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Host, The O’Reilly Factor, Fox News Channel; host, The Radio Factor (syndicated); Author; Syndicated Newspaper Columnist
Location New York, NY
Age 57
KSG MPA 1996

Hosts the country’s top-rated cable news show, which dethroned CNN’s Larry King Live in 2000 thanks to O’Reilly’s signature blend of reporting, interrupting, expostulating, and sermonizing. The show attracts more than 2 million viewers each weeknight—and that doesn’t include the audience for Comedy Central’s O’Reilly spoof The Colbert Report. A self-described political independent who helps set the conservative agenda, a multimillionaire who cultivates a regular-guy persona, O’Reilly also possesses an uncanny ability to introduce his latest obsession into the national discourse (three words: “War on Christmas”). Author of four number-one New York Times bestsellers as well as a likely fifth, Culture Warrior, due out this month. Brings out the best in sparring partners: After he called Nicholas Kristof (42) a “left-wing ideologue,” Kristof said it was “a charge that alarmed me, given his expertise on ideologues.”

However… Inadvertently contributed to making archnemesis Al Franken (70) a bestselling author in 2003.

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