Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Biden Press Conference, Edward Lynch Compares Biden to Past Geriatric Presidents, Russian Foreign Minister on Tucker Carlson, & More

Episode Date: April 27, 2023

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Mr. Biden was 90 minutes late to that press conference. Something happened very interesting before the press conference. So, Youen and Biden are sitting there in the Oval Office, and there are some reporters, pool reporters there, and Biden is talking about what the conversation was this morning. Now, look at him. Look at President Biden. He's reading off a card what he and Eune talked about.

Now, most every human being on the planet would just tell you, would look you in the eye and say, hey, President Yun and I spoke about this, this, and this. Biden has to read off a card what he was just talking about to you. Now, I almost guarantee you no one else will pick that up. I told Hannity today, because I did a radio hit with him. I said, check that out. It's so unusual. Well, looking down Biden like this at the card to explain what the president of South Korea and he were talking about this morning. Now, I don't want to make a tremendous deal out of this, but isn't it weird?

I mean, come on. So then, as I said, he's supposed to have a press conference at 1230. I told my staff that's never going to happen. Okay? And he was 90 minutes late, which, you know, that's his prerogative, as some people might say, but it's insulting to be late. And he is always. I got three soundbites for you. First, I just want to run down.

This is the 24th press conference he's had in 27 months in office. Most of them are very short. Today, this was very short. Trump at the same time, all right, 27 months, had 51, Obama 46. So you can see Biden doesn't do these very much. And when he does, they're truncated. Where did they truncated? All right, the first soundbite that I have is the general overarch of why the South Korean president was here.

Go. Look, nuclear attack by North Korea against the United States or its allies or partisans. our partners is unacceptable and will result in the end of whatever regime were to take such an action okay that's good just warn Putin and everybody else you use a nuke you toast now you can speculate whether Biden would have the kohones to do that uh he'd have to do it any nation using a nuclear weapon now they're gone you'd have to so um Down with that. That's the first soundbite. Second soundbite is politics. Go. Think about what I inherited when I got elected. I inherited a nation an overwhelming debt at the time, number one, in the whole for the four years that he was president.

I inherited a nation that had a serious loss of credibility around the world as America first. And, you know, the first meeting I attended the G7, I said, America's back. And one of the world leaders was going to sit for how long, for how long? There's a great concern about the United States being able to lead the free world. And we're doing that again. This is propaganda. I mean, you got the Ukraine war. You got she-saber-rattling against Taiwan.

Trump didn't have any of that. Biden goes, I inherited a, you know, a big debt. Biden has increased that debt more than any other president in the history of this country. And part of the debt under Trump, who was a big spender, no doubt he was, okay, was COVID. So, you know, Biden gets out there and he just says stuff. He didn't care whether it's true or not. You all know this. We've been doing this now for a year.

Now, the next one is more extensive. This is a reporter asking Biden about his poor, image among Americans. Go. You recently launched your re-election campaign. You've said questions about your age are legitimate. And your response is always, just watch me. But the country is watching. And recent polling shows that 70% of Americans, including a majority of Democrats,

believe you shouldn't run again. What do you say to them? What do you say to those Americans who are watching and aren't convinced? You've said you can beat Trump again. Do you think you're the only one? I may not be the only one, but I know him well, and I know the danger he presents to our democracy, and we've been down this road before. And with regard to age, you know, and polling data, I notice the polling data I keep hearing about

is that I'm between 42 and 46 percent favorable rating, et cetera, but everybody running for reelection in this time has been in the same position. There's nothing new about that. We're making it sound like Biden's really underwater. And number one. Number two, when the same polling data asks whether I think what kind of job I've done, it gets overwhelmingly positive results from 58%.

It's not true. I mean, it's so false. It's staggering. So there's a poll out this week by CBS News, certainly a liberal organization. all right, job approval or disapproval on Biden, 59% disapproved. So Biden says, just to remind you, all right, that he has positive results 58%. He doesn't have, I'm looking at now the polling from this week to the beginning of April, all right, in every single poll, he's got disapproval

over 50, an approval from 39 to 42. And Biden says to the world, 58%, people, I think I'm doing a good job. What do you do? What do you do? We the people, what do we do? It's like that character, the John Lovett's character on Saturday Night Live, remember him? Yeah, that's a ticket.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The press is numb to it, and they favor Democrats anyway, so they're not going to analyze it like I would. Does Biden know that he's unpopular, that his job approval rating this week at CBS News is 59% disapproval? Does he know? No. He doesn't know. He's not like Trump who watched TV news incessantly. Biden never does.

