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{{short description|American political commentator, television host and writer}}
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'''William James "Bill" O'Reilly, Jr.''' (born [[September 10]] [[1949]]) is the host of a popular [[United States|American]] [[cable television]] news analysis program, ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]'' on the [[FOX News|FOX News Channel]]. O'Reilly also hosts a radio program syndicated by [[Westwood One]] called ''The Radio Factor'' and has authored five books, one of which is a [[novel]]. Recently, he has voiced concern about what he sees as the harmful influence of [[gangsta rap]] on children, the mismanagement of charity funds for [[September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks]] victims, and the alleged [[liberal bias]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' and other media outlets.
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{{Infobox person
|name = Bill O'Reilly
|image = BillOReillySept2010.jpg
|caption=O'Reilly in 2010
|birth_name = William James O'Reilly Jr.
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|9|10}}
|birth_place = New York City, U.S.
|death_date =
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|education = [[Marist College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Boston University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])<br />[[Harvard University]] ([[Master of Public Administration|MPA]])
|occupation = {{hlist|Television host|political commentator|author}}
|years_active = 1975–present
|party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] (before 2001)<br />[[Independence Party of New York|Independence]] (2001–present)
|spouse = {{marriage|Maureen McPhilmy|1996|2011|reason=divorced}}
|children = 2
|website = {{url|billoreilly.com}}
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'''William James O'Reilly Jr.'''<ref name="fyr">{{cite episode | title = The Irish Factor | series = Finding Your Roots | series-link = Finding Your Roots | publisher = [[WETA-TV]] | network = [[PBS]] | date = January 12, 2016 | url = https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/the-irish-factor-preview-bill-oreilly/14329/ | access-date = January 12, 2016 | season = 3 | archive-date = August 31, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170831082811/https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots/the-irish-factor-preview-bill-oreilly/14329/ | url-status = dead }}</ref> (born September 10, 1949) is an American [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] commentator,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/bill-oreilly-to-interview-president-obama/ |title=Bill O'Reilly to Interview President Obama |first=Brian |last=Stelter |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 6, 2011 |access-date=September 18, 2022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Kurtz | first = Howard | authorlink=Howard Kurtz| title = Bill O'Reilly And NBC, Shouting to Make Themselves Seen? | page = C01 | newspaper =[[The Washington Post]]| date = January 15, 2007 | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/14/AR2007011401124.html}}</ref> journalist, author, and television host.


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 journalism|tabloid]] [[news broadcasting#television|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.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kludt |first=Tom |title=How Fox News broke the Bill O'Reilly story to its viewers |work=[[CNN]] |date=April 20, 2017 |access-date=June 2, 2017 |url=https://money.cnn.com/2017/04/19/media/fox-news-covers-bill-oreilly/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,215827,00.html |title=Bill O'Reilly's 'Culture Warrior' |work=[[Fox News]] |date=October 3, 2006 |access-date=November 21, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924053403/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,215827,00.html |archive-date=September 24, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155,00.html|title=Bill O'Reilly's Bio|access-date=August 9, 2009|date=April 29, 2004|work=[[Fox News]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090216184002/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155,00.html|archive-date=February 16, 2009|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/07/fox-news-dominates-july-contest-bill-oreilly-again-tops.html |title=Fox News dominates July ratings; Bill O'Reilly again tops – and Nancy Grace makes impressive gains |access-date=August 9, 2009 |date=July 28, 2009 |work=[[The Orlando Sentinel]] |first=Hal|last=Boedeker |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804235005/http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/07/fox-news-dominates-july-contest-bill-oreilly-again-tops.html |archive-date=August 4, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2009/narrative_cabletv_audience.php?cat=1 |work=[[Project for Excellence in Journalism]] |publisher=[[Pew Research Center]] |title=The State of the News Media |access-date=August 9, 2009 |year=2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090703201430/http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2009/narrative_cabletv_audience.php?cat=1 |archive-date=July 3, 2009 }}</ref>
==Personal background==
O'Reilly was born in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] to William and Angela O'Reilly, from [[Brooklyn]] and [[Bergen County, New Jersey|Bergen County]], [[New Jersey]] respectively. His father was an oil company accountant and his mother was a homemaker. He and his family moved to the [[Levittown, New York|Levittown]] [[New town|planned community]] located in [[Nassau County, New York|Nassau County]] on [[Long Island]] when he was a toddler. O'Reilly's only sibling, a younger sister named Janet, is a nurse.


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 [[Endeavor (company)|WME]].<ref name=nytimes_2017_10_21/> O'Reilly began hosting the ''No Spin News'' podcast after his dismissal from Fox News. ''No Spin News'' has since expanded into a television program, first airing on [[Newsmax]], then on [[The First TV|The First]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-oreilly-podcast-20170424-story.html|title=O'Reilly returns with a smaller soapbox, vowing 'the truth will come out'|first1=Meg|last1=James|first2=David|last2=Pierson|date=April 24, 2017|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref><ref name=nytimes_2017_04_19>{{cite news | last1=Steel | first1=Emily | last2=Schmidt | first2=Michael S. | title=Bill O'Reilly Is Forced Out at Fox News | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=April 19, 2017 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/business/media/bill-oreilly-fox-news-allegations.html | access-date=April 19, 2017 | issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/04/19/fox-news-drops-bill-oreilly-in-wake-harassment-allegations.html|title=Fox News drops Bill O'Reilly in wake of harassment allegations|last=Kurtz|first=Howard|authorlink=Howard Kurtz|date=April 19, 2017|work=[[Fox News]]|access-date=April 19, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="nyt-severance">{{cite news | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = April 20, 2017 | first1 = Emily | last1 = Steel | first2=Michael | last2=Schmidt | title = Bill O'Reilly Payout Could Be as High as $25 Million | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/business/media/bill-oreilly-payout.html}}</ref><ref name=nytimes_2017_10_21>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/business/media/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment.html|title=Bill O'Reilly Settled New Harassment Claim, Then Fox Renewed His Contract|first1=Emily|last1=Steel|first2=Michael S.|last2=Schmidt|authorlink2=Michael S. Schmidt|date=October 21, 2017|access-date=January 19, 2019|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> He is the author of numerous [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' best selling]] [[#Books by O'Reilly|books]] and hosted ''[[The Radio Factor]]'' (2002–2009).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2008/12/05/2008-12-05_bill_oreilly_is_really_quitting_radio_gi.html |title=Bill O'Reilly is really quitting radio gig |last=Hinckley |first=David |date=December 5, 2008 |work=[[New York Daily News]] |access-date=April 4, 2009|archive-date=January 25, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125055740/http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2008/12/05/2008-12-05_bill_oreilly_is_really_quitting_radio_gi.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
An [[Irish Catholic]], O'Reilly attended [[Chaminade High School]], an all-male [[Marianist]] school in [[Mineola, New York|Mineola]], [[New York]]. While there, he played goalie and wing on the [[ice hockey]] team, and also played [[American football|football]], [[basketball]], and [[baseball]] on area teams. A baseball player since age 7, he was [[New York Mets]] ball boy (known then as the "Midget Mets") during his childhood. He was a [[lifeguard]] and gave swimming lessons during the summer.


==Early life and education==
After graduating from Chaminade in [[1967]], O'Reilly advanced to [[Marist College]], a small, co-educational private school in [[Poughkeepsie, New York|Poughkeepsie]], [[New York]]. While at Marist, O'Reilly played quarterback, place kicker, and punter on the football team, and also was a columnist and features writer for the school's newspaper, ''The Circle''.[http://library.marist.edu/archives/Circle/circle.html] As an honors student majoring in history, he spent his junior year of college abroad, attending [[Queen Mary, University of London|Queen Mary College]] at the [[University of London]].[http://library.marist.edu/archives/JLRBelanger.html] He also played semi-professional baseball during this time as a pitcher for the Brooklyn Monarchs, leading him to try out to play for the Mets. O'Reilly received his Bachelor of Arts in [[1971]].
O'Reilly was born on September 10, 1949,<ref name="fyr"/> at [[Columbia Presbyterian Hospital]] in Manhattan to parents William James Sr. and Winifred Angela (née Drake) O'Reilly from [[Brooklyn, New York|Brooklyn]] and [[Teaneck, New Jersey|Teaneck]], New Jersey, respectively.<ref>{{Cite book| last =Kitman| first =Marvin|author-link=Marvin Kitman |title =The Man Who Would Not Shut Up: The Rise of Bill O'Reilly| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h_njnLUvjvQC|publisher =[[Macmillan Publishers]]| year =2008| page =154| isbn =978-0-312-38586-6 }}</ref><!-- NOTE: please discuss changes to this information on the article's talk page first, and you must provide any alteration with references.--> He is of Irish descent with a small degree of English ([[Colonial history of the United States|Colonial American]]) ancestry.<ref>Stated on ''[[Finding Your Roots]]'', January 12, 2016, PBS</ref> 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]].<ref>Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 17.</ref> The O'Reilly family lived in a small apartment in [[Fort Lee, New Jersey|Fort Lee]], New Jersey, when their son was born.<ref>Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 13.</ref> In 1951, his family moved to [[Levittown, New York|Levittown]] on [[Long Island]].<ref>{{cite news|title=A Conversation With Bill O'Reilly|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/02/sunday/main4563979.shtml|work=[[CBS News]]|date=November 2, 2008}}</ref> O'Reilly has a sister, Janet.<ref name="farhi">{{cite news|last1=Farhi|first1=Paul|title=The Life Of O'Reilly|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2000/12/13/the-life-of-oreilly/b9cd54fb-3edd-4e68-a489-2e990e3a7bca/|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=April 19, 2017|date=December 13, 2000}}</ref>


O'Reilly attended St. Brigid parochial school in [[Westbury, New York|Westbury]] and [[Chaminade High School]], a private Catholic boys high school, in [[Mineola, New York|Mineola]]. His father wanted him to attend Chaminade, but O'Reilly wanted to attend [[W.&nbsp;Tresper Clarke High School]], the public school most of his closest friends would attend.<ref>Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 25.</ref> He played [[Little League]] baseball and was the goalie on the Chaminade varsity hockey team.<ref>Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', pp. 28–33.</ref> 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 (sports broadcaster)|Michael Kay]] on the [[YES Network]] show ''CenterStage'' that Joel "was in the [[Hicksville, New York|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."<ref name="web.yesnetwork.com">{{cite web |url=http://web.yesnetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100406&content_id=9099200&vkey=1&oid= |title=Centerstage O'Reilly Quotes |publisher=Web.yesnetwork.com |access-date=August 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718141927/http://web.yesnetwork.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100406&content_id=9099200&vkey=1&oid= |archive-date=July 18, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
O'Reilly married Maureen McPhilmy, a public relations executive, in [[1995]]. The couple has one daughter, Madeline, born in [[1998]], and a son, Spencer, born in [[2003]]. Since approximately [[2001]], O'Reilly has not discussed his family publicly due to security concerns, including past death threats.


After graduating from Chaminade in 1967, O'Reilly attended [[Marist College]] in [[Poughkeepsie, New York]].<ref>Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 33.</ref> While at Marist, he was a punter in the [[National Club Football Association]]<ref>{{cite web |author=Duffy, Don |title="Campus Stuff" (''The Circle'') |url=http://library.marist.edu/archives/Circle/1970/1970-11-19.pdf |publisher=[[Marist College]] |date=November 19, 1970 |access-date=May 12, 2008 }} {{dead link|date=June 2018|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> 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, University of London|Queen Mary College]] at the [[University of London]].<ref>{{cite web | author=Marist | title=2001 Commencement Program| publisher=[[Marist College]]|date=May 19, 2001| url=http://www.marist.edu/alumni/oreillyb.html | access-date=May 12, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20061209200736/http://www.marist.edu/alumni/oreillyb.html |archive-date = December 9, 2006}}</ref> He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1971.<ref name="Fox News Bio">{{cite news|url=http://www.foxnews.com/bios/talent/oreilly/|title=Bill O'Reilly|work=[[Fox News]]|access-date=December 12, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231213540/http://www.foxnews.com/bios/talent/oreilly/|archive-date=December 31, 2010|url-status=dead }}</ref> He played [[semi-professional]] baseball during this time as a pitcher for the New York Monarchs.<ref>Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 51.</ref> After graduating from Marist College, O'Reilly moved to [[Miami]] where he taught [[English studies|English]] and history at [[Monsignor Edward Pace High School|Monsignor Pace High School]] from 1970 to 1972.<ref>Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 65.</ref> He returned to school in 1973<ref>Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 67.</ref> and earned a [[Master of Arts]] degree in [[broadcast journalism]] from [[Boston University]].<ref name="Fox News Bio"/> While attending Boston University, he was a reporter and columnist for various local newspapers and alternative news weeklies, including the ''[[The Phoenix (newspaper)|Boston Phoenix]]'', and did an [[internship]] in the newsroom of [[WBZ-TV]].<ref>Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 70.</ref> In 1995, he attended the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]] at [[Harvard University]] and received a [[master of public administration]] degree in 1996.<ref name="Fox News Bio"/>
==Early career==
After graduating from Marist, Bill O'Reilly moved to [[Miami]], [[Florida]], where he taught English and history at a Jesuit high school for two years. After leaving Miami, O'Reilly returned to school, earning a Masters in Broadcast Journalism from [[Boston University]] in 1976. While attending BU, he was a reporter and columnist for various local newspapers and alternative news weeklies, including the ''[[Boston Phoenix]]''. O'Reilly did his broadcast journalism internship in Miami during this time, and was also an entertainment writer and movie reviewer for the ''[[Miami Herald]]''.


