Email to Bill O’Reilly

Kurt Nimmo
Apr. 08, 2007

Mr. O’Reilly:

Many months ago, I sent you an email concerning Dr. Sami Al-Arian, a Palestinian American you managed—by way of the bully pulpit of your television program—to have arrested for crimes he did not commit, as a jury of his peers acquitted him on eight of 17 counts of terrorism, while remaining deadlocked 10-2 in favor of acquittal on the other nine.

During Al-Arian’s trial, the FBI admitted intercepting 472,239 telephone calls on 18 tapped lines over a ten year period but none involved any discussion of an attack against the United States or demonstrated advanced knowledge of attacks in Israel. In fact, the intercepts occurred before Palestinian Islamic Jihad was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1995.

Of course, the real issue here, for both you and the government, is that Dr. Sami Al-Arian supports the struggle of the Palestinian people. In short, Al-Arian is a political prisoner, although I am certain this is not of concern to you, or is the fact Al-Arian is interned in a rat and cockroach infested cell and has lost 55 pounds since January, when he declared a hunger strike in response to the inhumane conditions he suffers under. I am certain, as well, you are satisfied with the fact a federal appeals court has upheld a civil contempt ruling against Sami, thus raising the disturbing prospect that he may well spend a very long time behind bars, even though he was acquitted and obviously innocent.

Mr. O’Reilly, I believe you suffer from a serious personality disorder, as it is obvious you are driven to dominate, are quick to anger, and are indifferent to the fate of others. In short, you suffer from social aggression, also known as bullying. I also tend to believe you are a sadistic sociopath and secretly revel in the fate of your victims.

For instance, it is not enough to simply disagree with Rosie O’Donnell—you are determined to have ABC fire her, even if this results in the destruction of the popular television show where she exercises her First Amendment right. As for the billionaire Mark Cuban, apparently involved in an effort to distribute the film “Loose Change,” you would have “thrown his butt in jail.” It is simply not enough to disagree with your victims—you are determined to make them suffer.

However, your affliction is particularly apparent and disturbing when it comes to the comedian Al Franken, who lampooned you in a popular book. I can only imagine what you would do if locked in a room with Mr. Franken for fifteen minutes. I am sure it would be worse than what you did to Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center. Rumor has it Mr. Glick had to be escorted out of the Fox studio pronto, as you experienced violent urges after the interview.

In order to better understand your illness, I read the entire Andrea Mackris sexual harassment complaint. It was not the lewdness of the document—the Caribbean shower fantasies, the telephone sex, the masturbation after interviewing porno stars—that disturbed me, but rather the degree of your authoritarian bullying and the way you completely exploited the fact she worked for you and felt indebted to you in order to advance her career. After reading the document, I wanted to take a shower, suffice it to say not Caribbean.

Of course, as a wealthy celebrity, all it takes is a lot of money to make problems disappear, and that is apparently what you did in regard to Andrea Mackris, as the media at the time speculated you paid her between $2 and $10 million to go away. Indeed, Mackris went away—but you remain saddled with your serious mental and behavioral problems, the fetid passel of it all eagerly and shamelessly enabled by Ruppert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, and Fox News, to say nothing of an indeterminable number of reactionary neocon wannabes.

Finally, it would be sincerely interesting to examine the results of a psychometric assessment conducted in your case. I suggest Adorno’s F-scale personality test, which gauges authoritarian aggression, destructiveness, projectivity, and sex. I bet your results would be a bell ringer.

Incidentally, the “F” stands for Fascism.

Sincerely, Kurt Nimmo