Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Congestion Pricing Reversal

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

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

Lots of stuff going on in our area. Summer has not kicked in yet. Probably got two more weeks before summer really kicks in. You know, Fourth of July week is a dead week because it's in the middle of the week, the holiday and everybody will take off. That really starts it. Weather's been good. Did you check out at all the cricket match in Nassau County between India and

Pakistan. So it was huge. And Blakeman, the county executive in NASA, did a nice job on it. If that match, that cricket match, were held in Europe or someplace else, it would have been violent deaths because India and Pakistan hate each other. It's all about religion, Muslim versus Hindu. But in Eisenhower Park, everybody seemed to get along. Now, I don't like cricket. slow for me. Baseball is too slow for me. But I played baseball, and I know the increases of the game. And I, whenever I'm watching baseball on television, I'm reading a book at the same time. I'm ambidectrous. And a lot of times I'll put the sound, although I like the booth for the Mets. The Yankee booth is good, too, Michael Kay. They're pros. But sometimes I'll take the

sound down and just read the book and I'll look up to see if anything happens to replay and all of that because I just can't sit there and watch baseball. I can sit there and watch basketball, fast moving. Hockey I'm in and out on. Football I can watch it, but I'm usually you have a book or something nearby. It's too many commercials. But anyway, I'm boring you with all this stuff. Let's get to something of substance. So there's a lot of inside stuff. swirling around about why Governor Hockel killed for the time being the congestion pricing in New York City. What I'm hearing is there were two factors. One, she got a signal from the federal courts that they were going to delay it. And she didn't want to spend more

money litigating that right away. See, New York is on a verge of bankruptcy. with all the migrant stuff. We're hemorrhaging money. And the congestion pricing is a tax, a sneaky tax, just like the 25-mile-an-hour speed zone in New York City is sneaky. So you go 35, you're going to get a ticket for 50 bucks, and they've got cameras watching you. It's a tax.

It's nothing to do with pedestrians or protecting anybody. Speed limit should be 35, not 25. Okay. So Hogle got word that this wasn't going to go well in the federal court system, and that would have been harder to deal with down the road. She also got whispers from the White House that the situation in New York isn't 100% safe for Biden. But Trump making inroads in this state, and that another tax by a liberal governor and legislature tied into the Democrats might not be a good thing at this point. Now, again, I can't verify who contacted Hockel, so I'm giving you what's in the wind.

I'm not reporting it as fact, but it does make sense because the people of New York are getting fed up with the progressive liberal governance in the city and state. There's no question about that. And Trump's trying to tap into that. If Trump could ever take New York, I mean, it's a landslide then for him. I don't think he will. The minority vote will, he'll get a bit more of it, but they'll still go for Biden. And the machine, the Democratic machine in New York, is far better finance than the Republican machine. It would be almost a miracle if Biden even makes it. And that's a final point I want to make tonight.

And then we'll go into the national program. I'm going to lead that with the basic tenet that the Internet is blowing up truth, not only in America, but all over the place. So if you're on the Internet, boy, you're in trouble. and I'll spell it out. But anyway, getting back to the election, and we have election coverage night as well, you're in a situation now where New Yorkers have had enough. How that plays out over the next four months will be fascinating. And we're here for you. We'll be covering every night.