sentence. he knows, o reilly knows his audience doesn t know that tax rates are not up to the presidents and he knows his audience doesn t know that no one is proposing an income tax rate of 50% and he knows his audience doesn t know that bill o reilly very happily started doing the o reilly factor and became a multimillionaire when the top tax bracket was 39.6%. the bracket he is so fearful of now. so o reilly has actually already proven what he would do if the top tax bracket goes back up to where it was under president clinton, 39.6%. o reilly would do the o reilly factor every night and get richer and richer and richer. beleaguered taxpayer bill o reilly now makes at least $10 million a year from fox news. he makes millions more in book royalties, speaking fees and selling mugs on his website. so o reilly s accountants are
responding to them as he has been for three years. in other words, they with their corporate masters pull obama to their side and who s going to pull obama to the majority of the american people? the working family side. ralph, we have to go. we are going to hear about those issues on this program in the next year. we re going to have you back to talk about them some more. i want you to take a look tonight if you get a chance, if someone can show them to you, some questions that came in on twitter. some of them are good for the 140 character limit. i wish people would log into singlepayeraction.org and read the full letter then feedback to the e-mail. okay. ralph, thank you very, very much for joining me tonight. thank you so much, lawrence. last night bill o reilly revealed how president obama can get him to quick fox news. that s next in the rewrite. later, jane lynch joins me to talk glee, politics and the repeal of don t ask, don t tell. l and some antacids.
probably trying to keep track of much, much more than $10 million a year. i don t know. $20 million a year. $30 million. i don t know. it s huge. o reilly s claim that factor could be taxed out of existence is based on the republican article of faith that o reilly announ announceuated this way. if you tax achievement, some achievers are going to pack it in. this is of course not true and has never been true. when our top tax rate was over 90%, the rich got richer and none of the achievers packed it in. and in the clinton years when the top tax bracket was 4.5 percentage points higher than it is now, the rich got much richer including bill o reilly. and none of the achievers including bill o reilly packed it in. what o reilly was trying to tell his audience last night was that if the federal government allows
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jobs for average people. i mean, if she can drive that message then she has a chance to win that race and be instructive. as massachusetts often is, as you know well know, lawrence, for the rest of the democratic party. looks like democrats have a new star. msnbc political analyst, howard fineman. thank you very much for joining us tonight. thank you, lawrence. coming up, a last word exclusive. emmy award winning actress jane lynch is here to talk politics and glee. bill o reilly says president obama just might get him to quit fox news. that s in the rewrite. [ junior ] i played professional basketball for 12 years.