O'Reilly Fan Wacko

[Doug]

DOUG
This blogger went into a bookstore looking for one book, and, upon seeing O'Reilly's latest book, casually inquired about how it is doing.

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How I sold one copy of Bill O’Reilly’s new book
By: John Amato on Saturday, October 14th, 2006

...there were several copies of Bill O'Reilly's new polemic "Culture Warrior."

...I asked her how the book was selling and she told me that Woodward's book knocked all of them off of the B&N's charts. I told her how Billy was bad mouthing Nancy Pelosi last night because the polls were favoring the Democrats when suddenly, a man probably in his late seventies or early eighties dressed in small yellow shorts and a red cap grabbed O'Reilly's book off the table and yelled at me,

"Damn Liberal! Now I'm buying this book, you goddamn liberal," and he stormed away.

I turned to the cashier and started laughing as she was trying to restrain herself. I mean, that came out of nowhere.

"Now there's an O'Reilly fan for you, " she said.

I felt really bad because he did get quite excited.

I said, "Wow, he became unglued just because I said Billy dissed Pelosi. I'd like to talk to him for a few minutes and calm him down."

We were both kind of surprised because it seemed like he popped out of the ground right below our feet. It also seems to support the NY Times article about his age demographic, but I digress. I asked her if she liked hard-boiled detective fiction when suddenly, the man scurried past us with Billy's new book in a plastic bag tucked under his arm, head tilting to the ground and yelled at the cashier.

"Don't talk to him. He's a liberal!"

Read the rest here.

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

I had a, fortunately deceased, great aunt like the man who bought O'Reilly's book. The supposedly anonymous (postmarked Zapata, TX) letters I got about the communist NEA (of which I was a member when I was teaching) were pure propaganda. Phil Gramm used to stop and visit her whenever he was within 300 miles of Zapata, TX (where she lived). Tells you how much money she donated to the Rs in general and Gramm in particular. When she got enough gaga that the courts put my mother's youngest sister in charge the gravy train stopped immediately.