Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Drones and the Tarnished Biden Legacy, Progressive Colorado Terrorized by Illegal Gang Members, Liz Cheney Could Face a Criminal Investigation & a Christmas Flashback of Bill and Santa!

Episode Date: December 19, 2024

Tonight's rundown:  Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, December 18, 2024. Stand Up for Your Country.   The House Ethics Committee has... reportedly voted to release Matt Gaetz ethics report – even though he is no longer serving as a member of Congress.  Talking Points Memo: Biden's legacy tarnished even further due to the drone controversy – tie that with pardoning Hunter Biden and he's solidified his spot as the 2nd worst president in history. I detail this further in my book Confronting the Presidents. Another apartment complex has been overrun by illegal gang members in Aurora, Colorado – this is what progressive policy leads to.  A new GOP report has recommended Liz Cheney be CRIMINALLY investigated over her work on the January 6th committee.  After Donald Trump held a press conference for over an hour – CNN opted to fact-check the president-elect. Is this another effort by the press to mislead? Bernie Goldberg opines on the biggest media wins and losses of the year. The year 2024 brought about the O'Reilly – Cuomo duels! Enjoy these highlights.  Smart Life: Vacation home investments – and the top 10 luxury vacation markets for 2024.  Two astronauts will be stuck in space for even longer than already prolonged – nearing 9 months at the International Space Station.  American Airlines to end DEI practices.  This Day in History: the House debates articles of impeachment against President Clinton.  Final Thought: A flashback of Bill's early reporting days that you won't want to miss!   In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, Yo, Adrian!  Need a last-minute Christmas gift? Check out our Premium and Concierge Member gift cards!  THE ULTIMATE KILLING SPECIAL. Get Confronting the Presidents PLUS the entire bestselling Killing Series. All 14 books for only $325. SHOP HERE. Get Bill's latest book, CONFRONTING THE PRESIDENTS, out NOW! Now's the time to get a Premium or Concierge Membership to BillOReilly.com, the only place for honest news analysis. Check out the Not Woke Shop! We've got Not Woke t-shirts, polos, bumper stickers, and our signature Not Woke coffee mug. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello, O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, December 18th, 2004, one week before Christmas, stand up for your country. Two updates for you. First of all, a confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth to be the Defense Department. chief be held January 16th in the Senate. The word is that he's going to make it, Hague, Seth, but I'm not so sure about it. I can't predict it because I don't know what the
Starting point is 00:00:43 deals are being made, but it's going to be close. There's not one Democrat that will vote for him. But he's got to sweep the Republican side of the Senate. And this is a bad story. The House Ethics Committee's report on Matt Gates is out. I'll have it tomorrow for you. I want to take some time to analyze it. That's the responsible thing to do since this will hurt the man. And I'm not just going to knee-jerk it. And I want to take a look at it.
Starting point is 00:01:16 I feel bad for Gates. I had no use for him, as you know. But on a personal level, right before Christmas, it's pretty rough. and I don't think it was necessary either. He's not in Congress any longer. But this DC thing, boy, pretty ruthless. All right, talking points memo is the drones. Much hysteria, as you know, much speculation, unexplained things in the sky.
Starting point is 00:01:49 There is an important aspect to the story, but it's not the drones themselves. We'll get what that is. and it's not men from Mars or Bulgaria spying on us. It's not. I don't know what it is, but I know it's not going to adversely affect Americans. I could be wrong, but I doubt it on this one. However, we the people deserve an explanation. All right, this is Scott.
Starting point is 00:02:20 What is it? But it's the Biden administration. Any other administration, I think we'd have to have. have an explanation? But now with these people. Now let me walk through it. So yesterday there was a briefing, three hours. The Department of Defense, Homeland Security, FBI, CIA met with members of the House Intelligence Committee. Okay, that's good, but it was all classified. That's not good. So nobody knows what happened. But some Congress people came out and made some statements. Here's one of them. There remains no evidence that there is any unlawful,
Starting point is 00:03:09 unidentified drone activity out there. And most of the people who have expertise in sort of thinking about watching and mitigating the threats from drones are saying, in as much as they've been able to actually look at specific events, most of them turn out to be. regular aircraft. All right, that doesn't do us any good, Congressman. It doesn't do us any good. What do you mean regular aircraft? I have one in my backyard.
