“The O’Reilly Factor,” written by Bill O’Reilly in 2000, is the second in a list of books he has written since he began his nightly Fox News show, which has now become the most-watched show on television. by cable. The first book he wrote was called The No Spin Zone, which he wrote a year earlier.
In “The O’Reilly Factor,” O’Reilly is his irascible old self (wittily writing) twenty chapters on various topics such as “The Class Factor,” “The Money Factor,” “The Sex Factor,” and “The Ridiculous “. Postman.” Throughout the book, he injects subchapters with notes like “Ridiculous Note,” “Bulletin,” “Talking Point,” and “Viewer Wait Time.” All of these terms are familiar to you if you’re a regular viewer of his Program.
In a section called “The Bad Factor,” O’Reilly criticizes “bad things” like American Airlines (terrible service, lousy food, crowded and dirty), rice cakes (no matter what you put in them, they still eat dust, plaster, cardboard and clay), SUVs (the people who drive them think they’re driving studs), and Roseanne (she keeps getting paid a lot of money for bad performances). Among the other people and things he considers “bad” are; Warren Beatty, steak tartare, onion flavored potato chips, Leonard DiCaprio and Donald Trump (what’s up with the hair, Donald?)
Countering his tirade, O’Reilly also has a chapter called “The Good Factor.” The people he rates as “good” are Bill Cosby (honestly funny), Bill Murray (good stuff, funniest man in the country), Paul Newman (raises millions for kids), Aretha Franklin (her records will stay with me forever). forever) and Elvis Presley (makes Frank Sinatra look like Frosty the Snowman).
O’Reilly even rates his favorite movies. He says that The Godfather I and II are “the two best movies ever made.” Other movies he highly values are Casablanca (you can watch it ten times and come back again), the original Dracula with Bela Lugosi (the best line is when Lugosi says, “I never drink…wine”), A Shot in the Dark with Peter Sellers (don’t even blink, or you’ll miss the full impact of Sellers’ genius) and Schindler’s List (you’ll feel like you’re in a concentration camp).
If you’re a huge O’Reilly fan, “The O’Reilly Factor” is a must read. If you’re not familiar with Bill O’Reilly, and that’s hard to believe in 2010, this book is an excellent introduction to the man and his genius at times. If you’re not a huge fan of Bill O’Reilly, I bet you’ll enjoy this book anyway.
And if you don’t enjoy this book, you are definitely, as O’Reilly would say, a pinhead.
