O’Reilly Rejects Right-Wing Defense Of Big Oil’s Massive Profits:

[Ichingcarpenter]

In the past week, conservatives have jumped to the defense of Big Oil in order to justify their own push for more offshore drilling. On Sunday, House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) backed up Exxon Mobil, saying that the company’s critics should be overjoyed that an “American company made money.” On Laura Ingraham’s radio show on Friday, former senator Rick Santorum said that Exxon’s record-setting quarterly profit of $11.7 billion was not “a huge profit.”

Last night on The O’Reilly Factor, Karl Rove joined in, declaring that oil companies “pay a lot in taxes.” But this new right-wing meme was too much even for Bill O’Reilly, who said that Big Oil should “donate 2 percent of their profits for the last four quarters to a fund that would help struggling Americans pay their heating bills.” O’Reilly also contacted the top five corporations, who were only “lukewarm” to his idea:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/05/rove-oreilly-oil/

[Maine-ah]

1. n/t

:wow:

[Mudoria]

2. I guess the old adage about

a stopped clock being right twice a day can be applied to O'Reilly as well. He's managed it once so far with this..

[Tyler Durden]

3. Where am I? Bizarro World? nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. I read this too.. and thought the same thing

The clock analogy is the only answer to this.

[B Calm]

4. We just got a letter from our electric company that says our rates are

going up 17%. My cheap labor employer just gave me a 4% raise. . . .

[rox63]

5. OMG - O'Reilly said something that wasn't totally idiotic or hateful

Color me amazed. :wow:

[samsingh]

7. more rovian/bush idiocy

any amounts of profits are okay by a virtual monopoly because they pay taxes on them (probably not as much as they should in anycase).


give me $10 billion, i'll be happy to pay taxes on the money. poor me.

[underseasurveyor]

8. OK the real bill oreilly is tied up, gagged and locked in a closet

somewhere...
Who is that masked man on teevee pretending to be billo:wow:

[Hannah Bell]

9. As the economy gets worse, expect more of this kind of faux

populism from the right.

It will cheerlead for small philanthropies, but not to change the root causes.

[DrZeeLit]

10. Ummm... isn't that "fund" a tad bit like Obama's plan for windfall tax?

Billo better hold tight. Somebody might bring up Obama's ideas and smack him upside the head.

[morgan2]

11. he's always mixed in some ridiculous ideas like that

Obviously oil companies aren't going to donate their profits. These are some of the most dirty corporations in the world, linked to coups, rape, murder and Dick Cheney.

[Cheap_Trick]

12. We are through the looking glass, people.

White is black, and black is white.

[DailyGrind51]

13. What was O'Reilly going to do, alienate his audience by siding with "Big Oil"?

Bill may not be the "brightest bulb", but he understands ratings.

[frylock]

14. so karl rove is in country and walking free to do interviews with o'reilly?

WHAT THE FUCK!!!?