Marist College had bestowed an honorary degree upon O'Reilly, which would later be revoked once the sexual abuse allegations came to light.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.marist.edu/-/news-A-Statement-from-the-Marist-College-Board-of-Trustees-regarding-Bill-O-Reilly|title = A Statement from the Marist College Board of Trustees Regarding Bill O'Reilly}}</ref>
O'Reilly's early television news career included reporting and anchoring positions in [[Scranton, Pennsylvania|Scranton]]; [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]]; [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]]; [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], [[Oregon]]; [[Hartford, Connecticut|Hartford]]; and [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]. He also reported the weather for a brief period when he first started his career in Scranton.[http://www.thebiofile.com/articles/stories/101950230.php] In 1980, he anchored his own program on WCBS-TV in New York and later became a [[CBS News]] correspondent. While at CBS News, O'Reilly covered the wars in the [[Falkland Islands]] and [[El Salvador]], amongst others. During his stints in Dallas and Denver, he won two [[Emmy Award]]s for journalistic excellence. In 1986, O'Reilly joined [[ABC News]] as a correspondent on ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]''. In three years, he appeared on the show over one hundred times, receiving two [[National Headliner Award]]s for excellence in reporting.


==Broadcasting career==
Some of O'Reilly's stints at local news stations did not go well, especially when it came to his relationships with management and other on-air talent. Former coworkers have called him "obnoxious", "self-centered", "dishonest", and "paranoid." [http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story?id=6417561] At news bureaus and stations he worked for, O'Reilly frequently made what he has called "political mistakes" such as criticizing management decisions and story selections for news broadcasts that contributed to his leaving various positions along the way.
===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 journalism|investigative reporting]]. He then moved to [[KMGH-TV]] in [[Denver]], where he won a local [[Emmy Award]] for his coverage of a [[skyjacking]].<ref name=FoxBio1>{{cite web|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155,00.html|title=Bill O'Reilly's Bio|website=[[Fox News]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060906040549/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155,00.html |archive-date=September 6, 2006|access-date=August 10, 2006}}</ref> O'Reilly also worked for [[WFSB]] in [[Hartford, Connecticut]] from 1979 to 1980.<ref>[https://www.wfsb.com/news/bill-oreilly-when-he-worked-at-wfsb/video_11893efb-71ce-56ca-a4c9-69ebe9f97819.html Bill O'Reilly when he worked at WFSB] [[WFSB]] Posted 9 April 2017. Retrieved 13 June 2021.</ref> 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 1989, O'Reilly joined the nationally syndicated ''[[Inside Edition]]'', a [[tabloid]] [[television]] program (also known as "[[infotainment]]"). He started as senior correspondent and backup anchor for [[David Frost]], but soon took over the anchor chair when the viewers found him more appealing. In addition to being one of the first broadcast journalists to cover the dismantling of the [[Berlin Wall]], O'Reilly also obtained the first exclusive interview with murderer [[Joel Steinberg]] and was the first national anchor on the scene of the [[Los Angeles]] riots.
In 1982, he became a [[CBS News]] correspondent,<ref>{{cite web|first=Terrence|last=McCoy|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/23/bill-oreillys-implosion-at-cbs-following-his-falklands-war-combat-reporting/|title=How Bill O'Reilly imploded at CBS following his Falklands War 'combat' reporting|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=February 23, 2015|accessdate=January 2, 2023}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/03/27/060327fa_fact|title=Fear Factor – Bill O'Reilly's baroque period|first=Nicholas|last=Lemann|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|date=March 20, 2006}}</ref><ref name="motherjones1">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/david-corn-response-oreilly-falklands|title=How Fox News host Bill O'Reilly has mischaracterized his wartime reporting experience|first=David|last=Corn|author-link=David Corn|magazine=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]|publisher=[[Foundation for National Progress]]|location=San Francisco, California|date=February 20, 2015}}</ref>


After departing CBS News in 1982, O'Reilly joined WNEV-TV (now [[WHDH (TV)|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''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Acker |first=Lizzy |date=April 20, 2017 |title=Bill O'Reilly was a news anchor in Portland in the '80s |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/trending/2017/04/bill_oreilly_was_a_news_anchor.html |work=[[The Oregonian]] |access-date=April 20, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Borchers |first=Callum |date=March 2, 2015 |title=Bill O'Reilly's Falklands stories led to Boston TV job |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/03/02/reilly-argentina-war-stories-challenged-critics-led-stint-boston/VkoOQGmIaIwK4knvWhIoiI/story.html |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |access-date=June 13, 2021}}</ref>
In 1995, O'Reilly left ''Inside Edition'' to enroll at the [[Kennedy School of Government|John F. Kennedy School of Government]] at [[Harvard University]], where he received a Master's Degree in Public Administration. Upon leaving Harvard, [[Roger Ailes]], chairman and CEO of the then startup FOX News Channel, hired O'Reilly to anchor ''The O'Reilly Report'', which aired weeknights. The show was renamed to ''The O'Reilly Factor'' when it moved to a later time slot in [[1998]] since the host felt he was the main "factor" of the show.


=== 1986–1989: ''ABC News'' ===
==''The O'Reilly Factor''==
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.<ref>Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', pp. 123–24.</ref> At ABC, O'Reilly hosted daytime news briefs that previewed stories to be reported on the day's ''[[World News with Diane Sawyer|World News Tonight]]'' and worked as a general assignment reporter for ABC News programs, including ''[[Good Morning America]]'', ''[[Nightline (U.S. news program)|Nightline]]'', and ''World News Tonight''.<ref>Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 127.</ref>
O'Reilly's television show ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]],'' discusses political and social issues of the day with guests from a broad political spectrum. Some of the most influential politicians in America have been interviewed by O'Reilly on ''The Factor'', including [[George W. Bush]], who has [[List of nicknames used by George W. Bush|nicknamed]] O'Reilly "Big O" and more recently "Factor".


===1989–1995: ''Inside Edition''===
Like many shows of its genre, notable among them ''[[Hardball with Chris Matthews]]'' and [[Tim Russert]]'s programs, confrontation is a key ingredient to the show's successful formula, featuring fast-paced, agressive verbal sparring between O'Reilly and his guests. O'Reilly's combative challenges to what he sees as inconsistencies and weaknesses in his guest's arguments have led some opponents to brand him a "bully and a jerk."[http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6247287.htm] While some dislike O'Reilly's interviewing style and persona, he has also attracted a loyal following of viewers who enjoy his no-nonsense, emotionally-charged style, as well as his self-described confrontational interviews. [http://www.bu.edu/alumni/bostonia/2001/fall/oreilly/]
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In 1989, O'Reilly joined the nationally [[television syndication|syndicated]] [[King World]] (now [[CBS Television Distribution]])-produced ''[[Inside Edition]]'', a tabloid-gossip television program in competition with ''[[A Current Affair (U.S. TV series)|A Current Affair]]''.<ref name="Fox News Bio"/> He became the program's anchor three weeks into its run after the involvement of original anchor [[David Frost]] had ended.<ref>Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 137.</ref>


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.<ref>Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 148.</ref>
O'Reilly bills his show as a "no [[spin (politics)|spin]] zone," frequently declaring that "the spin stops here". However, some argue that O'Reilly often challenges "spin" from guests more aggressively when they hold views opposing his own (see below for example views).


====Viral video====
''The Factor'' is a tightly structured show, with each episode consisting of many orderly segments. It begins with a segment called "talking points" in which O'Reilly gives an editorial [[monologue]] on an issue of the day. The next few segments feature guests who discuss various issue with O'Reilly, broadly catagorized under segment titles such as "Back of the Book," "Children at Risk," and "Personal Note." Sometimes segments feature only one guest, other times they may feature multiple.
On May 12, 2008, an [[outtake]] of O'Reilly ranting during his time at ''Inside Edition'' surfaced on [[YouTube]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Bill O'Reilly Flips Out |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/oreilly-fuck-it-well-do-it-live_us_58f8a5cae4b0cb086d7e635d|work=[[HuffPost]]|access-date=March 13, 2019|date=April 20, 2017}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|first=Richard|last=Roeper|author-link=Richard Roeper|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|title=When celebs lose it: That's entertainment!|quote= First, there was the Internet-fueled comeback of an old videotape of Bill O'Reilly losing it back when Bill was anchoring "Inside Edition" and his hair seemed inspired by an old episode of "Falcon Crest".|date=May 15, 2008|location=Illinois|page=11|via=[[NewsBank]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Cummings|first1=William|title=Famous and infamous moments from Bill O'Reilly's career|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/04/19/oreilly-career-highlights/100658528/|access-date=April 20, 2017|work=[[USA Today]]|date=April 19, 2017|language=en}}</ref> 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."<ref name=Acknowledge/><ref>{{cite news|last1=O'Reilly|first1=Bill|title=Daily Kos Attacks Jenna Bush and Family|url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/05/15/daily-kos-attacks-jenna-bush-and-family.html|access-date=April 21, 2017|work=[[Fox News]]|date=May 14, 2008}}</ref> The rant was later [[parody|parodied]] by [[Stephen Colbert]] on ''[[The Colbert Report]]''<ref name=Acknowledge>{{cite magazine|last1=Wortham|first1=Jenna|title=Tributes to O'Reilly's Meltdown Surface Online|url=https://www.wired.com/2008/05/colbert-dance-r/|access-date=April 21, 2017|magazine=WIRED|date=May 15, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Shea|first1=Danny|title=Stephen Colbert Imitates O'Reilly's "Inside Edition" Meltdown|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/14/stephen-colbert-imitates_n_101641.html|access-date=April 21, 2017|work=[[Huffington Post]]|date=May 14, 2008}}</ref> as well as ''[[Family Guy]]'' and by [[Trevor Noah]] on ''[[The Daily Show]]'',<ref name=Parody>{{cite news|last1=Feldman|first1=Kate|title='Daily Show' parodies Bill O'Reilly's 'do it live' rant |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/daily-show-parodies-bill-o-reilly-live-rant-graphic-article-1.3076819|access-date=April 20, 2017|work=[[New York Daily News]]|date=April 19, 2017|language=en}}</ref> and was named one of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''{{'}}s "Top 10 Celebrity Meltdowns".<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Top 10 Celebrity Meltdowns|url=http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1876761_1876818_1876904,00.html|access-date=April 20, 2017|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=February 3, 2009}}</ref> In October 2008, [[Wednesday 13]] named [[Fuck It, We'll Do It Live|his first live album]] after a line in the rant.<ref name=Parody/><ref name="vinceanderson">{{cite news|first=Vince |last=Anderson |url=http://www.shockwavemagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=234:murderdolls&catid=38:musicians |work=Shockwave Magazine |title=Murderdolls&nbsp;– Wednesday 13 |date=August 24, 2010 |access-date=October 12, 2014 |archive-date=October 12, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012203201/http://www.shockwavemagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=234%3Amurderdolls&catid=38%3Amusicians |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2009, a "dance remix" of O'Reilly's rant was nominated for a [[2009 Webby Awards|Webby Award]] for "Best Viral Video"<ref>{{cite news|last1=Young|first1=John|title=Webby Award nominees: Was 'Bill O'Reilly Flips Out – Dance Remix' the best viral video of 2008?|url=https://ew.com/article/2009/04/15/webby-awards/|access-date=April 20, 2017|work=EW.com|date=April 15, 2009}}</ref> but lost to "The Website Is Down: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude".<ref>{{cite news|title=Online Film & Video / Viral|url=http://webbyawards.com/winners/2009/online-film-video/general-film-categories/viral/|access-date=April 20, 2017|date=June 8, 2009|archive-date=April 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170421120059/http://webbyawards.com/winners/2009/online-film-video/general-film-categories/viral/|url-status=dead}}</ref>


===1996–2017: ''The O'Reilly Factor''===
O'Reilly typically ends each episode by reading viewer [[e-mail]]. The mail read by O'Reilly is usually divided between viewers who either agree or disagree with his views. He claims to prefer mail sent in by viewers who disagree and often replies to their accusations and questions.
{{Main|The O'Reilly Factor}}
[[File:Bill O'Reilly interviews former President George W. Bush, November 2010.JPG|thumb|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''.<ref name="oreilly on rolling stone">[https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/6417561/mad_dog/] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201024432/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/6417561/mad_dog/|date=December 1, 2008}}</ref> 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.<ref name = "oreilly on rolling stone"/><ref>[http://blog.marketingdoctor.tv/2007/06/14/the-oreilly-factor-from-nickname-to-brandname.aspx" "The O'Reilly Factor: From Nickname to Brandname"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112164240/http://blog.marketingdoctor.tv/2007/06/14/the-oreilly-factor-from-nickname-to-brandname.aspx |date=January 12, 2009 }} Marketing Doctor Blog. September 26, 2008.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060316115443/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/6417561/mad_dog/ "Mad Dog"] Rolling Stone. August 11, 2004.</ref> The program was routinely the highest-rated show of the three major U.S. [[24-hour news cycle|24-hour]] [[United States cable news|cable news]] television channels and began the trend toward more opinion-oriented prime-time cable news programming.<ref name=USA_ratings>{{cite news | author=Johnson, Peter |title=Cable rantings boost ratings | date=October 3, 2006 | work=[[USA Today]]| url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/mediamix/2006-09-24-media-mix_x.htm | access-date= June 21, 2007 }}</ref> 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&nbsp;p.m. [[North American Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern Time]] and was rebroadcast at 11:00&nbsp;p.m.


