Amusing Anomalies

The New Yorker: Fact

A New Yorker article about Bill O'Reilly, Fox News' popular political commentator. The article focuses on O'Reilly's dark side which according to the article is considerable. O'Reilly, the loofa king (see here for details), who is in ongoing battle with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, penned a novel not to long ago about a former news caster who turns serial killer when he's pushed aside by the network. From the New Yorker:

In 1998, after the launch of "The O'Reilly Factor, but before
superstardom, he published a thriller called "Those Who Trespass," which is
his most ambitious and deeply felt piece of writing. "Those Who Trespass" is a revenge fantasy, and it displays extraordinarily violent impulses. A tall, b.s.-intolerant television journalist named Shannon Michaels, the "product of two Celtic parents," is pushed out by Global News Network after an incident
during the Falkland Islands War, and then by a local station, and he
systematically murders the people who ruined his career. He starts with Ron
Costello, the veteran correspondent who stole his Falkland story:

The assailant's right hand, now holding the oval base of the spoon,
rocketed upward, jamming the stainless stem through the roof of Ron
Costello's mouth. The soft tissue gave way quickly and the steel penetrated
the correspondent's brain stem.
Ron Costello was clinically dead in four seconds. Michaels stalks the woman who forced his resignation from the network and throws her off a balcony. He next murders a television research consultant who had advised the local station to dismiss him: he buries the guy in beach sand up to his neck and lets him slowly drown. Finally, during a break in the Radio and Television News Directors
Association convention, he slits the throat of the station manager.

It seems that the life of O'Reilly, goes beyond any caricature that Stephen Colbert could ever hope to create. Kind of an life imitating art imitating life type of thing. If I were Keith Olbermann, given the tone of O'Reilly's novel, I'd make sure to watch my back or at least keep an eye out for sharp utensils.