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Bill O’Reilly Once Wrote About Porn During His College Days

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Everybody has to start somewhere! That includes Bill O’Reilly

Back in 1974 while he was earning his M.A. at Boston University, O’Reilly found himself writing for The Boston Phoenix on occasion.  The first occasion was when Deep Throat director Gerard Damiano came to BU to show one of his “porno-flic” films to an auditorium of curious students and one future cable news pundit.

In his review of the screening O’Reilly keeps the details of the film and his interview with Damiano fairly PG-13, but does take this opportunity to display his love of five-dollar words by dropping phrases like, “grumous haze” and “coiffed graying pompadour”.

After reading O’Reilly’s interview with Damiano it’s difficult to decide if this is a window into Bill’s seedy side, or whether his mature handling of the subject matter actually shows the opposite — a 20-something journalist who can interview the director of Deep Throat and keep the focus on the issue of big studios vs. independent productions.

As Bill might say, leave your own interpretation in the comment section, if you wish to opine.

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  • The Real Royal King

    … and has spent some part of his adult life testing his hypotheses.

    BECKERHEAD SET FORTH HIS CULT OF PERSONALITY,
    DELIVERED VERY POORLY, INDEED, EVEN DREADFULLY,
    AS TO MATTERS OF POLICY: MORE BANALITY.
    AS TO MATTERS OF THEOLOGY: PURE HERESY!

  • felixw

    I’m glad to know that the leftwing media is researching what Bill O’Reilly did in 1974. Maybe Glenn Beck made a mess with his finger paints in nursery schools. Keep checking out this website for updates on these leftwing witchhunts vital news stories.

  • greg454

    So what? Porn was huge in the 70s, I read A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, Bill is not a puritan. By the way, where are the brilliant writings Obama did in college? I keep hearing our Iman-in-Chief is brilliant, I mean, he was editor of the Harvard Law Review, but I just can’t seem to find any of his articles, essays or anything he did in college.

  • BatBoy

    Eric

    I hope you get paid by the number of words you write and not content.

    If you get paid by content…you would be starving today!

    You stole 2 minutes of my time …I had to read it twice to make sure I did not miss something…
    …turns out…I did not miss a thing! I want my 2 minutes back!

  • kairos

    I’ve only been perusing this site for a couple weeks, so I’m only making an assumption here….but I’m doubting that there has been anything written about here that’s more meaningless than Eric’s commentary above.

  • Penguin60

    Oy….get a life.

  • writer

    A college guy interested in porn? This is unprecedented!!

  • dummy123

    porn…..in college!
    that’s hot!

  • Iris

    Wrute ABOUT it??!! for Gods sake as an adult he WROTE it! The sick thing is it had 15 year old girls, why are you right wing old farts such pervs

  • repletus

    Why is it that the media can find out what private citizen Bill O’Reilly wrote during his college years but President Barack Obama is off-limits?

  • TruthLovinFreedomLover

    This would only be news if Obama or Clinton had done it. Every minute of every day, every word, utterance or glance defines Obama and Clinton FOREVER as if written in stone. Republicans are free to re-define themselves and their opinions as their moods change.

  • fdrake

    Let us not forget about the millions O’Reilly had to pay in order to settle a sexual harassment suit out of Court. Google it and you will know Bill for the misogynist he really is.

  • kairos

    Iris said:
    Wrute ABOUT it??!! for Gods sake as an adult he WROTE it! The sick thing is it had 15 year old girls, why are you right wing old farts such pervs

    So Eric up there chose as his written barb some innocuous interview with a porn director, Bill had in college, instead of this so-called pedophilic porn Bill supposedly wrote as an adult?

    How odd

  • felixw

    TruthLovinFreedomLover said:
    This would only be news if Obama or Clinton had done it. Every minute of every day, every word, utterance or glance defines Obama and Clinton FOREVER as if written in stone. Republicans are free to re-define themselves and their opinions as their moods change.

    This is hardly true. Check out the history of Hilary Clinton’s senior thesis at Wellesley, and all the obstacles put up against reporters seeking to read it. Yet any other thesis at Wellesley could be accessed without any problems. As anyone with half a brain can see, the mainstream media covers up the enbarrassing past of leading Democrats, even while sending out teams of investigative reporters to find out garbage like this 1974 article by Bill O’Reilly.

  • kairos

    TruthLovinFreedomLover said:
    This would only be news if Obama or Clinton had done it. Every minute of every day, every word, utterance or glance defines Obama and Clinton FOREVER as if written in stone. Republicans are free to re-define themselves and their opinions as their moods change.

    You must live in bizarro world.

  • greg454

    “Let us not forget about the millions O’Reilly had to pay in order to settle a sexual harassment suit out of Court. Google it and you will know Bill for the misogynist he really is.”

    —So you’re assuming he’s guilty based on a settlement? Lots of people settle to avoid wasting their time in court. Bill O’ has better things to do than put up with some lying piece of shit looking to make money. Sure, her accuser made money, but will she ever work again in the media? I doubt it.

