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Bill O’Reilly On His Daily Show Appearance: Tried To ‘Talk Some Sense’ Into Jon Stewart

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On The Factor Thursday evening, host Bill O’Reilly quoted a little ol’ website of which you may have heard: Mediaite. In a segment about what “2012 is all about,” O’Reilly referred back to his appearance on The Daily Show yesterday night, calling host Jon Stewart “the face of the progressive movement as stated today by the website Mediaite.”

In his Talking Points Commentary, O’Reilly underlined what he sees as the liberal talking point, quoting Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett’s assertion that “we have to give people a livelihood,” and that economic policy is intrinsically tied to ethical thought. O’Reilly (and others) believe that the problem with this mode of thinking — however sincere and good-natured it may be — is impossible, at least in a capitalist economy, because “capitalism cannot deliver successful economic outcomes for everybody.”

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This, then, is where Stewart comes into play. O’Reilly agreed with Mediaite’s take on the comedian and activist (It is fair, at this point, to refer to him as such… no?), calling him a great influence among liberals in the U.S. — a good reason to engage him in a discussion on the economy, jobs, and exorbitantly-priced baked goods. Which is just what O’Reilly did last night. And he insists he will not rest until he has convinced the left that “class warfare is damaging America.”

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  • Anonymous

    We Need More Alex Alvarez Articles !!!

  • Anonymous

    For each job a company creates overseas they should be tax, jobs created in America should not be tax.

  • The Real Jeff Merrill

    Billdo,

    Come back to your senses, you falafel and loofah abusing pervert.

    Billdo, are you NOW going to say Mediaite and Jon Stewart are the “FACE” of PROGRESSIVES?

    Hey Billdo, did you forget Daily Kos, Media Matters, Think Progress, etc?

    Billdo, you muckin foron. Jon Stewart comes ON AT THE END OF THE DAY.

    After even the wingnutz have dispensed THEIR stupidity. After YOU, Billdo and KKKlownnity.

    So enjoy that foot in the trap taste.

  • Glutton

    It was a good interview.  Both Jon and Bill made some good points, and also made some good jokes.  Sometimes I wonder if interviews between these two are scripted because they both seem like completely different people around each other.

  • insideguy

     I thought Jon cleaned his clock.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    Liberal heads are exploding all over the nation tonight!

    While conceding that the progressives understand the need for belt tightening, what Stewart and no one else on the left will admit, if allowed to have their way, all of the cuts would come from gutting the Department of Defense, NASA, and any program not directly related to entitlement distribution.

    Pretty damn scary thought!

  • insideguy

     NASAs budget is already super small. The defense budget needs to be cut whats your point?

  • Mr Hyperbole

    was billo the clown too afraid to say this on the daily show?

  • Anonymous

    Billdo !!!  Falafel !!!  Loofah !!!  KKKlownnity !!!

    Sock Puppet Alert !!  Multiple Alias Alert !! 

  • The Real Jeff Merrill

    Billdo, you stupid sht.

    When has Jon Stewart said “I am the face of the progressive movement”?

    Also, you may want to quote the person, the writer, stating “host Jon Stewart [is] the face of the progressive movement as stated today by the website Mediaite”

    Today? By who? All of Mediaite?

    One would expect an apology after such smears, but we all know Billdo is not used to the former…

  • Anonymous

    O’Reilly is a jerk; Liebowitz is a dweeb. Neither could frame a house or paint a water-tank. They are useless. They build nothing, they contribute nothing.

  • PrezOworst

    you would.  jerk off with 7 writers joking/jerking vs serious reporter background dissecting opaque subjects.

  • Anonymous

    why would you make all those soldiers and defense workers unemployed?

  • Mr Hyperbole

    idiot alert!!

  • PrezOworst

    point: send your lilly liver pinko self out with a bb gun.

  • Mr Hyperbole

    billo a serious reporter? PLEASEEEEEEEEE

  • The Real Jeff Merrill

    Leemee see here.

    You grow your own vegetables and deliver your children in the barn.
    You go out picking up wood and write your own 50K copies of the ignorant manifesto.

