{"id":129,"date":"2004-05-13T02:17:04","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T06:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/05\/13\/casting-shame-on-westbury-or-is-it-l"},"modified":"2004-05-13T02:17:04","modified_gmt":"2004-05-13T06:17:04","slug":"casting-shame-on-westbury-or-is-it-levittown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/2004\/05\/casting-shame-on-westbury-or-is-it-levittown\/","title":{"rendered":"Casting Shame on Westbury (or is it Levittown?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m ashamed that Bill O’Reilly hails from my own neighborhood, the Salisbury part of Westbury<\/a> (which he <\/span>calls the “Westbury part of Levittown”) — ashamed that we had produced such an uncivil, demagogic bully. \n<\/p>\n

(By the way, whatever you call Salisbury, it ain’t  Levittown; on the contrary, kids from the real <\/span>“Westbury part of Levittown” went to Clarke High School<\/a>,
\nin the East Meadow School District, which extended halfway through
\nW-bury and conveniently stopped at Old Country Road, right where the
\nAfrican-American
\ncommunity begins. That’s the real <\/span>“Westbury part of Westbury,” if there is such a place).<\/p>\n

So, O’Reilly choreographs a hissy-fit on Fresh Air with Terry Gross<\/a> so he can bash NPR and sell more books — surprise. And now he refuses to relicense segments of their interview<\/a>.
\nStill, after listening to the bad behavior (and bad acting) that passes
\nfor a celibrity tantrum, I think O’Reilly doesn’t hold a candle to Gene Simmons<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m ashamed that Bill O’Reilly hails from my own neighborhood, the Salisbury part of Westbury (which he calls the “Westbury part of Levittown”) — ashamed that we had produced such an uncivil, demagogic bully.  (By the way, whatever you call … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/anderkoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}