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Episode Date: December 21, 2024

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So I hope things are under control of your house. Here I have a studio in my home. It's kind of bedlam, I have to tell you. It goes hour by hour, but there's just so many stuff, so much stuff coming in. You got to do this, got to do that, you got to mail this, you got to mail that. you forget that you know how it is all right and then i have to do radio and television uh this week which we're happy to do because there's a lot going on um you know usually slows down it's not it's every day a lot of important things that you have to know about so you're going to begin

this evening with the collapsing media that is the talking points memo so i'm sure you have heard that ab news abc news has to pay donald trump Trump, $16 million. Boy, Trump must be happy about that. Fifteen million goes to his upcoming presidential library and a million goes to legal fees and Georgie Stepanopoulos has to pay some of that money out of his own pocket. I think about a million dollars. Now, Stephanopoulos, as you know, is a Trump hater. He's also the most famous person on ABC News. Good morning. America. He does a Sunday show. But George would be getting a lot of trouble. And I suspect he's not long for Disney. I could be wrong about that. I don't have any inside information,

but it looks shaky to me. So let's run it down. All right. So on his program, Stepanopoulos, basically he was talking about the E. Jean Carroll case with Congress. woman Nancy Mace. All right, that was on March 10th of this year. Roll the tape. You've endorsed Donald Trump for president. Judges and two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape. How do you square your endorsement of Donald Trump with the testimony we just saw? Okay, it was not, Donald Trump was not found liable for rape. And it wasn't even close. And there were lesser charges. And it's still being appealed, I think that whole thing's going to be overturned on appeal myself, because it was

he said, she said, a very flimsy case, as many of them are. But anyway, so Stephanobos goes, you found liable for rape. That's big. And it wasn't true. So Trump filed suit, as he should have. All right. And then ABC had to submit Stepanopt. is for depositions this week. Now, if Georgie had gone in there under oath, he would have had to explain all the inner workings of ABC News and Disney. And they didn't want that. And that's why they settled, $16 million.

It's the same thing that happened to Fox News. Remember, Fox News lost $1 billion to the voting machine company because the voting machine company's lawyers were taken depositions of all the Fox News hierarchy and Fox News can't do that. Now, you can make your own implications about Disney, about Fox. I'm not going to tell you what they might have said. That's crazy.

I don't know. No idea. But these big corporations don't want that stuff out. So if some big corporation does something to you, keep that in mind. Well, once the announcement was made on Friday that ABC folded, which they did, and then paying Trump, then they far-left crazies on television went crazy. Go.

ABC made the calculated decision that, you know what, we're just going to pay? George Stephanopoulos also has to pay. He's on the hook for a million dollars of his own money. And that leaves the rest of us with, what? We want to be accurate, right? No, you don't. Wrong. That's ridiculous. Your whole network is propaganda from top to bottom. You don't want to be accurate. Couldn't care less about being accurate. You're in business to hate conservative people, to damage Republican politicians. That's why you're on the air. Come on. I love that sound like it. I just love. We want to be accurate. person, I've just won in this whole country who thinks MSNBC wants to be accurate.

If so, send me their name, I'll get them on. All right, now, this has been going on for 18 years, this kind of sloppy, dishonest analysis. And it's driven by the corporate media, which used to restrain itself when allegations were made. Again, somebody like Donald Trump or anyone, any American, that there had to be something back it up. Okay? And you just couldn't make up stuff, but now you can. Just make stuff up. But the tide is starting to turn a little bit. So let me give you one of the worst examples that I've experienced in my career. You remember in 2006, three Duke University lacrosse players were charged with forcible rape and a bunch of other stuff, all right?

