Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Biden Promoting Racial Divide, San Francisco's Reparations Proposal, Former NAACP Leader Ben Jealous, Howard Stern Accuses Bill of Lying, & More

Episode Date: January 18, 2023

Tonight's rundown:  Talking Points Memo: Bill fact checks President Biden's Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech. Is the President demagoguing the civil rights icon? The city of San Francisco is proposing giving reparations to African Americans residents, including $5 million and debt forgiveness Former NAACP leader Ben Jealous joins the No Spin News Radio host Howard Stern accuses Bill of lying This Day in History: Prohibition goes into effect Final Thought: Tom Brady   In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, "Blame Mexico" Let your people know you're a No Spin guy or gal! Get the new No Spin Mug at BillOReilly.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Tuesday, January 17, 2023, stand up for your country. Now, my message of the day, which we post each morning on Bill O'Reilly.com, it's free, and we hope you go in and read it every day, is basically. I'm basically expanding on what I said last night on this broadcast that I'm starting to personally dislike President Biden. And I feel bad about that. No other president that I've covered. And I go all the way back covering presidents until Jimmy Carter. And I've never disliked any of them personally.

But Joe Biden is doing things that he shouldn't be doing. And they're hurting all of us. all of us, and that's the subject of this evening's talking points memo. So yesterday we covered Martin Luther King Day, and we said that Mr. King, Dr. King, Reverend King, was a heroic man, which is true. He deserves his federal holiday because it shows respect for 13% of the population, African Americans. No to nothing wrong with. There's no downside there. Okay. We also said that politicians, some of them, exploit the holiday. And by doing so, exploit Dr. King. So Joe Biden gave a speech, in fact, a couple of speeches. But on Dr. King's federal holiday,

he said this. Go. The unemployment rate is the lowest has been in 50 years, and black unemployment is near record lows. Wages for black workers are up. Two strong years ever for small business creation, including black small businesses. Across the board, American families have a bit more breathing room. More black Americans having health insurance than ever in American history. Okay, so we fact-checked that, and here we go. Mr. Biden says the unemployment rate is the lowest, it's been in 50 years. Not true. Okay, under Donald Trump, the unemployment rate was two times, okay, two times it hit the same rate, 3.5%.

Hard to go below that because there are people who basically can't work and they leave the work force and they collect unemployment. Unemployment rate under Donald Trump was 3.5 in September 19 and January 2020 is from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. President Biden also says that the current unemployment rate for blacks, 5.7 percent, is near record lows. Well, it was 5.3 percent under Donald Trump. So I'm not going to quibble about 0.4 percent, but it's a substantial number. So Mr. Biden wasn't trying to be fair there. He was trying to say, And nobody's going to fact check them, unlike Donald Trump. Washington Post fact-checked everything that Trump said.

In fact, in a dishonest way, often. Nobody tracks what Joe Biden says. Isn't that interesting? Second soundbite, roll the tape. I reduced the deficit last year, $350 billion. And this year, federal deficit is down, $1 trillion-plus. Hear me. That's the fact. Well, the federal deficit did fall by $1.4 trillion last year when Biden was president.

It did. So what he said is true. But he didn't tell you why. Because all the COVID entitlement stopped. It was nothing that Biden did. It was that the emergency COVID relief, and you know it, you might have gotten a check on employees. employment, small business, on and on and on and on. All that ceased. So all the COVID money went into reducing the deficit. In fact, it was more, it was, the deficit was reduced 104 percent. And it was all COVID money, every bit of it. Spending under President Biden, non-COVID spending is the highest ever been under any prison. Okay, so it's a ruse. And Biden knows nobody's going to check them.

