Killing Reagan

It's Bill O'Reilly's new book, out this week.

At Amazon, Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency.

Bill O'Reilly Unloads on 'Sanctuary City' San Francisco, 'Directly Responsible' for Kathryn Steinle Murder (VIDEO)

Wow!

O'Reilly just explodes!

Watch: "O'Reilly: Trump Right About Border Wall, San Francisco Officials 'Directly Responsible' for Steinle Murder."

Fanatical Leftist 'America Haters' Trying to Destroy the 'American Compact' (VIDEO)

An excellent talking points meme at yesterday's O'Reilly Factor, summarized at NewsBusters, "O’Reilly Blasts ‘America Haters’ for Trying to Undo ‘the American Compact’."

Watters' World: What's Off Limits in Today's PC-Drenched Cultural Minefield?

From yesterday's O'Reilly Factor, a great segment with Jesse Watters:

The Left Opens Fire on Ted Cruz!

At great talking points memo at Bill O'Reilly's, including commentary from Monica Crowley and Kirsten Powers.

Watch: "Ted Cruz For President - O'Reilly Talking Points."

Bwahaha! Lunatic Left-Wing Attacks Boost Bill O'Reilly's Ratings on Fox

OMG this is hilarious!

The idiotic attacks from far-LWNJ David Corn are backfiring, big time. The O'Reilly Factor's not only getting a healthy ratings boost off the attacks, but turns out the loons at Mother Jones are getting played like a bunch of losers.

Don't stop, leftists! Don't stop lol!

At WaPo, "Crisis management, Fox News style: Bill O’Reilly goes for the jugular":

Bill O’Reilly and Fox News seem to have decided that the best defense is a good offense. A lot of offense.

Faced with accusations that he exaggerated some of his reporting exploits over the years, the combative cable news star has gone into full battle mode, employing the public relations equivalent of the nuclear option.

Since Mother Jones magazine published its story about O’Reilly’s claims last Thursday, O’Reilly has done far more than deny the allegations. He has called the story “slander” and labeled its principal author, David Corn, “a liar” and “a guttersnipe.” In one of the numerous interviews he has done with reporters, O’Reilly suggested that Corn should be put in “the kill zone” for his story.

He’s also been pushing around the reporters reporting the fallout. O’Reilly began an interview with this newspaper last week by saying, “I’m recording this, so you’d better report this accurately.” On Monday, he made his intent explicit, warning a New York Times reporter that if the coverage was inaccurate or inappropriate, “I am coming after you with everything I have. You can take it as a threat.”

This may not be the best way to make a crisis go away. And indeed, O’Reilly may not want it to.

O’Reilly’s aggressive statements have kept the Mother Jones story in the news for several days, which may have fueled a mini-bump in his ratings. The O’Reilly-hosted “O’Reilly Factor” attracted 3.33 million viewers on Monday night after several days of headlines, a 10 percent increase over his average for the month...

More.

Plus, at the New York Times, "Why O’Reilly Isn’t Going the Way of Williams."

Fox News Mounts Aggressive Defense Against Unhinged Leftist Attacks on Bill O'Reilly

Heh.

At the New York Times, "Bill O'Reilly and Fox News Redouble Defense of His Falklands Reporting":

The Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday stepped up his defense against reports that he embellished stories about his war reporting earlier in his career, while some former colleagues continued to say he had exaggerated his experiences.

Mr. O’Reilly is contesting an article in the magazine Mother Jones and subsequent interviews with former journalists at CBS News that accuse him of misrepresenting his coverage of the Falklands war in 1982 as a young correspondent for CBS News.

The central dispute is whether Mr. O’Reilly reported from active war zones, as he has repeatedly said on the air and in his 2001 book, “The No Spin Zone: Confrontations With the Powerful and Famous in America.”

Mr. O’Reilly has said that he had never claimed he reported from the Falkland Islands, where the fighting occurred. “I said I covered the Falklands war, which I did,” he said last Friday. He went on to describe his coverage of protests in the aftermath of the war on the streets of Buenos Aires, some 1,200 miles from the Falklands.

On Monday’s show, Mr. O’Reilly played CBS News footage from 1982 that showed the violent protests and quoted other correspondents describing the scene. He also included an interview with Don Browne, a former NBC News bureau chief who oversaw coverage of Latin America, who said there were tanks on the streets of the Argentine capital. “It was a real country at war,” Mr. Browne said. “It was a very intense situation where people got hurt.”

