“Regular Guy” Bill O’Reilly At Home
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Conservatives always buy the talk about their media icons being just regular guys, it’s a suckers game where the really rich take in the rubes using the language of class to their own perverted ends — it won’t change any minds, but here’s Bill O’Reilly slumming it at home:
Also, signs are that Bill O’Reilly is lying about being personally targeted by Al Qaeda and warned by the FBI.
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Oliver this is really petty nonsense. I’m no defender of O’Reilly (I called him out on the Al Qaeda nonsense at 9:00 this morning), but he’s a middle class guy that became rich.
Don’t you know anybody that came from lower means are how have money? I do. They have money, but they’re still essentially the same people.
I find it ironic that you’re typing this crap when the TRUE phonies are people like Ted Kennedy and the majority of the other ‘born with a silver spoon in their mouths’ Democrats that occupy the Senate (not to mention the last two Democratic nominees for President). Rich at birth, he wouldn’t know the first thing about being upper middle class, let alone a ‘regular’ guy, but has no problem passing himself off as some kind of “man of the people.”
It’s good we have a president like George W. Bush that came from a working class background.
Ooops, nevermind. That was Bill Clinton. GWB was born to a wealthy family that used their influence to keep their children away from Vietnam.
Yes, Bill O’s upper middle class background that led him to the regular guy environs of Harvard U.
I call out O’Reilly on this because he pretends to be just a regular guy, everyone in America knows the Kennedys are rich and were powerful, while John Kerry never pretended like he was a self-made man like Bush did – and Kerry actually held jobs that his daddy didn’t fix up for him.
Bill Clinton, incidentally, did come from regular folks and worked his way up.
It’s good we have a president like George W. Bush that came from a working class background.
He’s never pretended otherwise. See Strawman fall down.
Yes, Bill O’s upper middle class background that led him to the regular guy environs of Harvard U.
Uhh..O’Reilly didn’t go to Harvard until 1995 and that was to pursue a Master’s Degree in Public Administration. He went to Marist College in Poughkeepsie, which isn’t exactly a jet-set haven.
while John Kerry never pretended like he was a self-made man like Bush did – and Kerry actually held jobs that his daddy didn’t fix up for him.
Oh please. Kerry never missed an opportunity to talk about his “working class” parents, despite the fact they were upper middle class. He also had a wealthy aunt that paid for all his fancy schooling. As for jobs, the man never held a private sector job in his life.
O’Reilly was a middle class guy that worked hard and parlayed that work into a successful career that allowed him to buy some nice big stuff. Big deal. Get off the hate trip.
“Never” is a strong word. Who can forget his epic run in the cookie industry?
PS: Did you know John Edwards’s dad worked in a textile mill? He rarely mentions it…
Jay:
Oh please. Kerry never missed an opportunity to talk about his “working class” parents,
The fact that you make such a bold statement without any verification is suspicious.
As for jobs, the man never held a private sector job in his life.
So? Are private sector jobs supposed to be more worthy?
SaveFarris:
Did you know John Edwards’s dad worked in a textile mill?
You say that as though it’s a bad thing…. hmmm…
I love how you switched it to “private sector” in light of the fact that Bush never did a job his daddy didn’t fix up for him.
The idea that you’re holding up O’Reilly as a working class guy who clawed his way up when he was born into moderate wealth and keeps up the pretense of being working class (like Bush does) – and you value this, speaks to the right’s perversion of real work and the people who do it.
Yes, John Edwards father worked in a mill. He didn’t buy a farm in Texas to use as an electoral backdrop. He’s a little too classy for that.
Jay | Sep 21, 2006 8:15:44 PM
“Oliver this is really petty nonsense.”
To clarify, your posts are deft, subtle gestures that ultimately challenge other peoples’ reading comprehension skills and OW’s posts are petty nonsense?
“I find it ironic that you’re typing this crap when the TRUE phonies are people … Rich at birth, he wouldn’t know the first thing about being upper middle class, let alone a ‘regular’ guy, but has no problem passing himself off as some kind of “man of the people.”
Not at all similar to George W. Bush …?
Maybe al Queda wanted to kill O’Really because of his thought crimes with falaffels.
“It’s good we have a president like George W. Bush that came from a working class background.” said Oliver.
“He’s never pretended otherwise. See Strawman fall down.” said some clueless person.
Lying traitor George W. Bush “pretends otherwise” every time he opens his mouth and that phony accent comes out.
I can’t believe you guys are defending the reality-challenged Bill O’ on the basis of his “class.” How about the merit and veracity of his statements?
I can’t believe you guys are defending the reality-challenged Bill O’ on the basis of his “class.”
Why is Oliver attacking O’Reilly on the basis of his “class’?
The idea that you’re holding up O’Reilly as a working class guy who clawed his way up when he was born into moderate wealth and keeps up the pretense of being working class (like Bush does) – and you value this, speaks to the right’s perversion of real work and the people who do it.
What is it? You first said he pretends to be a “regular guy” and now you’re accusing him of claiming to be part of the “working class”
If it’s the first, you’re just wrong. If it’s the second, you’re lying. I’ve never heard O’Reilly attempt to pass himself off as just some working class guy. Neither has Bush so spare us that crapola. Plus I laugh at the ‘moderate wealth’ thing. What does that mean?
I have an uncle who was raised by a single mother for most of his life. He worked hard, and he just recently retired from a high paying job at NBC. He went from living in a one bedroom apartment in the Bronx with my mother and his mother to owning a nice $700K home in Orlando. He had nice cars, nice furniture, the whole bit.