  • Mr Hyperbole

    conservative heads explode all over the nation ALL THE TIME!!

    and please correct your sentence structure…too wordy for your fellow conservatives to read

  • Mr Hyperbole

    conservative heads explode all over the nation ALL THE TIME!!

    and please correct your sentence structure…too wordy for your fellow conservatives to read

  • insideguy

     Im unclear, you feel welfare is fine if its for soldiers and defense workers? The budget is going to be cut regardless. Iraq is drawing down and Afghanistan is going to draw down as well. The defense budget should be and will be cut just like it has after all other wars. 

  • Anonymous

    As long as we believe that government is good at creating jobs and
    stimulating the economy, we’re going to be stuffed by much more than
    just $16 muffins. The lesson of government waste, whether on $16 muffins or $535 million loan guarantees to solar power companies or $48 billion in “improper” Medicare payments, is one worth relearning every day.For those catching up: The DOJ’s OIG (Office of Inspector General) Tuesday released an audit showing
    that the department spent nearly $500,000 for food and beverages at
    just 10 Justice-sponsored conferences in 2008 and 2009.

    “One conference,” auditors found, “served $16 muffins while another
    served Beef Wellington hors d’oeuvres that cost $7.32 per serving.
    Coffee and tea at the events cost between $0.62 and $1.03 an ounce. At
    the $1.03 per-ounce price, an 8-ounce cup of coffee would have cost
    $8.24.”

  • ganymede

    O’Reilly has to be the most skilled of all the rightwing propagandists, but as shown from this clip he is full of shit, and this will be born out over the next few months as these awful liberal and progressive people surge forward. Raising taxes on the wealthy is more than symbolic and will be a big step in the right direction, especially as lowering taxes as a spur to growth is a canard and has never really worked. America is still the richest country in the world and we have the resources to do a lot better than we are currently doing.The Republicans have nothing to offer. They can’t even find a candidate who can beat a weakened Obama. Hopefully, Obama has awakened from his slumber and is starting to act  like the person we voted for. 

    Earlier today I went down to Wall Street and joined a few thousand people near the World Trade Center. Operation “Occupy Wall Street” is the beginning of a truly populist movement that I think will catch on all over America and  attract everyone and anyone who is angry and fed up with WallStreet and its control of both political parties as well as the whole country. It’s what millions of us have been waiting for. It’s what the Tea Party should have been about if it was truly committed to bringing about reform of the system.  

  • insideguy

     Interesting comment considering I fought with the 3rd ID as a grunt during desert storm but oh well.

  • Anonymous

    As long as we believe that government is good at creating jobs and stimulating the economy, we’re going to be stuffed by much more than just $16 muffins. The lesson of government waste, whether on $16 muffins or $535 million loan guarantees to solar power companies or $48 billion in “improper” Medicare payments, is one worth relearning every day.For those catching up: The DOJ’s OIG (Office of Inspector General) Tuesday released an audit showing  that the department spent nearly $500,000 for food and beverages at just 10 Justice-sponsored conferences in 2008 and 2009.

    “One conference,” auditors found, “served $16 muffins while another
    served Beef Wellington hors d’oeuvres that cost $7.32 per serving.
    Coffee and tea at the events cost between $0.62 and $1.03 an ounce. At
    the $1.03 per-ounce price, an 8-ounce cup of coffee would have cost
    $8.24.”

  • insideguy

     I can tell you are a man of much intelligence by your amazingly ignorant comments.

  • Anonymous

    you think what soldiers do is welfare?  i’m done

  • The Real Jeff Merrill

    Uh, I don’t know. Send them into the “private sector”

    Maaaabe the “job creators” would employ them, right?

    Is not that what the wingnutz are saying?

    Get them off the gubimmint tit and send them into the job market with no skills.

  • Anonymous

    As long as we believe that government is good at
    creating jobs and stimulating the economy, we’re going to be stuffed by much
    more than just $16 muffins. The lesson of government waste, whether on $16
    muffins or $535 million loan guarantees to solar power companies or $48 billion
    in “improper” Medicare payments, is one worth relearning every
    day.For those catching up: The DOJ’s OIG (Office of Inspector General) Tuesday
    released an audit showing  that the
    department spent nearly $500,000 for food and beverages at just 10
    Justice-sponsored conferences in 2008 and 2009.
    “One conference,”
    auditors found, “served $16 muffins while another served Beef Wellington hors
    d’oeuvres that cost $7.32 per serving.Coffee and tea at the events
    cost between $0.62 and $1.03 an ounce. At the $1.03 per-ounce price, an
    8-ounce cup of coffee would have cost $8.24.”

  • insideguy

     Im still unclear. You support a bloated military if there is no wars to fight? And you don’t call that welfare? Why not put 20 million men in the military then? Would than not just be a giant social welfare program but one you would support?

  • Anonymous

    maybe they are doing exactly what the constituition says……taxes for the defense of the nation

  • The Real Jeff Merrill

    Geee! Wheee!

    I pushed your buttons.

    Now your are going to do what, dumbsht!

  • Anonymous

    bloated? you think we have too many soldiers?

  • insideguy

     Maybe the military is as bloated as any other government agency filled with waste and fraud. Have you ever been in the military? I have and it is filled with waste.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    The NASA budget is already super small, indeed.  And who can we thank for that?

    Secondly, after our draw down in Iraq and eventually Afghanistan is complete, the defense budget should be cut to pre-2001 levels, adjusting for inflation.

    The problem is, progressives are licking their chops to see 50% or more reductions in the defense budget, removing of course, any necessity to cut or God forbid, even reduce rate of increase in entitlement spending.

    Spreadin’ that wealth around!

  • The Real Jeff Merrill

    Of course I agree to some point.

    But the “defense of the nation” does not include invading countries which are not a threat to the nation. And borrowing money to pay for such stupidity. Add to that, now the gNOpigs don’t want to pay for their stupidity.

    Tell us again what threat Iraq and now Iran present to the USA.

    Keep in mind I know the USA has enough capability to cut Iran’s balls off in one day.

    Where is the threat?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    Don’t forget an audience firmly emplaced in Stewart’s camp from the outset.

  • insideguy

     Of course we have to many soldiers. The Army and Marines are staffed at about the right levels. The Navy is way over staffed. We have 12 aircraft carriers the next closest  rival has one. We spend more on our defense budget than the rest of the world combined. Which then allows our allies to not have to spend as much on their defense because they know we can protect them. So the rest of the world uses us as we blow our blood and treasure, and they don’t have to worry about it. If you think thats the way to go then we can keep spending almost a trillion dollars a year on defense.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    Ironic that you should suggest that I correct my sentence structure.  Would it be helpful for you if I were to remove all punctuation and capitalization?

    Seems to work for you!

  • Anonymous

    i will give that to you, yes the military has waste and fraud…….but thats all parts of government and you know the reason just like i do…….if you dont use it this fiscal year…it will be cut out of your budget next fiscal year…….thanks for your service..and me” first team”

  • insideguy

     I don’t know Mark who can we thank for a small NASA budget? Why don’t you look it up and get back to me on that. The defense industry doesn’t spread the wealth around? Lol. And find me one liberal or conservative who is suggesting we cut back our defense budget back to pre 2001 levels. One logical one. Thats never going to happen. You guys come up with the biggest bullshit arguments. NASAs budget has barely increased at the rate of inflation in 20 years in 2000 when Bush came into office it was around 13 billion. When he left it was around 15 billion. Its is now around 17 billion.

  • Anonymous

    Are you admitting that the government creates jobs???

  • cdnhawk

    Really? Bill-O isn’t a carpenter and Stewart isn’t a painter. What useless human beings. They employ hundreds of people and entertain millions. What do you contribute to society?

  • Anonymous

    DOD fuckups have done that themselves! Ask the thousands of Airmen who were denied reenlistment in the mid 2000′s due to the 10′s of billions of dollars of awesomeness known as the F-22….

  • Anonymous

    What Bill doesn’t tell you is that we have one of the biggest wealth gaps among all OECD countries.  Look at third world countries and you will see a huge wealth disparity among its citizens.  

  • Anonymous

    thousands? please cite your evidence

  • Anonymous

    Well since the ecomomy tanked there are no houses to build and since most communities do not have water tanks at least where I live. I say those are not very attractive jobs to have at this point. These guys are actually pretty good together.

  • Anonymous

    yeah the government creates government jobs…….and it even creates private sector jobs for material that it consumes

  • Anonymous

    Gutting DOD, NASA if you included entitlements programs you would have Ron Paul
    Not sure he is liberal

  • Rex the Wonder God

    It was an unfair contest, BECAUSE Stewart is in fact NOT a progressive, but rather a comedian, and like most (though certainly not all) comedians, mostly sane, therefore liberal. 

    O’Reilly can handle liberals – he used to be one, and he’s still just enough of one himself to support, though unwittingly, the same broad range of liberal policies that he knows his faithful viewers expect him to support – like Social Security. He has a separate strategy with progressives, which is that he has mostly nothing to do with them, preferring to “debate” them from a safe distance, because his only approach to them is to try to bully them and shout them down, but it never works: they keep treating him like he’s someone with an anger management problem – which is of course true – and hang on like terriers.

    But comedians are completely beyond his capacity, and because Stewart is ideologically a comedian & only liberal because he’s sane, he always ends up out-pointing O’Reilly.

    The REAL O’Reilly nemesis, his kryptonite, is someone who’s equally a comedian and sane plus a progressive – because those types are courageous beyond his understanding. Mort Sahl, for example, would never get any time on O’Reilly’s show, not even now at 84; likewise the late George Carlin while he lived. O’Reilly a few years back made a terrible mistake agreeing to a home-and-home with Stephen Colbert, and man was that a bloodbath (Colbert even stole his microwave as a trophy.). The reason he still does live byplay with Stewart (live recorded but EDITED broadcast byplay) with Stewart is because this way he’s able to maintain the fiction that O’Reilly isn’t afraid of progressives, when actually they – well, Colbert anyway – terrify him. Colbert hardly ever gets more than one shot at right wingers because they come off disoriented and realize it’ll happen again and again and there’s nothing they can do about it.   

    But Stewart isn’t the least interested in ‘beating’ O’Reilly, or anyone, just out-pointing them. Remember how bad Stewart felt when Rick Sanchez got canned and blamed Stewart? Stewart is all about Marquis of Queensbury comedian rules: he allows everyone to get a few swings in, knowing if it came to it he could take them down with his entire writing staff tied behind his back. Colbert, though, relishes gutting phonies and hypocrites and bullies, and thus he never allows them to lay a glove on him.  And if they even THINK they have … KA-BOOM.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    Focusing on the NASA budget for a moment, Obama has proposed placing a five year freeze on NASA spending, claiming that we are all being forced to ‘live within our means’. 

    As for cutting to pre-2001 levels, again adjusting for inflation, it was I who suggested that the military could probably get away with this kind of force restructuring.  Don’t know, maybe you had something in your eye which caused you to misunderstand what I wrote.  I thought I was pretty clear in this regard.

    My point is, progressives want more than that.  They truly think that cuts in defense spending as much as 50% are needed if we are to maintain entitlement spending at current levels.  In their minds, they will never – ever accede to any cuts in entitlement spending. 

  • TbagsRstupid

    The other investor is a partnership associated with the Walton
    family, which tends to lean Republican. And public filings suggest that
    Kaiser-linked funds had sunk at least $320 million into Solyndra before
    adding the secured financing; they’re taking a bath along with the rest
    of us. “If this was a sweetheart deal, it was the worst sweetheart deal
    ever,” one official quipped.
    Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2011/09/03/big-name-investors-to-recoup-losses-before-taxpayers-in-obamas-failed-green-tech-bet/#ixzz1ZOmxw59d

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VYUK3HIJFCPFBZUHRHN6HCR5AA MarkfromSavannah

    Ron Paul a liberal?  No, I would hazard a guess to say he’s not a liberal but I will also go out on a limb and suggest he does share one trait with the average liberal.

    They’re both lunatics!

  • Darladoon

    o’reilly’s idea of government waste is “$16 muffins”

    not egregious tax cuts and multiple wars

    yeah, that’s “talking some sense”

  • Darladoon

    for some baffling reason, this startling reality doesn’t seem to phase republicans

    but $16 muffins do

  • insideguy

     Naaa some progressives think cutting defense by 50%. But those people aren’t taken any more seriously than Ron Paul.  The thing thats crazy about our defense budget is the long term costs. Its hardly factored in. Taking care of our veterans is going to cost trillions in the years to come from these two wars. No to mention the mental and physical anguish many of them have had to endure. My impression of a guy like Jon stewart is that he isn’t for slashing any govt agency by 50 %. But he’s not for not slashing the budget in all areas of the government some. As long as there are corresponding tax increases to help balance it out. The idea that we can balance our budget by just cutting spending is a joke. Any serious economist will tell you that. Both need to happen. Revenue increases and cutting spending. And the defense budget as well as entitlements in some areas can be cut. But in the end if thats all that occurs you would have to blow a hole in the defense and entitlement budgets so huge that it would cripple our country. Thats why Taxes need to be raised as well, but hey we can keep on talking this bullshit, while our politicians pander to your view point or mine but never get anything done.

  • sam

    like x 1,000,000

  • Darladoon

    your comments pretty much sum up how i feel about politics these days

    you just can’t reason with someone like o’reilly

    as much we want to, need to, he is often impervious to reason

    he’s a typical irish bully.  he’s lacking in spiritual depth or intellect, and 
    so he uses his size and loud mouth to make his point.  and he almost
    never has a point.  he’s a mean-spirited jerk.

    however, i like how stewart gets him to relax and be himself.

    it’s only then that o’reilly shows hints of letting his guard down….but he never
    actually does.  i’m sure we could find a good dominatrix to take care of that….

  • Darladoon

    wow, did cjd just say that?

    cool, dude

  • Irish189

    Without taking sides on this i actually do believe that George Carlin was interviewed by Bill O Reily

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCY40EIQ8Gk

    that link is from Keith Olberman and his worst person segment but you can clearly see Bill and George having a discussion in april of 2001, would love to be able to find that whole interview

  • Anonymous

    O’Reilly made referred back to his appearance on The Daily Show yesterday night,

    Seriously Alex Alvarez, I couldn’t even read beyond that grammatical verbal fart.

  • joe

    hey–whats wrong with you?
    we should be thankful that the gop took congress..
    in less than one year we are on the way to kill social security(even though is has been solvent); kill mediare and medicaid; kill all unions, kill min age, deport 12 million mexian laborers and shut down the postal service and public schols–all of this in less than a year….
    and as a bonus we are going to give billions in tax breaks to wall street and BP(yes I know they caused 2 of the most major distasters in our history); we give billions more in military–maybe invade Iran..
    we get to make it harder for the stupid students and pesky poor to vote since they do not carry licenses many times..
    i mean–this is the new america..
    you are not grateful?

  • Realheadline

    So it’s okay to steal from the government as long as it supports your weird psuedo-religious green cult? No thanks, “investors” have a choice to support this alarmist driven fraud, this money was stolen from taxpayers and “redistributed” to Obama cronies. Progressive thieves out in 2012, jail in 2013. LibtardsRmental

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    It’s funny you say that, usually I think that Stewart kicks his ass, but on this show not so much…  Felt like he for the first time that I have ever seen got the better of Stewart. 

  • insideguy

     Ill watch it again. But I watched the whole interview on the web. Of course im biased and don’t think Bill wins very many arguments  with people who are the least bit logical. He can beat the radicals on  both sides in an argument. But anyone can do that.

  • Bal

    Bill has an agenda, he argues to win the debate not the issue full stop 
    He can never see the irony when he accuses other people of not listening to him. He believes his opinion is gospel lucky for us the gospel is full of sh!t He also has an ego the size of my throbbing member, it is truly that big!

  • Bal

    Bill has an agenda, he argues to win the debate not the issue full stop 
    He can never see the irony when he accuses other people of not listening to him. He believes his opinion is gospel lucky for us the gospel is full of sh!t He also has an ego the size of my throbbing member, it is truly that big!

  • http://twitter.com/Decamped The Dude

    “Traditional Americans like me vs Progressives like Jon Stewart”

    See this sort of thing is where O’Reilly is hard to take seriously. You don’t own the country, dick.

  • Anonymous

    Funny how you don’t see that unaccountable government waste is like that in all levels of government all over the country – it not only adds up to a lot of wasted money but also demonstrates government workers are the LAST PEOPLE who should be in charge of public money.  Government should set  the budget and the priorities, but people who know what they are doing  should be the ones spending the money – kind of like my internal medicine doctor shouldn’t be the one working on my teeth – that should be reserved for a dentist. 

  • Anonymous

    religion? lol, go to another country in the world, the only place “green” is bad is in the US because of Republicans. Everywhere else and here in the US until about 8 years ago, saving the environment is actually a really big priority.

    You guys have been taught to think consuming a lot and being cocky about it is the height of humor.. maybe because of Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck or something.. but most countries see Republicans as dangerously stupid and can’t believe they don’t understand climate change.

  • insideguy

     I agree but after all these years I have tried to figure out if he is playing a character almost like Colbert does. But I think you are correct he truly is who he comes across as on tv. He is a unique personality for sure, I wonder how many actual friends he has?  Some times I have watched him and he almost sounds moderate. But then the next day he just drives off a right wing cliff to crash and burn. In one week he can sound like the most sane or insane guy on Fox depending on the day.

  • insideguy

     One thing about the average conservative Snowspot is they have never been outside of the USA. Now im not saying all of them are like that. But many have no interest on how other countries have done things. And if they are interested they are only interested in that countries failures.

  • joe

    green cult?
    really? clean water, fresh air–poison free food? that is a religion?
    ok–
    how about this religion?
    if you work on saturday-you die
    if you disobey your parents-you die
    if you divorce-you do not remarry
    you may beat your wife or children and if need–sell them into slavery–
    if you are gay-you die..
    so let me see what religion i will join?
    yep–clean air and water~

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    That’s a great idea.  But, what do you do when that company picks up and moves out of the US and takes the remaining US jobs with them?  Along with all the local, state, and federal taxes they pay.  Because you do realize this is what will happen.  The US government cannot force companies to stay here.  They will go where it is cheapest to do business.  Why do you think some companies from foreign countries choose to set up shop in the US instead of their home country?

  • Anonymous

    The Walton family did not approve the $535,000.00 did they? The “right leaning” Bush denied the application.

    You are taking a bath because your hero made the bad investment. “”There’s never been more money shoved out of the government’s door in world history and probably never will be again…” because the TEA Party will defeat these clowns. Eat your peas.

  • Lloyd C

    you won’t mention that america has 12 aircraft carriers PLUS 4 in reserve?

    a tad bit much for common defense.

    Lets see

     One atlantic
    One carribbean
    one paific
    one hawaii / south pacific.
    One always transiting
    1 in overhall at all times

    AND 2 in reserve

    8 total instead of 16. 

  • Lloyd C

    i just laid out a plan where you an cut 16 aircraft carriers *12+ 4 reserve* to half that

    please provide the clause in the constitution where you need that many aircraft carriers for a common defense.

    DEFENSE SPENDING IS DIFFERENT THAN MILITARY SPENDING.

  • Lloyd C

    like yourself?

  • Lloyd C

    this coming from you? :P

  • Lloyd C

    speak for yourself, canada has more regulation, higher taxes and a more stable economy.

    you should really just subcontract out your government to us.

    whoislloydc@gmail.com

  • Lloyd C

    you do realize republicans also invested in solyndra?

  • Lloyd C

    so is that anything like not paying taxes because you think you create jobs( you don’t)?

  • Lloyd C

    actually, he’s a hodgepodge. you’re calling him a progressive. He’s a mix of everything

  • Anonymous

    Ever been to Spain?

    Every “green job” created with government money in Spain over the last
    eight years came at the cost of 2.2 regular jobs, and only one in 10 of
    the newly created green jobs became a permanent job, says a new study
    released this month. The study draws parallels with the green jobs
    programs of the Obama administration.

    America will suffer Spain’s demise if this isn’t stopped.

    http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/13/spains-green-jobs-boondoggle/

    Remind me again, which successful superpower is not fueled by oil, coal, or nuclear energy. Green clean, yet they cannot afford anything without jobs. Ever been to China? How green are they? North Korea? Is Cuba surrounded by windmills and solar panels? How about Venezuela?

  • Anonymous

    You do realize that the investors didn’t make the loan, right?

    DOE announced a $737 million loan guarantee to help finance construction of the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, a 110-megawatt solar-power-generating facility in Nye County, Nev. The project is sponsored by Tonopah Solar, a subsidiary of California-based SolarReserve. That works out to $16.3 million per permanent job.  If you roll in the ancillary jobs, like the construction jobs, that’s how you get each job costing $200,000.  But the actual permanent jobs in the solar industry will cost between 16 and 23 million dollars each.

    Here we go again….

  • insideguy

     You just gave me a stereotypical conservative response to my comment Calcat. As a matter of fact I have been to spain 3 times. They have had their share of problems no doubt. But like I said you point out only the negative. A typical spaniard would laugh and say yea we have problems. But our population is far more educated , we have longer life spans, national healthcare, healthier people, our men are not getting killed and maimed in military expeditions all over the world, and our murder rate is one tenth of yours. They may or may not work out their economic problems but maybe we should take a look at ourselves sometimes.

  • Anonymous

    O’Reilly is lying about the $16 muffins.  

  • Bob

    BTW, what is the point of the talking points memo bit? Are rightwingers so dense that they have to have it both spelled out on screen and read to them to memorize Murdoch’s orders?

  • dono

    And yet Billo had to use the ‘$16 muffin’ lie to score any points with Stewart (he quoted a bill Dems paid at a hotel where the cost of $16 per person was for a light breakfast(yes muffins, coffee, juice) service, the use of the hotel’s 450 person Ballroom and the use of 14 break-down rooms for meetings.

    Billo is a big fake folks 

  • Anonymous

    Obviously.

  • Anonymous

    Falafel-Billy isn´t working hard for his money. Reading from a teleprompter isn´t hard work and I am sure Stewart would be the first to agree with that.

    Falafel-Billy is the tall bully from the schoolyard who can say anything and be sure there will always be a number of followers who adore him and nod their heads when he opens his mouth. Even today he uses schoolyard tactics to intimidate guests.

    He knows that there aren´t any $16 muffins he made up. He knows that there will never be a guarantee for success in every investment. But as long as you can get away with lying why would he give a shit? There´s no argument whatsoever about putting money as efficient to use as possible. 

    On the importance of the election in 2012 he is right, of course that can be said about many elections in the past also. Reactionaries versus progressives, the good old theme of American politics, next round in 2012.

     

  • dono

    Funny how the $16 muffin story is also an outright lie – it was 16 bucks a person for coffee muffins, fruit, water oh yes and the use, service, set-up, clean-up and break-down of a hotel’s 450 person ballroom and 14 breakdown rooms for individual meetings for the morning.  Last I checked 3,200 dollars for a breakfast meeting of your company’s 200  managers, at a hotel, was not a kings ransom by any means.

    It just sounds so much better as a 16 dollar muffin to the people that will simply believe anything they ‘wish’ were true. 

    Now please stop being so manipulated and use your brain – we need all the help we can get in the US

  • FreeMike
  • Anonymous

    Bill O’Reilly On His Daily Show Appearance: Tried To ‘Talk Some Sense’ Into Jon Stewart

    good luck

  • Anonymous

    I can almost agree with that.  There is a systemic problem here, and no one wants to call it what it is.  It is 21st century slavery, no ifs ands or buts about it.  Look at the “inequities” that helped lead to the civil war in the United States.  In the north slavery was kept more along the lines of domestic work and the like.  Slaves weren’t longshoremen, dockworkers, sailors etc.  All the textiles and raw materials coming from the south and west were being collected with almost no overhead causing a huge rise in the wealth of the plantation/slave owner.  The business owners in the north were jealous of this inequity and felt that the south should have to pay wages the same as they did.

