Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Bill O'Reilly on Zombies, Zealots, and Politics

Episode Date: January 24, 2025

Bill O'Reilly talks about people who act like zombies or zealots when it comes to politics, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Are you a zombie or a zealot when it comes to public policy, politics? zombie or zealant, I would say that the majority of Americans fall into one or the other category. The majority. So let's define. A zombie is somebody who doesn't really function, but still alive. Comes out of Haiti, the voodoo culture. They believe in the undead walking around. Now, as far as my definition in politics, a zombie is a person, an American, who doesn't know anything about public policy and doesn't care to know.

Let me give you an example. So I have a lot of people working for me in various capacities. I run three corporations, and then I got two homes, and I mean, I'm a guy that needs help. And I pay well. So you get a lot of people working. I had a guy for a while who was doing a job from me, and he was skilled at the job. And he knew who I was. Didn't watch me on television, didn't listen to WABC, didn't read my books.

He didn't really know what my point of view was. But he would come to the house and he would see all of this stuff about policy. And he would tell people while I worked for Bill O'Reilly, and they go, oh, Bill O'Reilly, Bill O'Reilly, you know, but he didn't know. We're talking about a guy who was, I don't know, 50, 52 kids, and he would ask me questions about certain things that we was interested in. Like gas prices, it was all personal stuff with him, food, you know, and when I would begin to explain, you know, give him an answer to a question, I had 30 seconds to do. do it and then his eyes were just glade over like this like a zombie he couldn't lock in on anything longer than 30 seconds and if I explained it out of the box like well tariffs make prices go up no you didn't know what tariff was is no frame of

reference at all not a college grad and I'm not being snoo duty here, but he didn't know anything. Nothing, except his job, and he was good at his job. And it's all I required. I mean, if you, if you're an American citizen, you have a right under the Constitution to be a moron. That's one of our rights. And, you know, a lot of us practice that. So, didn't want to accumulate any knowledge, didn't want to know anything, and doesn't know anything. Now, he's unprotected. The evils of the world. going to catch you up with him because he doesn't know. So there are a lot of people like that. And most of them aren't stupid, stupid that they couldn't figure it out. They don't want

to. They're involved with whatever they like to do. And, you know, these machines, and you're watching me on one now, they can be very, very good. They help me with research and all and like that, but they can also create a false world. And you can live in that world. You don't have to go out of that world until the bills show up or your house collapses. There's a disaster. So those are the zombies, and they're increasing in number. And you know what I'm talking about, because you guys watching me right now, you're not zombies.

You're watching public affairs programming. You're watching me because I'm delivering commentary on. politics and other things like that, you're interested. And I hope you understand what I'm saying, because I try to keep it as simple as I can, because I'm a simple man. All right, so zombie population, we don't know anything, but, and somebody will tell us how to vote, and then we'll go with what Larry says or what the wife says or what the brother says, and that's what we'll do.

there's the zealots. Now, the zealots are no matter what, and both liberal and conservatives have this crew, no matter what, you're going to support your side. It doesn't matter what what the facts are, who's right, who's wrong, who did this, who did that. You can tell the zealots, well, I mean, they're fairly obvious. If you watch the view, There they are, easy to see. The other side, conservative, traditional side, never has a point, never has anything good. And on the conservative side, you get that not to the same extent. Most conservative people I know are willing to engage, but a lot of liberal people I know,

very bright people. You mentioned Donald Trump, devil. Nothing good, can't do anything good, never has done anything good, devil, devil, devil, devil, devil, devil, devil. And he goes, well, wait a minute, now he improved this, he improved, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And then on the negative side, it's always what about. The Joe Biden disaster, right? Everybody knows that. Even the people who won't admit it, if they're not zombies, they know, have to know.

I mean, it's a catastrophe. Second worst president ever. I back it up 50 different ways in confronting the president. Anyway, whenever you do a Biden analysis, it's just what aboutism. Whenever you hear what aboutism, so they don't, whatever you're talking about, they won't address that. What about this one? That's fifth grade.

I did it in fifth grade, St. Bridget's School. Well, how can be yelling me? Clement just set Melanie on fire. All I did was hit her with a poll. That's what about is a, and that's an epidemic in this country. I don't know, I don't know about this. No, no. You address the topic.

Now, if you want to talk about Clement setting Melanie on fire, okay, but you don't excuse me hitting Melanie with a poll. He's talking about Clement set her on fire. You got it? And it's everywhere, everywhere. Media loves what aboutism. Whoa, that's that thing. And politicians do it too. They can't defend their positions.

So they go, all right, right. Okay. So when you have an electorate, and thank God the folks figured it out, and the reason the folks figured it out in November wasn't because of Donald Trump. Everybody thinks it was. But you got to give Trump credit. He worked as hard as any human being. could have. I think he's the hardest working presidential candidate in history. There's nobody

even close to him. And hard work pays off. But it wasn't so much about Trump. It was about I am getting hammered financially. And Biden is clueless and can't help me. And Trump, when he was president, wasn't nearly as bad. That was the equation. It was so simple. that even the zombies could figure it out. That's why Trump won. The other stuff helped, they've migration and all that. Yeah, but basically it came down to people were suffering. They don't have any money.

You don't have any money, you're powerless. The bad guys will come and hurt you. You don't have any money. It's it. Every school in the country should be teaching that, but of course they don't. So when you have the combination of zealots and zombies, the Z crew, overwhelming the rest of us who really want an honest appraisal of our country. I do.

That's why you're watching me. I'm going to tell you the truth. I don't care where the truth lies. I don't. You know that. I've been doing this a long, long time. I've been successful in every venture I've ever done. Because I'm simple.

I'm going to tell you the truth. And we're going to work hard to find the truth. and we're going to back up what we say. And that's why. And people go, okay, I might not like hearing it. You don't have to like hearing it. When Donald Trump makes a mistake, because I voted for him, I don't like it.

I don't like the fact that he made the mistake. I wish he wouldn't make any mistakes, but people make mistakes. But I'm not going to hide it. That's dishonest. I wouldn't do that. but the zealots would and the zombies wouldn't even hear it keep that in mind going forward

because there's a lot of things going to happen this year a lot of good a lot of bad keep your eye on President Biden bad things coming down a road for him thank you for listening we'll see you next time