Bill O'Reilly's idiosyncratic language:
pinhead: a foolish person, but redemption is always possible: "you can be a pinhead one day and a patriot the next," sayeth Bill on a recent show.O'Reilly is relentlessly anti-ideological. You could say that he is, above all practical. He never takes a drop of liquor, let alone drugs, because, Aquinas-like, he doesn't like to step an inch from reality. The downside of a very practical nature is that it seems nonsensical to him that a bad guy not be tortured in order to protect the lives of innocent citizens. But his list of favorite charities seems spot on. The homeless, children, wounded military, and even the missionary Columban fathers. I expected only corporal works of mercy, and only those with a practical bent that aim towards not just feeding the person but helping the person feed himself. But O'Reilly even covered the spiritual with the Columban Fathers, who serve in such places as unstable Pakistan.
the Deity: Bill will bend over backwards not to use the familiar word "God" when "the Deity" will do. Your guess as to why the constant preference for four syllables instead of one. Possible suggestions include:chaos: In Bill-speak, this isn't merely disorder but malignant disorder. For example, if parents are doing drugs and neglecting & abusing children this is often referred to as "chaos" or a "chaotic situation".Bill thinks it is more respectful. Bill is part-Jewish & doesn't want to use the word G-d. Bill not on a first-name basis with "the Deity" due to his wild disco dancing past. Bill sounds smarter saying it. He likes to hear himself talk and "the Deity" is more syllables.
koolaid driner: Anyone who follows an ideology slavishly, ala those who drank the poison'd drink at Jonestown.
hiding under his/her desk: Anyone who won't come on the Factor
smear site: A website that engages in falsely smearing reputations, such as Daily Kos.
no spin: a point-of-view unaffected by ideology.
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