Nobody's going to say, well, yeah, it's true, all right? You did reduce the deficit, but it wasn't because of your policies. You were sitting in the Oval Office, but it expired. all the COVID spending that Congress passed to save people's livelihoods and businesses expired. Did you know that? Does anybody know that? No. So when I see this kind of stuff, and believe me, Biden's not the only one that does this. They all, all these politicians, I don't know of any politician that doesn't take things out of context in order to boost themselves up. I mean, it's just happened. But at this level, all right, to try to convince African Americans in particular

that you're better off under Biden than you were under Trump, remember African Americans, generally speaking, don't like Donald Trump. It's not true economically. It's not, all right? Real wages, which is the indicator in this country of prosperity for all in all colors, are down under Biden because of inflation, where they were up under Trump. It's a seven-point swing to the negative under Biden because of the astronomical inflation. So when you hear statistics, and I needed 24 hours to check all this because I wanted to get it right. okay so that's the memo now joe biden's schedule he meets with uh the prime minister of the netherlands today actually there's a fairly important meeting because the netherlands is sending china

selling to the chinese high-tech stuff and uh the west nado does not want that and netherlands is a part of nato so i uh you know that's not some frivolous meeting about cheese The Netherlands is going to stop it? I don't know. And then the Golden State Warriors, perhaps the most left-wing sports team in the country, will meet with the president at 2.45 this afternoon. It's already happened. Of course, you're watching this in the evening because they won the championship,

the NBA championship of the last year. So that ought to be a love fest there, which is fine. I don't have any problem with that. Okay. So Thursday, the president goes to California. Another thing that he should do, I mean, the rain and snow in California is devastating that state. And he'll, you know, do the tour, just like he did the tour in El Paso. And he'll get out of there. And then he'll fundraise. I can guarantee he'll do a fundraiser there of some kind. But California, we feel very bad for the folks. I mean, they never get a break out there. Every year, it's something either. or mudslides or rain, I mean, it just, you know, one of the most beautiful places in the world, but they just get pounded. All right. Now, on Friday, the government can't borrow any more money.

So this is going to be big, and it's boring. I know it's boring. I'm going to try to make it interesting for you. So right now, the national debt, what the USA owes, is $31.4 trillion. dollars. Democratic Party doesn't want any spending limits at all. None. Okay, they want to borrow as much money as they possibly can borrow. Republicans want, as you saw with the House and the McCarthy hearings, they want discipline spending. So now Congress has got to approve on Friday it begins a new borrowing ceiling, a higher debt ceiling.

So the government continue to borrow money to pay its debts. What are its debts? Its debts are when you buy a government bond, the government has to pay your money. Okay? And in certain expenditures, there's more going out than coming in. Now, it doesn't affect Social Security or Medicare or many, many other things. Because as long as the government has tax dollars at a certain level, it can spend that level. but it can't borrow more than the tax revenue that's coming in unless Congress approves.

So this is a brawl. Okay? Now, 36% of all the Biden spending is what they call discretionary. That means that can be cut. That's just opinion stuff, like the $3 million jogging trail in Georgia named for Michelle Obama. Do we really need that? I mean, come on. And I'm just picking on the former first lady because it's so egregious, so ridiculous.

And there's a million of those. Okay, they're just everywhere. It's called pork. You bring the pork back. Okay, so the Republicans are going to have to say, you want us to raise the debt ceiling? You got to cut. You got to cut, and we've got to have the cuts in writing. It's going to be a brawl, a bloody brawl.

And then the scare taxis come out, you're not going to get your Social Security, you're not going to get your Medicare, all that's going to come. We are here every day on radio and television to correct the record. Okay, look, the more money the government borrows, the deeper in debt this country goes, the less your dollars are worth, that is inflation. it's got to stop. We have to start living within our means. This country or disaster will happen. San Francisco. The African American Reparations Advisory Committee has issued its suggestions $5 million cash for blacks who live in San Francisco. And there's a number of They have to be born between 1940 and 96. They have to live there for 13 years.

