Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Highlights from O'Reilly's No Spin News - December 8, 2023

Episode Date: December 9, 2023

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You know, it's very frustrating to watch last Thursday's debate. I haven't spoken to you about it. I did watch the whole thing at Sean Hannity's request. If I wasn't friendly with Hannity, I probably would have watched about half of it. because you just couldn't get any questions answered directly by Governor Newsom. I knew that DeSantis was going to go in with an agenda of it was what we did in Florida, Florida's successful, bum, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, that's what's going to happen. But I was surprised to the extent that Governor Newsom wouldn't answer the questions.

And that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. So this is a new strategy. It started evolving in 2008, and I'll prove that in a moment. But the strategy now is if a journalist asks a politician a question, he or she does not like, they're not going to answer the question. They'll spin. That's why I created the no-spin news, the no-spin zone. They just won't answer it.

And most journalists, they don't know what to do then. I'm so obnoxious that I go, you didn't answer the question, okay, but most people won't do that. It began, and this is fascinating, in 2008 with Congressman Barney Frank, I'm sure many of you have seen a shootout that I had with the congressman. And it was about the economy collapsing in America due to the fact that there were a lot of delinquent mortgages. that people got mortgages when they didn't qualify for them and couldn't pay the money back. All right, and that tottered everything and led to Barack Obama being elected

because the economy fell off the cliff in the last year of Bush. You might remember this stuff. Barney Frank was in charge of Freddie Mac Fannie Mae, which led the way to giving mortgages and very lenient, all right, provisions. Okay, I'm going to run a short clip. Now, the setup is I asked Congressman Frank,

do you have any responsibility here for the wobbling economies and you are in charge of pushing these easy mortgages? Go. I do think their prospects going forward are very solid, and in fact, we're going to do some things that are going to improve them. Well, obviously that statement turned out not to be true.

Joining is now from Washington is Congressman Frank, and we appreciate you coming in being a stand-up guy, but shouldn't everybody in the country be angry with you right now? No, you've misrepresented this consistently. I became chairman of the committee on January 31st, 2007. Less than two months later, I did what the Republicans hadn't been able to do in 12 years. Get through the committee a very tough regulatory bill. Okay. And then the interview descended into chaos from there. Because Frank didn't, wouldn't answer the question that the economy went over the cliff because of these mortgages. He was in charge for a year. Okay. And now he blamed it on the Republicans. That's what they all do now. Okay. So that was, and I'm not essentially proud of the fact that Frank and I went out of. It was more. my fault than his fall, because I called them, what did I call him a liar?

Whatever I did, I went too far. You can Google it on, you know, just Google O'Reilly-Borny Frank. Okay. Now, today, Governor Newsom, who will be the nominee if Biden can't make it, it's not going to be Kamala. The Democratic Party would turn to him. He leaves the league in dodging stuff. So let's run in a couple of soundbites. Go for the first one. I do have a follow-up. The 6% rate on people, families, a couple in California,

they pay 6% income tax on $84,000 a year. Low-wage workers in the state of Florida pay more than $1,000. I didn't ask about Florida. I didn't ask about Florida. And he didn't. He clearly said, Annie, $84,000 a year, your gut, him at 6%. and they have to pay federal income tax on top of that. But low wage earners, okay, you see, you're never going to get that.

Sound by number two, go. Here is public school spending per K through 12 students, according to the Education Data Initiative from the U.S. Census Bureau and National Center for Education. Florida spends nearly $12,000 per student, while California spends over $16,000. Florida is ranked number one by U.S. News and World Report in terms of state education rankings. California ranks 20th. Governor Newsom, what is your explanation? You spend more money

and they have better results in Florida. Why? He's told you what I'm doing in public education. We created a brand new grade pre-K for all. We're doing after school and summer school for all. We're reimagining the school day. He created a pre-K and he's reimagining. Doesn't come close to answering the question? I'm picking on Newsom, but they all do it. Both parties do it. Now, I want to give DeSantis a little credit.

