Bill O'Reilly, the Gas Price Fixe Bell Tolls for Thee

Back on my birthday (Sept. 20 -- if you didn't get me something it's still not too late) Mensa god Bill O'Reilly wondered what sort of shadowy figure was really setting gas prices:

...we still can't find out who sets the price of a gallon of gasoline.

Now comes this, courtesy (this pains me) Huffington Post.

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.”

I thought it was the free market, Bill. But I guess it's you.