Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Cancel Culture Takes Strong Hold of the United States; The End of Ted Cruz & Hatred Now Widely Accepted in America

Episode Date: February 23, 2021

Tonight’s rundown:   The dangers of cancel culture in the United States present day—and where the entire situation stemmed from.  Step on a college campus and you’ll likely hear of something or someone being canceled. How to fight back against this plague.   You cannot destroy the entire energy industry because of a theory and the situation in Texas proves that.  Is Senator Ted Cruz finished in politics?  Three states have topped $3 for a gallon of regular gasoline and the prices will keep rising.  What has changed in America to allow hatred to be so widely accepted? Psychotherapist Dr. Lisa Palmer opines.  The Supreme Court declined to halt the turnover of Donald Trump’s tax returns to New York state prosecutor.  Andrew Cuomo’s woes continue to climb and even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now piling onto the Governor.  This Day in History: February 22, 1980: Miracle on Ice.  Final Thought: Independence Fund recipient explains the impact the track chair has had on his life.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here, welcome to the No Spin News, February 22, 2021, stand up for your country. So I'm going to lead this broadcast tonight with something different. Nobody else will do this. But it's a problem that I see affecting all of us and harming the country. country in a very big way. And that's a cancel culture. And this needs to be exposed. And the only way this is going to stop is for good American people, which I believe is a majority, to stand up against it. So what we're talking about here is primarily a due process denial. So I'm not going to bore you with a bunch of history, but I'll just give you 20 seconds. The reason that the colonists

fought England and King George was because there was no due process here. You've heard no taxation without representation. Remember that? You know, in school? What that meant was the colonists in America really didn't have any say about their lives. The king said, hey, you're going to do this or else. And the king can take away your property. He could take away your life. He could do whatever he wanted to do. America said, now, we're not, we don't want to live that way. So we're going to fight. And they did, eight years. So if you read Killing England, you'll get the whole picture. But we fought primarily to have a fairness, a sense of fairness and justice in this country. Now the canceled culture is threatening that. And it's worse, far worse, than you even know. So you'll remember that Simon & Schuster, the major publishing house, canceled Senator Josh Holley. Lee's book, because Hawley believed there was election fraud. That's why his book was canceled by Simon & Schuster, because of his belief that there was

election fraud. Is Senator Hawley not entitled to that belief? Are you not entitled to it? Apparently, if you were Simon & Schuster, you're not. We're going to punish you if you hold that belief. Now, I'm not arguing Senator Hawley was right or wrong or what he was doing was correct politically. I'm not arguing any of that.

I'm arguing he's an American, he has a right to his belief, and not to be canceled, harmed by Simon & Schuster. The Paramount Network canceled the show cops after the George Floyd incident. The whole show went. People lost jobs, and the show was successful. And all it did was portray the American police in real time. Gone, Paramount. Okay? We don't want it anymore. Just the other day, Lucasfilm, that's Disney, and Disney is the worst corporation in the cancel culture. And do you know what they're doing in the Muppets?

I'll tell you in a little while. Disney's the worst of all of them. Just so you know, if you want to drop a couple of grand a day at Disney World, you might think about that. Okay, so Disney cancels this actress, Gina Carrano. You've heard it. You've heard this story. I don't have to get into it. Now, Ms. Carrano is an immature thinker.

There's no doubt she is. You don't compare Nazi atrocities to the political climate in America. You can't do that. That's immature. That's what it is. And so many people lost loved ones in World War II and the Holocaust. But it's not that she's malicious, Ms. Carrano. She's just immature.

Fired on a spot by Disney. and the Mandalorian actress basically looking around, I don't think she even knows what happened to her. Canceled. Disney. Okay, so I could give you 500 more that you get the picture, right? Freedom of thought, expression can lead to your personal destruction. And I'm not even getting into people who are accused of stuff. Because as soon as the media gets at, bang.

