Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Biden Bribery, the Media's Trump Obsession, Geraldo Rivera on the New Media, Kamala Harris Criticism, Airplane Madness, & More

Episode Date: August 9, 2023

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, August 8, 2023. Stand Up for Your Country. Tonight's rundown:  Talking Points Memo: Bill reveals new information involving the Biden family corruption. What the media's obsessive coverage of Donald Trump and their non-existent coverage of Joe Biden means for the future of their industry. Geraldo Rivera joins the No Spin News to talk about the media and Hunter Biden. How unpopular is Kamala Harris? Bill takes Pete Buttigieg to task over the latest airplane madness story. This Day in History: Nixon announces he will resign. Final Thought: Being Respectful] In Case You Missed It: Get tickets to Bill and Sid Rosenberg's live show this October: "A New York State of Mind," at The Paramount in Hunting, NY. They are on sale NOW! Read Bill's latest column, "FYI." Look good and read more! For only $49.95, choose any polo and get a copy of Bill's bestselling The United States of Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Tuesday, August 8, 2003, stand up for your country. So it's interesting, while the media, the corporate media, goes after Donald Trump. He's got 77 felony indictments against him now. more to come in Georgia. They've spending an enormous amount of time on Mr. Trump's travails. The Joe Biden's story is shuttered to the side and not much time at all spent on that. But I'm going to make a prediction here, and I obviously could be long because I am predicting. I think the Biden thing's going to turn out worse than the Trump thing. And here's why I say that.

The Biden thing is this Watergate feel to me. Today, 59 years ago, Richard Nixon resigned, made a television announcement, we'll play it for you later, and got in that helicopter and zipped out to California, and he was through. This has a bit of that feel to me, this Hunter Biden tremendous money flow into the Biden family. But again, I could be wrong about this. But President Biden himself should be paying close attention to what's going on, and that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points memo. Do you know what the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is?

I didn't know until I stumbled upon it yesterday, late yesterday, and I have my producers look it up, and then we asked Brett Tallman about it, and we did our research as we always do. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, it was enacted in 1977, and the enforcement of it is assigned to the Security and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice, both federal agencies. Right away, that presents a problem because the DOJ, under Attorney General Merrick Garland, is never going to prosecute Joe Biden. Now, I don't know about the SEC, but, you know, I doubt it. So here is what the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and this is a law, says it prohibits the payment of bribes

two foreign officials to assist in obtaining or retaining business. So Hunter Biden was involved with a quid pro quo with foreign businesses. We already know that. That's established. So the foreign business got something in return for Hunter Biden being paid millions and millions of dollars. For example, Burisma oil in Ukraine got protection from Ukrainian investigators. This falls right under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,

and Joe Biden himself, as Vice President, was right in the middle of that. Okay? It doesn't really matter whether Biden put money in his pocket. He's in the middle of a quid pro quo, this for that, Hunter Biden, gets paid, whatever, five million, and Burisma gets protection, it's a violation of this foreign corrupt practices act, F-C-P-A. Now, I can almost guarantee you, you have never heard anything about this. Am I correct? Write to me. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. You got millions of people watching us, okay? Write to me if you have heard about this. Because it should have been, and I should have

caught it earlier, but I have it now. So that's where you start. Now, the House Oversight and Judiciary Committee is well aware of this Foreign Corruption Practice Act, and that's where they're going. It'd be hard at this point to nail down that Joe Biden got cash. That'd be hard with all of these wires and phony companies and all of this stuff all over the place. And Biden's not stupid. He's not smart, but he's not, you know, a low-life gangster in the sense that he would just take the money. He put in his pocket or his bank account. There's a lot of stuff going on if he did it. It's a big it. So the charges under this act would be conspiracy and racketeering. And again, Biden doesn't have to get money or the government. The government

government doesn't have to prove that Biden got cash, just as to prove that he was involved with this scheme, which he was. Okay? All right. So every day, bad stuff about President Biden is being leaked to Fox News. All right? Every, just like bad stuff about Donald Trump was leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post. Now it's the opposite. The members of these committees in the House, Republicans are leaking stuff every day to Fox News. The latest is that a associate of Hunter Biden, a man named Eric Sherin, all right, visited the White House, the Obama White House to see Joe Biden 36 times. This is what Fox News is reporting. I can't confirm it. I don't know. All right. But that's the latest report.

