Bill O’Reilly Blames The ‘Takers’ For His Decision To Quit Radio ‘Talking Points’

Remember how last week Bill O’Reilly insisted, “I’m not in business to make money… I don’t care about that?” I hope that, like me, you never bought that. Because last night, O’Reilly announced that he had quit his radio gig because his tax bracket is too high or, as O’Reilly colorfully put it, “the giant colossus of ‘take, take, take’ from me, the entrepreneur,” made it “not worth my time any more.”

On March 11^th, O’Reilly justified his unhinged meltdown with Alan Colmes by saying it was needed to get people’s attention about the dangers of our country’s fiscal condition. O’Reilly said then:

Now all Factor viewers should know one thing about me. I’m not in business to make money or to accumulate fame. I don’t care about that.

Wow, what a difference a week makes! Last night, O’Reilly lectured guest Juan Williams:

For the past few years, I’ve been doing radio talking points, alright? And this year I stopped doing it. I just stopped doing it on Friday because my tax burden is now so high and then I had to pay agents, commissions and all of that. …So I just said no, I can’t do it. It’s not worth my time any more. So about three or four people, then, they didn’t lose their jobs entirely but they lost a big portion of their jobs. Because I walked away from a situation which wasn’t economically tenable any more. Because the federal and state government in New York, OK? Taking too much money. It’s not worth me doing it any more.

So it would seem that Mr. “I’m looking out for you” suddenly cares a great deal about money. So much so that he was perfectly happy for other people to lose money just because he wasn’t making enough.

Either that or he quit just because too much of the money he did make was going to those “takers,” he’s been railing against lately. He continued:

And this is what I’m talking about, Juan. …That the giant colossus of ‘take, take, take’ from me, the entrepreneur, is harming the economy and that is one small example that’s irrefutable, Juan.

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commented 2013-03-20 15:20:32 -0400 · Flag

Billy can’t compete with his colleague foe, High End Hannocchio. He’s probably laughing at Billy’s excuse for quitting his failed show.

NOTE TO BILLY

Levin attacks you on his radio show, and he knows you won’t call him to the carpet on your show because you are afraid of him.

commented 2013-03-20 15:06:36 -0400 · Flag

@janet ,I’m beating the drum ,boom ,boom ,boom!

commented 2013-03-20 14:23:59 -0400 · Flag

Anne-claire, Bile doesn’t harass us, he provides us with some of the funniest shiite since the Dick VanDyke show.
Cue the the music (daa, daaaa, da-da, da-da, da-da…). Announcer: “It’s the Falafal Bill Show. Starring Falafal Bill O’Liely (Flalfal trips over the ottoman of truth), Jesse Waters, Dennis Miller, Juan Williams and Laura Ingraham.”

commented 2013-03-20 12:12:00 -0400 · Flag

Vile Bile ,always the Drama queen.
Isn’t harrassing his wife enough for him,must he harass us on a daily basis with his bullshit as well.If he doesn’t want to pay taxes then,leave and don’t let the door hit you in your obnoxious ass.

commented 2013-03-20 10:04:04 -0400 · Flag

Oh no, looks like BOR has outed himself as a big, fat fibber once again. Last week he pimps the bogus tale that he doesn’t care a bit about the money and fame because, at the time, that fit the case he was trying to make (in order to defend his extremely rude and unprofessional tirade towards Colmes).

But now that he needs to work another agenda – that the wealthy like him are paying too much in taxes – he’s willing to hurt others’ jobs because HE is not getting enough $ out of it. Bwaaah! This is the real BOR. That guy from last week was just a liar attempting to salvage what little was left of his credibility.

And, not only did BOR suggest that he’d be quitting if Obama raised his taxes, back when his now defunct radio show was still on the air, BOR said that if Obama got elected and raised his taxes, he would leave the USA and go live on some Caribbean island where he wouldn’t have to pay so many taxes. Screw his employees’ jobs and living in this wonderful country – nah, BOR wants his money! LOL!

commented 2013-03-20 01:23:01 -0400 · Flag

“And this is what I’m talking about, Juan. …That the giant colossus of ‘take, take, take’ from me, the entrepreneur, is harming the economy and that is one small example that’s irrefutable, Juan.”

How is he an “entrepreneur?” He works for someone else. I mow my neighbors lawn-does that make him an entrepreneur? If I pay Jiffy-Lube to change my oil should I consider myself to be an entrepreneur?

commented 2013-03-20 00:58:19 -0400 · Flag

Stole my thunder AAP………I was just going to say the same thing. O’Loofah is paying LESS taxes now under Pres. Obama then he was under Pres. Clinton. Where is all this take, take, take coming from. Oh……that’s right…….it’s coming out of his ass.

commented 2013-03-19 22:48:26 -0400 · Flag

I just love it when a plan comes together!!
Now, if El Rusho will just follow along….

commented 2013-03-19 20:35:01 -0400 · Flag

@aap: NONE of the right-wingers talking about the wonders of how businessmen are the salvation of the American economy have actually run businesses AND been able to take that experience and transfer it to their punditry or political service.

commented 2013-03-19 20:31:28 -0400 · Flag

Just don’t get married again, and stay off the phone with your co-workers and you’ll get by okay.You will have full Social Security coming to you in just 2 years and 6 months.

commented 2013-03-19 20:16:45 -0400 · Flag

We will still have your TV show to laugh at won’t we Bellowing Billow? What say you Junior?

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So much for "I'm not in business to make money!"