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Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)

February 15, 2024

William James O'Reilly Jr.[1] (born September 10, 1949) is an American conservative commentator,[2][3] journalist, author, and television host.

Bill O'Reilly
O'Reilly in 2010
Born
William James O'Reilly Jr.

(1949-09-10) September 10, 1949 (age 74)
New York City, U.S.
EducationMarist College (BA)
Boston University (MA)
Harvard University (MPA)
Occupations
  • Television host
  • political commentator
  • author
Years active1975–present
Political partyRepublican (before 2001)
Independence (2001–present)
Spouse
Maureen McPhilmy
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(m. 1996; div. 2011)​
Children2
Websitebilloreilly.com

O'Reilly's broadcasting career began during the late 1970s and 1980s, when he reported for local television stations in the United States and later for CBS News and ABC News. He anchored the tabloid television program Inside Edition from 1989 to 1995. O'Reilly joined the Fox News Channel in 1996 and hosted The O'Reilly Factor until 2017. The O'Reilly Factor had been the highest-rated cable news show for 16 years, and he was described by media analyst Howard Kurtz as "the biggest star in the 20-year history at Fox News" at the time of his ousting.[4][5][6][7][8]

In early 2017, The New York Times reported that he and Fox News had paid five women approximately $13 million to settle various sexual misconduct lawsuits, which led to the network terminating O'Reilly's employment and him being dropped by the United Talent Agency and literary agency WME.[9] Since 2020 O'Reilly has hosted a show entitled, No Spin News on Newsmax. He also has a podcast with the same name.[10][11][12][13][9] He is the author of numerous New York Times best selling books and hosted The Radio Factor (2002–2009).[14]

Early life and education

O'Reilly was born on September 10, 1949,[1] at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan to parents William James Sr. and Winifred Angela (née Drake) O'Reilly from Brooklyn and Teaneck, New Jersey, respectively.[15] He is of Irish descent with a small degree of English (Colonial American) ancestry.[16] Some of his father's ancestors lived in County Cavan, Ireland, since the early eighteenth century, and on his mother's side he has ancestry from Northern Ireland.[17] The O'Reilly family lived in a small apartment in Fort Lee, New Jersey, when their son was born.[18] In 1951, his family moved to Levittown on Long Island.[19] O'Reilly has a sister, Janet.[20]

O'Reilly attended St. Brigid parochial school in Westbury and Chaminade High School, a private Catholic boys high school, in Mineola. His father wanted him to attend Chaminade, but O'Reilly wanted to attend W. Tresper Clarke High School, the public school most of his closest friends would attend.[21] He played Little League baseball and was the goalie on the Chaminade varsity hockey team.[22] During his high school years, he met future singer Billy Joel, whom O'Reilly described as a "hoodlum". O'Reilly recollected in an interview with Michael Kay on the YES Network show CenterStage that Joel "was in the Hicksville section—the same age as me—and he was a hood. He used to slick it [his hair] back like this. And we knew him, because his guys would smoke and this and that, and we were more jocks."[23]

After graduating from Chaminade in 1967, O'Reilly attended Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.[24] While at Marist, he was a punter in the National Club Football Association[25] and also wrote for the school's newspaper, The Circle. He was an honors student who majored in history. He spent his junior year of college abroad, attending Queen Mary College at the University of London.[26] He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1971.[27] He played semi-professional baseball during this time as a pitcher for the New York Monarchs.[28] After graduating from Marist College, O'Reilly moved to Miami where he taught English and history at Monsignor Pace High School from 1970 to 1972.[29] He returned to school in 1973[30] and earned a Master of Arts degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University.[27] While attending Boston University, he was a reporter and columnist for various local newspapers and alternative news weeklies, including the Boston Phoenix, and did an internship in the newsroom of WBZ-TV.[31] In 1995, he attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and received a master of public administration degree in 1996.[27]

Marist College had bestowed an honorary degree upon O'Reilly, which would later be revoked once the sexual abuse allegations came to light.[32]

Broadcasting career

1973–1980: Early career

O'Reilly's early television news career included reporting and anchoring positions at WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he also reported the weather. At WFAA-TV in Dallas, O'Reilly was awarded the Dallas Press Club Award for excellence in investigative reporting. He then moved to KMGH-TV in Denver, where he won a local Emmy Award for his coverage of a skyjacking.[33] O'Reilly also worked for WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut from 1979 to 1980.[34] In 1980, O'Reilly anchored the local news-feature program 7:30 Magazine at WCBS-TV in New York. Soon after, as a WCBS News anchor and correspondent, he won his second local Emmy, which was for an investigation of corrupt city marshals.

1982–1986: CBS News and return to local television

In 1982, he became a CBS News correspondent,[35] covering the wars in El Salvador on location and in the Falkland Islands from his base in Buenos Aires, Argentina. O'Reilly left CBS over a dispute concerning the uncredited use in a report by Bob Schieffer of footage of a riot in response to the military junta's surrender shot by O'Reilly's crew in Buenos Aires shortly after the conclusion of the war.[36][37]

After departing CBS News in 1982, O'Reilly joined WNEV-TV (now WHDH) in Boston, as a weekday reporter, weekend anchor and later as host of the station's local news magazine New England Afternoon. In 1984, O'Reilly went to KATU in Portland, Oregon, where he remained for nine months, then he returned to Boston and joined WCVB-TV as reporter and columnist-at-large for NewsCenter 5.[38][39]

1986–1989: ABC News

In 1986, O'Reilly moved to ABC News, where, during his three-year tenure, he received two Emmy Awards and two National Headliner Awards for excellence in reporting. He had delivered a eulogy for his friend Joe Spencer, an ABC News correspondent who died in a helicopter crash on January 22, 1986, en route to covering the 1985–86 Hormel strike. ABC News president Roone Arledge, who attended Spencer's funeral, decided to hire O'Reilly after hearing the eulogy.[40] At ABC, O'Reilly hosted daytime news briefs that previewed stories to be reported on the day's World News Tonight and worked as a general assignment reporter for ABC News programs, including Good Morning America, Nightline, and World News Tonight.[41]

1989–1995: Inside Edition

Main article: Inside Edition

In 1989, O'Reilly joined the nationally syndicated King World (now CBS Television Distribution)-produced Inside Edition, a tabloid-gossip television program in competition with A Current Affair.[27] He became the program's anchor three weeks into its run after the involvement of original anchor David Frost had ended.[42]

In 1995, former NBC News and CBS News anchor Deborah Norville replaced O'Reilly on Inside Edition; O'Reilly had expressed a desire to quit the show in July 1994.[43]

Viral video

On May 12, 2008, an outtake of O'Reilly ranting during his time at Inside Edition surfaced on YouTube.[44] The early 1990s video depicts O'Reilly yelling and cursing at his co-workers while having issues pre-recording the closing lines on his teleprompter, eventually yelling the phrase "Fuck it, we'll do it live!" before continuing the closing segment to his show.[45][46] The original video, titled "Bill O'Reilly Flips Out," was removed, but another user uploaded it once again the day after and retitled it "Bill O'Reilly Goes Nuts". Immediately after the video surfaced, O'Reilly acknowledged the video's existence, claiming that he was amusing his co-workers and said "I have plenty of much newer stuff... If you want to buy the tapes that I have, I'm happy to sell them to you."[47][48] The rant was later parodied by Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report[47][49] as well as Family Guy and by Trevor Noah on The Daily Show,[50] and was named one of Time's "Top 10 Celebrity Meltdowns".[51] In October 2008, Wednesday 13 named his first live album after a line in the rant.[50][52] In 2009, a "dance remix" of O'Reilly's rant was nominated for a Webby Award for "Best Viral Video"[53] but lost to "The Website Is Down: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude".[54]

1996–2017: The O'Reilly Factor

Main article: The O'Reilly Factor
 
O'Reilly interviewing President George W. Bush in 2010

In October 1996, O'Reilly was hired by Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of the then startup Fox News Channel, to anchor The O'Reilly Report.[55] The show was renamed The O'Reilly Factor after his friend and branding expert John Tantillo's remarks upon the "O'Reilly Factor" in any of the stories he told.[55][56][57] The program was routinely the highest-rated show of the three major U.S. 24-hour cable news television channels and began the trend toward more opinion-oriented prime-time cable news programming.[58] The show was taped late in the afternoon at a studio in New York City and aired every weekday on the Fox News Channel at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time and was rebroadcast at 11:00 p.m.

