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O'Reilly: "Even Nancy Pelosi can figure this out"

July 06, 2009 9:06 pm ET

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O'Reilly mocks "old lady" Helen Thomas, compares her to "the Wicked Witch of the East"

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    • Author by seroquel (July 06, 2009 9:20 pm ET)
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      This guy didn't say word one about Shrub II's deficit spending or wars for oil.
      Now that it's a Democrat in office, he's now full of indignation.
      What a loser.
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    • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (July 06, 2009 9:22 pm ET)
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      Let me explain something to you, BillO. If Nancy Pelosi can figure anything out, it will be certain you will not be capable of making heads or tails out of it.
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    • Author by budrykzp9226 (July 06, 2009 9:39 pm ET)
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      What, that a falafel and a loofah are different things?
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    • Author by LIBERTY OR DEATH (July 06, 2009 9:45 pm ET)
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      Give Bill some credit he is telling the truth and the truth hurts.
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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (July 06, 2009 9:59 pm ET)
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      When O'Reilly becomes speaker of the House, and only when, will he have the creds to dispute Pelosi's intelligence. Until then, he is nothing but a mouthpiece for the unamerican activities of FOX News.
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      • Author by puppienrainbows (July 07, 2009 12:29 pm ET)
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        So you have to become speaker of the house to critique the speaker of the house? That's retarded.
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        • Author by wolf kotenberg (July 07, 2009 6:57 pm ET)
             
          criticizing the speaker of the house takes intellect, as opoposed to ridiculing the speaker of the house.
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    • Author by teabaggers ♥ NUTS (July 06, 2009 10:49 pm ET)
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      basically, this is billo's brilliant frame of mind:

      Bush: you can spend all the money you want to fund a war you lied us into because we have to fight all the big bad towelheads with beards.

      Obama: you shouldn't spend money to get us out of the hole that Bush put us in because you are a liberal and i dont agree with your high taxes on the rich (that will keep me from buying more of my loofahs) and making the country more "secular".
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    • Author by harley (July 06, 2009 11:01 pm ET)
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      O'Racist clearly hates America. When a Democratic president spends money on America and AMericans, that's a terrible mistake according to O'Racist and the teabaggers. But, when a Reich-wing president spends money for an unjust war, that's a "good thing". Reich-wingers = scum.
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      • Author by snoopy (July 07, 2009 12:14 am ET)
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        Are you surprised? Reichwingers are all about bootstraps. We're supposed to pull the bootstraps to help them get their boots on, and then shine them real bright.
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      • Author by puppienrainbows (July 07, 2009 9:47 am ET)
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        Obama hasn't spent any money on America or Americans. Most of the stimulus money has yet to be spent and the money that has been spent has gone to special interests who got Obama elected. Unemployment continues to rise and the economy continues to hobble. Obama's dimwitted side kick, bumblin' Biden, said it best, ....."It looks like we (Obama et al) guessed wrong"...... That's what we need, an administration that guesses with our future!
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        • Author by mikehuck1976 (July 07, 2009 12:19 pm ET)
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          We actually have lots of stimulus money being spent in Iowa already. Several construction projects. I think if you look around where you live instead of listening to AM radio you may see the same thing. Maybe you should ask Boehner.

          I love your condemnation of guessing at the future, though. Truly objective there. - "That's what we need, an administration that guesses with our future!" Cause everyone knows what we really need is an administration that KNOWS the future. Why not an administration who can speak with the dead while we're at it. Truly priceless analysis of an administration that has been in office 6 months - they can't tell the future!
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          • Author by puppienrainbows (July 07, 2009 12:30 pm ET)
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            Just goin' by what bumblin' Joe said!
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          • Author by puppienrainbows (July 07, 2009 1:32 pm ET)
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            They don't have to know the future, just use some common sense. Obiden didn't use common sense. As for stimulus dollars being spent in Iowa, provide some evidence that, first of all, stimulus money is being spent and second of all, it is being spent to "stimulate" job growth, what the money was "supposed" to do. If you cite examples of government jobs being filled as part of a "stimulus" plan, don't bother. This is a sop designed by the Obiden administration to give the illusion "jobs" are being created. To date, over 2 million jobs were lost since january.
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            • Author by mikehuck1976 (July 07, 2009 1:55 pm ET)
                 
              http://www.mydd.com/story/2009/6/29/22453/6595

              http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2009/06/30/news/latest_news/cfd2121673ed79ce862575e50069e7cc.txt

              http://www.qctimes.com/news/local/article_c9842c1e-4a65-11de-9b98-001cc4c002e0.html