[[Progressivism in the United States|Progressive]] media monitoring organizations such as [[Media Matters for America|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.<ref name="fair.org">{{cite web|last=Hart |first=Peter |url=http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1108 |title=Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, "The "Oh Really?" Factor: Bill O'Reilly spins facts and statistics," Peter Hart, May/June 2002 |publisher=Fair.org |access-date=August 5, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110727223152/http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1108| archive-date= July 27, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> In 2008, citing numerous inaccuracies in his reporting, MediaMatters for America awarded him its first annual "Misinformer of the Year" award.<ref>{{cite news|accessdate=2021-05-02|title=Bill O'Reilly's political legacy|url=https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2017/04/20/bill-oreillys-political-legacy|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=20 April 2017|issn=0013-0613}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2021-05-02|title=Bill O'Reilly: The Ousted Fox News Anchor's Many Controversies, Allegations & Blowups|url=https://people.com/tv/bill-oreilly-controversies-fox-news-exit/|website=[[People (magazine)|People]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first1=Randy|last1=Bobbitt|title=Us against Them: The Political Culture of Talk Radio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SX2hEGjz0BUC|publisher=Lexington Books|date=25 May 2010|page=64|isbn=978-1-4616-3465-2|via=Google Books}}</ref>
In 2001, ''The O'Reilly Factor'' passed ''[[Larry King Live]]'' to become the most watched cable news program in the United States. After the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], O'Reilly was honored by The National Academy of Arts and Sciences for his coverage and analysis of the events. He has also received praise from viewers and readers, most notably his being named the third most popular U.S. television personality of 2003 in a [[Harris Poll]], behind [[Oprah Winfrey]] and [[David Letterman]]. [http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=429] He led the voting among people over age 65, as well as Republicans. In 2004, readers of ''[[Men's Journal]]'' named him their third favorite news personality, behind [[Tom Brokaw]] and [[Peter Jennings]] and ahead of [[Dan Rather]] and [[Katie Couric]].[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,139046,00.html]


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.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,1016211,00.html |title=George Clooney Bites Back at Bill O'Reilly – Asia Quake 2004, Bill O'Reilly, George Clooney |work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|author=Sharon Cotliar and [[Stephen M. Silverman]] |date=November 7, 2008 |access-date=November 8, 2008}}</ref>
==Political opinion==
[[File:Bill O'Reilly at the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, September 30, 2010 (5057729886).jpg|thumb|O'Reilly at the [[World Affairs Council of Philadelphia]] in 2010]].
O'Reilly disagrees vehemently with the common belief that he is a conservative, preferring to call himself a traditionalist and a [[populist]]. In his book ''The O'Reilly Factor'', he describes his political affiliation this way: "You might be wondering if 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."
On August 27, 2002, O'Reilly called for all Americans to boycott [[Pepsi]] products,<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|last=Noah |first=Timothy |url=http://www.slate.com/id/2078577/ |title=Whopper of the Week: Bill O'Reilly |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |date=February 14, 2003 |access-date=December 1, 2010}}</ref> 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.<ref name="autogenerated1" /> 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 lawsuits|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.<ref>{{cite web|last=Harling |first=Danielle |url=http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.10814/title.ludacris-and-bill-oreilly-make-amends |title=Ludacris And Bill O'Reilly Make Amends |publisher=Hiphopdx.com |date=March 11, 2010 |access-date=December 1, 2010}}</ref>


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]&nbsp;... I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again."<ref>''Good Morning America'', ABC. March 18, 2003.</ref> 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."<ref>[http://www.seattlepi.com/tv/160422_oreilly13.html "Bill O'Reilly admits he was wrong about Iraq"], [[Associated Press]].</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-oreillys-iraq-mea-culpa/ | title=Bill O'Reilly's Iraq Mea Culpa | work=[[CBS News]] | date=February 11, 2004 | access-date=April 20, 2017}}</ref>
However, O'Reilly has acknowledged that from 1994 until December 2000, he was registered to vote as a [[United States Republican Party|Republican]]. He changed his voter registration from Republican to independent when the ''[[Washington Post]]'' was about to expose his party affiliation. Now a registered independent, O'Reilly has said his previous affiliation was the result of a clerical mistake which has since been corrected. "I've always been an independent," he says. "I always split my ticket. I vote for the person I think is best." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62722-2000Dec12?language=printer]


Beginning in 2005, he periodically denounced [[George Tiller]], a [[Kansas]]-based physician who specialized in second- and third-trimester abortions,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/us/01tiller.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |title=Abortion Doctor Shot to Death in Kansas Church |first1=Joe |last1=Stumpe |first2=Monica |last2=Davey |date=June 1, 2009 |access-date=April 1, 2010}}</ref> often referring to him as "Tiller the baby killer".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/us/02blame.html?scp=1&sq=%22Tiller+the+baby+killer%22&st=nyt |work=[[The New York Times]] |title=Doctor's Killer Is Not Alone in the Blame, Some Say |first=Brian |last=Stelter |date=June 2, 2009 |access-date=April 1, 2010}}</ref> Tiller was [[Assassination of George Tiller|murdered]] on May 31, 2009, by Scott Roeder, an [[anti-abortion]] activist.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/06032009/news/nationalnews/anti_abortion_zealot_charged_with_murder_172293.htm |work=[[The New York Post]] |title=Anti-Abortion Zealot Charged With Murder |date=June 3, 2009}}</ref> Critics such as ''[[Salon (website)|Salon]]''{{'}}s Gabriel Winant have asserted that his anti-Tiller rhetoric helped to create an atmosphere of violence around the doctor.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.salon.com/2009/03/27/tiller/ |first=Alex |last=Koppelman |title=O'Reilly's campaign against murdered doctor |work=[[Salon.com|Salon]] |date=May 31, 2009 |access-date=August 5, 2011}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |first=Jay |last=Bookman |url=http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2009/06/01/dont-smear-oreilly-with-tiller-assassination/ |title=Don't smear O'Reilly with Tiller assassination |website=[[Atlanta Journal-Constitution|Blogs.ajc.com]] |date=June 1, 2009 |access-date=August 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006193652/http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2009/06/01/dont-smear-oreilly-with-tiller-assassination/ |archive-date=October 6, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> O'Reilly responded to the criticism by saying "no backpedaling here&nbsp;... every single thing we said about Tiller was true."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/02/AR2009060200889.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |title=Let's Take a Deep Breath |first=Howard |last=Kurtz |date=June 2, 2009 |access-date=April 26, 2010}}</ref>
Although O'Reilly emphasizes that he is an independent thinker, this claim is intensely disputed. Critics attest that O'Reilly has close ties to the Republican Party and other conservative groups. Besides his voter registration, O'Reilly's keynote speech at [[David Horowitz]]'s conservative "Restoration Weekend" event, taking place at the Republican convention in Philadelphia, is occasionally brought up in support of this argument. However, O'Reilly claims that some of these appearances were inadvertent on his part, such as when U.S. Rep. [[Chris Shays]] asked him to speak at a charity benefit in [[Greenwich, Connecticut|Greenwich]], [[Connecticut]] without telling him that it was for a Republican-backed cause.


[[File:Bill O'Reilly chats with Jeffrey Jamieson.jpg|thumb|O'Reilly at Bagram Air Force Base with A1C Jeffrey Jamieson in 2007]]
Nevertheless, O'Reilly's opinions contain a mix of traditionally [[conservative]], [[liberal]] and [[libertarian]] positions, and comprise a generally [[communitarian]] outlook. Notably, his position on illegal immigration does not follow a traditional conservative standpoint; According to O'Reilly it is based on protecting national security. Regarding embryonic [[stem cell|stem cell research]], O'Reilly believes that such programs are too controversial and objectionable to many citizens to approve federal funding for them. However, he also believes that private organizations should be allowed to persist with such research, especially with discarded embryos from fertility labs, even though he believes that it is a moral grey area.
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".<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Indiana University |url=http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/5535.html |title=Content analysis of O'Reilly's Rhetoric find spin to be a 'factor' |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070504040310/http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/5535.html |archive-date=May 4, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|first1=Mike|last1=Conway|first2=Maria Elizabeth|last2=Grabe|first3=Kevin|last3=Grieves|url=http://journalism.indiana.edu/papers/oreillyjourstud07.pdf|title=Villains, Victims, and the Virtuous in Bill O'Reilly's 'No-Spin Zone'|journal=[[Journalism Studies]]|publisher=[[Routledge]]|location=London, England|volume=8|number=2|date=March 7, 2007|pages=197–223|doi=10.1080/14616700601148820 |s2cid=205814348|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325092745/http://journalism.indiana.edu/papers/oreillyjourstud07.pdf |archive-date=March 25, 2009 }}</ref> He responded, asserting that "the terms 'conservative', 'liberal', '[[Left-wing politics|left]]', '[[Right-wing politics|right]]', '[[Progressivism|progressive]]', 'traditional' and '[[centrism|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.<ref name="LATimes-Conway">Mike Conway, Maria Elizabeth Grabe and Kevin Grieves, ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', [https://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-conway16may16,0,3767872.story?coll=la-opinion-center ''Bill O'Reilly and Krippendorff's Alpha''], May 16, 2007. Retrieved May 18, 2007.</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|first=Ron|last=Mitchell|url=https://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-mitchell9may09,0,3143633.story?coll=la-opinion-center|title=Stop Calling O'Reilly Names|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|location=Los Angeles, California|date=May 10, 2007|access-date=May 10, 2007}}</ref>


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 lawsuits|sexual harassment claims]] of six women. The show continued, rebranded as ''The Factor'', now hosted by [[Dana Perino]].<ref name=nytimes_2017_04_19/> On the same day, Fox announced that [[Tucker Carlson|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]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Koppelman|first1=Alex|last2=Byers|first2=Dylan|last3=Stelter|first3=Brian|title=Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News|url=https://money.cnn.com/2017/04/19/media/bill-oreilly-out-fox-news/|access-date=April 22, 2017|work=[[CNNMoney]]|date=April 19, 2017}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|publisher=[[Washington Post Company]]|location=Washington D.C.|agency=[[Associated Press]]|date=April 20, 2017|title=The Latest: 21st Century stock rises after O'Reilly firing|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-latest-fox-news-addresses-oreilly-departure/2017/04/19/f183a9fe-2560-11e7-928e-3624539060e8_story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422135209/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-latest-fox-news-addresses-oreilly-departure/2017/04/19/f183a9fe-2560-11e7-928e-3624539060e8_story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 22, 2017}}</ref>
A viewer once wrote to give O'Reilly a rough statistical analysis of his political viewpoints and found O'Reilly to take more conservative viewpoints roughly 60% of the time, more liberal viewpoints 30% of the time, and completely moderate viewpoints 10% of the time.


