Bullshit Mountain, home of Fake News

A wonderful description of Bullshit Mountain (home of Fake News in Alternative Facts land) by Jon Stewart. It is dated but relevant today more than ever. Enjoy.

Some interesting interaction on Fox & Friends ...

Fox And Friends Tricked By 'Former Obama Supporter'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CbXdYojkQQ

Gretchen Carlson Walks Off Fox And Friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=z_vqfRvcjrs

A graphic description of BS on Bullshit Mountain from DREGstudios! Thanks for your submission!!!

Submitted by dregstudiosart:

"The talking heads guarding the inhabitants of Bullsh*t Mountain from rejoining the world of the sane just won't budge an inch will they?  Fox News is a propaganda machine which dumbs down America by the day through disinformation and their slanted agendas.  See their anchors spewing forth feces from their mouths in my visual homage to the network on my artist’s blog at 

http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-fox-news-scylla-guardian-of-bullsht.html"

Bill O'Relliy - - the takers won!!! They want stuff from "traditional" white voters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFcAzIWOHpU

Bill O Reilly 'The White Establishment Is Now The Minority' Fox News Election Night 2012

Karl Rowe vs Fox News

Karl Rove vs. Fox News

from ABC News: Politics

Forget Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. The most exciting matchup of the night was between Karl Rove and his employer, Fox News. A little after 11 p.m., Fox News and every other news outlet called the presidential race for Obama. Rove, the mastermind of George...

Karl Rove vs. Michael Barone On Calling Ohio For Obama

from Video RealClearPolitics Video Log

Karl Rove argues with Michael Barone and FOX News' decision, along with all major news outlets, to call Ohio and the race for President Obama.

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What is the name for a guy like Karl Rowe? Does he live on a different planet?

search youtube: carl rove vs foxnews

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/fox-news-election-coverage_n_2085962.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUtneL407VA

Fox News, Karl Rove Argue With Fox About Whether Obama Won Ohio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SaPcp4PGdU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQLV7nqD3CA

Fox News, Karl Rove Argue Over The Outcome In Ohio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnauFCqf2jI
Comment about Carl Rove

Rachel Maddow slams the kardinal Rove for not accepting reality

Awakard moment: http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/11/07/164586847/video-an-awkward-moment-as-karl-rove-objects-to-foxs-ohio-call?ft=1&f=1001

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJg3z5c93zU

VIDEO: An Awkward Moment, As Karl Rove Objects To Fox's Ohio Call

by Eyder Peralta

November 07, 2012 7:51 AM

If you were plugged into the polls, odds are nothing really surprised you about last night.
That's why one of the most dramatic moments of night had to be when GOP strategist and major fundraiser Karl Rove threw a bomb in the middle of the Fox News broadcast.
Shortly after Fox News became one of the first to call Ohio for the president, Rove chastised its "decision desk."
"This is premature," Rove said, adding later that he'd be "very cautious about intruding in this process."
Here's the video; the awkwardness begins at around 3:51:

YouTube

As NPR's David Folkenflik wrote earlier today, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly tried hard to convince Rove that the network's analysts had found no plausible way for Romney to overcome his deficit.
David reports:

"Even as more results continued streaming in, Rove did it again. At 11:40 p.m., he was still at it — reciting county after county, "and then there are cats and dogs elsewhere that add up to another 120,000 votes." Kelly and Baier sought to provide a check but listened sagely to Rove, who is not just a chief political analyst for Fox and a columnist for its sibling newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, but also a leader of one of the major outside political committees spending tens of millions to defeat Obama and other Democrats.
"Having lost the argument — not to mention his call that predicted for Romney an edge over Obama in the electoral college of about 30 electoral college votes — Rove made clear that the president's victory carried little weight.
"'He has blown the last two years — he's played small ball,' Rove said around 12:40 a.m. Wednesday. 'This does not bode well for the future. ... He may have won the battle but lost the war.'"

Of course, one of the big questions that will be answered in the coming months is what will become of Rove's outsized influence on GOP politics. Remember Rove is the man behind American Crossroads, the most influential and well-heeled super PAC on the Republican side. After his predictions didn't come true, will his big donors shy away from him? Or will he continue his decades of influence over the party?

