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Summary: Arrogant and unsophisticated
Review: O'Reilly pretends to be a hard-hitting journalist when in fact he is a dogmatic and reactionary conservative with no modesty for self-promotion. This book, like everything he touches, is poisoned by his arrogance and narrow-mindedness.
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Summary: Blowhard spews
Review: If you like listening to conservatives rant about what is wrong with the world, then this is the book for you. Bill O'Reilly presents his opinions as facts, tries to build a sense of outrage against people that might disagree with him and lets people that disagree with him totally off the hook. Typically, O'Reilly will excoriate Clintons for "bad behavior". But in his diatribe against "youthful indisrections" never once does he have the courage to put George W Bush and his drunk drivings in his list of "criminals". Unfortunately, O'Reilly mixes fact with innuendo with urban legends and outright falsehoods making it difficult to believe him. The book ends up demonizing "liberals" which by O'Reilly's definition seems to include everyone to the left of Attila the Hun. Probably a fun read for those who like listening to right wing rant. However, don't expect to learn anything new by reading this book.
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Summary: Not a Fan But . . .
Review: I have to say up front that I am not a fan of Mr. O'Reilly. I feel he has become too much in love with who he perceives himself to be and takes himself way too seriously. I would prefer to see the old O'Reilly back. But, having said that, this was an interesting read. I was curious about how the "celebrities" he approached would respond to his questions and wasn't disappointed.
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Summary: Step Up To The Plate And Leave Your Handlers At Home
Review: If you are a fan of the FOX News show 'The O'Reilly Factor," then you will love this book. It is a compilation of his "best" interviews in the 'No Spin Zone' segment of the show where the guest is compelled to answer O'Reilly's interrogation without the "spin" politicians are famous for. There is an obvious parallel between O'Reilly's No Spin Zone and Pat Buchanan's Crossfire days. The collection of interviews presented in this short, very readable book comprise O'Reilly's glossary of controversy: he dissects Al Sharpton, James Carville, Dan Rather, Puff Daddy, Susan Sarandon, Sheldon Cohen and others. Each interview involves a headline topic: rap music lyrics, Jesse Jackson's foundation's tax status, the death penalty. O'Reilly is a good interviewer, he prepares and knows his topic - but often his guests are not good counterpunchers. Much of O'Reilly's hype is designed to boost his show's ratings; but so what. He won't deny it - no spin. This book which you will read in one sitting(unless you're not a fan) sounds so much like the TV show. There are those who believe O'Reilly is a nascent politician waiting for the right time and right election. If so, this book gives everyone a good look at the "candidate's" positions.
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Summary: No Spin is Refreshing & Informative
Review: This is a great read for anyone who is interested in Bill's viewpoints and approaches. It is an easy read (1 day) and makes the reader really put on his/her thinking cap. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who is interested in an open and honest approach to world topics, events and people. Enjoy!
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Summary: THE O'REILLY FACTOR IS SUPERB!
Review: I found myself reading this book and nodding my head in agreement on almost every page. If you like hard-nosed common sense with an emphasis on facts, then you are going to love this book. With all of the self-congratulating Hollywood media darlings who look down their ivory-towered noses at the rest of us, it is positively refreshing to hear a guy speak like Bill O'Reilly does. Just as in his television program, he pulls no punches in the pages of this book lambasting and lampooning the truly ridiculous in America and the world. If you scratch your head wondering where the straight-talking, patriotic Americans have gone, take a look at this book. I can't wait to read his newest, "The No-Spin Zone!"
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Summary: It's not bad, but...
Review: ...O'Reiley's ego, admittedly overblown, was simply misplaced a lot of the time. He can't seem to stop saying how hard hitting he is, how great and amazing his show is, and how THE ZONE causes fear among its unfortunate entrants. It's annoying to hear him say (and I'm paraphrasing) "little did he know he was walking into one of my amazing, ultra-incredible, supercallafrajulisticexpealadocious ambushes, HA HA HA HA HA!!! Which is followed by a plesant exchange of disagreeing nicities, and concluded with O'Reilly proclaiming (again paraphrasing) "Did you see that (...)??? I knocked him the (...) out of the ring with my ultra-brilliant fraganockle Senate-Whipping witt!!!
That being said, the substance of the book is actually quite interesting, and it's nice to be able to get a bead on Bill "O" outside of the soundbytes and interuptions mandated by the constraints of TV. I am actually a fan of O'Reiley, and his show is a welcome breath of fresh air on an otherwise liberal (Yes Dan Rather, I said Liberal, and in the leftest, bleeding-heart, tree-hugging, crime-excusing, Clinton-loving way) media. My recommendation: Read the book; it's good. (...)
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Summary: spinning out of control
Review: Yes, this is "no-spin"... if you consider the image of a TV pundit striding the globe as a righteous firebreathing collossus of integrity and truth "no spin." But at least O'Reilly has used his prodigious gifts and energies to expose the true villain of the War on Terrorism: George Clooney. One might almost think that O'Reilly was interested in celebrities over hard news because such blowhard feuds make for good ratings... but that would be spin, which is, of course, unthinkable in O'Reilly's pristine, truthseeking world of basic calbe television -- where all of us turn for ultimate purity and truth.
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Summary: The Truth
Review: Anything by Bill O'Reilly is an automatic piece of garbage. He isn't capable of writing (?) anything else. He is too self-centered to actually focus an another subject to produce a book.
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Summary: Best book I have read.
Review: Bill O'Reilly takes the passive and creates hard truth. He doesn't rehash anything and sticks to the facts at hand, forgoing "opinion". I have the utmost respect for a person who stands up for what he believes and fears none, yet stays open to more facts added, and will change his thinking based on those facts. The book was full of his "No Spin" truth. I think he is a grand writer.His interviews with these folks were impeccable.
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