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

Product Description

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.
Product Details
Amazon Sales Rank: #447514 in Books
Published on: 2001-10-16
Released on: 2001-10-16
Number of items: 1
Binding: Hardcover
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.
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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.
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From Library Journal
O'Reilly, journalist and host of the increasingly popular The O'Reilly Factor television show, is back again his second book in a year's time to champion "truth, common sense, and decency," values he thinks have been largely abandoned in America. Enraged by this situation, he takes on with a heavy dose of polemic a wide variety of issues (from the death penalty to taxes) and personalities (John McCain to Susan Sarandon) in an attempt to find the truth amidst the constant "spinning" of the media. The disagreement between O'Reilly and his guests (interviews from the show are excerpted throughout) makes for lively reading, but he devotes only a chapter to each issue he examines, making the discussions somewhat rudimentary. In addition, his sanctimonious tone can be tiresome, and at times he's just plain wrong (e.g., the appallingly high rate of incarceration in America flies in the face of his repeated assertion that criminal behavior often goes unpunished). Still he offers many solid arguments, adheres to his convictions and passionate opinions, and makes a commendable effort to give voice to multiple viewpoints. For all libraries, as demand will surely be high. Heath Madom, "Library Journal"
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Customer Reviews

Don't Waste your money
Watch the program but don't read this book. This book is just a summary of years of reporting. The book doesn't hold new substance and is just around to make money.

What he does in this book is to show interviews he had with powerful people. The interviews don't look as good on paper. He then criticizes them the same way he does on the program. He goes on and on on the program about these interview so if you watch the show regularly you know what this book is about and will be disappointed not to find something new.

Good criticism of the spin people
First of all, Bill tells you what the book will be about. Then he proceeds to give you the important parts of the coversations with these so-called celebrities. I wouldn't want him to report every boring word in the conversations. This book is the opposite of liberal. I enjoyed the book every much. Bill is a good thinker and he says what he thinks. Read it and get smart. If you don' like it, write your own book, if you can. We need more people like Bill O'Reilly. Go, Bill, Go. Don't stop writing.

The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America
It was a gift for a relative. Four of these books were sent, instead of the various ones that I ordered. Not sure if a refund was made for the other 3 returned books?