He lives in a bubble, and they tell him stuff, and then that's it. He doesn't know. Okay. So after President Biden announced that he was going to run again, which I don't think he will, I'm the only one saying that, but you wait and see. Foreign President Obama came out, yeah, great. He's doing a great job. Okay.

Now, does Barack Obama think that Joe Biden's doing a great job? I doubt it. I can't read it. his mind, but I doubt it. But he's a Democrat. And then Bernie Sanders comes out, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Now, Bernie probably does think that Biden's doing a good job because Biden is a captive of the far left where Bernie lives. So there's that. Now, it's clear to me that Joe Biden, if he does run for president is not going to campaign in a traditional way. He can't. He's not going to be out there in Iowa, in New Hampshire, and he might give a speech here and there, but it'll take

very few questions, and he won't do anything like that. So, on my message of the day on Bill O'Reilly.com, you don't have to be a member, by the way, to access the message or the column. You just go there. We have a lot of free stuff on Bill O'Reilly.com. We want to lure you there, so you like it so much, you become a premium or concierge member. It's. Anyway, I put forth a few Democrats that the party might consider in case Biden doesn't make it. Okay, that's the memo. Here's a very interesting situation. There have been, throughout our history, old presidents.

Reagan was old, you know, and this and that. 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 One. 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.

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In the older president category, I believe, and I've been upfront about this, that Biden's age is hurting him. It's hurting his ability to govern. So let's first take a look at some of the older presidents and see. if they were in the same situation. I mean, we could go way back to William Henry Harrison, right? He only lasted 90 days as president. Actually, it was only 30 days as president. And he kicked.

He went to heaven or wherever. But he was a rough and ready kind of guy, a tough guy. People elected him based on his war record, fighting the Indians. And it's hard to evaluate him. but Americans at that time didn't seem to be too concerned that he was a senior citizen. No, well, bear in mind that he was almost completely removed from the campaign trail back in 1840, highly reminiscent of Joe Biden's campaign in 2020 when he campaigned from the basement. One of the comments made about William Henry Harrison when he was nominated by the Whigs for president

is that the use of pen and paper should be forbidden to him for the duration of the campaign. That was one of his own campaign managers who said that. All right. They didn't want him talking. Well, he's a pretty blunt guy. I mean, it might have been more about him saying offensive stuff than didn't know what he was doing. But I don't know. So you fast forward into Ronald Reagan.

Senior citizen, I wrote a book on him, killing Reagan. and in the book, after he was nearly killed by an assassin's bullet, his mental security declined. And it was interesting because the Reagan library objected to my reportage on that. But it was absolutely true what I said in the book. Reagan made amazing comeback. And some people feel that Biden really isn't in that much of a decline and could come back himself. So let's deal with Reagan first. He was an effective president at an old age.

Well, yeah, and there are a couple of things. Number one, Reagan's administration maintained, at least in foreign policy, remarkably steady hand through a couple of different secretaries of state for different national security advisors. And you don't get that kind of steadiness. You don't get that kind of consistency if there isn't a strong hand at the top and a strong mind at the top. The other thing about Reagan that separates him from Biden is that Reagan didn't look old. He looked younger than he was. He looked vigorous. He was able to walk more steadily.

Biden looks so old. He walks like an old man. He talks like an old man in a way that Reagan did not. And that's one of the biggest differences between the two and a very important one, particularly even more for Biden than for Reagan because Reagan didn't have to deal with social media. Right. And Reagan was an actor also. I mean, but Reagan was a robust man. I mean, he was, he was in good shape and kept himself that way up in his ranch in Santa Barbara riding horses and all of that. Whereas Biden is a more sedentary individual, and I agree with you, he shows his age. You have a situation, though, where Bush the elder, all right, The next president after Ronald Reagan, because he was vice president, was elected, but then ran against a very young, vibrant Bill Clinton, and I believe the comparison of Bush, the elder, and Bill Clinton helped Clinton immeasurably. Oh, I agree.

