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110-412: Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other William James O'Reilly Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American conservative commentator, journalist, author, and television host. O'Reilly's broadcasting career began during

220-885: A catcher for the Cubs of the Central Little League in Midland, Texas . He is the first Little League graduate to be elected 43rd President of the United States in 2000. After white teams in South Carolina refuse to play against the all-black Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars of Charleston , Little League issues an ultimatum that the team must be permitted to play, but many organizations in the Southern United States suspend and turn in their league charters and form their own league in response. No team from South Carolina would reach

330-610: A federal republic under the rule of law . Conservative philosophy also derives in part from the classical liberal tradition of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, which advocated laissez-faire economics (i.e. economic freedom and deregulation ). Louis Hartz argues that socialism has failed to become established in the United States because of Americans' widespread acceptance of an enduring, underlying Lockean consensus. While historians such as Patrick Allitt (born 1956) and political theorists such as Russell Kirk (1918–1994) assert that conservative principles have played

440-591: A skyjacking . O'Reilly also worked for WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut from 1979 to 1980. In 1980, O'Reilly anchored the local news-feature program 7:30 Magazine at WCBS-TV in New York. Soon after, as a WCBS News anchor and correspondent, he won his second local Emmy, which was for an investigation of corrupt city marshals. In 1982, he became a CBS News correspondent, covering the wars in El Salvador on location and in

550-432: A Conservative Party. They soon merged it into the state Democratic Parties. All of the major American political parties support republicanism and the basic classical liberal ideals on which the country was founded in 1776, emphasizing liberty, the rule of law, the consent of the governed , and that all men were created equal. Political divisions inside the United States often seemed minor or trivial to Europeans, where

660-571: A Little League charter. Trumbull, Connecticut , led by future NHL star Chris Drury , wins the Little League World Series. 1991 : Future MLB all-star Jason Marquis pitches the Staten Island South Shore Little League team to third place in the Little League World Series over Canada, throwing a no-hitter . 1992 : Stotz, the founder of Little League, dies. Lights are installed at Lamade Stadium, allowing

770-612: A balance between federal government and states' rights . Apart from some right-libertarians , American conservatives tend to favor strong action in areas they believe to be within government's legitimate jurisdiction, particularly national defense and law enforcement while opposing government intervention in social issues such as healthcare and the environment . Social conservatives —many of them religious—often oppose abortion and same-sex marriage . They often favor prayer in public schools and government funding for private religious schools . Like most political ideologies in

880-657: A balanced budget. They argue that low taxes produce more jobs and wealth for everyone, and, as President Grover Cleveland said, "unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation". A recent movement against the inheritance tax labels such a tax as a " death tax ." Fiscal conservatives often argue that competition in the free market is more effective than the regulation of industry and is the most efficient way to promote economic growth . The Republican Party has taken widely varying views on protectionism and free trade throughout its history. Others, such as some libertarians and followers of Ludwig von Mises , believe all government intervention in

990-475: A belief in individualism , traditionalism , republicanism , and limited federal governmental power in relation to U.S. states . Conservatism is one of two major political ideologies of the United States with the other being liberalism . Conservative and Christian media organizations and American conservative figures are influential, and American conservatism is a large and mainstream ideology in

1100-533: A debate for charity entitled, The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium at George Washington University . The New York Times remarked that O'Reilly and Stewart "have been guests on each other’s programs since 2001" but "rarely agree on anything except their mutual respect for each other". In 2014, Stewart debated him on the belief of white privilege. During the debate O'Reilly exclaimed, "You think I'm sitting here because I'm white? What are you,

1210-416: A eulogy for his friend Joe Spencer, an ABC News correspondent who died in a helicopter crash on January 22, 1986, en route to covering the 1985–86 Hormel strike . ABC News president Roone Arledge , who attended Spencer's funeral, decided to hire O'Reilly after hearing the eulogy. At ABC, O'Reilly hosted daytime news briefs that previewed stories to be reported on the day's World News Tonight and worked as

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1320-402: A general assignment reporter for ABC News programs, including Good Morning America , Nightline , and World News Tonight . In 1989, O'Reilly joined the nationally syndicated King World (now CBS Television Distribution )-produced Inside Edition , a tabloid-gossip television program in competition with A Current Affair . He became the program's anchor three weeks into its run after

1430-436: A line in the rant. In 2009, a "dance remix" of O'Reilly's rant was nominated for a Webby Award for "Best Viral Video" but lost to "The Website Is Down: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude". In October 1996, O'Reilly was hired by Roger Ailes , chairman and CEO of the then startup Fox News Channel , to anchor The O'Reilly Report . The show was renamed The O'Reilly Factor after his friend and branding expert John Tantillo's remarks upon

1540-491: A major role in U.S. politics and culture since 1776, they also argue that an organized conservative movement with beliefs that differ from those of other American political parties did not emerge in the U.S. at least until the 1950s. The recent movement conservatism has its base in the Republican Party , which has adopted conservative policies since the 1950s; Southern Democrats also became important early figures in