Progressive media monitoring organizations such as Media Matters and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting have criticized his reporting on a variety of issues, accusing him of distorting facts and using misleading or erroneous statistics.[59] In 2008, citing numerous inaccuracies in his reporting, MediaMatters for America awarded him its first annual "Misinformer of the Year" award.[60][61][62]

After the September 11 attacks, O'Reilly accused 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. He reported that the organizations misrepresented their intentions for the money being raised by not distributing all of the 9/11 relief fund to the victims. Actor George Clooney responded, accusing him of misstating facts and harming the relief effort by inciting "panic" among potential donors.[63]

 
O'Reilly at the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia in 2010

On August 27, 2002, O'Reilly called for all Americans to boycott Pepsi products,[64] saying that lyrics of Ludacris (then appearing in ads for Pepsi) glamorize a "life of guns, violence, drugs and disrespect of women". The next day, O'Reilly reported that Pepsi had fired Ludacris.[64] Two years later, Ludacris referenced O'Reilly in the song "Number One Spot" with the lyrics "Respected highly, hi, Mr. O'Reilly/Hope all is well, kiss the plaintiff and the wifey," in reference to his sexual-harassment suit with Andrea Mackris while married. In an interview with RadarOnline.com in 2010, Ludacris said he and O'Reilly had made amends after a conversation at a charity event.[65]

Speaking on ABC's Good Morning America on March 18, 2003, he promised that "[i]f the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean [of weapons of mass destruction] ... I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again."[66] In another appearance on the same program on February 10, 2004, he responded to repeated requests for him to honor his pledge: "My analysis was wrong and I'm sorry. I was wrong. I'm not pleased about it at all."[67] With regard to his trust in the government, he said, "I am much more skeptical of the Bush administration now than I was at that time."[68]

Beginning in 2005, he periodically denounced George Tiller, a Kansas-based physician who specialized in second- and third-trimester abortions,[69] often referring to him as "Tiller the baby killer".[70] Tiller was murdered on May 31, 2009, by Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion activist.[71] Critics such as Salon's Gabriel Winant have asserted that his anti-Tiller rhetoric helped to create an atmosphere of violence around the doctor.[72] Jay Bookman of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote that O'Reilly "clearly went overboard in his condemnation and demonization of Tiller" but added that it was "irresponsible to link O'Reilly" to Tiller's murder.[73] O'Reilly responded to the criticism by saying "no backpedaling here ... every single thing we said about Tiller was true."[74]

 
O'Reilly at Bagram Air Force Base with A1C Jeffrey Jamieson in 2007

In early 2007, researchers from the Indiana University School of Journalism published a report that analyzed his "Talking Points Memo" segment. Using analysis techniques developed in the 1930s by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis, the study concluded that he used propaganda, frequently engaged in name calling, and consistently cast non-Americans as threats and never "in the role of victim or hero".[75][76] He responded, asserting that "the terms 'conservative', 'liberal', 'left', 'right', 'progressive', 'traditional' and 'centrist' were considered name-calling if they were associated with a problem or social ill." The study's authors said that those terms were only considered name-calling when linked to derogatory qualifiers.[77] Fox News producer Ron Mitchell wrote an op-ed in which he accused the study's authors of seeking to manipulate their research to fit a predetermined outcome. Mitchell argued that by using tools developed for examining propaganda, the researchers presupposed that he propagandized.[78]

On April 19, 2017, Fox News announced that O'Reilly would not return to their primetime lineup amid public reporting on the tens of millions of dollars he paid to settle the sexual harassment claims of six women. The show continued, rebranded as The Factor, now hosted by Dana Perino.[11] On the same day, Fox announced that Tucker Carlson's show would be airing an hour earlier to take over O'Reilly's position and that The Five will replace Carlson's usual time at 9 p.m. with a new co-host, Jesse Watters.[79] After O'Reilly was fired, the financial markets responded positively to the decision by Fox News, and its parent company 21st Century Fox rose over two percent in the stock market the next day.[80]

Departure from Fox News

In April 2017, The New York Times reported that Fox News and O'Reilly had settled five lawsuits involving women who accused O'Reilly of misconduct.[81] After the settlements were reported, The O'Reilly Factor lost more than half its advertisers within a week;[82] almost 60 companies withdrew their television advertising from the show[83] amid a growing backlash against O'Reilly.[84][85] On April 11, O'Reilly announced he would take a two-week vacation and would return to the program on April 24; he normally took a vacation around Easter.[86] On April 19, Fox News announced that O'Reilly would not be returning to the network.[87][11] The program was subsequently renamed The Factor on April 19 and aired its last episode on April 21.[88]

O'Reilly later stated his regret that he did not "fight back" against his accusers the way Sean Hannity did when facing the loss of advertisers around the same time.[89]

2017–present: Post–Fox News career

O'Reilly launched a podcast called No Spin News on April 24, 2017, after his departure from Fox News.[90] In August 2017, O'Reilly began digitally streaming a video version of No Spin News.[91][92][93] In May 2017, O'Reilly began to appear as a recurring guest on Friday editions of the Glenn Beck Radio Program.[94] In June 2017, O'Reilly and Dennis Miller co-headlined the public speaking tour, "The Spin Stops Here".[95]

O'Reilly made his first appearance on Fox News since his ouster on September 26, 2017, being interviewed by Sean Hannity.[96] In 2019, O'Reilly started a 15-minute radio show, The O’Reilly Update.[97]

By 2020, simulcasts of O'Reilly's No Spin News show began to air on Newsmax TV.[98] No Spin News began airing on The First TV in June 2020.[99]

O'Reilly participated in a speaking tour with former president Donald Trump in December 2021, which he said "[provided] a never before heard inside view of his administration".[100]

Other appearances

Newspaper column

O'Reilly wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column through Creators Syndicate[101] that appeared in numerous newspapers, including the New York Post and the Chicago Sun-Times.[102] He discontinued the column at the end of 2013.

Radio ventures

Main article: The Radio Factor

From 2002 to 2009, he hosted a radio program called The Radio Factor that had more than 3.26 million listeners and was carried by more than 400 radio stations.[103] According to the talk radio industry publication Talkers Magazine, he was No. 11 on the "Heavy Hundred," a list of the 100 most important talk show hosts in America.[104]

In 2019, O'Reilly returned to radio with a daily 15-minute series The O'Reilly Update. The program airs during or near lunch hour on most stations in a time slot previously used by Paul Harvey.[105] In September 2020, O'Reilly began hosting a daily radio show on 77WABC titled Common Sense with Bill O’Reilly.[106]

The Daily Show

From 2001 to 2015, O'Reilly appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart fifteen times. Stewart also appeared as a guest various times on The O'Reilly Factor. In 2011, Stewart described O'Reilly as "the voice of reason on Fox News", comparing him to "the thinnest kid at fat camp".[107]

In 2012, Stewart joined O'Reilly in a debate for charity entitled, The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium at George Washington University.[108] The New York Times remarked that O'Reilly and Stewart "have been guests on each other’s programs since 2001" but "rarely agree on anything except their mutual respect for each other".[109] In 2014, Stewart debated him on the belief of white privilege. During the debate O'Reilly exclaimed, "You think I'm sitting here because I'm white? What are you, a moron? I'm sitting here because I'm obnoxious, not because I'm white!".[110]

In 2015, O'Reilly briefly appeared on Stewart's final show as host of The Daily Show. O'Reilly joked, "Have fun feeding your rabbits, quitter!"[111] O'Reilly also wrote a lengthy appreciation for Stewart in Deadline Hollywood writing, "[Stewart] will leave a void in the world of political satire. Undeniably, Jon Stewart was great at what he did. Whatever that was."[112]

Film and television appearances

O'Reilly made cameo appearances in the films An American Carol (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) and Man Down (2015).[113][114][115]

In 2010, he famously appeared on The View, where they asked O'Reilly his opinion on whether to remove the mosque near the 9/11 memorial site. O'Reilly responded saying, that he believed they should and during the heated discussion stated, "Muslims killed us on 9/11" to which Whoopi Goldberg, and Joy Behar walked off the set. Barbara Walters chided the other hosts, and stated, "You have just seen what should not happen. We should be able to have discussions without washing our hands and screaming and walking off stage. I love my colleagues, but that should not have happened."[116][117] He also made appearances on various talk and late night shows including, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