==== Departure from Fox News ====
===Traditionally conservative views===
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.<ref name="nyt-settlements"/> After the settlements were reported, ''The O'Reilly Factor'' lost more than half its advertisers within a week;<ref>{{cite news|first=Karl|last=Russell|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/11/business/oreilly-advertisers.html|title=Bill O'Reilly's Show Lost More Than Half Its Advertisers in a Week|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|location=New York City|date=April 11, 2017}}</ref> almost 60 companies withdrew their [[television advertising]] from the show<ref>{{cite web|first=Tom|last=Kludt|url=https://money.cnn.com/2017/04/06/media/oreilly-factor-advertising-boycott/|title=Few ads run on 'O'Reilly Factor' as boycott takes effect|website=[[CNNMoney]]|location=Atlanta, Georgia|date=April 6, 2015}}</ref> amid a growing backlash against O'Reilly.<ref>{{cite news|first=Callum|last=Borchers|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/07/bill-oreillys-advertiser-exodus-is-even-worse-than-it-looks/|title=Bill O'Reilly's advertiser exodus is even worse than it looks|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|publisher=[[Washington Post Company]]|location=Washington, D.C.|date=April 7, 2017}}</ref><ref>Mirren Gidda, [http://www.newsweek.com/bill-o-reilly-fox-news-sexual-harassment-roger-ailes-579325 Fox News' Bill O'Reilly continues to lose advertisers over sexual harassment scandal], ''Newsweek'' (April 5, 2017).</ref> 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.<ref>[https://money.cnn.com/2017/04/11/media/bill-oreilly-vacation/ Bill O'Reilly taking vacation amid scandal, advertiser exodus] CNN Money, April 11, 2017.</ref> On April 19, Fox News announced that O'Reilly would not be returning to the network.<ref>Popken, Ben. [https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/bill-o-reilly-reportedly-out-fox-news-n748236 Bill O'Reilly Officially Out at Fox News Amid Sexual Harassment Claims]. NBC News. April 19, 2017.</ref><ref name=nytimes_2017_04_19/> The program was subsequently renamed ''The Factor'' on April 19 and aired its last episode on April 21.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/04/bill-oreilly-fired-the-factor-name-removed-1202072743/|title=Bill O'Reilly's Name Wiped From 'The Factor' After Fox News Parts Ways With Star|first=Lisa |last=de Moraes|date=April 20, 2017}}</ref>
* Supports harsher prosecution for hard drug dealers
* Supports strict enforcement of [[illegal immigration|immigration law]] by placing the [[United States National Guard|National Guard]] on the U.S.-[[Mexico]] border
* Supports [[2003 invasion of Iraq|2003 invasion]] and [[US-led occupation of Iraq|occupation]] of [[Iraq]], though he has been highly critical of the [[Bush Administration|Bush Administration's]] handling of the occupation and lack of [[weapons of mass destruction|WMD]] evidence
* Supports subjecting violent criminals "to life in prison without parole in a federal work camp [...] in effect a gulag [...] to labor eight hours a day, six days a week in the harsh climate." He does however oppose the death penalty, but only because he does not believe it is harsh enough punishment [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23246]
* Supports prohibition of [[partial-birth abortion|late-term abortion]]
* Opposes [[gay marriage]] if enacted by judges, though says it personally doesn't bother him
* Opposes [[publicly funded medicine]] beyond what he considers a necessary "safety net"
* Opposes federal funding of embryonic [[stem cell|stem cell research]], though believes research done in the private sector could be "promising"
* Opposes public [[secularism|secularization]] of [[religion]]


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.<ref>{{cite news | last1=Concha | first1=Joe | title=O'Reilly: 'I Should Have' Fought Back Like Hannity | url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/337139-oreilly-i-should-have-fought-back-like-hannity/ | date=June 9, 2017 | newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] | access-date=June 9, 2017}}</ref>
===Traditionally liberal views===
* Supports raising automobile [[fuel efficiency]] standards due to his belief in [[global warming]]
* Supports a large and well-funded [[Environmental Protection Agency]]
* Supports [[campaign finance reform]]
* Supports [[gay adoption]] if no heterosexual couples are available and as an alternative to foster homes
* Supports [[civil unions]]
* Supports [[gay marriage]] if voted for by citizens (would himself vote in favor)
* Supports [[Gun politics in the US|gun control]] while believing in validity of the [[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution|2nd Amendment]]


===2017–present: Post–Fox News career===
===Traditionally libertarian views===
O'Reilly launched a podcast called ''No Spin News'' on April 24, 2017, after his departure from Fox News.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/bill-o-reilly-set-make-first-appearance-ouster-fox-news-n750201|title=Bill O'Reilly Speaks Out in Podcast: 'Hey, I Missed You Guys'|last=Newcomb|first=Alyssa|date=April 24, 2017|access-date=April 24, 2017|work=[[NBC News]]}}</ref> In August 2017, O'Reilly began digitally streaming a video version of ''No Spin News''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.billoreilly.com/blog?categoryID=7|title=Bill O'Reilly: No Spin News Archive|first=Bill|last=O'Reilly|website=www.billoreilly.com|access-date=January 19, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last1=Greenwood | first1=Max | title=Bill O'Reilly Debuts New Webcast | url=https://thehill.com/homenews/media/346036-bill-oreilly-debuts-new-webcast/ | date=August 10, 2017 | newspaper=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] | publisher=Capitol Hill Publishing|location=Washington, D.C.|access-date=August 10, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Ex-Fox News Star Bill O'Reilly Launches Daily Online Show | url=http://www.seattletimes.com/business/ex-fox-news-star-bill-oreilly-launches-video-prototype/ | date=August 10, 2017 | newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]]|agency=[[Associated Press]] | access-date=August 10, 2017}}</ref> In May 2017, O'Reilly began to appear as a recurring guest on Friday editions of the ''[[Glenn Beck Radio Program]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Chris|last=Ariens |url=http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/bill-oreilly-will-join-glenn-becks-the-blaze-for-weekly-segments/329445 |title=Bill O'Reilly Will Join Glenn Beck's The Blaze For Weekly Segments |magazine=[[Adweek]] |publisher=Beringer Capital|location=New York City|date=May 17, 2017 |access-date=August 30, 2017}}</ref> In June 2017, O'Reilly and [[Dennis Miller]] co-headlined the public speaking tour, "The Spin Stops Here".<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Paul|last=Bond|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bill-oreillys-live-tour-is-still-happening-996251 |title=Bill O'Reilly's Live Tour Is Still Happening (For Now) |magazine=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |location=Los Angeles, California|date=April 21, 2017 |access-date=September 13, 2017}}</ref>
* Opposes government regulation of private sexual acts between consenting adults
* Opposes additional regulation of [[pornography]]
* Supports decriminalizing [[marijuana]] and the use of [[medical marijuana]] if prescribed by a [[physician]]
* Supports cutting taxes across the board and eliminating the inheritance tax
* Opposes the criminalization of most forms of [[abortion]] (late-term abortion being the exception), though personally finds the practice morally questionable


O'Reilly made his first appearance on Fox News since his ouster on September 26, 2017, being interviewed by [[Sean Hannity]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/sean-hannity-bill-oreilly-fox-news-1202574070/ |title=Bill O'Reilly Talks NFL Protests, Media Bias in Return to Fox News on 'Hannity' | last=Littleton | first=Cynthia | magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|location=Los Angeles, California|date=September 26, 2017 |access-date=October 3, 2017}}</ref> In 2019, O'Reilly started a 15-minute radio show, ''The O’Reilly Update''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-03-26 |title=Bill O'Reilly Gets His 15 Minutes |url=https://radioink.com/2019/03/25/bill-oreilly-gets-his-15-minutes/ |website=Radio Ink |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Criticism and controversy==
===Disputes with individuals===
====Al Franken====
O'Reilly has a long-standing dispute with [[liberal]] [[comedian]] and political commentator [[Al Franken]], who O'Reilly refers to as [[Stuart Smalley]] in reference to Franken's character from [[Saturday Night Live]]. This dispute reached its peak in [[2003]], when Franken published a book, ''[[Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them|Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right]]'', featuring a photograph of O'Reilly on the cover and a full chapter about him (entitled "Bill O'Reilly: Lying, Splotchy Bully") within the book itself. The two had a heated argument over Franken's accusations and O'Reilly's purported lies at a bookseller's convention that was aired on national television via [[C-SPAN]].[http://www.booktv.org/misc/BookExpo_053103.asp]


By 2020, simulcasts of O'Reilly's ''No Spin News'' show began to air on [[Newsmax TV]].<ref name="newsmax">{{Cite news|last=Barr|first=Jeremy|title=Newsmax has emerged as a landing spot for cable news personalities in need of a new home|language=en-US|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2020/08/12/newsmax-has-emerged-landing-spot-cable-news-personalities-need-new-home/|access-date=December 5, 2020|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> ''No Spin News'' began airing on [[The First TV]] in June 2020.<ref name="thefirst">{{Cite web|last=Fischer|first=Sara|title=Bill O'Reilly's show to air on conservative streaming network The First|url=https://www.axios.com/bill-oreilly-show-airing-ott-network-first-news-32613a07-392d-43e7-b8a2-978b29b1121d.html|access-date=2020-12-18|website=[[Axios (website)|Axios]]|date=June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
In his book, Franken accuses O'Reilly of lying about and distorting facts and stories to make himself look better. For example, O'Reilly stated that the television show ''[[Inside Edition]]'' won two [[Peabody Award]]s for journalism, when it actually won the [[George Polk Award]] over a year after O'Reilly had left. O'Reilly first denied the misstatement, but then later corrected it. O'Reilly also claims that he corrected the statement on the air at least six times before Franken's book was released. O'Reilly has pointed out that he was merely defending his old show, and not accepting the awards for himself.


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".<ref>{{cite web|website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/557171-trump-to-launch-speaking-tour-with-bill-oreilly/|author=Mychael Schnell|date=June 7, 2021|title=Trump to launch speaking tour with Bill O'Reilly}}</ref>
Fox News sued Franken for trademark infringement over the use of the phrase "fair and balanced" in the book's title. O'Reilly has consistently said that he was not involved in the lawsuit, though reports from several Fox News employees and insiders, including CEO [[Roger Ailes]], indicate that he was the driving force behind it. Once the case reached court, the presiding judge dismissed the lawsuit as "wholly without merit." O'Reilly later said he had considered personally suing Franken for defamation but was told that, as a public person, the standard of proof would be too high to sustain a lawsuit.


== Other appearances ==
In March 2004, Franken launched a radio talk-show named ''The O'Franken Factor'' on the [[Air America Radio]] network. Franken joked that he hoped O'Reilly would sue Air America for [[trademark]] infringement because it would generate publicity for Franken's new program. O'Reilly never publicly commented on Franken's choice of title and Franken renamed his program to ''[[The Al Franken Show]]'' in July 2004.
===Newspaper column===
O'Reilly wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column through [[Creators Syndicate]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.creators.com/opinion/bill-oreilly-about.html|title=About Bill O'Reilly |publisher=Creators Syndicate}}</ref> that appeared in numerous newspapers, including the ''[[New York Post]]'' and the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''.<ref>BillOReilly.com, [http://www.billoreilly.com/pg/jsp/general/newspapercolumn.jsp ''Newspaper Column List''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061208093737/http://www.billoreilly.com/pg/jsp/general/newspapercolumn.jsp |date=December 8, 2006 }}. Retrieved January 8, 2007.</ref> He discontinued the column at the end of 2013.


===Radio ventures===
Franken, the ''[[Washington Post]]'', and others have also asserted that O'Reilly did not grow up in Levittown, but instead in a more affluent neighboring village, [[Westbury, New York|Westbury]]. The source the ''Post'' used for their assertion was O'Reilly's mother, who at the time a [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62722-2000Dec12?language=printer profile] of O'Reilly was published in [[2000]] still lived in O'Reilly's boyhood home. O'Reilly has indicated in interviews since the article was published, notably including his 2004 appearance on ''[[The Late Show with David Letterman]]'', that his mother felt as though she was misinterpreted.
{{main|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.<ref>[http://stateofthemedia.org/2007/radio-intro/talk-radio/ The State of the News Media 2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413060632/http://stateofthemedia.org/2007/radio-intro/talk-radio/ |date=April 13, 2014 }}. Annual Report on American Journalism, 2007.</ref> 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.<ref>[http://talkers.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=44 Heavy Hundred 2008] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318180631/http://talkers.com/main/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=44 |date=March 18, 2008 }} Talkers Magazine, June 2008.</ref>


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]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Over 100 Affiliates Air 'The O'Reilly Update' Debut |url=https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/186079/over-100-affiliates-air-the-o-reilly-update-debut |website=All Access |language=en}}</ref> In September 2020, O'Reilly began hosting a daily radio show on [[WABC (AM)|77WABC]] titled ''Common Sense with Bill O’Reilly''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schwartz |first1=Brian |title=Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly gets new show on radio station owned by Trump ally |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/11/bill-oreilly-gets-new-show-on-radio-station-owned-by-trump-ally.html |publisher=[[CNBC]] |access-date=December 21, 2021 |language=en |date=September 11, 2020}}</ref>
However, O'Reilly maintains that he grew up in the Westbury section of Levittown, a claim with room for interpretation, as commented on in an October 2003 article by the vice president of the Levittown Historical Society. [http://www.antonnews.com/levittowntribune/2003/10/24/opinion/manton.html] O'Reilly also points to the fact that he was not eligible to attend Westbury High School as evidence of his Levittown roots, since he did not live within the Westbury school district, however, in many cities, school district boundaries do not coincide with city limits.