What happened was these kids hired a stripper to come to a party. And the stripper then went to the authority and said, oh, they raped me. And they got arrested. Kids got arrested, all right? And you'll remember that there was hysteria in the media. And many people convicted those things. three students well now just this week December 12 okay the woman who made the accusation in 2006 finally says it didn't happen go I testified falsely against them by saying that they

raped me when they didn't and that was wrong and And I betrayed the trust of a lot of other people who believed in me and made up a story that wasn't true because I wanted validation from people and not from God. Now, that woman is serving 18 years in the penitentiary for murdering her boyfriend. And she gave the interview out of that penitentiary. country. Okay. So you can see these three Duke students who were exonerated, but the pain that their family and they, how do you get over something like that? Not easy. When you're falsely accused, stays with you your whole life. Never leaves. No, even if it turns out, okay, never leaves. But I want to show you this. So in 2006,

we're still covering this duke case. And I made this statement on the O'Reilly Factor. Go. Talk about a rush to judgment. There's now strong evidence the accuser in the case fabricated, at least part of the story, and charges of racism and sexism could be completely bogus. So we called most of the professors who signed that ad, wanting to talk to them about it. No one would step up.

They all ran away. Okay. So we reported the story accurately. And I was skeptical, obviously, because accusations cannot be used as facts. And I could name people who, but I'm not going to do that, all right? But you know, you know. So due process is a cornerstone of our nation.

The far left is try to destroy due process. Me too. Okay. Time's up. All of these heinous, I don't know, organizations you want. want to call them? Couldn't care less. If you settle something, you're guilty.

If you're accused, you're guilty. If you're implicated like you even know somebody, you're guilty. Everybody's guilty. Because they use it as a cudgel, a political cudgel. But when their side gets accused, they don't say a word. They don't say anything. And everybody knows what the game is. but I see a little turn

and it's Trump that did it Trump was accused of so many things and he had a kangaroo court in Manhattan convicted him of some stupid thing in a stormy Daniels case everybody knows is bogus and that's one of the reasons he was re-elected because people go, this is wrong

anyway ABC News 16 million light Georgie out a million, and you keep your eye on Georgie this year. That's a memo. Donald Trump went to the Army, Navy game Saturday. Now, it's hard to construct this, but I believe what I'm going to tell you is dead on. Might be off by a little, but I think it's correct.

So Trump's in a box, okay? J.D. Vance is in a box with him. And then Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson is there. Pete Hegseth is there, Elon Musk is there, Tulsi Gabbard is there, Daniel Penny, the guy acquitted in New York, okay, he's there, and a whole bunch of other people. So we put a clock on it, and CBS, which was broadcasting the game, talked about the box for 10 seconds. 10 3-hour game So if a Taylor Swift could have snuck in there

Then it would have been about what 12 minutes But CBS did that on purpose I mean that's a news story All those people in the box Watching the Army Navy game is a news story It's a legitimate story to cover Don't give it 10 seconds

Biden could have gone to the game He didn't go. So Trump's at the game. He's got all these people, including penny, and then give it 10 seconds. Excellent, right? Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold.

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You can find us at Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. All right. Real clear, politics is a website that, uh, gauges all the polls. Trump's favorability is up. Forty-nine percent of Americans now think he's okay. Forty-seven don't like him. This is up from October 12th, two months. Back then, it was 45 like them, so four percent rise. 52 didn't. Five percent decline. All right, Donald Trump, as you know, as we reported at a press conference yesterday, an hour and 11 minutes, 46 questions, and then CNN immediately fact check, Mr. Trump, go. And earlier in the press conference, Dana, he said over and over, I think, three times that

during his presidency, there were no wars, like no wars period in the world. That is simply not true, a rewriting of history. One research institution said there were active armed conflicts in about 50 states in 2020, including, of course, civil wars in Yemen, in Syria, in Somalia. All right. That's a nitpick, to say the least. Here's what Trump said. Go. Since the election, I've been working every day to put the world at ease a little bit to get rid of the wars. We had no wars when I left office, and now the whole world is blowing up.

But there's great optimism. Okay, so to call conflicts in places like Somalia a war is blatantly dishonest. Now, this guy, Daniel Dale, Canadian journalist, he hates Trump. His job is to make Trump look bad. When is CNN going to wise up? When are they going to get out of this? Their ratings couldn't be any lower. And they still do it.

Come on, everybody knows what Trump was saying. You didn't have Afghanistan. You didn't have Ukraine. Those are wars. Not a conflict inside Syria. Yeah, CNN, what is wrong? All right, let's talk about the media this year and next year. Who better than our pal Bernie Goldberg, who runs bernardgoberg.com.

