It's no spin: O'Reilly admits that I was right

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By Sylvester Brown Jr.
Of the Post-Dispatch

"I'LL HAVE THE beluga caviar, the risotto with fresh white truffles, the linguine with lobster, shrimp and crabmeat and a bottle of your best merlot. Thank you."

I'm practicing for my dinner at Tony's restaurant downtown with Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly. I was a guest Tuesday on his cable show, "The O'Reilly Factor." During the show, he promised to buy me dinner if he couldn't refute a charge I made on the show.

Last week, one of O'Reilly's producers called to say his boss had seen my columns in which I criticized Fox and called O'Reilly and other popular conservative commentators "blowhards."

"Bill wants to discuss journalism and go from there," the producer told me.

"Don't do it," a colleague warned. "He'll eat you alive!"

I realized the risk of entering O'Reilly's "No Spin Zone" but, the way I figure it, if you write something, you should defend it . . . locally or (gulp) nationally. So, I agreed.

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