Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Right and Wrong

Episode Date: October 31, 2023

Bill summarizes this past Friday's Long Island show and talks about why right and wrong is important. 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 if you were listening to Sit in the morning, and I hope you do, a very entertaining program, as you know. We discussed, I was on in our live show, Huntington Long Island, on Friday night at the Paramount Theater, great venue, packed house. And the theme of the show was right and wrong. And how I was raised, and you probably as well, in a home and in an educational system, that actually had. a mandate to teach the urchins as dim as they were. And believe me, I was a dim kid. Dim D-I-M. Right and wrong. The things you did, things you didn't do, if you did stuff wrong, you were punished. Oh, oh, oh. The no bail thing was not in place in my Catholic schooling. You paid a price, but all that was good.

It was absolutely good because it formulated a life view that there is a wrong way to live and a right way to live. Yes, it's judgmental. Ooh, judgmental. Progressives, oh no, no, no, can't have that. That's why we're atheists. We don't believe anybody to judge us. We do what we want. Doesn't matter if we heard other people.

Uh-uh. It's always an excuse. So anyway, I'm going to play you a clip one minute, 41 seconds of what I was talking about, live on stage. Roll the table. Okay? And then I went to school. St. Bridget's School, Westbury, Long Island. Okay, and I remember this is like it was yesterday and I'm an old dude, right?

So I show up the first grade, Sister Mary Isis. The waterboard right next to her desk. And we walk in and there's. this nun, it will dress all in black, right, with the white thing across this. You can only see your face, right? And all of a sudden, I'm into a world that Rod Serling would not enter. Twilight Zone doesn't come close. So from the jump, it was, if you do anything fun, you're going to hell. So let's just get that on the table, big blackboard, anything fun, line, hell. Now, at first grade, we couldn't read, we didn't really know what that meant, so she used little devil pictures. And I went through eight years, 60 kids in the class, 6-0, one none. and there was corporal punishment.

Lots of corporal punishment, which I'm not an advocate of. I never hit my kids. I did raise my voice on occasion, but I tried to keep it down. But, you know, I was a pretty formidable father in the home. I didn't really have to do that. I wouldn't have done it anyway. There are much better ways to parent, but I don't hold it against my parents. I hold it against the nuns a little bit.

They overdid the corporal punishment thing. Oh my God, I could tell you stories, and I did, I did tell them to you. But anyway, it was a different era back then. Parents and the teachers were trying to mold you into a good person to avoid doing bad things. It was just simple as that. And then it all blew up. The Vietnam era came in, sex, drugs, rock and roll, authority is bad, atheism is good, and on and on and on to where we are now.

So anyway, we're going to try to do another show, we have not completed it, but I think we'll do another one in case you didn't get an opportunity to come out to Huntington. I think it's well worth your time because it's funny and Sid was great. He talked about his upbringing in Brooklyn and his family. But the takeaway on it is our society is falling apart literally because the tenets of right and wrong have disappeared.