had been registered with the Republican Party in the state of New York since 1994. When questioned about this, he said that he was not aware of it and says he registered as an independent after the interview.[61] During a broadcast of The Radio Factor, O'Reilly said that there was no option to register as an independent voter; however, there was in fact a box marked "I do not wish to enroll in party."[62] Despite being registered as an Independent, many view him as a conservative figure.[59][60] A Pew Research February 2009 poll found that 66% of his television viewers identify themselves as conservative, 24% moderate, and 3% liberal.[63]

In a 2003 interview with Terry Gross on National Public Radio, O'Reilly said:

“ I'm not a political guy in the sense that I embrace an ideology. To this day I'm an independent thinker, an independent voter, I'm a registered independent... there are certain fundamental things that this country was founded upon that I respect and don't want changed. That separates me from the secularists who want a complete overhaul of how the country is run.[17] ”

On a September 2007 edition of The Radio Factor, while having a discussion about race with fellow Fox News commentator and author Juan Williams,[64] O'Reilly said he "couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship." He commented that no one in Sylvia's was "screaming M'Fer, I want more iced tea."[65] He further added that "I think that black Americans are starting to think more and more for themselves, getting away from the Sharptons and the Jacksons and people trying to lead them into a race-based culture. They're just trying to figure it out. 'Look, I can make it. If I work hard and get educated, I can make it.'"[66] Roland S. Martin of CNN said that the notion that black people are just now starting to value education is "ridiculous" and that the notion that black people let Sharpton or Jackson think for them is "nuts".[67] O'Reilly responded, saying, "It was an attempt to tell the radio audience that there is no difference black, white, we’re all Americans. The stereotypes they see on television are not true."[citation needed] O'Reilly said, "Media Matters distorted the entire conversation and implied I was racist for condemning racism."[68] Juan Williams said the criticism of O'Reilly was “rank dishonesty” and that the original comments "had nothing to do with racist ranting by anybody except by these idiots at CNN." Williams went on to say it was "frustrating" that the media try to criticize anyone who wanted to have an honest discussion about race.[69]

Personal life

O'Reilly married Maureen E. McPhilmy, a public relations executive, in 1995. They have a daughter, Madeline (born 1998) and a son, Spencer (born 2003).[70] O'Reilly currently resides in suburban Manhasset, New York.[71]

On October 13, 2004, O'Reilly filed a preemptive lawsuit against Factor producer Andrea Mackris, her lawyer Benedict P. Morelli, and Morelli's law firm for extortion, contending Mackris had privately threatened to charge O'Reilly with sexual harassment unless he paid her more than $60 million (USD).[72] Later that same day, Mackris filed a complaint of sexual harassment against O'Reilly, contending that he had made sexually explicit phone calls, including a "vile and degrading monologue about sex."[73][74] O'Reilly denied engaging in any physical or sexual assault or "offensive touching." He also alleged that Mackris' motives were financial and political in nature. Both lawsuits were dropped after Fox News and O'Reilly agreed to pay Mackris an undisclosed settlement amount, which, according to the Washington Post, was likely millions of dollars.[75][76]

Writings by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has authored eight books:

In addition, O'Reilly writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column that appears in numerous newspapers, including the New York Post and the Chicago Sun-Times.[79] According to the New York Post, O'Reilly has indicated that his next book (due out in 2010) will be about President Barack Obama, on the historical nature of his presidency, and the nature of his political agenda.[80]

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