Bill O’Reilly Suggests His Mexico Boycott Prompted A Raid On Human Traffickers

It’s been less than two weeks since Bill O’Reilly called for a boycott of Mexico and already he thinks he’s seeing results!

During a discussion about the immigration crisis with Juan Williams and Mary Katharine Ham, O’Reilly paused to say this, in an unmistakeable note of gloating:

After I called for a boycott on Thursday… guess what happened? Do you know what happened after that, Juan? …Well, here’s a fact for you, Juan. Digest this:

Two days later, there’s a raid – a joint raid, with Mexican authorities and Americans. And they go into the big people-smuggler’s estate. And they grab ‘em and arrest ‘em and free a couple of hundred kids who were being held there. Oh, just by accident! Oh, that just happened by accident! We couldn’t find any other raids, Juan, in the last two years. This is bull. You should know it’s bull. They’re all lying. They all knew it was happening, they didn’t do anything and now they got caught…

Williams said he hoped that the government reacted to O’Reilly’s boycott - but he was skeptical. “Wait a minute. …You really think that because of what you said, you set government policy in motion and it led to a raid?” Williams asked.

O’Reilly insisted otherwise. He said, “Not just me! But the crescendo of criticism! Not just me!”

Of course, it was just himself that O'Reilly referred to in his run up. But I digress.

Williams had a good answer:

I’m gonna tell you that it was the crescendo of these kids at the border in a refugee crisis that is straining all of our hearts because it’s a human tragedy!

Oh, that Juan is such a killjoy!

Watch the exchange below and decide for yourself what O’Reilly was trying to say.

O’Reilly image via screen grab

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commented 2014-07-02 11:45:31 -0400 · Flag

Sometimes O’Reilly isn’t so fast to take credit for his pushing a meme’ that actually works the way he wants it to.
Just ask Dr. Tiller; Oh that’s right, we can’t ask him because he’s dead now.

commented 2014-07-01 17:15:57 -0400 · Flag

I usually turn off Faux after about 30 secs. of O’Loofah, I just can’t take him, but from seeing clips he seems more and more like he is doing a parody of himself, a la Colbert. His opinion that he is some kind of Svengali, a major mover in the political and media world just doesn’t make rational sense unless he is doing some self-parody, but his aged, geriatric audience isn’t in on the joke.

commented 2014-07-01 16:53:09 -0400 · Flag

Yes, we know Junior. Your Dear Old Dad William James O’Reilly Sr won World War II all by himself too. And he didn’t even have a TV Show.

commented 2014-07-01 15:55:31 -0400 · Flag

NOTE TO BILLY

Why no mention of the raids by the FBI on Ruthless Rupy and News Corporation? Maybe the masses should call all talk radio shows and ask this very question.

commented 2014-07-01 15:53:58 -0400 · Flag

Billy is doing this strictly for ratings. He does not mention this little gem in his own backyard http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/opinion/11mon4.html?_r=0

commented 2014-07-01 14:54:02 -0400 · Flag

Take that Whoopi Goldberg!

commented 2014-07-01 14:29:36 -0400 · Flag

God, O’Reilly has a swelled head. In the real world, an investigation like that goes until they have a solid case. They could have been looking into this for years, and have only known the estate was a hub since the immigration crisis in Texas.

Seriously- Let’s pursue facts here, Bill.

commented 2014-07-01 11:07:08 -0400 · Flag

I still say with Bile taking care of all our world and domestic problems we can just sit back and recreate.

commented 2014-07-01 09:39:07 -0400 · Flag

Oh wow!…. I’ve got nothing else. It’s all just too surreal for my brain to cope with.

commented 2014-07-01 09:23:32 -0400 · Flag

BOR trying to take credit again? LOL! Ego much, BOR? And you have the gall to refer to yourself as a “humble correspondent”. Ha!

BOR is becoming more and more like Limbaugh every day. He’s getting into the twilight years of his teevee career and he’s getting desperate with regards to his legacy. No doubt he added this raid to his list of accomplishments. Bwaaah!

Btw, I think Juan is probably right – if any outside force propelled this raid, it was the children at the border issue.

commented 2014-07-01 09:08:16 -0400 · Flag

As further evidence of Bildo’s omnipotence, the Netherlands beat Mexico 2-1 in World Cup soccer.

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Talk about an inflated sense of self!