===''The Daily Show''===
In an [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3079847/ interview] in September of 2003, O'Reilly stated that while the section of Levittown he grew up in was formerly called Westbury, it is now called Salisbury. O'Reilly did confirm that the post office where mail was delivered when he was growing up was Westbury, although post office delivery boundaries often do not coincide with city limits. In April of 2004, O'Reilly released the [http://www.billoreilly.com/images/PDF/deed.pdf deed] to the house his parents bought on Long Island in [[1951]], which shows the address as being in Levittown, NY.
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".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/02/stewart-to-o-reilly-you-re-the-thinnest-kid-at-fat-camp/346755/|title= Stewart to O'Reilly: You're the 'Thinnest Kid at Fat Camp'|website=[[The Atlantic]]|date= February 4, 2010|access-date= June 10, 2020}}</ref>


In 2012, Stewart joined O'Reilly in a debate for charity entitled, ''[[The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium]]'' at [[George Washington University]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2012/10/06/bill-oreilly-vs-jon-stewart-the-rumble-in-the-air-conditioned-auditorium-review/|title= Bill O'Reilly vs Jon Stewart 'The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium' review: Gasbags delight|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date= June 10, 2020}}</ref> ''[[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".<ref name=nytblog>{{Cite news|last=Hautman|first=Emmarie|title=Stewart and O'Reilly Share Stage in Political Joust|url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/stewart-and-oreilly-share-stage-in-political-joust/|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=October 7, 2012|date=October 7, 2012}}</ref> 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!".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-oreilly-and-jon-stewart-had-an-epic-showdown-over-white-privilege-2014-10|title= Bill O'Reilly And Jon Stewart Had An Epic Showdown Over White Privilege|website=[[Business Insider]]|access-date= June 10, 2020}}</ref>
====Bill Moyers====
O'Reilly has criticized [[Bill Moyers]], the host of ''[[NOW with Bill Moyers]]'' on [[PBS]], on multiple broadcasts of ''The O'Reilly Factor,'' and Moyers has in turn accused O'Reilly of lying. In [[2002]], O'Reilly said Moyers called him a "[[warmonger]]," and also implied that Moyers was making money by selling videotapes of his program. The strongest accusation was that Moyers made contributions to the ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'' to "buy" the [[duPont-Columbia Award]]. Moyers responded in print that he never called O'Reilly a warmonger, that his share of distribution money from the show is minuscule, and that the ''Columbia Journalism Review'' doesn't pick the winner of the duPont-Columbia Award [http://www.truthout.com/docs_02/12.06D.moyers.oreilly.htm]. In 2003, O'Reilly criticized Bill Moyers again, saying that Moyers' position that taxes should be raised is "classic socialism" and that he "can't understand why Bill Moyers just doesn't move to [[Havana]]". [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100132,00.html]


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!"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mediaite.com/tv/hillary-mccain-oreilly-and-more-tell-stewart-to-piss-off/|title= 'So Long, Jackass': Hillary, McCain, O'Reilly and More Tell Stewart to Piss Off|website=Mediaite|date= August 7, 2015|access-date= June 10, 2020}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2015/08/bill-oreilly-jon-stewart-appreciation-daily-show-finale-1201492823/|title= Bill O'Reilly: A Jon Stewart Appreciation|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date= August 6, 2015|access-date= June 10, 2020}}</ref>
====Jeremy Glick====
In a highly-publicized incident, [[Jeremy Glick (author)|Jeremy Glick]], whose father was killed in the 9/11 attacks, was invited onto [[The O'Reilly Factor]] to discuss his having signed an anti-war advertisement [http://www.thoughtcrimenews.com/video.htm]. The interview was acrimonious in tone from the beginning, with Glick accusing the host of not telling the truth, and O'Reilly stating that his guest was "mouthing a far left position that is a marginal position in this society" and that he "[didn't] really care what [Glick] think[s]." Glick claimed that President [[George H. W. Bush]] trained the [[Mujahideen]] in [[Afghanistan]], and went on to say that O'Reilly "evoke[d] 9/11 to rationalize everything from domestic plunder to imperialistic aggression worldwide." This infuriated O'Reilly, who demanded that Glick "keep [his] mouth shut" and told him to "shut up, shut up", adding, "I hope your mother isn't watching this!" An increasingly agitated O'Reilly eventually instructed the show's producer to "cut his mic," and ended the interview, then motioned to an off-camera worker to remove Glick from the studio. After the commercial break, O'Reilly offered an apology, saying that "if I knew that guy [...] was going to be like that, I never would have brought him in here, and I feel bad for his family." [http://www.bushpresident2004.com/oreilly-transcript.htm]. O'Reilly has referred to the episode on several subsequent broadcasts of his show. A day after the interview, O'Reilly told his audience that "Glick was out of control, and spewing hatred for [...] his country using vile propaganda." [http://www.yopyop.com/citizens/comments.php?id=10_0_1_0_C] Six months later, O'Reilly claimed that Glick said George W. Bush and his father "were directly responsible for 9/11". Nearly a year later, O'Reilly again referred to the interview, saying that Glick "accused President Bush of knowing about 9/11". [http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2003_10_12_archive.html#106627610451774890] Glick and his supporters deny O'Reilly's allegations, and maintain that the transcripts show that he said nothing of the sort.


====Ludacris and Pepsi====
=== 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 (film)|Man Down]]'' (2015).<ref name="flic_Bill">{{cite web | title = Bill O'Reilly Trashes Potts, Stark In Iron Man 2 (Screenshots) | last = Best | first = Adam | work = FlickSided | date = May 3, 2010 | access-date = March 10, 2015 | url = http://flicksided.com/2010/05/03/bill-oreilly-trashes-potts-stark-in-iron-man-2/ | archive-date = January 28, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150128165940/http://flicksided.com/2010/05/03/bill-oreilly-trashes-potts-stark-in-iron-man-2/ | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name="vani_Does">{{cite magazine | title = Does Bill O'Reilly Give the Best Performance in Transformers: Dark of the Moon? (and 24 Other Urgent Questions) | last = Ryan | first = Mike | magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] | date = June 28, 2011 | access-date = March 10, 2015 | url = https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2011/06/transformers }}</ref><ref name="imdb_AnAm">{{cite web | title = An American Carol (2008) | website=www.imdb.com | access-date = March 10, 2015 | url = https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190617/fullcredits#cast }}</ref>
Following his criticism of [[gangsta]] rap, O'Reilly accused [[Ludacris]], and [[Pepsi]] who employed the rapper to advertise their cola, of targetting young people with inappropriate material. O'Reilly called for a boycott of Pepsi. Pepsi stopped the Ludacris advertisements, but Ludacris and some supporters, including [[Russell Simmons]], accused Pepsi of racism and called for an [[African American]] boycott of Pepsi. When Ludacris signed a deal with [[Anheuser-Busch]] to endorse [[Budweiser]], O'Reilly protested, although Budweiser is not marketed to children[http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/171350p-149525c.html].


In 2010, he famously appeared on ''[[The View (talk show)|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."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/whoopi-goldberg-joy-behar-leave-view-bill-oreilly/story?id=11881230|title= 'View' Co-Hosts Storm Off Set After Bill O'Reilly Says 'Muslims Killed Us on 9/11'|website=[[ABC News]]|access-date= June 10, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/sns-the-view-bill-orielly-the-view-htmlstory.html|title= Whoopi and Joy walk off 'The View' set|website= [[The Chicago Tribune]]|date= October 14, 2010|access-date= June 10, 2020}}</ref> 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]]''.
Pepsi since replaced Ludacris as spokesperson with [[Ozzy Osbourne]]. Despite Osbourne's controversial demeanor, O'Reilly has--so far--offered no complaint.


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."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/music/the-biggest-kennedy-center-honors-surprises-1.6570329|title= The biggest Kennedy Center Honors surprises|website=[[Newsday]]|date= December 9, 2013|access-date= June 11, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kennedy-center-honors-santana-billy-joel-and-herbie-hancock-242171/|title= Kennedy Center Honors Santana, Billy Joel and Herbie Hancock|magazine= [[Rolling Stone]]|date= December 9, 2013|access-date= June 11, 2020}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbs.com/shows/kennedy_center_honors/photos/1001018/the-36th-kennedy-center-honors/|title= The 36th Kennedy Center Honors|website=[[CBS News]]|access-date= June 11, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5s9iWJ5Qeo| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211031/J5s9iWJ5Qeo| archive-date=2021-10-31 | url-status=live|title= The 36th Kennedy Center Honors 2013 (FULL): Arroyo/Hancock/Joel/MacLaine/Santana|website=[[YouTube]]|access-date= June 11, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
O'Reilly had also targeted the rapper recently for unproven criminal acts on the March 9, [[2005]] show. He claimed that Ludacris alongside other high-profile rappers are being involved in the drug-dealing and [[narcotics]] sales. The grudge against Ludacris is still on-going due to the fact that Ludacris had rallied a boycott against O'Reilly and called him a racist on his albums.


=== Television projects ===
Ludacris had recently performed at the Superbowl on FOX, the channel that is responsible for the ''O'Reilly Factor''.
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 (film)|Killing Lincoln]]'' (2013), ''[[Killing Kennedy (film)|Killing Kennedy]]'' (2013), ''[[Killing Jesus (film)|Killing Jesus]]'' (2015), and ''[[Killing Reagan (film)|Killing Reagan]]'' (2016) which aired on [[National Geographic]]. O'Reilly received two [[Primetime Emmy Award]] nominations for [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie|Outstanding Television Movie]] for ''Killing Kennedy'' and ''Killing Jesus''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/bill-oreilly|title= Bill O'Reilly – Emmy Awards, Nominations, and Wins|website= Emmys.com|access-date= June 10, 2020}}</ref>


From 2015 to 2018, O'Reilly also served as an executive producer on the documentary series, ''[[Legends & Lies]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/fox-news-legends-and-lies-bill-oreilly-as-exec-producer-1202736486/|title= Bill O'Reilly Produced New Season of Fox News' 'Legends and Lies'|website= [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date= March 26, 2018|access-date= June 10, 2020}}</ref>
====Andrea Mackris====
On [[October 13]], [[2004]], O'Reilly sued former ''O'Reilly Factor'' producer [[Andrea Mackris]] for what he claimed was a politically motivated extortion attempt against him. He also sued her lawyer, [[Benedict P. Morelli]], and Morelli's law firm for the same reason.[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013042oreilly1.html] O'Reilly's lawsuit contended that Mackris had privately demanded more than $60 million (USD) to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit she was planning on filing against O'Reilly, Fox News, and Westwood One in court. A few hours after O'Reilly's lawsuit was filed, Mackris filed her own against O'Reilly for allegedly making sexually inappropriate comments to her.[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris1.html]


==Political views and media coverage==
On [[October 19]], Mackris filed an amended complaint, adding what she claimed were further details of O'Reilly's alleged sexual harassment. In addition to noting that O'Reilly had issued no formal denials, the complaint described actions allegedly taken against her by Fox and O'Reilly for the purpose of retaliation for filing her original complaint, and asked for additional damages. Fox News contended that Mackris was still on their payroll at the time her lawsuit was amended, and that she had not shown up for work for over two weeks and had stated she was not going to return at any point. They also moved to obtain the court's permission to fire Mackris without it appearing that they were retaliating, which would be illegal according to sexual harassment statutes.
{{Main|Political views of Bill O'Reilly}}
[[File:Bill O'Reilly (commentator).jpg|thumb|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.<ref name="sandiego">{{cite news|url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20040210-0550-campaign-bush-oreilly.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040211122610/http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20040210-0550-campaign-bush-oreilly.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 11, 2004 |title=Conservative U.S. anchor now skeptical about Bush |access-date=April 4, 2009 |date=February 10, 2004 |work=[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]] }}</ref> 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 [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]], [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]], [[Libertarianism|libertarian]], or exactly what&nbsp;... 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."<ref>{{cite book|last=O'Reilly|first=Bill|title=The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780767905299&view=excerpt|access-date=March 21, 2007|date=March 12, 2002|publisher=Broadway Books|isbn=0-7679-0529-6}}</ref> On December 6, 2000, the ''[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]'' in New York reported, however, that he had been registered with the [[United States Republican Party|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.<ref>{{cite news| last =Ingrassia| first =Michele| title =He's Living the Life of O'Reilly|work=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]| date=December 6, 2000| url =http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/2000/12/06/2000-12-06_he_s_living_the_life_of_o_re.html| access-date=April 21, 2009 }} {{dead link|date=May 2016}}</ref> 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."<ref>''The Radio Factor'', September 27, 2007.</ref> Despite his remarks, many view him as a conservative figure.<ref name="sandiego"/> A February 2009 Pew Research poll found that 66% of his television viewers identify themselves as conservative, 24% moderate, and 3% liberal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1102/limbaugh-audience-conservative-men|title=Limbaugh Holds onto his Niche – Conservative Men|date=February 3, 2009|access-date=April 4, 2009|publisher=Pew Research Center|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327215304/http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1102/limbaugh-audience-conservative-men|archive-date=March 27, 2009|url-status=dead }}</ref> A November 2008 poll by [[Zogby International]] found that O'Reilly was the second most trusted news personality, after [[Rush Limbaugh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imao.us/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/media_project_poll_info.pdf|title=Zogby Poll Finds the Internet Today's Most Trusted News Source|date=November 20, 2008|access-date=October 1, 2010|publisher=The IFC Media Project}}</ref>