that this guy with the hat, 36 times, and he's a business associate to Hunter Biden? This is while Joe is VP. Okay. So now that's the picture we have. So last night, the Speaker of the House, who was really driving all this behind the scenes, Kevin McCarthy, appears on Hannity, roll of tape. You know, the bribery statute, Mr. Speaker, does not demand that somebody, benefit themselves financially in this case the vice president as the 1023 form pointed out

took a specific action and his family you know was involved in personal enrichment that being hunter based on his actions is that bribery to you well sean everything that you just talked about nobody in america knew until you had a change in congress the fbi didn't act on on their information from their informant. No one came forth. They took the words of this president. And you were right, this isn't about Hunter Biden. This is about paying to play for the Biden family

because the money goes to nine different members through shell companies, much like the informant said. So we will continue to follow the information wherever it takes us and provide it to the American public. So you notice McCarthy didn't say, yeah, Joe Biden accepted bribes. That would have been irresponsible of him to say that. All right, he's not Adam Schiff. He's not Blumenthal in Connecticut, the Democratic

Senator. So McCarthy is playing it close. But McCarthy knows where this is going because he's one of the orchestrators. He knows, but he's not going to go out on television and convict President Biden yet. Yet. Now, I know I'm going to get letters that say, well, you know, the fix is in with the Justice Department, that's absolutely right. As I said, Garland's never going to do this. But it's a court of public opinion that matters. So when the House of Representatives and the Senate comes back in early September to session, then this is going to ramp up all over again. All right, this Biden stuff. By that time, the Trump stuff will be all out there, by the way. Fannie, whatever name is, the DA in Fulton County. Two and a half years, Fannie, come on,

You could have done this in two and a half months if there was really something there. I don't think two and a half years to charge Donald Trump with election interference in Georgia. Come on. I mean, we know what this is. They're holding us back in case there's another hunter thing so they can drop it right after that and then obscure the hunter thing. That's what's been going on at the very beginning. Okay. But it's a core to public opinion.

Now, if you go to real clear politics, the average job approval, of all the polls for Biden is 40% right now and falling. Gets down to the low 30s, which it absolutely could in the next two months. Then the impeachment drum will start, boom, you'll start to hear it. And the evidence that's being compiled in any impeachment inquiry in the House

would then be put forth. Everybody would see it. Now, I still believe that the legacy media, the corrupt corporate media, it wouldn't report half of it, or maybe all of it. They'll try to black it out. But you'll get it through organizations like mine, Fox News will be all over it, that drives their ratings. They're going to cover it.

And talk radio will cover it extensively. So impeachment, I think, is on the horizon here. And there's one more thing. I reported about a month ago about the White House visits made by Fatima Gray. Do you remember that? Fatima Graves is the wife of the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., that refused to help the U.S. attorney in Delaware investigate Hunter Biden. Fatima Graves has been to the White House 28 times.

I gave that story a number of people. Nobody did anything with it. She needs to be called in front of these House committees. Why not? Because I believe she's a conduit between Biden White House and Merrick Garland through her husband. Matthew Graves. And it doesn't take a genius to figure out if that woman is going in to the White House 28 times since Biden's been in office, there's got to be a reason. She doesn't have any government jobs. She's an far-left activist, but that's it. And Graves himself, obviously,

has shown his cards. He could have easily helped in a hundred-bide investigation, refused, and Garland could have ordered him, and Garland didn't. So we all know what's going on here. And I just wanted to refresh your memory on that, and that is the memo. Our president is in Arizona and New Mexico. He dedicated a monument. He wants to protect our natural resources. And then he has a campaign reception. That's what this is all about.

