Rating: Summary: Excellent Protrayal of special Interests Review: I am amazed by the negative reviews on Bill's book. Most of those reviewers didn't read the book and attacked Bill adhominem . Al Franken probably got his kids and bizarre friends to write some of these personal attacks. You out there Al ?Looking Out For You is a fantastic look at individuals and groups that are on the average American's side and those that are not. He cuts through the malaise and smoke screen of special interests and exposes the real motivations behind some of America's elite. You have to love a guy willing to take shots at the powerful (no matter what your affiliation). It's guys like bill that keep the establishment "more honest" and more accountable.
Rating: Summary: Wake up! Review: Everyone, you really need to wake up to the world around us. We are now becoming blind by the activists of the far left and far right that the world is caving in on you. These activists try to create an image of this wonderful place called 'OZ' yet that's what it is.....fantacy. This man brings into light the true meaning of the word American. Without people like him we would trully be in chaos. Bill, good stuff and good work. Keep it up.
Rating: Summary: Reading...an interesting concept some of you should avoid... Review: It's really sad that some of the people that review these books have sh*t for brains. I mean is it really fair that the generic genetic DNA waste that you people call a brain is aloud to process information at all? Can you just do us all a favor and die? How about doing a public service and giving yourself a full frontal lobotomy? I especially like the people that write this kind of nonsense "Senator Clinton is a remarkable woman; articulate and warm, she writes with candour and elegance. Truth is never subsumed by expediency, and for this alone, the senator deserves all credit" I really do not know how to sum up what I'm feeling at the moment. Free speech is an interesting concept up to the point where you have to listen to millions of idiots who do nothing but argue semantics most of the time as they try to poison your brain in an attempt to prove their own superiority. amazon, just do us all a favor and get rid of these reviews, if anyone actually finds them helpful, learn to formulate your own opinions based on your own judgments instead of letting "mindless c***suckers" (thanks Dennis Miller for a remarkable quote) poison you with their filth. May whatever god you believe in, have mercy on your soul! Oh and by the way, the book is great. I'm about half way done with it at this point and it is definitely worth reading. Bill O'Reilly has this tendency to telling things the way they really are, don't you just hate him for that?
Rating: Summary: Open your eyes Review: This is one of the best books I have read; this book tells you exactly how it is. Bill O'Reilly is an excellent author. I could not put the book down. Every young American should read this book, because it is very informative and opens your eyes to what is going on all around you. Congratulations, Mr Bill O'Reilly I really enjoyed your book.
Rating: Summary: Bill O'Reilly Sucks Review: I gave this book one star, because last week I copywrighted the phrase "Looking Out for You," and he is using it illegally.
Rating: Summary: I've read worse Review: O'Reilly is fun to watch but let's face it, he's not that bright and it show in his book. Still, there are worse things you could read and the book has it's funny moments. It sure beats the hard sex crime book he wrote (which I suffered through in morbid humor).
Rating: Summary: Me?! Review: This compendium of letters arranged as words is outrageous, ill-conceived, sometimes funny and always just plain sad. I do agree with the author on one point: the INS should have kept out all those free-loading immigrants that have despoiled our country, espescially the Irish. Compared to similar publications, called books, this doe not hold up well. I would suggest an actual book, preferably written by an actual rational being.
Rating: Summary: Whiny and little or no solution Review: I am a fan of O'Reilly, although not a major one. I like his stuff and he generally does a superb job at finding the stuff that the mainstream liberal media elite shun. This book however was something that I had high hopes for and was disappointed. It came across as whiny and detailed WAY to many problems with little or no solutions. O'Reilly deals with all aspcts of American life and details how certain groups are NOT looking out for you and only for themselves. Basically, I know this stuff already but I got depressed the further I read into the book. You are better off reading this at your local library than buying it for $18 or whatever. If you want people to look out for you, VOTE and stay active. Things will change rapidly when you do.
Rating: Summary: The Republicans Aren't Looking Out For You! Review: And Bill O'Reilly doesn't give a damn about the country.
Rating: Summary: Arrogant Blowhard Review: O'Reilly's first two books were okay, but his "success" (his show reaches only a tiny fraction of the viewership of the network news and magazine shows) has convinced him that he speaks for all Americans. Anyone who refuses an invitation to appear on his right-wing show is "refusing to account to the American people." Does he really not understand that there are reasons not to come on a show hosted by an arrogant jerk who interrupts his guests and makes up facts, other than not wanting to account to the American people? Does he really believe his own lies? Over and over, for example, he falsely accuses Clinton of refusing ever to explain his reasons for the Mark Rich pardon, even though Clinton wrote an extensive op-ed piece in the New York Times about it, which, in turn, received tremendous national attention. But unless you do it on "The Factor" you're dodging the American people. Aside from this annoying tendency, his "insights" are not so much "common sense" as "common knowledge"-- at least when he's not just making things up. One of the more dreadful bits of advice he dispenses is very early in the book: if you are a good person you don't have to worry about who you associate with, because bad people won't want to hang out with you. So, for example, he says that if you don't drink, drunkards won't want your tee-totalling company, and if you don't do crystal meth, people who do won't enjoy your presense at their parties. In the first place, in my experience, if you ever go to a bar and drink sodas all night, when you go home, everyone will ask you the same thing: "Are you sure you're okay to drive?" That's because drunks are not very observant about what other people are drinking. Try it-- it's really uncanny. Second, and more importantly, bad people need good people to be with so they can take advantage of them. For example, by conning them. Or stealing from them. Or raping them. Just tell your pretty 16 year-old daughter not to worry about the fact that she's hanging around with crack addicts, because they won't want her around if she doesn't smoke crack. Thanks for the swell advice, Bill! Finally, he stubbornly clings to the many lies he's told over the years that have already been repeatedly exposed. He insits that he grew up in the blue-color city of Levittown, even thought he actually grew up in the afluent neighborhood of Westbury. He insists that he's a political independent, even though he has registered to vote as a Republican. This, even as he rips into Bill Clinton over and over, almost three years after Clinton left office, while continuing to heap praise on the Bush Administration. Bill O'Reilly is just too full of himself to be entertaining. Or, at least, he's too full of something.
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