Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: A Cut Above and a Cut Below

Episode Date: April 18, 2024

Bill talks about his conversation with New York Yankees announcing legend John Sterling. He also talks about the latest regarding Carl Heastie. Originally only available in the New York City area, Bill’s Empire State O’Reilly commentary addresses local New York issues, but those issues have implications, impact the country, and mirror problems in other states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This morning, I talked to John Sterling, the New York Yankee announcer for more than four decades, called the games on radio. Now, if you're not a sports fan, you may not know him, but he is a giant in the broadcasting industry, the sports broadcasting industry. He's 86, and he hung it up this week. He retired this week. And I talked to me, sounded great. He just didn't want to do it anymore, and I understand that. I mean, look, 86, he's almost 50 years calling a games for the Yankees and then, you know, work way beyond that. I think career spans 65 years. Anyway, I wanted to mention this tonight before I get into the political stuff,

because I admire Sterling. I admire the fact that in the toughest media market in the world, he prevailed. He was criticized, a lot of people didn't like him. But he always came through, and I told him this on a phone with dignity, and conducted himself in a way that younger people should take note of, because his old school is dying out now. So, a strongly good guy, he loves the killing books. He's a very well-read person. You know, I remember as a kid, Phil Rizzuto, loved Phil.

Love them. He was a great. Mel Allen, I didn't know him, Bill White, all of these guys. On the Mets side, we had great broadcasters, Bob Murphy, Lindsay Nelson, Ralph Kiner. We got a great team for the Mets now. Yankees are good, too. You got to be good to operate in this market, New York City. You have to be. But Sterling cut above, and I wanted to give him some props. Now, cut below is the New York Assembly Speaker Carl Hasty from the Bronx. doing enormous damage to the state. Two most powerful people in the state of New York

are Governor Kathy Hochel and Speaker Carl Hasty. Hasty does not want to punish criminals. It's race-based, I know it, he knows it, everybody knows it. He feels that blacks are persecuted by the justice system. He doesn't want to prosecute criminals of color. And he is doing an enormous amount of damage. But now it's so bad in New York that a new law that toughens up penalties for assaults on retail workers, people working in the delis, fast food, pharmacies.

Okay? And Hasty says, okay, reluctantly. I mean, this boob, B-O-O-B, says, ah, you know, punishing crime really doesn't do anything. Yes, it does. I mean, this is ridiculous. You hurt a person just trying to make a living. You deserve jail time, prison time, not understanding. Oh, my God, this hasty, oh, awful, awful.

But the people in the Bronx, they, you know, I'm not going to disparage the borough, but you've got to wise up. You've got to see what's happening in your neighborhoods. Most people in the Bronx are poor. You think you are safe? Do you? Oh, geez. You want your kids seeing all this deprivation on the streets?

Don't you want an atmosphere in the Bronx? It used to be that way. You know, when the Bronx, in the 19th, 30s was very poor during the Depression, but you could leave your door unlocked there. Come on. Our leadership, and I've said this too many times on this program, and I'm sorry to be repetitive, is awful in New York State. Awful.

And we the people are the only ones that can change that. I don't know. Maybe I'm going to have to hire a truck and drive all over New York City with a big megaphone. I mean, we got lots of people listening to WABC, but they're usually what they call like-minded people. They agree with what I'm putting out there. I need to reach the people who don't for whatever reason and try to wise them up. You can't continue this way. This city cannot continue this way.