O'Reilly again claims that he came from a poor background

[trumad]

in the interview with Edwards... The ffffing dudes Dad was an ACCOUNTANT! I don't know to many er...poor Accountants!

Here's a nice debunk!
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And yet portraying himself as embattled is crucial to O'Reilly's carefully cultivated persona. O'Reilly claims to fight for the average American, whose struggles he intimately comprehends. He's been there; he grew up in a poor Irish-Catholic family in Levittown. The only problem is, a December Washington Post profile debunked O'Reilly's claims to a hardscrabble upbringing, noting that his father's $35,000 salary translates today into something closer to $92,000 -- more than enough to send O'Reilly to a private college without financial aid.

http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2001/03/mooney-c-03-14.html

[rfranklin]

1. Princeton costs $40,000 a year...

$92,000 doesn't make you rich when you send your kid there.

[KissMyAsscroft]

2. If you think 92,000 is working class..

than you need to go visit some real working class people sometime.

[_Jumper_]

7. It definately is not working-class

However, it isn't rich either. I would classify that as being upper-middle-class.

[spooky3]

9. I think the point of those last few words was that O'Reilly DID attend a

private school, without financial aid.

[anti-NAFTA]

3. He's an idiot,

As though Long Island were anything but clean, all-American, suburbland.

But, accountants are usually not well-off, regardless.

[Doctor_J]

4. Isn't Nassau

one of the wealthiest counties in the US?

Like Al says, he an "avowed independent", but a registered Repug.

Hey, Bill - STOP LYING

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. it's up there

We're pretty upper middle class out here.

And O'Reilly wasn't poor. If he grew up any way I did, and we grew up in the same place, just 30 years apart, then we grew up very comfortable.

[Logansquare]

5. My dad retired in 1978 as well, and made $12,500.00

His pension was a little over 50 bucks a month. He was a low-level factory foreman, and we really were working class. And my non-Princeton college education was paid for in loans (which I continued to pay until I was nearly 30), and federal grants (remember those?). That liar has never known want. It's the kind of ingratitude and self-pity thats endemic in these right-wingers.

[spooky3]

8. this sounds straight out of Lying Liars

not sure if Al Franken should get the credit or whether he got his info from the site you linked.

But O'Reilly has never been able to prove that what Al said in the book is untrue.