He didn't dodge very much in that debate. Here's an example. Go. What was the reason for you from going from 15 weeks to six weeks? Well, I believe in a culture of life. I think we're better off when everybody counts, when everybody has an opportunity to do well. And that bill attaches when there's a detectable heartbeat. And he kind of answered the question.

I mean, he wants fewer abortions. That's what he should have said. I'd like fewer abortions. You know, and he couches it a little. But it wasn't outrageous. Now, the only way to stop this is for the interviewer to keep a chart, you know, during the interview and say, look, this is the fourth time you've dodged.

This is just sixth time you've dodged. Then thereby you would be almost humiliating, embarrassing this subject, and then you wouldn't get any guests. Okay, that's just the way it is. There are a lot of people that I, you know, I was so powerful on the Fox News Channel, we got most of the people that we wanted. But it wasn't easy. It was not a free ride for anybody, and everybody knows that. And it carried over to the no-spin news where I use fewer guests. all right, we can get pretty much, but we can't get Nikki Haley, for example,

just blew us off. Why? All right? I mean, this broadcast reaches millions of people all over the world, you know? I can't speculate about why, but that's one name. And I'll never get anybody from the Biden administration, whereas Obama had enough courage to come in three times with me. And that's a memo. Very interesting poll. Okay, this is 4,03 registered voters. How do I get those three in there? Publican 36, Democrat 37, independent 25, fair poll.

First question, if 24 election president held today, who would you vote for? Trump 46, Biden 42, don't know 13. That don't know is a significant number. Because if you don't know between Trump and Biden, by now, it's. interesting. Second question, 24 election features four candidates. Who would you vote for? Trump 41, down five points. Biden 33, down a whopping nine points. Kennedy 13, Cornell West two, don't know 11. All right, the primary on the Republican side were held today. Who would you go for? Trump 36, Haley 9, Christie 7. So in lieu of disaster, it looks like Trump has it,

So 22% of Republicans are not sure. Again, a significant number. 2024 next year, going to be one of the most important years in American history. If these progressives are not stopped, then the United States, as we know it today, it's going to disappear. And I'm not, that's not hyperbola. That's not Trump's a Nazi. that's not propaganda. That is absolute fact.

These progressives, and we're going to tell you tonight exactly how they are making inroads. But first, the Republican debate, did you see it last night? That is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. So News Nation, I think, is a worthy enterprise. I know, I'm prejudiced because they use my commentary. But I think it's on the right track.

So they had the fourth debate, which is a coup. The fourth debate featured four Republicans, so it was more contained. It was the best debate, in my opinion. Again, I worked for News Nation. I don't really work for them. It's more of an alliance. There's nobody telling me what to do. That'll never happen again in my lifetime.

And they sent the debate up in Alabama, and there were three moderators, very professional. I thought all three ladies did a nice job. I didn't think that Christy and Ramoswami should have been on the stage because they don't have any chance. And their numbers, the poll numbers are really not, they could have easily been told, look, you're just not polling as high. And you could have had the two that are Haley and DeSantis. I think it would have been a better debate, but Ramoswami, obviously, bomb thrower, livening things up, and we'll get into it. So I came on after the debate with my no-spin analysis.

Go. Now, the winner of the debate, and I knew you were going to ask, was DeSantis. And the reason is that DeSantis tapped into the emotion that Republican voters are feeling when he went after the border and said, I would use violence against these cartel members. The border is the most emotional issue for Republicans. The economy is second, but the appalling state of the southern border,

today was a record number of migrants crossing. DeSantis was right on it. He won the debate because he was able to run down in Florida, how he took on the progressive left and won. Haley came across as an establishment figure, okay? She's distant. She's not a culture warrior. She acquits herself well, very intelligent, could run the country, certainly could beat Joe Biden.

No doubt of my mind that if we're Nikki Haley against Joe Biden, Haley would win probably in a landslide. But for Republican voters, she doesn't have the verb, the emotion to right the wrongs, which is Trump's trait. He's the warrior. He's going to clean it up. Christy and Ramoswamy should not have been in the debate. It's not news nation's fault. The Republican National Committee chooses. They have no chance.