A lot of stuff. Blacks make up 5%, just 5% of San Francisco's population. And we're not talking about an awful lot of people here, but $5 million cash ahead plus all debt forgiveness, your home mortgage, anything you have. That's what they want, okay? The reparations in San Francisco. Well, who pays for that?

The taxpayers. They just don't pull money out of the air. So everybody who lives in San Francisco, the city limits, their tax money is going to have to go for that. And San Francisco gets federal money. So people who don't live there, we pay tax to Washington. Washington diverts some of that money in San Francisco for various reasons. They do that for every big city. So that money would go there.

Now, it's brutally unfair because current taxpayers, nothing to do with slavery. Those is unfair. So what you're doing is you're taking a historical wrong that resonates throughout this country even today, and that's all legitimate. And then you're punishing innocent people. No. Not the way America is supposed to work. No. And if this was ever passed on a national level, this would set back race relations 100 years. The anger would be that palpable. Even people who sympathize and who want the best for African Americans, okay, would be angry. Not all of them, but many of them. So I wanted a guest to address this and a lot of other things on a race level. And who

better to do that than Ben Jealous, who is the author of the brand new book, Never Forget, Our People Were Always Free, A Parable of American Healing Just Out. I recommend the book. He is the former president CEO of People for the American Way, a left-wing group. You might know it. He is a Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, comes to us from Baltimore, Maryland. Before we get into your book, what about the reparations in San Francisco? Would you sign on to that? Now, I don't know enough about it. What I do know is that when you have an institution like Georgetown University, where there

are specific people who are harmed, there's an institution that benefited. They sold off slaves in order to keep the university afloat at one point. and they've sought to make reparation, it's easier for people to understand. I think that it would be easier for people to understand, for example, if it was an insurance company or even Levi Strauss that profited off of slavery in some way, that's a very wealthy company today, and part of that, it has to do with the exploitations of certain families, even though it was a long time ago the wealth indoors.

So what I found is that when you're talking about reparations bill, the more specific you can be, the more there's a continuity of wealth, the easier it is. I think it's harder to make that argument with a city government. I don't know the facts. I know whether it's bad or good. But what I told you, Mr. Jolest, are the facts. I mean, I don't think it's going to happen. I don't think, you know, there'll be a lot of legal challenges to this. But if you're going to try to correct, let's use you that word, historical atrocities across the board, it never ends. It just never I mean, my people in County, Cabin, Ireland, had their land seized, seized by the British crown.

Okay? And that led to the death of the patriarch and the expulsion of two 16-year-old boys who had to take a voyage and work on a death ship by throwing corpses into the Atlantic Ocean to get to the United States because their mother couldn't feed them. So, yeah, London owes the O'Reilly family. big. But every family, I'll submit to you, has stories like that all over the world. I'm not diminishing, you know, slavery is the top of the chart. There's no doubt about that. And people did a benefit economically. That was what it was all about. Okay. However, right now, we're innocent of that. The people who live here now and exist now and pay taxes now, we're innocent of that. The blood is not on our hands. Would you agree? What I'm saying is that the, what was missing from the facts that you set up was what the

specific argument is in San Francisco. I don't know what it is. It's the same argument. For example, you just said that Georgetown was giving references. I understand the Georgetown thing. But we didn't know that, yeah, exactly. But that's what I'm saying is that the specifics matter and without knowing it, I have no idea. All right.

But it's easy. Just you could research in two seconds and believe me when I tell you, the city of San Francisco, in the past in history discriminated against African Americans. That's what it is. Georgetown is a private institution. If Georgetown wants to make restitution because of what the college did to slaves, I don't have a problem with that, okay? But I have a problem with forcing taxpayers to fund historical atrocities at this point. All right, let's move ahead to your book. So I like what you're trying to do here, even though you and I are on the opposite side. of the political spectrum, I like what you're trying to do. You're trying to bring Americans

together to solve problems in the racial area. But what, and I looked at your book, I didn't read at all, but I looked at it. The main problem in the African American community, as I see it, is the dissolution of the family. And that leads to positive. poverty and crime and all kinds of antisocial behavior with the father absent. And I think that should be in the forefront of trying to get this rip between blacks and whites and everybody else solved. Am I wrong? What I would say is that there's a parallel problem amongst poor whites and poor whites are almost invisible.