In 2013, he appeared at the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony where he gave tribute to jazz musician Herbie Hancock. O'Reilly's unexpected presence was not lost on the audience, as his appearance elicited audible gasps from the crowd to which O'Reilly responded, "I know I'm surprised too."[118][119] During his tribute to Hancock, O'Reilly stated, "Herbie is a true gentleman. His fame and his skill reflect the values of that have made this country great...It's that embracing of what is good in mankind that that infuses Hancock's music and makes him a national icon".[120][121]

Television projects

O'Reilly was an executive producer on many television projects including on made for television films based upon his books. This includes films, Killing Lincoln (2013), Killing Kennedy (2013), Killing Jesus (2015), and Killing Reagan (2016) which aired on National Geographic. O'Reilly received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Television Movie for Killing Kennedy and Killing Jesus.[122]

From 2015 to 2018, O'Reilly also served as an executive producer on the documentary series, Legends & Lies.[123]

Political views and media coverage

Main article: Political views of Bill O'Reilly
 
O'Reilly at Camp Striker, 2006

On The O'Reilly Factor and on his former talk-radio program, O'Reilly focused on news and commentary related to politics and culture.[124] O'Reilly has long said that he does not identify with any political ideology, writing in his book The O'Reilly Factor that the reader "might be wondering whether I'm conservative, liberal, libertarian, or exactly what ... See, I don't want to fit any of those labels, because I believe that the truth doesn't have labels. When I see corruption, I try to expose it. When I see exploitation, I try to fight it. That's my political position."[125] On December 6, 2000, the Daily News in New York reported, however, that he had been registered with the Republican Party in the state of New York since 1994. When questioned about this, he said that he was not aware of it and says he registered as an independent after the interview.[126] During a broadcast of The Radio Factor, O'Reilly said that there was no option to register as an independent voter; however, there was in fact a box marked "I do not wish to enroll in party."[127] Despite his remarks, many view him as a conservative figure.[124] A February 2009 Pew Research poll found that 66% of his television viewers identify themselves as conservative, 24% moderate, and 3% liberal.[128] A November 2008 poll by Zogby International found that O'Reilly was the second most trusted news personality, after Rush Limbaugh.[129]

In a 2003 interview with Terry Gross on National Public Radio, O'Reilly said:

I'm not a political guy in the sense that I embrace an ideology. To this day I'm an independent thinker, an independent voter, I'm a registered independent ... [T]here are certain fundamental things that this country was founded upon that I respect and don't want changed. That separates me from the secularists who want a complete overhaul of how the country is run.[130]

On a September 2007 edition of The Radio Factor, while having a discussion about race with fellow Fox News commentator and author Juan Williams about a meal he shared with Al Sharpton, O'Reilly said "You know when Sharpton and I walked in, it was like... big commotion and everything. But everybody was very nice. And I 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." He commented that no one in Sylvia's was "screaming 'M'Fer, I want more iced tea.'" He further added, "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.'"[131] The statement drew criticism from a number of places. 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".[132] Media Matters for America covered the story on a number of occasions.[133][134] O'Reilly responded, 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" and also called out Media Matters, claiming that "Media Matters distorted the entire conversation and implied I was racist for condemning racism."[135] Juan Williams said the criticism of O'Reilly was "rank dishonesty" and that the original comments "had nothing to do with racist ranting by anybody except by these idiots at CNN." Williams went on to say it was "frustrating" that the media try to criticize anyone who wanted to have an honest discussion about race.[136] In July 2016, Michelle Obama spoke of what it was like to live "in a house that was built by slaves" in reference to her time in the White House, with O'Reilly responding the slaves "were well-fed and had decent lodgings".[137] Following criticism he defended his comment by stating that the nation’s first president provided slaves with "meat, bread and other staples".[138]

O'Reilly has long said that his inspiration for speaking up for average Americans is 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,[20] which is a few miles from Levittown. Citing this interview, then liberal talk-show pundit Al Franken accused O'Reilly of distorting his background to create a more working-class image. O'Reilly countered that The Washington Post misquoted his mother[139] and that his mother still lives in his childhood home which was built by William Levitt. O'Reilly placed a copy of the house's mortgage on his website; the mortgage shows a Levittown postal address.[140] O'Reilly has also said, "You don't come from any lower than I came from on an economic scale"[141] and that his father, a currency accountant for an oil company,[142] "never earned more than $35,000 a year in his life". O'Reilly responded that his father's $35,000 income only came at the end of his long career.[143]

He was the main inspiration for comedian Stephen Colbert's satirical character on the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report, which featured Colbert in a "full-dress parody" of The Factor. On the show, Colbert referred to him as "Papa Bear".[144] He and Colbert exchanged appearances on each other's shows in January 2007.[145]

On May 10, 2008, he was presented with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Governors' Award at an Emmy awards show dinner.[146]

Disputed claims

George de Mohrenschildt claim

In his bestselling 2013 book Killing Kennedy and on Fox and Friends, O'Reilly claimed he was knocking at the front door of George de Mohrenschildt's daughter's home at the moment Mohrenschildt committed suicide and that he heard the shotgun blast:

In March of 1977, a young television reporter at WFAA in Dallas began looking into the Kennedy assassination. As part of his reporting, he sought an interview with the shadowy Russian professor who had befriended the Oswalds upon their arrival in Dallas in 1962. The reporter traced George de Mohrenschildt to Palm Beach, Florida and traveled there to confront him. At the time de Mohrenschildt had been called to testify before a congressional committee looking into the events of November 1963. As the reporter knocked on the door of de Mohrenschildt's daughter's home, he heard the shotgun blast that marked the suicide of the Russian, assuring that his relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald would never be fully understood. By the way, that reporter's name is Bill O'Reilly.

This claim has been disproven by former Washington Post editor Jefferson Morley, who cites audio recordings made by Gaeton Fonzi indicating O'Reilly was not present in Florida on the day of Mohrenschildt's suicide.[147][148]

War coverage claims

On February 19, 2015, David Corn from Mother Jones broke a story reporting a collection of inconsistencies of O'Reilly when recalling his experience covering the 1982 Falklands War.[37] On April 17, 2013, O'Reilly said on his show: "I was in a situation one time, in a war zone in Argentina, in the Falklands, (...)".[149] In his book, The No Spin Zone, he wrote: "You know that I am not easily shocked. I've reported on the ground in active war zones from El Salvador to the Falklands."[150] On a 2004 column on his website he wrote: "Having survived a combat situation in Argentina during the Falklands war, I know that life-and-death decisions are made in a flash."[151] Corn claimed O'Reilly was not in the Falklands, but in Buenos Aires, and that no American journalist was in the Islands during the conflict. He also pointed out that according to O'Reilly's own book, The No Spin Zone, he arrived in Buenos Aires soon before the war ended.[37] On February 20, 2015, O'Reilly said on his show, "David Corn, a liar, says that I exaggerated situations in the Falklands War" and that he never said he was on the Falkland Islands. O'Reilly went on to describe his experience in a riot in Buenos Aires the day Argentina surrendered.[152] David Corn replied that they didn't claim O'Reilly "exaggerated" but rather that there were contradictions between his accounts and the factual record and that the 2013 clip from his show proves O'Reilly did in fact say he was on the Falklands.[153] Corn told The New York Times: "The question is whether Bill O'Reilly was stating the truth when he repeatedly said that Argentine soldiers used real bullets and fired into the crowd of civilians and many were killed."[154]

In September 2009, during an interview he said he covered the riots in Buenos Aires on the day Argentina surrendered.[155]

During an interview with TheBlaze television network, O'Reilly said: "And if that moron [Corn] doesn't think it was a war zone in Buenos Aires, then he's even dumber than I think he is."[156] This characterization by O'Reilly was disputed by former CBS colleague Eric Engberg who was in Buenos Aires at the time and challenged his (O'Reilly's) description of the riot as a "combat situation". Engberg went on to say it was a moderate riot and he heard no "shots fired" and saw no "ambulances or tanks" in the streets.[157] The following week O'Reilly contradicted Engberg's claims, presenting archived CBS video of the riot that ensued after Argentine's surrender. The video appears to show riot police firing tear gas and plastic bullets toward the crowd; additionally, former NBC bureau chief Don Browne referred to the riot as an "intense situation" with many people hurt and tanks in the streets of Buenos Aires.[158]

