Content analysis of O'Reilly's rhetoric finds spin to be a 'factor'

Commentator uses name-calling more than once every seven seconds in 'Talking Points Memo'

Bill O'Reilly may proclaim at the beginning of his program that viewers are entering the "No Spin Zone," but a new study by Indiana University media researchers found that the Fox News personality consistently paints certain people and groups as villains and others as victims to present the world, as he sees it, through political rhetoric. Full Story »

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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 1, 2008

To describe Bill O'Reilly as a spin artist is to say the sky is blue. His distortions are the stuff which makes ultra conservatism the government of the land. Not only is reality an O'Reilly stranger, but his interpretations of history are flat-out wrong. That said, O'Reilly's supporters will consider the views of the rest of us as distortions of bible-banning liberals.

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