Mr. O’Reilly’s efforts to refute the claims by Mother Jones and some former CBS News colleagues occurred both on the air and off on Monday. During a phone conversation, he told a reporter for The New York Times that there would be repercussions if he felt any of the reporter’s coverage was inappropriate. “I am coming after you with everything I have,” Mr. O’Reilly said. “You can take it as a threat.”

David Corn, one of the reporters on the Mother Jones piece, said that the issue was not whether Mr. O’Reilly had reported on a violent protest, but whether Mr. O’Reilly had reported from a war zone...

More.

And see especially Jonathan Tobin, who lampoons the left's attacks as a "non-scandal," at Commentary, "Forget O’Reilly, Fox Is Still the Real Target":

When you host the most-watched cable news show and do it on the Fox News Channel, you’ve got to expect your share of brickbats from the left. So it was not terribly surprising that in the wake of the Brian Williams scandal, some on the left would seek to take down someone on the right, especially one of the stars of the dominant cable news channel that liberals love to hate. But as much as the commentary about this non-scandal that is being hyped as one has understandably revolved around Bill O’Reilly and his incendiary personality, it has little to do with him and everything to do with the antagonism that the left feels toward his network.

Despite the attention being lavished on this story by Fox rival CNN, there’s not all that much here to unwrap. The story published by Mother Jones magazine has an inflammatory headline comparing O’Reilly to Brian Williams, but even if you take the piece at face value — which is unjustified by its clear bias and use of innuendo — the comparison is pure hyperbole. There’s no dispute about O’Reilly being on the scene in Buenos Aires as riots convulsed Argentina as the Falklands War came to a disastrous end for that country. Nor is there [...] real dispute that those riots were violent and that people were shot there. The only possible point on which O’Reilly can be called out is whether reporting from Argentina can be termed “war reporting” or “combat” since he was not in the Falklands but rather on the Argentina home front.

It is, at best, a semantic point....

As we have come to see, Fox isn’t just the most-watched cable news outlet. It is the scapegoat for all of the anger harbored by both liberal journalists and politicians toward those who question their policies. It is no accident that both President Obama and Attorney General Holder regularly use Fox as a punch line in their speeches to tame liberal audiences. It is not so much an antagonist as it often pursues negative story lines about the administration that mainstream liberals ignore as it is a metaphor for the Democrats’ inability to silence dissent against their beloved president or his policies.

Fox’s conservative bias is no secret, though it is far more balanced at times than the openly and almost uniformly left-wing voices heard on MSNBC and often fairer than the supposedly down-the-middle CNN. The channel’s popularity is a function of the fact that almost half the country feels disenfranchised by mainstream outlets that cover up their liberal tilt with a veneer of faux objectivity.

This motive wouldn’t protect O’Reilly if he was actually caught in a Williams-style lie. But he wasn’t, so the intense focus on him on CNN tells us more about liberal resentment than it does about his supposedly fast-and-loose style.

Perhaps O’Reilly would be better off just ignoring the attacks as pinpricks from a jealous rival. But it’s hard to blame him for defending his reputation, especially when characters like Engberg are concerned. But though his furious response may have given this story some extra life, all it really has done is give us another opportunity to ponder the left’s pointless Fox obsession.

And yet still more, at Mediaite, "Ex-NBC Bureau Chief Backs Up O’Reilly’s Account of Falklands War Riot."

Bill O'Reilly Destroys Low-Circulation Guttersnipe Liar David Corn (VIDEO)

I'm glad O'Reilly took on this low-life douchebag David Corn.

Corn's lies went a long way toward getting Barack Barry Hussein Soetoro Obama reelected.

At Fox News, via Memeorandum, "Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo 2/20/15 Airing Tonight at 8PM ET."

Fox News Poll: 73 Percent Say Obama Doesn’t Have Clear Strategy to Defeat Islamic State

Here's the report, at Fox.

And from Bill O'Reilly's talking points memo, "Are you safe?"

Bill O'Reilly Proposes Mercenary Army to Defeat #ISIS

From last night's Talking Points Memo, "Defeating ISIS and other terror groups."

And this morning, on CBS This Morning:



Also, O'Reilly's new book, Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General.

Leftist Grievance Industry and Anti-Authority Culture Damaging the Country

A great talking points memo from Bill O'Reilly's Monday show, "The grievance industry takes on momentum":



I covered both O'Reilly's main examples here, the Dartmouth occupation and the Isla Vista Riot --- both of which are fundamentally derived from the Democrat Party's grievance agenda of perpetual inequality demonization.

