Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Media Hysteria Over Trump's Cabinet Picks, Reviving Kate's Law, Californians Back Harris for Governor, Actor Tim Matheson on 'Animal House' and Hollywood

Episode Date: November 15, 2024

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Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News Thursday, November 14, 2024, stand up for your country. Well, that Donald Trump can stir it up. I don't know of any human being who is more provocative hit than President-elect Trump, he single-handedly throws the media into chaos. And that's what we're seeing now with these appointments. And it is amusing on one hand to watch it, but we want the best for our country, right? Okay.

So that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. We'll take it step by step. It's hysteria in the media, there's no question about it, because the left wing wants Trump to fail and will use every opportunity to say he is failing, even if he's not. We saw that during the campaign. But with controversial appointments, the media is just beside itself. Go. When I heard that Matt Gates was picked to be Attorney General, I threw up in my mouth. I think it is a horrible, creepy choice.

I think that Tulsi Gabbard's nomination, to be Director of National Intelligence, when I first heard that today, my immediate reaction was hilarious. Hegseth is a very effective culture warrior. He's very good at communications and at the religious war and at the political war, but he is the most unqualified candidate for this position in the history. of America? Well, that's not true. Now, those were not media people. Those were pundits, Geraldo and Bolton and this and that. But the media knows what the pundits are going to say before the interview begins. That's called POV, point of view. We all get it. When I interview somebody, I know what their point of view is. So I can shape my questions. And they weren't calling

me up, although some did a French, big French newspaper call me. I'm going to do an interview with them probably next week. But I never get a call from NBC or CBS to those people. I mean, they don't want that because I'll make their host or anchor look foolish. And I don't, I'm not going to do that. Not that I care, I don't, but I'm just pointing out what the game is. All right, so let's go one by one. So Congressman Gates, Florida, resigned yesterday. So he's out. He's not going to be a congressman anymore.

He's hoping that he will be in the Trump administration. And I don't think he is a good choice for Attorney General. I think Pam Bondi, who's also very loyal Donald Trump, who's the former A.G. in Florida is a far better choice because she did the job. She knows what the job is. Yeah, Florida is a big state. But Gets has never really done this kind of work. So I'm not objecting to Gets on ideological grounds. I don't know what he did or didn't do. There's going to be a House ethics report on them. I'll look at it. when it comes out, but I'm skeptical because she's a bomb throw. I didn't like what Gets did to Speaker McCarthy. I didn't think that was a good thing for the country. But I was surprised, like everybody else, that Donald Trump did this. But what it is is a big middle finger, okay, to the Justice Department. What Trump's doing is saying, hey, I'm going to blow the whole thing up. Even if Gates doesn't get confirmed by the Senate, and I don't think he will, okay?

In fact, his nomination may be withdrawn, because they don't have the votes. There are going to be a number of Republicans voting against Gates, and every Democrat will in the Senate. Remember, it's 43, it's 53 Republicans now. Okay, so that's a nice cushion, but I leave Murkowski and, and, Collins, that's too out right away. And the Speaker McCarthy thing, a lot of people liked him in Washington, McCarthy, and they don't like Gates. So I don't think he's going to get in, but I know why Trump did it. Wanted to send that message like, hey, I'm back, new sheriff in town.

And this guy, if he gets that job, there are going to be a lot of empty deaths into Justice Department. Okay. Pete Hegseth. Don't know him. All right. I left and he came into Fox. I looked at his book, which is a huge bestseller. He is a very patriotic man. No doubt about it. Two bronze stars. I mean, come on. And Elizabeth Warren criticized him. I'm going to get to that a little later in the show. And I thought it was desperately unfair. Now, Hegseth has never really run anything. He's a military guy, a soldier. And he's a TV guy. But the reason that he was nominated, Secretary of Defense, is not to make policy. This is the overarch, okay? These heads of departments are not making policy in the Trump administration. All of the policy, 100% is coming out of the White House. The department has just carry it out.

Maybe they'll be consulted, but they don't have any power. It's not Donald Rumsfeld and George W. Bush. That's gone, and it'll never come back. Every president from now on will run the show, and that the people he selects are expeditors. Here's what we're going to do. Okay. And in addition, Heggseth will terrorize people in the Pentagon who are awoke.

And that's what Trump wants. So he's not necessarily a bad pick. If I was a senator, I'd vote to confirm him. He's a hero. He's a military guy. And if you understand what his job is, it's not policy again. I think you'd be fine. Christy Noam, governor of South Dakota.

Same thing, as Hegg said. She runs South Dakota magnificently. I think they have the lowest unemployment rate in the country. She's really a good administrator, okay? And now she is Secretary of Homeland Security. Well, she, again, is it going to make policy. Holman, Tom Holman, all right, and Stephen Miller, are going to make border policy.

And Trump is, of course, going to be involved in that. So no, I'm not making border policy. The White House a caller, governor is what we like to do, and the governor will do it. As far as the other parts of Homeland Security, the national security people do that. The NSA, the CIA, Trump's White House security staff,

national security advisors, they do that. And he'll call up the phone and say, Governor, this is what I want to do. And she said, okay. 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. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford gold. and you can do this.

