The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America by Bill O'Reilly

Product Description

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 Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to 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.
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #306694 in Books
Published on: 2003-03-11
Released on: 2003-03-11
Number of items: 1
Binding: Paperback
208 pages
Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
The audience of Fox's top-rated cable news talk show The O'Reilly Factor and of the bestselling book by the same name know that this explosive anchor can be articulate, bombastic, scornful, witty, iconoclastic, passionate, persuasive and sarcastic ("Can you feel Gary Condit's pain?"). When conducting interviews, O'Reilly, a two-time Emmy winner with 25 years reporting experience, delivers tough questions and corrosive counterpoints. In the No-Spin Zone (originally conceived for his TV show), "lies are rejected and equivocations are mocked." "All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why," says O'Reilly. Here he excerpts past interviews with various memorable opponents James Carville (on Bill Clinton), Dr. Laura (on working mothers), former surgeon general Dr. Joycelyn Elders (on sex education), Puff Daddy (on rap), Susan Sarandon (on police brutality), Al Sharpton (on boycotts) and insightfully introduces each, mulling over the issue or providing background. To cover TV sleaze and violence, he splices interviews (Steve Allen, Howdy Doody's Buffalo Bob) into his own terse text. The same treatment is applied to the death penalty (George W. Bush, Bianca Jagger), taxes (Mario Cuomo, GAO head David Walker) and other issues. He saves the best for last Dan Rather on news stories the media overlooks, prefaced by O'Reilly's own memories of becoming "a 'dead man walking' at CBS News." (On-sale: Oct. 16) Forecast: O'Reilly's TV ratings continue to rise, and the show's "No-Spin Zone" title will grab book buyers. With simultaneous CD and large-print editions, and an e-book due in November, total sales should be astronomical.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal
O'Reilly tries to top his best-selling The O'Reilly Factor with more acerbic bons mots on life in America.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
O'Reilly's TV interviews with "opponents" can be more dramatic than his solo readings of some of these excerpts. He hires nine sleuths to uncover irregularities of newsmakers. "I seek the truth," but here dirt gets heaped mostly upon Democrats, like Al Sharpton, Jesse L. Jackson, Al Gore, and Bill and Hillary Clinton. This is the mildest putdown of Clinton: "He campaigned till he was hoarse and defeated a sitting president who was credited with winning the Persian Gulf War." Senator Clinton gets satirized in O'Reilly's newspaper column and a merciless berating when he questions her into silence in a dream. His favored politicians escape most of the no-spin scorn: George W. Bush is let off with reprimands about the death penalty; two Republican leaders who dare to decline meeting with O'Reilly have no improprieties he relates. This book offers the same solutions to taxes and hard drugs as in The O'Reilly Factor. Unfortunately, The No Spin Zone lacks the relief of lively anecdotes that helped Factor, except for three interesting stories of his unhappy days at CBS. Recommended only for O'Reilly fans, who are, we are told by a reliable source, millions strong. Gordon Blackwell, Eastchester, NY
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Customer Reviews

O'Reilly's Enhanced Transcript,
Bill O'Reilly, a television Commentator, shares his criticism of American society today. In this book he includes sixteen different topics where he shares two sides, his views and those of an individual who is deeply involved with the pertinent issue at hand. Thereby leaving us to decide which side of the debate we agree with. Though he does set up each of the topics with commentary. If you have watched Mr. O'Reilly's television show you will recognize all of these debates. Among the relevant issues debated in this book include or are with George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson, pedophiles, sex, violence, capital punishment, taxes, drugs, and more. Each chapter stands alone, so you do not need to read this book sequentially. Chose a topic that interest you and keep your own score on who won the debate. The book does have some strong language. I bumped it up to 4 stars from three for this is a quick and easy read. So read it and make up your own mind.

no spin zone
Bill wrote a great book.No Spine Zone was terrific.My grandma read it to me and explained and answered my questions.
Thanks Bill for a great book.

Tells it like it is!
Nothing to do with politics people, just look at what he says. He tells it how it is, not trying to produce well crafted lies in order to make you think he knows what is best for you (libtards) yeah. So if you do not like living here then hop on a raft and paddle to CUBA!! Seriously, if you hate America so much, get to paddling! Bill does not say it is perfect, he just shows how stupid some of these powerful and famous people are. I wish someone would sneeze in Rosie's soup though she is getting annoyed.