The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America

Bill O'Reilly

Feb 2002 · Sold by Crown

About this ebook

On the heels of his runaway New York Times bestseller, The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly delivers another strong dose of no-holds-barred advice and the unvarnished truth for America.

Bill O’Reilly is even madder today than when he wrote his last book The O’Reilly Factor–and his fans love him even more. He’s mad because things have gone from bad to worse, in politics, in Hollywood, in every social stratum of the nation. True to its title, The No-Spin Zone cuts through all the rhetoric that some of O’Reilly’s most infamous guests have spewed to expose what’s really on their minds, while sharing plenty of his own emphatic counterpoints along the way.

Shining a searing spotlight on public figures from President George W. Bush and Senator Hillary Clinton to the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and his former CBS News colleague Dan Rather, The No-Spin Zone is laced with the kind of straight-shooting commentary that has made O’Reilly the voice of middle America’s disenfranchised. Examining sex and violence in the media and the tarnished legacy of the Clintons with the same feistiness as the death penalty (which he opposes) and timid national news organizations that roll over for the powerful, Bill O’Reilly delivers not only his opinions, but the documented attitudes of the country’s movers and shakers as well. It demonstrates just why O’Reilly has become the most successful, the most controversial, the most beloved (by some), and the most disliked (by others) figure in television news today_and a culture hero to tens of millions of everyday Americans. And that’s fact, not spin.

Ratings and reviews

While in parts of the book I can empathise with the writer and his points, seem valid to a conservative like myself, there is always a feeling something is missing. O'Reilly just has to much of an attack dog no deep thoughts shallow mentality and this comes through. His inability to ever give an inch undermines everything he says. As a reader if you have a brain and any common sense at all you are crying out for something that is more complete and credible. O'Reilly simply picks his enemies and he has many, and then attacks. You end up with the feeling all he's doing is setting up someone to attack to fill some personal need he has for an enemy. I'd prefer an intelligent exchange without (Pardon my choice of words) so much spin. Everything here is written with some personal agenda. In the end, you will have learned nothing and quite possibly will have a little sicker and more twisted view of the world that you had before reading it. The only word that comes to mind when I think of Bill O'Reilly is "Mean Spirited". Kind of like a grown up version of the bully on the playground. It shows is every word he writes.

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About the author

Bill O'Reilly is a twenty-year veteran of the television industry, and has won two Emmy Awards for excellence in reporting. He served as national correspondent of ABC News and as anchor of the nationally syndicated Inside Edition and holds two master's degrees, one in public administration from Harvard and another in broadcast journalism from Boston University. He lives on Long Island with his wife and their daughter.