Starting point is 00:03:31 It wasn't a regular aircraft. There's a drone flying around. For what? Who put them up? Surely our intelligence agencies know by now. So why don't we know? Look, classified information is designed to protect to protect certain people.
Starting point is 00:03:53 Well, how about protecting the citizenry? There's a bunch of bull. Okay. And I expect, if we don't know by the time of the inauguration, first thing Trump will do is tell everybody. But I think we'll know before that. Now, President Biden, they woke him up from his slumber, and he said this, go.
Starting point is 00:04:14 Nothing nefarious apparently, but to checking it all out. I think it's just one, there's a lot of drones authorized up there. I think it's one started and they all got everybody's want to get in the deal. But I'll know what we're following this is close. So far, no sense of the day. You're following it closely. Good, all right.
Starting point is 00:04:37 There's a lot of drones up there. Why are they up there? Who owns them? What are they doing? How come we've never seen them in this number before? Here's the deal. I think you all agree with me, even Democrats. The faster this guy disappears, the better.
Starting point is 00:05:00 He's just destroyed his legacy. I mean, you figure on the way out, he'd want to put up a couple of Ws. He gives $10 billion to Iran. And then he, you know, a lot of drones up there. Thanks. Thanks a lot. That was great. I think he's at 33, 34% approval rating now.
Starting point is 00:05:23 And what Biden has never understood, and I know he doesn't care, but this kind of a display is insulting and it's arrogant. And those are two of the worst things that a human being can be, insulting and arrogant. So he insults the people by not telling us what the deuce is going on, and he's arrogant by holding it back. If there's somebody in my purview that's insulting and arrogant, they get confronted. Okay, because that's the kind of guy I am.
Starting point is 00:06:00 So I can't wait for this guy to disappear, and he'll never come back. Biden will just disappear off at the sunset. Unlike Jimmy Carter, much younger man, okay. You know, he went to Habitat for humanity. Terrible president, by the way, but Biden makes him look like Abraham Lincoln. And that's the memo. Okay, let's say, here's an update and an interesting story. I'm playing it high in a broadcast, but there's more to it than what meets the eye.
Starting point is 00:06:29 So criminal migrants are all over the United States, thanks to Joe Biden opening the border. Gang members, Venezuela, El Salvador, Honduras, they're all here. And they're caused a mayhem. Colorado is one of the worst. So now this week, police in Colorado have detained 19 people. So far, I think there are a dozen arrests, because gang members from Venezuela terrorized an apartment complex in a suburb of Denver named Aurora.
Starting point is 00:07:03 I used to live in Aurora. It used to be a very nice place to live. It is no longer because there are migrant gangs, terrorizing people okay so here's the chief of police of Aurora go it is an incredibly crime riddled complex that I think we have been focusing on the city of Aurora has been focusing on and without question attention will not stop until every individual that victimizes somebody else will be held accountable or be removed from that complex well this has been going on since
Starting point is 00:07:41 August 18th, Chief? That's a long time. And you haven't gotten them out. Chief? Got it? You're not doing your job. They're there. They're terrorizing people.
Starting point is 00:07:59 There's been a shooting. There's been a stabbing. They're extorting people. Forget about the feds. Colorado can't handle it. Oh, but you'll remember when it Story first broke in August. You had Colorado Governor Jared Pallas, very progressive, very woke.
Starting point is 00:08:20 Here's what he said. It's safer than it's been. And look, it's like any city, Chicago, L.A., mid-sized cities, Denver. Of course, there's been an issue with gangs for decades in Aurora. And I feel that we finally turn the corner. Oh, yeah, you turn the corner. Sure, Governor. That was in September.