---> but Obama win is better than 2004 Bush win!!!!!!!!!


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Fox News Announces Re-Election Win of President Barack Obama - 11/06/12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHAHgXtE9SU

Fox News Election Coverage: Questions Turn From President Obama's Victory To 2nd Term Mandate (VIDEO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/fox-news-election-coverage_n_2085962.html



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Other links:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/07/andrew-sullivan-tells-stephen-colbert-karl-roves-head-just-exploded/

http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-news-ohio-2012-11

http://www.businessinsider.com/karl-roves-historically-colossal-waste-of-money-2012-11

http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-megan-kelly-on-karl-rove-projections-2012-11

http://americablog.com/2012/11/must-watch-video-karl-rove-melts-down-on-fox.html

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/11/06/fox-news-decision-desk-stands-by-call-that-obama-will-carry-ohio/

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/11/06/karl-rove-questions-ohio-call-for-obama-electoral-victory/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/fox-news-argues-obama-ohio_n_2085817.html

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/now-with-alex-wagner/49728394/

Explanation by Carl: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83500.html


http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/11/06/karl_rove_vs_michael_barone_on_calling_election_for_obama.html

 http://news.yahoo.com/despite-quibble-republican-election-guru-ohio-went-obama-100837202.html

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.... other interesting statements during election night

Bill O Reilly 'The White Establishment Is Now The Minority' Fox News Election Night 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFcAzIWOHpU

R. Donahue (Don) Peebles on Varney & Co. Election Day 2012 Discussing the Important Issues 

 

Media bias? Media ignorance ...

It is simply BS. Hey, maybe Fox news has bias against main stream stories - how do they know they are correct?

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/11/07/five-ways-mainstream-media-tipped-scales-in-favor-obama/

Five ways the mainstream media tipped the scales in favor of Obama

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/11/07/five-ways-mainstream-media-tipped-scales-in-favor-obama/#ixzz2BWMAmF5I

