{"id":951,"date":"2008-06-19T14:51:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T21:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=951"},"modified":"2008-06-19T14:51:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T21:51:45","slug":"bill-oreilly-wants-all-of-iraqs-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"Bill O’Reilly Wants ALL Of Iraq’s Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"

As if Bill O’Reilly hasn’t given us enough evidence of his stupidity, he is now advocating a plan<\/a> of his own design that, in effect, calls for Iraq to turn over 100% percent of its oil production to the United States.<\/p>\n

“So far, the American taxpayer has forked over more than $500 billion – $500 billion – to give the Iraqi people a chance at freedom. That country’s now pumping 2.5 million barrels of oil a day. So why isn’t Iraq giving the USA an oil price break?”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK, pay attention Bill. The U.S. consumes about 20 million barrels of oil a day. So if Iraq sent ALL of its oil to the U.S. for FREE, it would only meet about 10% of our needs. So how will a mere price break on just some of their oil impact prices? Obviously it would be insignificant. And that says nothing about the need for Iraq to use the revenue from their own natural resources to rebuild the nation that we destroyed. Without that revenue, who do you think will pay for that reconstruction? American taxpayers, of course, who have already footed the half trillion dollar bill that O’Reilly is so outraged by.<\/p>\n

The media, as usual, is failing to provide context to this story. They continue to confuse rebuttal with balance. Juxtaposing facts with lies does not advance the practice of balanced journalism. So when it is factually reported that all of the untapped domestic offshore oil reserves would produce only 18 billion barrels of oil, and that that amount would last for just two and a half years, and wouldn’t even come to market for twenty years, it is irresponsible to counter those facts with the partisan statement of an ignorant president<\/a> who asserts, without foundation, that new offshore drilling will result in immediate relief from our current gas price dilemma.<\/p>\n

Plainly the media has no problem being irresponsible. And O’Reilly is the poster child of The Misinformation Generation.<\/p>\n

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As if Bill O’Reilly hasn’t given us enough evidence of his stupidity, he is now advocating a plan of his own design that, in effect, calls for Iraq to turn over 100% percent of its oil production to the United States. “So far, the American taxpayer has forked over more than $500 billion – $500 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[324,26],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-big-oil","tag-bill-oreilly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-fl","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":303,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=303","url_meta":{"origin":951,"position":0},"title":"O’Reilly’s No-Spin Green Zone Holiday Tour","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/17\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"From the official web site of the Multi-National Force - Iraq, comes this nausea inducing press release: Camp Striker dining facility becomes 'No-Spin Zone' \"In a war that has perhaps been even hotter in debates than it is on the streets of Baghdad, the one constant in the media has\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":917,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=917","url_meta":{"origin":951,"position":1},"title":"Fox News On O’Reilly vs Olbermann: If You Stop, We’ll Stop","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/19\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Howard Kurtz has a revealing backgrounder on the battle between Bill O'Reilly and Keith Olbermann. 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