O'Reilly and Dugard found Jesus!

Bill O'Reilly and Michael Dugard have just published Killing Jesus, another in their series of history-making deaths.I am amused and glad.
While the promotional material does not provide any information about their scholastic qualifications for such an effort, they have certainly captured popular imagination. I am amused because O'Reilly is giddy over revealing "new" information about the circumstances leading to and the technique of Jesus' crucifixion. Real scholars have been studying and writing about this for over two hundred years. They have been talking about the lost tomb of Jesus' family first discovered in the 1980s. O'Reilly ignores the latter and insinuates he has new information and insight about Jesus' intentions and the "facts" around the death. His sources are a literal harmony of the canonical gospels and lip service to scant extra-canonical material. He dabbles with confirming Jesus' actual words like the Jesus Seminar has attempted to do with sound scholarship but subjectively chooses what to include and what to exclude. For example, he claims Jesus actually said "Father forgive them" while on the cross, but O'Reilly leaves them out of his reconstruction because NO ONE COULD HAVE HEARD HIM SAY THEM IN THE CHAOS OF THE SITUATION!
I am glad they published this book if it will create conversation around a very significant historical event and encourage people to study and search responsible scholarship. This has been my personal and professional passion for years. I offered my own interpretation in a religious historical fiction entitled Jesus: A Would Be King available on Amazon.
Fundamentalists will be outraged. Liberal scholars will cavalierly dismiss it. Responsible scholarship it isn't, but that never stopped the sale of books. Read it. Read mine. Let's talk!