So one of the things I talk about in my book is when we actually make the problems facing and poor whites visible. As an American family, we tend to come together and figure out how to solve them. An example of that would be addiction to heroin and to pills, you have to pain colors containing similar drugs. And when you have that scourge of opiate addiction, for a long time in Baltimore,

all the images were black people, even though quietly folks knew there were a lot of white folks dying. We talked about it as a criminal problem, lock them up, And then something happened. In the Mid-South and the Midwest, frankly, sheriffs were burying a lot of people. We talked to them anecdotally, but they went to high school. And they started to publish the faces of the corpses. And the faces of the corpses look like the country as a whole because drug addiction is fairly constant across racial groups in our society.

And as soon as you start seeing white faces, people dying from opioid addiction to the policy shifted. It went from let's lock them all up to this is a problem of addiction. It's a health problem. Let's send them to rehab. So the invisibility of the white poor, it used to be the black poor that were invisible during, say, the Great Depression. The invisibility of the white poor, who are the largest group, leads to skewed responses because people who don't see people who look like they're reflected in the meeting. Yeah, but that's because whites are the majority in the country. I mean, blacks are 13%.

So always the majority is a bigger megaphone. And the methamphetamine. But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, please, just as a community organizer, is somebody who's organized. behind bars. Like, white inmates are invisible, too. All right. That may be true. We have a tendency. And what I'm saying is that those numbers matter. There's 8 million or so blacks in poverty. There's 16 million whites in poverty. Honestly, I have people in poverty in both sides of my family, white and black. And the invisibility of the white core

constrains, frankly, the political imagination about the problem and therefore the solutions. But there's only so much the government can do about poverty. Unless you want to have, you know, a socialist system, which is with the far left. I mean, I'm a venture capitalist by trade, right? Like, what I do is I grow companies. I've done that for eight years. Okay. But then you know, you know, poverty is driven by behavior.

That's what drives poverty. The lack of education is number one. People don't get educated. Well, they can't do anything. Well, there's 24,000 factories going to China. Right. All right. But that's not the main.

We have almost full employment here. Well, I mean, yeah, but it's different. It's different. You know, I live in Pasadena, Maryland, very conservative community. This community started as vacation homes for factory workers in South Baltimore. That's, you know, or from South Baltimore. But when Bethlehem Steel shut down in Baltimore, it wasn't just South Baltimore that got unemployed. It's full, poor white folks.

But it's West Baltimore where my family is from. And so all I'm saying is that, like, we've got to have jobs in this country. I think you would agree for men who didn't go to college and in the white community But the jobs are there. We have a lot of kids. The jobs are there. If you want to make money in America, you can make money. I mean, just being an Uber driver, Ben.

I mean, you can pull in $70,000 a year. I'm going to go back to the cultural driver of poverty is the failure of families. It's not a government failure in America. It's a personal failure. The parental, and this stems across all colors. Absolutely, you're right on that. But when 72% of African-American babies are born out of wedlock, and a lot of those fathers split, okay, you got a dastardly problem.

Not you, you, but the country. But nobody talks about it. If you control for socioeconomic status, the white community is much wealthier than the black community. If you just look at the poor of all colors, you see very, very similar problems. One of the stories I talk about in my book is a man I was flying next to on Delta Airlines.

He had a Confederate flag over his heart. A bright red shirt, this was like 2010. And, you know, it was head of the NAACP and the guy next thing is a fire flag over his heart. It's kind of awkward for a second. But we ended up in a conversation about affirmative action. And we started talking about how much it benefited white women that were the biggest beneficiary areas.