The fallout from the coverage generated by the questioning of O'Reilly's reporting during the Falklands War led to questions of claims made by O'Reilly while in El Salvador and Northern Ireland. In his 2013 book, Keep it Pithy, O'Reilly wrote: "I've seen soldiers gun down unarmed civilians in Latin America, Irish terrorists kill and maim their fellow citizens in Belfast with bombs." In a 2005 radio program O'Reilly said he had "seen guys gun down nuns in El Salvador" and in 2012, on The O’Reilly Factor, said "I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head." O'Reilly and Fox News clarified that he had not been an eyewitness to any of those events but had just seen photographs of the murdered nuns and Irish bombings.[159][160]

Sexual harassment lawsuits

On October 13, 2004, O'Reilly sued Andrea Mackris, a former producer for The O'Reilly Factor, alleging extortion. O'Reilly claimed that Mackris had threatened a lawsuit unless he paid her more than $60 million. Later the same day, Mackris sued O'Reilly for sexual harassment, seeking $60 million in damages.[161] Her complaint alleged that O'Reilly called her engaging in a crude phone conversation.[162] On October 28, 2004, O'Reilly and Mackris reached an out-of-court settlement in which Mackris dropped her sexual-assault suit against O'Reilly and O'Reilly dropped his extortion claim against Mackris. The terms of the agreement are confidential,[163] but in 2017 The New York Times reported that O'Reilly had agreed to pay Mackris about $9 million and that they would issue a public statement that there had been "no wrongdoing whatsoever".[81]

After Fox News executive Roger Ailes was the subject of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by former Fox News coworker Gretchen Carlson, O'Reilly said in July 2016, that Ailes was a "target" as a "famous, powerful or wealthy person" and called him the "best boss I ever had".[164] After Ailes was fired and the network settled the lawsuit with Carlson, O'Reilly declined to comment further, saying that "for once in my life, I'm going to keep my big mouth shut."[165]

Shortly after Ailes was fired, Fox News settled a sexual harassment claim against O'Reilly with former Fox host Juliet Huddy. Huddy alleged that O'Reilly pursued a romantic relationship with her, and made lewd remarks. Legal fees in this case were settled and paid for by Fox News.[166] The settlement was worth $1.6 million.[81] In August 2016, former Fox host Andrea Tantaros filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News, claiming that O'Reilly made sexually suggestive comments to her.[167] Judge George B. Daniels dismissed the lawsuit in May 2018 and wrote that Tantaros' allegations were "primarily based on speculation and conjecture".[168]

The New York Times reported in April 2017 that O'Reilly and Fox News had settled five lawsuits against O'Reilly dating back to 2002. Previously, only the settlements to Mackris and Huddy were publicly reported; The Times reported that Fox hosts Rebecca Diamond and Laurie Dhue settled sexual harassment lawsuits in 2011 and 2016 respectively and junior producer Rachel Witlieb Bernstein settled with Fox in 2002 after accusing O'Reilly of verbal abuse. The amount paid to the women filing the complaints was estimated at $13 million.[81]

In October 2017, The New York Times reported that O'Reilly was also sued by former Fox News legal analyst Lis Wiehl for allegedly initiating a "non-consensual sexual relationship" with her.[9] O'Reilly paid Wiehl $32 million to confidentially settle the lawsuit, and when the details of this settlement were leaked, O'Reilly was dropped by the United Talent Agency.[169][170] His literary agent, WME, also announced that they would no longer represent him for future deals after the October report.[171][172]

Personal life

O'Reilly was married to Maureen E. McPhilmy, a public relations executive. The couple met in 1992, and their wedding took place in St. Brigid Parish of Westbury, New York, on November 2, 1996.[173] O'Reilly and McPhilmy have a daughter Madeline (b. 1998) and a son Spencer (b. 2003).[174]

The couple separated on April 2, 2010, and were divorced on September 1, 2011.[175]

In May 2015, court transcripts from O'Reilly's custody trial with ex-wife Maureen McPhilmy revealed an allegation of domestic violence.[176][177][178] Following this allegation, O'Reilly issued a statement through his attorney describing the account as "100% false" and declined to comment further in order "to respect the court-mandated confidentiality put in place to protect [his] children".[178][179] In February 2016, O'Reilly lost a bid for sole custody of both of his children.[180]

Bibliography

O'Reilly has authored or co-authored a number of books:

  • O'Reilly, Bill (1998). Those Who Trespass. Bancroft Press. ISBN 0-9631246-8-4.
  • O'Reilly, Bill (2000). The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life. Broadway Books. ISBN 0-7679-0528-8. (Reached No. 1 on the New York Times' Non-Fiction Best Seller list.)[181]
  • O'Reilly, Bill (2001). The No Spin Zone. Broadway Books. ISBN 0-7679-0848-1. (Reached No. 1 on the New York Times' Non-Fiction Best Seller list.)[181]
  • O'Reilly, Bill (2003). Who's Looking Out For You?. Broadway Books. ISBN 0-7679-1379-5. (Reached No. 1 on the New York Times' Non-Fiction Best Seller list.)[181]
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Charles Flowers (2004). The O'Reilly Factor For Kids: A Survival Guide for America's Families. Harper Entertainment. ISBN 0-06-054424-4. (Best-selling nonfiction children's book of 2005)[182]
  • O'Reilly, Bill (2006). Culture Warrior. Broadway Books. ISBN 0-7679-2092-9. (Reached No. 1 on the New York Times' Non-Fiction Best Seller list;[181] Achieved more than one million copies in print in its first three months)
  • O'Reilly, Bill (2007). Kids Are Americans Too. William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-06-084676-3.
  • O'Reilly, Bill (2008). A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity: A Memoir. Broadway Books. ISBN 978-0-7679-2882-3.
  • O'Reilly, Bill (2010). Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama. William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-06-195071-1.
  • O'Reilly, Bill (2011). Factor Words: A Collection of the O'Reilly Factor Favorite "Words of the Day". A Bill Me Inc. ISBN 978-1450789783.
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Martin Dugard (2011). Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-0-8050-9307-0.
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Dwight Jon Zimmerman (2012). Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever. New York: Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-0-8050-9675-0.
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Martin Dugard (2012). Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-0-8050-9666-8.
  • O'Reilly, Bill (2013). Kennedy's Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-0-8050-9802-0.
  • O'Reilly, Bill (2013). Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World. Crown Archetype. ISBN 978-0-385-34662-7.
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Martin Dugard (2013). Killing Jesus: A History. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-0-8050-9854-9.[183]
  • O'Reilly, Bill (2014). The Last Days of Jesus: His Life and Times. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-0-8050-9877-8.
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Martin Dugard (2014). Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-0-8050-9668-2.[184]
  • O'Reilly, Bill; David Fisher (2015). Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West. Henry Holt and Co.
  • O'Reilly, Bill (2015). Hitler's Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-1-62779-396-4.
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Martin Dugard (2015). Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 9781627792417.[185]
  • O'Reilly, Bill (2016). The Day the President Was Shot. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-1-62779-699-6.
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Martin Dugard (2016). Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-1-6277-9062-8.[186]
  • O'Reilly, Bill; James Patterson (2016). Give Please a Chance. Jimmy Patterson. ISBN 978-0316276887.[187]
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Bruce Feirstein (2017). Old School: Life in the Sane Lane. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-1-2501-3579-7.[188]
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Martin Dugard (2017). Killing England: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-1-6277-9064-2.[189]
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Martin Dugard (2018). Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 978-1-2501-6554-1.[190]
  • O'Reilly, Bill (2019). The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America. Thorndike Press. ISBN 978-1-4328-6935-9[191]
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Martin Dugard (2020). Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America. Henry Holt and Co. ISBN 9781627797047.
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Martin Dugard (2021). Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9781250273659.
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Martin Dugard (2022). Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9781250279255.
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Martin Dugard (2022). Killing the Legends: The Lethal Danger of Celebrity. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9781250283306.
  • O'Reilly, Bill; Martin Dugard (2023). Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem Massachusetts. [192]

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Further reading

  • Eriq, Gardner (March 5, 2019). "Fox News Beats Defamation Lawsuit From Bill O'Reilly Accuser". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 8, 2019.