There were a number of things going on in that 1992 campaign, none of which were positive for then-President Bush Sr., but the Democrats certainly knew what they were doing that year in nominating someone who is considerably younger and considerably more vigorous seeming. And, you know, that contrast between Clinton and his opponent was even more pronounced in 1996 when Clinton was running against Bob Dole. And a lot of the national media made that contrast repeatedly in order to hurt Dole's chances. Right. That's an excellent point. I hadn't even thought of that, but you're absolutely right. So fast forward to now, Donald Trump's pretty vibrant, 70s.

six-year-old, comes across as much more, much younger, if you want to put it that way, than Biden does. But Ronda Santis, who is now running second to Trump, he's 40, what, 44? Yeah, in that area. So his youth, DeSantis' youth, if he gets a nomination, would starkly contrast to Biden's senior citizens. status, correct? Yes, absolutely. And that would be one very good reason for the Republicans to take a very good look, hard look at Ron DeSantis as their possible nominee, particularly given the fact that if Trump should be reelected in 2024, he can only serve one term, whereas Ron DeSantis or

Nikki Haley or any of the other Republicans would be able to serve two full terms. Youth and vigor is going to play into that even more. Right. But I got a I've got to tell you, I had dinner with Trump three weeks ago or a little longer. The guy's a vibrant guy. Again, compared to Biden, Trump. Yeah, I mean, there's no comparison. I told the waiter, I'll have what Trump's having. Whatever he's eating, what I'll have.

Hey, Professor, it's always good to see you. Thank you very much for your expertise, and I hope you'll come back. And now, let's go to a very interesting story. It's been underreported. But I think you'll find it. Fascinating. So the second most powerful man in Russia is a guy named Sergei Lavrov. That name ring a bell? He's the foreign minister, but he's Putin's buddy.

I mean, right, joined at him. He's at the United Nations. All right. And he says this about Tucker Carlson. Go. Perhaps it would be useful to consider how things are with freedom of speech in the United States. I've heard that Tucker Carlson has left Fox News. It's curious news. What is this related to? One can only guess. But clearly, the wealth of views in the American

information space has suffered as a result. All right, so Lavrov said that because Tucker Carlson opposed the Ukraine situation. I'm not going to say he took Putin's side. I don't think that would be fair to Mr. Carlson. But he's skeptical of our support for Zelensky and Ukraine. All right, I think that's fair. The Russians seized on that, used it on their state media. All right, his big guy, and he doesn't think that Ukraine is worth fighting for. And they got extensive coverage in Soviet Union, in Russia. so that's why he said what he said all right in the continue with the media a little bit this is interesting to me so a lot of you have cable I have it and I use it for a whole bunch

of purposes my bill's about $220 a month all right and I don't watch the dopey channels someday I'm going to bring you in my little cable what's on that night it's insane I wouldn't watch these shows, and the list of them is just, but I needed for internet connections and all of that. So anyway, Americans don't want to pay the big cable bills anymore. And when I left cable, when I left cable news, there was a lot of cord cutting. And now when Carlson is left, six years later, there's more. So this is before Carson left. In the second half of 2022, people without cable became the majority of television watchers without.

They're cutting the court. They're buying streaming services where they get a selected batch for a lot less money. And this data is out, and this is not bode well for the big corporate media. That's for sure because the big corporate media owns the cable news services. and the shows that go on there, all right? And they have a hard time, because Americans know they can save a lot of money by going out of that and going into different areas, okay?

So the stats are the stats, but the share of cable and satellite TV subscribers is now 48%, all right? That's down 6 million in a year, okay? So pay TV subscribers have dwindled, or actually, in the last 10 years, years from 96 million to 70 million, 26 million of bail. Interesting, right? Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need

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So here he is in Japan. And he's talking about economic relationships with Florida. So he'd go into Japan, South Korea, Israel, and the U.K. to boost economics in Florida, so it's paid for by the Florida government, by Tallahassee, in conjunction with a state agency named Enterprise Florida. So the defendant gets around the world trip, paid for by taxpayers of Florida, to basically boost his standing for a presidential run. It's all legal.

It's all legal. So, in addition to that, there's a law in Florida that's called resign to run. That means if you go for federal office and you hold a state office in Florida, you've got to submit a letter of resignation. So a friend of DeSantis, Senator Travis Hudson, state senator, he has filed an amendment to change that. They would exempt anyone running for president or vice president. from having to resign in Florida.

That will pass. So DeSantis is setting himself up, obviously, for a presidential run. Don't you like to know that? Donald Trump, he says he's not going to go into the debate system this time around. All right, here's what he put out on true social this week, quote. I see that everybody is talking about the Republican debates, but nobody got my approval or the approval of the Trump campaign before in announcing them. When you're leading by seemingly insurmountable numbers and you have hostile

networks with angry Trump and MAGA hating anchors asking the questions, why subject yourself to being libeled and abused? Also, the second debate is being held at the Reagan Library, the chairman of which is amazingly Fred Ryan, publisher of the Washington Post. No. So Trump says he's not going to debate. Is that smart? What do you think? thing. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com, name in town, please, bill at bill o'Reilly.com. You think that's smart? Remember, after the Megan Kelly controversy, when she was at Fox News, and I was there as well, Trump did not show up for the Fox News debate. It was in Iowa, I believe. And I yelled at him on TV, on the factor, but he didn't go. So, don't look like he's going this time.