In a 2003 interview with [[Terry Gross]] on [[National Public Radio]], O'Reilly said:
On [[October 20]], O'Reilly and Fox News petitioned the court, asking for any tapes Mackris had of the alleged conversations to be turned over.[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1020042fox1.html] The court agreed to meet on [[October 29]] to decide whether or not the alleged tapes should be turned over to O'Reilly and his lawyers. However, the case was settled on October 28, 2004 before it ever reached the court, with both parties stating publicly that no wrong had been done by O'Reilly or Mackris, and that the terms of the settlement would remain private. [http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2004-10-28-oreilly-settles_x.htm] O'Reilly stated on ''[[Charlie Rose (show)|Charlie Rose]]'' the next month that he had no interest in discussing the case further, and that he wanted everyone, including the press, to understand that the settlement indicated "O'Reilly did nothing wrong".
{{blockquote|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&nbsp;... [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.<ref name=npr>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1459090|title=Bill O'Reilly|last=Gross|first=Terry|date=October 8, 2003|work=Fresh Air from WHYY |publisher=[[NPR]]|access-date=April 9, 2009 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090303230016/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1459090| archive-date= March 3, 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref>}}


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 of Harlem|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 [[Jesse Jackson|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.'"<ref>{{cite web|author=Nox Solutions |url=http://billoreilly.com/blog;jsessionid=33ACA2334DD2726B8B743E9684498D29?action=viewBlog&blogID=-514007249730622364 |title=Audio broadcast of Radio Factor 9/19/2007 |publisher=Billoreilly.com |date=September 25, 2007 |access-date=August 5, 2011}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0709/25/ltm.01.html |title=Transcripts |work=[[CNN]]|access-date=November 19, 2008}}</ref> [[Media Matters for America]] covered the story on a number of occasions.<ref>Media Matters for America: [http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/09/21/oreilly-surprised-there-was-no-difference-betwe/139893 O'Reilly surprised "there was no difference" between Harlem restaurant and other New York restaurants] September 21, 2007.</ref><ref>Media Matters for America:{{cite web |url=https://www.mediamatters.org/bill-oreilly/cnns-roland-martin-oreilly-comment-last-i-checked-i-didnt-hand-over-my-brain-rev |title=CNN's Roland Martin on O'Reilly comment: "&#91;L&#93;ast I checked, I didn't hand over my brain to Rev. Sharpton" |website=[[Media Matters for America]] |date=September 26, 2007 |access-date=August 6, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011133104/http://mediamatters.org/items/200709270001?f=h_latest |archive-date=October 11, 2008 }} September 26, 2007.</ref> 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 [[racism|racist]] for condemning racism."<ref>{{cite news |author=Bill O'Reilly |url=http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298120,00.html |title=CNN Goes Over to the Dark Side – The O'Reilly Factor |work=[[Fox News]] |date=September 26, 2007 |access-date=November 19, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211091109/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298120,00.html |archive-date=February 11, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.<ref name=smeared >{{cite news|title=Bill O'Reilly says he's being smeared|author=Bauder, D.|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2007-09-26-oreilly_N.htm|work=[[USA Today]]|date=September 26, 2007|access-date=June 6, 2013}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Bill O'Reilly's Comment on Slaves Who Built White House Has a Long History |url=https://time.com/4426477/bill-oreilly-white-house-slaves-history/ |access-date=August 28, 2022 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> Following criticism he defended his comment by stating that the nation’s first president provided slaves with "meat, bread and other staples".<ref>{{cite news |title=Bill O'Reilly Defends Comments About 'Well Fed' Slaves |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/business/media/bill-oreilly-says-slaves-who-helped-build-white-house-were-well-fed.html |access-date=August 28, 2022 |work=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 27, 2016 |last1=Victor |first1=Daniel }}</ref>
===='''Ward Churchill'''====


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, New York|Westbury]],<ref name="farhi" /> which is a few miles from Levittown. Citing this interview, then [[Modern liberalism in the United States|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<ref>{{cite news | url = http://poststar.com/opinion/commentary/the-press-has-taken-off-gloves-of-fairness/article_20c918bb-3844-55d1-8654-210ab674619a.html | work = PostStar | title = The press has taken off gloves of fairness | date = April 19, 2004 | access-date = June 6, 2013 | first = Bill | last = O'Reilly }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title= Form LL-65 |url= http://www.billoreilly.com/images/pdf/deed.pdf |publisher=County Trust Company |access-date=July 16, 2009}}</ref> O'Reilly has also said, "You don't come from any lower than I came from on an economic scale"<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.observer.com/node/52060 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071014060132/http://www.observer.com/node/52060 | url-status = dead | archive-date = October 14, 2007 | work = [[The New York Observer]] | title = Fox News Superstar Bill O'Reilly Wants to Oppose Hillary in 2006! | first = Jason | last = Gay | date = October 9, 2000 | access-date = June 19, 2007 }}</ref> and that his father, a currency accountant for an oil company,<ref name=Facts>{{cite web|title=The Facts on O'Reillys Background |url=http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/spinfacts01.htm |access-date=September 29, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013122952/http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/spinfacts01.htm |archive-date=October 13, 2011 }}</ref> "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.<ref>{{cite book | first=Bill | last=O'Reilly | year=2003 | title=Who's Looking Out For You? }}</ref>
Most recently O'Reilly has spoken out against [[University of Colorado]] leftist-professor [[Ward Churchill]] over the professor's comments of comparing the September 11, 2001 victims in the World Trade Center attack to Nazi war criminals. O'Reilly had noted that his personal grudge against Churchill was the fact that the professor was making a profit off his speeches. O'Reilly had rallied alongside [[Bill Owens]], the governor of [[Colorado]] to have Churchill removed from his position from the university. The irony of the situation is that most major networks haven't covered the fiasco, execpt for [[Fox News Channel]]. The [[Cable News Network]] had devoted most of their time to cover Churchill's radical speech. O'Reilly had boycotted every event that Churchill had spoken at.


He was the main inspiration for comedian [[Stephen Colbert]]'s [[Stephen Colbert (character)|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".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2007/10/22/News/The-Real.Colbert.Talks.At.Lisner-3046562.shtml |title=The real Colbert talks at Lisner |publisher=Media.www.gwhatchet.com |access-date=November 21, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004013138/http://media.www.gwhatchet.com/media/storage/paper332/news/2007/10/22/News/The-Real.Colbert.Talks.At.Lisner-3046562.shtml |archive-date=October 4, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He and Colbert exchanged appearances on each other's shows in January 2007.<ref>{{cite video |people = [[Stephen Colbert (character)|Stephen Colbert]], Bill O'Reilly. |date=January 18, 2007 |title = The Colbert Report |url=http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/81003/january-18-2007/bill-o-reilly |format = flv |medium = television series |publisher = [[Busboy Productions]] |location = New York|access-date=May 7, 2009 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090512212236/http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/81003/january-18-2007/bill-o-reilly| archive-date= May 12, 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=January 18, 2007 |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2007/01/18/its-factor-vs-actor-oreilly-faces-colbert/ |title=IT'S 'FACTOR' VS. ACTOR: O'REILLY FACES COLBERT |work=New York Daily News |access-date=April 17, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240417180217/https://www.nydailynews.com/2007/01/18/its-factor-vs-actor-oreilly-faces-colbert/ |archive-date=April 17, 2024 |url-status=live }}</ref>
====Barbara Boxer and Sylvester Brown Jr.====


On May 10, 2008, he was presented with the [[National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences]] Governors' Award at an [[Emmy]] awards show dinner.<ref>{{cite news|last=Horton|first=Scott|title=How Bill O'Reilly Got a Critic Fired|url=http://www.harpers.org/archive/2010/08/hbc-90007521|newspaper=Harper's Magazine|date=August 23, 2010}}</ref>
In [[January 2005]], O'Reilly briefly focused his attention on [[Barbara Boxer]], Democratic Senator of California. Boxer had recently made headlines for her pointed questioning of [[Condoleezza Rice]], President George W. Bush's nominee for Secratary of State, during Rice's Senate confirmation hearings. O'Reilly spent two hours of his radio broadcast criticizing Boxer, at one point stating "I mean, this is a nut. All right? This is a nut we got in the Senate." He reiterated his distaste for the Senator on his television show.


== Disputed claims ==
Soon after, he had [[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] columnist Sylvester Brown Jr. on his Fox show to discuss liberal attitudes toward conservative pundits. Brown noted O'Reilly's frequent use of terms like "idiot", "loon" and "nut", referring to his treatment of Barbara Boxer specifically. O'Reilly then claimed to have never used such language against an individual, promising to back it up with his archives and buy Brown dinner if proven wrong.
===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:


<blockquote>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.
The next night, O'Reilly conceded that he had indeed called Boxer a nut and apologized to the Senator on television. He also thanked Brown for not taking him up on his dinner offer, to which Brown responded in his column: "I guess we were supposed to pinkie swear via satellite to make it official?"


By the way, that reporter's name is Bill O'Reilly.</blockquote>
====Buster The Bunny====


This claim has been disproven by former ''[[The Washington Post|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.<ref name="jfkf_JFKf">{{cite web|title=JFKfacts » Investigator's tape exposes Bill O'Reilly's JFK fib |first=Jeff |last=Morley |work=JFK Facts |date=January 30, 2013 |access-date=March 10, 2015 |url=http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/news/reporters-tape-exposes-bill-oreillys-jfk-fib/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150311051029/http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/news/reporters-tape-exposes-bill-oreillys-jfk-fib/ |archive-date=March 11, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="mone_Bill">{{cite web | title = Bill O'Reilly faces new questions: His JFK story | last = Kludt | first = Tom | work = [[CNNMoney]] | date = February 25, 2015 | access-date = March 10, 2015 | url = https://money.cnn.com/2015/02/25/media/bill-oreilly-jfk-george-de-mohrenschildt/ }}</ref>
In [[February 2005]], O'Reilly expressed skepticism over an episode of PBS Kids television program [[Postcards from Buster]], which is a spin-off of the series [[Arthur]]. In the episode in question, Buster goes to a maple sugar farm in [[Vermont]], visiting the [[adopted]] child of a lesbian couple. O'Reilly felt it was inappropriate to show a homosexual couple in a series aimed at elementary school-aged children.


===Criticism from organizations===
===War coverage claims===
On February 19, 2015, [[David Corn]] from ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' broke a story reporting a collection of inconsistencies of O'Reilly when recalling his experience covering the 1982 [[Falklands War]].<ref name="motherjones1" /> 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, (...)".<ref>{{cite episode |series=The O'Reilly Factor | first=Bill | last=O'Reilly |network=[[Fox News]] | date=April 17, 2013}}</ref> 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."<ref name="nospin-book">{{cite book | last=O'Reilly | first=Bill | date=2001 | title=The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America | url=https://www.google.de/search?q=%22active+war+zones+from+El+Salvador%22&hl=en&biw=1918&bih=987&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A2001%2Ccd_max%3A2002&tbm=bks#hl=en&tbs=cdr:1%2Ccd_min:2001%2Ccd_max:2002&tbm=bks&q=%22active+war+zones+from+El+Salvador+to+the+Falkland+Islands%22 | publisher=Broadway Books |page=110 | isbn=9780767908481}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.billoreilly.com/site/product?printerFriendly=true&pid=18827 | title=Semper Fi | publisher=billoreilly.com | date=November 14, 2004 |first=Bill | last=O'Reilly}}</ref> 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.<ref name="motherjones1" /> 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.<ref name="nati_Bill">{{cite web | title = Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points Memo 2/20/15: A Response To Mother Jones | author = Bill O'Reilly | work = Fox Nation | date = February 20, 2015 | access-date = March 10, 2015 | url = http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/02/20/bill-oreillys-talking-points-memo-22015-airing-tonight-8pm-et | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150311224441/http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/02/20/bill-oreillys-talking-points-memo-22015-airing-tonight-8pm-et | archive-date = March 11, 2015 | url-status = dead }}</ref> 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.<ref name="motherjones2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/david-corn-response-oreilly-falklands/|title=Bill O'Reilly responds. We annotate.|first=David|last=Corn}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite news|first1=Emily|last1=Steel|first2=Ravi|last2=Somaiya|date=February 23, 2015|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/business/media/bill-oreilly-and-fox-news-redouble-defense-of-his-falklands-reporting.html|title=Bill O'Reilly and Fox News Redouble Defense of His Falklands Reporting|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|location=New York City|access-date=February 24, 2015}}</ref>
Media criticism of O'Reilly, about both his politics and his style, has come most frequently from liberal and left-wing outlets such as [http://slate.msn.com/id/2087706/ Slate], [http://www.mediamatters.org/search.html?string=Bill+O%2527Reilly Media Matters for America], and [[Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting]] (FAIR), but conservative and right-wing outlets like [http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/2003/18.html AIM] have criticized O'Reilly for much the same reasons. David Brock, president and CEO of Media Matters, once called O'Reilly a "coward" for his refusal to invite Brock on his show after repeated criticisms of Brock and Media Matters. [http://www.mediamatters.org/items/200412160011]
Some conservative critics such as Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online have argued that O'Reilly is more of a populist, or communitarian, than a conservative.