Page one. Bang, lead story on cable. And guess you knew, I didn't do it. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. You're gone. Now, the bad guys know that. Bad guys know it. But here's something very interesting. Both Joe Biden and Donald Trump were accused of misbehavior, personal misbehavior. Trump got blown up all over the place. Biden? No. media tamped it down okay so we live in a world where the cancel culture is now being used politically but the corporations are behind it they're behind it because they're boycotting they're pulling sponsorship they're just because of expression and the far left progressive media knows that so they can gin up anything you make up anything they want you say well okay you could sue

if you're famous you can't not in america can't because there's a threshold a level that if you are a public figure you don't have any rights they can say whatever they want about you once in a while a famous person will win a lawsuit cost them millions of dollars to do it Clint eastwood won one-one i remember but very very rare in great britain you can't they don't have that threshold but not here so there are celebrities who traffic in this all right in the cancel culture alice milano ridiculous jim carey rob riner chrissey teagan i don't even know what chrissey tegan does why is she famous but anyway they they love this and there are more okay and i and when they do it from now on i'm going to tell you who they are and what they're doing but these are just four

that are always doing this crazy stuff, always trying to get people punished if they disagree with them. So when you have an essential part of this country, freedom of expression, freedom of thought, when you have that under fire, you got a problem. Because there are no politicians that I know fighting about this. Nobody introducing legislation in Congress. They should. They should, they're not, why they're afraid. Because nobody's perfect. Everybody has done bad stuff in their lives. And you know if you bring yourself up and fight these people are going to come after you.

I'd deal with it for more than 20 years every day. Okay? So we are looking at a country where our right to do process, which means you are are innocent until proven guilty see in england you weren't if the king said you were guilty you were guilty now if the media says you're guilty you're guilty so the media has replaced king george so you're getting us now let me bring it down even further we have a campaign here called stand up for your country all right we got mugs you get hats we got uh signs stand up for your country be proud of your country you don't need to kneel right there are people and

I have stacks of letters who are afraid to put the bumper sticker on their car or put the sign on their house or buy the mat. They're afraid to do that, to say something as simple as stand up for your country. Because they don't want to be canceled. They don't want to be hurt. They don't want to be attacked. And they fear they may be. Now, once it gets to that level where you can't even say stand up for your country, you're afraid to say that. do you see do you see how awful this is think fast who in the press is fighting this

who what celebrity is fighting it Hollywood can't fight you work you will if you stuck up for Gina Carrano you're not gonna get a job you're out and those corporations as soon as that flood comes in from the progressive websites to Mercedes-Benz or Marriott Hotel or whatever it may be. Both. Oh, we're not going to sponsor that. Not going to go on that show. Mm-mm.

They all know it. The bad guys know it. The totalitarians know it. They know that our freedoms, our essential freedoms, are very vulnerable. Are very vulnerable. This is the cancel culture. Now, going forward every day we're going to have a segment on the canceled culture, every blanken day, because that's how important I feel this is.

We are going to name the names of the people who are doing this stuff. I'm not going to call for any boycotts. I don't do what they do. All right? I'm not going to do that. I'm going to tell you exactly what's happening, fact-based, and then you can make up your own mind. That's our lead story tonight. One of the worst places in the country for the cancel culture of college campuses.

It's way out of control. So at the University of Connecticut, there is a student body, okay? A student body council, I should say. Of course, there's a student body. Student body count. And the president is a guy named Michael Hernandez. Okay? Okay. And Hernandez, Mr. Hernandez, came out and said, we are not going to, we, the student government, are not going to endorse defunding the Yukon police.

We need the police here to protect us. This is a logical position. The president of the student body said they want to cancel them. You're after them. Okay? Because he disagrees with defunding the police. on the campus of Yukon. So all these students are petitions, threats, all of this against Mike Hernandez. Now, University of Washington, all right, outside of Seattle, guess what they want to do, tear down the statue of George Washington, okay, which had been up since 1909. So the University of Washington, named after George Washington, the state of Washington wants to tear that down. Who wants to do it? The black student union. They want to do it.

Why? Because Washington was a white supremacist who owned slaves according to them. Now, if you read Killing England, the reason we have freedom of expression and thought is because of George Washington. The reason the black student union at the University of Washington can do this is because of George. But they want to cancel George. It's out of control. Do we all getting it? I think we all are.

If any of you disagree with me, you've got millions of people watching me and listening to me on the radio. If any of you disagree, please send me a letter. I'll protect your name. I won't read your name. Because this is, I think, I think 70% of the American people, people are on my side. You got 30% who are totalitarians, but I think 70% are on my side. Doesn't matter whether you're conservative or liberal. You've got to see the danger. Got to see it. All right, Texas. So I've been researching this thing. And it is not true

that the wind turbines were responsible for the power outages. It was a combo of fossil fuels and the wind, the turbines freezing up because they didn't have backup for it, the state. State of Texas is powered by natural gas, 51%, wind, 25%, coal, 13%, nuke, 5%, solar, 4%. So when the wind turbines froze, so did the natural gas lines. Boom, it all collapsed. And Texas was without power. for a better part of a week. All 254 Texas counties were involved with this. 70 people dead. Some of them froze death in their own homes. So what's the lesson here? You don't dismantle

your fossil fuel industry until you have a guaranteed alternative power grid. Guaranteed. That's going to take a lot of years. See, I don't mind a wind in the solar. I think we're going to need it. But the technology is not quite there. We do it simultaneously. You don't knock out the fossil fuels or people are going to die, just like they did in Texas. I think that's a fair analysis.