              You really can look this stuff up for yourself. Also, I know that on my drive into work each day I drive by 2 different construction projects with the sign on them stating they are being paid for by the Economic Stimulus.

              I will assume that you consider costruction work real "jobs". I am not sure why you are so dismissive of government workers - my lifetime civil servant father would probably be offended that you do not consider his line of work as a real "job". I find it curious that you see yourself as defending America by dismissing those who work for it. But, either way, stimulus money is being spent and it is creating "jobs". Look it up.

              Are you actually trying to blame all the jobs lost since January on Obama?
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              • Author by puppienrainbows (July 07, 2009 2:20 pm ET)
                   
                When and where did I "dismiss" construction workers? Talk about a strawman! I criticized the "creation" of jobs that will, in the end, not stimulate the economy. The stimulus money was meant to stimulate the economy. I am for any jobs that boost the American economy. Just because a sign is erected stating that stimulus money is being spent doesn't mean those jobs will stimulate the economy. It could be you fell for that one!
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                • Author by mikehuck1976 (July 07, 2009 3:46 pm ET)
                     
                  You dismissed government jobs - not construction jobs. How does construction work not stimulate the economy? A construction job being paid for that was not going to be paid for before does stimulate the economy. We don't have to get in depth into microeconomics to understand that, do we?

                  What, in your opinion, does stimulate the economy if these construction jobs do not?
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                  • Author by puppienrainbows (July 07, 2009 4:07 pm ET)
                       
                    If the construction job, provided by "stimulus" dollars, is part of a needed infrastructure normally funded by the federal government, then a return on that investment cannot be calculated in real terms and is justified and provides stimulus in the form of lowered unemployment and increased revenues to the treasury in the form of income taxes. If the jobs, construction or otherwise, are created but do not provide any realistic return, then the jobs are not warranted and are a further strain on the economy. Where I live, sound walls are constructed along freeway corridors. Many of these soundwalls are accompanied by artwork that was tediously applied over months and months and the walls were not considered finished until the artwork was finished. The soundwalls cost to the taxpayers was dramatically increased by the artwork but wasn't needed. The artwork is repeticious, droll and unjustified. This is a minor example of government waste but is consistent with the types of government expenditure that provides employment but gets no return for it's "investment".
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                    • Author by mikehuck1976 (July 07, 2009 4:15 pm ET)
                         
                      So, your aversion to artwork aside, you are admitting that stimulus funds are creating construction jobs and conceding the point, right? Just want to make sure we understand each other.
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                      • Author by mikehuck1976 (July 07, 2009 4:17 pm ET)
                           
                        "Obama hasn't spent any money on America or Americans."

                        Just a quick reminder - this was your original statement.
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    • Author by LuvLuLu (July 07, 2009 4:11 am ET)
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      Hey, O'Reilly, I thought you decried personal attacks? And claimed that you didn't do personal attacks.

      Bill, you suggest that Obama is making choices he shouldn't make when it comes to spending. And that's nonsense. He had to do the Stimulus bill to keep us from spiralling into an economic depression. And he has to continue funding the war efforts on two fronts and we have required spending in many other arenas.

      So, the only thing that Obama could do is to raise taxes to help cover that deficit spending. It's the only real option he has.