Bernie is a simple man. Not as simple as I am, but he's simple. Just look at him and you can tell. There's not enough makeup in the world that can hide the simpleness. So, his website, bernardgoldberg.com, is easy to negotiate, to see, and it's fun. So I command you to go there today. All right, Bernie Goldberg comes from Miami. So I asked you to give me the three media highlights, three good things they did this year.

Go. Let me first, very briefly. You said, what's going on at CNN? it's in their DNA. It isn't going to change. It's in their DNA. That's why they keep doing things like that. All right, the three highlights.

First highlight. The Wall Street Journal on June 4th ran a story on page one that talked about how President Biden behind closed doors was showing signs of slipping mentally. The New York Times didn't do this. The Washington Post didn't tell that story.

of all the major mainstream news organizations, the Wall Street Journal said it first. And they had, as a result of that, they came under blistering attack, not only from the White House, but from President Biden's allies in the media, except three weeks after they ran the story, Joe Biden had a meltdown on national television

during the presidential debate, vindicating the Wall Street Journal's story. So I give that number one on my list and hats off, tip of the hat to the Wall Street Journal. Number two on my list, Fox News Channel for its coverage of illegal immigration and the chaos in general on the southern border of the United States. Fox did what television news does best. Didn't simply tell you what was going on. It took you there and showed you people literally sneaking into the country. country on live television. CNN wasn't doing that. MSNBC, sure as hell, wasn't doing

that. Fox deserves credit because it did do that. And by the way, these highlights are a mirror image of the low lights I'm going to tell you about in a minute or two. The third thing on my list of highlights, the rise of independent journalism in the United States. People like you, Bill, people like me, we can have conversations that are longer than sound bites, where you can say just about anything you want as long as it makes sense. And the most important thing from my point of view, you can say things where you don't have to worry about being canceled. Because if you said the same things on NBC, ABC, CBS, or even the cable channels, some of the things I've said would get me canceled, but you can say it as an independent journalist, and I think that's very

important. The rise of independent journalism is a major, a major item of importance as far as the media's concerned. Yeah, and it's taken on more momentum as well. Okay, now, we only have time for three lowlights, and there are about 3,000 of them. That's right. So which ones did you pick? All right. I said they're a mirror image of my highlights. the number one number one on my list of low lights the failure of the national news media to show any curiosity about president biden's mental condition i mean there were video clips of him wandering off into the forest and and not not knowing where he was going and the white house and again their allies in the media said well you're taking it out of context the

This was a major issue, and the media intentionally was asleep at the wheel. The second one was the southern border again. The southern border was one of the two major issues that decided the presidential election. Yet if you watched CNN, MSNBC, read the New York Times, the Washington Post, you might not have any idea that there was a crisis on the southern border. yet just the other day, page one of the New York Times, telling us that we've had the biggest influx of immigrants through the southern border ever in the history of the United States

bigger than when they came from Eastern Europe and Europe in general into Ellis Island. This was a huge story, and the Biden administration didn't want it covered, and their friends in the media didn't cover it. My last one was how most news organizations failed to notice the shift to the right of the American electorate. I'm going to give you an example of a very good journalist. David Ignatius, columnist for the Washington Post.

He's a liberal, but he's not a crazy left winger. On election night, when it became clear that Donald Trump was going to win, David Ignatius, has said, this election makes me realize how little I understand the American character in 2024. I am mystified by the outcome. This is a smart guy, and he's mystified by the outcome, which prompted me to write on my website that David Ignatius, a bright guy, knows more about what's going on in outer Mongolia than what's going on in middle America.

Yeah, because they live in bubbles. All right, those are good. Those are good. Exactly. So my analysis is 2025 is going to be the worst year for corporate media in the history of media. You're already seeing changes, big changes. All of the anchors and pundits are going to get their salaries cut significantly, that's already begun.

