Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Eric Adams' Latest Controversy

Episode Date: January 10, 2024

Bill gives his commentary on the latest controversy surrounding New York City Mayor Eric Adams and a made up story. 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

Radio station, W.A.B.C., the iconic station in the USA. What does that mean iconic? We hear that all the time. It means that the tradition of anything has been held up. All right. So, W.A.B.C., many of you are like me and raised in this area. Well, I listened to that radio station when I was 10 years old. All right? And, you know, it was rock and all then, pop, the Beatles, all that came in later. And then subsequently, throughout the years, W.WBC morphed into news talk. And then it really fell on hard times, as you know, and now is the dominant news talk station in New York City, the largest market in America. So the mayor of the largest city in America is Erigata, as you know. Okay. And he wrote a book.

book, I didn't even know this, and it was released August 2009 when he was an upcoming politician. The book is titled, Don't Let It Happen. You can buy the book on Amazon of Bons and Noble websites. So it's in play. All right. In that book, Mr. Adams said that as a child in New York City, he was fooling around with some other kids at school when one of the kids pulled out a gun. And the mayor said, according to his book, that he thought the gun was fake and pulled the trigger and it fired a real bullet. But nobody got hurt. The quote in the book is this. I pointed what I thought was a toy gun at my group of friends pull a trigger, round is charged. and only by the grace of God and my poor aim, do the bullet miss my friends?

Unquote. Now, as you may know, Eric Adams went on to become a New York City police officer, and that story is not important, really, on his reservation. But now it comes to light yesterday in a news conference. And Adam said, the story's not true. I wrote about it in a book, but it's not true. So what are we to think? I don't know.

Now, the excuse from City Hall is, well, the mayor didn't proofread the book before was published, which is hard to believe. But even if that's true, how did that story even get in development at all? Had it come from Adams, unless some ghostwriter made up the whole book, which I guess as possible. Anyway, it's not a big deal now. It doesn't really affect anything now, but it does speak to the character of Eric Adams. Was he putting garbage in his books? That wasn't true. Now, here's a much more important story, the same situation that I'm going to deal with in a national part of common sense in a moment, but I'm going to give you a preview.

So this woman, Cassidy Hutchinson, worked for Donald Trump. She made an outreact. outrageous allegation that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol on January 6th, but Secret Service stopped him. And in the process, Trump pushed the Secret Service agent in the presidential limousine and grabbed the wheel. I said at the time that was impossible because the car is too big. Trump is in the back seat. You can't grab the wheel. Subsequently, Hutchinson has pulled back on the story. But she got a big book contract. and sold copies based upon this kind of garbage, all right? And it had to do with the President of the United States and January 6th, which is an explosive issue.

Well, now the House may subpoena Cassidy Hutchinson, all right, to appear and explain this ridiculous thing. At the time again, I said, no way that happened. She made it up. But she was rewarded with hundreds of thousands of dollars. because she got a book published, partially based on that. So the bottom line on this monologue on WABC this evening is that people will do pretty much anything for money.

They'll say anything. They'll fire lawsuits. They'll lie up and down. They'll stab people in the back. They'll throw their spouse overboard in divorce proceedings. They'll harm their children. all of it for money that's what people will do more often than not there are honest people but boy when that money starts flashing honesty is on the run