1650-600: A monarchy, an established church, or a hereditary aristocracy. American conservatism is best characterized as a reaction against utopian ideas of progress and European political philosophy from before the end of World War II . Russell Kirk saw the American Revolution itself as "a conservative reaction, in the English political tradition, against royal innovation". In the 2022 book The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism , Matthew Continetti noted that

1760-749: A more militaristic , interventionist foreign policy aimed at promoting democracy abroad, which stands in stark contrast to Paleoconservatisms more isolationist foreign policy. Neoconservatives often name communism and Islamism as the biggest threats to the free world. They often oppose the United Nations for interfering with American unilateralism. National conservatism focuses on upholding national and cultural identity . National conservatives strongly identify with American nationalism , patriotism , and American exceptionalism , while opposing internationalism , globalism , and multiculturalism . The movement seeks to promote national interests through

1870-459: A moron? I'm sitting here because I'm obnoxious, not because I'm white!". In 2015, O'Reilly briefly appeared on Stewart's final show as host of The Daily Show . O'Reilly joked, "Have fun feeding your rabbits, quitter!" O'Reilly also wrote a lengthy appreciation for Stewart in Deadline Hollywood writing, "[Stewart] will leave a void in the world of political satire. Undeniably, Jon Stewart

1980-542: A problem or social ill." The study's authors said that those terms were only considered name-calling when linked to derogatory qualifiers. Fox News producer Ron Mitchell wrote an op-ed in which he accused the study's authors of seeking to manipulate their research to fit a predetermined outcome. Mitchell argued that by using tools developed for examining propaganda, the researchers presupposed that he propagandized. On April 19, 2017, Fox News announced that O'Reilly would not return to their primetime lineup amid public reporting on

2090-557: A professor of history at Mount Holyoke College , wrote: Here was no lover of government by plutocracy, no dreamer of an America filled with factions and hard-packed cities. Here was a man who loved America as it was and had been, one whose life was a doughty testament to the trials and glories of ordered liberty. Here ... was the model of the American conservative. Little League Founded by Carl Edwin Stotz (1910-1992), in 1938 / 1939 as

2200-508: A radio program called The Radio Factor that had more than 3.26 million listeners and was carried by more than 400 radio stations. According to the talk radio industry publication Talkers Magazine , he was No. 11 on the "Heavy Hundred," a list of the 100 most important talk show hosts in America. In 2019, O'Reilly returned to radio with a daily 15-minute series The O'Reilly Update . The program airs during or near lunch hour on most stations in

2310-568: A report that analyzed his "Talking Points Memo" segment. Using analysis techniques developed in the 1930s by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis , the study concluded that he used propaganda, frequently engaged in name calling , and consistently cast non-Americans as threats and never "in the role of victim or hero". He responded, asserting that "the terms 'conservative', 'liberal', ' left ', ' right ', ' progressive ', 'traditional' and ' centrist ' were considered name-calling if they were associated with

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2420-560: A small apartment in Fort Lee , New Jersey, when their son was born. In 1951, his family moved to Levittown on Long Island . O'Reilly has a sister, Janet. O'Reilly attended St. Brigid parochial school in Westbury and Chaminade High School , a private Catholic boys high school, in Mineola . His father wanted him to attend Chaminade, but O'Reilly wanted to attend W. Tresper Clarke High School ,

2530-614: A smaller government is known as starve the beast . Activist Grover Norquist is a well-known proponent of the strategy and has famously said, "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." The argument in favor of balanced budgets is often coupled with a belief that government welfare programs should be narrowly tailored and that tax rates should be low, which implies relatively small government institutions. Neoconservatism emphasizes foreign policy over domestic policy. Its supporters, mainly war hawks , advocate

2640-578: A speaking tour with former president Donald Trump in December 2021, which he said "[provided] a never before heard inside view of his administration". O'Reilly wrote a weekly syndicated newspaper column through Creators Syndicate that appeared in numerous newspapers, including the New York Post and the Chicago Sun-Times . He discontinued the column at the end of 2013. From 2002 to 2009, he hosted

2750-446: A steady flow of "prescription and prejudice". Kirk's use of the word "prejudice" here is not intended to carry its contemporary pejorative connotation: a conservative himself, he believed that the inherited wisdom of the ages may be a better guide than apparently rational individual judgment. Through much of the 20th century, a primary force uniting the varied strands of conservatism, and uniting conservatives with liberals and socialists,

2860-406: A strong national defense , gun rights , capital punishment , and a defense of Western culture from perceived threats posed by communism , Islamism and moral relativism . American conservatives may question epidemiology , climate change , and evolution more frequently than moderates or liberals . In the United States, " conservative " is often used very differently from the way it

2970-534: A study of human experience. On this point we are, without reservations, on the conservative side. According to Peter Viereck , American conservatism is distinctive because it was not tied to a monarchy, landed aristocracy, established church, or military elite. Instead American conservatives were firmly rooted in American republicanism , which European conservatives opposed. They are committed, says Seymour Martin Lipset , to

3080-468: A team from Altamonte Springs, Florida , led by future Boston Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek . 1984 : Victoria Roche, a 12-year-old from Belgium, becomes the first girl to play in the Little League World Series. 1988 : Tom Seaver is the first former Little Leaguer to be enshrined in the Peter J. McGovern Museum Hall of Excellence. 1989 : Poland becomes the first former Warsaw Pact nation to receive

