*One of my favorite Bill O’Reilly quotes.

Yes, it’s really this big.

A fascinating study by Indiana University was released yesterday creating parallels between the propagandistic tendencies of the FOX News channel’s most popular figure, Bill O’Reilly, and the famed 1930’s Fascist radio commentator, Father Charles Coughlin.

The study, titled “Victims, Villains, and the Virtuous in Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin Zone”, makes the argument that O’Reilly uses similar tactics to berate and degrade his guests, creating an undeniable line of distinction between the offenders and the victims on a broad number of issues.

The study found that during the “Talking Points Memo” on his show, that O’Reilly uses derogatory language towards his guests on average every 6.8 seconds. The most common targets are the media, Democrats, illegal immigrants, and terrorists. Astonishingly, (well, not if you ever actually watch his show) of the group of people that he frequently uses this type of aggressive hate speech towards, terrorist organizations and the media (what he repeatedly calls the ‘liberal drive by media’, lest you think FOX might be included in it) make up an almost identical portion (21.6% and 21.4%, respectively). Now, I’m not a huge fan of the mainstream media, but seriously?!

I’m not going to go into detail, the authors of the study do a much better job that I can. Please check out their findings, though, they make quite a compelling and scary argument that this propagandistic con man is parading around as a journalist. I wonder if FOX is going to cover the story…

Check out the Indiana University study here: HERE