EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: O'Reilly's math blunder: 4-year trial at $200 million a year equals "almost a trillion dollars"
February 01, 2010 2:32 pm ET
From the first show of the January 29 Bold Fresh Tour stop in Tampa, Florida:
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Bonehead? Now we're getting closer to my understanding of this Cat.
Lumphead? It sounds a little "Leave it to Beaver" but it could work.
Dumbhead? This might be it because everyone knows Bill-O's the Consummate Jerk.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
4 x 200,000,000 = 1,000,000,000,000
250,000,000(4)= 1,000,000,000.00
I'm so embarrassed. It's a damned good thing I don't have my own TV show. That would expose me as an arrogant bag of hot air and provide my critics reasons to mock me whenever I make a slip of the fingers or tongue.
But outside of the occasional typo I assure you I'm an honest and trustworthy guy. That can be verified by an article about me that appeared in the Paris Business Review.
Do any of them admit to accepting SSI, SSD, worker's compensation, medicaid, unemployment benefits??
Can't all be democrats and independents receiving gov't. benefits . .
As for Bill O'Reilly not understanding the difference between a billion and a trillion, and, more importantly, Bill O'Reilly's interest in delaying and denying justice for the families of the 9/11 victims, I have 1000 words for the man: Shut Up!
Well, at least O'Reilly knows that there are only 50 states, not 57 like your messiah Obama. (http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/57states.asp). Besides I'm sure O'Reilly was not only counting the 200 million in dollars, but also the money lost due to unproductivity that the trial would cause due to security concerns shutting down certain businesses and affecting business. You liberals will jump on any little mistake and try to blow it out of proportion.
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How was that?
But check out the Bow-Gate thread for some real life examples of conservative thinking. At the end of a long comment thread about the idiocy of the media focusing on trivia like a bow, there's an amusing one-two wingnut punch, that's basically;
Wingnut #1 : So did he bow or not ? I need to know.
Wingnut #2: Thanks for getting back on topic, Wingnut #1 !
And yeah, this REALLY passes the COMMON SENSE TEST, doesn't it? 2/3 of Obama's projected deficit for 2010 could be save over the next four years by axing just this ONE TRIAL. WOW. That IS amazing!
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What a bafoon.
I just heard a bit of Boss Hogg during my road time wingnut scanning, and there was an interesting ditto-caller. She claimed to be a meteoroligist who didn' believe people could affect climate change, because the ice age ended due to global warming. Case closed.
Then she went into the wealth distribution territory. She also did taxes, and told a personal sory of a young couple with two kids who had an income of 15k, paid no taxes, and were getting 7k back as their refund.
She "did a little math" and figured out that this couple had a "disposable income" of over 32k after WIC and food stamps were added in.
I've never collected welfare, and I don't have any kids so I've always paid more taxes, but this sounds a bit out there (even disregarding her misunderstanding of the term "disposable income").
Anybody know if a situation even close to this is possible outside of Rush's bubble?
It also explains why the 22% -- or fewer -- who were avid Bush supporters at the end of his term thought they constituted a majority . . .
Feb 26, 1993 - World Trade Center Bombed.
Mar 4, 1993 - Four men arrested in connection with the bombing.
Mar 1994 - Four men convicted of conspiracy, explosive destruction of property and interstate transportation of explosives, sentenced to 240 years in prison.
Feb 1995 - Ramzi Youseff arrested in Pakistan
Aug 4, 1997 - Ramzi Youseff trial begins
Nov 1997 - Ramzi Youseff convicted. Yousef, the mastermind behind the bombings
Jan 1998 - Youseff sentenced to life imprisonment with no parole.
How is it now that the KSM trial is going to take 4 years. Yousef's trial started Aug 4, 1997 and he was sented 5 months later. What happened to our justice system in the last 10 years?
Since Bush and the Neo-Cons tried to the US Justice Department into military junta.
Someone give this man The Nobel Peace Prize in Mathematics!
blunder?... that's quite the gotcha, media matters... you totally nailed o'reilly saying "almost a trillion" instead of billion... if that isn't the nail in his career coffin, then nothing is... thank god you've dispatched your credential-less minions to provide crappy audio and video of this cheesy tour, all the while lining bill's and beck's pockets... i'm sure you feel these exclusives are really paying off in top-notch journalism, keep up the good work... there just might be a webby in this for someone, if there is a category such as best piece-of-**** video shot of an utterly meaningless faux pas...
next week's EXCLUSIVE video shot with aunt betty's vacation camcorder: bill says "beck and me" instead of "beck and i"...
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Or are you all just so ticked off that O'Reilly's 5am re-run has ten times more viewership than Oldermann's primetime show? Sour grapes...anyone?
He he he.