And he cut me off. He said, but Ben, that's not. the problem in my family. He said, I'm wearing this shirt because Ole Miss gave me a shot because I was a football player. He said, I'm pretty much the only man in my family since we came over as part of the Georgia penal colony not to end up in prison. And what are we going to do for the boys in my family? So we ended up talking about mass incarceration. We also talked about the need, frankly, to create a preference. And some universities have this, but not all, for people who are first-time college, people who are coming from a low-income background to help open up the doors.

My dad's family helped start Harvard in 1636. They gave 200 acres for that school. The reality is the back-end class rank literally meant class rank, like not where you were in your academic class, where you were in the social class. How much wealth did you have? We have discriminated against the poor in this society in a way that's profound. And so part of what I'm doing in this book is trying to do with Dr. King did at the end of their life and say, look, race is a wedge. It's used to does tend to divide the poor. King was assassinated, trying to bring the poor back together. And it's really important that we make all the poor visom. I'll have to do you, Ben, if the poor want to improve themselves and move into the middle class

or even the upper wealthy classes, they have an opportunity to do that in this country. But there are certain steps you have to take. And unless the African American community rallies around, the family. The 40s and 50s, the African Americans, had stronger family structures and the whites in this country. The tradition was stronger than the whites, okay? But it collapsed in the 60s. And now it's led to deprivation. Last word. What I would say is that my family is very strong. We invest in education. We've had some privilege on both sides, even though my mom grew up in public housing projects. And we need to make sure that the poor whites and poor blacks are visible, that we tear down the barrier of race between them. So they can assert, frankly, demands

together for better schools for all their kids, for fair pay at work. Yes, I totally believe in education and strong families. We also need to make sure that people get a fair wage for a full day's work. Okay. The book is Never Forget Our People, We're Always Free. been jealous and we appreciate it ben let's talk again soon okay absolutely bill thank you for having me on congresswoman sheila jackson lee has introduced a bill criminalizing conspiracy to commit white supremacy never going to pass um but you know miss lee who i had on a few times and you know um she wants to have uh the federal government go after anything anybody who may participate in any plot or plan or thought that would lead to white supremacy.

Now, you know, I don't know what that means. I don't know anything about it. I don't like white supremacy. I think it's bad. I think that all people are created equal under God. That's Jesus' message. But this is just loopy. All right, police. Last year, the stats are in. 330 police officers shot dead. I mean, shot, shot, not dead. Across the country, that's up 6% from 21. And this is from the National Fraternal Order of Police, 88 ambush-style attacks on law enforcement officers. So, you know, police.

dangerous job always remember that in dc uh the city council now this is interesting the mayor of washington dc is muriel bowser very very left wing woman i mean very left wing she vetoed this bill that soften penalties for carjackings and burglaries and basically is a pro-criminal bill ms bowser vetoed it saying you can't do this it leads to anore But the city council of D.C. is going to override the veto and will have the most lenient punishments for serious crimes like carjacking. I mean, you know, to jack a car, you have to have a person in the car, okay, and pull that person out of the car and take it. That's a carjacking. If you just steal a car, it's a stolen car. So there's a human being involved.

and they want lesser penalties for that insane but there is a very very strong pro-criminal lobby in this country smart life okay here i have a bottle of ice tea and it costs about a buck and a half $1.5.75 in the deli. Okay. The iced tea contains 91% grams of sugar. 91%. 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, popcorn. culture and everything in between. It's what you want from the New York Post

