Bill O’Reilly’s sideline of historical “killing” books — Jesus, Lincoln, Kennedy and Patton — is coming under extra scrutiny now that he’s out with “Killing Reagan.”
The Washington Post was among many offering a critique by several experts.
“‘Killing Reagan’ … is supposed to be a book of new scholarship on the Reagan presidency. Instead, it restates old claims and rumors, virtually all of which have been discredited by the historical record,” said the experts.
“Unfortunately, ‘Killing Reagan’ shows that the old misinformation (if not disinformation) still remains with us, like a demon that cannot be exorcised. It regurgitates and resurrects much material that we had thought (and hoped) was dead and done.”
Other fact-checkers checked in:
Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing Reagan” dismantled by scholars who have written 19 books on the former president http://t.co/GhU7HW0wt4
— Salon.com (@Salon) October 16, 2015
Several people who were close to Reagan are calling #KillingReagan more fiction than fact http://t.co/XBoN1Wa3Hp pic.twitter.com/cPZrNp7TsR
— Jerry Doyle (@jerrydoyle) October 16, 2015
Reagan national security adviser Richard Allen says Bill O’Reilly’s KILLING REAGAN book is “garbage.” https://t.co/O2o6rFpkxP @oreillyfactor
— Carlos Lozada (@CarlosLozadaWP) October 16, 2015
Bill O’Reilly says inaccuracies in his new book “Killing Reagan” & all his prior books are meant to set up his next book, “Killing Facts.”
— Dr. David Robinson (@standupfalldown) October 16, 2015
What ‘Killing Reagan’ gets wrong: http://t.co/7QsWjFjgdF via @CraigSBPA @KironSkinner @DrPaulKengor @stevenfhayward pic.twitter.com/05kFQb5KRI
— David Swerdlick (@Swerdlick) October 16, 2015
Someone should stop Bill O’Reilly before he kills again: http://t.co/DdfSonxnCr
— Josiah Neeley (@jneeley78) October 12, 2015