Bill O'Reilly: Fox News Channel host
Bill O'Reilly said...
"Yeah, I'm obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I'm rude. You know why? Because you're busy. "You say...
5 comments to date. The most recent comments:Joanne marie Godwin from Mystic Connecticut (July 13, 2010)
Mr.O'Reilly, my mother enjoys watching you on Fox News at 8:00 PM. She has twoor three of your books. we,re wondering if your on Facebook OR any of the other sites.
Mark Timothy Miskiw from Recife Brasil (July 7, 2010)
I sent this comment yesterday we are talking about a Democratic rule in the U.S.A.and Crimes against Humanity
It’s worth a try so here it is. I sent a letter to the United Nations 30 March 2010 and my wife sent a letter on 20 May 2010 with no confirmation that they have received our letters. I am asking you to help represent me with this. They are illegally imprisoning us with this technology. They are trying to brainwash me with an experimental and unproven technology. This technology can read, send messages to our mind of thought, they enter our sleep and do what ever they please such as abusing, terrorizing and have sex with me. I have been ignored my Constitutional and Human Rights for approximately 5 years now and so has my wife and everyday being punished for their continuous crimes against us. I am not exactly sure how it works or why they are getting away with it in front of the eyes and ears of the world for so long, but am sure it’s criminal. I have yet to receive representation or sign a contract with anyone yet. This will be very profitable and humanitarian of you. This is a copy of the letter I sent the United Nations.
To Whom It May Concern:
Please give this your immediate attention:
I am in need of the help of the United Nations. My name is Mark Timothy Miskiw a United States Citizen; my wife is Maria Das Dores Da Silva Miskiw a Brazilian Citizen. The crimes been committed against me and my wife have been constant for four half years now. They are experimenting with a Technology that can enter are sleep and can send message into are mind of thinking. This all began with George Bush during the CIA Valerie Plain, Wilson Scandal. They are committing Slavery, Espionage, Attempted Murder, and Crimes Against Humanity with this technology. They are clearly ignoring the Human Rights Act that are supposed to protect me and my family, we have exhausted all of are funds and avenues for justice have written the United States Government and the Brazilian Government with no response. We are currently sending certified letters to Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva the President of Brazil in hope he will force the United States to condemn these crimes they are committing. My wife and I are living at the poverty level in Recife, Brazil we can not afford protection or legal representation. This is why I am asking you the United Nations for protection and legal representation. On several occasions I have had chest pains, possible Heart Attacks which they are aware of and have yet to offer me medical attention. This is no game as they wish everyone to believe it’s a crime scene and I would appreciate it if you would also send a copy of this complaint along with a letter to the United States of America and Brazil to also help me and my family put an end to this Crimes Against Humanity. I have no problem allowing the government to settle this out of court; I do wish to prosecute the person’s committing these crimes with your help. I would also accept an invitation to speak to anyone in the United Nations who would like to speak to me on this matter. I am sending a copy of my wife’s letter to Lula Da Silva President of Brazil to show you she is wishing for an end to this as me.
Address: Rua: Eladio Ramos nº. 319-D
Boa Viagem Recife-PE Brasil CPE. 51030-210
Telephones: My wife’s 30282930,
Mine 99405935 We don’t have voice mail a message will do fine.
Email: markdorisilva@yahoo.com Thank you for your concern:
Mark Timothy Miskiw Maria Das Dores Da Silva Miskiw
Maria from Sweden (December 1, 2008)
Sometimes I wonder how it would be like, in a country with a politics turned so much more to the right than it is in Sweden. Here, O'Reilley is depicted as a villain that feeds the american people with propaganda, though nobody would use that particular wording.
Dianne from Corinth, USA (October 21, 2008)
I am a Democrat but am voting republican this year. I am so sick of Newsweek, The View, CNN , The New York Times being so unfair and pushing Obama in your face. I am tired of hearing, he said, she said. We still know nothing about the facts of immagration, education, and everything that is important to us today. We, the people want to know WHO Barack Obama IS!!!!
kay kasunick from cape coral (October 16, 2008)
I stoped watching Larry King and all the main steam new media because of the election and how unfair they were to McCain and starting watching Bill O'Reilly and I sure glad I did he is interesting and very fair.
What do people think of Bill?
People say: Bill O'Reilly is smart. He is honest some of the time and not very sexy.
He is a powerful, fearless and egotistical fox.
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He Enjoys Being Obnoxious and Rude!
