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

Bill O'Reilly (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 11, 2003

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.

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.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Broadway; First Edition edition (March 11, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076790849X
• ISBN-13: 978-0767908498
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.4 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (463 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #339,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

For more than 13 years Bill O'Reilly has presided over The O'Reilly Factor on the FOX News Channel, the highest rated cable news program frequently topping news shows offered by broadcast networks. Often referred to as the most talked about, most controversial TV journalist today, he is a three-time Emmy Award winner as well as the recipient of a Governor's Award from the Boston/New England chapter of the prestigious National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Before becoming executive producer and anchor of The Factor, as his fans sometimes call it, he served as national correspondent for ABC News and as anchor of the nationally syndicated news magazine program Inside Edition. He is the author of numerous mega-bestsellers, the most recent of which was Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, a deeply personal and revealing memoir that has sold more than 1 million copies and comfortably rested high up on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 52 weeks, as well as four previous non-fiction works, all of which went to #1 on that same list. In addition, The O'Reilly Factor for Kids outsold all other children's non-fiction titles in 2005. All in all, more than 5 million copies of Bill's books are in circulation. He holds master's degrees from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Boston University. Asked about his proudest professional achievement Bill has said, "The millions of dollars we are able to give to charity."

Customer Reviews

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47 of 55 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars KABOOOM!, October 15, 2004

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Nick Trop - See all my reviews

This review is from: The No-Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America (Hardcover)

You knew this clown was like Mount St. Helens about to blow.
Now it's happened. Kaboom! I am already enjoying watching you suffer through the humiliating accusations. Another (very) creepy conservative bites the dust over sexual deviance. Wave career bye byes creepy, creepy conservative clown.

62 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Oh my god, August 27, 2004

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Sebastian Pye "Sebastian Pye" (NYC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The No-Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America (Hardcover)

This is so horrible they should use it in interrogations at guantanamo and iraq with an arabic interpreter and those guys would break in seconds. Seriously I was amazed when I read this book. As an avid humanitarian, my very foundations were shook to the core and I actually went into isolation for a couple of weeks. I didnt know what to think, what to do. I thought "how can I go outside and socialise with strangers when there are people like Bill O'Reilly out there?" Thankfully I found a good therapist and I am slowly regaining my faith in humanity. Whatever you do dont buy this book, unless possibly as a gift for someone you really hate.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ole Billy Boy is at it again!, February 12, 2004

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Matthew Crouch (Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The No Spin Zone: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America (Paperback)

If you are an easily led moron, you may get a few chuckles out of this sorry excuse of a book. Billy boy basically regurgitates the popular opinions of the rest of conservative America. If you've heard Bush's most recent State of the Union address, then you are already familiar with the mindless, elite driven doggerel that exudes from the mouths of people like ole Billy boy. This book is worthless, it nearly caused the fire to go out in my woodstove when I tossed it in there. Just kidding, I actually didn't buy this piece of uninspiring propoganda. I don't know who in their right mind would even consider buying this worthless waste of a good tree. At least his radio show is only polluting the airwaves. I have some advice for ole Billy boy: Save the trees for Vonnegut's books, you suck.