External links

  • Official website
  • BillOReilly.com/No Spin News archive
  • Bill O'Reilly at IMDb
  • Appearances on C-SPAN

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bill, reilly, political, commentator, william, james, reilly, born, september, 1949, american, conservative, commentator, journalist, author, television, host, bill, reillyo, reilly, 2010bornwilliam, james, reilly, 1949, september, 1949, york, city, educationm. William James O Reilly Jr 1 born September 10 1949 is an American conservative commentator 2 3 journalist author and television host Bill O ReillyO Reilly in 2010BornWilliam James O Reilly Jr 1949 09 10 September 10 1949 age 74 New York City U S EducationMarist College BA Boston University MA Harvard University MPA OccupationsTelevision hostpolitical commentatorauthorYears active1975 presentPolitical partyRepublican before 2001 Independence 2001 present SpouseMaureen McPhilmy m 1996 div 2011 wbr Children2Websitebilloreilly wbr comO Reilly s broadcasting career began during the late 1970s and 1980s when he reported for local television stations in the United States and later for CBS News and ABC News He anchored the tabloid television program Inside Edition from 1989 to 1995 O Reilly joined the Fox News Channel in 1996 and hosted The O Reilly Factor until 2017 The O Reilly Factor had been the highest rated cable news show for 16 years and he was described by media analyst Howard Kurtz as the biggest star in the 20 year history at Fox News at the time of his ousting 4 5 6 7 8 In early 2017 The New York Times reported that he and Fox News had paid five women approximately 13 million to settle various sexual misconduct lawsuits which led to the network terminating O Reilly s employment and him being dropped by the United Talent Agency and literary agency WME 9 Since 2020 O Reilly has hosted a show entitled No Spin News on Newsmax He also has a podcast with the same name 10 11 12 13 9 He is the author of numerous New York Times best selling books and hosted The Radio Factor 2002 2009 14 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Broadcasting career 2 1 1973 1980 Early career 2 2 1982 1986 CBS News and return to local television 2 3 1986 1989 ABC News 2 4 1989 1995 Inside Edition 2 4 1 Viral video 2 5 1996 2017 The O Reilly Factor 2 5 1 Departure from Fox News 2 6 2017 present Post Fox News career 3 Other appearances 3 1 Newspaper column 3 2 Radio ventures 3 3 The Daily Show 3 4 Film and television appearances 3 5 Television projects 4 Political views and media coverage 5 Disputed claims 5 1 George de Mohrenschildt claim 5 2 War coverage claims 6 Sexual harassment lawsuits 7 Personal life 8 Bibliography 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External linksEarly life and educationO Reilly was born on September 10 1949 1 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan to parents William James Sr and Winifred Angela nee Drake O Reilly from Brooklyn and Teaneck New Jersey respectively 15 He is of Irish descent with a small degree of English Colonial American ancestry 16 Some of his father s ancestors lived in County Cavan Ireland since the early eighteenth century and on his mother s side he has ancestry from Northern Ireland 17 The O Reilly family lived in a small apartment in Fort Lee New Jersey when their son was born 18 In 1951 his family moved to Levittown on Long Island 19 O Reilly has a sister Janet 20 O Reilly attended St Brigid parochial school in Westbury and Chaminade High School a private Catholic boys high school in Mineola His father wanted him to attend Chaminade but O Reilly wanted to attend W Tresper Clarke High School the public school most of his closest friends would attend 21 He played Little League baseball and was the goalie on the Chaminade varsity hockey team 22 During his high school years he met future singer Billy Joel whom O Reilly described as a hoodlum O Reilly recollected in an interview with Michael Kay on the YES Network show CenterStage that Joel was in the Hicksville section the same age as me and he was a hood He used to slick it his hair back like this And we knew him because his guys would smoke and this and that and we were more jocks 23 After graduating from Chaminade in 1967 O Reilly attended Marist College in Poughkeepsie New York 24 While at Marist he was a punter in the National Club Football Association 25 and also wrote for the school s newspaper The Circle He was an honors student who majored in history He spent his junior year of college abroad attending Queen Mary College at the University of London 26 He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1971 27 He played semi professional baseball during this time as a pitcher for the New York Monarchs 28 After graduating from Marist College O Reilly moved to Miami where he taught English and history at Monsignor Pace High School from 1970 to 1972 29 He returned to school in 1973 30 and earned a Master of Arts degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University 27 While attending Boston University he was a reporter and columnist for various local newspapers and alternative news weeklies including the Boston Phoenix and did an internship in the newsroom of WBZ TV 31 In 1995 he attended the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and received a master of public administration degree in 1996 27 Marist College had bestowed an honorary degree upon O Reilly which would later be revoked once the sexual abuse allegations came to light 32 Broadcasting career1973 1980 Early career O Reilly s early television news career included reporting and anchoring positions at WNEP TV in Scranton Pennsylvania where he also reported the weather At WFAA TV in Dallas O Reilly was awarded the Dallas Press Club Award for excellence in investigative reporting He then moved to KMGH TV in Denver where he won a local Emmy Award for his coverage of a skyjacking 33 O Reilly also worked for WFSB in Hartford Connecticut from 1979 to 1980 34 In 1980 O Reilly anchored the local news feature program 7 30 Magazine at WCBS TV in New York Soon after as a WCBS News anchor and correspondent he won his second local Emmy which was for an investigation of corrupt city marshals 1982 1986 CBS News and return to local television In 1982 he became a CBS News correspondent 35 covering the wars in El Salvador on location and in the Falkland Islands from his base in Buenos Aires Argentina O Reilly left CBS over a dispute concerning the uncredited use in a report by Bob Schieffer of footage of a riot in response to the military junta s surrender shot by O Reilly s crew in Buenos Aires shortly after the conclusion of the war 36 37 After departing CBS News in 1982 O Reilly joined WNEV TV now WHDH in Boston as a weekday reporter weekend anchor and later as host of the station s local news magazine New England Afternoon In 1984 O Reilly went to KATU in Portland Oregon where he remained for nine months then he returned to Boston and joined WCVB TV as reporter and columnist at large for NewsCenter 5 38 39 1986 1989 ABC News In 1986 O Reilly moved to ABC News where during his three year tenure he received two Emmy Awards and two National Headliner Awards for excellence in reporting He had delivered a eulogy for his friend Joe Spencer an ABC News correspondent who died in a helicopter crash on January 22 1986 en route to covering the 1985 86 Hormel strike ABC News president Roone Arledge who attended Spencer s funeral decided to hire O Reilly after hearing the eulogy 40 At ABC O Reilly hosted daytime news briefs that previewed stories to be reported on the day s World News Tonight and worked as a general assignment reporter for ABC News programs including Good Morning America Nightline and World News Tonight 41 1989 1995 Inside Edition Main article Inside Edition In 1989 O Reilly joined the nationally syndicated King World now CBS Television Distribution produced Inside Edition a tabloid gossip television program in competition with A Current Affair 27 He became the program s anchor three weeks into its run after the involvement of original anchor David Frost had ended 42 In 1995 former NBC News and CBS News anchor Deborah Norville replaced O Reilly on Inside Edition O Reilly had expressed a desire to quit the show in July 1994 43 Viral video On May 12 2008 an outtake of O Reilly ranting during his time at Inside Edition surfaced on YouTube 44 The early 1990s video depicts O Reilly yelling and cursing at his co workers while having issues pre recording the closing lines on his teleprompter eventually yelling the phrase Fuck it we ll do it live before continuing the closing segment to his show 45 46 The original video titled Bill O Reilly Flips Out was removed but another user uploaded it once again the day after and retitled it Bill O Reilly Goes Nuts Immediately after the video surfaced O Reilly acknowledged the video s existence claiming that he was amusing his co workers and said I have plenty of much newer stuff If you want to buy the tapes that I have I m happy to sell them to you 47 48 The rant was later parodied by Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report 47 49 as well as Family Guy and by Trevor Noah on The Daily Show 50 and was named one of Time s Top 10 Celebrity Meltdowns 51 In October 2008 Wednesday 13 named his first live album after a line in the rant 50 52 In 2009 a dance remix of O Reilly s rant was nominated for a Webby Award for Best Viral Video 53 but lost to The Website Is Down Sales Guy vs Web Dude 54 1996 2017 The O Reilly Factor Main article The O Reilly Factor nbsp O Reilly interviewing President George W Bush in 2010In October 1996 O Reilly was hired by Roger Ailes chairman and CEO of the then startup Fox News Channel to anchor The O Reilly Report 55 The show was renamed The O Reilly Factor after his friend and branding expert John Tantillo s remarks upon the O Reilly Factor in any of the stories