BONUS: The Other McCain on Dartmouth, "‘Diversity’ Debacle at Dartmouth: ‘Transformative Justice,’ Really?"

Bill O'Reilly on Income Inequality

From last night's talking points memo.

Bill O'Reilly and Mary Katharine Ham Take the Gloves Off on Pot Legalization

I was watching. It was intense.

O'Reilly can't not come off looking like a bully. It's just his schtick. And Mary Katharine's a strong women, but you know she was stressed out at the badgering, and you can tell she was letting off some steam with her post at Hot Air, "Video: Bill O’Reilly and I yell at each other about weed, Part II."

Click through for the video.

I'm actually with O'Reilly on this, substantly. But again, he's such a prick sometimes.

ADDED: From Twitchy, "Mary Katherine Ham slams Bill O’Reilly for bringing up her child in marijuana debate."

Megyn Kelly Returns to Fox News

She was on O'Reilly's on Thursday. Her new primetime debut is scheduled for next week.

A great lady.

Norah O'Donnell Interview with Bill O'Reilly

At CBS News, "Bill O'Reilly talks about 'Killing Jesus' on '60 Minutes'."

Ima try and watch it. We're on Pacific time, so it's still not for a few hours.

Bill O'Reilly on Internet Addiction

I just watched this. The 8:00 o'clock O'Reilly is on right now.

An interesting discussion at the clip. I took my youngest son to the doctor today and I was on mobile Twitter on my iPhone while waiting for the nurse to come into the examination room. After she came in and started updating my son's information, asking me some questions, my wife texted me with a reminder about the doctor appointment. I was holding my phone and started to reply to my wife. I'm in the doctor's room and my wife telling me the appointment's not until later. Huh? I start writing my wife back and then stopped. The nurse was still asking me questions. I apologized and put my phone away and concentrated on what was going on in real time.

Now, I don't use the phone very much so that was strange. On the other hand I'm on the laptop all day, while I'm having coffee in the morning, while I'm watching the afternoon news shows on CNN and Fox News, and later in the evening if I'm watching a game. I'll usually be blogging and tweeting through all these things. I'm just connected all the time. It's some kind of addiction. I wouldn't be happy if I couldn't go online and do all the things I do. And I wouldn't be able to work and teach effectively. It's just part of what I do.

But there's a time and place for it. And especially for young people, children, teenagers, and college students, people who grew up on the technology and is not a part of their lives but is their lives, I think it's creating a dangerous rewiring of human consciousness. As I mentioned the other day, I rarely see young people readings books. When I was young I always had a book. I never went somewhere without a book. If someone saw me and I wasn't holding a novel or something they'd say, "Hey, where's you book?" Nowadays, what students have read --- at least what I find from my students when I ask what they're reading --- is what they've been required to read in school, often some great literature. But I come across few students who are independently rich in reading skills, who read widely unprompted. The culture has changed, and this problem with Internet addiction, along with the larger issue of entire lives built around this social media, has led to a deterioration of social skills, literacy, and who knows what else. The Daily Mail reports today that young boys sext girls because their personal development has been completely arrested --- they don't know how to talk to girls even if they wanted to.

As people aways say, with all things, moderation is key.

Bill O'Reilly Eviscerates the Far-Left's Grievance Industry

Shoot, O'Reilly's like must-see TV these days.

Who knew?



O'Reilly's going to sue the New Haven Register, which so far has not apologized. See, "MATT DeRIENZO: Editorial on Nugent, Fox News opens conversation about race."

DeRienzo admits the newspaper erred but doesn't come out with a forthright apology for the screw up. I'll bet we'll see one by the end of the week. That editorial just softens up the ground.

Angry Bill O'Reilly Slams Black Grievance Hucksters' Phony 'Conversation' on Race

O'Reilly gets really mad towards the end of this clip. Righteously mad.

And keep in mind O'Reilly's calling out the biggest race huckster of them all, Barack Hussein.

Watch it all.

Bill O'Reilly Repudiates the Nanny State on 'CBS News This Morning'

This was on earlier in the week. As readers will recall, I rarely watch GMA anymore, with George Stephanopoulos especially making me sick. I like the morning news shows, however, and I'm often pleasantly surprised with Charlie Rose and Co.

And this segment with O'Reilly roiling the leftist waters was great, especially with soft and squishy liberal Norah O'Donnell all discombobulated listening to the highly popular Fox News bloviator.

Thumping: Bill O'Reilly Blows Up at Laura Ingraham

Over the top bluster. That's O'Reilly's schtick. And I think Ingraham's got a good point too. (Via Memeorandum.)