You know, it's this Green New Deal. This is going to reap destruction on this country, like you haven't seen, two years from now. I'll replay this tape. this Green New Deal thing? Because Biden, totally out of it. He doesn't know what the deuce is going on. He doesn't know. I'm convinced now that he has no clue. He's just doing what they tell him to do. Who's they? The progressive advisors, the Obama people. Okay, so that's what happened in Texas. So Ted Cruz, the senator of the state, 50 years old, in his second term, but he didn't win very easily

second term. Cruz is a controversial guy. So his kids, tell him, hey, dad, you know, in spring break, can you take us down to Cancun, Mexico? And Cruz says, yeah. And then they go. Now, Cruz should have known better. I'm not going to hammer them. Everybody else is. I don't need to pile on Ted Cruz. But the optics of that is impossible. Got 70 people dead in your state because you don't have power and you are flying out of Texas going to Cancun? And you're one of the most powerful people in the state? No. So Cruz obviously is in trouble. Whoever wants to run against him again, he got that Beto O'Rourke talk about, but he wants to run. But Cruz is there for five more years.

So his reputation is damage, no doubt about it. So we told you that because Biden is attacking the oil industry, that gas prices are going up, and that's a tax on all of us. Now I told you this before the election. So you elect your Obama. Biden, he's going to come in, he's going to ruin the fossil fuel industry, and we'll all be paying a lot more. So, the latest stats, gas is up about 50 cents a gallon here where I live. Gas prices have gone, oil prices have gone, from $36 a barrel when Biden was elected to $60 now. in a little more in the month okay 36 to 60 said it means every one of us is paying more for gallon gasoline or car and to heat the home or cool the home and that's not going to stop

this time next year I figure about three and a quarter maybe three 40 $3.40 a gallon so in California it's already that it's $3.40 a gallon the average regular guess Hawaii, $3.21. Washington State, $3.10 a gallon. Okay, they're going to be, those states are going to be close to $5. This is a tax. So remember Biden, I don't raise a tax on a working people.

Hey, one month. Because this comes out of the wallet, out of the household budget, and it's not going to stop. There you go. How about China? is not a global warming country. This is according to the Global Energy Monitor, GEM.

They look at stuff all over the world. So China built three times as many new coal power plants last year than the in the world combined. So yeah, we're changing our economy. And I don't mind doing that because we gotta have a cleaner planet. But China's making it dirtier and they're not gonna stop. Now, that's not an excuse for us not to do anything. We should.

But you don't wreck the economy and hurt the people. You do it simultaneously. So over the weekend, the Rush Limba situation still didn't die down. There were a lot of reaction to the hateful coverage of his death. Now, I wrote a letter to my local newspaper, Newsday, and I'm going to read you a letter because newsday did not print my letter. Newsday didn't print it. It wasn't worthy of Newsday. So I'm going to read you the letter. All right. Put it up on the screen. It was troubling to see Newsday's coverage of Rush Limbaugh's debt. The Associated Press so-called hard news article

concentrated on denigrating Mr. Lumbar rather than providing any balance. Then Newsday prints an op-ed piece by a far left guy who wrote a book disparaging the radio host. Is that fair coverage? You know the answer. Well, Newsday often does excellent local reporting. It has largely become a progressive left vehicle. Does that really serve the best interests of Long Islanders, Bill O'Reilly? Okay. So I write the letter. I thought it was a respectful letter. Absolutely true every word of it. Oh, I mean, maybe Newzee goes, well, we're not progressive left, but they are. They wouldn't print it. Why wouldn't they print it? because I basically call them out and you call them out and they didn't want that so in your