A lot of them have been furloughed. That's a polite word for fire, Chris Wallace. uh first one to go uh and that's going to continue as is the decline in audience now once the inaugurations uh happens then fox news which is riding high because they rode the trump wave uh they'll start to decline again as well primarily because most of these network and cable news outfits are boring they're repetitive they've got a panel of five six people you don't know who the people are you forget what they say 30 seconds after they say it it's meaningless not only are they corrupt rooting for Biden covering for the liberals all of that but they're boring and that's

why this whole thing is going to collapse in 25 i think you're right now i'm with yogi bera who said predictions are hard especially when they're about the future but this one i'll go so far as to predict that the decline in mainstream media is going to continue in 2025. The three major TV networks, ABC, NBC, and CBS, they've been in decline for decades, and they are an idea whose time has come and is gone. They're finished. They are gone. Cable news isn't far behind.

CNN, I'm with you. I don't know what's going to happen with CNN. MSNBC has been spun off. Yeah, they're gone. And they may turn out to be, who knows, I have no idea if they're going to exist next year. Fox is doing well and will continue to do relatively well. But the future bill is in independent journalism. People, you know what the average age of the Fox viewer is, 69 years old.

Yeah. And network news is the same. People under 50 aren't watching cable. They're not watching network news. They're getting their news from TikTok, from Reddit, from places I never heard of. I'm not saying that's a good thing, but it does say... It's a reality. That's why we're on YouTube.

That's why the NOSPN News is on YouTube, and we've increased our audience 10thold. All right, so I hope you have a happy Hanukkah, and it will be happy for Mr. Goldberg. If everyone goes to bernardgoldberg.com. I'd appreciate that. Yeah, it brings Bernie joy. All right, you know, it's a charitable thing that we're doing here to go to the website. And in this season of Christmas and Hanukkah, I mean, come on. How about that?

That's a pretty good pitch, right? You're killing me. We appreciate it. We're going to check in early in next year with you, Bernie, and you have a good one, best of the family, okay? I'll see you, Joe's. I see at Joe's, I hope. Yeah, Joe's is a crap. place stone crabs in Miami

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All right, that's what they looked at, specifically Heggseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and Cash Patel. And they examined it, and they came up with this number. 96% of all the network coverage, three networks, was negative on those three individuals. Anybody surprised? No. because the culture of the network news will never change. Even though they've been defeated, humiliated, Cepinopoulos ABC has to pay $16 million, CBS 60 Minutes,

being sued by Trump because of the alleged interview with Kamala Harris, that they misedited it, and the ratings are going down everywhere. they're not going to change because almost everybody inside those organizations are left or far left. Now, the corporations are panicking. The front page in the New York Post today, it's got Stepanopoulos, you know, it's embarrassing. And Bob Eiger, they had a Disney, made them settle the case. I hear because there was emails between Stepanopoulos and producers at ABC, and a producer said to Stepanopoulos, don't say that Trump raped that woman.

And Stepanopoulos said it anyway. That shows malice. If you could produce those emails, which ABC would have to do. That's what I'm hearing. Can I confirm it to be true? I can't. I haven't seen the emails. But it comes from a very reliable source.

It's an anonymous source. So I can't go and tell you it's a fact. But there was a reason that ABC Disney settled that case because they would have been thoroughly embarrassed. George Epinopoulos is the poster boy for the left wing embedded into the news organizations at the network level. He's a poster boy who worked for Clinton.

He was Clinton's top guy. It's not a journalist. I have nothing against George. I've known him for years. Treated me okay. I mean, you know, not great, but he was, you know. But this is ridiculous. So 96% of the coverage on Heggseth, Gabbard, and Patel were negative.

That's what we got in America. Matt Gates. So I thought I would have the ethics report now. It's going to come out any time. It's going to be hateful. toward Gates. I feel bad for Gates. I don't like Gates. I thought he's a very destructive congressman. I think he's a showboat. I don't think he's looking out for you. Could be wrong, but I'm not. And Gates made a lot of enemies. A lot. And that's why this is all happening.

But it's not really fair. You know, he's not in Congress anymore. They don't have to release this, it's going to make him look bad, it's going to hurt his family, it's Christmas, I wouldn't do it. This is one of the most fascinating legal cases we have had in America the last 20 years. Listen to this. TikTok, huge among younger Americans, enormous. I've never been on it. I don't even know how to get on it, but it's short videos.