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You know, you get a sandwich, they just open the little thing. I say, let's get some iced tea. This is drinking sugar. You're drinking sugar. Okay, so I'm picking on this place, but they shouldn't be doing it because there are many other iced teas. And here's the thing, you've got to read the label. label. Any more than 25 grams of sugar in any beverage, don't drink it. Don't drink it. There are

good tasting beverages that have a little bit of sugar in it. It's not going to kill you. If you drank a bottle of this every day, you're going to be enormous. You're going to be obese. You can't work it off. You can't. Okay? It's just going to settle into your system. It attacks your immune system, which means you're more susceptible to COVID and everything else, okay? And then you're going to be enormous. And people don't know it. And this drives me crazy because we all saw what the tobacco, anti-tobacco campaigns did. It drove down. Only 20% of Americans smoked cigarettes now. And it was like 55, 60% when I was growing up, my mother smoked gave it up but smoked a lot but once the government got behind smoking's

going to kill you which it will people wise up sugar no because they spend so much money the companies at market and sugars in everything for advertising that the lobbies go don't you say anything bad about sugar don't you do that Oh, driving me crazy. I see so many of my contemporaries going down now or sadly overweight and whatever. And it's because primarily of the drinks and the fast food. Okay? I mean, if you're in that driving line two, three times a week and then you're eating pizza on top of it,

your system can't flush it. But no, we don't get any of that messaging. You think one kid in the country is reading a label on sugar? No. There's a reason why the government compelled all the food companies and beverage companies to put the label on there. Okay? But nobody even publicizes it.

Okay. Media. So Howard Stern is angry with me. Because I went on WABC radio, which I do, you know, frequently, there are a flagship radio station. And I talked about how I attended Boston University and Howard Stern was there. Okay. And I knew who he was because he was the only guy in the school of communication was taller than me. And he had an afro. Okay. So Cern tells his audience yesterday, I'm going to play you the clip in a minute. But put his picture up there. The reason I said he had a fro is,

because he had a fro. There it is. Okay. Now, he says he didn't have it, that he had long stringy hair with a ponytail, but there's the graduation picture, Howard. Now, he gets on the air yesterday, and he rips me up. Go. And he started in again about how he knew me at Boston University, which is just a total line. Why do you even come up? You're not friends with him. You don't know him. I don't know the guy. I don't know. Howard. So on December 8th, 2005, Mr. Stern appeared on the factor.

Go. We're both raised in working class families on Long Island, okay? Stern and O'Reilly. We both wind up at Boston University at the same time. That's right. We're terriers together. Okay. We both reached the top of our professions.

10 million to one shot for me. 800 billion in one shot to me. Now, why am I bothering with this? This kind of stuff gets on social media.

Stern attacks O'Reilly. Sturne calls O'Reilly a liar and all of that. And then it gets into the record. Okay? People believe, they believe this. now stern probably just misremembers okay i'm not i wasn't friends with him at b u i just knew he was i think he knew i was so i was a big columnist for the newspaper there but it didn't matter

he acknowledged that he knew we were there together and then on his program yesterday he goes i don't know the guy uh it's not important other than the pickup by social media. It goes everywhere. So every famous person, every athlete, every politician gets attacked. And even if the attacks are false, boom, it's everywhere. This is a horrendous problem in this country. And that's why I've showed you that. You're saying in a history of January 17th, 1920, prohibition goes into effect.

This was probably the worst law ever in the United States. So it was a convention of states. Everybody goes, where's a convention of states? The states had to ratify the change in the Constitution that booze was banned in the USA, and they did. 46 out of 48 states in 1920 said, we don't want booze. The only states they didn't were Connecticut and Rhode Island.

okay but it didn't matter because the constitutional amendment passed the states and then it was signed into law woodrow wilson was the president so what happened americans didn't stop drinking they just bought the booze from al capone and the gangsters who formed families to sell booze and then when prohibition was repealed in 1933 remember 13 years of this okay the organized crime families went to narcotics and gambling and other things because the structure was already there and that happened the prohibition 103 years ago today right now 70% of all americans are regular drinkers okay um 25% don't drink at all and between six and 10 are addicted to alcohol Now, and a final thought on Tom Brady.

