Bill O'Reilly Comments on the HCR Bill In Letter

[dtotire]

To the Editor:


Re “The Democrats Rejoice,” by David Brooks (column, March 23):

Mr. Brooks is right. The Democrats should proudly rejoice after their success in passing the health care reform bill. Congratulations to President Obama and his team for standing by what they believed to be right and necessary.

The Republicans, on the other hand, should hang their heads in shame that they could not muster enough common sense to contribute to the most important piece of social legislation of this generation.

It is incredible that national health care reform has taken so long and been fought so bitterly. When the health care reform bill finally passed, I was reminded of a comment attributed to Winston Churchill: “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing, after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.”

So Mr. Brooks may admire the energy of the people and the vibrancy of the marketplace. Good for him; I do, too. But people are even more energetic and the market they create is even more vibrant when they are in good health. Like other nations, we should recognize that health care is an investment in people, not in a market.

Bill O’Reilly
Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
March 23, 2010


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/opinion/l24health.html?ref=opinion

[soleft]

1. Okay, who wrote that and what's happenened to Bill O'Reilly?

[dtotire]

2. I Think He Wants To Estabish His Creditabiliy

As a Moderate. Good luck to him.

[hlthe2b]

3. Is it possible Beck has now cornered the market on "crazy"....

so that O'Lielly feels he has to go "sane" to stand out at Faux news?

[Historic NY]

4. I thought he lived on Long Island?

[rfranklin]

5. It's a different Bill O'Reilly...

There's more than one in the NY metro area.

[dtotire]

7. I believe Levvitttown was his boyhood home

[tularetom]

6. That ain't Bill O'Reilly

Not the asshole that's on TV anyway.

It's some guy who happens to share the same name.

Hey! Think I'll change my name to Bill O'Reilly and write a whole bunch of letters to the editor praising health care reform and Obama's policies in general. And if a dozen other people did the same thing we'd have the dumshits so pissed off at the foxnooz O'Reilly they'd quit watching him and he'd disappear and life would be good again.

OK, maybe I should switch to decaf.

[AsahinaKimi]

8. O'Reilly better be careful

He just might lose his Job on Fox News if he keeps agreeing with Democrats. Personally, I would rather he stay on his own side of the Nutty railroad tracks.

[h9socialist]

9. Sounds like he's joining Limbaugh in his enjoyment of oxycontin!

Either that or this is some other Bill O'Reilly. There must be thousands nationwide.

[southernyankeebelle]

10. I have a hard time believing this. If he felt this way how come he never spoke up about it?

[Moostache]

11. I have a pet theory on him and this seems to fit it well...

O'Reilly is an egomaniac and always has been. Beck has cornered the crazy market and Hannity has encroached on the smug-holier-than-thou crowd, leaving O'Reilly and his obsessive need for ratings and attention scrambling for a new demographic. He has decided that the way forward is to be the "straight man" on Fox's nightly cavalcade of carnival barkers. He has been walking down to the center more and more and trying to be more reasoned as well. Its a plan to position himself as the "sane one"...

He still has to answer for the sins of his past and his likely return to the right when Beck runs completely off the rails soon, but maybe, just maybe he will actually present some rather intelligent things into the toxic brew that comes off the Fox tap daily...