Posted on 09/26/2008 5:43:57 AM PDT by RDTF
Uh, BOR could easily be only 1/64th Irish and still have the name. Please provide a complete outline of his ancestors and their ethnicity.
I've always somewhat liked O'Reilly despite his being a huge, ignorant blowhard about a variety of matters. But by substituting rage for coherent talk, he's lost a lot of casual fans. I'll bet O'Reilly doesn't know five percent as much as Rush does about how the nation's economic system works. O'Reilly is a populist hellraiser and not a cogent thinker. Attacking everybody is an ignorant person's way to make an argument. His tirade, which I listened to in its entirety, didn't sound much different than that of the drunk at the end of the bar.
Jumping on Rush is like jumping on a ten thousand pound Gorilla. BOR will regret those words !!!
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I think his biggest shortcoming is his arrogance. It handicaps his ability to see the truth.
But when he thinks of himself as a self-appointed guardian of us "folks", as if us "folks" are incapable of managing our own affairs and we need him to look out for us -- when he combines that folksy populism with an ignorance of basic economics and how the marketplace works; has fits of anger over some columnist that's critical of him, yet routinely calls people "pinheads"; it's a bit much for me to swallow.
Exactly!
Hey, go Bill, go! I loved it when he attacked Barney Fwank. Ooooeeeeee.
He says he’s in independent. I’ve never heard him say he’s a conservative.
I’ve started watching Dave Ramsey when I feel like a Fox fix at 8 o’clock. I think BOR’s ratings have been slipping.
He’s right about Barney Frank. But as far as Bush, he said Bush could have stopped it.
I think Bush gave what, 18 speeches is the number I’ve heard, warning about Freddie and Fannie. It was Congress that didn’t listen because they were beholden to their special interest groups. Bush is president, not God.
If he had made a huge deal about it, he could have caused the market to tank then.
Thanks.
As long as the economy produces things foreigners want the bucks come back but only temporarily.
It's a juggling act.
Make that *steal* money. In that they are not different from the Reds. The Reds do it wholesale, the crooks mostly just retail. But they are both taking what they did not earn or create.
OK, it wasn't much of a stretch
Don't know, but it would not surprise me. Except that O'R knows as well as I do that she'd clean his clock, so he'll be loathe to invite her on.
That was not always true. Speculators had no interest in the assets they dealt in, only the trading of them. Investors generally bought and held for quite some time. Investors bet on the value going up, or that the asset would return a profit. Speculators were as likely to hope the value would go down.
But now, most people conflate the two.
O’Reilly is WAAAAY out of his depth whenever he talks economics.
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