Posted on 06/21/2010 6:27:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Twice last week, Bill O'Reilly booked conservative Republican stars on his show--Sarah Palin and Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) -- and came at them from the unexpected stance of defending President Obama. With Palin, he defended Obama's handling of the BP spill. With Bachmann, he disagreed with her criticism of how the BP escrow fund was set-up.
All of that sparked an outraged rant from radio host Mark Levin, which the Right Scoop has captured and put online. In it, Levin makes the case that a lot of conservatives who don't have to worry about re-election are making--that, yes, the president "shook down" BP, and that O'Reilly is a "phony, populist idiot" for thinking otherwise.
(VIDEO AT LINK)
"Let me explain something to you, Mr. Cable TV!" says Levin, not using O'Reilly's name. "British Petroleum was in the back pocket of the Democrat Party! It gave Obama a million dollars. It backs cap and trade!" And he defends Rep. Joe Barton for "speaking the truth."
He may have been inarticulate about it. There was no need to apologize to BP. I get that. But if you have an IQ over 12, you get his point, which was: we can't have a president with the power to decide when a company has to cough up tens of billions of dollars, without legislation, without oversight... this is why we have a rule of law, to sort these things out. Not a president who brings this people before him and threatens them! Here's a relevant segment from O'Reilly's interview with Bachmann, in which he gets her to basically support the idea of the fund -- Levin, reflecting a good amount of opinion out there, is so angry about the process that he sees O'Reilly as a useful idiot for even asking this.
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The Ted Baxter Factor.
BOR got his Masters from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Nuff said.
Unfortunately, Levin bagan cursing and yelling and hung up on the caller before anything coherent could be said.
He remains one of the nations greatest minds..
If great minds involve psychpathic fishwives with Tourettes syndrome.
BOR has the IQ of a rutabaga.
I guess Bill got the memo about the Saudis buying a large minority stake in Fox News.
1 posted on Monday, June 21, 2010 9:27:18 PM by 2ndDivisionVet-—————————————————
But no mention of GE works with Iran -owns NBC, eh?
Bill O’ who?
Oh, the guy who used to be a conservative.
Are you really that ignorant? Have you ever listened to Mark? I doubt it.
Did he hurt your widdle feewings when you called?
BOR is BHO’s water boy.
Get off my phone!
And all this time I thought it was a Studebaker.
The guy who has been #1 on Fox as long as I can remember.
For all these years I could never peg BOR. Now I can. The man has no convictions. BOR is a spineless, hopeless, middle-of-the-road wannabe asshat.
Yeah, Levin took some pretty big bites of Bob Grant’s routine.
Every time Rush has any mention of anything BOR does he never misses the opportunity to call him Ted Baxter instead of BOR.
Good thing you’re such a true conservative.
Otherwise, I might think your chess moves against Limbaugh, Palin and now Levin strongly suggest you’re really a leftist in disguise, trying to undermine the cutting edge of conservatism.
And Oprah is #1 on CBS.
BOR is like a tennis ball, he goes from one side of the net to the other with his opinions.
If you want to yell at people on the phone, nobody better to pay homage to than Bob Grant. Well, maybe Howard Stern.
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