New Yorker Does O'Really...really, really well

[warrens]

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060327fa_fact

Long read, but worth it.

[rusty_parts2001]

1. Interest analysis

Although I wouldn't have wasted the ink on so trivial a matter as Mr. Falafel. Mr. Falafel is in simply a bully, who uses as foils child molesters to fill a half hour of wasted airtime.

[Midnight Rambler]

2. Those Who Tresspass...

I used to associate that with the embarrassingly bad porn from the audio clip they would always play on AAR. Based on that, I thought it was a cheap harlequin-type novel. Reading these excerpts though, it's clear that Falafel Boy has bigger issues than just being a perverted old man.

"In 1998, after the launch of “The O’Reilly Factor,” but before superstardom, he published a thriller called “Those Who Trespass,” which is his most ambitious and deeply felt piece of writing. “Those Who Trespass” is a revenge fantasy, and it displays extraordinarily violent impulses. A tall, b.s.-intolerant television journalist named Shannon Michaels, the “product of two Celtic parents,” is pushed out by Global News Network after an incident during the Falkland Islands War, and then by a local station, and he systematically murders the people who ruined his career. He starts with Ron Costello, the veteran correspondent who stole his Falkland story:

The assailant’s right hand, now holding the oval base of the spoon, rocketed upward, jamming the stainless stem through the roof of Ron Costello’s mouth. The soft tissue gave way quickly and the steel penetrated the correspondent’s brain stem. Ron Costello was clinically dead in four seconds."

Earlier in the article, they discuss how a lot of his anger towards the media comes from his days at CBS, being snubbed by Bob Schieffer during the Falklans Islands War. Then he writes this shit. What a biter, twisted fuck.

[Faygo Kid]

3. Thanks. Softball stuff for O'Reilly. He will like this.

Backs up his phony tough guy persona. A bully? Yeah, but one that stands up for the "little guy." BS. Another Bush shill who does it slightly differently than Rush, Hannity, but the message is still the same: Fool the public, advance the power of the powerful. Disappointing article, at best.

[Nostradammit]

4. Really? I think it makes him look like a total buffoon

And constantly points out that his star done faded.

I pictured the veins on his neck bulging as he reads it. The digs were subtle, but deep.

No television host’s career lasts forever, and it may be that O’Reilly is too hot, too close to entertainment, to maintain his position as long as a network anchorman might. O’Reilly has been able to reach the top of the cable-news ratings and stay there—and to turn the deep and determined enmity of the left to his advantage—by relentlessly reminding his audience of how much the left hates him. This baroque period of O’Reilly’s is partly circumstantial: it’s hard to be straight-ahead if you’re essentially oppositional and the people you like are in power, if the guests you most want will not appear on your show, and if it’s nearly impossible to demonstrate the existence of the trends you have made it your mission to oppose."

[Javaman]

5. I can't wait till o'lielly starts panicing...

his ratings are slowly going down. It will be amusing to see what sort of tact he will take, in a desperate attempt, to get them back up.

I predict more of the usual but with a glaze of insanity to it. The paranoid delusion that the world is out to get him, or that the owners of the station think he's "to controversial" or that the lefties have smeared him.

:popcorn: