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Bill Oreilly Says We Don't Need Corn, and Other Food Staples?!?
Vanity | 6-17-2008 | Self

Posted on 06/17/2008 5:27:58 PM PDT by Fox_Mulder77

Here's the next chapter in BOR's war against big oil and the evil "speculators". In a discussion about oil with Karl Rove, BOR said we don't need corn. Karl compared the oil market to other commodities, basically saying the oil market works the same way other commodities work: "Look there are 30 commodities that trade in the same way you are talking about........ like corn, palm oil, you name it."

BOR didn't like that and said, "but there is a difference between corn, and soy beans, and orange juice, and all these other things. You don't need them, you don't need them!" Then Karl said, "well you need food!!" BOR then said, "well you need food, but you don't need that food."

We all know BOR is pretty clueless, but this takes it to another level.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: billoreilly; corn; foodsupply; foxnews; oil
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1 posted on 06/17/2008 5:27:58 PM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: Fox_Mulder77

I saw it.

Rove called him on it but he disagreed


2 posted on 06/17/2008 5:28:51 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: Fox_Mulder77

BO is an idiot.


3 posted on 06/17/2008 5:29:05 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

O’Reilly and Rove.

Otherwise known as Pinky and The Brain.


4 posted on 06/17/2008 5:30:44 PM PDT by Happy Rain ("Misera contribuens plebs!")
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To: Fox_Mulder77

I quit watch O’Reiley long, long ago. I got sick of his mouth and his idea that he is smarter and better than everyone else. I washed my hands of him, then I washed my hands of Flax News also. He is just a loud mouth ass hole.


5 posted on 06/17/2008 5:30:54 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (Obama is a lying piece of Marxist dung. He will destroy this Republic. He is an idiot.)
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To: mylife

O’Reilly is insane about oil companies. He’s really undermining any credibility he might have.

I think his father must have got fired from an oil company. Probably because he had a big mouth.


6 posted on 06/17/2008 5:31:55 PM PDT by y6162
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Does BOR know what bread,cereal,bagels, cake, pies, etc. are made of? Flour, grains, yeast? or does he think that stuff falls from the sky and the farmers pick it up every morning?


7 posted on 06/17/2008 5:33:52 PM PDT by madison10 (Hobson's Choice for President 2008 ®)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

O’Reilly is a f-ing idiot. Hands down the stupidest man in TV news.


8 posted on 06/17/2008 5:34:16 PM PDT by lesser_satan (Cthulu '08! Why vote for the lesser evil?)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Who is this Bill O’reilly to tell anybody what they “need”?


9 posted on 06/17/2008 5:35:37 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (God Bless Our Troops)
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To: y6162

Interesting read:

http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/engdahl/2008/0502.html


10 posted on 06/17/2008 5:35:41 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: lesser_satan

he should stick to covering bimbos on spring break. and yes, please cover them.


11 posted on 06/17/2008 5:36:20 PM PDT by ari-freedom (McCain must pick a conservative VP if he wants conservative support)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Maybe he is hedging his bets and trying to score points with Barry (middle name must not be mentioned!) Obama.


12 posted on 06/17/2008 5:36:31 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: mylife
BO is an idiot.

Gotta love the Irish, O'Riley & O'Bama.

13 posted on 06/17/2008 5:36:46 PM PDT by tbpiper (NObama '08)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

BOR is such a fool, he probably thinks eggs just come from the grocery store. He is annoying because he knows so very little about what he speaks about. He probably thinks corn is only used for tortillas.

He is always mistaken on facts, when cornered he refuses to admit he is a moron and is wrong.

How his show stays at the top is a mystery. I haven’t watched more than a few minutes in the last few years. I really do not blame anyone for not wanting to appear on his stupid show.


14 posted on 06/17/2008 5:37:50 PM PDT by dforest (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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..the day he attacked FR—that was it for me...


15 posted on 06/17/2008 5:37:55 PM PDT by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

I saw BO make a fool of himself arguing with Karl Rove. I just mae the comment last night that his show is going way, way downhill and I don’t see myself watching much in the future.

Oh wait! He just plugged a piece on booze and sex teen parties after the break. Evryone better tune in.


16 posted on 06/17/2008 5:37:55 PM PDT by San Jacinto
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To: Fox_Mulder77

BO is a total jackass, it’s painful just waiting for him to say something stupid, which is guaranteed in every discussion.


17 posted on 06/17/2008 5:38:16 PM PDT by Williams
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To: Army Air Corps
Maybe he is hedging his bets and trying to score points with Barry (middle name must not be mentioned!) Obama.

As I just posted on another thread...After the first segment on oil, where Bill O. talked over Karl and didn't let him get a word in edgewise, the topic turned to Barry's idiocy regarding using trials for terrorists. Karl blasted Bill about how the 1993 attack on the WTC was handled and how the war would be fought in the future. Bill knew Karl was spot-on but had to defend Barry by saying--well, I'm going to have him on to talk to him about this. Talk to him--how about slapping him silly!
18 posted on 06/17/2008 5:38:16 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Fox_Mulder77
BOR jumped the shark a while ago with Oil.

I think that there is some underlying problem here that makes him deny that he was wrong, even after opponents in debates have let him reduce the argument to the absurd.

That is a common debating ploy, and one I have used to great effect.
When you see that your opponent is going to counterpoint everything that you say, you start reducing the subject to lower and lower levels of common sense and just let your opponent go for it.

Works like a charm, but the old Miami college professor, Bill, should certainly see the problem that he is displaying here

19 posted on 06/17/2008 5:40:08 PM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

Oreilly’s rant on this was the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard him say, and that’s really saying something.


20 posted on 06/17/2008 5:40:21 PM PDT by Lucas McCain (No relation to John McCain)
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