I need help writing a bio on Bill O'Reilly (this should be fun...)

[Emboldened Chimp]

I'm writing a bio on Loofa, and I need some help with the broad strokes. Basically, I'm looking fore a compendium of events in his life (not just recent) so I can piece them together in a coherent fashion—there’s so much out there that it’s difficult to narrow it down in a short amount of time. Please keep in mind this is for a professional publication, so it can’t be a nasty hit piece—though I can editorialize to a degree. Serious suggestions and comments only; I’m pressured for time. Thanks, guys!

[underpants]

1. He felafel his highchair as a kid

Explains a lot doesn't it?

[Serial Mom]

16. And hit his Big Giant Head (as KO calls him)

:)

[ET Awful]

2. Make sure you reference his two Peabody awards :) n/t

[jeff30997]

9. Hehehe.

[Botany]

3. Liver Spots! n/t

[tk2kewl]

4. Having grown up on Long Island myself, I think you should highlight

his upbringing in the Westbury section of Levittown

[Emboldened Chimp]

5. What's special about Westbury?

I'll surmise that it's more upper class than middle class, as he claims?

[underpants]

6. Went to college on a trust fund

tk I think is making fun of how O'Reilly tries to portray himself as coming from a poor working class background but he didn't.

[Emboldened Chimp]

11. Where can I get proof of that?

[tk2kewl]

13. In Frankens book

apparently O'Reilly claimed to be from bluecollar Levittown but was actually from more wealthy Westbury and then claimed he was from the Westbury section of Levittown which, of course, does not exist.

[wicket]

7. Is he still claiming that???

Sheesh.

[ET Awful]

14. Which is kind of like the Ronkonkoma section of the Bronx :) n/t

[seriousstan]

8. His first book had a lot of personal history in it.

I forget the name of it. I am sure a simple google could give you way more than you want or need.

[KurtNYC]

10. Some stuff

O'Reilly actually grew up in Westbury, Long Island, according to his mother Angela, who still lives in the Levitt-built house Bill grew up in. Westbury Long Island is a "middle-class suburb a few miles from Levittown," where he attended a private school (Washington Post, 12/13/00). His late father, William O'Reilly Sr., was a currency accountant with Caltex, an oil company; Angela "Ann" O'Reilly was a homemaker who also worked as a physical therapist.

While hardly well off, the O'Reillys - Mom, Dad, Bill Jr. and his younger sister, Janet - weren't exactly deprived, either. Both children attended private school, and the family sent Bill to Marist College, a private college in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., as well as the University of London for a year, without financial aid btw.

O'Reilly's father was a frugal man and a wise investor. His son acknowledges in his book that his father bequeathed "a very nice chunk of change" to his mother upon his death in 1986. As for Dad never earning more than $35,000, what O'Reilly doesn't mention is that Dad retired in 1978, when a $35,000 income was the equivalent of $92,000 in today's dollars.

Note the unbiased source ;-): http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/spinfacts01.htm

[Mabus]

12. Two links

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/7/11/133950.shtml From the RW spinsters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_O'Reilly_(commentator) Wikipedia's information on him.

[Mabus]

15. Oh yeah, the wife Maureen McPhilmy

and once in a while Mauren McPhilmy-O'Reilly.

Interestingly enough, Bill O'Reilly is married to a woman named Maureen McPhilmy, vice president of DWJ Television, a company that specializes in producing commercials for big, rich, powerful corporate clients like Sun Microsystems and Kellogg's, and then passing these commercials off as genuine news stories on channels like Fox News. And, of course, O'Reilly makes a lot of money from one of the world's biggest media conglomerates to portray a regular guy -- $4 million a year, according to the Boston Globe. (oops, on edit: here's the link http://www.soundbitten.com/archives/week_2002_09_22.html#000025)


DWJ Television: http://www.dwjtv.com/

[hfojvt]

17. I think there is probably some of that data here

http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/
edit: oops, I see KurtNYC has already referenced this site.