he told 55 56 57 The program was routinely the highest rated show of the three major U S 24 hour cable news television channels and began the trend toward more opinion oriented prime time cable news programming 58 The show was taped late in the afternoon at a studio in New York City and aired every weekday on the Fox News Channel at 8 00 p m Eastern Time and was rebroadcast at 11 00 p m Progressive media monitoring organizations such as Media Matters and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting have criticized his reporting on a variety of issues accusing him of distorting facts and using misleading or erroneous statistics 59 In 2008 citing numerous inaccuracies in his reporting MediaMatters for America awarded him its first annual Misinformer of the Year award 60 61 62 After the September 11 attacks O Reilly accused 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 He reported that the organizations misrepresented their intentions for the money being raised by not distributing all of the 9 11 relief fund to the victims Actor George Clooney responded accusing him of misstating facts and harming the relief effort by inciting panic among potential donors 63 nbsp O Reilly at the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia in 2010On August 27 2002 O Reilly called for all Americans to boycott Pepsi products 64 saying that lyrics of Ludacris then appearing in ads for Pepsi glamorize a life of guns violence drugs and disrespect of women The next day O Reilly reported that Pepsi had fired Ludacris 64 Two years later Ludacris referenced O Reilly in the song Number One Spot with the lyrics Respected highly hi Mr O Reilly Hope all is well kiss the plaintiff and the wifey in reference to his sexual harassment suit with Andrea Mackris while married In an interview with RadarOnline com in 2010 Ludacris said he and O Reilly had made amends after a conversation at a charity event 65 Speaking on ABC s Good Morning America on March 18 2003 he promised that i f the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it s clean of weapons of mass destruction I will apologize to the nation and I will not trust the Bush administration again 66 In another appearance on the same program on February 10 2004 he responded to repeated requests for him to honor his pledge My analysis was wrong and I m sorry I was wrong I m not pleased about it at all 67 With regard to his trust in the government he said I am much more skeptical of the Bush administration now than I was at that time 68 Beginning in 2005 he periodically denounced George Tiller a Kansas based physician who specialized in second and third trimester abortions 69 often referring to him as Tiller the baby killer 70 Tiller was murdered on May 31 2009 by Scott Roeder an anti abortion activist 71 Critics such as Salon s Gabriel Winant have asserted that his anti Tiller rhetoric helped to create an atmosphere of violence around the doctor 72 Jay Bookman of The Atlanta Journal Constitution wrote that O Reilly clearly went overboard in his condemnation and demonization of Tiller but added that it was irresponsible to link O Reilly to Tiller s murder 73 O Reilly responded to the criticism by saying no backpedaling here every single thing we said about Tiller was true 74 nbsp O Reilly at Bagram Air Force Base with A1C Jeffrey Jamieson in 2007In early 2007 researchers from the Indiana University School of Journalism published a report that analyzed his Talking Points Memo segment Using analysis techniques developed in the 1930s by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis the study concluded that he used propaganda frequently engaged in name calling and consistently cast non Americans as threats and never in the role of victim or hero 75 76 He responded asserting that the terms conservative liberal left right progressive traditional and centrist were considered name calling if they were associated with a problem or social ill The study s authors said that those terms were only considered name calling when linked to derogatory qualifiers 77 Fox News producer Ron Mitchell wrote an op ed in which he accused the study s authors of seeking to manipulate their research to fit a predetermined outcome Mitchell argued that by using tools developed for examining propaganda the researchers presupposed that he propagandized 78 On April 19 2017 Fox News announced that O Reilly would not return to their primetime lineup amid public reporting on the tens of millions of dollars he paid to settle the sexual harassment claims of six women The show continued rebranded as The Factor now hosted by Dana Perino 11 On the same day Fox announced that Tucker Carlson s show would be airing an hour earlier to take over O Reilly s position and that The Five will replace Carlson s usual time at 9 p m with a new co host Jesse Watters 79 After O Reilly was fired the financial markets responded positively to the decision by Fox News and its parent company 21st Century Fox rose over two percent in the stock market the next day 80 Departure from Fox News In April 2017 The New York Times reported that Fox News and O Reilly had settled five lawsuits involving women who accused O Reilly of misconduct 81 After the settlements were reported The O Reilly Factor lost more than half its advertisers within a week 82 almost 60 companies withdrew their television advertising from the show 83 amid a growing backlash against O Reilly 84 85 On April 11 O Reilly announced he would take a two week vacation and would return to the program on April 24 he normally took a vacation around Easter 86 On April 19 Fox News announced that O Reilly would not be returning to the network 87 11 The program was subsequently renamed The Factor on April 19 and aired its last episode on April 21 88 O Reilly later stated his regret that he did not fight back against his accusers the way Sean Hannity did when facing the loss of advertisers around the same time 89 2017 present Post Fox News career O Reilly launched a podcast called No Spin News on April 24 2017 after his departure from Fox News 90 In August 2017 O Reilly began digitally streaming a video version of No Spin News 91 92 93 In May 2017 O Reilly began to appear as a recurring guest on Friday editions of the Glenn Beck Radio Program 94 In June 2017 O Reilly and Dennis Miller co headlined the public speaking tour The Spin Stops Here 95 O Reilly made his first appearance on Fox News since his ouster on September 26 2017 being interviewed by Sean Hannity 96 In 2019 O Reilly started a 15 minute radio show The O Reilly Update 97 By 2020 simulcasts of O Reilly s No Spin News show began to air on Newsmax TV 98 No Spin News began airing on The First TV in June 2020 99 O Reilly participated in a speaking tour with former president Donald Trump in December 2021 which he said provided a never before heard inside view of his administration 100 Other appearancesNewspaper column O Reilly wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column through Creators Syndicate 101 that appeared in numerous newspapers including the New York Post and the Chicago Sun Times 102 He discontinued the column at the end of 2013 Radio ventures Main article The Radio Factor From 2002 to 2009 he hosted a radio program called The Radio Factor that had more than 3 26 million listeners and was carried by more than 400 radio stations 103 According to the talk radio industry publication Talkers Magazine he was No 11 on the Heavy Hundred a list of the 100 most important talk show hosts in America 104 In 2019 O Reilly returned to radio with a daily 15 minute series The O Reilly Update The program airs during or near lunch hour on most stations in a time slot previously used by Paul Harvey 105 In September 2020 O Reilly began hosting a daily radio show on 77WABC titled Common Sense with Bill O Reilly 106 The Daily Show From 2001 to 2015 O Reilly appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart fifteen times Stewart also appeared as a guest various times on The O Reilly Factor In 2011 Stewart described O Reilly as the voice of reason on Fox News comparing him to the thinnest kid at fat camp 107 In 2012 Stewart joined O Reilly in a debate for charity entitled The Rumble in the Air Conditioned Auditorium at George Washington University 108 The New York Times remarked that O Reilly and Stewart have been guests on each other s programs since 2001 but rarely agree on anything except their mutual respect for each other 109 In 2014 Stewart debated him on the belief of white privilege During the debate O Reilly exclaimed You think I m sitting here because I m white What are you a moron I m sitting here because I m obnoxious not because I m white 110 In 2015 O Reilly briefly appeared on Stewart s final show as host of The Daily Show O Reilly joked Have fun feeding your rabbits quitter 111 O Reilly also wrote a lengthy appreciation for Stewart in Deadline Hollywood writing Stewart will leave a void in the world of political satire Undeniably Jon Stewart was great at what he did Whatever that was 112 Film and television appearances O Reilly made cameo appearances in the films An American Carol 2008 Iron Man 2 2010 Transformers Dark of the Moon 2011 and Man Down 2015 113 114 115 In 2010 he famously appeared on The View where they asked O Reilly his opinion on whether to remove the mosque near the 9 11 memorial site O Reilly responded saying that he believed they should and during the heated discussion stated Muslims killed us on 9 11 to which Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walked off the set Barbara Walters chided the other hosts and stated You have just seen what should not happen We should be able to have discussions without washing our hands and screaming and walking off stage I love my colleagues but that should not have happened 116 117 He also made appearances on various talk and late night shows