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<p>…hypocrisy, you’ll probably get as good a chuckle as I did out of Bill O’Reilly’s most recent column. </p>

<p>Huh??? A call to Socialism by the Conservative spokesman? Hmmm, what next I wonder.</p>

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<p>huh?</p>

<p>Last time I checked the Congress (with Presidential contender support) is paying its dues to Iowa Caucuses (and ADM). Indeed, the current gas shortages were predicted by many when Congress mandated an expansion of ethanol use this summer to replace MTBE as a clean air additive (article in the WSJ last week). Unfortunately, we don’t produce enough ethanol, and its shipping costs are epensive since its not produced on the coasts, where air is dirtiest and its needed most. </p>

<p>There is a reason that we haven’t built a refinery in this country for 40 years – nimby-ism and environmental regulations.</p>

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<p>But what O’Reilly purposely “fails to understand” is that what he writes already represents the “socialism of the rich” (that’s what corporate capitalism is), a class of folks who organize in their class interests against those of others, manipulating prices, markets, and governments to achieve their own ends.</p>

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Exactly. There are a whole host of conservatives who are not big-gov’t, big business, and big regulation. I’m a fan of the free market - and the problem with the gas situation is that there is not a free market. Hence, volatile, high prices. I’m also not really a fan of big business (although I understand that it would cost more for smaller businesses to try to supply the country with oil) - would prefer more competition at least.</p>

<p>There are very few situations in which a free market will exist; fewer still when it will exist without gov’t intervention. When there are substantial gov’t regulations, restrictions upon who may enter the field, or other problems to start-up, a free market doesn’t really exist.</p>

<p>Don’t see how that makes O’Reilly a socialist; I think it means he stands by the “old” conservative principles of opportunity, free market, capitalism (for all), and small business. It may take on a socialist flavour; however, he’s adhering to good principles - and that does not a hypocrite make.</p>

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Hmmm … weenie, do you really think that Bill O’Reilly is the conservative’s spokesman? That’s a good one!</p>

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<p>ariesthena: “There are a whole host of conservatives who are not big-gov’t, big business, and big regulation.” Yes, there is and they should be screeaming bloody murder about this government that calls itself “conservative.”</p>

<p>fundingfather: Ah, yeah, for today’s fake conservatives (who seem to be in the vast majority of conservatives), I do think that.</p>

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<p>I don’t buy Exxon anymore.</p>

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<p>Weenie - if a conservative screams and the liberal media ignores it, has she made a sound?</p>

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<p>So the myth that conservatives are capitalistic has spread here too I see.</p>

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<p>O’Reilly isn’t a conservative. An egomaniacal blowhard. But not a conservative. Always fascinates me how liberals call everyone with whom they disgaree “conservative.”</p>

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<p>Speaking of which, look up this guy called Eric Alterman. According to him, the NYT, NBC, CBS, etc etc are very conservative.</p>