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Over the years, there have been several issues highlighted in American political commentator Bill O'Reilly's print and broadcast work. He has drawn criticism from several Analysis of Bill O'Reilly and his methods[edit]Indiana University study[edit]In early 2007, researchers from the Indiana University School of Journalism published a report in the academic journal Journalism Studies that analyzed the Talking Points Memo segment. O'Reilly criticized the study, asserting that "the terms 'conservative,' 'liberal,' 'left,' 'right,' 'progressive,' 'traditional' and 'centrist' were considered Fox News producer Ron Mitchell Marvin Kitman and his O'Reilly biography[edit]In January 2007, St. Martin's Press released the biography The Man Who Would Not Shut Up: The Rise of Bill O'Reilly, written by longtime Newsday TV critic Marvin Kitman. O'Reilly initially cooperated with the author by giving him 29 interviews. According to Kitman, O'Reilly was going to help promote and publicize the book until, just prior to publication, they had a disagreement over the inclusion of a chapter covering Andrea Mackris' 2004 sexual harassment lawsuit against O'Reilly.[8][dead link] After the book came out with the chapter included, Kitman asserted that O'Reilly, In an interview with Keith Olbermann, Kitman criticized O'Reilly as "kind of a hypocrite" by pointing out O'Reilly's belief that journalists should not attempt to flatter or indulge the people they cover. FAIR's Peter Hart[edit]Peter Hart, a media analyst for the progressive Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, co-authored The Oh Really Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly.[12] In the 2004 documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, Hart states that The O'Reilly Factor is a "perfect example" of what is wrong with Fox News, alleging that the Republican Party gets favored treatment over the Democrat Misleading Information and Selective Edits[edit]
On the June 24, 2004, law professor David D. Cole told Franken also criticized O'Reilly for alleged selective O'Reilly has also been criticized for interview style such as when he and Congressman Barney Frank got into a very heated argument during a discussion of the ongoing financial crisis, [23][24][25] and when he cut off the mic Critics and rivals[edit]O'Reilly has been involved in numerous controversies and rivalries with various people and organizations. Some of the more notable are Al Franken, George Soros, Bill Moyers of PBS and Keith Olbermann. Media Matters for America[edit]Media Matters for America describes itself as a politically progressive, web-based, non-profit organization that reports and criticizes what it describes as "conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."[30] O'Reilly is often the subject of Media Matters' online reports. O'Reilly has referred to Media Matters as "smear merchants," and "the most vile, despicable human beings on the planet," and has expressed distaste for the site he claims is funded by George Soros.[31] Media Matters maintains that it has never received funding from Soros "either directly or through another organization."[32] Al Franken[edit] Al Franken's 2003 book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look At the Right included a picture of O'Reilly on the cover and a chapter devoted to him inside. In his book, Franken accused O'Reilly of distorting facts both to serve conservative politics and to improve his public image. Prior to the release of the book, Fox News sued Franken for trademark infringement over the use of the phrase "fair and balanced" in the book's title. In an interview with Time, O'Reilly was asked if he "regrets pushing the lawsuit against Al Franken", to which he replied, "Not at all."[33] When the case reached court, the presiding judge denied Fox's request for injunctive relief.[34] Fox then dropped the suit. Keith Olbermann[edit]Olbermann's show Countdown on MSNBC, which airs opposite The O'Reilly Factor, is highly critical of O'Reilly. Olbermann frequently names O'Reilly in the "Worst Persons in the World" segment of the program. Notable controversies[edit]Bill O'Reilly has been involved in several controversies throughout the years. American Red Cross and the United Way[edit]After the September 11 terrorist attacks, O'Reilly devoted substantial time on his television show and wrote pieces accusing the United Way of America and American Red Cross of failing to deliver millions of dollars in donated money, raised by the organizations in the name of the disaster, to the families of those killed in the attacks.[35] O'Reilly claimed that the organizations misrepresented their intentions for the money being raised by not distributing all of the 9/11 relief fund to the victims.[36] Actor George Clooney responded to O'Reilly's claims, accusing O'Reilly of misstating facts (including confusing the United Way with the Red Cross), sloppy reporting and harming the relief effort by inciting "panic" among potential donors.[37] Congressional hearings were called on the matter and an investigation by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer took place. Bernadette Healey, the president of the Red Cross, resigned shortly thereafter.