1. William Alfred Whittle was born on April 7,1959 and is an American conservative political commentator and YouTuber.
36 Facts About Bill Whittle
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Bill Whittle has made videos for PJ Media as the presenter of Afterburner, The Firewall, The Daily Wire, and as co-host of Right Angle with Stephen Green and Scott Ott, his former fellow co-hosts of Trifecta.
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Bill Whittle has produced videos and writing for other outlets, such as the NRA and Truth Revolt.
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Bill Whittle is a former National Review Online contributor and has been a guest on the Fox News Channel, The Dennis Miller Show, Sun TV, and national radio programs.
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Since 2009, Bill Whittle has been a featured speaker at universities and a number of Republican and Tea Party events throughout the United States.
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Bill Whittle is the co-founder of the independent film studio Declaration Entertainment, and is a narrator for Encounter Books.
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Bill Whittle was born in New York City to William Joseph Bill Whittle, a hotel manager.
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Bill Whittle spent his youth in Bermuda, where he attended Warwick Academy and Saltus Grammar School, and later moved with his family to South Florida in the early 1970s.
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Bill Whittle had intended to become a test pilot for the United States Air Force.
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Bill Whittle developed an interest in filmmaking while helping friends make Super 8 short films and formed a short-lived studio, Mindfire Films, Inc.
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Bill Whittle named Mike Jittlov's The Wizard of Speed and Time as one of his early influences.
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In 1979, Bill Whittle began attending the University of Florida as a theater major.
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Bill Whittle did not maintain the required grade point average and dropped out of college after losing his financial aid.
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Bill Whittle started working as a freelance film editor during the late-1980s and 1990s on television series and specials for The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, and NBC.
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Bill Whittle briefly ran a video editing company during this period which closed down in 1998.
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Bill Whittle continued working in the TV industry as an editor on the Turner Classic Movies special Movie Monsters Revealed, House Calls, Ed McMahon's Next Big Star, Movie Obsessions, AMC's Sunday Morning Shoot-Out, and Shatner's Raw Nerve.
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On July 4,2010, Bill Whittle announced the creation of Declaration Entertainment, an independent film studio, which used crowdsourcing to finance its projects.
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On January 31,2017, Bill Whittle began writing for The Daily Wire.
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Also in January 2017, Bill Whittle began producing video content for the National Rifle Association's NRATV network.
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Bill Whittle's show for the NRA, titled Hot Mic, was a critique of "left-wing pop culture's war on our freedom and rights".
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On July 11,2019, Bill Whittle announced that he would host a four-part podcast about the Apollo 11 Moon landing, titled Apollo 11: What We Saw.
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Bill Whittle was inspired to start writing following the death of his father earlier that year.
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Bill Whittle soon developed friendships with fellow bloggers Frank J Fleming, James Lileks, and P J O'Rourke who praised his unique writing style.
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Bill Whittle has credited O'Rourke, in particular, for "bringing me home to conservatism".
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In December 2008, Bill Whittle moved to PJ Media where he continued blogging and hosted several of its video segments:.
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Bill Whittle's first Afterburner segment was broadcast on May 7,2009, as a rebuttal to Jon Stewart's assertion on The Daily Show that the atomic bombing of Japan in World War II was a war crime.
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In February 2011, Laura Baxley of the Atlanta Examiner wrote that Bill Whittle's "The Narrative" was "a brilliant discourse on this Marxist underpinning of critical theory".
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Bill Whittle's video "Eat the Rich", presenting his position on the consequences of high taxation on the wealthy, was played on Glenn Beck's radio talk show in April 2011.
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Bill Whittle was on The Rusty Humphries Show that month and has filled in as a guest host for Rusty Humphries multiple times since his first appearance.
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Later that year, Bill Whittle was hired by Encounter Books to narrate a series of animated "whiteboard" videos featured on TheBlaze.
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In May 2012, Bill Whittle started his own weekly podcast, "The Stratosphere Lounge", in which Bill Whittle takes questions from his Facebook followers.
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Bill Whittle is a frequent guest speaker at political rallies and other public events.
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Bill Whittle is an instrument-rated pilot of glider and light aircraft.
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Bill Whittle studied aviation as a teenager with the intention of entering the US Air Force Academy.
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Author and screenwriter Michael Walsh, in his 2009 novel Hostile Intent, credited Bill Whittle for teaching him the OODA loop.
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On July 9,2005, Bill Whittle was involved in an incident while attempting to land at Visalia Municipal Airport when the front landing gear failed.