Culture Warrior by Bill O'Reilly (Hardcover)

In his latest screed," the host of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor mobilizes fellow """"traditionalists"""" against a """"secular-progressive movement"""" supposedly led by billionaire George Soros (""""public enemy number one"""") and the liberal rhetorician George Lakoff. O'Reilly condemns the """"erosion of societal discipline"""" flowing from an alleged """"S-P [secular-progressive]"""" agenda of drug legalization", teenagers' rights, moral relativism, church-state separation, therapy instead of punishment for criminals and, above all," the """"communist"""" freeloader's doctrine that the government should tax the rich to fund housing", health care and early-childhood education for the poor. None of this coheres well, but O'Reilly keeps fans stoked with red meat, including tales of ACLU Christmas-bashers who wanted schools to stop teaching kids to sing carols, and permissive judges who go easy on child molesters. Too often, though," he feuds with personal enemies like """"smear-merchant"""" Al Franken", Hollywood liberals," press critics and unnamed """"black-hearted websites."""" As a result"," his populist swagger subsides into kvetching (""""Clooney's press agent", a guy named Stan Rosenfield," began badmouthing me and Fox News around Hollywood"""") and paranoia (""""S-P power-brokers... will command their forces to attack me in every way possible""""). More resentful and self-pitying than feisty", O'Reilly may be suffering from battle fatigue. Photos. (Sept. 25) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved