The obnoxious Bill O'Reilly

[Doctor Panacea]

Okay, I watch a lot of Fox News just to see what the right wing is up to. I am all too familiar with that creep Bill O'Reilly.

But can somebody tell me who this guy is? He talks about how rich he is, and how he is in the top income-tax bracket, and how people who are rich are the ones who 'work harder' than others. Blah, blah. But then this week he mentioned that he used to drive a cab in Miami.

What is the background of this rather benighted neanderthal? Driving a cab, but now filthy rich? Does anybody know his story?

And just so this is a message, and not totally a question, I will say that he is one of the most obnoxious people that I have ever seen on TV.

[papau]

1. Ch 7 in Boston - was hard to stand on a personal level even then

Howie Carr - a right wing talk fellow on WRKO in Boston - worked with Bill and occassionaly fills airtime with O'Rielly stories.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. I see that you got Fox "News" Channel..

I feel sorry for you.

[tpub]

3. he's recently rich

from book deals, etc.

He claims to be from a low-income family, in Long Island, I think. Just google him...

And welcome!

:hi:

[librechik]

4. O'Shmearly comes from upper middle class background

Dad was an accountant, Bill taught schopol after college for several years. He was NEVER poor, and he spent very little time as a blue collar worker, if any, although the cab story is new to me.

Take my word for it, you can not go wrong by just assuming that the RWers are lying from word one. I have been watching them for 30 years, and that rule has never been broken in my experience.

[ConservativeDemocrat]

5. Actually his dad...

Earned an inflation adjusted salary of $110,000/year.
This puts the family he grew up in far beyond middle class.
O'Reilly just lied, that's all.