Starting point is 00:08:39 He said that September 22nd. So it's August, it's December 18th. But he's turned a corner in September. You get the feeling, incompetence may be around. And then there's the media, the national media, watching this. Go. The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes, and the mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns.
Starting point is 00:09:11 a handful of problems no martha yeah it's just a handful then you know come on awful awful now i'm talking to the people of colorado because i lived there for two years and i loved it what a fabulous state it was. It is no longer. Why? Because the progressives have taken over the state of Colorado, primarily in and around Denver, which dominates the entire state. So Kamala Harris won Colorado by 3.5 million votes. I'm sorry, not 3.5 million. She won She got 1,728, and Trump got 1,37777. So she won by 350,000 votes. My math is terrible.
Starting point is 00:10:23 I was always terrible in math. I always will be. She won by 350,000 votes in Colorado. That's pretty big. Why? Terrible candidate. Biden's terrible president. Why are you voting that way in Colorado? Why? Now, if you continue Coloradans to vote for progressives, what you're seeing in Aurora is going to come to your town, where you live. Got it? Voting against your own safety and self-interest. All right. There's another really interesting story. So you may remember that Liz Cheney was a top Trump hater. And she was on the
Starting point is 00:11:11 subcommittee, the January 6th Select Committee investigating what happened at the Capitol in the riot. And she was one of two Republicans, both of whom hated Trump on the committee. No other Republicans would go because they knew it was a hate Trump situation. All right. So Liz Cheney allegedly uh witness tampered on the committee allegedly this is uh according to house administration subcommittee on oversight they've released a report and the report says that it is possible liz shaney congresswoman then from wyoming violated two federal laws one federal law 1622, procuring a person to commit perjury. The second, federal law 1512, tampering with a witness. Who was that witness? A woman named Cassidy Hutchinson, remember him? Cassidy Hutchinson.
Starting point is 00:12:14 She worked for White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. She said that Trump was so out of control in January 6th that he grabbed the searing wheel, the presidential limousine, and wrestled with Secret Service so he could get out there and do whatever Trump was doing. That never happened. Here's what I said when Ms. Hutchinson made that false allegation. Remember, the most explosive testimony was by Cassidy Hutchinson, who said Trump did all of this terrible thing on the grab steering wells and push secret service agents, but the committee wouldn't bring in the Secret Service ages.
Starting point is 00:12:51 What does I tell you? Wouldn't bring him in and testify under oath. This is a fraud. Now, Liz Cheney is accused of working behind the scenes to tell Cassidy Hutchinson how to testify in front of the J6 Select Committee. Okay, that's tampering, witness tampering. Here's what it says. There's a broad prohibition against tampering with a witness, victim, or informant.
Starting point is 00:13:23 It prescribes conduct intended to. to illegitimately affect presentation of evidence in federal proceedings. So the Republicans on the Oversight Committee want her to be investigated by the FBI, Liz Cheney. And then Liz go, oh no, no, no, no. I want the investigation. I want it.
Starting point is 00:13:50 Not because I'm vengeful, is because Cassidy Hutchinson was full of, you know what. And it looks like Cheney, beyond the scenes, was manipulating her. So let's see it. If she's not guilty, good. Due process. That thing was rotten. That whole J6 committee rotten.
Starting point is 00:14:16 All right, Donald Trump, as you know, as we reported at a press conference yesterday, an hour and 11 minutes, 46 questions, and then CNN immediately fact check. Mr. Trump, go. And earlier in the press conference, Dana, he said over and over, I think, three times that during his presidency, there were no wars, like no wars period in the world. That is simply not true, a rewriting of history. One research institution said there were active armed conflicts in about 50 states in 2020, including, of course, civil wars in Yemen, in Syria, in Somalia. That's a nitpick to say the least. Here's what Trump said. Go.
Starting point is 00:14:56 Since the election, I've been working every day to put the world at ease a little bit to get rid of the wars. We had no wars when I left office, and now the whole world is blowing up. But there's great optimism. Okay, so to call conflicts in places like Somalia a war is blatantly dishonest. Now, this guy, Daniel Dale, Canadian journalist, he hates Trump. His job is to make Trump look bad. When is CNN going to wise up? When are they going to get out of this?
Starting point is 00:15:32 Their ratings couldn't be any lower. And they still do it. Come on. Everybody knows what Trump was saying. Didn't have Afghanistan. You didn't have Ukraine. Those are wars. Not a conflict inside Syria.
Starting point is 00:15:50 Ay, y-ye. CNN, what is wrong? All right, let's talk about the media this year and next year. Who better than our pal Bernie Goldberg, who runs bernardgoberg.com? Bernie is a simple man, not as simple as I am, but he's simple. Just look at him and you can tell. There's not enough makeup in the world that can hide the simpleness. So his website, bernardgoburg.com, is easy to negotiate, to see, and it's
Starting point is 00:16:22 fun. So I command you to go there today. All right, Bernie Goldberg comes from Miami. So I asked you to give me the three media highlights, three good things they did this year. Go. Let me first, very briefly, you said, what's going on at CNN? It's in their DNA. It isn't going to change. It's in their DNA. That's why they keep doing things like that. All right, the three highlights. First highlight, the Wall Street Journal on June 4th ran a story on page one that talked about how President Biden behind closed doors was showing signs of slipping mentally. The New York Times didn't do this. The Washington Post didn't tell that story. Of all the major mainstream news organizations, the Wall Street Journal said it first.
Starting point is 00:17:19 And they had, as a result of that, they came. under blistering attack not only from the White House, but from President Biden's allies in the media, except three weeks after they ran the story, Joe Biden had a meltdown on national television during the presidential debate, vindicating the Wall Street Journal's story. So I give that number one on my list and hats off, tip of the hat to the Wall Street Journal. Number two on my list, Fox News Channel for its coverage of illegal immigration and the chaos in general on the southern border of the United States. Fox did what television news does best. Didn't simply tell you what was going on.
Starting point is 00:18:07 It took you there and showed you people literally sneaking into the country on live television. CNN wasn't doing that. MSNBC, sure as hell, wasn't doing that. Fox deserves credit because it did do that. And by the way, these highlights are a mirror image of the low lights I'm going to tell you about in a minute or two. The third thing on my list of highlights, the rise of independent journalism in the United States. People like you, Bill, people like me, we can have conversations that are longer than soundbites, where you can say just about anything you want
Starting point is 00:18:50 as long as it makes sense and the most important thing from my point of view you can say things where you don't have to worry about being canceled because if you said the same things on NBC, ABC, CBS or even the cable channels some of the things I've said would get me canceled but you can say it as an independent journalist and I think that's very important
Starting point is 00:19:14 The rise of independent journalism is a major, a major item of importance as far as the media is concerned. Yeah, and it's taken on more momentum as well. Okay, now, we only have time for three lowlights, and there are about 3,000 of them. That's right. So which ones did you pick? All right. I said the mirror image of my highlights. The number one on my list of low lights, the failure of the national news media to show,
Starting point is 00:19:44 any curiosity about President Biden's mental condition. I mean, there were video clips of him wandering off into the forest and not knowing where he was going. And the White House and again, their allies in the media, said, well, you're taking it out of context. This was a major issue, and the media intentionally was asleep at the wheel. The second one was the southern border. border again. The southern border was one of the two major issues that decided the presidential
Starting point is 00:20:20 election. Yet if you watched CNN, MSNBC, read the New York Times, the Washington Post, you might not have any idea that there was a crisis on the southern border. Yet just the other day, page one of the New York Times, telling us that we've had the biggest influx of immigrants through the southern border, ever in the history of the United States, bigger than when they came from Eastern Europe and Europe in general into Ellis Island. This was a huge story, and the Biden administration didn't want it covered, and their friends in the media didn't cover it. My last one was how most news organizations failed to notice the shift to the right of the
