
Article excerpt: “But according to Cullinan, the title actually derives from a term O’Reilly became familiar with in the mid-1980s, when his friend John Tantillo came up with a phrase to describe the small distortions and subtle shadings that seemed to shape O’Reilly’s reality. “Tantillo once remarked that everything that transpired around Bill had what he called an ‘O’Reilly factor’ to it,” says Cullinan.”