Mwah ha ha! Hating Bill O’Reilly is not just a fad anymore. It’s a full-blown societal trend. Al Franken’s book Lying Liars, Robert Greenwald’s Outfoxed documentary, and other work laid the groundwork that blogs such as The News Hounds have been building on for nearly two years. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann adds his personal vendetta against O’Reilly.
At last, these efforts have taken their toll, and O’Reilly’s ratings are starting to fall. Hating O’Reilly is becoming the “in” thing to do. (Either that, or all those BOR viewers over the age of 70 are starting to die off.) Now, just in time for anyone hopping on board the Hate O’Reilly Express, there is Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O’Reilly - the book that will get you up to speed if you’re just now getting to hate Bill O’Reilly.
Authors Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer, founders of the blog www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com, have put together the complete collection of reasons to hate Bill O’Reilly. All the classic BOR moments are recapped in case you missed them or just want to relive them - the Andrea Mackris sexual harassment complaint against O’Reilly; his mean treatment of Jeremy Glick, whose father died on 9/11; his non-existent Peabody Award; his citation of the non-existent Paris Business Review to support his claim that his self-proclaimed boycott of France was successful. What fun to relive those moments and relish just what a jerk this guy is.
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Yet there is more. Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O’Reilly ((New York: Nation Books, 2006) also is highly analytical in its treatment of these greatest hits from the O’Reilly Life of Shame. Amann and Breuer have taken apart O’Reilly’s antics so that his tactics become obvious. There’s a chapter on the O’Reilly “half-assed apology,” his ability to forget what he just said, his love of outrage, and all the other traits we’ve grown to hate but couldn’t quite describe as succinctly as Amann and Breuer have.
On top of that, Sweet Jesus, I Hate Bill O’Reilly is extremely well-written and funny. The authors don’t just recount the sexual harassment matter, for example. They offer Bill-O tips on improving his phone sex technique - something that most women authors would have found way too disgusting to even contemplate.
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