Media Matters: O'Reilly parroting Beck conspiracy theory about "far left" wanting economic collapse

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http://mediamatters.org/research/201104110035

O'Reilly Adopts Beck Conspiracy Theory: The "Far Left" Wants To Collapse "The Entire American Economic System"
April 11, 2011 11:32 pm ET


Despite announcing Glenn Beck's departure, Fox News is still embracing his rhetoric. Monday, Bill O'Reilly parroted Beck's conspiracy theory that the "far left" is intentionally trying to collapse "the entire American economic system," an idea that Beck has pushed on Fox News for over a year.

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BILL O'REILLY: The far left wants the government to control the economy, not private industry. That's what behind The New York Times, Soros, and other big left operations. Very simply, they want a re-cast of the entire American economic system, and the only way that can possibly happen is if the system crashes like it did in 1929. In theory, an economic collapse could allow a new system to rise: a quasi-socialistic system whereby Washington would dole out the jobs and money.

So this budget issue, while boring on paper, becomes the primary issue of our time -- eclipsing even terrorism.

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BILL O'REILLY: Now, it took me a long time to get here, but I am here. And I believe people like the New York Times and Soros want the system to crash. Because there is no other way on Earth that they could continue to bang the spending drum, as Soros and the New York Times are doing -- keep spending, keep spending, keep spending -- when every economist says the same thing: if you do that going over a cliff economically, all Americans are going to be harmed. So I think they want the system to crash so they can build it back up in the quasi-European image. Your thoughts?

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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. A billionaire and a center-right newspaper are the architects of the Big Left?

:freak: