Bill O'Reilly's spiritual journey seems to have taken an interesting evolution (pun intended). In the space of a few years, he has gone from being a self-proclaimed creationist who claimed that Jesus guided evolution and that the tides are not based on gravitational pull to the more modern position of the bible as "allegory" - a position about which he lectured a fundamentalist pastor. He compared those who disagree with his view to jihadists. And last night, in kinda, sorta defending proponents of gay marriage, he said that "other side hasn't been able to do anything but thump the bible." So there is rich irony in the fact that O'Reilly will be speaking, in September, at Faulkner University, a university founded as a bible school and which has a "biblically based core curriculum." Go figure!
Yes, folks for a mere $150, you can have dinner and listen to Bill bloviate "offer thought-provoking commentary and analysis on key issues facing the nation and the world." There are sponsorship ($600 and up) and photo ops too and who wouldn't want to have a photo taken with blustering Bill. I don't know if it was Bill's staff or the school who put together Bill's bio, used as a press release, but it has Jesse Watters sycophantic and propagandistic fingerprints all over it. For instance, it says that O'Reilly won three Emmy's. He won two local Emmy's - one for his coverage of a skyjacking when he worked for a Denver station in the late seventies and the other for his coverage of corrupt city officials when he was with the TV tabloid "Magazine" show, on NY's WCBS, in 1980. O'Reilly's award from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences is mentioned but what isn't mentioned is that a local TV newsman lost his job for protesting the bestowing of the honor on O'Reilly. The bio puts heavy emphasis on his awesome "best sellers."
So one wonders if Bill, described as a "journalist" (technically true but in reality he's a propagandist), will lecture the folks at Faulkner about biblical allegory and bible thumping! For only $150 you can find out. And ladies, remember, he's available!!!
http://blog.beliefnet.com/faithmediaandculture/2013/03/bill-oreillys-upcoming-book-killing-jesus-to-become-natgeo-tv-movie.html
Btw, someone is going to beat BOR to it. His book (also titled “Killing Jesus”) comes out in May and sounds like it will be covering the much of the same ground as BOR. I wonder if like BOR this guy too thinks high Roman taxes killed Jesus? LOL!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1617951870/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1617951870&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwfriendlyat-20
Billy is not worth $150. Give that money to charity. They need it more than millionaire Billy.