3190-481: A team from St. Petersburg, Florida . The first corporate sponsor, U.S. Rubber , donates Pro-Keds shoes to teams at the series. 1949 : After a decade, Little League is featured in the nationally famous weekly longtime magazine, the Saturday Evening Post and on newsreels shown in neighborhood movie. Commissioner Stotz receives hundreds of requests for information on forming local leagues from all over

3300-535: A three-team league in further north in the adjacent larger town of Williamsport, Pennsylvania , (and county seat of surrounding Lycoming County, Pennsylvania ). His ensuing Little League organization was incorporated on October 10, 1950, and Stotz served as first commissioner for 18 years until 1955. Little League Baseball encourages local volunteers to organize and operate Little League franchise programs that are annually chartered through Little League International. Each local league can structure itself to best serve

3410-489: A time slot previously used by Paul Harvey . In September 2020, O'Reilly began hosting a daily radio show on 77WABC titled Common Sense with Bill O’Reilly . From 2001 to 2015, O'Reilly appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart fifteen times. Stewart also appeared as a guest various times on The O'Reilly Factor . In 2011, Stewart described O'Reilly as "the voice of reason on Fox News ", comparing him to "the thinnest kid at fat camp". In 2012, Stewart joined O'Reilly in

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3520-549: A week; almost 60 companies withdrew their television advertising from the show amid a growing backlash against O'Reilly. On April 11, O'Reilly announced he would take a two-week vacation and would return to the program on April 24; he normally took a vacation around Easter. On April 19, Fox News announced that O'Reilly would not be returning to the network. The program was subsequently renamed The Factor on April 19 and aired its last episode on April 21. O'Reilly later stated his regret that he did not "fight back" against his accusers

3630-512: Is a girl, but he keeps her on the team. She is forced to quit after just one season because a new rule, known as the Tubby Rule, is created to bar girls from participation. The rule remains in force until 1974. 1951 : Leagues are formed in the western province on the Pacific Ocean coast of British Columbia , in the neighboring Dominion of Canada to the north and in the old U.S. territory of

3740-534: Is first used. Lloyd McClendon of Gary , Indiana, dominates the Little League World Series, hitting five home runs in five at-bats. He would later play in the major leagues and become the first Little League graduate to manage an MLB club (the Pittsburgh Pirates ). 1973 : Ed Vosberg plays in the Little League World Series for Tucson , Arizona. He would later play in the College World Series for

3850-674: Is found that Almonte is 14 years old. 2002 : Austin Dillon plays for Southwest Forsyth (County) Little League in Clemmons, North Carolina . The grandson of Richard Childress , he would win NASCAR championships in the Camping World Truck Series in 2011 and Nationwide Series in 2013 , and made his Sprint Cup debut in 2014 . 2004 : Effective with the 2004 LLWS, the Europe Region

3960-514: Is founded in Hammonton, New Jersey . Maynard League of Williamsport defeats a team from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania to win the first Little League World Series. Allen Yearick is the first Little League graduate to play professional baseball when he is signed by the Boston Braves . 1948 : Little League has grown to include 94 leagues. Lock Haven returns to the Little League World Series and defeats

4070-599: Is renamed EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). 2007 : Little League expands into Australia for the first time. Effective with the 2007 LLWS, the Asia and Pacific regions are merged to form the Asia-Pacific Region, with Japan split into its own region. 2007 : Little League expands into Kyrgyzstan for the first time. 2008 : Effective with this year's LLWS, the Transatlantic and EMEA regions are reorganized into

4180-460: Is the first U.S. team to successfully defend its title. 1997 : ESPN2 broadcasts regional play for the first time. Taiwan's baseball association withdraws from Little League Baseball (it would rejoin in 2003) over newly established rules on zoning. Bradenton, Florida , and Pottsville, Pennsylvania play at Lamade Stadium before the largest crowd ever to attend a non-championship game, estimated at over 35,000 fans. 1999 : Burkina Faso becomes

4290-524: Is used in Europe. Following the American Revolution , Americans rejected the then core ideals of European conservatism, which were based on landed nobility , hereditary monarchy , established churches , and powerful armies. Conservatives in the United States historically view individual liberty within the bounds of conservative values as the fundamental trait of democracy . They typically believe in

4400-572: The National League and American League have started out playing in their local community / neighborhood Little Leagues. Carl Edwin Stotz (1910-1992), a longtime resident of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, ( county seat and largest town of surrounding Lycoming County ) founded Little League Baseball in 1938 / 1939 . He began experimenting with his idea in the summer of 1938 when he gathered his nephews, Jimmy and Major Gehron, and their neighborhood friends. They tried different field dimensions over

4510-686: The Chicago Cubs , plays for Colton, California . Little League had expanded to more than 3,300 leagues. Jim Barberi, later of the MLB National League pennant winner of the 1966 Los Angeles Dodgers , is a member a decade earlier of the Schenectady, New York , team that wins the 1954 L.L.B. World Series tournament championship. 1955 : There is a Little League organization now in each of the 48 continental U.S. states. Young George W. Bush , (son of George H. W. Bush ), begins playing Little League as

