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As usual O'Reilly leaves out a lot of facts.
1) Bill O'Reilly grew up in Westbury Long Island, not Levittown. Westbury is a middle class suburb a few miles from Levittown.
2) His own mother told a Washington Post reporter that Bill grew up in Westbury Long Island. (Washington Post, 12-13-2000)
3) One time O'Reilly said he grew up in Levittown in a Levitt built house. The next time he said he grew up in the Westbury section of Levittown, but there is no Westbury section of Levittown. He uses different spin on different days, so which lie do we believe.
4) He wants people to believe he grew up in Levittown because it is a lower middle class neighborhood. Where Westbury is an upper middle class neighborhood. And he wants people to believe he grew up from humble beginnings.
But he father was an account for an oil company named caltex. He was making $35,000 a year in 1980, which is equal to making $93,000 a year in 2004. He also went to private schools, and so did his sister. And his father sent both of them to these schools with no financial aid. Bill also went to harvard and the university of london for a year. His father paid for all of that with no financial aid.
My father worked at a union printing company in 1980, he made $12,000 a year. So O'Reilly's father was making $23,000 a year more than my father in 1980. And we were middle class here in Peoria Illinois. My father could barely afford to send us to public grade school and high school, let alone private schools and college at harvard.
Basically O'Reilly's father was a cheapskate, that is why Bill only had one sport coat, but he sent both kids to private schools, and he left his mother a lot of money when he died. In these private schools all the other kids parents were probably millionaires, so O'Reilly thought he was poor. And that's if we believe he only had one sport coat.
O'Reilly has to continue the lie that he grew up from humble beginnings because it is documented. If he changed his story now he would have to admit he lied, and he will never do that.
Someone making $35,000 a year in 1980 is not middle class, that is way above middle class. And an oil company accountant is not a working class job.
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