And not only American-made, but union made.

And therein’s the rub. The dissonance O’Reilly has since in his world, good and union are not words that can be used together in a positive fashion.

Does anyone think that Billo needs facts to substantiate his edicts?

Hmmm, I wonder why my immediate thought is that O’Reilly is just talking out of his ass, and doesn’t have the faintest idea whether they could get the shirts in America. They know that the business types decided they should get them from Central America, and they know the rubes have to be told something, so bingo! “unfortunately, it’s not possible” pops out.

I’ll double down and guess that this was not followed up with a discussion the effect on the American textile industry of policies O’Reilly supports without question, right?

He can’t have been looking too hard. He could easily get t-shirts that say ‘made in the USA’. Of course they might be made by slaves in our Commonwealth of the Northern Mariannas.

Demonstrates in a nutshell how anti-American Billo is.

Maybe Sarah Palin thought that the textile plants weren’t in the “real amerika”.

You hit the nail right on the head, Dakine01. I’m sure O’Reilly considers unions “un-American.”

Union members aren’t real Americans.

so, you’re saying BillO is FullO ?
who knew?

i don’t care where my t-shirts are made. what i care do care about is that the workers are treated well and represented by a union. and i’m especially fond of worker owned companies.

If he needs a T-shirt so much, I suggest he make one for himself. Mostly because I was not in the mood for this topic.

Earlier, I briefly heard a Laura Ing rant about Obama’s speech….why? Because he is just not proud enough to American…I know she only know how to criticize. So she is lamenting that she cannot be proud of her Pres. when he goes abroad (because he doesn’t praise America enough). Do you suppose she could have really been proud of Baby W when he could not put sentence/paragraph together, could lie and not know the difference from truth. Her idea about leaders, or men, must be very skewed.

BO is the face of the USA. Does this mean she is not proud of america.

With all due respect, I must disagree with the other responders. O’Reilly is, if nothing else, a man of exceptional probity and wisdom and decency. His statement about U.S.-made t-shirts may not have been accurate in every detail; but it was probably an honest mistake. He could well have been confusing t-shirts with fresh organic yak manure, which he also sells at the Patriot Store and is never available in sufficient quantities from domestic sources to satisfy him and his Patriot Store customers. I for one am willing to overlook his error.

There are definitely US T-shirt manufacturers.. I’m aware of one Miami-area firm, one in the LA garment district in SoCal and one in southeastern Alabama, and that’s just off the top of my head… not going to recommend any of them because I’m reasonable certain that all of them have deplorable labor practices, but I’d think Billo would have no problems with patriotically sourcing t-shirts from a putrid and suffocating American (as opposed to Guatemalan) sweatshop.

By the way, no less than three apparel trade and manufacturers’ associations will be happy to help Billo source domestically – they’re all online. Arsehat. Liar. Scumbag. Why does Billo hate America?

Surely these low-volume producers can’t meet the huge wave of demand for Orally T-shirts. I see them everywhere I go; cool people layer them & wear 2 or 3 at a time.

Champion still had a plant in Pa. I think there are others, specifically mfgr for US made requirements.

i’m sorry, i don’t want to tell bill o’reilly anything. he along with rush, newt, cheney, bonoir, mcconnel are all irrelevant. there are no morals here only self aggrandizement and self promotion and a fear of change when fear has worked so well in the past.

Not as her representative, I would say.

Hi Tula,

Remember New Era Cap Co., the manufacturer of major league baseball caps with union plants in the US? Maybe BillO could buy his Patriot caps there instead of in Vietnam?

I hope you are referring to ex-Rep David Bonior. He’s one of the good guys.

Campbellsville Apparel Company, Campbellsville, KY, is the largest mfr of t-shirts in the U.S. Major supplier to Dept. of Defense. Non-union, but great employee relations and employee benefits. Makes in excess of 25,000 t-shirts a day. I know — I am ex-Pres. and I never heard from BO.

Let me try again to write a simple sentence without leaving out important words. Dave Bonior is one of the one of the good guys, not like Rep. John Boehner, who is something else entirely.

I’m sure Bill O would love to hear from my union’s members– you know, the workers who actually make t-shirts in the USA.

Wonderful idea. Maybe you could do one of those public confrontations Billo is so fond of using. 100 or so union members with cameras asking him what he has against Made-in-USA products. Nightly news material. Go for it.

Also, maybe you could explain Google to him.