brA twenty-year veteran of the television industry,bBill O’Reilly/bhas won two Emmy awards for excellence in reporting. He served as national correspondent for ABC News and as anchor of the nationally syndicatediInside Edition./iA graduate of Marist College, he holds two master’s degrees, one in public administration from Harvard and another in broadcast journalism from Boston University. He lives on Long Island with his wife and their daughter.IntroductionbrbrIf you know who I am, you know why I get letters like this one from a certain Linden S., who lives in Rochester, New York:brbrO’Reilly, dislike and contempt dominate your thoughts. So highly charged is your bias that it is a constant astonishment to realize that you are unaware of the effect of your own thinking. A thoughtful, deliberative person doesn’t stand a chance with you.brbrThat’s only one letter, selected at random. They come in bushels every day. Something about me and my nightly news analysis program, The O’Reilly Factor, drives some people up the wall.brbrBut, hey, I’m used to it. I didn’t even have to have the top-rated cable news program to get the same response from my first-grade teacher. I was controversial in the first grade, Linden! I come by it honestly!brbrIt took Sister Mary Claudia only to the second day of first grade at St. Brigid’s School in Westbury, New York, to get my number. When she ordered our class of sixty six-year-olds to open our Think and Do books, I slumped in my seat and let loose a deep sigh. See, I have always had a thing about lies, lying, and liars–and this book was pure propaganda. The illustrations of kids smiling while doing math problems was a major lie. I knew that at six years old.brbrBut Sister Mary Claudia didn’t care and leapt on me like a mongoose.brbr”William,” she shouted. “You are a bold, fresh piece of humanity! You will open your book and close your mouth. You are bold!”brbrThus?Ð