Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Bill On Mark Simone: Presidential Hopefuls For 2020; Dishonest News Media; Hollywood's Political Problems

Episode Date: February 19, 2019

O'Reilly and Simone discuss The . crowded democratic field in the 2020 presidential race, the corrupt nature of modern day news media & the Academy Awards political problems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly, how you doing? Good, Mark. Thanks for having me back. Hey, Bernie Sanders just announced there's a thousand Democratic candidates. If you had to predict right now, don't you predict Donald Trump easily gets reelected? No. No. Nope, it's not going to be easy. The electoral college is heavily weighted toward the Democrats with New York and California right in their category.

Now, Texas is a counterweight for the Republicans, but Florida is always a tough state. I think Trump's got enough juice down there right now to win it, but the economy is everything for Donald Trump. So he's got two more years on the run, and if it turned south, which is possible, Democrats could win. Yeah. So what do you think – I know you think Biden has got – the best shot. But you think he's just staying away, let this circus play out, and then I'll come in? Oh, yeah. I mean, Biden doesn't want any part of Iowa

tramping around New Hampshire. He didn't want to do that, believe me. And he understands that the far left is not going to defeat Donald Trump. So say Kamala Harris gets the nomination. She seems to be the frontrunner now in the far left sweepstakes. She'd have a very hard time. beating Trump, even if the economy wobbled, because these radical people, they get favorable treatment by the press, particularly on television, New York Times, Washington Post.

But people all over the country don't want a huge disruption in their lives, which is what the Democratic Party is telling them is going to have to happen to save us all from drowning because of global warming. And they're not going to buy that. I mean, they're not going to say, look, I don't want to have to. saw my car. I don't want to have to, you know, refit my home. I don't want to have to do all these things. And this is what you're demanding I do. So the far left got a very slim chance of winning, and Biden knows that. So Biden just going to basically tread water and hope the

party comes to him. Yeah. Well, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out these original 20 candidates, what happens to them. Hey, Bill O'Reilly, you were one of the top reporters at CBS News. Would you explain to me what the hell is going on there? Did you watch this Scott Pelly last night or Sunday night? Talk about the McCabe's Sterling record. He was fired in disgrace. Well, I actually did my best work at W-CBS Channel 2 in New York.

And then I went to CBS News for a little while and covered the wars in El Salvador and then the Falkland Island situation. I didn't really feel comfortable working for. Dan Rather and that crew that he had around him. So I didn't stay very long. But then I went back and worked network news for ABC News. And I did pretty well with Peter Jennings. Now, what's happened to the network news is that no longer is it independent from the corporation. So when I work for CBS, CBS was autonomous, did not answer to the corporation that owned it. Same thing with ABC. Now, CBS is absolutely corporate, and ABC is run by Disney, and Disney calls a shots. Do you

know, and do your listeners know, that the view is an ABC news production? It's hard to believe. It's under the news banner. And so you don't have any standards that you used to have of reportage or who does what. It's just a hodgepodge. So when you see Scott Pelly and McCabe, now Pelley, he's a proficient reporter. And 60 Minutes is still the best of all the news programs. But I didn't watch it because I knew what it was going to be. It was a promotion from McCabe's book. He was getting it on and just spout this

propaganda and that Pelley would slap him around a little bit, but it wasn't going to be confrontational. It's exactly what happened. No, he didn't slap him around at all. He said a sterling reputation when he talked about Mueller, he said already six people from the campaign have been convicted. He never mentioned

that they haven't... Thank you for pointing that out. I didn't know that. Again, I didn't see it. I would would have assumed that Pelley would throw a few in, but it is clear to everyone that the networks don't like Donald Trump, and they want them out. There is a brilliant column, and I have it posted on bill O'Reilly.com, and you may even want to post this column as well, by Victor Davis Hanson, who is the best columnist in America. He's better than I am, Simone.

Wow. He's better than me. I don't know about that. He's a brilliant, brilliant man. And he, yesterday, just dissects the whole media and political opposition resistance to Trump. It's brilliant in one column. And so if anybody ever had any doubts about the media being against Trump, please read this column. And it's all facts, fact after fact after fact after fact.

