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O’Reilly Claims He Is Personally Responsible For Lower Gas Prices

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In an interview yesterday with Fox News's Neil Cavuto, Bill O'Reilly claimed that his reporting intimidated oil company CEOs into lowering gasoline prices:

O'REILLY: I have guys inside the five major oil companies - my father used to work for one of those oil companies by the way - who have told me that in those meetings they look for every way to jack up oil prices after Katrina, every way, when they didn't have to. They got scared because of my reporting and reporting of some others. They said, "Uh ho."

CAVUTO: So wait a minute, you're not, you're taking credit for gas prices being down from where they are?

O'REILLY: I said my reporting and some reporting of others. They got scared. [Call me when he walks on water...]
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