First debate is Milwaukee in August, no specific day. Second one, as mentioned, CME Valley, California, Reagan Library. Again, we don't know when that will be. Culture war. So a lot of very conservative people are very angry about what's going on in Washington State, and I don't blame you. Washington State is trying to take over from California as the most liberal state in the Union. So listen to this closely.

There is a bill that has passed the House and Senate in Olympia, Washington, 5-599, okay? And it says that children who run away from home between the ages of 13 and 18 can change their gender without the doctors informing their parents. The children have to go to state shelters. They can't be living with the parents. That's what a lot of people don't understand. Okay? But what this bill does, and I think Governor Inslee, a very far left guy, will sign it, is that it encourages kids to run away from home.

So that's what we're going to get around in kiddom. So you're a troubled teenager and you think, well, maybe I could be a girl or a boy, or whatever, and you go to a state shelter, then the state will pay for your operation, which isn't insane, and the parents will never even know. How anybody could live in Washington State. I'm sorry, Seattle Seahawks and Kraken, but it's insane. This is crazy, but they're doing it. Vermont, elementary school, Founders Memorial School, Essex Junction, actually a very pretty town.

Suburb of Burlington, biggest city in Vermont, which is really not a city, it's a town. All right, so they are removing the words male and female from fifth grade science lessons. So when you're going to class and learning about the human body and reproduction, male and female cannot be uttered in that school. Quote, teachers are only allowed gender-inclusive language in these lessons in order to align our curriculum with our equity policy. School principal Sarah Jablonski wrote to parents. Okay. So this is an individual school, not a state mandate. If any parent allows their child

to go to the Founders Memorial School, that parent is derelict. There should be no kids in that school. None. You should go to Catholic school, private school, go to another. public school and another district that's if you put your kid in that environment it's on you colleges the Oklahoma Sooners this is staggering University of Oklahoma plans to hold identity-based graduation ceremonies five of them for blacks Asians native Americans, LBTQ, and lavender students. I guess lavender, that's LGBQ. Five separate graduations. You pick your little group. Is that healthy? Is that what education's most big? Dividing the

student body up. University of Oklahoma. This is in Berkeley. Georgetown, Jesuit school. Okay? Separate graduation for students of color. Yep. That's what Jesus would want. Right, you Jesuit pinheads at Georgetown? Wouldn't Jesus want?

Yeah, that's what Jesus would want. Let's divide everybody up on skin color. Sure. Jesuit is Jesus. That's what Jesuits want. Illinois State University, insane place. insane place, okay? They have segregated graduation ceremonies as well. Why? To provide opportunities for our underrepresented students to celebrate their successes and graduation

in a unique way. Underrepresented students? Well, that's your fault, isn't it, Illinois State? If a kid in your school is underrepresented, it's your fault. All students should be represented at the same level right this woke stuff i mean the damage this is doing to our society and who's mr woke joe biden i mean he's asleep most of the time so it's ironic he's mr woke as we went over yesterday smart life okay so if you've been to an upscale restaurant lately you know it's insane it's insane you look at the menu it's crazy but there's some very good restaurants that you probably want to go to so o're riley has a and i do this okay i have the strategy so you walk in and you want a steak i don't eat a lot of steak anymore i'm a more of a

fish guy now the steak is going to run you between 40 and 60 bucks just for the steak steak. Okay? And then if you want a potato, that's another eight bucks. If you want a vegetable, it's another eight bucks, whatever. This is called alacart. So all you get is a slab of meat from between 40 and 60. Why? You can buy 10 steaks and put them on the grill. But they may have stuff in there in that upscale restaurant that you want to eat, that sample. Now, here's what I do. I go in, I get some soup. I'm a soup guy, all right, minestrone, chicken with rice, cream of mushroom, whatever. That's my entree.