[38] In a statement before the House Ways and Means Committee in November 2001, Congressman J.D. Hayworth asserted that media pressure, most notably from O'Reilly, helped cause the Red Cross to increase payments to affected people and helped cause other charities to participate in an oversight database established by Spitzer.[39] Harlem restaurant comments[edit]On the September 19, 2007 edition of The Radio Factor, prior to having a discussion about racial stereotypes with fellow Fox News commentator and author Juan Williams,[40] O'Reilly mentioned a lunch he had with Rev. Al Sharpton at Sylvia's restaurant in Harlem. Before Williams joined the discussion, he said that he "couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship." Later on the show, while discussing how white America feels that gangsta rappers dominate black culture, Williams stated, "Oh, and it’s just so awful. It’s just so awful because, I mean, it’s literally the sewer come to the surface, and now people take it that the sewer is the whole story", to which O'Reilly responded, "That’s right. That’s right. There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea".[41][42][43] O'Reilly also said, "I think that black Americans are starting to think more and more for themselves, getting away from the Sharptons and the Jacksons and people trying to lead them into a race-based culture. They're just trying to figure it out. 'Look, I can make it. If I work hard and get educated, I can make it.'"[44] Roland S. Martin of CNN said that the notion that black people are just now starting to value education is "ridiculous" and that the notion that black people let Sharpton or Jackson think for them is "nuts". He suggested that O'Reilly's view was "based upon a stereotype" and called on O'Reilly and others who think like him to "wake up".[45] Karl Frisch, spokesman for Media Matters, said O'Reilly's comments were "ignorant and racially charged." O'Reilly responded in his Talking Points Memo that he believed that Media Matters took him out of context. He defended his comments by saying, "It was an attempt to tell the radio audience that there is no difference black, white, we’re all Americans. The stereotypes they see on television are not true."[citation needed] O'Reilly said, "Media Matters distorted the entire conversation and implied I was racist for condemning racism."[46]
On the Today show, host Matt Lauer said, "I thought Bill O'Reilly was saying that we should not be surprised." He said O'Reilly's point is that "the small group of people" who think that certain rappers represent all African Americans "need to get out and live life a little bit". Lauer later speculated that O'Reilly would want to get "a do-over" and phrase his comments differently.[49] Following the controversy, Jesse Jackson made his first appearance on the O'Reilly Factor.[50] Jackson asked O'Reilly what he had intended by his comments and said that "to underestimate the civility of black people was offensive" but that the controversy over O'Reilly's remarks had obscured other, more important issues.[51] Controversy about O'Reilly's childhood home and upbringing[edit]O'Reilly has long said that his inspiration for speaking up for average Americans, or what he calls "the folks", are his working-class roots. He has pointed to his boyhood home in Levittown, New York as a credential. In an interview with The Washington Post, O'Reilly's mother said that her family lived in Westbury,[52] which is a few miles from Levittown. Citing this interview, Al Franken, Michael Kinsley, and others have accused O'Reilly of distorting his background to create a more working-class image. O'Reilly has countered that The Washington Post misquoted his mother,[53] and he said his mother still lives in his childhood home, which was built by William Levitt. O'Reilly placed a copy of the house's mortgage, which shows a Levittown postal address, on his website. Levittown was redrawn into a squarish shape[54] to conform with the 11756 ZIP code, which was introduced in 1963. After this time the O'Reilly home was located in Westbury. On a 2005 episode of The Al Franken Show, Franken invited a Long Island historian onto the show, and she said that O'Reilly's statement about having lived in "the Westbury section of Levittown" was generally accurate and that the house could fairly be described as being in either town. She also said that O'Reilly's neighborhood was not the "hardscrabble" environment he suggested it was.[55] O'Reilly has also said, "You don't come from any lower than I came from on an economic scale"[56] and that his father "never earned more than $35,000 a year in his life." Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting has calculated that adjusted for inflation, $35,000 in 1978 would be worth over $90,000 in 2001 dollars.[57] O'Reilly has retorted that his father's $35,000 income only came at the end of his long career, at which point O'Reilly would have been long independent of his parents. [58] References[edit]