Bill O'Reilly is best known as the host of The O'Reilly Factor, which appears on Fox News Channel. He also hosts a radio program syndicated by Westwood One.
In a study released on May 2, 2007 titled Villains, Victims and Virtuous in Bill O'Reilly's 'No Spin Zone': Revisiting World War Propaganda Techniques, Indiana University media researchers found that the Fox News personality called a person or a group a derogatory name once every 7 seconds, on average, during the editorials that open his program each night.
"It's obvious he's very big into calling people names, and he's very big into glittering generalities," said Mike Conway, assistant professor in the IU School of Journalism. "He's not very subtle." Maria Elizabeth Grabe, associate professor of telecommunications, added, "He sets up a pretty simplistic battle between good and evil. Our analysis points to very specific groups and people presented as good and evil."
Most frequently described by O'Reilly as victims were Americans, the U.S. military and the George W. Bush administration. Most frequently labeled bad were the political left -- Americans as a group and the media (except those media considered by O'Reilly to be on the right) -- along with illegal aliens, terrorists and foreigners in general.
The Indiana University study covered six months worth, or 115 episodes, of O'Reilly's "Talking Points Memo" editorials using propaganda analysis techniques made popular after World War I. The researchers found that he was that he was prone to inject fear into his commentaries and quick to resort to name-calling. He also frequently assigned roles or attributes -- such as "villians" or downright "evil" -- to people and groups.
Using analysis techniques first developed in the 1930s by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis, the study found that O'Reilly employed six of the seven propaganda devices nearly 13 times each minute in his editorials. The seven propaganda devices include:
- Name calling -- giving something a bad label to make the audience reject it without examining the evidence;
- Glittering generalities -- the oppositie of name calling;
- Card stacking -- the selective use of facts and half-truths;
- Bandwagon -- appeals to the desire, common to most of us, to follow the crowd;
- Plain folks -- an attempt to convince an audience that they, and their ideas, are "of the people";
- Transfer -- carries over the authority, sanction and prestige of something we respect or dispute to something the speaker would want us to accept; and
- Testimonials -- involving a respected (or disrespected) person endorsing or rejecting an idea or person.
The same techniques were used during the late 1930s to study another prominent voice in a war-era, Father Charles Coughlin. His sermons evolved into a darker message of anti-Semitism and fascism, and he became a defender of Hitler and Mussolini. According to this study, O'Reilly is a heavier and less-nuanced user of the propaganda devices than Coughlin.
O'Reilly was raised in a Irish Catholic family from Brooklyn, New York. His father was an accountant and his mother was a stay-at-home mom. He grew up in a upper class suburb of Westbury, New York.
While in college at Marist, the 6 foot 4 inch O'Reilly played quarterback and several other positons on the football team. He was also a columnist for The Circle, the schools' newspaper. After graduation he moved to Miami, Florida to teach English and history in a Jesuit high school. Soon after, her earned his masters in broadcast journalism.
He held a number of television positions at WNEP-TV In Scranton, Pennsylvania. He eventually made his way to KMGH-TV in Denver, Colorado where he won an Emmy for his coverage of a skyjacking. O'Reilly also worked for television stations in Portland, Oregan, Hartford, Connecticut, and Boston. In New York, he anchored his own program, which helped him win his second Emmy for his investigation of corrupt city marshals.
In 1989, O'Reilly became part of the current affairs television program Inside Edition. He eventaully took over David Frost's position, giving him the anchor chair. He left Inside Edition in 1995 to further his education at Havard University's Kennedy School of Government. After receiving a Master's Degree in Public Administration, O'Reilly was hired as the anchor of the O'Reilly Report, which aired weeknights on Fox News. The O'Reilly Report was renamed in 1998 to The O'Reilly Factor.
On The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly discusses political and social issues of the day and hosts guests from a broad social spectrum. In 2001, the show passed Larry King Live, hosted by Larry King, to become the most watched cable news programs in the U.S. In 2004 he signed a contract with Fox News to bump his salary from $4 million to $10 million per year. He plans to retire in 2007 when his contract ends.
In October 2004, O'Reilly settled a sexual harassment suit brought against him by former producer Andrea Mackris. O'Reilly would probably like to file a harassment suit against Keith Olbermann, with whom he has an ongoing feud.
O'Reilly is married to Maureen McPhilmy. He has one daughter, Madeline, and a son, Spencer. He refuses to discuss his family publicly for security reasons, and he forbids photographs being taken of his home or family.