Starting point is 00:21:12 American electorate. give you an example of a very good journalist. David Ignatius, columnist for the Washington Post, he's a liberal, but he's not a crazy left winger. On election night, when it became clear that Donald Trump was going to win, David Ignatius said, this election makes me realize how little I understand the American character in 2024. I am mystified by the outcome. This is a smart guy and he's mystified by the outcome, which prompted me to write on my website that David Ignatius, a bright guy, knows more about what's going on in outer Mongolia and what's going on in Middle America. Yeah, because they live in bubbles. All right, those are good. Those are
Starting point is 00:22:02 good. Exactly. So my analysis is 2025 is going to be the worst year for corporate media in the history of media. You're already seeing changes, big changes. All of the anchors and pundits are going to get their salaries cut significantly. That's already begun. A lot of them have been furloughed. That's a polite word for fired, Chris Wallace,
Starting point is 00:22:28 first one to go. And that's going to continue as is the decline in audience. Now, once the inaugurations happens, then Fox News, which is riding high because they rode the Trump wave, they'll start to decline again as well. Primarily because most of these network and cable news outfits are boring. They're repetitive. Exactly. They've got a panel of five, six people.
Starting point is 00:22:56 You don't know who the people are. You forget what they say 30 seconds after they say it. It's meaningless. Not only are they corrupt, rooting for Biden, covering for the liberals, all of that. but they're boring, and that's why this whole thing is going to collapse in 25. I think you're right. Now, I'm with Yogi Berra, who said predictions are hard, especially when they're about the future. But this one, I'll go so far as to predict that the decline in mainstream media is going to continue in 2025.
Starting point is 00:23:32 The three major TV networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, they've been in decline. for decades, and they are an idea whose time has come and is gone. They're finished. They are gone. Cable news isn't far behind. CNN, I'm with you. I don't know what's going to happen with CNN.
Starting point is 00:23:52 MSNBC has been spun off by its company, and they may turn out to be who knows. I have no idea if they're going to exist next year. Fox is doing well and will continue to do relatively well, but the
Starting point is 00:24:07 future bill is in independent journalism. People, you know what the average age of the Fox viewer is, 69 years old. Yeah. And network news is the same. People under 50 aren't watching cable.
Starting point is 00:24:24 They're not watching network news. They're getting their news from TikTok, from Reddit, from places I never heard of. I'm not saying that's a good thing, but it does say... It's a reality. It's the reality. That's why we're on YouTube. That's why The NoSpin News is on YouTube, and we've increased already, it's tenfold.
Starting point is 00:24:43 All right, so I hope you have a happy Hanukkah, and it will be happy for Mr. Goldberg, if everyone goes to bernardgoldberg.com. You'd appreciate that? Yeah, it brings Bernie Joy. All right, you know, it's a charitable thing that we're doing here to go to the website. And in this season of Christmas and Hanukkah, I mean, come on. How about that? That's a pretty good pitch, right?
Starting point is 00:25:07 you're killing me we appreciate it we're going to check in early with uh early and next year with you bernie and you have a have a good one best of the family okay i'll see you jose i'll see at jose i hope yeah joes is a crab place stone crabs in miami that bernie and i hang with and then we get ejected when we get rowdy all right uh another i enterprise news nation is doing well it's increasing its audience and uh it's not ideological and I am on it. That's not why it's increasing because I don't do that many spots. I do a morning on Wednesday with Marky Martin. I do Leland Vitterd on Monday and I do Cuomo tonight on Wednesday. So I want to show you three soundbites in case you haven't checked
Starting point is 00:25:59 that out. The first one is I had to, when I started doing this, and this soundbites from June 5th, this year. I had to kind of educate Cuomo a little bit. Go. I know a lot, Cuomo, and you'd be very wise to listen very closely. So Hunter Biden and Joe, Joe, Hunter Biden and Donald Trump have one big thing in common. Do you know what it is? They both like crack cocaine. Oh, that's a liable suit right there on you. I had a question mark at the end of it. They're both playing the victim. Okay.
