Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: My Manhattan Journey

Episode Date: December 5, 2023

Bill explains how New York City is in trouble. 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

So last week, I told you I was going into Manhattan over the weekend for a good look around, and boy, did I do that? So let me set it up. Saturday night, left the house after Mass and went to 5 o'clock Mass. So I'm at about 6.10. All right? I got to my destination at about 8 o'clock, almost. two hours to get into that city.

I live 21 miles away, 21 miles, two hours. And then I, lucky enough, I found a parking spot with a meter, $27 for the meter. Okay, that's in addition to the toll. I got easy pass, I don't know what the toll was, but probably about 35 bucks to get in. All right, so I'm going through the Midtown Tunnel, And I expected this.

I wasn't shocked or surprised. I expected on a December weekend with the tree and all that is going to be, I'm going to have a lot of company. Once I get to Third Avenue through the tunnel, everything stops. Why? No traffic control. So people are blocking the box. All right? Nobody's moving.

Either way, they're not moving on the streets. They're not moving on the avenues. because there's big vehicles blocking everything. Then there's construction on every street. But the worst are the bicycles, hundreds of them, delivering food, whatever it may be weaving in and out, motorcycle, you name it, mopeds. You hit one of those people, you're in court. You're going to pay a lot of money.

And you can't see them. it's dark they don't care many of them want to get hit that's a six-figure settlement from your insurance company or you you will lose okay you can't go into courts oh i didn't say i'm not forget it so you sit there in traffic there's nothing you can do there are no traffic agents giving tickets of people blocking the box or double parking or any of that. Nobody's there. Nobody's there.

What does that say to you? It says there's no one in charge in this city. No oversight at all. They had to know that a ton of cars coming in here. So I finally get to my destination. I had to walk about, I don't know, eight blocks, but it's fine. I needed to walk. But all throughout the walk, it's pot smoke. There they are. The pot smokers everywhere. Now, it used to be that you were not allowed to consume intoxicants

in public. It was booze. Now, nobody can't. These people think they're cool walking around with the blunts. Okay? They think they're cool. They're stupid. That's what they are, and intrusive. And they don't care about anybody but themselves, because because you couldn't blow marijuana smoke in the air at the rate it's happening and care about children. There's tons of kids. You don't care, I don't know, I don't smoke, oh, stay in your basement, or wherever in your tent or under the bridge where you live.

Boy, I dislike these people. Oh, so does pot smoke everywhere. Now, I didn't see any menace. I was in the richest part of Manhattan, the wealthiest part. I didn't see menace. I saw some homeless, but they were up against the walls most of the time. They weren't defecating in the street. I didn't see any of that. Okay. But the ride-in was so harrowing and dangerous. I mean, I'm going to myself, is it worth it? And the answer is no. And with this congestion pricing coming in, you're going to see small businesses, restaurants,

cabarets, bars, they're going to take a massive hit. Because people don't want to take the subway. They don't want to use mass transportation. It's dangerous. So this city is in trouble. Big time trouble. Marshall law is really the only thing I would save it. I wrote a column on at bill o'Reilly.com and go there and read it.

But I hate to report bad news, but I got to be honest.