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Gross and O'Reilly
The thing I found most interesting about the Gross/O'Reilly interview was O'Reilly's admission that his father frequently hit him for what O'Reilly describes as "misdemeanors," and this stopped only when at age 17 he retaliated and beat his father until his father cried uncle. The phenomena of forming a violent personality (using either verbal or physical attacks, in O'Reilly's case, laudably, only words) and the significance of what's called a "violent personal revolt" against an abuser has been widely studied. I blogged here about how O'Reilly's "attack mode" fits in fairly neatly with these studies. There are responses to this message:
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