Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Bill O'Reilly on Ilhan Omar's Accusations Against Trump, and Margaret Brennan's Failure to Challenge

Episode Date: February 11, 2025

Bill O'Reilly reacts to Rep. Ilhan Omar's accusation that Trump's comments on Gaza were genocide and ethnic cleansing, and CBS Face The Nation host Margaret Brennan's failure to challenge her. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thank you for watching our U.S. Thank you for watching our YouTube channel. I have an interesting story to tell you about tonight. It encompasses radical left politics and the media. So you've heard of the squad, right? That's Ocasio Cortez, Ihan Omar, Ilan Omar, probably saying her first name wrong. She's from Minnesota and a whole bunch of others.

Cory Bush in Minnesota, and there's a bunch of them. These are radical left people. All women, interestingly, of the squad. Nancy Pelosi hates them because they wouldn't go along with her. She was too moderate for them. Anyway, when you book someone from the squad, if you're a media person, you know you're going to get a bomb thrower. It's like if you booked Steve Bannon on the right, you know, Steve's going to come in and espouse conservative causes, right?

Now, when you interview ideologues, right or left, the only way to do it in a fair manner is to challenge them. Devil's advocate, they call it. That's a cliche, because you're bringing in somebody with a pronounced point of view. You want to see how much knowledge they have about the subject and if their ideology has any logic to it at all. So you've got to challenge it. It's the opposite of an informational interview where you're getting somebody on television who has a lot of knowledge and you're getting parting that knowledge. an ideological or political interview is trying to sell a policy based on a belief system. It's not informational.

Okay. So Margaret Brennan runs Face the Nation on CBS Sunday Morning Show. She brings in Omar from Minnesota to talk about Trump's vision to rebuild Gaza. Now, as you may know, the president said, look, we got to get the Palestinians out of there because it's rubble. We've got to rebuild it in a responsible way, take advantage of the coastline, and then they come back, and there'd be a lot of jobs and service jobs and things like that. And they come back to an orderly society, not a bombed out rubble where you can't live anyway because there's no electricity or running war. But Trump basically said the United States going to take it over and do this, but that's not happening. Just impossible because there's no one who will take the two million Palestinian refugees, and they don't want to go anyway.

Most of them don't want to go. They're rather live in a rubble and go to Egypt than live in a desert. Okay. Now, Brennan's got to know, number one, that Trump's hyperbola was trying to. to drive home a point where Gaza is never going to get better unless it's rebuilt and you can't rebuild it with two million people there. That's the point. Okay. She also has to know that Omar is not going to agree with that in a extreme way. So Omar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. She came to the United States, became a citizen in year 2000, and she's a congressperson in Minnesota's 5th District.

All right. So here's what Brennan does with Omar. The president said Palestinians would be permanently removed. How do you think this is heard and understood around the world? Well, that's just plain out ethnic cleansing and genocide. That's what he's talking about. about the Palestinian people will remain in Gaza. And there is no support around the world

for the ludicrous suggestion that he is making. Well, he's saying give him a choice to leave, open the gates. Yeah, I'm pretty sure most of the people in Gaza would love to remain in their homeland and be where they're born. Yeah, no running water, no electricity. And bullets flying all over the place. Yeah, let's go there.

We think that's good. You want to go back to Mogadishu, Congresswoman? How about you? You want to go back? Live down there in Somalia again? Of course you wouldn't. So Brennan says that permanently removed, that's out of context. Because Trump's vision is, build it, rebuild it, make it a place that has a structure.

and then the guys come back. So there's number one. Brennan does that. Maybe she's not smart enough to understand. I don't know. And number two, when Omar says ethnic cleansing and genocide, Brennan's got a challenge. But Jennan, she knew that Omar is going to say that

because when you do a television interview and I've done 50,000 of them, 100,000 maybe over my 50-year career? You know what the opposing point of view is going to be. And Omar has said this before. Brennan knew she was going to say it. No pushback. So what is genocide? What is genocidal about going into another location for a couple of years, a refugee camp, whatever it may be, and then coming back to a place that's rebuilt? Where's the genocide there? Do you know? I don't know. I don't No. Does Margaret know? I don't think so. And then ethnic cleansing. What ethnicity are we cleansing because the Palestinians, the Gazans, would go to another Arab country. They'd have to. Because that's where the Middle East is. There's only one non-Arab country in the Middle East, and that's Israel. Where is that? What's ethnic cleansing? What's genocide? Nothing.

You don't get any pushback. Now, I'm not in business to, I don't ever met Margaret Brennan. I don't know anything about her, and I admire her success, because I know how hard it is to build yourself up to a national television program. But I'm a little confused here. It's not, I'm not trying to bash Ms. Brennan. I'm trying to understand Ms. Brennan. So what was your intent here?

to allow Omar to say insane things, that's what your intent was. Are you running Face the Nation to bring crazy people on and let them say anything they want to say? And then you go to a break. Is that the new primer for Face the Nation? Let's get crazy people on. Let's say irresponsible things are not challenged. Is that what we're doing? What are we doing?

Margaret. What are we doing? Now, why is this important? Most people don't watch Face it. They should maybe 2 million see it. It goes out on social media, but, you know, doesn't have a lot of cashier or interest. It used to.

These shows used to have a little bit of influence they don't anymore. But it disturbs me because I'm part of the media industry, and I would like it to be honest. It's all I'm asking for. I don't care what Margaret Brennan believes. The matter she could hate Trump all day long, maybe she loves Trump. I don't know. I don't think she does, but I don't care.

I just want a responsible person on a network broadcast challenging irresponsible statements. Is that crazy? So I'd like to know what you think, bill it, bill o'Reilly.com, bill at bill o'Reilly.com. But I don't want this to be. perceived as a hatchet job against Margaret Brennan. Margaret's invited on my program anytime she wants. Bill O'Reilly.com, as you know, we get TV, we got radio, we got everything. Colum, you name it.

I love to talk to her. She's never in a million years, come on. Never, because she knows. But, boy, would I love to interview her. I might next week bring Bernie Goldberg in because he's an old CBS hand. I think I'll do that. I think I'll do that. Maybe Monday.

A week that would be like, what, 10, 17. Anyway, sum it up, we live in an age of confusion. Part of that is because the television media, which is still powerful, does allow stuff to happen. and they never should. Nobody really cares. Not a lot of responsibility going on on the editorial side anymore. That's the age we live in. That's the country you live in. Other countries aren't any better. You can't go to Sweden and get honest news either. If you ever watch the BBC, you know what they're doing. But here in America, you know, we should be better.