Fox News and other media outlets have projected that President Obama has been reelected to a second term. If, in celebrating his victory Obama wanted to give credit where credit is due, he might want to think about calling some of America's top journalists, since their favorable approach almost certainly made the difference between victory and defeat.
Reviewing the 2012 presidential campaign, here are five ways the media elite tipped the public relations scales in favor of the liberal Obama and against the conservative challenger Mitt Romney:
1. The Media’s Biased Gaffe Patrol Hammered Romney: The media unfairly jumped on  inconsequential mistakes — or even invented controversies — from Romney and hyped them in to multi-day media “earthquakes.” Case in point: the GOP candidate’s trip to Europe and Israel in late July. A Media Research Center analysis of all 21 ABC, CBS and NBC evening news stories about Romney’s trip found that virtually all of them (18, or 86%) emphasized “diplomatic blunders,” “gaffes” or “missteps.”
Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer blasted the news coverage in an August 2 column, calling the trip “a major substantive success” that was wrapped “in a media narrative of surpassing triviality.”
Similarly, when the left-wing Mother Jones magazine in September put out a secretly-recorded video of Romney talking to donors about the 47% of Americans who don’t pay income taxes, the networks hyped it like a sensational sex scandal. Over three days, the broadcast network morning and evening shows churned out 42 stories on the tape, nearly 90 minutes of coverage. The tone was hyperbolic; ABC’s "Good Morning America" called it a “bombshell rocking the Mitt Romney campaign,” while ABC "World News" anchor Diane Sawyer declared it a “political earthquake.”
None of Obama’s gaffes garnered that level of coverage. After the president in a June 8 press conference declared that “the private sector is doing fine,” the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts gave it just one night’s coverage, then basically dropped the story — nothing further on ABC’s "World News" or the "CBS Evening News" in the weeks that followed, and just two passing references on the "NBC Nightly News."
And, when Obama infamously declared, “You didn’t build that,” ABC, CBS, NBC didn’t report the politically damaging remark for four days — and then only after Romney made it the centerpiece of a campaign speech.
2. Pounding Romney With Partisan Fact Checking: There’s nothing wrong with holding politicians accountable for the honesty of their TV ads and stump speeches, but this year the self-appointed media fact-checkers attacked Republicans as liars for statements that were accurate.
For example, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter writing for PolitiFact branded VP candidate Paul Ryan’s convention speech anecdote about the closing of the General Motors plant in his hometown as “false,” even though Ryan was correct in all of his details. The slanted review became TV reporters’ talking points; the next day on NBC, correspondent Chuck Todd grumped that while what Ryan said “was technically factual, by what he left out, [he] actually distorted the actual truth.” Matt Lauer greeted Ryan the following week in an interview on Today: “There are some people who are claiming that you played a little fast and loose with the truth....”
The same thing happened when Mitt Romney talked about Obama’s “apology tour” during the final presidential debate. While in 2009 Obama had, in fact, criticized the United States as “arrogant,” “derisive” and having “too often... set [our] principles aside,” the networks said to call it an “apology tour” was “false” because, as CNN’s John Berman tenuously insisted, “even if he was critical of past U.S. foreign policy, he issued no apologies.”
Writing in the New York Times August 31, correspondent Jackie Calmes scolded that “the number of falsehoods and misleading statements from the Romney campaign coming in for independent criticism has reached a level not typically seen.” That’s not true, either; Romney’s team was, at worst, guilty of highlighting those facts that best illustrated their points (something done by all politicians), and the Obama campaign certainly put out their share of tawdry TV ads and dubious campaign claims.
But with “truth cops” who mainly policed just the GOP side of the street, the media used “fact-checking” as another club to tilt the playing field in favor of the Democrats.
3. Those Biased Debate Moderators: Upset liberals scorned PBS’s Jim Lehrer for taking a hands-off approach in the first debate on October 3, with MSNBC analyst Howard Fineman slamming him as “practically useless” for not jumping into the debate on behalf of President Obama.
Such criticism may have encouraged the activist approach taken by ABC’s Martha Raddatz in the vice presidential debate October 11, and by CNN’s Candy Crowley in the October 16 town hall debate, as both of those journalists repeatedly interrupted the Republican candidate and larded the discussion with a predominantly liberal agenda.
Crowley earns extra demerits for taking the media’s penchant for faulty fact-checking to new heights when she jumped into the October 16 town hall-style debate to validate President Obama’s claim that he called the attack in Benghazi, Libya, “an act of terror” the very next morning. Crowley endorsed Obama’s story, telling Romney: “He did, in fact, sir, call it an act of terror.”
Not according to the transcript, which had Obama only speaking generically about how “no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this nation,” not assigning that label to the violence in Benghazi.
Wrong though she was, Crowley became a heroine to many in the liberal media; ABC's Matt Dowd, for example, cheered: “What Candy Crowley did, I actually thought, was laudable....I hope we get to do more of that in this discourse.”
Moderators are supposed to ensure both sides get a fair hearing, not pick sides. By leaping into the fray, Candy Crowley epitomized the media’s itch to tilt the scales this year — again, in Obama’s favor.
4. The Benghazi Blackout: Right after the September 11 attack in Libya, the networks proclaimed that the events would bolster President Obama — “reminding voters of his power as commander-in-chief,” as NBC’s Peter Alexander stated on the September 14 edition of "Today." But as a cascade of leaked information erased the portrait of Obama as a heroic commander, the broadcast networks shunted the Benghazi story to the sidelines.
News broke online in late September, for example, that Team Obama knew within 24 hours that the attack was likely the result of terrorism. That starkly contradicted claims from White House press secretary Jay Carney, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, and President Obama himself that the attack was a “spontaneous” reaction to an anti-Muslim video posted on YouTube. Yet, ABC took nearly two days to bring this story to viewers, while CBS and NBC held off for three days.
This was, shamefully, the broadcast networks’ pattern in October: New developments exposing the administration’s failure to provide adequate security, or contradictions in their public statements, were either given stingy coverage or buried completely. The puzzle pieces revealed a disturbing failure of Obama’s national security apparatus, but the networks flitted in and out of the story, never giving it any traction.
Instead of an “October Surprise,” the networks engineered an “October Suppression” — keeping a lid on the boiling Benghazi story until Election Day. Who knows how voters might have reacted if the media had covered this story as tenaciously as they did Romney’s “47% gaffe”?
5. Burying the Bad Economy: Pundits agreed that Obama’s weakness was the failure of the US economy to revive after his expensive stimulus and four years of $1 trillion deficits. But the major networks failed to offer the sustained, aggressive coverage of the economy that incumbent Republican President George H.W. Bush faced in 1992, or even that George W. Bush faced in 2004 — both years when the national economy was in better shape than it is now.
According to a study conducted that year by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, from January through September of 1992, the networks ran a whopping 1,289 stories on the economy, 88% of which painted it in a dismal, negative light. That fall, the unemployment rate was 7.6%, lower than today’s 7.9%, and economic growth in the third quarter was 2.7%, better than today’s 2.0%. Yet the media coverage hammered the idea of a terrible economy, and Bush lost re-election.
In 2004, the economy under George W. Bush was far better than it is today — higher growth, lower unemployment, smaller deficits and cheaper gasoline — yet network coverage that year was twice as hostile to Bush than it was towards Obama this year, according to a study by the Media Research Center’s Business and Media Institute.
When Republican presidents have faced reelection, network reporters made sure to spotlight economic “victims” — the homeless man, the woman without health insurance, the unemployed worker, the senior citizen who had to choose between medicine and food. But this year, with an economy as bad as any since the Great Depression, those sympathetic anecdotes have vanished from the airwaves — a huge favor to Obama and the Democrats.
Given Obama’s record, the Romney campaign could have overcome much of this media favoritism and still prevailed — indeed, they almost did. But taken together, these five trends took the media’s historical bias to new levels this year, and saved Obama’s presidency in the process.
Rich Noyes, is research director for the Media Research Center.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/11/07/five-ways-mainstream-media-tipped-scales-in-favor-obama/#ixzz2BWMG52js

