Bill O'Reilly - Say a prayer for the wealthy

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Prayer is an invocation or act seeking a rapport with a deity, an object of worship, or a spiritual entity through deliberate and alleged direct communication. It can be either individual or communal and take place in public or in private as form of worship, to request guidance, request assistance, confess sins, or to express one’s thoughts and emotions. Some people pray to their deity to heal a person who may be suffering some infirmity, but on Wednesday night on Fox News, Bill O’Reilly asked his viewers to pray for people he feels are in imminent danger; every affluent person in America.

Most people who have heard anything about Jesus Christ, who millions of Americans claim to follow, are aware that he had little regard for the rich and said it would be easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven. In fact his advice to rich people was to give all of their belongings to the poor and follow him, presumably to Heaven, but he certainly never suggested his followers pray for every affluent person in America, or anyplace else for that matter. Still, O’Reilly was so concerned over the plight of a lottery winner being taken advantage of that he included them with, as he put it, “every affluent person in America who is in danger” and because “the cost of living well is out of sight,” there was one thing he asked his audience to do for the rich; pray.

Since the President, the Pope, and dozens of noted economic experts have cited America’s income inequality as the “challenge of our time,” Republicans are beginning to reiterate what Paul Ryan complained was “the politics of division making a big comeback.” Ryan was “concerned” that Democrats, particularly President Obama, was trying to “exploit fear and envy” of the rich; Ryan’s venerated “makers.” Ryan’s real concern is that Americans are weary that every government policy favors the already wealthy, and conservatives are taking every opportunity to head off a movement to address the crippling income inequality that is producing a nation of peasants and decimating the economy.

Income inequality has gotten so distorted that 95% of wealth taken in the economic recovery since the Great recession has went to the richest one percent while the rest of the population is falling into poverty, and those in the vanishing middle class have seen their incomes decline. Americans do not envy the rich, they just want to share in the wealth that they helped created and have decent jobs and living wages that conservatives are launching a crusade to portray as envy.

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http://www.politicususa.com/2013/12/22/bill-oreilly-asks-fox-news-viewers-pray-wealthy-person-america.html

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. there are no words...that man doesn't have a damn clue...

[Katashi_itto]

12. SERIOUSLY TO TRUE. I JUST WONDER AT WHO ACTUALLY LISTENS TO THIS SHIT?

[awoke_in_2003]

3. the tide goes in, the tide goes out...

you can't explain it.

[maddiemom]

9. My immediate thought every time Bill-O opines on anything.

[Populist_Prole]

4. Meh. They know they're cooked, they're just being defiant to save face

Ideological masturbation would probably be the most accurate description of this tripe.

[Initech]

5. Yeah I'll say a prayer for the wealthy:

[jjewell]

7. Perfect!

[Oakenshield]

6. I really wish this guy would drown in his own feces.

I know, it's a terrible thing to wish for. Can't help it though. I don't if it's his insufferable air of moral superiority or his arrogance, but I really can't stand him. I'd sooner suffer an earful of Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck than listen to Bill O'Reilly bloviate for more than a minute.

[radiclib]

8. "No-spin zone"?

This might be the most outrageous and distorted "spin" of all time!

[Roy Rolling]

10. Read the book

I always wish everyone well---both rich and poor. But there is a big distinction in the Bible, and Faux News viewers should know it.

In the Bible, it is stated somewhere that it is a sin to give charity to the rich. So all the corporate welfare they support is forbidden by the scripture they profess to follow.

[maddiemom]

11. Any sane person wouldn't wish to win an outrageous lottery, but one just big enough

to invest for a worry-free lifestyle for their immediate family. I'd take my chances with that, except that I never buy lottery tickets. My in-laws used to buy tickets on gift-giving occasions for their son and me and their daughter and her husband. Daughter and hubby won small amounts almost every time; Son and me, never ONCE. I've taken that as an omen.

[LittleGirl]

13. *pushes mouth shut* while I'm smh

WTF is wrong with that guy? He doesn't make a bit of sense.

And two of my siblings (at least) watch him every night and he's teaching/preaching THAT?

[packman]

14. Listening to Bill

Is like walking into a dark room, flicking on the light and seeing roachs all over the floor. You are first stunned as they scurry around, then confused because you don't know which one to step on first. Wow, what a bunch of crap-sounds like he's angry, in a way, that the poor have a chance to be suddenly part of his elite club.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

15. Unfortunately it's the 'reasonable' -sounding Bill-O's of the world that can sell loads like this.

It's easier to debate the rest of the high profile RWers, most of whom seem to fall into the Hannity (dumbass) or Coulter (crazyass) camps.

[Taitertots]

16. Billdo is living in a fantasy if he thinks middle class and poor people have all those same problems

The difference is...
The average person is one bad event away from absolute poverty.