They're not going to surge. They took up airtime. Okay. So that's pretty much what it was. And just to back up my assertion, we have a new Trafalgar poll out of Iowa, which is, of course, the first vote coming up very quickly in January. So the question is, if the Republican caucus rail tomorrow, who would you support? Donald Trump 45, DeSantis 22, Nikki Haley 19, Ramoswamy 5, Christy 4. So look, Trump is going to win Iowa, but DeSantis is putting all of his chips there. So I think DeSantis may show well. And Haley, too. I mean, there are a lot of Republicans who don't want Trump because he causes too much chaos. As simple as that.

It's a very simple thing. I don't think you're going to find any Republicans in this country that would say in the four years Donald Trump was president. he didn't run the country efficiently. I don't know if any Republican who would say that, particularly because the Supreme Court Justice that he's elected are saving the country right now. We'll get into that a little bit later. But the chaos that Donald Trump brings puts awful lot of voters.

I'm not going to defend the chaos. I wish he didn't do that. I know he has to do some of it. But I would much rather see him run on this record, and you know that. I'm telling you things you already know. 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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every day. Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. Okay, so let's get into two situations that required fact checking. And you can't do that if you're a moderator on a scene, you just can't, particularly when one of the moderators, Megan Kelly, was lobbying an accusation against Governor Christie that he was soft on trans students. Roll the tape. You talk about parental rights. Let's talk about him. When you were governor in 2017, you signed a law that required new guidelines for schools dealing with transgender students. Those guidelines required schools to accept a child's preferred gender identity,

even if the minor's parents objected. And it said that there is no duty for schools to notify parents if their son or daughter changes their gender identity, allowing this serious issue to remain a secret between the school and a child. How is any of that pro-parental rights? By the way, that's simply not true.

You're doing what you accuse me up, Chris. It is absolutely true. That's simply not true. Okay, we can't find anything in that law. Christy signed a law. it's NJS 3067, and it requires the state's education commissioner to develop guidelines for school districts on how to deal with issues facing transgender students. That's the law. We can't find anything that Christie was involved with in New Jersey that says that schools have to accept

a student's preferred gender. We can't find that. All right. And the school has to keep secret what that preferred gender would be. Maybe it exists. I can't find it. And believe me, I have the best researchers in the country. So let's assume it does not exist.

So Megan Kelly is wrong and Christie is right. And I don't have any use for Chris Christie. I thought it was amusing when he tried to defend Nikki Haley from Ramoswamy's personal attacks. And by saying, don't you attack the ambassador in a personal war? Well, I white governor, your entire campaign is based on personal attacks against Donald Trump. I thought that was pretty fascinating. Anyway, but the truth is the truth. So if I'm wrong, if somebody in New Jersey knows about a secret,

packed that the students don't have, the school doesn't have to inform their parents of transgender behavior, let me know. Because all this thing was in 2017 was guidelines, which is which are needed. Parents need to know what the school can and can't are willing to do. Okay. Second one was money. This is fascinating. So Rameswami, he was the bomb thrower, you know, and I know what he's trying to do. He's trying to get famous. And you'll see him on cable. Somebody will hire him as a contributor.

Okay, so he's going after Nikki Haley. Go. Nikki, you were bankrupt when you left the U.N. After you left the U.N., you became a military contractor. You actually started joining service on the board of Boeing, who's back you scratched for a very long time, and then gave foreign multinational speeches like Hillary Clinton is. And now you're a multimillionaire.

That math does not add up. It adds up to the fact that you are corrupt. All right. Is that true? Yes. It is. Here are the stats. Here are the backup.

In 2018, when Nikki Haley stepped down as UN ambassador, she owed a million dollars. A million dollars of debt to Haley family. Okay? 2019 to 20, she took a job on the board of directors at Boeing, collected more than $300,000 for doing so. Okay?