    Seriously ladies, the next time you sue a guy for sexual harassment try to have some video or audio evidence, it will make your story more credible.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fred-C-Mark/1636011381 Fred C Mark

    Eric, you have a masterly grasp for the irrelevant.

  • TfT

    Poor Dan; he must be SOOOOO embarrassed by this report.

    It’s bad enough the absurd headlines we get here, often with lies and distortions, but paying someone to write this tripe is beyond embarrassment.

    Poor Dan.

    Mediaite=MSNBC=meltdown.

  • TruthLovinFreedomLover

    greg454 said:
    So you’re assuming he’s guilty based on a settlement?

    Can you believe these Lieberals, greg? Everyone knows that only liberals are guilty whether they make a settlement or are vindicated by a jury of their peers. Conservatives are NEVER guilty — they are only convicted by vengeful whitey-hating juries!

    greg454 said:
    Seriously ladies, the next time you sue a guy for sexual harassment try to have some video or audio evidence, it will make your story more credible.

    And guys, make sure your harassment settlement has a gag order attached to it, like Bill O did in order to prevent the audio recordings of his harassment an Internet sensation!

  • felixw

    And if this pathetic investigation of a non-scandal from 1974 doesn’t tell you how desperate the Left is to smear those who disagree with its agenda, check out this truly vile example of how the left operates in America today:

    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2579985/posts

    And all this coming from the same ideologues who avoid debating real issues at every turn. When is the last time you saw one of the MSNBC hosts stand up to defend big government, higher taxes, more deficit spending, more intrusive federal involvement in our lives, and all their other core values? Those are the foundations of their agenda, but they know that public would never support those key planks of the progressive worldview. So instead of engaging in dialogue, they hide their real goals, while diverting attention with hit pieces and character assaults.

  • murphy0071

    Bill O’Reilly continues to use his background in pornography to campaign for the right wing. He is the very definition of scatalogical.

  • BatBoy

    Eric, do some research on this …

    http://www.breitbart.tv/former-uk-mp-captured-on-video-fundraising-for-hamas-in-a-us-mosque/

    … and get back to us.

    I would be interested in what you find out.

    Maybe you could find out if Breitbart has cut this one…then again maybe not….sure interested in your thoughts though!

  • redleaf

    This is a meaningless story, except to say: the subject of sex is a great repository for Conservative hypocrisy. Liberals don’t care about a person’s sexuality. What happens in your bedroom is your business.
    Conservatives are deeply disturbed by, for instance, homosexuality and claim only heathens and Godless liberals could ever be gay…until the latest pastor comes out a gay.
    Etc, etc.

  • Phocus2

    Eric Cunningham is a true ass…er…asset to Mediaite. From now on, when I see Eric Cunningham as a byline, I’ll punt.

  • fdrake

    I suggest you investigate the female producer who filed the lawsuit against O’Reilly.

  • fdrake

    O’Reilly explained what he would do to her (by telephone) with a part (large in his opinion) of his anatomy.

  • fdrake

    greg454 said:
    “Let us not forget about the millions O’Reilly had to pay in order to settle a sexual harassment suit out of Court. Google it and you will know Bill for the misogynist he really is.”

    —So you’re assuming he’s guilty based on a settlement? Lots of people settle to avoid wasting their time in court. Bill O’ has better things to do than put up with some lying piece of shit looking to make money. Sure, her accuser made money, but will she ever work again in the media? I doubt it.

    Seriously ladies, the next time you sue a guy for sexual harassment try to have some video or audio evidence, it will make your story more credible.

    My god you are the same as O’Reilly. Please look up misogyny in the dictionary. Your name might be part of the definition.

  • greg454

    “And guys, make sure your harassment settlement has a gag order attached to it, like Bill O did in order to prevent the audio recordings of his harassment an Internet sensation!”

    —You know, people who have been victimized usually don’t take a settlement, nor would they have agree to a settlement that prevents the audio recordings from being broadcast. The fact that Bill was able to get the settlement means that woman was nothing more than a gold-digging bimbo looking to hook a big fish.

    Oh, and if Bill was such a harasser, how come no other woman has come forward?

    By the way, I don’t remember liberals screaming about Bill Clinton harassing and having sex with so many women? Then again, Billy was a democrat, liberals protect their own.

  • fdrake

    The audio recordings might not be available, however verbatim transcipts are.
    I think Clinton had impeachment articles drawn. Are you working for O’Reilly ?
    I know he would like his sexual harassment lawsuit swept under the rug.
    I implore all to look up the language O/Reilly used against the woman in his employ.
    I do not think she was a bimbo trying to hook a big fish.
    My god greg454v you make me sick.

  • fdrake

    greg454 you make me sick.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Larry-King/100000689413015 Larry King

    kairos said:
    I’ve only been perusing this site for a couple weeks, so I’m only making an assumption here….but I’m doubting that there has been anything written about here that’s more meaningless than Eric’s commentary above.

    FUNNY!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carmen-Rodriguez/100001515155165 Carmen Rodriguez

    Porn In college? Really?
    I can`t believe it.

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