According to Newsweek, it’s not clear why Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Jesus: A History, and Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency were pulled for review by the Escambia County, Florida public school district.
Other books reportedly removed for review include encyclopedias, The Guinness Book of World Records as well as books by David Baldacci, Stephen King, John Grisham and Nicholas Sparks.
O’Reilly originally supported the book banning law, he told Newsweek. But now that his own books have been removed for review, he’s not so happy.
"When DeSantis signed the book law, I supported the theme because there was abuse going on in Florida. There were far-left progressive people trying to impose an agenda on children, there's no doubt about it. And the state has an obligation to protect children. But the wording of the law was far too nebulous in Tallahassee," O'Reilly told Newsweek.
"So, that law needs to be tightened up, DeSantis needs to come out publicly and say 'this is insane, we're not going to cooperate with this and we're going to investigate the people who did it,'" O'Reilly said.
O'Reilly called the removal of his books “absurd” and “preposterous.” He said that “throwing John Grisham under the bus” is also "absurd."
Just like the O’Reilly we not-so-fondly remember, he has planned vengeance, too:
O'Reilly also said that he and his team also plan to investigate this, adding that he will "find out exactly who made the decisions to temporarily take them out of the library in this country, I'm going to put their pictures up on television and on my website ... and I'm going to ask them for a detailed explanation of why they did that."
Most Twitter users caught the irony:
"I never thought the leopards would eat my face!" - Billy O
— Aaron Meyers (@AaronMeyers) January 13, 2024
Dayum, Bill. "Book bans for thee, but not for me?" 🤔
That's the trouble with creeping fascism...sooner or later, it creeps up on you. #Florida #BookBans— Hobbie🇺🇲🇺🇦🇫🇮 #CodifyRoe #GND #M4A (@Hobbie_VK) January 12, 2024
Welcome to the world of censorship Billy. People are removing books and have been doing it for months. You said nothing. Now when they remove yours you have a fit. No one has a right to remove any book. Maybe now you get the fascism you have been promoting.
— Debbie Provance (@Debbie51351) January 13, 2024
