O’Reilly Claims He Is Personally Responsible For Lower Gas Prices

[RedEarth]

O’Reilly Claims He Is Personally Responsible For Lower Gas Prices
In an interview yesterday with Fox News’s Neil Cavuto, Bill O’Reilly claimed that his reporting intimidated oil company CEOs into lowering gasoline prices:

O’REILLY: I have guys inside the five major oil companies - my father used to work for one of those oil companies by the way - who have told me that in those meetings they look for every way to jack up oil prices after Katrina, every way, when they didn’t have to. They got scared because of my reporting and reporting of some others. They said, “Uh ho.”

CAVUTO: So wait a minute, you’re not, you’re taking credit for gas prices being down from where they are?

O’REILLY: I said my reporting and some reporting of others. They got scared.

video at the link below....

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/12/01/oreilly-lowers-gas-prices/

[Loonman]

1. Delusions of grandeur

Is what psychologists call this. Could be an indication of a coming mental breakdown.

[Dr.Phool]

16. I prefer the laymans term

Fucking crazy!

[awoke_in_2003]

23. actually...

the laymans term is fucking idiot.

[MissB]

29. I tend to agree

I caught a little of his spiel last night on Cavuto (it was late, I was bored) and yeah, he sounded bat-shit crazy.

He was justifying the "businesses should thank Jesus for being born" crap he'd spewed the day before. The contortions were incredible. I kept thinking that "Where Would Jesus Shop" isn't such a good statement.

[atommom]

42. Businesses should thank Jesus for being born?

But Jesus didn't even invent lower gas prices (OR encourage people to go shopping, for that matter). I think it's time for Bill to demand his own holiday.

[Robeysays]

39. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

:spray: :spray: :spray:

[rocktivity]

19. It would also explain his enemies list

a pathetic attempt to hold on to his diminishing omnipotence--and ratings.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Spinzonner]

2. He may have a point

The gas he's been distributing may have significantly increased the supply and driven down the price

[MsConduct]

34. LOL I believe the gas he distributes is what they call 'bad gas' . n/t

[patdem]

3. o'lielly has pulled a bush* and surrounded himself with people who

praise him and tell him how great he is...and the ultimate egotistical insanity that is bound to occur is becoming more and more evident!

[Richard Steele]

4. Now, was that before or after he made the sun rise? Pfft!

The boy is losing it.

[awoke_in_2003]

24. No

it is after he declared that it is alright to bomb san francisco :)

[Loonman]

5. Increase in loofah sales, too

Not to mention falafel.

[Bozita]

6. Cavuto's best line: "I think you're nuts!"

[LisaLynne]

7. This man is going stark-raving mad right before our eyes!

How long until the severe meltdown takes place? I'm just hoping an intern at his show will sneak a tape out when it happens.

[AlCzervik]

9. thats what i'm counting on, the big final meltdown he can't come

back from---on the air.

[wryter2000]

47. Heck

I hope he melts down on his show and is too fucking crazy to allow his staff to edit it. I hope it goes out over the air waves.

[CatholicEdHead]

53. His show is now taped and not live so we cannot see it happen

unless like someone else said a tape is leaked.

[Skinner]

8. LOL

Brilliant.

[ucmike]

10. Okay, Howard...I mean Bill. You invented lower gas prices.

sounds like howard stern taking credit for inventing everything media.

[FredMertz]

22. Why bash Howard?

He takes on Bush and his policies regularly.

[ucmike]

41. i was a big howard fan until a year ago

in the past year he's developed a nasty habit of taking credit for anything creative on tv or radio.

examples:
recently he announced that "mtv unplugged" was his idea because he was the first person to put live acoustic music on the radio.

he has also taken credit for re-inventing satellite radio, although he has yet to say a word on satellite and won't for months.

he has taken credit for inventing reality tv as well, although i don't remember his rationale.



he has been innovative, and at times a genius for radio comedy and i imagine his satellite ventures might be worthwhile, but he has a very big head and a knack for self-aggrandizing.

he is also a bit of a hypocrite, making himself the posterboy/victim for free speech while attacking other people then using his influence within viacom to silence them when they fought back.

[wryter2000]

48. Welcome to DU

How's Ethel? :evilgrin:

:hi:

[onenote]

11. the only petroleum product O'Reilly knows anything about

is K/Y.

onenote

[Mad_Dem_X]

13. I'm not even gonna go there!

LOL!

[iconoclastNYC]

36. You mean vasoline.

K/Y is water based. Don't ask me how I know ;)

[Mad_Dem_X]

12. The man's arrogance knows no bounds!

Damn, what a wack-job...:rofl:

[Crankie Avalon]

14. ...so if his mighty pronouncements can get gas prices to come down...