Starting point is 00:26:46 The second sound by it is about Kamala Harris, all right, not answering any questions. You remember when Brett Baer at Fox interviewed her, he got, I think it was 24 minutes. He was able to ask 11 questions. And the vice president did not answer one of them. Here's what I said. That's insulting to the audience. You see, if you ask somebody a question in your personal life, hey, Mabel, what kind of car is that? And they go, I like pancakes.
Starting point is 00:27:23 What? No, I asked you, what kind of car that was? You see what I mean? Okay. So we like to have some humor and stuff like that going on in these segments. And the third one, Stephen A. Smith, who you saw there, is on again. And Stephen A, he gets serious, you know, with Cuomo. And he said, look, I like to be around smart people. And then I replied, go. For Stephen A, I don't want to be surrounded by smarter people. That's why I do the Cuomo show. If I wanted to be surrounded by smarter people, I wouldn't be sitting here tonight. Present company, Stephen A, excluded.
Starting point is 00:28:12 Yeah, good, smart move. Okay, so we'll be on tonight. You might want to check it out. It's a good flow back and forth. And News Nation, I appreciate the fact that I'm on there. and it's a network that has a lot of potential. Smart life. So 6.5 million Americans have second homes.
Starting point is 00:28:34 I didn't know that. And that's not a lot. All right, that's less than 5% of population. I mean, it's cost enough to keep one home. But 6.5 million have second homes. Some of them vacation homes. Some of them are rental properties, whatever it may be. There are certain states that are friendlier if you want to buy a second home.
Starting point is 00:28:58 And so as of 2022, Florida led to leave. So a million Americans of second homes in Florida. Wyoming was last. Only 16,000 second homes. Wyoming's spectacular state. And the real estate is reasonable. A little tip for you. Smart life.
Starting point is 00:29:17 But anyway, here are the top 10 markets for people buying swanky second homes. First, number one, Cape May County, New Jersey. That's the tip of New Jersey. That gets New York and Philadelphia money. Gulf County, Florida, they're going for the weather in proximity to the Gulf of Mexico. Walton County, Florida, very reasonable to live in Walton County. Barnstable County, Massachusetts, that is Cape Cod. Collier County, Florida, Coquanino County, Arizona.
Starting point is 00:29:50 I don't know much about that. Maui County, after the fire, though, that's fallen off. Buford County, that's a low country in South Carolina, very reasonable, very pretty, a little human. New York County, New York, that's Manhattan, pettitaires. People buy small apartments there. And Newport County, Rhode Island, Newport, Rhode Island, a premier destination. You have been to Newport put it on. your list. So if you're looking for a second home, those are the top ten. And the reason I'm
Starting point is 00:30:20 telling you this in a Smart Life segment is, number one, you can visit. And number two, if you buy a home, you want to make money on it. Okay, you don't want to buy, you know, in the middle of a, you don't want to buy it right now in Aurora, Colorado. You don't want to go there. There's a lot of gangs. Okay, you want to go to these places, Smart Life. These astronauts, boy, there's an update, Sunni Williams, Butch, Wilmore. So they go up on June 5th, right? They were supposed to spend about a week in space. It's still there.
Starting point is 00:30:55 They can't get home. Boeing can't get them out of there. And now they say that it'll be March or even April before they're back home. And they've been up there. They, well, we're packed for a week and we're gone six months. Now, this again goes back to the Biden administration. They run NASA, and Boeing, out of problems, they're stranded up there. They're okay, they're safe, but they can't get them back.
Starting point is 00:31:29 Boy, I mean, you know, is this federal government screwed up? Yeah. American Airlines ending DEI hiring because of one group. America First Legal, AFL, check them out. sued. Americans said, you can't be doing this. Actually, they filed a federal civil rights complaint, the American First Legal. And American Airlines surrendered almost immediately.
Starting point is 00:31:56 So, okay, we're not going to do DEI hires because it's against the Constitution. All right, you can't be hiring people because of their color or ethnicity or whatever. American Airlines, stop it. It's wrong. Good for America First Legal. Stay in History, December 18th, 1998, Bill Clinton, in trouble. The House begins debating the articles of impeachment against him because of Lewinsky. Took one day.
Starting point is 00:32:26 And the House said, yeah, we're going to impeach him. And there were two charges. Okay. There was lying under oath because he said he didn't do anything with Lewinsky and he did. And then there was, what was the second charge? Obstruction of justice. So then the trial began in the Senate, and it wasn't even close. The Senate did not remove him from office.
Starting point is 00:32:51 The majority of the Senate has voted to remove on the perjury charge. Obstruction was 50-50, and Clinton survived. Two-thirds of the Senate are needed to convict and remove a president, according to Constitution. So back with a report I did on television 49 years ago. Here is the final thought of the day. So I'm going to celebrate my 50th year in the media in January. First job was WNEP TV, Scranton, Pennsylvania. I don't think there are any clips of me because it was filmed then.
Starting point is 00:33:26 It wasn't videotape. And then I went to Dallas, WFAA TV. And in November, 1975, I did a Christmas story on WFAA. Roll it. At this class, the five would-be-helpers. are all graduate drama students at SMU. In simulated instruction, the applicants are told to look good, sound good, and most of all, be relaxed.
Starting point is 00:33:50 And I'd like a football game. And I'd like a pony. Those who pass the Santa course can look forward to earning $3 an hour and pleasing a lot of kids. The outfit is provided, and the hours are flexible. Because of the abundance of good little kids this year, Santa needs a lot of helpers. At this school, at least 30 more Santas will have to be recruited.
Starting point is 00:34:10 So if you're looking for a little extra cash, you might consider being part of the Christmas spirit. Santa could use the help. Phil O'Reilly, Channel 8 News at the Santa School in North Dallas. Do you check that hair out? I thought I was Saturday Night Fever back then. Did you check that hair out? And the voice is a little distorted because SMU has a whole archive of Channel 8 stories. So did you catch you three bucks an hour
Starting point is 00:34:42 and they're gonna pay you to be Santa? Three bucks an hour. Now, I was like, you know, I think Santa's making 25 bucks. Anyway, I value my career very much. And you gotta work your way up, okay? So I had to get a haircut for my next job, which was Denver, okay, at KMGH TV.
Starting point is 00:35:04 I went from Dallas to Denver to anchor the weekend news. I was just a reporter in Dallas, and they didn't like me very much Dallas anyway, cocky Yankee, you know, Texans. I like Dallas. I had a good time. The summers are brutal. But, you know what I mean? New York guy, all that kind of stuff was going on. So then I got a better job at the CBS affiliate in Denver, and I was there for two years, and it just goes back to Aurora, and that's where I lived and all that. So the value of my career was that I lived all over, every time zone, the United States, got to know the communities, worked my way up, no uncle in the business, all right, nobody giving me any NEPO or any of that, you know, and I earned it.
Starting point is 00:35:52 And I got to New York City, WCBS, in five years. And I did pretty well there at Channel 2 in New York. And then I went to the networks and all of that. So somebody I got to write about all this. I'm trying to do in a way that it's not, oh, and I did this, and I did that, and I'll figure it out. But in January, it'll be 50 years. That haircut, I got to make an excuse for that. All the mirrors in my home were broken.
Starting point is 00:36:27 No, nobody's buying that. Anyway, that was the disco era, just the beginning of the disco era back then. And we all had long hair. We will have a special Christmas tomorrow. We're going to do the news, particularly the gate stuff. And then I'm going to segue into some fun Christmas stuff. So I hope you're with us. Thank you for watching tonight of Bill O'Reilly.
Starting point is 00:36:49 We will see you on Thursday.

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