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The first known protest occured during a February 10th townhall meeting conducted by Obama in Fort Myers, Florida[1] The next major protest occurred in Seattle, Washington on February 16th, the day before a new spending bill was signed into law.[2] February 27th marked the next major date as the people of St. Louis showed their disapproval by dumping tea into the Mississippi River.[3] The day also marked the first mass protests which took place in Nashville,[4] Tampa,[5] Omaha,[6] Denver,[7] Lansing,[8] Fort Worth, Texas,[9][10] and right outside the White House in Washington, D.C..[11] The last tea party to occur in February was held the next day in San Diego and was organized as part of the "nationwide Chicago Tea Party" to protest the stimulus package.[12] March saw the second mass protest as Salt Lake City,[13] Tulsa, and Oklahoma City all saw demonstrations on March 6th,[14] with another in Harrisburg the next day. The protest in Harrisburg marked one of the few protests condemning both parties.[15] The Ides of March saw the next rally as Cincinatti voiced it's unhappiness with the national government's programs.[16][17] Two subsequent protests occurred on the 21st and 22nd in Raleigh[18][19][20] and Orlando respectively with the latter introducing the "American Tea Party Anthem" which has since been adopted by other protest groups.[21][22] The "Republican Proffessionals" opened up the month of April with the next major event. The 2nd saw a gathering in Scottsdale, Arizona and heard Barry Goldwater Jr. speak.[23] The first reported college protest occurred in colonial fashion just 9 days later on April 11th at The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.[24] Four days later, April 15th, marked the first nationwide Tea party as people gathered for Tax Day in over 750 cities across the US to protest.[25] Future national rallies are planned for July 4th, independence day, and a march on D.C. is planned on September 12th. [26][27][28] |
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Allegations of "astroturfing" first surfaced in a Playboy article in March 2009. The article was removed after libel claims, but no legal action materialized. The authors repeated and elaborated the allegations elsewhere.[29][30] In April 2009, the blog Think Progress stated that most of the 2009 protests were conservative lobbyist created "astroturf" projects and not spontaneous grassroots protests. Instead, Think Progress contended, the protests were nationally coordinated and organized by Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks.[31] Economist Paul Krugman picked up the story in his April 12 New York Times op-ed column, writing that, "The tea parties don’t represent a spontaneous outpouring of public sentiment. They’re AstroTurf (fake grass roots) events, manufactured by the usual suspects. In particular, a key role is being played by FreedomWorks, an organization run by Richard Armey...and supported by the usual group of right-wing billionaires." The Indypendent covered the story as did Steve Leser on OpEdNews.[.[32][33] On April 15, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi agreed commenting that the "initiative was from the high end" and "It's astroturfing...to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class." [34] On the same day, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow commented, saying that "corporate-funded PR shops and lobbying groups have done a lot of the organizing and promotion for these events...It‘s disguising a formal top-down organized paid for things as if it‘s some spontaneous grassroots event."[35] Participants vehemently deny the astroturfing charge. According to Atlantic Monthly, the three main groups that provide guidance and organization for the protests FreedomWorks, dontGO, and Americans for Prosperity state that the demonstrations are an organic movement.[36] Organizer Glenn Reynolds argued in The New York Post that: "These aren't the usual semiprofessional protesters who attend antiwar and pro-union marches. These are people with real jobs; most have never attended a protest march before. They represent a kind of energy that our politics hasn't seen lately, and an influx of new activists."[37]
Scjessey middle paragraph alternate[edit]In April 2009, the blog Think Progress stated that most of the 2009 protests were conservative lobbyist-created "astroturf" projects and not spontaneous grassroots protests. Instead, Think Progress contended, the protests were nationally coordinated and organized by Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks.[38] The story was picked up in a New York Times op-ed column by economist Paul Krugman, writing that "the tea parties don't represent a spontaneous outpouring of public sentiment. They're AstroTurf (fake grass roots) events, manufactured by the usual suspects. In particular, a key role is being played by FreedomWorks, an organization run by Richard Armey." On April 15, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi agreed, saying "it's not really a grassroots movement. It's astroturf by some of the wealthiest people in America to keep the focus on tax cuts for the rich instead of for the great middle class."[39] On the same day, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow commented, saying that "corporate-funded PR shops and lobbying groups have done a lot of the organizing and promotion for these events. That's controversial because it's astroturfing. It's disguising a formal top-down organized paid for things as if it's some spontaneous grassroots event."