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The Oh Really? Factor : Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly

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Overview

"Caution: You're about to enter a no-spin zone" is the warning with which Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly kicks off his no-holds-barred cable news program. "The O'Reilly Factor, every night. O'Reilly is the reigning king of cable news, with a huge lead in the ratings, two best-selling books and a nationally syndicated radio program. O'Reilly's "no spin" motto is clever marketing--but who's keeping track of O'Reilly's own spin? From his support to Bush's tax cuts and a war with Iraq to his attacks on everything from National Public Radio to "welfare mothers," O'Reilly consistently concocts evidence to support his conservative talking points. He once claimed that the United States "give[s] far and away more tax money to foreign countries than anyone else.... Nobody else even comes close to us." When a guest explained that America's per capita contributions put us near the bottom of the list for developed countries, O'Reilly simply refused to believe the facts, saying, "That's not true," Sometimes it's even hard to keep track of O'Reilly's opinions: after the September 11 attacks, he advocated devastating bombing against civilian targets in a number of countries, including Libya ("Let them eat stand."). Questioned about it a few weeks later, O'Reilly was spinning: "I never said bomb a civilian. I would bomb military targets. I would bomb military targets.... I'm not talking about civilians." Following in the footsteps of FAIR's hit book, "The Way Things Aren't: Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error, The Oh Really? Factor will use facts, humor, illustrations, and comics to challenge the many absurd, outlandish, and just plain incorrect statements made by one of the U.S.'s most-watched "news"programs.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781583226018
  • ISBN-10: 158322601X
  • Publisher: Seven Stories Press
  • Publish Date: September 2003
  • Dimensions: 6.9 x 6.9 x 0.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
  • Page Count: 160

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