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4620-667: The Falkland Islands from his base in Buenos Aires , Argentina. O'Reilly left CBS over a dispute concerning the uncredited use in a report by Bob Schieffer of footage of a riot in response to the military junta's surrender shot by O'Reilly's crew in Buenos Aires shortly after the conclusion of the war. After departing CBS News in 1982, O'Reilly joined WNEV-TV (now WHDH ) in Boston, as a weekday reporter, weekend anchor and later as host of

4730-722: The Milwaukee Braves is the first Little League graduate to play in Major League Baseball . In 1953, Robert Francis Morrison filed an official charter with Little League Baseball to admit the Cannon Street Y.M.C.A. as its first all-black team. The league consisted of four teams, sponsored by prominent black businesses in Charleston, South Carolina . In 1955, in the beginnings of the growing nation-wide Civil rights movement , when, Morrison entered his Cannon Street All-Stars into

4840-596: The New Jersey Superior Court decided that Little League baseball must allow girls to play. In the final week of December 1974, 38th President Gerald Ford (1913-2006, served 1974-1977), signed into law a bill passed earlier by the United States Congress that opened Little League baseball to girls. According to the Little League Baseball and Softball participation statistics following

4950-833: The Panama Canal Zone surrounding the Panama Canal , in Central America , making them the first youth baseball leagues outside the United States. 1953 : The Little League World Series is televised for the first time. Jim McKay provides the play-by-play for the Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS ), and the infamous Howard Cosell (1918-1995), also does so for the American Broadcasting Company and their then ABC News Radio with announcer Joey Jay (born 1935), of Middletown, Connecticut , and

5060-437: The Republican Party and nation. As of 2021, 36 percent of Americans consider themselves conservative, according to polling by Gallup, Inc. Conservatism in the United States is not a single school of thought. According to American philosopher Ian Adams, all major American parties are " liberal and always have been. Essentially they espouse classical liberalism , that is a form of democratized Whig constitutionalism plus

5170-624: The University of Arizona in 1980 and the World Series in 1997 for the Florida Marlins . Vosberg is the first person to have played in all three world series. 1974 : Girls are formally permitted to play in Little League as result of a lawsuit brought on behalf of Frances Pescatore and Jenny Fulle , and a Little League Softball program for both boys and girls is created. Bunny Taylor becomes

5280-553: The University of London . He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1971. He played semi-professional baseball during this time as a pitcher for the New York Monarchs. After graduating from Marist College, O'Reilly moved to Miami where he taught English and history at Monsignor Pace High School from 1970 to 1972. He returned to school in 1973 and earned a Master of Arts degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University . While attending Boston University, he

5390-480: The free market . The point of difference comes with the influence of social liberalism ". American conservatives tend to support Christian values , moral absolutism , and American exceptionalism , while opposing abortion , euthanasia , and some LGBT rights (depending on the politicians). They tend to favor economic liberalism , and are generally pro- business and pro- capitalism , while opposing communism and labor unions . They often advocate for

5500-452: The nuclear family . There are two overlapping subgroups of social conservatives: the traditional and the religious. Traditional conservatives strongly support traditional codes of conduct, especially those they feel are threatened by social change and modernization. Religious conservatives focus on conducting society based on the morals prescribed by fundamentalist religious authorities, rejecting secularism and moral relativism . In

5610-522: The "O'Reilly Factor" in any of the stories he told. The program was routinely the highest-rated show of the three major U.S. 24-hour cable news television channels and began the trend toward more opinion-oriented prime-time cable news programming. The show was taped late in the afternoon at a studio in New York City and aired every weekday on the Fox News Channel at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time and

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5720-409: The 100th nation with a Little League organization. Hirkata Little League of Osaka , Japan becomes the first Japanese team to win a title since 1976. 2000 : An expansion project begins at Little League International and Volunteer Stadium is built. This allows the pool of participants to double from 8 to 16 the following year. 2001 : The Little League World Series expands from 8 to 16 teams, with

5830-680: The 1980s preached traditional moral and religious social values. The history of American conservatism has been marked by tensions and competing ideologies. During the era of Ronald Reagan , a coalition of ideologies was formed that was known as "the Three Leg Stool " — the three legs being social conservatives (consisting of the Christian right and paleo-conservatives ), war hawks (consisting of interventionists and neoconservatives ), and fiscal conservatives (consisting of right-libertarians and free-market capitalists ), with overlap between

5940-438: The 2008 season, there were nearly 2.6 million boys and girls in Little League Baseball worldwide. Of these, approximately 400,000 are registered in softball leagues (including both boys and girls). Starting in 2022, For tournament purposes, Little League Baseball is divided into 20 geographic regions: ten national and ten international. Each summer, Little League operates seven World Series tournaments at various locations throughout

6050-508: The 9/11 relief fund to the victims. Actor George Clooney responded, accusing him of misstating facts and harming the relief effort by inciting "panic" among potential donors. On August 27, 2002, O'Reilly called for all Americans to boycott Pepsi products, saying that lyrics of Ludacris (then appearing in ads for Pepsi) glamorize a "life of guns, violence, drugs and disrespect of women". The next day, O'Reilly reported that Pepsi had fired Ludacris. Two years later, Ludacris referenced O'Reilly in