And everybody's on TikTok. It's owned by the Chinese company. Chinese companies are not independent. The government of China runs all the companies. That's communism. Okay. TikTok is huge in America. Enormous.

Now, Biden signed a law that says, if the Chinese don't put TikTok up for sale by January 19th, federal government's going to ban it. No more TikTok. TikTok. Coming up fast. So either put it up for sale or your vapor. Biden signed it. Now, Supreme Court is going to hear this case on January 10th because it pits free expression, TikTok, free expression against national security. Because once you go on TikTok, the Chinese have your information. And you go on any website to have your information. Something pops up on your

dopey machine here. And right before airtime, something popped up on mine. Just delete it. Don't look at it. If you don't know what it is, God. Okay. So the Supreme Court has to decide whether the First Amendment overrides the security concern. I can't. I can't. can't call that. But I think what's going to happen is the Supreme Court's going to stay Biden's order, and they're going to throw it back to the lower courts for more analysis. That's what I think is going to happen. But this is big. Okay. I don't have anything else on the drones for you. I wish I did. So outrageous. Isn't it outrageous? Biden administration. They got to know what it is by now. And then we'll tell us, oh, I'm so glad they're

going to be out of there, aren't you? Oh, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. All right, this is a great story. So 70 miles northwest of New York City is a place called Scotchtown, New York. So a guy goes out in his front yard, and he's rooting around in his bushes, and he finds two giant teeth, and then he starts to dig, and he gets two more teeth, and then he starts to dig, and he gets a skull. And it's a mastodon. A mastodon became extinct 13,000 years ago. It's kind of like a giant elephant with dinosaur qualities or something and it weighs six tons so it needs to see the mastodon if we're alive today would have to see Marie Osmond right away big big animal all right so this guy on his front lawn is this big skull this mastodon and he gets

it what's it worth about 10 grand because they're a dinosaur collectors who pay them about ten. There have been a couple of others discovered, and that's the ballpark. Fascinating story. War on Christmas. So let's go back to 2005, 19 years ago. I get a letter. I'm working a factor at Fox News from an employee of Target. And the employee says, I have been told not to say Merry Christmas or I'm going to get fired. I couldn't believe that. So I gave it to my crack staff. And I said, check this out.

So that'd be true. Turns out to be true. And I go, no, this is not going to happen in the United States. I remember, the O'Reilly Factor was the most powerful news program in this country. And to this day, no one will surpass it. and influence of power. So I'm going to play you two minutes of what I did after receiving that letter.

Go. The factor investigation segment tonight. As you know, Christmas has become controversial in America. Public displays of the federal holiday are under attack by the ACLU. And some department stores even tell employees to avoid saying Merry Christmas. So we decided to look at some retail policies this year,

and here's what we found out. Sears Kmart would not answer our questions. spokesman Chris Braithwaite simply ducked the issue their website banners, wishbook holiday 2005. They were the worst we had to deal with. Okay, Sears Kmart. J.C. Penny says its catalog is always called Christmas catalog. Federated department stores, Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Bird Eye, and says the words, Merry Christmas will be used in most advertising. Same thing at May, Filene's, Lord and Teller, and Marshall Fields. But Coles refused to define how

company we'll deal with Christmas. Dillards, however, we'll use the slogan, Discover Christmas, discover Dillard. So there you go. Shop where you like the atmosphere. Just remember Coles and Sears Kmart. Basically, no, all right. With us now, Philip Nolan, author of the book, Just Say Yes, Extreme Customer Service. That's what I like. Extreme customer service. All right. 85% of Americans say they're Christians. Christmas is a federal holiday, signed it to law by U.S. Grant, and we're living in a time or some retail outlets will not say Merry Christmas. Insane? No, no, I don't think it's insane. I think that it's good business practice, actually. And many organizations are trying desperately to be inclusionary. They feel that the use of Merry Christmas in their packaging, their bags, their messages,

their environment is just the opposite. It's exclusionary. the 15 or 20% of the customer base that is not Christian. And you agree with that. I do from a marketing standpoint. See, I think you're crazy. And here's why. I think the backlash against stores that don't say Merry Christmas is enormous. Because now people are aware of the issue.

