The Wizard of Beck. David Brooks on the Influence and Power of Right Wing Talkers.

Personally I don't consider O'Reilly a member of the Axis of Idiocy that is Rush, Beck & Hannity.

I'm frequently not an agreement with many of his opinions and his leanings are obvious but he's much more open-minded than he's given credit for. I don't find his opinions to just be a negative reaction to what the "other side" has done or said. The fact is he could go full-bore conservative talking head and make 10x more money a la Rush and he doesn't. I have to give him respect for that much.