6160-460: The Air-Conditioned Auditorium at George Washington University in 2012. O'Reilly interviewed President Barack Obama before Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014. He wrote numerous The New York Times bestselling historical novels including Killing Lincoln (2011), Killing Kennedy (2012), Killing Jesus (2013), and Killing Reagan (2015), which were adapted into National Geographic television films in 2011 , 2013 , 2015 , and 2016 . Two of

6270-592: The American conservative movement has been fractured for a century. Political conservatives have emphasized an identification with the Founding Fathers of the United States and the U.S. Constitution . Scholars of conservative political thought "generally label John Adams as the intellectual father of American conservatism". Russell Kirk points to Adams as the key Founding Father for conservatives, saying that "some writers regard him as America's most important conservative public man". In 1955, Clinton Rossiter ,

6380-531: The Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean [of weapons of mass destruction] ... I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again." In another appearance on the same program on February 10, 2004, he responded to repeated requests for him to honor his pledge: "My analysis was wrong and I'm sorry. I was wrong. I'm not pleased about it at all." With regard to his trust in

6490-538: The Moon (2011) and Man Down (2015). Conservatism in the United States Defunct Newspapers Journals TV channels Websites Other Economics Gun rights Identity politics Nativist Religion Watchdog groups Youth/student groups Miscellaneous Other [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Conservatism in the United States is based on

6600-564: The NFL's Cleveland Browns , plays for the series champions from El Cajon, California . 1962 : Jackie Robinson attends the Little League World Series. President John F. Kennedy proclaims National Little League Week. 1967 : A team from West Tokyo, Japan, is the first team from Asia to win the Little League World Series. 1969 : Taiwan begins a dominant era that would see them win 17 Little League World Series titles. 1971 : The aluminum baseball bat, partly developed by Little League Baseball,

6710-484: The Southern " Bible Belt " and in recent years played a major role in the political coalitions of George W. Bush and Donald Trump . Fiscal conservatism has ideological roots in capitalism , limited government , free enterprise , and laissez-faire economics. Fiscal conservatives typically support tax cuts , reduced government spending , free markets , deregulation , privatization , minimal government debt , and

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6820-470: The U.S. (Little League softball and Junior, Senior, and Big League baseball and softball). 1938: 1939 : Little League is established by Carl E. Stotz, George Bebble, and Bert Bebble. The first season is played in a lot close to Bowman Field . Lycoming Dairy is the first season champion. 1946 : Little League expands to 12 leagues, all in Pennsylvania. 1947 : The first league outside of Pennsylvania

6930-469: The United States , conservatism originates from republicanism , which rejects aristocratic and monarchical government and upholds the principles of the 1776 U.S. Declaration of Independence ("that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness") and of the U.S. Constitution , which established

7040-491: The United States, this translates into hard-line stances on moral issues, such as opposition to abortion , LGBT rights , feminism , pornography , comprehensive sex education , and recreational drug use . Religious conservatives often assert that America is a Christian nation , calling for laws that enforce Christian morality . They often support school prayer , vouchers for parochial schools , and restricting or outlawing abortion . Social conservatives are strongest in

7150-521: The World Series tournament until six decades later in 2015. Founder Carl E. Stotz (1910-1992) of Williamsport, retires as first commissioner of Little League Baseball but stays active in his "Original League" small organization for the next 38 years until his death in June 1992. 1956 : Stotz severs his ties with Little League Baseball, Inc. after 18 years in a dispute over the direction, policies and control of

7260-558: The Year" award. After the September 11 attacks , O'Reilly accused the United Way of America and American Red Cross of failing to deliver millions of dollars in donated money, raised by the organizations in the name of the disaster, to the families of those killed in the attacks. He reported that the organizations misrepresented their intentions for the money being raised by not distributing all of

7370-685: The belief in America's "superiority against the cold reactionary monarchical and more rigidly status-bound system of European society". In terms of governmental economic policies, American conservatives have been heavily influenced by the classical liberal or libertarian tradition as expressed by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman , and a major source of influence has been the Chicago school of economics . They have been strongly opposed to Keynesian economics . Traditional ( Burkean ) conservatives tend to be anti-ideological, and some would even say anti-philosophical, promoting, as Russell Kirk explained,

7480-592: The children in the area in which the league operates. Several specific divisions of Little League baseball and softball are available to children and adolescents ages 4 to 16. The organization holds a congressional charter authorized by the United States Congress under Title 36 of the United States Code . The organization's administrative office is located in South Williamsport of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. The first Little League Baseball World Series

7590-408: The city tournament, white leagues reacted by drafting a resolution requesting a whites-only tournament. All 55 white teams eventually withdrew from the city and state tournament. The Cannon Street All-Stars became the 1955 South Carolina state champions by forfeit. However, they were informed by then national Little League Baseball president Peter J. McGovern that they would not be permitted to represent