...why can't he get anyone to sign up for his "Cruise with Bill O'Reilly" thing he was promoting on his show and had to cancel for lack of interest?

[MadHound]

15. Yeah, right Bill. Then answer me this.

How come gas prices here have been going back up for the past week. What, you haven't been talking to the oil execs lately?

What an ass:eyes:

[ComerPerro]

17. LMAO. "Not only is Bill OReiley saving Christmas,

He's also making it cheaper for you to get to the mall.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[EFerrari]

28. LOL!

Next time, we send him gas cans.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[triguy46]

18. Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 16:18. Or as I like to put it, every dog has his day.

[Vickers]

20. How does he reconcile the myth of his lower middle class upbringing

with "my father used to work for one of those oil companies by the way" ?

:shrug:

I hate to call him a liar, but hey. :spank:

[WolverineDG]

32. i was going to point that out

hasn't he always waxed poetic about growing up poor? so, no need to :spank: yourself for calling him a liar.

dg

[Marr]

21. Hahaha! Oh hey- by the way, Bill- I thought you grew up poor. How

did your dad's work at those oil companies get you connections to their executives?

Straighten out your lies, dipshit.

[Drum]

25. Don't forget, Bill,

the real God can always switch off your mic....

[ProfessorGAC]

26. So The Senate Talking Investigations Into. . .

. . .price fixing and gouging had nothing to do with. The Senate, with subpoena power, talking investigation didn't scare the oil execs, but reporters talking about talking about it did?

Yeah, ok.

Clearly there's a connection between people thinking investigation and the drop in prices. Clearly he's right in that they used any possible excuse to drive up prices without any connection to demand or supply. But, i somehow think the Senate talking investigation is a far scarier prospect than a twit like O'Reilly "knowing some people".


The Professor

[Johonny]

27. OK fine

the next time gas prices go up in your area please be sure to send your complaint to the man in charge. I'm sure he'll be happy to hear from you.

[trogdor]

30. Well, I invented the question mark.

/dr_evil

[frylock]

31. i believe him..

remember, he single handedly brought France to it's knees with his boycott. You can read all about in the Paris Business Review.

[wryter2000]

49. rofl

:rofl: :applause:

I've never seen that website. I wonder if www.sweetjesusihatebilloreilly.com knows about that.

[Nostradammit]

56. That's Great!!

Love this graphic:




Ole' Bill sure got a comeuppance comin', don't he?

[MsConduct]

33. Wow! If he's that powerful, maybe he can single handedly end

the war! What a raving lunatic.

[iconoclastNYC]

35. I hope someone breaks in to

Andrea's apartment and gets those tapes. That's all it'd take to snap the thread by which he clings to sanity.

[K8-EEE]

37. No, I Think Steven Colbert Is Responsible For It

Oh BROTHER O'Reilly is such an assclown...I wonder if he watched Colbert and wonders why everyone's laughing, he acts JUST LIKE THAT!

[NoPasaran]

38. I hear he stopped filling his swimming pool with it n/t

[saracat]

40. STFU, Bill. You are a blow hard!

[Karmadillo]

43. He healed my sick cousin and made it rain last week.

nt

[ronnykmarshall]

44. He really is crazy.

I'll watch the day his head explodes on air.

[ronnykmarshall]

45. He really is crazy.

I'll watch the day his head explodes on air.

[wryter2000]

46. Isn't that odd?

I thought Bill had a deprived childhood in a lower class area. His father was significant enough in an oil company that the executives would be aware of the connection to O'Really?

[Trish1168]

50. megalomaniacal phone sex addict

He's such a jerk.

[butterfly77]

51. Remember...

Bill says "I'm looking out for you":rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[A Simple Game]

52. And O'reilly is the kind of guy

that you don't have to thank him.

No, really, there is no need to thank him. None at all.

[proud2BlibKansan]

54. So if his father worked for an oil company,

doesn't that kind of blow his 'I was a poor kid' claim right out of the water?

Does he even THINK about what he says before he says it?

No, don't answer that. LOL

[Rex]

55. Bill is the Overlord of Stupid Morans

Bill raises and lowers the Sung Yung Moon, Bill has a 1,340 IQ, Bill lubes up his mouth with un-biased reporting, all before air-time, such a smart guy, snappy dresser, phono-sexual harasser with 'tickle toy' up the bum. Bill outshines Bush with bright, radiant truth.

[Mutley]

57. So, that means he was also responsible for the HIGH gas prices

a few months ago, right? Gotta take the good with the bad, Loofah Man.

Falafel!

[Arkana]

58. You know, if O'Lielly's head expands any more, it won't fit

on the set for his stupid show, or it'll just implode like a neutron star.