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William James O'Reilly, Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American television host, author, historian, journalist, syndicated columnist, and political commentator. He is the host of the political commentary program ''The O'Reilly Factor'' on the Fox News Channel. During the late 1970s and 1980s, he worked as a news reporter for various local television stations in the United States and eventually for CBS News and ABC News. From 1989 to 1995, he was anchor of the news magazine program ''Inside Edition''. O'Reilly is widely considered a conservative commentator,〔(Bill O'Reilly to Interview President Obama ). ''The New York Times''.〕 though some of his positions diverge from conservative orthodoxy. O'Reilly is registered as a member of the Independence Party of New York, and was formerly registered as a Republican (''see: Political views of Bill O'Reilly'') and characterizes himself as a "traditionalist."〔 O'Reilly is the author of over a dozen books, and hosted ''The Radio Factor'' until early 2009. ==Early life== O'Reilly was born on September 10, 1949, at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City, to parents William James, Sr., (deceased) and Winifred Angela Drake O'Reilly, from Brooklyn and Teaneck, New Jersey, respectively. Bill O'Reilly's ancestors on his father's side lived in County Cavan, Ireland, since the early eighteenth century, and those on his mother's side were from Northern Ireland.〔Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 17.〕 The O'Reilly family lived in a small apartment in Fort Lee, New Jersey, when their son was born.〔Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 13.〕 In 1951 his family moved to Levittown, on Long Island. O'Reilly has a sister, Janet. He attended St. Brigid parochial school in Westbury, and Chaminade High School, a private Catholic boys high school in Mineola. His father wanted him to attend Chaminade, but Bill wanted to attend W. Tresper Clarke High School, the public school most of his closest friends would attend.〔Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 25.〕 Bill O'Reilly played Little League baseball and was the goalie on the Chaminade varsity hockey team.〔Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', pp. 28–33.〕 During his high school years, O'Reilly met future pop-singer icon Billy Joel, whom O'Reilly described as a "hoodlum". O'Reilly recollected in an interview with Michael Kay on the YES Network show ''CenterStage'' that Joel "was in the Hicksville section—the same age as me—and he was a hood. He used to slick it (hair ) back like this. And we knew him, because his guys would smoke and this and that, and we were more jocks." After graduating from high school in 1967, O'Reilly attended Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, his father's choice.〔Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 33.〕 While at Marist, O'Reilly played punter in the National Club Football Association〔 〕 and was also a writer for the school's newspaper, ''The Circle''. An honors student, he majored in history. He spent his junior year of college abroad, attending Queen Mary College at the University of London. O'Reilly received his bachelor of arts degree in history in 1971. He played semi-professional baseball during this time as a pitcher for the New York Monarchs.〔Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', page 51.〕 After graduating from Marist College, O'Reilly moved to Miami, where he taught English and history at Monsignor Pace High School from 1970 to 1972.〔Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 65.〕 O'Reilly returned to school in 1973〔Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 67.〕 and earned a master of arts degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University.〔 While attending Boston University, he was a reporter and columnist for various local newspapers and alternative news weeklies, including the ''Boston Phoenix'', and did an internship in the newsroom of WBZ-TV.〔Kitman, ''The Man Who Would Not Shut Up'', p. 70.〕 During his time at BU, O'Reilly also was a classmate of future radio talk show host Howard Stern, whom O'Reilly noticed because Stern was the only student on campus taller than he was.〔 In 1995, having established himself as a national media personality, O'Reilly was accepted to Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government; he received a master of public administration degree in 1996.〔 At Harvard, he was a student of Marvin Kalb. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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