So he needs New Mexico and Arizona, you know, because in his mind he's still going to run, and he needs those two states to vote for him. the taxpayer dime. He does a monument and then we pick up all that tap. That's what he's doing there. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays. Every morning, I'll bring you the stories that matter, plus the news people actually talk about, the juicy details in the worlds of politics, business, pop culture, and everything in between. It's what you want from the New York Post wrapped up in one snappy show. Ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast podcast, listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. All right. Last night, just to review the corporate media did ABC World News tonight, did two minutes 31 seconds on Trump, zero on Biden's problems. NBC Nightly News, one minute, 40 seconds on Trump, zero on Biden. CBS Evening News, two minutes on Trump, zero on Biden. Talk about the fixes in, boy.

Now, people are bailing out of the television and newspaper media. Cable TV, not just cable news, but cable TV, is losing an astounded. amount of people. So the average bill in America on cable is $118 a month. It's the average bill. Top states, New Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware, Maryland, and New York are the most expensive. But people are cutting the court. Okay. So in the first three months of 2023 second quarter Comcast, that's NBC, and they're a big, big cable provider. They lost 750,000 customers. That's 8,000 customers a day, canceled Comcast.

And all the other, Spectrum and Spectrum was included in that Comcast number, 750,000. All of them are hemorrhaging, which is why you're seeing the cable news readings, In addition, that cable news is very boring now, but they're just going like this. Because few and fewer people are, have cable. All right. Now, what is taking cable's place? YouTube. YouTube.

Now, I'm not in this world, okay? But YouTube is a lot cheaper. YouTube TV and YouTube itself, they're different. A lot cheaper, and people are going there to get information. We are on YouTube. All right, you just punch YouTube up and you put in Bill O'Reilly and you'll see a menu of stuff that I do and you can see it.

Now, it's not nearly as extensive as Bill O'Reilly.com. You can't watch the entire no-spin news on YouTube, but you can watch highlights, okay? But you're going to miss a lot if you don't watch the whole show. So we are there and we have to be because we are growing our platform as the cable operations shrink. And we have to use all of our resources, which is why I'm on News Nation. I do News Nation Monday, Leland Bitterd, and Wednesday, Chris Cuomo.

I do them every week. That's linear TV. And News Nation's coming up. I think they're the only, well, Newsmax, after Tucker Carlson left, they popped up. But News Nation, you know, it's stair stepping. It's not easy. But they're doing that. Okay, so what are the implications of people now not watching and reading the newspapers as much as they used to?

I wrote a column on Sunday called FYI. I'm going to quote the column a little bit of it. I said, today the media in the United States is widely loathed and ignored by most. My calculations are about 20 million Americans consume television news on a regular basis. There are about 260 million adults in this country, so the math is grim. 20 million. That's the pool, okay, that watch cable news and network news. 260 million is the adult population. So less than 10% of American adults are consuming television news. Younger Americans have completely bailed on the Fox News channel if a program gets 200,000 viewers

between the ages of 25 to 54, that's a strong number. The O'Reilly Factor used to hit 600,000, sometimes a million on the Fox News channel. Okay. Now, if fewer people are getting information, as corrupt as some of that information is, then how does that affect their choices, their voting choices, their choices in local matters, how does it affect it if you don't have any fact-based place to go? Well, that's why we have Geraldo Rivera, who is joining us now from Ohio.

So you and I were at the top of local news, of syndicated programming. You had your own show where you hit people with chairs. I did Inside Edition, okay? And then I was at the beginning of cable at the Fox News Channel, and you came in a few years after. you were at network news, so was I. Okay, so we've done it all, and we were there at the top of the chart. I just want to set the stage here. Now it's the last days of Pompeii, and a lot of people watching us won't even know what that means.

