Bill O'Reilly has made a long and successful career of
portraying a stark divide in our collective consciousness
about the gap between traditional pre-politically correct
Americana and a socialist uni-world leftist polyglot that he
terms secular progressive. On his televised O'REILLY FACTOR,
he nightly fumes against those who try to deconstruct America
into a paste pudding of indistinguishable thought that
characterizes a movement that is indeed secular but hardly
progessive. In CULTURE WARRIOR, he warns America to be
watchful "of all those in power, including and especially the
media, so they don't injure or exploit the folks, everyday
Americans." (3) It is this theme of perpetual vigilance that
marks his book. O'Reilly rails against those who seek to
replace capitalism with socialism by redistributing national
wealth in a calculus that makes no sense, perhaps not even to
them. He lambastes our public educational system that teaches
sex education over what used to be called the three R's. He
anathematizes those who banish Christian symbols but welcome
Islamic ones. Bakarat table lamps, He admonishes us to
be wary of those who tout the benefits of a one world,
open-door approach to a western culture whose genesis, in any
case they scorn. And finally he rues the left "touchy feely"
approach of welcoming the world view of the intolerant in the
hopes that showing tolerance to the intolerant will render
them tolerant.
O'Reilly saves his verbal bullets for the mouthpieces of such
dogma: The New York Times, the ACLU, and the mass media. The
power that these constructs wield is collectively colossal.
And the power behind them lies in the hands of some familiar
if not odious faces: George Soros and the Clintons bakarat
lamps. What O'Reilly asks of his readers is to become what he
calls culture warriors: those who have imbued themselves with
a notion that is revolting to the left but essential to the
right--a clear definition of the existence of right from
wrong. How, he asks, can a society protect itself from
external invasion and internal rot if it cannot muster the
belief that there exists outside ourselves an immutable law of
nature that some call God? It is this belief that
characterizes societies that last. It is a lack of this belief
that dooms those who scorn it. In CULTURE WARRIOR Bill
O'Reilly clearly prefers us to be in the former category. |
