O'Reilly's Book Hits #1 on NY Times List

NewsMax ^ | 12/21/03 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Cable news talker Bill O'Reilly's latest book, "Who's Looking Out for You?" is on top of the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list -- hitting the #1 spot during the prime Christmas book buying season.

O'Reilly's book has leapt ahead of screeds by left-wing bomb-throwers Al Franken and Michael Moore.

The Fox News host's return to the top of the heap comes as "Living History," the Hillary Clinton memoir that O'Reilly has vowed to outsell, is nowhere to be found on the printed Times list.

Mrs. Clinton's book, which was expected to be a big holiday seller, has even disappeared from the extended list of the nation's 35 top selling books that the Times posts online.

On Amazon.com, "History" continues to sell relatively well, with the former first lady coming in Sunday at number 56. But even there, O'Reilly's book is selling at a much brisker pace, with "Who's Looking" turning up in the number 11 slot.

While Clinton's publisher Simon & Schuster says she has sold 1.5 million copies, reports suggest that figure may be inflated by as much as 30 percent.

And while O'Reilly still has a lot of ground to cover before he catches the top Democrat, his return to the top of the Times list suggests he may yet reach his goal.

Clinton's book has been in stores since June 9, and in the ensuing 28 weeks she has devoted considerable time to nearly 40 book signings. "Who's Looking" debuted 13 weeks ago. Earlier this month O'Reilly told his radio audience has had time for only two book signings.

O'Reilly's publisher Random House told the Washington Post on Saturday that "Who's Looking" is in its sixth printing, with nearly one million copies shipped to bookstores.

[Glenn]

Waiting patiently for the Drudge numbers on this.

[Tacis]

What was Dradge saying about Bill fudging his numbers on book sales?

[lelio]

Does this exclude large book purchases? Not that a certain commentator on FOX would purchase thousands of books to boost his ranking.

[Bommer]

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU DEC 18, 2003 09:25:08 ET XXXXX

HOST UNHINGED AFTER SALES FIGURES REVEALED; CALLS DRUDGE 'THREAT TO DEMOCRACY'

TalkerAuthor Bill O'Reilly lashed out against this space during his popular FOXNEWS O'REILLY FACTOR Wednesday night -- just hours after closely guarded book sales figures were splashed over the internet.

Sales figures show how, contrary to his claims, O'Reilly lags far behind rivals Al Franken and Sen. Hillary Clinton for nonfiction props!

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Responding to an exclusive yearender DRUDGE dispatch, which presented NIELSEN's Top 20 BOOKSCAN list of 2003 sales, O'Reilly called the DRUDGE REPORT a "threat to democracy."

"I mean you can't believe a word Matt Drudge says," O'Reilly told the cameras. "Now you've got the Matt Drudges of the world and these other people, Michael Moore and all of these crazies, all right, no responsibility... that is a threat to democracy, I think." O'Reilly warned: "They'll just spin it and twist it and take it out of proportion every which way."

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Last year, the host of Cable TVs most-watched newscast became unbuckled and turned unstable after this space first revealed how O'Reilly was plotting a new radio program to air opposite Rush Limbaugh [who had just lost his hearing] and how WOR-AM in New York would receive cash compensation from VIACOM to carry the program. [The broadcast launched several months later.]

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"There is no other cure than to kill Matt Drudge," O'Reilly charged on the IMUS in the MORNING radio show.

"I just want to tell everybody that Matt Drudge is smoking crack - right now, in South Miami Beach on Washington Avenue... And the authorities should know it."

[hosepipe]

O'Reilly....to Coulter(on his show)....
(Sen.)McCarthy was a member of the House Unamerican Activies Commisision....

STILL laughing about that!... What an overrated maroon...

[Palladin]

I don't believe it. Maybe some of these buyers need fuel for their fireplaces and woodstoves.

[Bommer]

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED DEC 17, 2003 17:06:32 ET XXXXX

BOOK YEARENDER: O'REILLY TRAILS FRANKEN IN SCANNED SALES; 'SOUTH BEACH' TOP OF NONFIC LIST

FOXNEWS's top-rated host Bill O'Reilly recently claimed that he is "running against Hillary for most copies of nonfiction books sold this year!"

But numbers obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT show a dramatically different sales scene for 2003.