So I just called the guest crazy. That's why the show was so powerful. So we won. We won. And it was a brawl. You saw the little sticker media matters. They co-opted that illegally, by the way, took it from Fox News, and then they stamped it and played it and said, Oh, Riley's making it up, O'Reilly this, Riley, that.

But today, 2024, every retailer says Merry Christmas, no than any of it. That was the biggest victory that I had, and one of the proudest moments, that I could change the culture, which was rapidly diminishing Christmas back then. Thanks to the ACLU, the worst organization in the world, they were going into the courts, the crutches, all of this. It's all done. You don't even hear about it anymore. It was done because of me and my staff and the Fox News Channel.

And we are so much of a better society because you might think it's a little thing, it's not a little thing. It isn't. And people don't remember how it went down, particularly younger viewers, because we're on YouTube now all over the place. And some younger viewers, they weren't around, 2005. That was enormous, but it was a brawl. It was an absolute brawl. And I remember fighting these people hand to hand. But we prevailed. And now it is Merry Christmas, as it should be now I got a letter from a concierge member very sad letter his son died from Huffing I didn't even know what Huffing was okay so Huffing is an air duster so there are household chemicals that are used for cleaning and these

drug addicts put them in a jar or a handkerchief or whatever and they inhale them and they get high and this guy died this guy's son and he wants me to tell everybody that this is very dangerous you don't have to go buy buy this stuff from a drug dealer or anything like that it's around on the internet of course shows you how to do it shows you how to kill yourself but if your parent you have young children I mean young in teens you know like that you ought to know air duster okay fumes and vapors that you inhale and they get people high boy so the florida couple uh has home in meechoican mexico on a pacific coast about five hours in mexico city all right and

they're dead they got murdered um they had a home down there they went down there to get out of the winter and they're dead and uh raphael cardona and his wife uh gloria Cardona. Raphael's 53 was, Gloria's 50. And the murder's not going to be solved. Nobody's going to look at it to them. So if you're going to vacation in Mexico, if you're thinking about buying property in Mexico, no one is going to protect you. No one. Smart Life, 72% of Americans hope to avoid discussing politics at Christmas celebrations. according to the American Psychological Association, okay? 32% say, we want to do it.

Don't invite them. Boot them. So we went over this for Thanksgiving, you know, appropriate, keep a sense of humor, but don't get it to political arguments on Christmas. Come on. Okay, final thought of the day. I am going to change, not my personality,

I'm going to change my clothing. This is like instantaneous because in about 40 seconds, through the magic of videotape, we are going to bring you Holly the Teradog, but I wanted to set it up because this is what I'm doing here in my tie-in jacket. But I can't do that with Holly the Teradog because you just shed all over it, shed H-S-H-G-D. So, you're going to see a transformation, all right? It is about to come your way. And before we get to it, I want to wish everybody a blessed Christmas.

All right, take it away. And the final thought today is the Christmas dog. I'm in my Christmas shirt. The Christmas dog is going, why are you torturing me? Why am I here? The payment to the dog union, I got a treat, I got to treat Christmas dog. So Holly's had a rough year in 2024, two brain tumors removed, and she's really been a good dog. So we pray for Holly, St. Francis, right, Holly?

We're big St. Francis fans here. and she's going to have a better 2025. She's nine years old, Corgi Pure Blood. Got her in Georgia. They don't have a lot of corgi breeders up here in the Northeast. And I'm a very nice woman down there. And we got Holly nine years ago. Remember that, Holly?

You got on the plane. He came up to Long Island. And she's a very, very sweet dog. I know, I know. You're not getting after-wage. used to be on TV. Just let everybody see you. Okay. I want you to meet. Wish everybody a Merry Christmas. All right. And we are going to have a good one here because Holly is relatively healthy. So thank you all for your letters and kindness. I want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas. You guys are really

the best. You've been very loyal to me and Holly. We really appreciate it. And we'll be back Monday, January 6th. Have a good, you know, New Year. keep it under control. Be very generous on Christmas if you can. Okay, Holly, that's it. We're going. See you on Monday, January 6th.