7700-414: The closing lines on his teleprompter , eventually yelling the phrase "Fuck it, we'll do it live!" before continuing the closing segment to his show. The original video, titled "Bill O'Reilly Flips Out," was removed, but another user uploaded it once again the day after and retitled it "Bill O'Reilly Goes Nuts". Immediately after the video surfaced, O'Reilly acknowledged the video's existence, claiming that he

7810-590: The country. Little League incorporates in the State of New York . 1950 or 1951 (sources contradict) Kay Johnston becomes the first girl to play Little League baseball. She cuts her hair, dresses as a boy and adopts the nickname "Tubby" to assimilate into the Kings Dairy Little League team in Corning, New York as a boy. After earning her way onto the team and being assigned first base, she tells her coach that she

7920-533: The course of the summer and played several informal games. The following summer, they felt that they were ready to establish what later became Little League Baseball. The first small league organized in Williamsport had just three teams, each sponsored by a different business. The first teams, Jumbo Pretzel, Lycoming Dairy, and Lundy Lumber Company were managed by Stotz and friends - brothers George and Bert Bebble. The men, joined by their wives and another couple, formed

8030-691: The divide between the left and the right led to violent polarization, starting with the French Revolution . In 2009, Emory University history professor Patrick Allitt wrote that attitude, not policy, are at the core of differences between liberals and conservatives: Certain continuities can be traced through American history. The conservative 'attitude' ... was one of trusting to the past, to long-established patterns of thought and conduct, and of assuming that novelties were more likely to be dangerous than advantageous. No American party has ever advocated traditional European ideals of "conservatism" such as

8140-515: The doctor. Jay Bookman of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote that O'Reilly "clearly went overboard in his condemnation and demonization of Tiller" but added that it was "irresponsible to link O'Reilly" to Tiller's murder. O'Reilly responded to the criticism by saying "no backpedaling here ... every single thing we said about Tiller was true." In early 2007, researchers from the Indiana University School of Journalism published

8250-416: The economy is wasteful, corrupt, and immoral. Fiscal conservatism advocates restraint of progressive taxation and expenditure. Fiscal conservatives since the 19th century have argued that debt is a device to corrupt politics; they argue that big spending ruins the morals of the people, and that a national debt creates a dangerous class of speculators. A political strategy employed by conservatives to achieve

8360-493: The era, we are, without reservations, on the libertarian side. The profound crisis of our era is, in essence, the conflict between the Social Engineers, who seek to adjust mankind to scientific utopias, and the disciples of Truth, who defend the organic moral order. We believe that truth is neither arrived at nor illuminated by monitoring election results, binding though these are for other purposes, but by other means, including

8470-489: The films earned O'Reilly nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards . He also hosted The Radio Factor from 2002 to 2009. In 2017, O'Reilly was dismissed from Fox News following reports of five instances of sexual misconduct from The New York Times . Since then, O'Reilly has hosted the No Spin News podcast where it has also expanded into a television program, first airing on Newsmax , then on The First . O'Reilly

8580-410: The finals to a team from Taiwan. 1982 : The Peter J. McGovern Little League Museum opens. Cody Webster leads a team from Kirkland, Washington in an upset victory over a powerful team from Taiwan, the nation's first loss in 31 games. This game is later featured on ESPN's 30 for 30 series Little Big Men. 1984 : A team from Seoul , South Korea, wins their nation's first title when they defeat

8690-419: The first girl to pitch a no-hitter . 1975 : In a controversial decision, all foreign teams are banned from the Little League World Series. International play is restored the following year. 1980 : A team from Tampa , Florida, representing Belmont Heights Little League, is led by two future major-leaguers, Derek Bell and Gary Sheffield . Bell returns the following year and Belmont Heights again loses in

8800-462: The first night games to be played. The series is expanded from single-elimination to round-robin format. Long Beach , California, managed by former major-leaguer Jeff Burroughs and starring his son, future major-leaguer Sean Burroughs , is named series champion after Zamboanga City , Philippines is forced to forfeit for using ineligible players. 1993 : Long Beach repeats as champions, defeating Coquivacoa Little League of Maracaibo , Venezuela. It

8910-590: The first-ever Little League board of directors. The first league game took place on June 6, 1939, when Lundy Lumber defeated Lycoming Dairy, 23–8. Lycoming Dairy became the champions of the first half of the season and then defeated Lundy Lumber, the second-half champions, in a best-of-three championship series. The following year, a second league was formed in Williamsport, and from there Little League Baseball grew to become an international organization of nearly 200,000 teams in every U.S. state and in more than 80 countries. Kathryn "Tubby" Johnston Massar (née Johnston)

9020-480: The following changes to regional lineups (post-2000 regions in bold ): Volunteer Stadium opens. George W. Bush becomes the first U.S. president to visit the Little League World Series. Led by phenom Danny Almonte , pitching the first perfect game since 1957, the Rolando Paulino All Stars ( Bronx , New York) finish third in the series. However, the team's entire postseason is wiped from the books when it

9130-536: The government, he said, "I am much more skeptical of the Bush administration now than I was at that time." Beginning in 2005, he periodically denounced George Tiller , a Kansas -based physician who specialized in second- and third-trimester abortions, often referring to him as "Tiller the baby killer". Tiller was murdered on May 31, 2009, by Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion activist. Critics such as Salon ' s Gabriel Winant have asserted that his anti-Tiller rhetoric helped to create an atmosphere of violence around