In 2019, she wrote a memoir. With all due respect, it sold 100,000 copies, but we don't know how much she got for that, but I'm going to tell you she got about 400,000. That's what, from my knowledge of the publishing industry, probably got 400,000. In 19, she bought a 2.4,000. $2.4 million home in Kiowa Island, South Carolina. And remember, just a year before that, she was

a million in debt, because she never couldn't have got a mortgage for 2.4. In 22, she wrote another book. If you want something done, leadership lessons from bold women, she got $350,000 advance for that. 22, again, she made $2.3 million from 11 speaking engagements, all corporate. That is astounding. Astounding. And in 23 as well, Forbes estimated she had an $8 million fortune. So in five years, she went from a million in debt to $8 million in the black. Now, is that corrupt? No. Ramaswamy overstepped it. Is it dubious? Yes. The big thing is Boeing. While governor, Nikki Haley gave the Boeing Corporation out of Washington State tax breaks to go to South Carolina, to open shop. Nothing wrong with that. Boeing employed a lot of South Carolinians.

But then as soon as she gets out of the governorship, she's on the board of directors at Boeing. You know, you make the call. You make the call. So we fact-checked it. What we told you was in stone. Joining us now in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is journalist Isaac Saul. He is the founder of Tangle News. So I get lots of mail saying, where do I go, you know, outside of my own operation?

And I go to the Wall Street Journal. But we have recently taken on Tangle. semaphore, we're looking at them. All right, these are independent agencies like mine. And they deliver good information. And Mr. Saul is the head of that. So I read somewhere where you're going to Transylvania University in Kentucky, and that's a real college.

I actually know it. And I can't believe you would enroll there because then you'd have to wear a black cape and all that. But anyway, you're going there to discuss why the profession of journalism has sunk so low in the court of public opinion, correct? Yeah, I mean, if you look at any of the recent polling we have about how people feel about the media, you'll see pretty unbelievably bad numbers. I think a recent Gallup poll showed about 16% of Americans said they had a great deal of trust in television news

and the number is even lower for newspapers now. Pretty much the only thing that polls worse than the media. these days is Congress, which is loath by pretty much everybody currently. So it is not a good time to be a reporter, at least in the sense that it's, you know, it's really hard to earn people's trust. And I think a lot of that is the media's own fault. I think we've done it to ourselves in a lot of ways. And it doesn't surprise me at all that that's the current state of things.

Well, how did it happen, though? I mean, what do you think? There was a time when I was in grad school at Boston U, getting a broadcast journalism master's degree, which the media was trusted. They were involved with the Watergate at that point. They had aggressively covered the Vietnam War, and they were, you know, credible. That's the word. Cronkite, Chancellor, all those people.

So what happened? Yeah, so I talk about three main issues, which is transparency, hiring, and, it's a general balance that we see in the media. So in terms of transparency, you know, the biggest issue for me is that most news organizations are not transparent about how the mistakes they make happen. So when the New York Times gets a story wrong like the bombing of a hospital in Gaza, they might issue a correction. But we're not totally clear on how that mistake actually happened, why it happened, which leaves a lot of room for suspicion. We saw this, you know, during the Trump era. A lot of mistakes tended to go the wrong way, at least against Trump. So if you were somebody

reading a lot of mainstream media, anytime you saw a major error, it was typically the kind of error that made Trump look worse than what the actual correction ended up looking like. And we didn't often get explanations about that. So that's one. Two is hiring, which is just that, you know, most news organizations are dominated by people with moderate center or left of center politics. There are very few conservatives or Republicans who are working in the industry. That's not some conspiracy theory. There's polls of journalists and media outfits all across the country all the time. And they always show the same results, which is that a vast majority of people who work in the profession of journalism are people with center or left of center politics. And there

are very few people on the right side of the political spectrum, which impacts the coverage that you see. And that brings me to balance, which is just, you know, If you read the New York Times in the Wall Street Journal covering the exact same event, you'll see them cover it in drastically different ways, which is a problem for both media outlets. Their coverage with, you know, presumably some of the best reporters in the world should be a lot more similar, but it's not. And that is just a reflection of the fact that a lot of media organizations are using their reporting to sort of espouse a worldview rather than tell honestly what's happening. How badly did, how badly did the. voting machine fiasco hurt Fox News?