In September 2009, during an interview he said he covered the riots in Buenos Aires on the day Argentina surrendered.<ref name="interview2009-falklands">{{cite interview | first=Ingrid |last=Lemma | title=VVH-TV's "American Dreams Show" | date=September 26, 2009 | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFMpfy898xM | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211031/EFMpfy898xM| archive-date=2021-10-31 | url-status=live| quote="O'REILLY: I was down in El Salvador in the 80s, then I went over to the Falklands Island War. Covered from Buenos Aires and Montevideo." "O'REILLY: When the Argentines surrendered to the British, there were riots in the streets of Buenos Aires. I wrote about this in my novel ''Those who Trespass''."}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
Some critics contend that O'Reilly often makes up facts and figures to support his points. FAIR, a left-leaning media watchdog group, published a book, ''The Oh Really? Factor'', documenting alleged false accusations and inaccurate statements that O'Reilly has made on his show. FAIR complains that O'Reilly distorts the news by framing it through his bias. [http://www.fair.org/extra/0108/oreilly.html] For example, after the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] ruled that public hospitals could not test pregnant women for drugs and send the results to the police without consent, O'Reilly commented: "Coming next, drug addicted pregnant women no longer have anything to fear from the authorities thanks to the Supreme Court. Both sides on this in a moment" (O'Reilly Factor, March 23, 2001).


During an interview with [[Blaze Media|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."<ref>{{Cite news|last=McCarthy|first=Tom|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/20/bill-oreilly-falkland-islands-war-exaggeration-accusations-mother-jones|title=Bill O'Reilly calls accusations of exaggerated war reporting 'total bullshit'|date=February 20, 2015|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London, England|access-date=February 11, 2020|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://money.cnn.com/2015/02/22/media/cbs-staffers-oreilly-argentina/index.html|title=CBS staffers refute Bill O'Reilly's 'war zone' story|last=Stelter|first=Brian|date=2015-02-22|website=CNNMoney|access-date=2020-02-11}}</ref> The following week O'Reilly contradicted Engberg's claims, presenting archived CBS video of the riot that ensued after [[Argentine surrender in the Falklands War|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 [[tank]]s in the streets of Buenos Aires.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2015/02/24/cbs-news-releases-video-falklands-war-riots/ |title= CBS News releases video of the Falklands War riots |website=[[Fox News]]|access-date= March 7, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150301030121/http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2015/02/24/cbs-news-releases-video-falklands-war-riots/ |archive-date= March 1, 2015 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
During the 2000 election, O'Reilly suggested [[Al Gore]] was running "on a quasi-socialistic platform" with "work and production being supervised by the government." FAIR claims that O'Reilly had been extremely tough on President [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] during his tenure in office, but refrained from criticizing the Bush administration when it first entered office. "President Bush ran on the slogan 'reformer with results,'" O'Reilly had said, "That sounds good to me." Al Gore's refusal to appear on his program may have contributed to a possible personal bias. Nonetheless, O'Reilly has at times argued against some of George W. Bush's policies, while defending many of Gore's ideals.


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.<ref>{{cite news|first=Husna|last=Haq|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Buzz/2015/0302/Bill-O-Reilly-lied-says-Fox-News-Why-that-won-t-hurt-him-at-Fox|title= Bill O'Reilly lied, says Fox News: Why that won't hurt him at Fox|newspaper=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|publisher=[[Christian Science Publishing Society]]|location=Boston, Massachusetts|date=March 2, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Paul|last=Farhi|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/is-bill-oreilly-making-things-up-or-just-bloviating/2015/02/27/bd5e7f66-bea4-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html|title= Bill O'Reilly cites conflicts that he witnessed. How much of that is true?|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|publisher=[[Washington Post Company]]|location=Washington, D.C.|date=February 27, 2015}}</ref>
In March 2003, O'Reilly called for a [[boycott]] of [[France|French]] products and services sold in the United States due to President [[Jacques Chirac]]'s stance on the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]]. The boycott is focused on high-profile French products such as cheese, wine, cosmetics, and bottled water, in addition to French-owned companies conducting business in the U.S., such as [[Air France]]. [http://www.billoreilly.com/pg/jsp/community/contactcenter.jsp]


==Sexual harassment lawsuits {{anchor|Sexual harassment lawsuit}}==
Critics contend that any effect that the boycott has on France's $1.65 trillion ([[United States dollar|USD]]) [[Gross domestic product|GDP]] would be minimal. O'Reilly counters this by saying that French exports to America have declined significantly. State Rep. [[Mark B. Cohen]] of [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]], a leading opponent of a proposal to legally ban the sale of French wine in Pennsylvania, appeared on ''The O'Reilly Factor'' on May 8, 2003, and expressed "surprise" that he received only favorable responses from O'Reilly's audience. "O'Reilly's ability to rally them for an anti-free trade position was clearly limited," he said. However, O'Reilly himself was opposed to legal bans on French products, saying he preferred citizen boycotts. "You might have convinced me," he told Cohen on the air.
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&nbsp;million. Later the same day, Mackris sued O'Reilly for [[sexual harassment]], seeking $60&nbsp;million in damages.<ref name=Mackris_complaint>{{cite web |url = http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/oreilly-hit-sex-harass-suit |title = O'Reilly Sex Harassment Suit: Andrea Mackris 22 page complaint filed with the New York Supreme Court. Complaint no. 04114558 |work = [[The Smoking Gun]]|publisher = [[Courtroom Television Network]] LLC |date = October 13, 2004 |access-date=February 12, 2011}}</ref> Her complaint alleged that O'Reilly called her engaging in a crude phone conversation.<ref name=CBS>{{cite news |url = https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/20/entertainment/main650282.shtml |title = O'Reilly Settles Sex Harass Suit |publisher = [[CBS|CBS Broadcasting Inc. (CBS)]] |author = Lauren Johnston |date = October 28, 2004 |access-date=February 12, 2011}}</ref> On October 28, 2004, O'Reilly and Mackris reached an [[Settlement (litigation)|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,<ref>{{cite news |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7578-2004Oct28.html |title = Bill O'Reilly, Producer Settle Harassment Suit |access-date = February 12, 2011 |author = Howard Kurtz |author-link = Howard Kurtz |date = October 29, 2004 |newspaper = The Washington Post}}</ref> 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".<ref name="nyt-settlements"/>


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".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/14/bill-o-reilly-defends-roger-ailes-from-gretchen-carlson-suit-i-stand-by-roger-100-percent.html|title=Bill O'Reilly Defends Roger Ailes from Gretchen Carlson Suit: 'I Stand by Roger 100 Percent'|last=Wilstein|first=Matt|date=July 14, 2016|newspaper=[[The Daily Beast]]|access-date=September 13, 2016}}</ref> 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."<ref>{{cite web|author=Alex Weprin|url=http://www.politico.com/media/story/2016/09/bill-oreilly-on-roger-ailes-for-once-in-my-life-im-going-to-keep-my-big-mouth-shut-004759|title=Bill O'Reilly on Roger Ailes: 'For once in my life I'm going to keep my big mouth shut'|website=[[Politico]]|date=September 13, 2016 |access-date=September 13, 2016}}</ref>
On [[April 27]], [[2004]], O'Reilly said on ''The Factor'' that the ''Paris Business Review'' stated that France had lost "millions of dollars" as a result of his boycott. Subsequent investigations by various groups, including watchdog Media Matters, showed that there is no publication of that name in France. [http://mediamatters.org/items/200405020006] O'Reilly has since stated that he got the information from a publication by a different name; however, he has not named this publication.


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.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Steel|first1=Emily|title=Fox News Settled Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Bill O'Reilly, Documents Show|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/business/media/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment-fox-news-juliet-huddy.html|date=January 10, 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> The settlement was worth $1.6 million.<ref name="nyt-settlements"/> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/08/23/andrea-tantaros-fox-news-scott-brown-harassment-outnumbered/|title=Ex-Fox News Host Says Scott Brown Put His Hands On Her, Made Sexually Suggestive Comments|work=[[CBS News]]|date=August 23, 2016|access-date=August 23, 2016}}</ref> Judge [[George B. Daniels]] dismissed the lawsuit in May 2018 and wrote that Tantaros' allegations were "primarily based on speculation and conjecture".<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/business/media/fox-news-andrea-tantaros-lawsuit.html | title=Lawsuit Brought by Ex-Fox News Host Andrea Tantaros is Dismissed| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date=May 19, 2018| last1=Grynbaum| first1=Michael M.}}</ref>
A little more than a year after his call for the boycott, O'Reilly stated that his claims regarding France's supposed financial problems were backed by U.S. government data. [http://www.nydailynews.com/07-06-2004/news/ideas_opinions/story/209331p-180428c.html] However, statistics given by Media Matters show only a $288 million ([[United States dollar|USD]]), or 6%, drop in imports to the U.S. from France during the first two months of O'Reilly's boycott when compared to the same time period (March and April) of the previous year, and that even larger drops had occurred prior to O'Reilly's boycott. They also state that "it is meaningless to draw conclusions from only two months of data". [http://www.mediamatters.org/items/200407080001] On [[January 26]], 2005, [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] television newsmagazine ''[[The fifth estate|the fifth estate]]'', broadcast an investigative documentary show entitled, ''[http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/sticksandstones.html Sticks and Stones]''. [http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/archives.html]. The documentary noted that two years after the start of O'Reilly's boycott, US-France trade had actually increased -- a statement supported by data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. The data shows that in February 2004, the United States imported $2.26 billion in French goods and services, up from $2.18 billion in February 2002. [http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4279.html]


''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.<ref name="nyt-settlements">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/business/media/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment-fox-news.html|title=Bill O'Reilly Thrives at Fox News, Even as Harassment Settlements Add Up|last1=Steel|first1=Emily|date=April 1, 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|location=New York City|access-date=April 2, 2017|last2=Schmidt|first2=Michael S.|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
O'Reilly has also been in a war of words with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation over Fox News Channel's cable carriage in [[Canada]]. On the [[January 28]], [[2005]] edition of ''The O'Reilly Factor'', O'Reilly claimed that Fox News Channel is seen in seven or eight million Canadian homes, and that the CBC was attacking O'Reilly out of fear of losing their monopoly on Canadian television news. In actual fact, Fox News Channel is only available on digital cable in Canada, and only has a few thousand viewers; digital cable in general has less than one million subscribers across the country at present. Furthermore, the CBC does not have a monopoly on television news in Canada. Every commercial broadcast network in Canada produces news programming, as do individual TV stations; [[CTV Newsnet]], [[Le Canal Nouvelles]] and [[CablePulse 24]] all compete as 24-hour news channels with the CBC's [[CBC Newsworld|Newsworld]] and [[Réseau de l'information|RDI]].


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.<ref name=nytimes_2017_10_21/> 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]].<ref name=expected>{{cite news |last1=Steinberg|first1=Brian|date=October 24, 2017 |title=UTA Expected to Part Ways With Bill O'Reilly|url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/uta-bill-oreilly-contract-1202597973/ |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=April 25, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Feldman">{{cite web|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/bill-o-reilly-dropped-uta-talent-agency-article-1.3586310|title=Bill O'Reilly dropped by UTA talent agency after $32M sexual harassment settlement|first=Kate|last=Feldman|website=[[New York Daily News]]|date=October 24, 2017 |access-date=April 25, 2023}}</ref> His literary agent, [[Endeavor (company)|WME]], also announced that they would no longer represent him for future deals after the October report.<ref name=parts>{{cite news |last1=Birnbaum|first1=Debra|date=October 26, 2017 |title=WME Parts Ways With Bill O'Reilly|url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/bill-oreilly-wme-literary-agency-contract-1202600019/ |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |access-date=April 25, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pedersen |first1=Erik |title=Bill O'Reilly Returns To TV As 'No Spin News' On OTT's The First |url=https://deadline.com/2020/06/bill-oreilly-returns-to-tv-as-no-spin-news-on-otts-the-first-1202948366/ |website=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]|access-date=December 5, 2021 |date=June 1, 2020}}</ref>
====American Civil Liberties Union====


==Personal life==
O'Reilly consistently targets the [[American Civil Liberties Union]] for it's role in controversial lawsuits involving free-speech and religious expression. He contends that the organization aims to completely remove religion (mainly Christianity) from American culture, while the ACLU itself claims to only oppose Government preference toward any one religion. Both sides cite [[religious freedom]] as a primary concern.
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.<ref>Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', pp. 156–57.</ref> O'Reilly and McPhilmy have a daughter Madeline (b. 1998) and a son Spencer (b. 2003).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1808461887/bio |title=Bill O'Reilly Biography |publisher=Yahoo! |date=September 10, 1949 |access-date=August 5, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604013458/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1808461887/bio |archive-date=June 4, 2011 }}</ref>


The couple separated on April 2, 2010, and were divorced on September 1, 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gawker.com/5990571/bill-oreillys-divorce-is-so-ugly-god-got-involved |title=Bill O'Reilly's Divorce Is So Ugly, God Got Involved |last1=Cook |first1=John |date=March 18, 2013 |publisher=[[Gawker]] |access-date=March 18, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319015828/http://gawker.com/5990571/bill-oreillys-divorce-is-so-ugly-god-got-involved |archive-date=March 19, 2013 }}</ref>
In 2000, O'Reilly used his Fox show to spotlight the ACLU's legal aid for [[NAMBLA]], a group dedicated to legalizing sex with minors and whose members have been linked to various child molestations. The case in question involved the murder and rape of a ten year old Massachusetts boy - the killer cited NAMBLA as inspiration in his personal journal. The ACLU defended NAMBLA against responsibility for the crimes, pro bono. According to a [http://www.aclu.org/FreeSpeech/FreeSpeech.cfm?ID=8100&c=86 press release] from the Civil Liberties Union, it's interest in the case was strictly in it's relation to the first amendment, and that "the defense of freedom of speech is most critical when the message is one most people find repulsive." O'Reilly has a different take on the matter, which he most recently summed up in a March 31, 2005 [http://www.billoreilly.com/currentarticle newspaper column]: "...if you think about it, the philosophy of the ACLU is fairly consistent: The gratification of the individual is paramount. (...) The ACLU puts forth that NAMBLA has a free expression right to instruct adults on how to rape children and get away with it. It doesn't get any more misguided than that."