[40] Diffs[edit]Allegations of "astroturfing" first surfaced in a Playboy article in March 2009. The article was removed In Participants vehemently deny the astroturfing charge. According to Atlantic Monthly, the three main groups that provide guidance and organization for the protests FreedomWorks, dontGO, and Americans for Prosperity state that the demonstrations are an organic movement.[36] Organizer Glenn Reynolds argued in The New York Post that: "These aren't the usual semiprofessional protesters who attend antiwar and pro-union marches. These are people with real jobs; most have never attended a protest march before. They represent a kind of energy that our politics hasn't seen lately, and an influx of new activists."[48] Bridgett Wagner of the Heritage Foundation, a think tank, has compared the protests to the tax revolts of the 1970s and 1980s, which included the successful Proposition 13 in California that capped property taxes.[49] Jeremi Suri, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, viewed them as "not dissimilar from what we had in 2003 with the anti-war protests, where a lot of people were uncomfortable with the war, but also uncomfortable with the anti-war position, recognizing there are terrorists out there."[26] |
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George Tiller[edit]George Tiller, a controversial abortion clinic doctor, was shot dead on Sunday, May 31, 2009 Tiller was first discussed on The O'Reilly Factor on February 25, 2005. Subsequently Tiller was discussed in at least 28 episodes before his death. On the show he was sometimes described as "Tiller the Baby Killer" and O'Reilly warned of what Tiller would face on "judgment day".[51] On November 3, 2006, O'Reilly featured an exclusive segment on O'Reilly denied that his criticism of Tiller incited the violence, defending his coverage saying "every single thing we said about Tiller was true, and my analysis was based on those facts". O'Reilly also denounced the action saying "clear-thinking Americans should condemn" the killing. Civil rights activist Burt Neuborne said that speech such as O'Reilly's does not legally qualify as incitement and that calling it incitement rather than political speech diminishes "the ability to speak vigorously".[53][54] [55] |
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- ^ St. Louis riverfront draws rally against Obama stimulus plan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 27, 2009
- ^ Protesters bemoan stimulus funds at Tenn. Capitol, February 28, 2009, Associated Press
- ^ 'Tampa Tea Party' Pours Scorn On Stimulus Package, The Tampa Tribune, 27 February, 2009
- ^ Group Targets Mortgage Bailouts In 'Tea Party' Protest, KETV, February 27, 2009
- ^ Ayn Rand stars at Denver stimulus ‘tea party’ protest, Colorado Independent, February 28, 2009
- ^ Lively crowd protests Obama in Lansing, Detroit Free Press, February 27, 2009
- ^ Fort Worth 'tea party' planned to protest billions in stimulus spending, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 20, 2009
- ^ Hundreds rally in Fort Worth against Obama stimulus program, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 27, 2009
- ^ DC Tea Party thrown at the White House, Washington Examiner February 27, 2009
- ^ Hundreds Flock Waterfront For Anti-Stimulus Rally, 10News, February 28, 2009
- ^ Protesters angry about Obama's plan to help economy, KSL-TV, March 6, 2009
- ^ Tea Party draws hundreds, March 11, 2009, Tulsa Beacon
- ^ Tea Party protests ongoing bailout, March 8, 2009, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- ^ "Events". Cincinnati Tea Party. 2009-04-15. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
- ^ Cincinnati Tea Party Demonstrates Downtown, March 15, 2009, The Cincinnati Post/Kentucky Post
- ^ Local group protests Obama's stimulus plan, WRAL-TV, March 22, 2009
- ^ Pork fried at Capitol protest, The News & Observer, March 22, 2009
- ^ Raleigh Holds 'Tea Party' To Protest Government, Raleigh Telegram, March 25, 2009
- ^ "Tea Party" Song Becomes YouTube Hit. Newsblaze. Published March 23, 2009.
- ^ King, Andrea Shea (2009-04-14). ""American Tea Party Anthem Singer Lloyd Marcus: 'This whole thing is Rush Limbaugh's fault.'"". Big Hollywood. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
- ^ GOP holds 'tea party' stimulus protest in Valley, Arizona Republic, April 3, 2009
- ^ Ralliers brave rain, cold to protest gov't spending, Daily Press (Virginia), April 11, 2009
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- ^ Lobbyists planning teaparties. By Lee Fang. Think Progress. Published April 4, 2009.
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- ^ Leser, Steven (April 14, 2009). "Tea Parties are a Sham and a Fraud – Part 3". OpEdNews. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
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- ^ Lobbyists planning teaparties. By Lee Fang. Think Progress. Published April 4, 2009.
- ^ Of Tea Parties fake and real. By Arun Gupta. The Indypendent. Published April 13, 2009.
- ^ Leser, Steven (April 14, 2009). "Tea Parties are a Sham and a Fraud – Part 3". OpEdNews. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
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