paper in your hometown I bet you saw nasty stuff about Rush Limba I bet you did and not to say that you don't do that but you balance you want one hate column against Limbaugh you pull one praise column right all right so what about all its hatred in the country. I mean, it's been around for a while. Five years, I would say, since Donald Trump announced he was going to run for president. In the beginning, they didn't hate Trump that much because they thought he was a clown. He wasn't going to win. But as soon as he got cracks, the hatred came out. Okay, I think the Megan Kelly thing was the first real, vivid display of that. And I write about that in the United States of Trump. I give you exactly

what happened there. If you haven't read that book, you might consider it. So I hate now, as recently, I mean, deafening, it's affecting all of us. And I want to talk to Dr. Lisa Palmer, who's in Palm Beach, Florida. It's a psychotherapist about what is really driving this hatred? Are we in a nasty country? Are we a bunch of thugs in this nation? Dr. Palmer joins us now. So what do you think, Doctor?

Why the sudden rise in hatred, or has it always been here? I actually I think it's always been there and it's gotten worse and this is a very very complex question because it's not just one part bill what you're talking about is what's happening with the individuals first of all intrapersonally in their lives a lot of people are angry they have financial issues they have relationship problems they're really pissed off quite frankly at what's going on in the world they feel their boundaries have been violated so you have all that you have that piece of things. And then you have what's going on culturally, have what's going on in society, you have what's going on with the media, spreading hate, spreading negativity, businesses, profiting, making money off of negativity. So what this is doing, Bill, it's normalizing negativity. It's normalizing hate. And that's where you get this culture of hate, these two parts coming together. Have you seen a big change in your interpersonal relationships with people who come to you to seek advice?

Well, I try to keep my, my therapy out of my personal relationships. And I'll tell you something that when people come to talk to me, not in the therapeutic setting, but in my personal life about politics, I just, no, we're not going there. Because I can tell that they get heated up sometimes and they're going to get me heated up. So definitely I can feel some of the hatred there and that negativity coming up, especially when I don't agree with them. So I try to stay out of politics as much as possible. But I mean, when patients come in and they're wondering about their lives and the challenges they may have or things are going south, are they reacting any differently now than they did say five years ago?

Well, you know, you have a lot of external factors going on right now that are just making everything worse. But what I primarily work with is trauma. And a lot of people are coming into me with PTSD from their lives, stuff that's been going on for, a long, long time, you know, eating disorders, problems with their family, their relatives, financial issues, rape, accidents, major stuff. And any time you have a trauma happen, it really affects somebody emotionally, and they can get very angry. And they have that conflict within themselves. So that's been going on, you know, through the course of time. When you take that, and then you couple it with other things that are going on in society right now

that are just making everything worse and creating even more of a conflict, you have that piece of it. And then you have people coming together bonding together over their own hatred, bonding together over their own angry. It's like, okay, you're angry, so am I. I feel a sense of belonging

because you are like me. So you have that piece of it too. There are two types of things, in my opinion, that drive hatred. One is evil. I mean, people are evil and they hate and they want to hurt other people. and the other is fear. People are afraid. And when you're afraid, whatever you're afraid of,

engender's hatred. But what I still don't understand after all these years is why so many people hated Donald Trump on a visceral level. It wasn't politics. It wasn't about policy. He did a pretty good job. If you step back and you look at the policies of the United States, they benefited most people, at least economically they did. But they hate his guts. They hate him in a sense. sense that's unhealthy. What do you think is causing that? It's actually for the same reason that people who love Donald Trump, love Donald Trump, but it's in a different way because the people who love Donald Trump are identifying with him personally. They're saying, oh, I was bullied or he's under attack and I was under attack in my life.

So I get him and I don't agree with it. And the people who are against Donald Trump, they may have been bullied, or they may have had people in their life that resemble him, where they think, you know, things about him that they don't agree with, and they're taking it personally. So I think a lot of people are taking Donald Trump personally, and they're bringing it into their own political opinions about him. Okay, but, and it is affecting relationship. Barack Obama had the same, Barack Obama had the same effect on conservatives.

They didn't like him because, you know, he was, a progressive man but I never saw anything like this I didn't it wasn't even close final question I open with the cancel culture you heard what I said and the cancel culture is driven by hatred it's a little bit different because it's basically what we hate you because you disagree with me all right and but not only do we hate you we want to destroy you that's what the cancel culture is destruction knock the person out forever take away everything they have ruin that. What is driving that kind of hatred? Well, I'm actually glad that you brought this up,

because this has been a topic at dinner conversations lately. I personally disagree with cancel culture. You know, I try to stay out of politics, but I'm all about freedom. I'm all about expressing yourself being heard. This is actually something that a lot of people struggle with when they come to see me in therapy. They need to be heard. They need to be understood. And when we're canceling culture, Essentially, we're shutting people down. We're shutting their voices down. I don't believe that's what America's about. I don't think that's healthy.