9240-457: The highest-rated cable news show for 16 years, and he was described by media analyst Howard Kurtz as "the biggest star in the 20-year history at Fox News" at the time of his departure. During his time at Fox News, he appeared several times as a guest on the Comedy Central talk show The Daily Show with Jon Stewart . Together he and Jon Stewart debated for a charity event, The Rumble in

9350-500: The involvement of original anchor David Frost had ended. In 1995, former NBC News and CBS News anchor Deborah Norville replaced O'Reilly on Inside Edition ; O'Reilly had expressed a desire to quit the show in July 1994. On May 12, 2008, an outtake of O'Reilly ranting during his time at Inside Edition surfaced on YouTube . The early 1990s video depicts O'Reilly yelling and cursing at his co-workers while having issues pre-recording

9460-547: The late 1970s and 1980s, when he reported for local television stations in the United States and later for CBS News and ABC News , the former of which earned O'Reilly two Emmy Awards and two National Headliner Awards for excellence in reporting. He anchored the tabloid television program Inside Edition from 1989 to 1995. O'Reilly joined the Fox News Channel in 1996 and hosted the news commentary program The O'Reilly Factor until 2017. The O'Reilly Factor had been

9570-528: The league. Stotz believed that the league was becoming overly commercialized by then-president Peter J. McGovern. Stotz remains active in youth baseball with the "Original League" in Williamsport. Little League records its first unfortunate on-field death in Garland, Texas , when 12-year-old Richard Oden is hit in the head by a pitch, and the park where the incident occurred is renamed Rick Oden Field. With batting helmets yet to be developed, Garland League teams finish

9680-476: The movement's history. In 1937, Southern Democrats formed the congressional conservative coalition , which played an influential role in Congress from the late 1930s to the mid-1960s. In recent decades, Southern conservatives voted heavily Republican. Conservatism in the United States is not a single school of thought. Barry Goldwater in the 1960s spoke for a " free enterprise " conservatism. Jerry Falwell in

9790-435: The newly built Little League headquarters in South Williamsport. The protective baseball helmet is developed by Dr. Creighton J. Hale. 1960 : A team from West Berlin , West Germany , is the first from Europe to play in the Little League World Series. The series is broadcast live for the first time on ABC . Little League has grown to 27,400 teams in more than 5,500 leagues. 1961 : Brian Sipe , future quarterback for

9900-516: The preservation of traditional cultural values , restrictions on illegal immigration , and strict law and order policies. In the United States, there has never been a national political party called the Conservative Party. Since 1962, there has been a small Conservative Party of New York State . During Reconstruction in several states in the South in the late 1860s, the former Whigs formed

10010-578: The public school most of his closest friends would attend. He played Little League baseball and was the goalie on the Chaminade varsity hockey team. During his high school years, he met future singer Billy Joel , whom O'Reilly described as a "hoodlum". O'Reilly recollected in an interview with Michael Kay on the YES Network show CenterStage that Joel "was in the Hicksville section—the same age as me—and he

10120-516: The public speaking tour, "The Spin Stops Here". O'Reilly made his first appearance on Fox News since his ouster on September 26, 2017, being interviewed by Sean Hannity . In 2019, O'Reilly started a 15-minute radio show, The O’Reilly Update . By 2020, simulcasts of O'Reilly's No Spin News show began to air on Newsmax TV . No Spin News began airing on The First TV in June 2020. O'Reilly participated in

10230-476: The season wearing youth then current football helmets over their baseball caps when batting. Later in the year, pitcher Fred Shapiro throws a perfect game in the Little League World Series. 1957 : Angel Macias throws a perfect game and Monterrey , Mexico, becomes the first team from outside the United States to win the Little League World Series. (Portrayed in the 2010 film The Perfect Game .) 1959 : The Little League World Series moves from Williamsport to

10340-632: The sexual abuse allegations came to light. O'Reilly's early television news career included reporting and anchoring positions at WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania , where he also reported the weather. At WFAA-TV in Dallas , O'Reilly was awarded the Dallas Press Club Award for excellence in investigative reporting . He then moved to KMGH-TV in Denver , where he won a local Emmy Award for his coverage of

10450-614: The sides . In the 21st century United States, types of conservatism include: In February 1955, in the first issue of National Review , William F. Buckley Jr. explained the standards of his magazine and articulate the beliefs of American conservatives: Among our convictions: It is the job of centralized government (in peacetime) to protect its citizens' lives, liberty and property. All other activities of government tend to diminish freedom and hamper progress. The growth of government (the dominant social feature of this century) must be fought relentlessly. In this great social conflict of

10560-435: The song " Number One Spot " with the lyrics "Respected highly, hi, Mr. O'Reilly/Hope all is well, kiss the plaintiff and the wifey," in reference to his sexual-harassment suit with Andrea Mackris while married. In an interview with RadarOnline.com in 2010, Ludacris said he and O'Reilly had made amends after a conversation at a charity event. Speaking on ABC's Good Morning America on March 18, 2003, he promised that "[i]f