I think it hurt them a lot. I mean, that's actually, it's funny you mention that because that's one of the examples I use in my talk, which is that, you know, for Fox News, they were in a position where they were feeding their viewers what they wanted to hear, which is a really dangerous place to be as a news organization, you know, I know your politics, Bill, and I'm listening to you at the top tell your audience that, hey, there's some evidence that Biden needs to be investigated, but there isn't smoking gun evidence that he should be in peace. And I think that's the right thing to tell your viewers. But a lot of conservative columnists are telling their audience

that the evidence is smoking gun and Biden should be impeached. And that's the wrong thing to tell your audience because it's not there. It's just trying to tell them what they want to hear to make sure that they like you and keep them happy. And Fox News is trying to tell its audience what they wanted to hear. Yeah, that's what they're all doing now because that's what it comes down to money. They can make money preaching to the choir. And if you look, I'll just give you a really good example. And you may run into this as a young journalist. So when the election happened 2000, 2020, when it happened, about 10 days, two weeks after I told my audience that there wasn't enough evidence to present to the federal judges because I was watching

Supreme Court Justice Alito who had sway over Pennsylvania. And I was watching what was going to be submitted to Alito who was sympathetic to this. He was sympathetic that there might have been fraud in Pennsylvania. All right? Well, the Trump people didn't submit anything to him at all. And I said, you know what? At this point, you got to just go. with what the election returns are because you don't have any hard evidence, you know, individuals running around saying that's one thing, but you got to present it to the court of law. I must have lost a thousand premium members to Bill O'Reilly.com by saying that, all right? Then we're an independent as you are at Tangle. We're independent here. We depend

on our viewers and listeners on the radio to support us and our sponsors. When you lose a thousand in two days, but I had to do it because that's me. If I had been in that chair at Fox News at 8 o'clock with the O'Reilly Factor, none of that would have happened. None of it would have happened because I would have come out, boom. I would have put Britt Hume on because he was of like mind, and I would have just wiped it out, but I'm not there anymore. So Fox News, I don't know if it's ever going to recover its trust image among just regular folks.

The staunch conservatives, that's where they go still, but not to the numbers that they did. All right, last question for you, as an independent kind of guy, and the website is retangle.com, very easy, retangle at a guy. Do you believe that Americans really want to know the truth, Isaac? Or are they just comfortable in their ideological slot? They just want to hear what they believe. What do you believe? I'll tell you what. When I started this, I did not believe that Americans wanted to always hear the truth,

even when it was hard for them. My instinct was that would be really hard to build a media company like this, that shared views from across the political spectrum. But as I've gone on building Tangle out, I'm starting to see that there are a ton of Americans who want that. Because even if people disagree with the other side of their own political positions, they want to understand them. And more than that, I think a lot of Americans are just exhausted.

They're tired of the really nonstop stream of extremism on both sides of the media and both sides of the political spectrum. And they're interested in more nuanced. they're interested in a better understanding of their neighbors. And I personally do feel like we have hit rock bottom in terms of how much people want to be in their own bubbles. So on that note, I am definitely optimistic. And I've seen it firsthand.

I mean, we're a young media organization, but we've got 80,000 people on our mailing list. We've got a podcast, a YouTube channel. We have a huge audience that comes in every month to view our content, hundreds of thousands of people. And that to me is a signal that we're doing something. there's a really big appetite for the country right now. Well, keep it up. Readtangle.com. Thank you, Isaac.

