I can't believe it.

[Celeborn Skywalker]

I actually think Bill O'Reilly has written a good column this week.


The next time a gas fill-up costs you 40 bucks or more, consider this: Lee Raymond, the retired CEO of Exxon-Mobil, was paid more than one billion dollars by that company from 1993 to the present. Raymond's retirement package is about $400 million, according to published reports. Does everybody love Raymond? I don't. I think he's a greed-head.

The Exxon-Mobil board of directors approved Raymond's compensation, and guess who appointed most of those well-paid board members to their positions? Does the name Lee Raymond ring a bell?

And guess who is paying all those Exxon-Mobil salaries, including our pal Lee's? The regular folks who must buy gas to go to work and heat their homes. This is called "predatory capitalism."

Let me explain, and please keep in mind that I am a big-time supporter of capitalism. Gasoline supplies are at an eight year high, according to OPEC. There is plenty of gas selling on the open market, more than enough to meet the worldwide demand.

more.... http://billoreilly.com/currentarticle


Hell has officially frozen over.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. This will restore your sanity:

[LSK]

3. ROFL - GREAT PIC!!!!!!!!!!!1

:rofl:

[LaurenG]

10. lol

great work!:rofl: That one is a keeper!

[peacebird]

2. O'Lielly is merely pandering to the masses - he knows they are p'od

about gas prices. He is showing himself to be a good ol' boy, in touch with what moves his audience...

He's playing the card well - but he's still a slimy liar. Just a slimy liar who needs to keep his ratings up to stay on-air....

[immoderate]

4. He occasionally goes for the low hanging fruit...

So that he can contend that he is "liberal" on some issues, hence, an independent.

--IMM

[Ian David]

5. Bill O'Reilly: a communist who doesn't believe in the free market system

Some people say.

[godhatesrepublicans]

6. When I realized Pat Buchanan was right about not going into Iraq, ...

... my head almost exploded.

So now Bill O'Reilly and I agree on something. Who'd have thought it?

[hexola]

9. "Pat Buchanan was right..."

I used to really dislike him...like really, really, dislike...

But sadly - he is one of the few people who have made a shred of sense since 9-11...

(emphasis on "shred")

[MADem]

11. Buchanan has always been an isolationist, America-Firster type

People assume that since he is an arch conservative, particularly on social issues, that he is also an imperialist. He's NEVER been that way. He's always been anti-immigration, traditional values, American products, American factories, screw the rest of the world, everyone stay home and live in a 1950's style America, where Mom June Cleaver vacuums the carpet in high heels and pearls, you drink your milk from goblets at dinner, and the worst thing that could happen is that Beaver left his dirty socks under the bed.

He isn't even a Republican, though he plays one on TV. He ran for President on the REFORM PARTY ticket....

[unblock]

12. all pat buchanan did was stay put while the banana republican party

jumped to the right, way past pat.

used to be he was the lunatic right-wing fringe of the republican party.

now, without changing a single position, he's the voice of reason.


tells you quite a bit about just how far out there the banana republican party is these days.

[MADem]

7. Naw, this is a no-brainer exercise for Mr. "Man of the People" Falafel

I mean, really...who do you know who is DEFENDING the cost of gas?

Don't praise the dipshit for waking up in the morning and saying that the sun is rising in the east. This is a craven ploy to, for once, be on the OBVIOUSLY right side of an issue.

He's one to talk about GREED!!! The buzzing loofah, himself!

[drm604]

8. Could it be he's following the political wind?

In the time of the French Revolution, Lee Raymond and his $400 million pension would be running one step ahead of the guillotine. But today, some in America admire Raymond and support his unbelievable compensation.

But to those of us who really understand what's going on here, Raymond and his ilk are hurting the country and the government is their enabler. Talk about gas pains. There isn't enough Alka-Seltzer in the world.

This is Bill O'Reilly? Wow! :wow:

[CoffeeCat]

13. I guess this is the part...

...where the rats flee the sinking ship.

Junior is soooo going down. When O'Really takes a stance like this--against Junior's bestest corporate buddies--you know the times they are a' changin.

Makes sense. Junior steered his ship into a big Iraqi iceberg and he's been taking on water for the past few years. Most have headed for the lifeboats, and now the rats are running for high ground.

What's next...Condaleeza announcing that we need to pull out of Iraq and repeal the deluxe tax package that Junior gave to America's yacht owners?

[msgadget]

14. I can't process it

But writing is solitary, there was no one to challenge his sense of self. It does pay to read both sides - ya just never know.


So rising gas prices are not a supply and demand issue.

What the American oil companies are doing is exploiting the uncertainty in the world. Every time the nutty Iranian government threatens to kill the Jews or the Americans or whoever, speculators bid up the paper price of a barrel of oil.

These speculators operate in the so-called commodities markets. They gamble on where the price of oil and other tangible assets will be months from now. These Vegas-type people sit in front of their computers and bid on "futures" contracts.

Every time the oil company executives, guys like Lee Raymond, see these people bidding up oil "futures," they order their retail gas station owners to jack up prices to you. Supply and demand my carburetor—this has nothing to do with the free market.

[skids]

15. Hrm, I'll do him one better:

Phrase it this way:

The Exxon CEO's retirement package will add 2 cents a gallon to the price of Exxon gasoline the year he retires. His salary is almost a penny a gallon.

[marbuc]

16. Bill O'Reilly

is a terrible writer. I've never read his column before, but this is bad.

[90-percent]

17. executive compensation

Lee Raymond earned over a billion dollars total from 1993 to 2006 presidenting Exxon?

Damn, that guys work must be EXCELLENT!

Bet he does OT when ever he's asked and I bet he gets all his projects in AHEAD OF TIME!

America would be in so much better shape if the rest of us merely adopted Mr. Raymond's excellent WORK ETHIC!

-85% Jimmy

:sarcasm:

[originalpckelly]

18. Here is some FYI on Bill O'Reilly...

He doesn't believe in anything that won't get him good ratings. He doesn't believe in anything, that is why he such an awful person. At least Hannity believes what he is saying. Bill O'Reilly doesn't believe in anything except good ratings.

Take the "Boogie Man Surveillance Program"

Our friend Bill waited to give his opinion because he wanted to see if that was the last straw for the Chimp. He knew it was wrong, but he didn't say anything. He waited until the polls came out. Here is a "Talking Points Memo" from Tuesday, January 10, 2006 about the wiretapping issue:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181173,00.html

Of course after this poll came out on January 2006, Mr. O'Reilly defended the program in his critique of people bringing it up at Mrs. Kings Funeral:
The Poll:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-01-23-bush_x.htm

The TP Memo:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184458,00.html

I must note that TP usually does contain a lot of sh*t.