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Turbett on Bill O'Reilly's Fast and Loose Politics

Center for Liberty and Community treasurer Jim Turbett passes along a comment on a recent O'Reilly Factor:

The topic was a Fla. supreme court decision that overturned a probation that kept the sex crime parolee from possessing porno.

Megyn Kelly, the fair and generally conservative legal analyst-- and beautiful and smart too -- said that the decision was right. She said the parolee claimed the law was vague and that she agreed.

O'Reilly says, "Sometimes the greater good of society has to prevail in these pinhead courtrooms."

Megyn comes back with: "You are so wrong. You are so wrong. You know what happens when you take that view? You get judicial activism. You get things like Roe vs. Wade. You are wrong. That is a dangerous road you are going down."

This isn't the first time that the idea of decisions being made on thebasis of law and law principles has escaped O'Reilly. He always just wants the "right" outcome. That's truly the progressive view from the early 20th century. There is nothing conservative about him except for being ultra-patriotic and kind of a societal prude.

Here's another O'Reilly story. He lambasted the head of Chevron, coincidentally also named O'Reilly, for taking home $32M a year (or thereabouts). A viewer emailed in to challenge him to reveal how much he himself makes. (Bill) O'Reilly refused, of course, saying that he worked in private enterprise, but everyone knows that the oil industry is a monopoly with five companies controlling everything (so it's not private?)

I think you could safely say that Bill O'Reilly dismissed the question by saying that the oil industry is a five company monopoly. Apparently he doesn't know that such a thing is called an oligopoly. He really hates the oil companies (and the airlines). His view is apparently that because the oil industry is a "monopoly", they can pay exhorbitant salaries without suffering new competition (while the news industry is competitive and he earns his high salary, the one he won't reveal).


Posted by Kevin D. Rollins on July 17, 2008 11:28 PM |

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O'Reilly is like Justice Scalia, in that he represents a consistent and logical ideological perspective -- except when he disagrees with its conclusions.

Posted by: Peter Orvetti | July 18, 2008 01:28 AM

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