NIELSEN, the same company that ranks O'Reilly #1 on Cable TV, currently places O'Reilly at #6 for the year on the nonfiction charts -- trailing rival Al Franken by nearly 30%!

[O'Reilly ranks #63 on USA TODAY's 2003 sales chart.]

"We've outsold that guy [Franken] all over the place," O'Reilly claimed Monday on NBC's TODAY show. "We're running against Hillary for most copies of non-fiction books sold this year!"

With two weeks to go for 2003:

Nonfiction

1.  South Beach Diet            Dr. Arthur Agatston       2,304,608 [units scanned]
2.  Purpose Driven Life         Warren                 1,507,902
3.  Living History              Clinton                 1,084,520
4. Ultimate Weight Solution      McGraw                 836,043
5. Lies and The Lying Liars     Franken                   674,024
6. Who's Looking Out for You    O'Reilly                 430,407
7. Benjamin Franklin            Isaacson               384,137
8. Dude, Where's My Country     Moore                  365,519
9. Treason                      Coulter                364,848
10. Fly Boys                     Bradley              222,685
11. Short History of Nearly Everything  Bryson              217,591
12.  Moneyball                  Lewis                 210,108
13.  Royal Duty                 Burrell                 159,261
14.  Who's Your Caddy?          Reilly                  151,978
15.  Every Second Counts        Armstrong              145,183
16.  World According to Mr. Rogers                       141,405
17.  Madame Secretary           Albright                122,167
18.  New Cookbook, BH&G Better Homes & Gardens  118,230
19.  Merriam Websters Dictionary                        115,185
20.  Bushwacked         Ivans                         110,000

As a comparison, Harry Potter fiction has scanned 7,908,391 units; DaVinci Code moved 3,023,336.

NIELSEN's BOOKSCAN numbers represents purchased, sold and bagged copies at AMAZON, BARNES AND NOBLE, BORDER'S, COSTCO and other outlets.

[BOOKSCAN is generally considered to capture about 70-80% of total sales in USA.] 

Developing...

[international american]

It might be a good book, but O"Reill's a ho.......

[quidnunc]

lelio wrote: Does this exclude large book purchases? Not that a certain commentator on FOX would purchase thousands of books to boost his ranking.

However many books O'Reilly mioght have bought, they pale in comparison to the bulk purchases of Hillary's book by Democrat-connected organizations such as unions and the DNC.

That having been said, O'Reilly should tone himself down, he's beginning to sound unhinged.

[CommandoFrank]

I wonder how many of these new book sales are from the Big 'O' himself, hahahaha.

The Big 'O' is losing it and I'll be glad when he's gone...

[tahiti]

"O'Reilly's book has leapt ahead of screeds by left-wing bomb-throwers Al Franken and Michael Moore."

The implication by the Mr. Limbacher, of NewsMax, is that a "conservative" as dethroned the other two liberals.

Let's look at Mr. O'Reilly's defense of "conservative" principles:

--he supports CFR (violates First Amendment)

--he supports assualt weapon ban (violates Second Amendment)

--he supports regulation of business (violates the Fifth Amendment)

--he supports WOD (violates the 9th Amendment)

--he supports federal law trumps state law (violates the 10th amendment)

He is a loud mouth statist/socialist bordering on communist.

[dwilli]

I imagine O'Really will be to modest and embarrassed to mention this on his radio or tv show.

[Cobra64]

O'Reilly should tone himself down, he's beginning to sound unhinged.

Beginning?

[azcap]

O'Reilly likes to see himself as common-sense populist but his views and principles changes daily and he is so erratic that the only thing you can be certain Bill O'Reilly is for is Bill O'Reilly.

[Joe Bfstplk]

Thanks to TIVO, I can watch his show in about 12 minutes average.

[William Tell]

tahiti said: "--he [O'Reilly] supports assualt weapon ban (violates Second Amendment) "

And he is either lying to his entire audience about the scope of the AWB or he is truly a very ignorant man.

[RWR8189]

After his comments about Drudge I have had very little respect for him and I stopped watching him.

After reading what you posted, it makes me hate him even more.

[AdA$tra]

I enjoy Bill Oreilly on the Radio Factor. It is fun to yell at the top of one's lungs at the guy on the radio while driving alone!

[GulliverSwift]

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