Media bias and comedy

Well, maybe they would think for a second that Romney is a much more ridiculous candidate. He held any position under the sun at some point, he can switch at any moment, and he does say stupid things like "corporations are people" and "binders full of women." I guess FOX news has a different definition of humor,  and maybe it also should be "fair and balanced". But then again, this is another world, Bullshit Mountain, so other rules apply ...

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/11/01/study-shows-late-night-comedians-dig-more-at-romney-than-all-democrats-combined/


A study released this week by the Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) found that since the conventions in September, late night comedians Jay Leno, David Letterman, Craig Ferguson and Jimmy Fallon have told more jokes about GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney than all Democrats combined.

“Romney is leading in the humor race, but being the biggest joke is a race nobody wants to win,” the center’s president Dr. Robert Lichter said in a statement.

Overall, the study concluded that Republicans were the targets of political humor more than twice as often as their Democratic counterparts, with the most significant disproportion occurring in the monologues delivered by David Letterman. CMPA counted 290 jokes made about Republicans and 138 about Democrats.

Mitt Romney was been the bull’s-eye of 148 jokes, Barack Obama has been subjected to 62, with other Republican political figures such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Paul Ryan, Clint Eastwood and Chris Christie also making the cut. Of the Democrats, only two others – former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden – made the Top 10 joke list.

According to some media gurus, the study results are hardly surprising.

“Romney is the butt of jokes because he is conservative. Yes, he is a rich, square Mormon guy with the perfect hair who has never had a drink or even a soda. But a liberal Democrat with the same qualities could expect much kinder treatment than Romney has gotten,” Matt Philbin, Managing Editor of the Culture and Media Institute, told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column.

 “Remember in 2009, Chris Rock basically said there was no way to make fun of Obama – there was nothing to make fun of.  My Twitter feed says different, of course, but the President is their guy and they are not going to say anything to give aid and comfort to conservatives,” Philbin said.