And the soup, if it runs more than $10, you know, they're just ripping you off. You can get soup around between $7 and $11, $12. Okay. Then I get two appetizers. I don't get an entree so the other day I went in and I got coconut shrimp and it was very good and they put a little lettuce on it and I got pot stickers okay so I said a waitress bring your soup out first and then I'll get the coconut shrimp and I'll and I'll get the pot stickers as my entree and I'd like a big glass of water with some lime in it

because they don't charge it for water, okay? Soon they're going to charge it for bread, but they still don't charge it for bread. So you have a little bread with your soup, okay? Don't eat a lot of bread, it's not good for you. So anyway, the bill came, my bill came for the coconut shrimp and the pot stickers and the soup. It was about 30 bucks, okay? Maybe a little less, and I'm a big tipper, so I always give the, unless they're, ridiculously and bad. I give the servers a nice tip. That's manageable. Now, these upscale restaurants,

they have a formula. The formula is you can't sit there for more than 90 minutes. They want that table. So they want to get you out of there between an hour and an hour and a half. I don't dawdle over my meal. I mean, if I go, I eat, and I leave. They do I have better places to sit than in a restaurant. And they want 100 bucks out of you for the upscale restaurants. 100 bucks a piece. So a couple, they want 200. So that's why the drinks, they really lay it on. So if you're drinking in a restaurant, upscale restaurant, I hope you're an affluent person because they're going to hammer you on that. But if you do my formula, you'll be full. I'm 6'4. That soup and the two appetizers fill me up and a little bread with it, okay, and the water, because the water is a filler. And then I'll go to Carvel or something if I want dessert, which I'm trying to cut back on that and on my way home.

I'll pick something up. Okay? So there you go. Smart life. This day in history, April 26, 1933, 90 years ago, the Gestapo was formed in Hitler's Germany. Most people don't know what this was. They've heard the name, Gestapo. It was a secret police, pretty much.

And there were only 32,000 of them. It wasn't like the SS, which is the concentration camp people. All right, and then later they were actually combat units, Waffen SS. The Gestapo were civilians. So Hitler, being the most villainous human being that has ever lived, I mean, Stalin and Mao are up there, but I think Hitler was probably the worst because he was the first. He knew that he was never going to survive in a democracy.

What the Gestapo did was they arrested all of his opposition. And not only that, but Jews and gypsies and communists and anybody that Hitler didn't like, the Gestapo would arrest. No rights. Though if you, if the Gestapo came to your house, and they're the guys in the leather jackets, they come in, they knock on the door. They don't even knock sometimes, kick the door in. They take you out. No lawyer, no anything.

Sometimes you wind up in a concentration camp. But other times you'd wind up in a grave. They could kill you and torture you and do whatever you want. If you go to Berlin, there's a museum where the Gestapo and SS headquarters was. They've kept it there. and you can go and see. And this is the way all totalitarian regimes survive. Cuba, when I was in Cuba, these guys were everywhere.

And they have the same power. There's no due process, no arrest warrant, no trial, no lawyer. They pick you up. You're gone. So anyway, 90 years ago today, the Gestapo was formed 1933 in Nazi Germany, And that's how Hitler held his power by them and the SS. Okay, we've got a good lively mail segment, as usual, and a final thought about another branch of the independent news agency run by me, your humble correspondent. I think you'll find the final thought. Interesting. We'll be right back.

All right, let's go to the mail, Mike, on the message board. What I find most offensive about Biden's performance is that he thinks he's doing a real bank. up job and that he deserves another term. It's obviously living in a fantasy land, divorced from reality. Yeah, that's where he lives in that land. James, concierge, remember James gets direct access to me. We hope you check that program out. If Biden is as bad as you say, O'Reilly, how can Obama be so revered by you, Biden's an extension of Obama? No, he's not. I mean, Obama was against gay marriage in the beginning. I mean, Obama's a much more treatise. traditional and revered.

Come on. I covered Obama in a fair way. I like him personally because he's very nice to my children. Lena, the news is no longer about journalistic integrity. It's about corporations and money. Absolutely. But not this agency. Kevin Gillespie, Samsonville, Kentucky.

I watch the Knowsman News. Excellent as always. always, I have been a Tucker follower. The one thing about Tucker is that he's extremely smart, and I learned something every time I watched it. Regarding Ray Epps, the confusing part is that everybody was thrown into prison, but him. Now, there were 2,000 people approximately inside the state capital. About 900 of them have been prosecuted, most on low-level trespassing stuff. There are people being held by judges for various reasons. denied bail. Anyway, the Epps thing, you're never going to get to the bottom of it unless

Epps sues Fox News and Tucker Carlson, it can be depositions. It looks to me like Epps setting himself up because of his appearance on 60 Minutes to do that. Dr. Alex Sosenko, I used to watch Fox News. However, in the past year, Tucker Carson has turned me off because of his views on Ukraine. My parents fled Ukraine after World War II to get away from the evil Soviets. Carson Mok Zelenskyy in sides with the Russian point of view. Okay. Glenda. Bill, you've been extremely fair to Tucker. I hope I have. Gone out of my way. Thank you for that. My concern is that conservative voices are being silenced. You know, we're in a minority, but talk radio is still dominated by conservatives.

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