    Fast forward to the 21st century.  All manufacturing has gone to china, vietnam, mexico, india etc because: Hiring an American manufacturer, in JUST wages, costs more each day (thankyou fuptard unions) than it costs to hire a mexican for a month.  Understand that.  In the US you get $20-30 an HOUR, in Mexico its less than $200 per month.

    Don’t like it?   Don’t buy their shit.  It really is that simple.  To hell with GE, Chevrolet, Apple, and all the rest of the slave owners. If you use an Apple computer, an Iphone, an Ipod YOU have helped enslave another human being.  Hope you’re proud of yourself :) I hear you, its not your fault.  You are just a moron buying what the TV tells you to.  Yet you purposefully ignore the fact that things are so bad at foxconn they string nets between the buildings to stop suicides, but as long as Apple can have a trillion dollars in the bank and you can have your cheap ass Ipad, its ok, huh? :)

  • http://skaughtbj.tumblr.com Skaught

    Where does O’Reilly get off trying to advise Stewart? O’Reilly started off as a correspondant on The Daily Show, and was lucky to secure the time slot right after Stewart on Comedy Central. He’s your mentor, show some respect!

  • Anonymous

    I thought Bill was sharp as well. His zingers were pretty good. Jon seems to defer a little to Bill and not be as combative or  sarcastic. I noticed it when he was on Bill’s show. Maybe it’s because they seem to genuinely like each other and he doesn’t want to cross a line and alienate Bill. {I’m guessing Bill will never swap appearances with  Colbert again}
    Bill made some good points on TDS, and in the talking points memo, but I think Jon’s point was perspective and having a real discussion rather than one based on exaggeration.

    Unfortunately Obama has made what I see as a bad choice in his recent mantra of “paying their fair share” and only added to the mangled and inaccurate communication.

  • Anonymous

    Well myself for one. I was denied reenlistment in 07 due to it. I was given the opportunity to go work the mailroom in Istanbul for a 15 month period to be able to reenlist but as a 3c0 they could kiss my ass on that one. But here’s the story with proof…

    And the number was 40,000 to be exact

    http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/archive/2006/November/Pages/AirForceDrawdown2801.aspx

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think Bill clearly won, but neither did Jon. Bill made some good and relevant points while Jon tried to put them in the proper perspective,so a rational discussion can take place.

    I think Bill is right about cutting waste and bureaucracy and if he wants to raise revenue in a responsible way , let’s have that discussion and decide how to reform the tax code to make things more “responsible”

    For me the point always was that in a crisis those that are fortunate enough to have more than enough ought to be able to contribute a little more. Teachers in WI making way less than 250k were asked to take home less and pick up more of their health and retirement. Fine, that’s the reality of the times. But with that in mind how does raising rates on 200, 250K translate into class warfare?

    Hey folks who have done well in America! Good job and congratulations on reaping the rewards of your hard work and perseverance. Now we’re in a crunch because while your income has been going up for the last decade or two , most American’s income have been stagnant or going down because of inflation. Now we have millions out of work and without healthcare. Could you maybe take one less European vacation or Carnival cruise this year so we can maintain some assistance programs for those in need?
    You’d think that in the spirit of American generosity those in the top two tiers might say. No problem instead of CLASS WARFARE!!!

  • Anonymous

    “Typical Irish” bully, lacking in spiritual depth or intellect? What does being Irish have to do with it? Wow. You should be ashamed of yourself. At least now we know the real Darla.

  • Jason

    Anti Irishist!!!

  • Jason

    Good fucking god. the fact that liberals can compare what soldiers in the middle fucking east are doing to what couch potato welfare slugs in this country do every day is astonishing. There truly is no getting through to you fucking idiots. I’m done trying to convey anything to you morons. Open mocking and derisive ridicule is the only option from here on out.

  • Larry Linn

    So Bill O’Reilly wanted to talk some sense into Jon Stewart. I guess that Bill’O gave up attempting to talk sense to that idiot in his mirror.

  • Anonymous

    BINGO!!!!
    You can’t train a slug.

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