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We're going to you. All right. Consumer spending USA broke a record in October. Okay? Where do you hear this? Consumers spent $2 trillion just in October in America. This is according to Wallet Hub, and they do the research on it. Now, what that means is we, the people, are keeping this country out of a recession because

we're spending, continuing to spend an enormous amount of money. Many of us don't have that money. Keep that in mind. We're spending on credit, which is never a good thing. But consumers spent 81% of all take-home pay in October. That means they only had 19% left over for emergencies, for savings, for investments. Getting up there. Okay, because consumers continue to spend so much, about 4%, a little less, 3% of retired Americans

have to take money now out of their IRAs and other 401ks, their retirement funds. Okay, not only them, but younger people who are investing in retirement funds take the money out. They can't pay their bills. The insurance bill is killing everybody. I'm getting letters every day, okay? You do have in every state, all 50 states, an insurance commission in your state. You should know what that is because these insurance companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to advertise with the NFL and and all this, how many state farm commercials

we're gonna see, okay? They're doubling premiums for no reason. That's gotta get under control. Okay, you have to have insurance on your home and your car. That is way out of whack, and that happened on the bike. Okay, so we are not in a good place, but if we cut back on our spending, then the odds of a recession go up.

Anti-Semitism on college campuses. Okay. So there was a hearing yesterday, House Education Committee, and they dragged in the president of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania, all top flight schools, or at least they used to be. Roll the tape. It is a context-dependent decision, Congresswoman.

It's a context-dependent decision. That's your testimony today. calling for the genocide of Jews is depending upon the context, that is not bullying or harassment. This is the easiest question to answer yes, Ms. McGill. So is your testimony that you will not answer yes? If it is, if the speech becomes conduct, it can be harassment, yes. So it's okay to threaten somebody's life at the University of Pennsylvania, say, I'm going to kill you because you're a Jew. But if you don't act on it, it's okay. I mean, that's what

she just said. You know, from top to bottom of this broadcast and we're 28 minutes in, I've just presented insane stuff. The one common denominator of all the people doing insane the insane stuff. The one thing that binds them all together, is they're all progressives. Keep that in mind. Gavin Newsom, Mr. Progressive, cancels the tree lighting ceremony in Sacramento, the state capital, because he's afraid of pro-Palestinian protesters. So nobody could go in person to watch the tree, get lit. The Christmas tree. Of course, Gavin Newsom would never call it a Christmas tree, but you can't see it. They do it virtually whatever that means. Because he's afraid of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators. He said, we're going to show up and disrupt it.

Just like they did in New York, and the MIPD kept them away. Okay, but Gavin says, no, no, we're going to cancel. Profile and courage, huh? California, starting January 1st, 2024. If you are a large store, you have to have a gender-neutral toy department. Let's put the law up, and I'll read it to you. The law would require a retail department store physically located in California with a total of 500 more employees across all California retail department store locations that sells child care items or toys to maintain a gender-neutral section or area for the children

that itself shall be displayed regardless of whether they have been traditionally marketed for other boys or girls. You've got to have gender and neutral. And if you don't, you can be charged $250 for each day you don't. with the communists still. You have a private store, private enterprise, the government comes in, you better do this. I want Fidel's picture over there.

If I don't say it, you're going to arrest you or fine you. This is clearly unconstitutional as law. You government can't come into a private business and say you've got to have a gender neutral section. But it's, they're going to try. Try it. California. Smart lives.

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This study was commissioned by Gallup, the polling industry and the Institute for Family Studies. It was done by Jonathan Rothwell of the Brookings Institute, very prestigious, and it says that adolescents, urchins with very conservative parents are 17% more likely to be in good or excellent mental health compared to urchins raised by liberals. That's a study.

Though if you're a conservative parent, your kids are 18%, 17% more likely to be happy and well-adjusted. Why? Discipline. Now I'm generalizing, but liberal parents tend to be, no, let them go, you don't want to be too hard. The conservative parents have rules.

Rules for urchins are good. Not draconian rules, reasonable rules. And when they're broken, as inevitably they will be, discipline. There's a price to pay. That is, the urchins may complain about it, but they really want that. It provides structure and guidance.

That's the study. Okay, there's the first. final thought of the day, so next year is a vital year in American history, 2004, tell the tale on which way this country is going to go. We're going to get back to traditional tenants that made us the greatest country on earth, or are we going to let the far left progressive movement take us over and destroy and divide us? What are we going to do? So, even the dimest among us, all right, when presented with that, traditional progressive, got to start to pay attention. As we discussed earlier in the program, you're not going to get the truth from the

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