including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart The Late Show with David Letterman The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert In 2013 he appeared at the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony where he gave tribute to jazz musician Herbie Hancock O Reilly s unexpected presence was not lost on the audience as his appearance elicited audible gasps from the crowd to which O Reilly responded I know I m surprised too 118 119 During his tribute to Hancock O Reilly stated Herbie is a true gentleman His fame and his skill reflect the values of that have made this country great It s that embracing of what is good in mankind that that infuses Hancock s music and makes him a national icon 120 121 Television projects O Reilly was an executive producer on many television projects including on made for television films based upon his books This includes films Killing Lincoln 2013 Killing Kennedy 2013 Killing Jesus 2015 and Killing Reagan 2016 which aired on National Geographic O Reilly received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Television Movie for Killing Kennedy and Killing Jesus 122 From 2015 to 2018 O Reilly also served as an executive producer on the documentary series Legends amp Lies 123 Political views and media coverageMain article Political views of Bill O Reilly nbsp O Reilly at Camp Striker 2006On The O Reilly Factor and on his former talk radio program O Reilly focused on news and commentary related to politics and culture 124 O Reilly has long said that he does not identify with any political ideology writing in his book The O Reilly Factor that the reader might be wondering whether I m conservative liberal libertarian or exactly what See I don t want to fit any of those labels because I believe that the truth doesn t have labels When I see corruption I try to expose it When I see exploitation I try to fight it That s my political position 125 On December 6 2000 the Daily News in New York reported however that he had been registered with the Republican Party in the state of New York since 1994 When questioned about this he said that he was not aware of it and says he registered as an independent after the interview 126 During a broadcast of The Radio Factor O Reilly said that there was no option to register as an independent voter however there was in fact a box marked I do not wish to enroll in party 127 Despite his remarks many view him as a conservative figure 124 A February 2009 Pew Research poll found that 66 of his television viewers identify themselves as conservative 24 moderate and 3 liberal 128 A November 2008 poll by Zogby International found that O Reilly was the second most trusted news personality after Rush Limbaugh 129 In a 2003 interview with Terry Gross on National Public Radio O Reilly said I m not a political guy in the sense that I embrace an ideology To this day I m an independent thinker an independent voter I m a registered independent T here are certain fundamental things that this country was founded upon that I respect and don t want changed That separates me from the secularists who want a complete overhaul of how the country is run 130 On a September 2007 edition of The Radio Factor while having a discussion about race with fellow Fox News commentator and author Juan Williams about a meal he shared with Al Sharpton O Reilly said You know when Sharpton and I walked in it was like big commotion and everything But everybody was very nice And I 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 He commented that no one in Sylvia s was screaming M Fer I want more iced tea He further added 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 131 The statement drew criticism from a number of places 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 132 Media Matters for America covered the story on a number of occasions 133 134 O Reilly responded 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 and also called out Media Matters claiming that Media Matters distorted the entire conversation and implied I was racist for condemning racism 135 Juan Williams said the criticism of O Reilly was rank dishonesty and that the original comments had nothing to do with racist ranting by anybody except by these idiots at CNN Williams went on to say it was frustrating that the media try to criticize anyone who wanted to have an honest discussion about race 136 In July 2016 Michelle Obama spoke of what it was like to live in a house that was built by slaves in reference to her time in the White House with O Reilly responding the slaves were well fed and had decent lodgings 137 Following criticism he defended his comment by stating that the nation s first president provided slaves with meat bread and other staples 138 O Reilly has long said that his inspiration for speaking up for average Americans is 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 20 which is a few miles from Levittown Citing this interview then liberal talk show pundit Al Franken accused O Reilly of distorting his background to create a more working class image O Reilly countered that The Washington Post misquoted his mother 139 and that his mother still lives in his childhood home which was built by William Levitt O Reilly placed a copy of the house s mortgage on his website the mortgage shows a Levittown postal address 140 O Reilly has also said You don t come from any lower than I came from on an economic scale 141 and that his father a currency accountant for an oil company 142 never earned more than 35 000 a year in his life O Reilly responded that his father s 35 000 income only came at the end of his long career 143 He was the main inspiration for comedian Stephen Colbert s satirical character on the Comedy Central show The Colbert Report which featured Colbert in a full dress parody of The Factor On the show Colbert referred to him as Papa Bear 144 He and Colbert exchanged appearances on each other s shows in January 2007 145 On May 10 2008 he was presented with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Governors Award at an Emmy awards show dinner 146 Disputed claimsGeorge de Mohrenschildt claim In his bestselling 2013 book Killing Kennedy and on Fox and Friends O Reilly claimed he was knocking at the front door of George de Mohrenschildt s daughter s home at the moment Mohrenschildt committed suicide and that he heard the shotgun blast In March of 1977 a young television reporter at WFAA in Dallas began looking into the Kennedy assassination As part of his reporting he sought an interview with the shadowy Russian professor who had befriended the Oswalds upon their arrival in Dallas in 1962 The reporter traced George de Mohrenschildt to Palm Beach Florida and traveled there to confront him At the time de Mohrenschildt had been called to testify before a congressional committee looking into the events of November 1963 As the reporter knocked on the door of de Mohrenschildt s daughter s home he heard the shotgun blast that marked the suicide of the Russian assuring that his relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald would never be fully understood By the way that reporter s name is Bill O Reilly This claim has been disproven by former Washington Post editor Jefferson Morley who cites audio recordings made by Gaeton Fonzi indicating O Reilly was not present in Florida on the day of Mohrenschildt s suicide 147 148 War coverage claims On February 19 2015 David Corn from Mother Jones broke a story reporting a collection of inconsistencies of O Reilly when recalling his experience covering the 1982 Falklands War 37 On April 17 2013 O Reilly said on his show I was in a situation one time in a war zone in Argentina in the Falklands 149 In his book The No Spin Zone he wrote You know that I am not easily shocked I ve reported on the ground in active war zones from El Salvador to the Falklands 150 On a 2004 column on his website he wrote Having survived a combat situation in Argentina during the Falklands war I know that life and death decisions are made in a flash 151 Corn claimed O Reilly was not in the Falklands but in Buenos Aires and that no American journalist was in the Islands during the conflict He also pointed out that according to O Reilly s own book The No Spin Zone he arrived in Buenos Aires soon before the war ended 37 On February 20 2015 O Reilly said on his show David Corn a liar says that I exaggerated situations in the Falklands War and that he never said he was on the Falkland Islands O Reilly went on to describe his experience in a riot in Buenos Aires the day Argentina surrendered 152 David Corn replied that they didn t claim O Reilly exaggerated but rather that there were contradictions between his accounts and the factual record and that the 2013 clip from his show proves O Reilly did in fact say he was on the Falklands 153 Corn told The New York Times The question is whether Bill O Reilly was stating the truth when he repeatedly said that Argentine soldiers used real bullets and fired into the crowd of civilians and many were killed 154 In September 2009 during an interview he said he covered the riots in Buenos Aires on the day Argentina surrendered 155 During an interview with TheBlaze television network O Reilly said And if that moron Corn doesn t think it was a war zone in Buenos Aires then he s even dumber than I think he is 156 This characterization by O Reilly was disputed by former CBS colleague Eric Engberg who was in Buenos Aires at the time and challenged his O Reilly s description of the riot as a combat situation Engberg went on to say it was a moderate riot and he heard no shots fired and saw no ambulances or tanks in the streets 157 The following week O Reilly contradicted Engberg s claims presenting archived CBS video of the riot that ensued after Argentine s surrender The video appears to show riot police firing tear gas and plastic bullets toward the crowd additionally