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Bill O’Reilly Disrespects President Obama By Lecturing Him On Humility
On his Fox News program, Bill OReilly claimed that President Obama had nothing to do with saving the auto industry and he needs to be much more humble about success.
While talking about the Clint Eastwood Super Bowl ad and the saving of the auto industry, OReilly said, Talking Points also believes that Presidents Bush and Obama did the right thing by propping up some major American corporations that were about to go under. That saved thousands of jobs and if the TARP program had not been authorized, worldwide panic would have been substantial. However, now, now it should be mandatory that all private companies that received taxpayer dollars pay them back. Chrysler should not be strutting around celebrating its recent success, while still owing the taxpayers more than a billion dollars. Thats simply wrong. Also President Obama should be much more humble in touting the success of an economic comeback because it was born on the backs of the working folks. He just ordered the checks sent out. American workers saved the economy, not Mr. Obama and Congress.
Obama is responsible for saving thousands of jobs, but according to Bill OReilly, he doesnt actually deserve any of the credit because it was the American workers who really saved the economy. But if the auto industry would have been allowed to fail, those workers wouldnt have had jobs and thus not been able to save the economy.
Bill OReilly was twisting himself in knots trying to figure out a way not to give Obama any credit for saving the auto industry. Since facts werent on his side, Bill-O went with the most convenient all-purpose Obama smear on the Fox News shelf, the claim that President Obama is arrogant. President Obama was criticized up and down by Republicans like Mitt Romney for the bailout, but since it worked, they now have to find a way not to give the president any the credit for it.
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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/en/bill-oreilly-disrespects-obama
While talking about the Clint Eastwood Super Bowl ad and the saving of the auto industry, OReilly said, Talking Points also believes that Presidents Bush and Obama did the right thing by propping up some major American corporations that were about to go under. That saved thousands of jobs and if the TARP program had not been authorized, worldwide panic would have been substantial. However, now, now it should be mandatory that all private companies that received taxpayer dollars pay them back. Chrysler should not be strutting around celebrating its recent success, while still owing the taxpayers more than a billion dollars. Thats simply wrong. Also President Obama should be much more humble in touting the success of an economic comeback because it was born on the backs of the working folks. He just ordered the checks sent out. American workers saved the economy, not Mr. Obama and Congress.
Obama is responsible for saving thousands of jobs, but according to Bill OReilly, he doesnt actually deserve any of the credit because it was the American workers who really saved the economy. But if the auto industry would have been allowed to fail, those workers wouldnt have had jobs and thus not been able to save the economy.
Bill OReilly was twisting himself in knots trying to figure out a way not to give Obama any credit for saving the auto industry. Since facts werent on his side, Bill-O went with the most convenient all-purpose Obama smear on the Fox News shelf, the claim that President Obama is arrogant. President Obama was criticized up and down by Republicans like Mitt Romney for the bailout, but since it worked, they now have to find a way not to give the president any the credit for it.
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Full article here: http://www.politicususa.com/en/bill-oreilly-disrespects-obama
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Bill O’Reilly Disrespects President Obama By Lecturing Him On Humility (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Feb 2012
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Muskypundit
(717 posts)1. Oh god the irony
This is faux noises plan to take over the world; by killing everyone with a mind with laughter.
It might work.
TheWraith
(24,331 posts)2. Bill O'Reilly lecturing someone on humility...
...is kind of like a 25-cent prostitute giving speeches about the importance of chastity.
babylonsister
(171,090 posts)3. Who gives a flying f#ck what this guy thinks? He's
preaching to "his" choir. It's not the truth, but if that's all they watch, there's not a lot we can do.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)4. bill,bill,bill....you lie again
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/business/25chrysler.html
or maybe you are just having a senior moment......
oh wait..chrysler`s profit is keeping the parent company fiat from selling the company. seems fiat`s europe bottom line sucks.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/chrysler-profit-lifts-fiat-prosects-20120202-1qu1n.html
bill ,bill ,bill....lier,lier,lier pants on fire!
or maybe you are just having a senior moment......
oh wait..chrysler`s profit is keeping the parent company fiat from selling the company. seems fiat`s europe bottom line sucks.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/world-business/chrysler-profit-lifts-fiat-prosects-20120202-1qu1n.html
bill ,bill ,bill....lier,lier,lier pants on fire!
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)5. O'Reilly is a thin-skinned egomaniac
who was smart enough to cook up his schtik as "America's Daddy" to appeal to elderly white Republicans, his niche audience. He'll say anything and do anything to foster the scam - it's all about ratings, nothing more. He figures he can just outlast his audience disappearing through attrition (average age 72) so he just keeps coming with more and more crap.