Because the information flow to Americans, I think, is the lowest it's been since the invention of television. what say you i say that pompeii was an italian city uh in the uh near mount pesuvius buried in the volcanic eruption that ended their lives uh like that i don't think the uh the erosion that you describe in capable news is quite that traumatic but it is i mean the numbers don't why i you know and you're a good researcher, the fact that the pool is only 20 million is quite grim. I don't feel sorry for them. I don't feel sorry for Fox. Fox is doing plenty well, maybe not as well as they did proportionally when you were there or when I was there.

But they are making tens of millions, and it's a good thing because they owe 800 million in the Dominion lawsuit. Well, but it's not about them. It's not about Comcast, it's not about ABC News. It's about the folks. Yeah, I agree. All right. So the folks. But let me, I just want to say something about Hunter Biden.

And you know this well. And I think the people listening know this too. You're only as happy as your unhappiest child. I believe that Joe Biden got saddled with who are mongering, drug-addled, a selfish, narcissistic son who thought that he could do anything using his father's name. I think that all of those antics, the reason I bring them up is I think they are a measure of the man's character. He would do anything,

despite the fact that his father was a prestigious person, a senator, vice president, and a later president of the United States. He was without boundaries in it for himself, very, very selfish. But where I, you and I differ is, I don't think the link to dad, in his official capacity has ever been established and there's nothing in what I've heard from or any of these guys and I think that McCarthy was appropriate when he didn't you know I said he

was appropriate as well but this being the 49th anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation you well know it took almost three years to build the case against Nixon and only when the federal courts got involved and demanded the White House tapes be turned over so you and you and and a lot of other people say, well, Joe Biden is not, you know, this investigation is really just beginning because the FBI and the Justice Department did nothing for two and a half years. So you have, that point that you make, it's an incomplete. If you were in my class, you get an incomplete, all right? Because the train is running, and it's running hard. And I will tell you, Joe Biden is not going to beat this.

He enabled his son, knowing his son was a grifter. Joe Biden enabled him and allowed him to do it. That is your prediction. That is your prediction. I think that's a fact at this point. You were careful to make that copayat that it was not fact-based or it was your prediction based on the evidence that you as- It is fact-based that Joe Biden enabled Hunter Biden to make all his money. That's fact-based.

Well, let me just, let me make the, I believe. and you use the Richard Nixon comparison, which I applaud because I think it is very, very appropriate in this regard. What did Gerald Ford do vis-a-vis Richard Nixon after Nixon had resigned and gone in shame to California? What President Gerald Ford did was to pardon Richard Nixon for any and all offenses having to do with a cosmic pardon that cost Ford, I would argue, the election. against Jimmy Carter because it was so unpopular. Not with me. I applauded it.

I agree in a historical sense. In families, and I would like very much. We're wandering away from the crux of this story. Okay. Joe Biden should pardon Donald Trump. That's my point. Okay. I mean, well, let's deal the power he has to heal this.

He'll never in a million years do that. Okay, so let me ask you a series of personal questions. Go ahead. When you're talking to somebody, because people come up to you and me all the time, okay? And most of them are very nice. All they want is a picture or what. But when you're talking to somebody a little bit more, maybe you're on a train or you're someplace in social, and a person doesn't know anything, all right?

