Someone PLEASE buy Bill O'Reilly This Book!!

[Recovering_Democrat]

After watching O'Reilly's ignorant claptrap populist anti-capitalist oil-company bashing rhetoric--AND after watching him not let the opposition (Ben Stein and to a lesser degree Wayne Rogers) get a word in edgewise, I am CONVINCED this guy needs a simple lesson in Economics from Dr. Sowell.

[Minus_The_Bear]

You make the assumption he can read.

[birbear]

agreed

[MCCRon58]

Bill O'Reilly is much to intelligent, well read, and erudite to ever stoop so low as read and understandable economics book. Why then, he might have to recant 90% of his diatribes these last 2 months.

[Always Right]

You tax the oil companies more and then expect lower gas prices. What is wrong with that reasoning......

[Recovering_Democrat]

Yeah, I know...someone who makes so much moolah ought to take the time to learn some basic facts. He seems so dang ignorant of such simple stuff as the way prices are determined.

[SE Mom]

Bill...just..doesn't get it. Apparently his populist thinking outweighs his capitalist tendencies.

[fat city]

I knew O'Reilly was really a Kucinich man at heart- this proves it.

[Michael Goldsberry]

O'Reilly

Who?

[Recovering_Democrat]

Why then, he might have to recant 90% of his diatribes these last 2 months.

Thankfully, I rarely watch him. I had the tv on "mute" and saw Ben Stein was on...I like Ben, so I tuned it in. O'Reilly was really really REALLY about as off base as one can get.

The utter stupidity about supply and demand in this country amazes me.

I am not wealthy--just a basic middle class American--and I am not freaked out about gas prices. O'Reilly ought to be ashamed.

[A message]

And the assumption he cares.

O'Bloviator's forehead could be used as a battering ram and it would probably increase his IQ.

[Dog Gone]

Bill O'Reilly is an idiot. He forms firm opinions without bothering to check his assumptions.

How is that different from any goober from some hillbilly hollow?

[EGPWS]

You tax the oil companies more and then expect lower gas prices. What is wrong with that reasoning......

Perhaps one can find reasoning in it if one removes common sense, vision, and national concern from the picture.

[billhilly]

He is the Tyrrel Owens of broadcasting. FOX should bench his arrogant ass.

[LibWhacker]

He's a terrible embarrassment. Makes 'ya cringe. I mean, sheesh... If you know NOTHING about a subject, and you've got a couple of experts on who are talking about elementary principles, then SHUT YOUR STUPID MOUTH AND LISTEN!

Can't stand fools like O'Reilly. And they're everywhere.

It's not such a disgrace that a person doesn't know about a particular subject, but it's a disgrace and embarrassment if he isn't willing to listen to people who do.

[Mike Darancette]

Bill's populist economics crap is wearing thin. The market is the market. With supply restricted we are subject to price spikes at the mere whim of the market.

O'reilly shows gasoline sales figures for two months and assumes that sales-demand, that is only the case when supply is allowed to increase to meet the demand.

It should be noted that the oil companies, to my knowledge, have not gone to the Federal Government for a handout to repair damaged rigs and refineries. \

[NormsRevenge]

Someone PLEASE buy Bill O'Reilly This Book a muzzle!! There. :-)

[ClaireSolt]

Between the ranting of O'Reilly on oil prices and the fantasies of Chris Mathews I could go nuts. They are both trying so much too hard that I suspect no one is watching. I brought a great booki home "How Capitalism Saved America". Is is an economic history that challenges many accepted notions. Very interesting.

[Lawgvr1955]

You tax the oil companies more and then expect lower gas prices.

This goes back to the "belief" that corporations pay taxes.

It is like in May when you ask a friend if they paid taxes last year. They may respond that they "didn't pay any taxes, I got a refund", meaning they got a few hundred back, not considering the thousands they actually paid.

It drives me nuts.

[BW2221]

I am to the right of Attila the Hun, but the mega-mergers in the oil industry have destroyed competition. During the early twentieth century, the government broke up Standard Oil into five separate companies. Four of the five are joined again. Exxon (Standard of NJ) merged with Mobil (Standard of NY). BP (which bought Standard of Ohio) merged with AMOCO (Standard of Indiana). You have Conoco Philips and Texaco was acquired by another of the giants. CITGO is Venzulean owned.

Say what you want, since the oil companies reported record profits and O'Reilly and others started bashing them for price gouging, the price of regular has dropped 80 cents, while the price of a barrel of oil barely changed.

You can only have a free market economy if you have competition.