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All right, let's go to the mail, Jorge DiAndor, Chihuahua, Mexico. Bill, as usual, you will write about your comments on Mexico. However, I want to point out a couple of things. In order to have the cartel smuggle, there has to be a demand for drugs in the USA, which Mexico did not create. and drugs are not distributed in the U.S. by themselves, someone doesn't. Correct on both points, Jorge, okay? We are responsible, we, the United States of America, for buying narcotics, which causes violence and death all over the place.

So the individual people who buy narcotics contribute to the death. No doubt. As far as the distribution is concerned, we have laws that you have to make cases, against these cartels and organizations, crime organizations in this country. It takes time to do that. And now with the pro-criminal thing we have going on here, we're selling heroin and methamphetamine and even fentanyl isn't considered a violent crime or a terrible crime, we got a huge problem.

So you are correct. Michael, drug cartels are the enemy of the U.S. and should be destroyed by force. That would mean we would have to go to semi-war with Mexico. But I agree the Patriot Act should be enforced. Cartel should be designated terrorists, and we should go and get them. That's for sure. Henry, who's the most responsible for the drug mess, the buyer or the seller? The seller, the pusher.

Okay? The buyer is weak. The buyer is wrong. But the pusher is greedy and exploiting the weakness and doesn't care whether the buyer lives or dies. Greg Brozek, New Haven, Connecticut. North Haven, North Haven. Although Dr. King made major strides in civil rights movement, I don't think it should warrant his birthday being a national holiday. The African American community accounts for only 13% of the population.

There are other historical icons who deserve it. I disagree entirely. You are showing respect to the African American community by designating the holiday. Janet, whether you agree that MLK Day should be a holiday or not, what he accomplished from peaceful means deserves to be recognized. And it is. I think it is. Dan, Dr. King preached overcoming hate with love and nonviolence and not judging people by the color of this skin. Sadly, much of what his leadership inspired is being eroded.

it. No doubt about it. No doubt about that. Okay. Let's go to Ricky Croatser, Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Bill, your analysis of TV news being boring is spot on. Wife and I watch a no spin every night. Love the talking points, interviews, mail, final thoughts. Thanks for keeping it straight. If we're boring, you let me know. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com, bill at bill o'Reilly.com, name in town if you wish you upon. Val-Gabitaz, White Mountain, Alaska, from Chihuahua, Mexico to White Mountain Alaska. Hey, Bill, you always refer to Holly as a terror dog. Why do you call her that? When Holly was a puppy, full-bred corgi, wild, crazy dog, she attacked a wooden cabinet.

Holly attacked a wooden cabinet, gnawed on it. Talk about a terra dog. I had to chase his dog all over the place and training her, I almost sent her to special forces camp. Now, of course, she's an adult dog and much better, but she still has a nickname the Terra dog. Okay, we'd like you to go to the billowrilly.com store. We have a great sale there, stock up for gifts. You know you're going to have to give them this year. Get them at a great price, smart life.

Word of the day, no rancor, R-A-N-C-O-R-A-N-C-O-R when writing to the no-spin news. And we will be back with Tom Brady in a moment. So the final thought is about Tom Brady. I know I'm a little. I met him at the Kentucky Derby. He sent me a jersey, signed jersey. I always had nice discussions with him. I felt very bad for him last night when the Dallas Cowboys waxed the 10th

Tampa Bay Bucks. Dallas Better Team. Tampa Bay had a rough year. Brady's 45. It wasn't Brady's fault. But the game is different now. If you're a quarterback, you've got to be mobile. You've got to be able to run. Brady can still throw that ball. But the buck line couldn't protect him. His receivers didn't get open very well. And he stuck back there in the pocket getting hammered. If you see the quarterbacks that are upcoming, they all can move. Okay. It's a different game. And Tom Brady, I don't know what he's going to do. I don't think he'll be back with Tampa.

He may take a shot with another team that's stronger or he might hang it up. Best quarterback ever. Okay, no doubt about it. But last night watching that game, I was sad. Thank you for watching and listening to the no-spin news. We will see you tomorrow.