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Did anyone just watch Cavuto clean Oreilly's clock?
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Posted on 04/17/2006 5:53:30 PM PDT by Borges

Bill Oreilly was complaining about the outgoing CEO of Exxon Mobil making too much money and Cavuto pointed out that Oil Company CEOs provide a much bigger service to society then talk show hosts who also make millions...Bill was speechless.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: cavuto; exxonmobil; oreilly
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To: Borges

Watching the repeat now and Neil is showing what a total idiot O'Reily is.


141 posted on 04/17/2006 8:51:41 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Phsstpok

You're absolutely right!


142 posted on 04/17/2006 8:53:08 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: ThirstyMan
"America needs to look at the distribution of wealth at the top if you ask me.

And who should be the decider, YOU!!
That has to be the most ridiculous statement I've seen here without a ZOT.

143 posted on 04/17/2006 8:58:09 PM PDT by fedupjohn (If we try to fight the war on terror with eyes shut + ears packed with wax, innocent people will die)
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To: ThirstyMan
Your class warfare screed is right out of MARX's handbook.

This is in no way any kind of CONSERVATIVE thought. You really need to stop jerking that liberal, emotional, knee. It is none of your business, what Exxon, or any other company pays its employees/officers. Neither is it up to you, to decide what anyone "needs", nor how much money is TOO MUCH money for anyone to have.

144 posted on 04/17/2006 9:00:01 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Borges
O'Reilly is a very shallow hypocritical person.
145 posted on 04/17/2006 9:00:29 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
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To: Borges
"Cavuto is also the VP of Fox News."

Really?

It doesn't surprise me. Unlike O'Reilly he has a brain and uses it.
146 posted on 04/17/2006 9:02:05 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
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To: GretchenM
"I love the way Neil's mind works."

Same here.

O'Reilly is stupid.
147 posted on 04/17/2006 9:03:54 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) !)
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To: Borges

O'Rielly is a self-styled "working 'class'" ignoramus boor whose envy-driven totalitarian socialist roots are exposed every time he opens his lunatic-left-wing fringe-dwelling mouth.

I also noted that while ranting on in his inimitably economics illiterate manner about how much he loathes America's somewhat free-enterprise and still slightly less than fascistic way of doing business, he also took the opportunity to both compare socialist Brazil's sugar-based ethanol industry to America's ongoing criminally corrupt grain-based ethanol scam.

A boorish ignoramus.


148 posted on 04/17/2006 9:04:17 PM PDT by Brian Allen (How arrogant are we to believe our career political-power-lusting lumpen somehow superior to theirs?)
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To: nmh

Someday I'd like Cavuto to just smack O'Reilly upside the head and scream: "WHAT IS IT ABOUT CAPITALISM AND CORPORATE PROFITS THAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, YOU FORMER INSIDE EDITION HACK?!?" But I'll settle for this. I caught the tail end of it and Mr. Bloviator looked somewhat flummoxed. I actually agree with most of what O'Reilly says, but when it comes to the oil companies he's a koolaid drinker.


149 posted on 04/17/2006 9:07:10 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Brian Allen

Spot on! :-)


150 posted on 04/17/2006 9:19:24 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: billbears
If Exxon wants to pay this guy $400 mil, good for them. They recognize what the CEO did for the past 40 years. Not going to change where I get my gas from, the local Citgo has the lowest prices for me currently

well put, Capitalism is the best system, it has provided the world with the greatest wealth ever seen. For those who think it is "obscene" I would argue first and foremost that government is obscene with its incessant greed for our hard earn tax dollars. It's sad to see so many upset over what Exxon pays this guy. If you don't like it, don't by Exxon gas. ENVY is the worse of all vices -- it has led to immeasurable misery and death for so many millions.

151 posted on 04/17/2006 9:27:11 PM PDT by liberty2004
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To: Psycho_Bunny
But this bizarre class of corporate management that's cropped-up - CEOs who've been brought into the company and showered with obscenely lavish pay by a board of directors who are playing the "I'll scratch your back" game - pisses me off.

I'm no socialist but, come on...it's ridiculous.

What a reversal.

What was it you told me on another thread??????? Oh yeah, I remember,'This is America, we're capitalist'. hahahahaha good night.

152 posted on 04/17/2006 9:35:43 PM PDT by processing please hold (Be careful of charity and kindness, lest you do more harm with open hands than with a clinched fist)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
If I were hired on as the CEO of Astanga's Gas and promised to save them $50,000,000 a year, and did so, then I would think that a $25,000,000 salary would be about right. In short, these CEOs produce huge revenue streams, or cauterize capital hemorrhaging. They are given a compensation for their intellectual investment in the company.
153 posted on 04/17/2006 9:44:08 PM PDT by ashtanga
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To: ThirstyMan
Does any one really NEED that much money? On the surface it sounds obscene. Is it a comparable severance package for other CEO's? Sounds like America needs to look at the distribution of wealth at the top if you ask me. Some accountability seems in order

Well spoken, comrade.

154 posted on 04/17/2006 11:58:48 PM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: Common Tator

Common cents. ; )


155 posted on 04/18/2006 12:14:08 AM PDT by antceecee (Hey AG Gonzales! ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW!!!)
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To: ThirstyMan

You know I said the very same the other day to my hubbie, but second thoughts tell me that it's the shareholders who need to complain. If they aren't complaining then that's the end of it, unless we want the gov't to control the salaries of CEO's....I don't want that... do you?


156 posted on 04/18/2006 12:16:57 AM PDT by antceecee (Hey AG Gonzales! ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS NOW!!!)
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To: miele man

Perhaps you are not aware that Mr. Cavuto has multiple sclerosis although he rarely mentions it. I highly doubt even O'Reilly would stoop as low as you mightlike.


Rarely to you is definitely a different rarely to me. He mentions it at least twice if not three times a month.


157 posted on 04/18/2006 2:37:34 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: altura
No, I'm not a socialist. Read all of my posts on this thread before calling names.

I support and enjoy the capitalist system.
But when I see a weakness in how it is practised I will speak up.

Nobody to this point has addressed how giving $400,000,000.00 to an outgoing CEO benefits the company. I mean that's almost half a billion dollars, just to exit Exxon. Whatever happened to the luncheon and the pocketwatch?

158 posted on 04/18/2006 3:12:56 AM PDT by ThirstyMan (hysteria: the elixir of the Left that trumps all reason)
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To: golfisnr1
"I heard he is worth it."

Indeed. As until recently I was a owner of Exxon and I'm delighted with the return my investment provided. I voted for the BOD at every opportunity and I appreciate the return the company and the board provided me.

I wonder how many of those grousing are actual owners of the company or, like liberals, think they should have a say in everything regardless of a lack of ownership, simply because they know better than the actual owners of the enterprise?

159 posted on 04/18/2006 3:36:02 AM PDT by Proud_texan ("Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater)
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To: ThirstyMan
Does any one really NEED that much money? On the surface it sounds obscene. Is it a comparable severance package for other CEO's? Sounds like America needs to look at the distribution of wealth at the top if you ask me.

All thoughts of a good socialist, or even a good communist.

Can we assume that you would like to be in charge of how much money others NEED? Will you also volunteer to decide how wealth is distributed?

160 posted on 04/18/2006 3:40:54 AM PDT by been_lurking
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