On that note, CMPA also found that Obama avoided becoming the first, second or even third top joke getter in 2008.  According to the release, 658 jokes centered on then-GOP candidate John McCain, 566 referred to VP hopeful Sarah Palin, and 244 were thrown the way of the outgoing President George W. Bush, while the campaigning Democrat was the subject of 243 jokes.

However, public relations expert Gene Grabowski noted that being made fun of by the late-night lineup could actually work in Romney’s favor.

“The fact that Romney is leading the punch line poll may actually be good news for him. After all, I remember how much fun the pundits and late-night comedians poked at Bill Clinton when he first ran for President in 1992 and Ronald Reagan when he ran in 1980 and in 1984. Johnny Carson, Arsenio Hall, David Letterman and dozens of other comedians make jokes about them every night,” Grabowski explained.

“Romney would be smart to capitalize on all the joking by showing that he is a good sport and laugh along with everyone else, like John F. Kennedy used to do when he poked fun at himself and his family during news conferences. If Mitt shows his sense of humor, he might even end up having the last laugh.”

FOX news keeps viewers away from Binder comment

Hey Bullshit Mountain, if you do you show any story than it must be bad. The problem is you create an image of Romney of who is not - someone caring for women's equal pay. It is another piece of misinformation.

Cooking unemployment numbers ...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82087.html?hp=t1

What is the real unemployment rate: http://www.foxbusiness.com/government/2012/10/05/real-unemployment-rate/

FOXNEWS:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1880778306001/fmr-ge-ceo-jack-welch-questions-jobs-numbers-in-tweet/
Jack, you should really read the report more carefully. It is your ignorance and lack of information that causes your confusion. So should we say that all the numbers are cooked or are they only cooked before elections? So did the Labor department cook numbers in 2008 elections? Was the financial crisis just an optical illusion?
Yes, it is conincicence! Maybe the numbers were not correct before?

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1880424464001/september-jobs-report-by-the-numbers/
Carl Rove

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1879999975001/unemployment-rate-drops-to-78-percent-/
Go to school!!!! There is always difference and "anomaly", but that is normal! This is why you need to take the average.

FOX News radio:
http://radio.foxnews.com/2012/10/05/7-8-us-economy-adds-114000-jobs

FOXNEWS - Mainstream media - enemy number one

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/29/mainstream-media-threatening-our-country-future/

Well, I think the accuse other of what they do - misinformation. Foxnews viewers are the lest informed.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_06/the_most_consistently_misinfor030360.php
http://www.alternet.org/story/153214/7_things_fox_viewers_are_wildly_misinformed_about
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/fox-news-viewers-less-informed-people-fairleigh-dickinson_n_1106305.html

FOXNEWS - try to criticize MSNBC over a guy putting hands in his hands?

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/09/29/msnbc-caught-in-another-big-video-gaffe/?test=latestnews

FOXNEWS: Opinion about Fox News and No spin zone, etc.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/28/opinion/raines-fox-romney/index.html?hpt=op_t1

FOXNEWS: No Gender gap?

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/special-report-bret-baier/videos#p/86927/v/1863012020001

Fox News claims that the difference in wage pay is due to choices of women. But it is not how the gender gap is calculated - you have to compare men and women doing SAME jobs. Here is an example of a serious study study which shows that indeed gender gap is about 30%.

Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross‐Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

Journal of Labor Economics , Vol. 26, No. 4 (October 2008), pp. 621-654

Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Society of Labor Economists and the NORC at the University of Chicago

Article DOI: 10.1086/589458

Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/589458

SSRN page: 

Direct Link: http://people.bu.edu/olivetti/papers/paper_jan07.pdf

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=906091##

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Comment from Mediamatters: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/27/fox-news-women-earning-less-than-men-is-not-a-n/190161

FOXNEWS: Fact Check: Is Romney's tax rate really lower than yours?