And they're saying wild, crazy stuff. What do you do? Do you try to convince them or do you just walk away? Well, I have to say that I have been blessed that 99.9% of my encounters with the public have been pleasant. A couple of times I've had real jerks that said, how can you be on Fox News? I went to a Broadway show. I was stunned when this happened in New York, my city. I go to a Broadway show and a guy said, you're out enjoying yourself when the chaos that you reeked on the country is being.

zone when you're enjoying you. I think a walk you. I almost whack them. But I mean, that's very, very rare, right? Generally speaking, it is exactly as you describe. People want a picture. They want a little. My rule is that they are only going to be with you for those 15 seconds or 30 seconds or one minute. And that's going to be the impression they have of you for the rest of their lives. Yeah, and they'll tell other people listen to that. But you know, I don't entertain anymore. I don't persuade anybody anymore. If they ask me a question, I answer the question honestly. And you know me, what, almost 40 years, ridiculous. Yeah, and I still like you. You know, we went to, we went to day camp together. So, they answer a question, I'm going to answer honestly,

but if they come out with some crazy thing that they heard on Fox or MSNBC, or I just smile and I said, well, okay, got to go. I don't, I don't do that anymore. Because we are not an information-based country any longer. We're not. It's all emotion now. It's all ideology now, correct? I think that ideology is now the defining force in American society, and I lament that trend. Yeah, it's terrible.

And particularly when the election comes up, that's very, very important, and people just won't get out of their box. They won't look at really what's happening. they vote for whoever their friends tell them they vote for whatever party they're in. Final question. Because you and I have seen the height, all right, and now the dissent of the media, it's not turning around. It's gone, right? But I tell you what, a good story could still spark a renaissance in whoever breaks the story.

Someone who really can do the next, you know, get it behind the O.J. Simpson or the go back to the Willowbrook days or the chair or Charles Mann. You can still juice an audience, excite an audience with originality and hard work and enterprise reporting and get off, shake off that ideological bent, that prejudice that you have and go for the facts in a way that's vivid and energetic. think that you and your column you say you and Glenn Beck and Megan Kelly having established private networks look what you've done with a minuscule investment compared to what the networks have put into this and you're competing on almost an even basis with that that's true and I think is the future you know this it is no doubt the future the technology allows now honest purveyors to at least be heard. O'Rando, everybody, we'll bring them in on a regular basis, I hope,

to talk about media stuff. And then when Hunter Biden and his father go down, I'll bring him back and we'll play all the tapes for Heraldo. I told you, sir. Right. Okay. All right, Araldo, thanks a lot. Power, politics, and the people behind the headlines.

I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, and the host of the brand new podcast, Podforce, Every week I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, lawmakers, and even the President of the United States. These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode.

Kamala Harris, one of the problems the Democrats have when Joe Biden decides not to go for it. I say when, but it's just my speculation, is that most Americans don't trust or like the vice president. Real clear politics, polling average, favorable job approval 38, unfavorable 53. That's just Armageddon. But some liberal commentators believe they know why. Ms. Harris is unpopular. Most people don't know what vice presidents do, and now she is a history maker.

She is a woman, she is a black woman, and it's the easy thing to do to say she's the attack dog. Go after her. Yeah, it's a race thing. So Oprah being the most successful, a black entertainer in the world, Barack Obama, twice elected president of the United States,

But for Kamala, some reason, people don't like her because she's a black woman. Oh, stop. Come on. Here's the story I can't confirm we should know about. So United Airlines on July 3rd was scheduled to fly from Newark, New Jersey to Rome. The plane never got off the ground. Passengers say they were kept on the plane for seven hours in scorching heat because the air conditioning wasn't on. and they had no water on and on and on and on.

Seven hours. This is United Airline Flight 40. Okay. So we can't confirm they were on the tarmac seven hours. And we made every call we can make. It's now in the hands of the federal government of Department of Transportation. That's Buttigieg.

United itself put out a statement. I'll read it to you. Quote, on July 3rd, United Flight 40 returned to the gate of Newark Liberty to address a temperature issue. Once there, we offer customers the opportunity to plane and later provided snacks and beverages. Our crew eventually exceeded their legally permitted duty hours.

