Originally posted by: ferris209
Well, I do believe that O'Reilly is a culture warrior in his definition of the term. What he constantly tries to point out is that we are currently in a war between Traditionalists and secular progressives. The invasion from the south is part of this broad war, the secular progressives want these illegals to be here and stay forever. Other goals of secular progressives is the elimination of Christmas, God in school, God in government, furtherance of gay marriage, and basically the complete oppression of the conservative viewpoint. In this sense of the culture war ideology O'Reilly points out stuff to the public that many liberal media outlets either do not want you to know or are scared to show because it does not jive with their goals.

Yes, those are all cultural issues, but they aren't necessarily original ideas. I know of conservatives who were concerned with those issues long before O'Reilly was. And even then, those issues aren't the end of the world. There are more important things out there. When it comes to the core problems which give birth to these issues, I've seen O'Reilly argue for the wrong side many times (or at least have no clue what he's talking about). If you find his show valuable, however, I won't attack that; I'm just explaining why I don't like it.