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/25/fact-check-is-romney-tax-rate-really-lower-than-yours/


The story is that he pays less than someone earning 50,000. In fact, they say that such individual pays about 7.8 effective tax rate in 2010. Well, let's use the tax calculator:

http://www.money-zine.com/Calculators/Investment-Calculators/2010-Tax-Rate-Calculator/


Married filing jointly:

            Wages, Salaries, Income ($)                50,000
            Adjustments to Income ($)                   1,500
            Deductions ($)                             -5,700
            Number of Exemptions                            1
                              
                              
                              
            Adjusted Gross Income ($)                  51,500
            Deductions ($)                             -5,700
            Exemptions ($)                             -3,650
            Total Taxable Income ($)                   42,150
                              
            Federal Income Tax ($)                      5,485
            Social Security ($)                         3,100
            Medicare Tax ($)                              725
            Total Federal Taxes ($)                     9,310
                              
            Tax Bracket (%)                             15.0%
            Tax Rate (% of Taxable Income)              13.0%


Even if we exclude Social Security and Medicare, the rate is still over 10% ( 5,485 / 51,500)

How did they come up with this number?

FOXNEWS: O'Reilly claims that currently we have less information and people are blocking the truth

His example - Carter years president could not hide from bad economy but currently he can?

I think that he is accusing public of what the Fox News is doing themselves - blocking out the truth and creating misinformation.

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2012/09/24/bill-oreilly-are-american-voters-fog

FOXNEWS: Who are the 47% who do not pay taxes according to O'Reilly

O'Reilly gets the number wrong about who are the 47% of people who do not pay taxes. He uses as proxy answer to question about what people think about the government, but how does he know it is correlated with people "living off of the government"?

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/2012/09/19/bill-oreilly-mitt-romney-truth-and-folks


By Bill O'Reilly
So, now we have a controversy over Governor Romney telling supporters that a large portion of the American population is dependent on government and most likely will not vote for him. Here is my question; Why is that controversial? That's true.

Mr. Romney said that back in May at a fundraiser in Florida where he was secretly videotaped.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ROMNEY: There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the President no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it -- that that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them.
So, my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them but they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
O'REILLY: Now, I believe the Governor overestimates the number. I put the percentage of Americans who want a nanny state at about 40 percent. My analysis is based on a Gallup poll which asks the question, which comes closer to your own view?
The government does too much and 54 percent said that. Should do more, 39 percent; depends 4.5 percent. Now if you say the federal government should do more social engineering then the Obama administration is currently doing? Then you want a nanny state. If you want a nanny state, you're not going to vote for Romney who is a big self-reliance guy.
So again, what on earth is the controversy? If I'm Governor Romney, I run with this all day long. And I have the stats to back my position up. Right now the federal and state governments are spending nearly a trillion dollars a year on means-tested entitlements. Those are payments other than Social Security and Medicare.
More than 46 million Americans are now receiving food stamps. That's a record. Nearly nine million Americans are now on federal disability, another record. And more than 100 million Americans, 35 percent of the population, are living in a household receiving some kind of welfare.
Now I'm assuming that Governor Romney wants to stop the madness and get people back to work so they can pay their own bills. I'm assuming that's what he wants to do. So Romney should be pointing a finger, a finger at President Obama saying he wants a welfare state, the President does. And he's well on the way to creating one because that's what the stats show.
This is so painful... this is so crazy, I should say, it's painful. Did you know... did you know that last week the fed pumped about $23 billion into the banking system? Just threw it out there in the marketplace, flooding the zone with dollars hoping they will be loaned out by American banks.
That puts us all in danger. The more dollars that are in circulation, the less the currency we have in our wallet and our bank is worth. That's why OPEC jacked up oil prices, to keep their profits steady. So while we have a lemming-like press, braying over Romney being insensitive or something, the man is telling the absolute truth.
The U.S. government is broke. The feds are borrowing heavily, $3.5 billion every day. And now they're manipulating the dollar in order to pay the bills. That's economically insane. That's Greece.
All Americans should wise up. If you're on the dole, other people have to pick up your tab. And right now, there aren't enough other people to do that. That's why the country is at $16 trillion debt, it's unbelievable.
And that's "The Memo."
- You can catch Bill O'Reilly's "Talking Points Memo" weeknights at 8 and 11 p.m. ET on the Fox News Channel and any time on foxnews.com/oreilly. Send your comments to: oreilly@foxnews.com.