The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life Summary and Reviews

The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life
by Bill O'Reilly

The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life
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Author: Bill O'Reilly
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-03-12
ISBN: 0767905296
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Broadway

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Book Review: A Dangerous and Narrow Pamphlet
Summary: 1 Stars

The O'Reilly Factor is a dangerous little book. It is not that it exposes any unknown truths or reveals the evils in people, politics and business but that its attempts at logic and making conclusions are thin, assumptive and wide open to attacks.

It is particularly interesting that O'Reilly believes his own political leanings would be a mystery to the reader. The author is clearly a conservative and right wing man. There is little effort to explore any subject beyond its surface and many of the blunt conclusions are based on limited if not irrelevant data or observations. Issues that are often 99% gray are defined by O'Reilly in black and white terms.

Mr. O'Reilly should not have meant this brief book to be a serious examination of the subjects each chapter addresses and his attempt to address them in such a narrow fashion is simply dangerous. The idea of agreeing or disagreeing with Mr. O'Reilly almost becomes mute seeing that so many of the conclusions have little accompanying reasoning. Even his opinions on raising children seem terribly out of date and of limited value. Ideas such as teaching children to maintain good grooming and to have good table manners fall far short of more serious and relevant ideas such as promoting self-awareness and critical thinking and humanity.

The book is not a serious critical or intellectual effort and ultimately its only value in being read is to remind one not to look at things so plainly or narrowly and that the real world is much more complicated than the one Mr. O'Reilly occupies. It is a further contribution to the decreasing quality of dialogue in the United States and serves to shrink even further the lowest common denominator of thought.

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