a couple of points one beck and o'reilly are quite different both in style and in ideas two the words that you quote come in the context of a lead section that summarizes the opinions of both beck's detractors and his supporters for whom he is a conservative champion and a defender of traditional american values from secular progressivism basically that's the beck bio's equivalent of saying that o'reilly's commentary has drawn both praise and criticism while i admit that the beck lead is more specific and certainly more flamboyant i think it is probably less encyclopedic