Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Penn Station Chaos

Episode Date: January 3, 2024

Bill givers you a story about a confrontation he has over the break in New York's famous Penn Station. 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

I hope 24 is a good one for you and your family, and you accomplish a lot of worthy things. Good health, most important, family attention, vise with good health. If you're not healthy, you can't do very much. That's why I put it up there. So anyway, we wish you the best, and I think you know that. I had a couple of interesting experiences over the break I want to tell you about. and they reflect what's happening in New York City and state. So I took my 20-year-old son to the Knicks-Bucks game,

and you couldn't drive from Nassau County to Madison Square Garden. It's a two-hour ordeal around Christmas time. And then you have to park, and that's insane. I think the parking lots are, what, $65, $70 now? So we took the train, all right? The Long Island Railroad. Fine, 35 minutes from where I live, easy shot, Penn Station, right below the garden. So we're a little bit early for the game, and walking around Penn Station, just checking it out.

I hadn't been there a while. and a guy shuffles up to us disheveled guy look to be about 65 but obviously substance abuser so he could have been 50 and he just looks older so the guy's got a veteran's cap on and a button that says I'm a vet and he comes up and he goes give me money I'm a vet so I'm six four 200 pounds. My son's 6.5, 200 pounds. My son doesn't say a word. I go, no. One word. No. The guy looks at me. I look at him. Now, I'm ready for anything here. Okay? That means that I tense my body and I knew what I was going to do should this guy touch me. me or my son. And that is I was going to punch him in the solar plexus as hard as I could possibly punch the man.

And when he went down, I was going to deliver another blow to him. That's what I had planned for my new friend. He didn't do that. He didn't lay hands on us. What he did was use a stream of four-letter words. and he was about two feet away. Okay. Then he saw me take a step toward him.

I don't know why I did that. But I did. I took a step and he bolted. Okay? All right. So I'm looking around for a cop. That area of Penn Station is covered by Amtrak Police. And I'm watching this guy, and he's doing the same thing to other people.

And all of a sudden, a cop comes around a corner, decked out. He's got the gun, he's got everything, he's what, blah, blah, blah, blah, Hispanic guy. Comes up, I come up to him, and I said, look, I told him what the guy did. And he goes, this is New York City. what do you want me to do? I said, I want you to eject him from the station. The cop says to me, he has freedom of speech. I say to the cop, he's violating the law. The cop looks at me. He goes, how? I go, he's menacing in the third degree. Now the guy knows I'm a serious person. I identify myself. He had no idea. Okay. I said, I'm Bill O'Reilly.

may have seen me on television or heard me on WABC radio. This man is violating the menace, the New York State menacing statute. He needs to be removed now. And I'm staring at this cop. He did not want to remove this man from Penn Station, this police officer. He did not want to do it.

So he goes, well, let me confer with my partner. Now I dropped it. I got the guy's name. I didn't report them. I'm not in business to do that. If the guy who was bothering the passengers was if he had to put his hands on somebody, then I would have. But this is the mentality. That cop did not want to deal with this guy. And the guy was violating the menacing law in New York. state, menacing in the third degree. He was absolutely doing it. I had a witness standing next to me, my son. Cop did not want any part of it. That is why we have anarchy in this city.