      On the other hand, Bush pushed tax cuts when he should have refrained from that shortsighted attempt to help put more money in the pockets of the richest Americans today to the detriment of all Americans in the future. He should have been paying down the national debt. Bad choice #1. Then he continued those tax cuts, and pushed for new ones, even after 9/11 really hurt our economy. Bad choice #2. Then he waged a war of choice, when he could have simply believed the UN Weapons Inspectors instead, and kept a counterweight to Iran in the mideast. How much more in debt is our nation because of our invasion of Iraq? Huh, Bill? Bad choice #3.
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      • Author by puppienrainbows (July 07, 2009 1:42 pm ET)
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        Referring to "bad choice" #2: Recent documents and notes belonging to Saddam Hussein chronical his efforts to maintain the belief he had and was producing WMD up until the invasion of Iraq. If he had none, his attempt at duping the world proved fatal to him and his regime. It is like a police officer who, confronted with a suspect believed to be armed, fires on the suspect when a "weapon" is displayed only to find the weapon in question was a squirtgun(Falling Down). Do we fault the officer or the suspect? In liberal lala land, we fault the officer. In the real world, we fault the suspect.
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        • Author by mikehuck1976 (July 07, 2009 1:59 pm ET)
             
          Are you really still trying to defend the WMD nonsense? Even the Bushies have moved onto other justifications. Put down your squirt gun - it's like you're not even trying anymore.

          Also, you don't find it hypocritical at all that in the same thread you blast the Obama administration for not being able to read the future well enough to fix the economy in 6 months, but you defend the Bush administration for invading a country under false pretenses? Nothing at all? You don't think that makes you look a wee bit foolish? Do you have any sense of self awareness?
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          • Author by puppienrainbows (July 07, 2009 2:27 pm ET)
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            I brought up the WMD issue because it was relevant to another post in that recent documents have surfaced and should be addressed. Mr. Biden provided the cue for the "able to read the future" comment by defending Obama's economic recovery plan, when asked why it didn't appear to be working, he said, "we guessed wrong". If you are comfortable with Mr. Biden's comment, wonderful. I'm not!
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            • Author by mikehuck1976 (July 07, 2009 4:08 pm ET)
                 
              http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/14/biden-says-guessed-wrong-unemployment-numbers/

              I am totally comfortable with what Biden says in this article. I am assuming this is what you are talking about.

              You seem to be referring to Biden saying that because he guessed wrong the stimulus is not working. Perhaps you can direct me to an article where this happened. I am not familiar with that ever happening.

              I believe he was referring to the unemployment rate still being at 9% when they had hoped it would remain around 8%. Is this what you're talking about? You either lack the understanding of his statements, are taking somebody else's word for it, or are purposefully miscontruing what was said for your own partisan purposes.

              However, I am still curious if you see the hypocrisy in attacking the current administration for not knowing the future by estimating current unemployment would be at 8% when it is around 9% all the while defending the previous administration for invading a sovereign nation under false pretenses. Do you still not see the hypocrisy in your line of thought?
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    • Author by pasteve (July 07, 2009 7:50 am ET)
         
      How many times did O'Reilly state he would give the Bush administration the benefit of the doubt or more time before he spoke out about Iraq? But six months is too long to wait to see if the economy turns around?

      I wonder how Bill and others would react if Obama and Geithner said we need to stay the course and just give his economic surge time to work?

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    • Author by terrapin53 (July 07, 2009 10:28 am ET)
         
      anybody expecting this economy to turn around over night is nutz. Credit is just now to some degree happening again. Believe it or not the government just does not hand contractor money carte blanche and say go build a road. It has to go through the bid process and those contracts are just now starting to get let by the states and the feds. I submit that orders are up partly due to the withholding being less, unemployment benfiets being a bit higher, food stamps, and all the other "social" type spending put in the stimulus. Everyone knows employment is the last step in the recovery process, just as its the last step in the downturn process. Anyway, comparing California to US is stupid. They have totally opposite ways of implemnting taxes and spending programs.
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    • Author by shaggles (July 07, 2009 11:00 am ET)
         
      That's hilarious. A couple years ago Ahhnold was their hero. They wanted to amend the Constitution so he could run for Prez. Now he's just another Republican the right inexplicably use to beat up on Obama. Why can't the right ever find a Dem that's bad enough to smear Obama with?
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