Liberty Maven

Bill O’Reilly managed to somewhat improve the quality of his programming last night. Instead of focusing his efforts on vilifying Chevy Chase for not “believing in” the Great Sarah Palin, he instead decided to address the hypocrisy of the leaders in Washington, who always show up at the Bottom of the 9^th Inning during a legitimate crisis, as opposed to proactively informing the public when red flags start to appear.

While I do agree with his statements that our leaders should bite the bullet and make the tough call of delivering bad news (as opposed to McCain, blowing smoke our way the other day, claiming that our current economy has a strong foundation) and also that “both parties are to blame” for this current economic and bailout crisis, I do, however, find it quite humorous that he asserts “there was no Paul Revere in public office to alert us”. Bill, perhaps there was no Paul Revere, but there was and is a Ron Paul in office to alert us. He has been warning the country for almost 2 decades of an impending crisis, such as the one we are currently facing.

The headlines of today are the former “alarmist” predictions of “that kook, fringe candidate, Ron Paul”. It’s unfortunate that O’Reilly, most of the Fox News Network, and the Mainstream Media, in general, have spent many years ignoring the warnings of an honest and economically literate public official. O’Reilly cries out for a leader with the spine to be a leader, yet, at the same time, O’Reilly does his best to ignore a Ron Paul and sweep him under the rug. Fortunately, shrewd journalists such as Glenn Beck and Neil Cavuto regularly march the Ron Pauls and the Peter Schiffs of the world onto their shows in an attempt to inform the public of the very financial corruption thriving in D.C., as well as the dangers of government intervention.

This brings me to the second, and most positive aspect of O’Reilly’s show last night: his discussion with Neil Cavuto. Unlike O’Reilly, Neil Cavuto “gets it”, and then some. However, regardless of your financial or political viewpoint, anyone can thoroughly enjoy this heated back-and-forth between Cavuto and O’Reilly. In the space of just a few short minutes, Neil Cavuto easily and effortlessly exposes Bill O’Reilly for the pro-government interventionist socialist that he is.

Especially entertained I was by Cavuto’s soft spoken reminders to Bill that he is “yelling again”, intensified by his dig at the end, “Bill, you were mean to me… I’m going to tell people ‘Don’t read [your next book]’,” it was the true meat of the dialogue which I found especially worthy of forwarding, and feel that every man, woman, and child could benefit from taking just a few minutes to watch this exchange.

Some of my favorite “calls” by Cavuto in this interview:

“No, you’re getting lost in simple facts.”

“You push this populist nonsense that doesn’t make sense and you get people to believe it.”

“You’re worse than the very politicians you castigate on your show.”

“But you’re gonna trust the government that has a problem policing it’s own books to start looking at companies books?”

“What makes the situation worse is when the government gets involved.”

“Be careful what you wish for, though, Bill, because after the fact, these government cures are worse than the disease they address; and they make an economy worse than it otherwise would be.”