In May 2015, court transcripts from O'Reilly's custody trial with ex-wife Maureen McPhilmy revealed an allegation of [[domestic violence]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gawker.com/court-transcripts-bill-o-reilly-s-daughter-saw-him-ch-1704717356|title=Court Transcripts: Bill O'Reilly's Daughter Saw Him "Choking Her Mom"|website=[[Gawker]]|first=J.K.|last=Trotter|date=May 20, 2015|access-date=October 7, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/2015/05/18/new_report_accuses_bill_oreilly_of_domestic_violence_against_ex_wife/|first=Colin|last=Gorenstein |date=May 18, 2015|work=[[Salon.com|Salon]] |title=New report accuses Bill O'Reilly of domestic violence against ex-wife }}</ref><ref name=insider/> 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".<ref name=insider>{{cite web| url=http://uk.businessinsider.com/report-bill-oreilly-accused-of-physically-assaulting-his-ex-wife-2015-5?r=US| first=Marcus|last=Baram |date=May 21, 2015|magazine=[[Business Insider UK]] |title=Bill O'Reilly accused of choking his ex-wife, dragging her down the stairs }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/bill-oreilly-domestic-abuse-allegation-false-207335.html|first=Dylan|last=Blyers |date=May 18, 2015|website=[[Politico]] |title=Bill O'Reilly: Domestic abuse allegation '100% false'}}</ref> In February 2016, O'Reilly lost a bid for sole custody of both of his children.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/fox-news-host-bill-o-reilly-loses-custody-of-his-children-after-alleged-domestic-violence-incident-a6904336.html|first=Rachael|last=Revesz|date=February 29, 2016|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|title=Fox News host Bill O'Reilly loses custody of his children after alleged domestic violence incident}}</ref>
O'Reilly continues to spotlight controversial cases taken on by the American Civil Liberties Union, which his detractors accuse him of simplifying. He frequently promotes the [http://www.thomasmore.org/ Thomas More Law Center], an organization that often counters the ACLU's efforts and has recently faught to ban [[gay marriage]] in several states. O'Reilly will even be appearing on a 'Caribbean adventure cruise' for the conservative legal group in Winter 2005.


== Bibliography ==
==Apology to the nation==
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Speaking on ABC's ''[[Good Morning America]]'' on [[18 March]], [[2003]], O'Reilly made the following promise: "If the Americans go in and overthrow [[Saddam Hussein]] and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again." In another appearance on the same program on [[10 February]] [[2004]], O'Reilly 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." With regard to never again trusting the current U.S. government, he said, "I am much more skeptical of the Bush administration now than I was at that time." He has, however, continued to publicly support the U.S. invasion of [[Iraq]], contending that [[weapons of mass destruction]] were not the primary case for war.
O'Reilly has authored or co-authored a number of books:
* {{cite book |title=Those Who Trespass |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=1998 |publisher=Bancroft Press |isbn=0-9631246-8-4|title-link=Those Who Trespass }}
* {{cite book |title=The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life |url=https://archive.org/details/oreillyfactorgoo00orei |url-access=registration |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2000 |publisher=Broadway Books |isbn=0-7679-0528-8}} (Reached No. 1 on the New York Times' Non-Fiction Best Seller list.)<ref name="hawes">[http://www.hawes.com/no1_nf_d.htm New York Times Best Seller; Number Ones Listing; Non Fiction By Date], Hawes.com</ref>
* {{cite book |title=The No Spin Zone |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2001 |publisher=Broadway Books |isbn=0-7679-0848-1}} (Reached No. 1 on the New York Times' Non-Fiction Best Seller list.)<ref name="hawes" />
* {{cite book |title=Who's Looking Out For You? |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2003 |publisher=Broadway Books |isbn=0-7679-1379-5}} (Reached No. 1 on the New York Times' Non-Fiction Best Seller list.)<ref name="hawes" />
* {{cite book |title=The O'Reilly Factor For Kids: A Survival Guide for America's Families |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2004 |publisher=Harper Entertainment |isbn=0-06-054424-4 |author2=Charles Flowers|title-link=The O'Reilly Factor For Kids: A Survival Guide for America's Families }} (Best-selling nonfiction children's book of 2005)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.billoreilly.com/pg/jsp/general/billbio.jsp |title=Bill's Bio |publisher=BillOReilly.com}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=Culture Warrior |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2006 |publisher=Broadway Books |isbn=0-7679-2092-9|title-link=Culture Warrior }} (Reached No. 1 on the New York Times' Non-Fiction Best Seller list;<ref name="hawes" /> Achieved more than one million copies in print in its first three months)
* {{cite book |title=Kids Are Americans Too |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2007 |publisher=William Morrow |isbn=978-0-06-084676-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780060846763 }}
* {{cite book |title=A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity: A Memoir |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2008 |publisher=Broadway Books |isbn=978-0-7679-2882-3|title-link=A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity: A Memoir }}
* {{cite book |title=Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2010 |publisher=William Morrow |isbn=978-0-06-195071-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/pinheadspatriots00orei_0 }}
* {{cite book |title=Factor Words: A Collection of the O'Reilly Factor Favorite "Words of the Day" |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2011 |publisher=A Bill Me Inc. |isbn= 978-1450789783}}
* {{cite book |title=Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever |url=https://archive.org/details/killinglincolnsh00orei_0 |url-access=registration |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2011 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co. |isbn=978-0-8050-9307-0 |author2=Martin Dugard|author2-link=Martin Dugard (author)}}
* {{cite book |title=Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2012 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co. |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8050-9675-0 |author2=Dwight Jon Zimmerman |url=https://archive.org/details/lincolnslastdays00orei }}
* {{cite book |title=Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot |url=https://archive.org/details/killingkennedyen00orei_0 |url-access=registration |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2012 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=978-0-8050-9666-8 |author2=Martin Dugard}}
* {{cite book |title=Kennedy's Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2013 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co. |isbn=978-0-8050-9802-0}}
* {{cite book |title=Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World |url=https://archive.org/details/keepitpithyusefu0000orei |url-access=registration |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-385-34662-7 |publisher=Crown Archetype}}
* {{cite book |title=Killing Jesus: A History |url=https://archive.org/details/killingjesus00bill |url-access=registration |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-8050-9854-9 |author2=Martin Dugard |publisher=Henry Holt and Co.}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://christian.net/bible/|title=Read The Bible Online &#124; Christian.net|first=Jam|last=Melvin}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=The Last Days of Jesus: His Life and Times |url=https://archive.org/details/lastdaysofjesush0000orei |url-access=registration |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-8050-9877-8 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co.}}
* {{cite book |title=Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780805096682 |url-access=registration |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2014 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co. |author2=Martin Dugard |isbn=978-0-8050-9668-2}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.killingpattonthebook.com/|title=Killing Patton by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2015 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co. |author2=David Fisher}}
* {{cite book |title=Hitler's Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World's Most Notorious Dictator |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-62779-396-4 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co.}}
* {{cite book |title=Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency |url=https://archive.org/details/killingreaganvio0000orei |url-access=registration |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2015 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |author2=Martin Dugard|isbn=9781627792417 }}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://killingreaganthebook.net/|title=Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard|access-date=September 21, 2015|archive-date=October 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161003222457/http://killingreaganthebook.net/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=The Day the President Was Shot|last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-62779-699-6 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co.}}
* {{cite book |title=Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2016 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=978-1-6277-9062-8 |author2=Martin Dugard}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://killingtherisingsunbook.com/|title=Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard|access-date=August 10, 2016|archive-date=December 31, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161231062334/http://killingtherisingsunbook.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=Give Please a Chance |last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2016 |author2=James Patterson |publisher=Jimmy Patterson |isbn=978-0316276887 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/givepleasechance0000orei }}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jamespatterson.com/?s=give-please-a-chance|title=give-please-a-chance}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=Old School: Life in the Sane Lane|last=O'Reilly |first=Bill |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-2501-3579-7 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co. |author2=Bruce Feirstein}}<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://billoreillyhistorybooks.com/books/also-by-bill-oreilly/old-school-life-in-the-sane-lane-by-bill-oreilly/|title=Old School Life in the Sane Lane by Bill O'Reilly|work=Bill O'Reilly|access-date=August 2, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref>
* O'Reilly, Bill; Martin Dugard (2017). ''[[Killing England]]: The Brutal Struggle for American Independence''. Henry Holt and Co. {{ISBN|978-1-6277-9064-2}}.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://billoreillyhistorybooks.com/books/the-killing-series/killing-england-by-bill-oreilly-and-martin-dugard/|title=Killing England by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard|work=Bill O'Reilly|access-date=August 2, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref>
* 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}}.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://billoreillyhistorybooks.com/books/the-killing-series/killing-the-ss-by-bill-oreilly-and-martin-dugard/|title=Killing the SS by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard|work=Bill O'Reilly|access-date=May 23, 2018|language=en-US}}</ref>
* O'Reilly, Bill (2019). ''The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America''. Thorndike Press. {{ISBN|978-1-4328-6935-9}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://billoreillyhistorybooks.com/books/also-by-bill-oreilly/the-united-states-of-trump/ |work=Bill O'Reilly |title=The United States of Trump|date=March 18, 2019 |access-date=November 20, 2019}}</ref>
*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''. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://wabcradio.com/episode/the-cindy-adams-show-11-13-2022/| title = Bill O'Reilly tells the Cindy Adams the name of his next book, 49 minutes 33 seconds into the recording}}</ref>


==Bibliography==
==See also==
* [[New Yorkers in journalism]]
===Books by O'Reilly===


==References==
*''Those Who Trespass: A Novel of Murder and Television'' (1998), ISBN 0963124684
{{Reflist}}
*''The O'Reilly Factor: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life'' (2000), ISBN 0767905288
*''The No-Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America'' (2001), ISBN 0767908481
*''Who's Looking Out for You'' (2003), ISBN 0767913795
*''The O'Reilly Factor for Kids: A Survival Guide for America's Families'' (2004), ISBN 0060544244


==Further reading==
===Books about O'Reilly===
* {{cite web | author=Eriq, Gardner | title=Fox News Beats Defamation Lawsuit From Bill O'Reilly Accuser | website=The Hollywood Reporter | date=March 5, 2019 | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/fox-news-beats-defamation-lawsuit-bill-oreilly-accuser-1192509 | access-date=March 8, 2019}}
*''The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly'' (2003), ISBN 158322601X


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William James O'Reilly Jr.

(1949-09-10) September 10, 1949 (age 74)
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William James O'Reilly Jr.[1] (born September 10, 1949) is an American conservative commentator,[2][3] journalist, author, and television host.

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] O'Reilly began hosting the No Spin News podcast after his dismissal from Fox News. No Spin News has since expanded into a television program, first airing on Newsmax, then on The First.[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

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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][146]

On May 10, 2008, he was presented with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Governors' Award at an Emmy awards show dinner.[147]

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.[148][149]

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, (...)".[150] 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."[151] 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."[152] 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.[153] 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.[154] 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."[155]

In September 2009, during an interview he said he covered the riots in Buenos Aires on the day Argentina surrendered.[156]

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."[157] 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.[158] 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.[159]

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.[160][161]

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.[162] Her complaint alleged that O'Reilly called her engaging in a crude phone conversation.[163] 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,[164] 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".[165] 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."[166]

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.[167] 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.[168] Judge George B. Daniels dismissed the lawsuit in May 2018 and wrote that Tantaros' allegations were "primarily based on speculation and conjecture".[169]

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.[170][171] His literary agent, WME, also announced that they would no longer represent him for future deals after the October report.[172][173]

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.[174] O'Reilly and McPhilmy have a daughter Madeline (b. 1998) and a son Spencer (b. 2003).[175]

The couple separated on April 2, 2010, and were divorced on September 1, 2011.[176]

In May 2015, court transcripts from O'Reilly's custody trial with ex-wife Maureen McPhilmy revealed an allegation of domestic violence.[177][178][179] 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".[179][180] In February 2016, O'Reilly lost a bid for sole custody of both of his children.[181]

Bibliography

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

See also

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