O’Reilly’s eyebrows lift into two sharp points. “Give me something I can put on the air, please.”Ī producer tosses out an idea about a doctor who recommends giving pot to kids with attention-deficit disorder. Then, one by one, the producers pitch ideas, tossing them out like clay pigeons that O’Reilly shoots out of the air.Ī female producer suggests a segment on the Palestinians, who it seems are - “I’m asleep, Stephanie,” O’Reilly interrupts. “We gotta have a Fallujah thing tomorrow. “Why don’t we have anyone there?” he says. O’Reilly winces as if he’s bitten down on a bad tooth. Things are going badly in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion, and all this has made O’Reilly, a booster of the war, even tetchier than usual. Everyone knows that O’Reilly is always pissed off, aggrieved, spoiling for a fight. A certain suspense always grips a room before O’Reilly enters, the air troubled with a constant, whispered, worried refrain: “What kinda mood is he in today?” and “How’s Bill today?” The question is purely rhetorical. There, a team of eight producers, most in their twenties, have been nervously awaiting his arrival. Working a stick of gum in his jaws, he moves, unsmilingly, past the Hannity and Colmes pod, the Greta Van Susteren pod, the Shepard Smith pod, until he arrives at a tiny enclosure of desks, above which is posted a sign reading THE O’REILLY FACTOR. There, he moves with a studied, gunslinger’s stride borrowed from his hero, Clint Eastwood, past long rows of office pods where teams of producers cook up the cable network’s daily lineup of “fair and balanced” programming. EVERY “WEEKDAY, BILL O’REILLY descends from his office on the seventeenth floor of the News Corp building in midtown Manhattan to the Fox News Channel’s basement bunker deep below street level. Visit megaphone.This story originally appeared in the Septemissue of the magazine.ĪT 2:30 P.M. On this episode of Shock and Awe with Bill O’Reilly, Bill tackles the inescapable problem for all Americans today, inflation. You can’t go anywhere these days without feeling the pinch of record setting inflation. From the gas pump to the grocery store, every American is affected by these tough economic times. After four years of a booming economy under Donald Trump, the economy has tanked under Biden and the Democrats, and while they’re burying their heads in the sand, the average American family struggles to try and stretch their dollar. How can the average family keep their head above water with so many of them living paycheck to paycheck? Bill asks that question to the author of the bestselling personal finance book of all time, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki and founder of the award-winning personal finance podcast Afford Anything, Paula Pant, to get their expert advice on how the Average American family can survive in the Biden economy. Liberalism, in the 1960s in America, empowered a generation of young people to battle social injustices, conformity of the 50’s, and the Vietnam War. These liberal cultural and social changes were fueled, in part by sex, drugs, and rock and roll. At the forefront of this counterculture revolution was Rolling Stone Magazine, the bible for baby boomers of the counterculture movement. At the helm of Rolling Stone was its founder and editor Jann Wenner, who wrote in the magazine’s first edition, Rolling Stone “is not just about the music, but about the things and attitudes that music embraces”. What happened to this classical liberalism of peace, love & unity? The philosophy has spurred away from its former past and today is being hijacked by a progressive extreme left that uses identity politics and a polarizing woke agenda to further divide us. Has Liberalism gone off the rails? Who better to ask than this week’s guest, Rolling Stone Magazine founder, Jann Wenner. Bill explores the changes liberalism has gone through over the years and asks Jann if it will ever resemble its former self.
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