And he does get into McCabe. he gets into the FBI as well. Wow. And you go to Bill O'Reilly.com, you've got it posted there. Yes. We got the link to it. And it really, if anybody cares about their country, these are the things you have to read. And you have to know about.

Facts. And I mean, it was this Chicago guy, Smollant, is that a name? Smollett. Yeah. This is instructive, not because of what he did. I feel bad for this guy because he's got a. be insane. But because of how the media handled it. And then did you see yesterday that that clown on CNN, the media reporter, comes out and says, oh, no, the national news, they reported this

bullet story very professionally. There, they were. And I'm saying to myself, are you kidding me? I mean, everybody in the country knows that the media blew that story and that it was, no skepticism was brought to it at all, except for the local Chicago media. They did their job, but not the national media. Even that Allison Camerada said at CNN said, we were skeptical from the start. She was told to say that. She was ordered to say it. And that's what I'm talking about. The corporations order their people to say stuff.

That never used to happen in the news industry. As soon as she said that, that's an order. She was mandated to say it. She came into work. They said, Allison, you have to do this. You have to say this. And of course, Allison did. Hey, Bill O'Reilly, you did this great speech for us last week.

Big Charity Luncheon raised a fortune. But remember you said it used to be like 20 media companies. Now six control everything. Yes. There used to be 50 media companies controlling 90. percent of the national news. Now there are six. And because the power is so concentrated in those six corporations, they can destroy people with a snap of a finger. And the only person they haven't been able to destroy is the most powerful person on earth, Donald Trump. But they've come

close. And it is an ongoing campaign. So if these corporations decide to take you out, they're going to take you out and that's what Lara Logan the CBS correspondent said yesterday said that you know if you go against the corporate wisdom if you challenge what they're doing they'll destroy

you yeah Lara Logan came out and said that and she said I'm probably committing career suicide so why do you think she did her career isn't really on a good track anyway at CBS but I know her and she is one of the best most courageous reporters

quarters America has. And so when she says something, people should listen. Yeah. Hey, Bill O'Reilly's book, Killing the SS, this is his latest book. It's riveting. It is, you know, you read this book. No book would ever make a better movie, like a Spielberg movie or something. But, you know, because you're a Trump friend or whatever, oh, they don't want to touch this book.

Meantime, they're making movies about Dick Cheney, how evil he is. This would be the perfect film. No, that was good. Hollywood is a tough situation right now because of Netflix and Amazon Prime and all of stuff that will make a lot of stuff next week when you have me back

how much time we have Mark We got about two minutes Okay The Academy Awards are Sunday night nobody's going to watch Nobody will host it because of the Twitter mob All right so no entertainment person is going to host You remember Bob Hope used to do it Johnny Carson did it

Now I can't get they can't get anybody from Masterpiece Theater. Nobody will do it. Okay? They might get this guy Smolet. I heard he might bring him in the host. All right. So they don't have a host.

Just think about that. So the best movie of the year is this green book. Have you seen this? It's a great film. Okay. Now, the far left hates the movie because a white guy helps a black guy. And they become friends. They hate that because that wipes out the white supremacy.

It wipes out all of the bias that they far left wants to inject into this country. All right? So there is a struggle between the older Academy voters who have to recognize what a good film this is, and then the younger ones who don't care what a good film is, they vote ideology. I suspect that Green Book has a chance because of the older Academy Award voters. But if it does not win, it's because of politics. Well, you want to read a great book. I mean, a really riveting book.

The Killing Series, already the biggest best-selling nonfiction series, but killing the SS, the latest, is such a dramatic, interesting book. And you're working on the new book about Donald Trump. When will we say? Yeah, I've got to write a thousand words a day. So pray for me. I'm knocking out a thousand words a day. But what we found out about the president, this is a history book, is on.

Unbelievable. That's all I can tell you. It'll be out in September. It's going to be great. Hey, if you want to watch Bill O'Reilly show tonight, if you want to read the column, if you want to see the message of the day, go to Bill O'Reilly.com. Sign up there, too. Bill O'Reilly. You get everything there. Bill O'Reilly, thanks for being with us. Okay, Mark. Always a pleasure. Thank you. All right. Take care.