But was still the same Uncle Joe to me and to everybody that knew him. He was still a “regular guy.” Was he a “working class” guy? No. It’s anecdotal, but it is similar to a lot of other people. Sam Walton was a billionaire and yet he rode around in the same old pickup truck and wore clothes from his store.
Like I said, get off the hate trip.
Oh Really? O’Reilly never passed himself off as a working class guy?
Washington Post (12/13/00). “I understand working-class Americans. I’m as lower-middle-class as they come.”
His own book:
But O’Reilly’s chapter on “The Class Factor” (Chapter 1, luckily for me) contains some puzzling counterevidence. “I’m working-class Irish American Bill O’Reilly … pretty far down the social totem pole,” he says. Growing up in the 1960s, he watched his father “exhausting himself commuting from Levittown” to work as an accountant for an oil company. Dad “never made more than $35,000″—which would be $100,000 or more in today’s money.
http://www.slate.com/id/101760/
More from O’Reilly’s book:
“No one ever told me or my sister that we were pretty far down the social totem pole while we were growing up in 1960s America. We took for granted that it was normal to buy cars only when they were secondhand, that every family clipped coupons to save money, and that luncheon meats were the special of the day.” And so on: “When our family went out to eat, a rare treat, we didn’t waste money on appetizers, if only because we didn’t go to the kind of restaurants that offered appetizers. Typically the pasta dish was spaghetti, and that was it. No linguine, fettuccine, rigatoni, etceterini, etceterini, to confuse the issue.”
Once again, crazy jay confuses his hallucinations with the truth.
How are “regular guy” and “working class guy” different?
More “regular guy”
O’REILLY: Now, you are a wealthy guy, now and you have a house in the Hamptons, and you go to Nobu and all these swell places. What’s that about? I don’t do that.
STERN: What, sure you do.
O’REILLY: No, I don’t.
STERN: What do you do? You don’t have a nice house now?
O’REILLY: I have an OK house, but it’s nothing like yours.
STERN: You don’t talk about — I live in an apartment in Manhattan.
O’REILLY: Oh, come on. An apartment. You live in a big high-rise. It’s…
(CROSSTALK)
O’REILLY: I live in a nice house but it’s a regular house.
STERN: You don’t have a nice house?
O’REILLY: I have regular house.
STERN: You’re going to paint yourself as some bum.
O’REILLY: My car’s five years old. I live in a regular house. You’re living large.
In a February 5, 2004 column about Janet Jackson’s “sleazy” performance in baring her breast during the Super Bowl half-time show, O’Reilly declared that, “Our popular culture has collapsed.” On the other hand, in a comment that captured his own personal involvement in that collapse, he said (in the same column), “As a regular guy, I have no problem with Janet Jackson’s chest. Quite the contrary! If the diva were to offer me a private look, I’d charter a plane.”
http://www.aim.org/aim_column/2046_0_3_0_C/
“Dr. Phil is back. How did he get in the room? You’re crazy,” says O’Reilly. “I couldn’t care less about Bill O’Reilly being known in Iowa. Doesn’t matter to me. I don’t throw my weight around. I’m not partying with Puff Daddy. I’m not cuttin’ a line. I’m not drivin’ a Mercedes Benz.”
from the same interview
But right or wrong, O’Reilly likes to get upset. He was raised Irish-Catholic in Long Island, N.Y. This son of a middle-class accountant says his dad was an underachiever who came to blows with him as a teenager. But his dad made him scrappy, which has served him well in his career.
Dad made equivalent to over $100k a year but he was an “underachiver”.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/23/60minutes/main645202.shtml
But maybe Bill O’ isn’t a regular guy after all:
“My family has also been threatened and I’ve had to change every aspect of my life. No longer can I behave as a “regular guy” and go out and cut loose with my friends.”
http://world-o-crap.com/blog/?p=151
It’s nice to see that O’Reilly’s fancy sterile-looking estate has air as filthy as anywhere else in the east.
The grass doesn’t look too healthy either.
So if the issue is wealth in politics and the public arena, what about all of those rich Republican senators?! Why as of 2003, out of the top 12 richest senators -oops- uhh, ten were from the party of compassion. Well at least the top five were all -oops- Democrats.
Never mind the “regular guy” criticism.
This all on a Soros funded web site.
“So if the issue is wealth in politics and the public arena”
It isn’t. Move along torture boy.
You guys really need to stop responding to trolls who try to throw the conversation off track. Jay is wrong, but at least he’s on topic.
“So if the issue is wealth in politics and the public arena”
It isn’t. Move along torture boy.”
So then when OW was speaking about the “really rich”, he, uhh, wasn’t uhh talking about wealth. Or maybe Democrats with scads of dollars aren’t uhh wealthy, only Republicans are ‘really rich’.
Soros, Kennedy, Kerry, Feinstein etc aren’t really rich. Or if they are and it doesn’t matter. it only matters when a Republican or liberatrian is rich – at least one who progressives don’t like.
Dugger the Troll, “I’m hard to look at and my name’s agin me.”
No wonder he’s a “target”. ABC news has shown terrorists what his place looks like and what his neighborhood looks like-so like when the NY Times showed Cheney’s and Rumsfeld’s places, we must be OUTRAGED and call for…I don’t know, what did those websites call for again?
Hmmm….does this mean that right wing OUTRAGE could be manufactured?
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