Media Matters: Bill O'Reilly's "Enemies List" from his upcoming book

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Media Matters: Bill O'Reilly's "Enemies List" from his upcoming book

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"I mean, what I don't get about Susan Sarandon and her fellow S-P travelers," Bill O'Reilly writes in Culture Warrior, "is the constant anger" (Page 161). But if there's one thing Bill O'Reilly knows about, it's anger. In fact, Culture Warrior is little more than a string of attacks against people and media outlets O'Reilly doesn't like. O'Reilly presents himself as an independent, someone who opposes any ideological extremes. "Because I criticize what I consider to be dishonest and unfair media, and extremist pundits on both the right and the left as well as corrupt and/or ineffective politicians," he writes, "there is no shortage of people trying to marginalize me, or worse, destroy me" (Page 4). But as anyone who has watched his show knows, this is little more than a pose. A look at the list of people he specifically attacks in the book shows that among the dozens there appear to be only two clear conservatives -- Michael Savage and Ann Coulter.

* ACLU
* Air America host Al Franken
* Michael Savage
* The New York Times
* Air America Radio
* Boston Globe
* Washington Post
* Baltimore Sun
* Atlanta Journal-Constitution
* Miami Herald
* New Orleans Times-Picayune
* St. Louis Post-Dispatch
* Kansas City Star
* Minneapolis Star Tribune
* Houston Chronicle
* Denver Post
* Seattle Post-Intelligencer
* The Oregonian
* San Francisco Chronicle
* Sacramento Bee
* Los Angeles Times
* St. Petersburg Times
* New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd
* New York Times columnist Paul Krugman
* New York Times columnist Bob Herbert
* New York Times columnist Frank Rich
* MoveOn.org
* Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA)
* Roger Baldwin, founder of the ACLU
* Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU
* University of California-Berkeley professor George Lakoff
* Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Harris Green
* Howard Dean
* Progressive financier George Soros
* Progressive financier Peter Lewis
* Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz
* New York Daily News entertainment columnist Jack Matthews
* Dallas Morning News columnist Macarena Hernandez
* Denver Post columnist Cindy Rodriguez
* Dan Rather
* Tom Brokaw
* Ted Koppel
* ABC News producer Rick Kaplan
* Walter Cronkite
* Bill Moyers
* Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
* British Broadcasting Co.
* Newsweek senior editor and columnist Jonathan Alter
* Ann Coulter
* New York Times Magazine columnist Randy Cohen
* New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger III
* New York Times executive editor Bill Keller
* Sam Donaldson
* Jon Stewart
* New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof
* New York Times assistant editor Adam Cohen
* Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Jeff Gelles
* Philadelphia Inquirer editorial board
* Associated Press television writer Frazier Moore
* Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorial page editor Cynthia Tucker
* Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson
* CNN
* Ted Turner
* National Public Radio host Terry Gross
* Jane Fonda
* Jeremy Glick, author and son of 9-11 victim Barry Glick
* Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan
* Filmmaker Michael Moore
* Barbra Streisand
* Washington State Supreme Court
* Associated Press
* Ninth Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt
* The "majority" of the Vermont press
* Susan Sarandon
* George Clooney
* House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (CA)
* Alec Baldwin
* Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin
* David Letterman

http://mediamatters.org/items/200609220010