former NBC bureau chief Don Browne referred to the riot as an intense situation with many people hurt and tanks in the streets of Buenos Aires 158 The fallout from the coverage generated by the questioning of O Reilly s reporting during the Falklands War led to questions of claims made by O Reilly while in El Salvador and Northern Ireland In his 2013 book Keep it Pithy O Reilly wrote I ve seen soldiers gun down unarmed civilians in Latin America Irish terrorists kill and maim their fellow citizens in Belfast with bombs In a 2005 radio program O Reilly said he had seen guys gun down nuns in El Salvador and in 2012 on The O Reilly Factor said I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head O Reilly and Fox News clarified that he had not been an eyewitness to any of those events but had just seen photographs of the murdered nuns and Irish bombings 159 160 Sexual harassment lawsuitsOn October 13 2004 O Reilly sued Andrea Mackris a former producer for The O Reilly Factor alleging extortion O Reilly claimed that Mackris had threatened a lawsuit unless he paid her more than 60 million Later the same day Mackris sued O Reilly for sexual harassment seeking 60 million in damages 161 Her complaint alleged that O Reilly called her engaging in a crude phone conversation 162 On October 28 2004 O Reilly and Mackris reached an out of court settlement in which Mackris dropped her sexual assault suit against O Reilly and O Reilly dropped his extortion claim against Mackris The terms of the agreement are confidential 163 but in 2017 The New York Times reported that O Reilly had agreed to pay Mackris about 9 million and that they would issue a public statement that there had been no wrongdoing whatsoever 81 After Fox News executive Roger Ailes was the subject of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by former Fox News coworker Gretchen Carlson O Reilly said in July 2016 that Ailes was a target as a famous powerful or wealthy person and called him the best boss I ever had 164 After Ailes was fired and the network settled the lawsuit with Carlson O Reilly declined to comment further saying that for once in my life I m going to keep my big mouth shut 165 Shortly after Ailes was fired Fox News settled a sexual harassment claim against O Reilly with former Fox host Juliet Huddy Huddy alleged that O Reilly pursued a romantic relationship with her and made lewd remarks Legal fees in this case were settled and paid for by Fox News 166 The settlement was worth 1 6 million 81 In August 2016 former Fox host Andrea Tantaros filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News claiming that O Reilly made sexually suggestive comments to her 167 Judge George B Daniels dismissed the lawsuit in May 2018 and wrote that Tantaros allegations were primarily based on speculation and conjecture 168 The New York Times reported in April 2017 that O Reilly and Fox News had settled five lawsuits against O Reilly dating back to 2002 Previously only the settlements to Mackris and Huddy were publicly reported The Times reported that Fox hosts Rebecca Diamond and Laurie Dhue settled sexual harassment lawsuits in 2011 and 2016 respectively and junior producer Rachel Witlieb Bernstein settled with Fox in 2002 after accusing O Reilly of verbal abuse The amount paid to the women filing the complaints was estimated at 13 million 81 In October 2017 The New York Times reported that O Reilly was also sued by former Fox News legal analyst Lis Wiehl for allegedly initiating a non consensual sexual relationship with her 9 O Reilly paid Wiehl 32 million to confidentially settle the lawsuit and when the details of this settlement were leaked O Reilly was dropped by the United Talent Agency 169 170 His literary agent WME also announced that they would no longer represent him for future deals after the October report 171 172 Personal lifeO Reilly was married to Maureen E McPhilmy a public relations executive The couple met in 1992 and their wedding took place in St Brigid Parish of Westbury New York on November 2 1996 173 O Reilly and McPhilmy have a daughter Madeline b 1998 and a son Spencer b 2003 174 The couple separated on April 2 2010 and were divorced on September 1 2011 175 In May 2015 court transcripts from O Reilly s custody trial with ex wife Maureen McPhilmy revealed an allegation of domestic violence 176 177 178 Following this allegation O Reilly issued a statement through his attorney describing the account as 100 false and declined to comment further in order to respect the court mandated confidentiality put in place to protect his children 178 179 In February 2016 O Reilly lost a bid for sole custody of both of his children 180 BibliographyO Reilly has authored or co authored a number of books O Reilly Bill 1998 Those Who Trespass Bancroft Press ISBN 0 9631246 8 4 O Reilly Bill 2000 The O Reilly Factor The Good the Bad and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life Broadway Books ISBN 0 7679 0528 8 Reached No 1 on the New York Times Non Fiction Best Seller list 181 O Reilly Bill 2001 The No Spin Zone Broadway Books ISBN 0 7679 0848 1 Reached No 1 on the New York Times Non Fiction Best Seller list 181 O Reilly Bill 2003 Who s Looking Out For You Broadway Books ISBN 0 7679 1379 5 Reached No 1 on the New York Times Non Fiction Best Seller list 181 O Reilly Bill Charles Flowers 2004 The O Reilly Factor For Kids A Survival Guide for America s Families Harper Entertainment ISBN 0 06 054424 4 Best selling nonfiction children s book of 2005 182 O Reilly Bill 2006 Culture Warrior Broadway Books ISBN 0 7679 2092 9 Reached No 1 on the New York Times Non Fiction Best Seller list 181 Achieved more than one million copies in print in its first three months O Reilly Bill 2007 Kids Are Americans Too William Morrow ISBN 978 0 06 084676 3 O Reilly Bill 2008 A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity A Memoir Broadway Books ISBN 978 0 7679 2882 3 O Reilly Bill 2010 Pinheads and Patriots Where You Stand in the Age of Obama William Morrow ISBN 978 0 06 195071 1 O Reilly Bill 2011 Factor Words A Collection of the O Reilly Factor Favorite Words of the Day A Bill Me Inc ISBN 978 1450789783 O Reilly Bill Martin Dugard 2011 Killing Lincoln The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever Henry Holt and Co ISBN 978 0 8050 9307 0 O Reilly Bill Dwight Jon Zimmerman 2012 Lincoln s Last Days The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever New York Henry Holt and Co ISBN 978 0 8050 9675 0 O Reilly Bill Martin Dugard 2012 Killing Kennedy The End of Camelot Henry Holt and Co ISBN 978 0 8050 9666 8 O Reilly Bill 2013 Kennedy s Last Days The Assassination That Defined a Generation Henry Holt and Co ISBN 978 0 8050 9802 0 O Reilly Bill 2013 Keep It Pithy Useful Observations in a Tough World Crown Archetype ISBN 978 0 385 34662 7 O Reilly Bill Martin Dugard 2013 Killing Jesus A History Henry Holt and Co ISBN 978 0 8050 9854 9 183 O Reilly Bill 2014 The Last Days of Jesus His Life and Times Henry Holt and Co ISBN 978 0 8050 9877 8 O Reilly Bill Martin Dugard 2014 Killing Patton The Strange Death of World War II s Most Audacious General Henry Holt and Co ISBN 978 0 8050 9668 2 184 O Reilly Bill David Fisher 2015 Bill O Reilly s Legends and Lies The Real West Henry Holt and Co O Reilly Bill 2015 Hitler s Last Days The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World s Most Notorious Dictator Henry Holt and Co ISBN 978 1 62779 396 4 O Reilly Bill Martin Dugard 2015 Killing Reagan The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency Henry Holt and Co ISBN 9781627792417 185 O Reilly Bill 2016 The Day the President Was Shot Henry Holt and Co ISBN 978 1 62779 699 6 O Reilly Bill Martin Dugard 2016 Killing the Rising Sun How America Vanquished World War II Japan Henry Holt and Co ISBN 978 1 6277 9062 8 186 O Reilly Bill James Patterson 2016 Give Please a Chance Jimmy Patterson ISBN 978 0316276887 187 O Reilly Bill Bruce Feirstein 2017 Old School Life in the Sane Lane Henry Holt and Co ISBN 978 1 2501 3579 7 188 O Reilly Bill Martin Dugard 2017 Killing England The Brutal Struggle for American Independence Henry Holt and Co ISBN 978 1 6277 9064 2 189 O Reilly Bill Martin Dugard 2018 Killing the SS The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Henry Holt and Co ISBN 978 1 2501 6554 1 190 O Reilly Bill 2019 The United States of Trump How the President Really Sees America Thorndike Press ISBN 978 1 4328 6935 9 191 O Reilly Bill Martin Dugard 2020 Killing Crazy Horse The Merciless Indian Wars in America Henry Holt and Co ISBN 9781627797047 O Reilly Bill Martin Dugard 2021 Killing the Mob The Fight Against Organized Crime in America St Martin s Press ISBN 9781250273659 O Reilly Bill Martin Dugard 2022 Killing the Killers The Secret War Against Terrorists St Martin s Press ISBN 9781250279255 O Reilly Bill Martin Dugard 2022 Killing the Legends The Lethal Danger of Celebrity St Martin s Press ISBN 9781250283306 O Reilly Bill Martin Dugard 2023 Killing the Witches The Horror of Salem Massachusetts 192 See alsoNew Yorkers in journalismReferences a b The Irish Factor Finding Your Roots Season 3 WETA TV January 12 2016 PBS Archived from the original on August 31 2017 Retrieved January 12 2016 Stelter Brian January 6 2011 Bill O Reilly to Interview President Obama The New York Times Retrieved September 18 2022 Kurtz Howard January 15 2007 Bill O Reilly And NBC Shouting to Make Themselves Seen The Washington Post p C01 Kludt Tom April 20 2017 How Fox News broke the Bill O Reilly story to its viewers CNN Retrieved June 2 2017 Bill O Reilly s Culture Warrior Fox News October 3 2006 Archived from the original on September 24 2008 Retrieved November 21 2008 Bill O Reilly s Bio Fox News April 29 2004 Archived from the original on February 16 2009 Retrieved August 9 2009 Boedeker Hal July 28 2009 Fox News dominates July 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