On "The Factor," O'Reilly -- with delusional aplomb -- delivered on the role of tough-guy-take-no-prisoner political pundit/culture warrior from gritty, working-class Levittown. He was the last of the steel-hammer pundit bad-asses, the only one "always looking out for you" and the only political analyst whose detractors would rather "cower under their desks" than confront him in the No-Spin Zone. As this persona played out through the airwaves, it offered Americans a nightly visual of many ugly societal norms that -- prior to trump's emboldening of cave-man attitudes -- almost seemed like a thing of the past.
Of all things however, it's his temper -- certainly within a "mother-of-all" category in terms of its explosive intensity -- that might lead a someone who has experienced it up close and personal as Jeremy Glick has, to speculate that any abuse issues involving women in which O'Reilly found himself entangled would likely be verbal and/or physical in nature rather than the kind that would put his name on a sex offender's registry.
In any event, having been outed as more the salacious old slime-bucket than post-geriatric gorilla-pimp regarding his dealings with women, should O'Reilly no longer be viewed as a low-rent, potentially violence prone, thug-pundit in the image of every shady Paul Snider type who's ever lived? Is he not now more like crude anime? I'm thinking Quagmire, the tiger skin-print-Speedos-wearing, "Axe" cologne-drenched, lounge-lizard from Seth McFarland's totally ratchet cartoon series, "The Family Guy?"
Is that merely a distinction without a difference?
Perhaps.
Misogyny appears in many forms, and certainly within O'Reilly's sleazy Snider and lecherous Quagmire split persona, we seem to find at least two of its varieties all rolled into one great big, I don't know, uh, loofa, or should it be falafel?
Regardless, on April 24, having been out of "The Spin Zone" for almost two weeks, O'Reilly -- who was rather surprisingly well-hinged in the days leading up to, and immediately after his canning -- fully re-surfaced, lamenting on his website's small-ball "No-Spin News" podcast about how already he misses his more prominent TV gig.
"I'm sad that I'm not on television anymore," he bemoaned.
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