Bill O'Reilly: Obama Vacation Good, Since He Won't Be Meddling With Economy (VIDEO)

Bill O'Reilly stuck up for President Obama on his Monday show -- before bashing him for his handling of the economy.

O'Reilly was back from vacation (guest host Laura Ingraham ensured that things stayed nice and controversial while he was away) and began his show with some musings on Obama's current vacation. Noting that many on the right have been critical of him for taking the vacation during dire economic times, O'Reilly nevertheless dismissed the criticisms.

"Fair-minded Americans understand that presidents deserve downtime with their families, and these guys do work on vacation, just as I and millions of other folks do," he said.

Ah, but O'Reilly wasn't done! He also had a more pointed reason for wanting Obama off the scene.

"It's absolutely better for all of us -- all of us! -- if President Obama stays out of economic matters for now," he said, before launching into a list of what he saw as the myriad economic failures of the Obama administration.

"If he's golfing, I'm happy!" O'Reilly said. "Get him away from the economy."

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Comments

[chas52man]

06:57 PM on 09/20/2011

Yet another VACATION? This Marxist has been on vacation ever since he took the oath of office. Yet he wants the American people that PAY taxes to keep him in his ghetto life style. Spend it til its gone and ask for more when thats gone. Our dummy Congress and Senate, to my amazement, keep on spending money so that fool can vacation again!

[dax49]

12:32 PM on 08/25/2011

Remember how he would rant EVERY NIGHT about people "bashing" bush-of course he was deeply involved in loofahs at the time!

[taxpayertoo]

12:06 PM on 08/25/2011

"O'Reilly bashes Obama " is not news........."O'Reilly praises Obama" THAT would be news.

[centerright61]

03:42 AM on 08/25/2011

Well said Mr. O'Reilly. President Obama's economic policies have been a disaster for this nation. President Obama lost the confidence of the American People when in his first year of office, when so many were out of work, he spent much of his political capital on Obamacare. The stimulus has not produced as he predicted, federal regulations are up, and people are suffering! The President has added a staggering 4 trillion to the national debt in his first term!

[dax49]

12:34 PM on 08/25/2011

What a good little fox mouthpiece you are-too bad you don't know what you are talking about. I can't wait for you people to need health care and line up to sign up-of course it will be different when it is you in need and not the poor of America!

[centerright61]

06:04 AM on 08/26/2011

Yea I love that Obamacare, I was notified yesterday that my premiums went up!

[George Hanshaw]

02:18 AM on 08/25/2011

OReilly is an egomaniacal idiot with delusions of adequacy. Still, he's not saying anything worse than a lot of progressives are saying about Obama right here on the HuffPost....

[Jeff Bunting]

04:11 AM on 08/25/2011

Most of these 'progressives' I predict will not complain much if Rick Perry wins the presidency.

[Slc8300]

12:16 AM on 08/25/2011

Check out my Post about Bill O'Reilly here. "The Boring Insanity of Bill O'Reilly, An Analysis."
http://oilandyou.blogspot.com/2011/08/boring-insanity-of-bill-oreilly.html
(there's no spin at my posting).

[Birdman]

11:48 PM on 08/24/2011

O'Really bashing President Obama is like saying the sun will rise in the east.

[OneForTheMoney]

09:35 PM on 08/24/2011

Most people agree with O'Reilly on this. Obama's approval rating on the economy is in the tank. He has added 4 trillion in debt in 21/2 years. When he was campaigning in 2008 he called Bush unpatriotic for adding 4 trillion in debt in 8 years. Well if Bush was unpatriotic what does that make Obama?

[makingfunofthesouth]

10:28 AM on 08/25/2011

Hey, I heard about that last night. Obama is such a hypocrite regarding national debt. He should of know better back when he was running that any future president was going to raise the debt big time. It shows what an amateur he really is.

[SingingGirl]

06:24 PM on 08/25/2011

I don't think he realized what a mess the country was actually in while he was campaigning. I don't envy Obama at all; it's clear he's in a bit over his head. Especially with Republicans in Congress blocking nearly every solution he's tried to put on the table.

[dax49]

12:35 PM on 08/25/2011

The person trying to clean up bush mess!

[OneForTheMoney]

04:32 PM on 08/25/2011

You guys say Bush destroyed our economy by running up debt. How is equaling the overspending of Bush in 2 1/2 years fixing anything?. Get your stories straight.

[denim164]

08:51 PM on 08/24/2011

I dont know i still have this crawling itch on my leg saying Oreilly is a closet pervert.

[OneForTheMoney]

09:38 PM on 08/24/2011

Pervert? I didn't think you guys cared about that.

[ddea]

01:20 AM on 08/25/2011

Why is it always a personal attack. If he is wrong just prove it. But you can't so go the liberal route and ridicule.

[dax49]

12:36 PM on 08/25/2011

I didn't know ru$h, ingraham, and sean were liberals!

[TimeisTicking]

07:36 PM on 08/24/2011

He's right.

[EF3]

01:04 PM on 08/25/2011

He's wrong.

[Sooperbohl]

07:34 PM on 08/24/2011

Lets elect O'Reilly and see what this brainaic can do. Five bucks says nothing!

[Daniel Kemetick]

07:14 PM on 08/24/2011

To tofjr: Um, I saw your comment to my comment "Maybe it was one of the original colonies that ended slavery" Um I wasn't exactly playing the race card, you see, that little tidbit of information was given to us by Tea Party favorite and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and by using it you see I was making fun of the comment above mine made by a conservative. Geez you didn't question the post you just went to race card? Man you need help. May I suggest that or am I intolerant of special needs kids?

[raviandsonia]

07:00 PM on 08/24/2011

What everyone has to understand is that these Faux personalities think that by implying one positive comment, it gives them a license to hurl lies and absurdities for the next 100 days crying fail and balanced news. Sorry .... he is still pathetic.

[ddea]

01:27 AM on 08/25/2011

Point out the lies and you will have a best selling book. But you can't. Just because you don't agree does not make it a lie.
Obama is a disaster and you know it. It is not FOX's fault.

[dax49]

12:37 PM on 08/25/2011

NO, WE DON'T KNOW IT!!

[EF3]

01:12 PM on 08/25/2011

You obviously don't watch the Daily Show. Otherwise, you'd find out the amount of lying Fox News spews out.

[BoycottFox2]

06:10 PM on 08/24/2011

If it wasn't for Obama, O'Reilly wouldn't have a job.

[raviandsonia]

07:01 PM on 08/24/2011

He'd still be on Clinton. His kind never give up.

[TimeisTicking]

07:37 PM on 08/24/2011

His "kind?" What kind is that?

[ddea]

01:28 AM on 08/25/2011

With Obama we all wont have a job. You'll see the light soon.

[Jeff Bunting]

04:12 AM on 08/25/2011

With Rick Perry we wont have a planet.

[BoycottFox2]

08:31 AM on 08/25/2011

ddea, why would you care about a job!

[efffox]

05:52 PM on 08/24/2011

O'Reilly bashes Obama every single day. It's what he's been told to do. How is this news??