We had to cancel a flight. Regret, we couldn't provide our customers a better travel experience and offer compensation. Hope it's having the opportunity to welcome them back. Okay, where's the seven hours? It says they came back. The law says that both domestic and international flights cannot keep you the passenger on the tarmac

for more than three hours. That's an insane law. It should be 90 minutes. If they can't get the plane off in 90 minutes, you go back to the gate and give the people the option of getting the hell off the plane. Okay? I mean, this is crazy. So the reason that I'm reporting this is because I don't believe that Department of Transportation headed by Buttigieg is going to do anything about it. We're never going to find out what happened.

Because Buttigieg hasn't done anything in two and a half years. Nothing. And the airline industry obviously can't get the planes off the ground. And Buttigieg himself is flying private and won't tell me and you were paying for those flights how many private jets he's taken. What an outrage this whole thing is. Okay, there's a story that nobody's reported. but it's pretty important. Iran causing trouble in the Red Sea.

Red Sea is between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. It goes north to Israel and Egypt. That's the Red Sea. Okay, Moses parted it with the help of the deity. Okay. Apparently, Iranian warships are stopping tankers in that area, the Persian Gulf of the Red Sea, of that, and causing mischief and international waters. So the Pentagon very quietly

has sent 3,000 sailors and Marines to the Red Sea on the USS Batan and the USS Carter Hall warships. Three thousand U.S. troops are going in there to stop Iran from doing what Iran has been doing for decades. That's a pretty big story. Nothing. I don't know. Smart life. All right. You like to save it, right? I think it's a really good segment. So a Harvard Nutritional Psychiatrist. I didn't even know that existed. I guess these are medical doctors who, when people have eating disorders, they go to them. Harvard Nutritional Psychiatrist. has put out through Massachusetts General Hospital, an excellent facility, by the way, the top five food recommendations for brain health.

Now, I sent this story over to MSNBC this moment I saw it. It's a jest. All right. Here are the top five. Beans and legumes, rich in magnesium. Okay? They fight off depression and stress. berries. Blueberry, strawberries, cranberries, goji berries. I don't even know what that is.

But I do eat blueberries all the time on my cereal and other stuff. Dark chocolate. Whoa. A lot of sugar. But the cocoa helps with improved general cognition. But don't gorge on it. But I mean, if you want to have something sweet, get the dark chocolate. And leafy green vegetables, spinach, arugula, kale. I can't eat kale. I'm sorry. But I will eat spinach and arugula. They're real good, but you knew that. And then nuts. So I got cashews. Not only a cashew is good for you, they got some alt on them. Okay. So if you have high blood pressure and all that, you got to watch it. But they fill you up. So if you're kind of hungry in the late afternoon and you got supper coming up in two or three hours, you don't want to, you just

pop some cashews in there and brings it down. Caches and water will suppress your hunger. So those are the top five Smart Life. Okay, William Freedin. You don't know who he is, but you do know the movies he made. He won an Oscar Best Director for the French Connection, and he directed the scariest movie of all time. Roll it. Are you comfortable, Reagan? Yes. How old are you? Twelve.

Is there someone inside you? Sometimes. Who is it? I don't know. Is it Captain Howdy? I don't know. If I ask him to tell me, will you let him answer? No.

Why not? I'm afraid. All right, the reason that I'm bringing this to your attention, Mr. Fregan was 87 years old, he died in Bel Air in Hollywood. Killing the Witches, my book that comes out September 26th deals with the making of the exorcist at the end of the book, okay? Because the whole witch thing in Salem was demon possession, devil possession, making a pact with the devil, all right? Well, in modern times, exorcisms exist, and this film was very

accurate. But the things that happened on the movie set, and I quote Mr. Friedkin in the book extensively, are just unbelievable. So we go from Salem and 19 people executed all the way up to contemporary times with this devil demon possession business. And William Frieden died yesterday at 87. This day in history, August 8th, 1974, 49 years ago. As we mentioned, Richard Nixon, the President of the United States resigned. From the discussions I have had with congressional and other leaders, I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter, I might not have the support of the Congress that I would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office and the way the interests of the nation.

were required. All right, so Nixon got on a plane, helicopter first, waved to the folks, and he flew out to his home in San Clemente, California, where he remained, and he came back to New York for a while. He lived 20 more years. He wrote a bunch of books, smart man, but he did it, committed a crime, and if you're the president, you cannot commit crimes. I'm back with the mail

And a final thought about respect Okay, let's get to the mail Roger Hall leads Alabama Bill Please get on board To help find a conservative Who can beat Biden Roger

Not my job Okay, it's not my job My job is to watch Everybody Not recruit Not root Not promote Not my job

Caroline, concierge member, please, we hope you check out that program. All I know is that my life was better under Trump than it is today. And that will be a decider in the election coming up. Daphne Lee, Plano, Texas, I'm really worried about Ron DeSantis' ability to sustain and prevail in his campaign. You think he and his team of campaign professionals will make it through the entire primary season. Well, he just changed his campaign manager, I think, last night. He's off to a rough start, DeSantis. But you've got to cut him some slack.

He's never done this before. So anybody counting him out now is, you know, he could definitely relaunch. Jeff McVee, Overland Park, Kansas. Bill, you said that in 1864, President Lincoln tried to save the union by ignoring the Supreme court when they told him he could not suspend habeas corpus. It was 1862. Lincoln did suspend habeas corpus and the Supreme Court told him not to. But we were in the middle of a war, the civil war. And Lincoln took on extraordinary powers because of the insurrection. That's how we got away with it. Charlie Fish, Colonial Heights, Virginia, loved your smart life segment about

getting older. I spent 20 years in the Army, 20 years working for the Army as a civilian, 20 years traveling to all 50 states and golfing. Okay? If you are over 85 years old, you are old if you want to be. Way to go, Charlie. Keep that up, man. It doesn't matter what the calendar says. If you want to do it, do it as long as you can do it, as long as it's legal. Randall, concierge member, thank you, Randall. I confess, I still watch Fox news. I also confess that any counterpoint that's discussed by a Democrat, I disregard.

I suppose I believe what I want to believe. Why I follow you, Bill? You bring me down to earth with facts, even though I don't like to hear it sometimes. I don't want you to watch me because you believe what you want to believe. I want you to watch me because you want information, honest

information and analysis. Anna, concierge member, a lot of concierge member is good. Bill, thank you for always telling you truth, always given us the facts, not like all the rest of the media, they get paid to lie. Some of them lie. Outright lie. And we'll be calling them on it as we as we have. Richard Osborne, Los Angeles. We're currently visiting New York City and heading to the Hamptons for a couple of nights. Any recommendations of places to eat. Now usually I only do this for concierge members, but I want to do this promo, Richard. Okay. So you sent this

on the mail band. I can't do that. If you're a concierge I can do it all day long. But as long as you're here, because I'm on the eastern Long Island, the two best restaurants are harvest in Montauk and surfside in Montauk. Bring a lot of money, but the food is excellent. Okay, New York State of Mind, O'Reilly, Sid Roseberg, W.A.B.C. Radio sponsoring Friday, October 27th,

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Here is the final thought of the day. As I said to Geraldo, I was asking him how you deal with people who come up and say crazy things. Here's my philosophy, and this is important, and younger people should know this. If you don't know someone, you owe them one thing, respect because they're a fellow human being. You should treat them with courtesy, unless they do something stupid or they hurt. you or whatever but out of the gate respect is the key word okay if they are not worthy of the respect for some reason then disengage don't confront unless you absolutely have to confrontation usually ends badly for everybody just have a nice

day type of thing family and friends you owe respect and if you disrespect you're a mom or dad or your brother or your sister or your son or your daughter that's sinful you owe them respect even if they're driving you nuts okay be respectful and friends if you want to keep them same thing respect is very very important and most people have no idea that it is. Thank you very much for watching and listening on the radio, our affiliates all across the country to the no spin news. We'll see again tomorrow.