And I think that we need to bond together. We need to accept each other. We need to be able to listen to each other's points of view. It is a complex issue, but I'm glad that you're bringing it up, and I'm glad that you're going to bring it up on a nightly basis because it needs to be discussed, and that's my opinion. And you don't have any theory about why that has taken root? The cancel culture?

Yeah. lack of acceptance, you know, lack of acceptance, power issues, a lot of the topics that you discussed in the last segment, but certain people maybe wanting to have their own power in this country. And that's why, I mean, it seems like the writings on the wall to me as to why it's why it's happening. But I don't agree with it. No doubt it's a weapon being used to silence people and to take out people off the board. Hey, doctor, thanks very much. We appreciate it. you down in Florida, enjoying a nice weather up here in a tundra. I got to get out of Florida soon. Thanks, Doc. Appreciate it.

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Mr. Trump petition of the Supreme Court stop it. They said no, the case can go forward. Secondly, the Supreme Court is not going to hear the Pennsylvania. vote challenge. And that tells me they just didn't have enough evidence. They, who were saying that there was voting fraud in Pennsylvania and violations of the Pennsylvania Constitution didn't have enough. That's what it says to me. I wasn't on a court. I didn't listen. But remember, this is a court where five of the justices are sympathetic to traditional values. and that was Donald Trump's most important achievement that he got five on the court.

I mean, he actually appointed three, but now there's five traditional judges. They didn't want to hear it. Dominion. Mike Lindell, a my pillow guy, they're suing him, along with Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, to Trump attorneys for defamation. Lindel put out a documentary that said the vote. voting machines were faulty of something. Now, it's a 115 page complaint.

It names Lindell, seeks 1.3 billion in damages. This is actually good for Lindell. It sounds crazy, but it is. Because Mike Lindell has resources to fight this, and he can depose now. Anybody he wants, I mean, anybody attached to the voting machine controversy. They can go in. They can do forensics. They can do a lot of things. They being the defense attorneys from Michael Endell. So if Mike Lindell has it, and he believes that there was fraud in the voting machines. He said it. Okay. If he has it, this is a way to get it out to the

world. He doesn't have it in trouble. COVID. So 512,000 deaths in the USA right now. Got to remember this time last year, you know, I knew it was bad. It was going to be bad, but half million? Didn't think that. Almost 29 million Americans have gotten this disease, 29 million. So Joe Biden today did a candlelight service, nothing wrong with that, bringing attention to all the people who have suffered and died. That's a good thing. All right.

I applaud President Biden for doing that. But even more important is a statement that was made by Dr. Marty Macquarie on February 18th. And you might have heard it, but if you didn't, I'm going to read it because it's a very important statement. Quote, there is reason to think the country is racing toward an extremely low level of infection. More people have been affected, most of whom have mild or no symptoms. There are fewer Americans left to be infected. At the current trajectory, I expect COVID will be mostly gone by April. Wow.

Allowing Americans to resume a normal life. So cases have dropped 77% in the last few weeks. Let's see. Macquarie is a professor of surgery and health policy at John Hopkins University School of Medicine. I don't know. But we need some optimism, right? Something. Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York's in trouble.

Not as much trouble as Gavin Newsom was going to be recalled. Vote should be in late summer. He may get booted. Newsom may get booted. I mean, he's wrecked the state. California's destroyed. He's all people are going to take out their anger on him. Cuomo, you know, tried to cover up his executive order to put COVID senior citizens back into nursing homes.

And there's no recall in New York, so he can't boot him. He's up again. in 2022. If you ran, it would be the fourth time. I don't think Cuomo's going to run again. Mike could be wrong on that. I'm just guessing. But the interesting part of the latest thing is that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now attacking Cuomo, saying, I support our state's return to co-equal governance. She doesn't like Cuomo because he's too authoritative. And he's not a socialist. So she's turned on him. Almost the whole democratic structure in New York. It's turned on Andrew Cuormel. Not interesting. Merrick Garland, he's the nominee for

Attorney General. He's Eric Holder's doppelganger. Is that what they say? He's Eric Holder, except he's white. So I don't know if he's going to get through today in front of the Senate. He said two things. I'll play them both for you. Roll the first one. the prosecution of white supremacists and others who stormed the Capitol on January 6th, a heinous attack that sought to disrupt a cornerstone of our democracy, the peaceful transfer of power to a newly elected government. Well, good. I want them to prosecute all of those people who broke into the Capitol. Good. They should. The Fed stood. What's his white supremacy business? What is this?