10670-534: The state at the regional championships in Williamsport. Little League executives invited the Cannon Street All-Stars as guests to attend the tournament in which they were unfortunately barred from playing. 1954 : Boog Powell , outfielder / first baseman later of the Baltimore Orioles and two other MLB teams, plays in the Little League World Series for Lakeland, Florida , and Ken Hubbs , later of

10780-489: The station's local news magazine New England Afternoon . In 1984, O'Reilly went to KATU in Portland, Oregon , where he remained for nine months, then he returned to Boston and joined WCVB-TV as reporter and columnist-at-large for NewsCenter 5 . In 1986, O'Reilly moved to ABC News , where, during his three-year tenure, he received two Emmy Awards and two National Headliner Awards for excellence in reporting. He had delivered

10890-411: The tens of millions of dollars he paid to settle the sexual harassment claims of six women. The show continued, rebranded as The Factor , now hosted by Dana Perino . On the same day, Fox announced that Tucker Carlson's show would be airing an hour earlier to take over O'Reilly's position and that The Five will replace Carlson's usual time at 9 p.m. with a new co-host, Jesse Watters . After O'Reilly

11000-512: The way Sean Hannity did when facing the loss of advertisers around the same time. O'Reilly launched a podcast called No Spin News on April 24, 2017, after his departure from Fox News. In August 2017, O'Reilly began digitally streaming a video version of No Spin News . In May 2017, O'Reilly began to appear as a recurring guest on Friday editions of the Glenn Beck Radio Program . In June 2017, O'Reilly and Dennis Miller co-headlined

11110-646: Was a hood. He used to slick it [his hair] back like this. And we knew him, because his guys would smoke and this and that, and we were more jocks." After graduating from Chaminade in 1967, O'Reilly attended Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York . While at Marist, he was a punter in the National Club Football Association and also wrote for the school's newspaper, The Circle . He was an honors student who majored in history. He spent his junior year of college abroad, attending Queen Mary College at

11220-527: Was a reporter and columnist for various local newspapers and alternative news weeklies, including the Boston Phoenix , and did an internship in the newsroom of WBZ-TV . In 1995, he attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and received a master of public administration degree in 1996. Marist College had bestowed an honorary degree upon O'Reilly, which would later be revoked once

11330-429: Was amusing his co-workers and said "I have plenty of much newer stuff... If you want to buy the tapes that I have, I'm happy to sell them to you." The rant was later parodied by Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report as well as Family Guy and by Trevor Noah on The Daily Show , and was named one of Time ' s "Top 10 Celebrity Meltdowns". In October 2008, Wednesday 13 named his first live album after

11440-595: Was born on September 10, 1949, at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan to parents William James Sr. and Winifred Angela (née Drake) O'Reilly from Brooklyn and Teaneck , New Jersey, respectively. He is of Irish descent with a small degree of English ( Colonial American ) ancestry. Some of his father's ancestors lived in County Cavan , Ireland, since the early eighteenth century, and on his mother's side he has ancestry from Northern Ireland . The O'Reilly family lived in

11550-434: Was fired, the financial markets responded positively to the decision by Fox News, and its parent company 21st Century Fox rose over two percent in the stock market the next day. In April 2017, The New York Times reported that Fox News and O'Reilly had settled five lawsuits involving women who accused O'Reilly of misconduct. After the settlements were reported, The O'Reilly Factor lost more than half its advertisers within

11660-404: Was great at what he did. Whatever that was." In 2024, when Stewart returned to The Daily Show for the 2024 United States presidential election , he invited O'Reilly to appear on the show following the assassination attempt on former President and candidate Donald Trump . O'Reilly made cameo appearances in the films An American Carol (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Transformers: Dark of

11770-675: Was opposition to communism, which was seen not only as an enemy of the traditional order but also the enemy of Western freedom and democracy. Between 1945 and 1947, it was the Labour government in the United Kingdom, which embraced socialism, that pushed the Truman administration to take a strong stand against Soviet Communism . Social conservatism in the United States is the defense of traditional family values rooted in Judeo-Christian ethics and

11880-612: Was played in Williamsport in 1947. The Little League International Complex in South Williamsport hosts the annual tournament of the Little League Baseball World Series at Howard J. Lamade Stadium and adjacent Little League Volunteer Stadium , and is also the site of the Peter J. McGovern Little League Museum , which provides a history of Little League Baseball and Softball through interactive exhibits for children. Many Major League Baseball (MLB) players past and present in

11990-458: Was rebroadcast at 11:00 p.m. Progressive media monitoring organizations such as Media Matters and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting have criticized his reporting on a variety of issues, accusing him of distorting facts and using misleading or erroneous statistics. In 2008, citing numerous inaccuracies in his reporting, MediaMatters for America awarded him its first annual "Misinformer of

12100-496: Was the first woman to play in a Little League baseball game, which occurred in 1950. However, when the season had ended, a Little League meeting was held, and it was decided that girls would be banned from Little League baseball. Therefore, from 1951 through 1973, Little League baseball was restricted to boys only . . In 1974, due to a lawsuit brought on behalf of Maria Pepe by the National Organization for Women ,

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