All right. Those were Trump supporters. Yeah, there were a few white supremacists there. See the guy with the Confederate flag and all that? Yeah, there were a few. But what does this white supremacy stuff? So I wrote a column called Terror on the Right. So I'm Bill O'Reilly.com. Get a lot of reaction with our stats about the Justice Department prosecuting white supremac for 2020-19. You ought to know the truth. So I hope you read that column. The second thing Garland said, go. That mission on the website of the department's civil rights division remains urgent because we do not yet have equal justice. Communities of color and other minorities still face discrimination in housing, education, in employment, and in the criminal justice system. And they bear the brunt of the harm caused by pandemic, pollution, and climate change what maybe that's true but that's not your job your job is to be a social justice

warrior it's who enforce the law equally among all americans not single out some groups and say oh look at the oh so yeah okay but that's not your job as attorney general so people in those groups commit heinous crimes what are you going to do oh no no no no No, no, they have to be treated specially, the equity. I wouldn't vote for this guy for local sheriff someplace. I hope he's not confirmed. He's not an attorney general. He's a zealid.

And this guy is the one that they kept off the Supreme Court, by the way. Oh, yeah, yoy. Disney, I told you I promoted this. Here we go. Muppets. Listen to this. All right. So Disney wants you to pay $7 for the library of Muppets and other stuff.

Okay? They want seven bucks from you and you get access to the Muppets and other things. However, Disney says that the Muppets include negative depictions and or mistreatment of people or cultures. The Muppets? Jim Henson? Really? They're racist? Muppet supremacy?

So I asked myself, dig out, what is the, what the Muppets do? What did the do? So Johnny Cash appeared on the Muppets, and he sang a song in front of a Confederate battle flag. It's bad taste. I don't think it was a racist thing, but maybe the Muppets are racist. Another episode features Joan Baez doing an Indian accent. Can't do any accents anymore. Signor Wences, canceled.

All right. Third, Kenny Rogers showed up on the Muppets dress in Arab garb. Oh, you did. Disney. Disney. All right, this day in history, February 22nd, 1980, the Miracle on Ice. Roll it. got ten seconds the countdown going on right now tomorrow up to salt five seconds left in the game

you believe in miracle yes all right the u.s hockey team all amateurs beat the soviet union four to three soviets were all professionals okay now this wasn't the gold medal most people think this was the gold medal game it wasn't all right this was the semifinal and then the USA team beat Finland 4 to 2 to get the gold. But the importance of this day is that this brought the entire country, the United States of America, together because we defeated communism on the ice. See, we're all united in that in 1980. That's the big moment. We got those Ruskies who were cheating like crazy, using steroids. They were all pros. All got a mammothous salary from the communist government, whereas our guys are college guys, most of them. And then later on,

they led in the professionals. So that was 41 years ago today. Quick break, back with some mail and a final thought that I think you're going to want to hear. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to turn into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides. especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day.

Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. All right, let's get to the mail. Charles Montabano, Nutley, New Jersey. Bill, your column regarding President Biden's false charge about extremism. is right on. The president conveniently ignores the violence and mismanaging in American city by Democrats. That's why he's doing all the white supremacy stuff. But he doesn't even know what he's doing. You're just reading a prompt. Robert, concierge member, direct access

to me. Thank you, Robert. Mr. O'Reilly, your research to elucidate the exact data about white supremac crimes over the past two years, the best retort ever to Joe Biden's declaration. haven't heard or seen anything similar on Fox News yet. You won't see anything on anybody. That would require them to do research. I'm not going to do it. Patricia, I have to agree with you about the white supremacy comments by President Biden. He really is far removed from the true reality out here in Middle America since I retired.

I see a lot, but the white supremacy, I don't see. I don't see it either. I don't know where it is. Now, there are groups and Nazi groups out there. they're for sure. But are they overwhelming? Are they rising? I don't see it. But there are vile far-right groups out there, no doubt about it. Lorraine concierge member, Bill is clear Rush Limbaugh's treatment post-death is hit home for you. My opinion, you have touched countless lives positively throughout your career for standing up what's right. Your children already

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