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Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. You see how it works? Okay. And the final one is Tulsi Gabbard. Now, Director of National Intelligence, this means that she oversees NSACIA, all of these outfits. But again, she's not an agent. She's not analyzing Intel. She just, you know, this person goes here, this person here. The only thing that worries me about Tulsi Gabbard, who I like, and these are very smart. former congressperson from Hawaii, is that she's an isolationist. If she were making policy, I would be worried. You can't in this world be isolationist.

You can't. Our economy collapse. So little worrisome there, but she'll be an administrator. Now, when you hear the liberal people screaming, all you have to say is one name. Pete Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana, tiny town, the only reason it's famous because they know today, he gets appointed secretary of transportation.

He knows nothing about, maybe he rides a bike. He doesn't know anything. And the airline industry is unbelievably screwed up. Everybody who flies knows that. He does zero. He's still there. This is liberal Joe Biden. What's he doing as Secretary of Transportation?

He's gay. That's why he's there to DEI play. He didn't earn that job. He didn't have any experience in that job at all. So how hypocritical, oh, you're there. Hey, Pete Buttigieg. How about Alejandro Mayorkas? All right, he's in charge of Homeland Security, right?

Has he done a good job? Oh, whoa! Now, he's got a little bit of a background. 2009 under Barack Obama, he was the director of U.S. citizenship and immigration services. But he didn't do anything there. Under Obama, the migration problem, particularly visa overstays and intrusions at the border rose dramatically. What did Alejandro do?

Nothing. thing. So you rewarded failure. You gave him a bigger job. The Peter principle, he went up. Mayorkas? Come on. Has there ever been a worse homeland security chief in this country's history? That's a relatively new position, but there were other people who had that kind of duties. There hasn't been. He's the worst. Where are the liberals? Oh, no. Oh, no. Come on. Come on. Ridiculous. Okay. Did I miss anything on this one? Stephen Miller, the director of policy out of the White House, second most powerful person in the country. This guy's going to be calling the shots. He's going to be telling the department has what to do, and they better do it.

Miller is a tough guy. All right, we don't know what Donald Trump is doing today, which is probably a good thing. I hope he's playing golf, taking a little rest. President Biden on his way to Lima, Peru, for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, APEC. Lima, Peru. Never been there, but have been all over South America. It doesn't get a lot better down there. Anyway, Biden on Saturday is going to meet with President Xi of China.

I have no idea what that's going to be. Now, I'll get back to Pete Hague, said, because you guys know him. So it has caught my eye. Elizabeth Warren, a very far left senator from Massachusetts, tweeted, a Fox and Friends weekend co-host is not qualified. The Secretary of Defense, I leave the Senate military personnel panel. All three of my brothers served in uniform. I respect every one of our service members.

Donald Trump's pick will make us less safe and must be rejected. Well, why would it make us less safe? Why? I don't understand. If Trump is making all the calls and Higgs says just there to carry out what Trump wants, I don't understand the point. But I do understand Elizabeth Warren. She wants the woke stuff in the military.

She is on the Senate military personnel panel, and she wants a woke military, DEI military. That's what she wants. And HEC said there's the exact opposite of that. That's why she's doing this. And as an aside, I've been studying Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, because they're in no danger of ever being voted out. They'll be there forever. And they're both communists. They are. And I don't use that word. You know me. I don't use that word lightly. But Sanders, I mean, he's just off the chart communist. Warren disguises it, but what she wants to do and is always pushing for is this wealth tax, which will be a confiscation of personal assets of U.S. citizens.

You've already paid taxes on money that you use to acquire things. or if you buy art or if you buy stocks or bonds or whatever, those are after-taxed dollars. She wants to double tax and seize those assets in the form of taxation that you would have to pay just to have them. That's communism. And she's using the tax code to do it. It's not using the military as the communist nations do in Cuba and Vietnam, other places. You don't do what you're told. your military comes to your house and you go to a concentration camp. That's what happens in China.

That's how warrants do. And Warren's doing. We'll break you with the tax code. But that's communism. You're seizing assets. Very few people understand that. All right, this is the most important story of the night, reviving Kate's law. So you may have heard me talk about this in the passed. On July 1st, 2015, 32-year-old Kate Steinley was walking with a father in the Embarcadero of San Francisco. A gunshot went off, Kate was killed. The man who owned the gun or stole a gun, Jose Inez Garcia Zarate of Mexico. He had seven felony convictions in the United States. He had been deported five times and come back every time. Okay? So I propose Kate's law that if you're convicted of a felony and you're deported and you come back,

you get a harsh prison term automatically just when you come back. You don't have to commit another crime. Here's what I said on July 21, 2015. Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. Anarchy and immigration law, that is the subject of this evening's Talking Points memo, at least 110, American cities and counties are currently refusing to obey the federal government when it comes to enforcing immigration law. 110. That, of course, leads to chaos, and chaos

leads to violence. This month, 32-year-old Kate Steinley murdered in San Francisco by a criminal alien who had been deported five times. As you may know, we have called for new legislation called Kate's law, which would mandate any convicted, aggravated felon who comes back to the USA after being deported would receive at least five years in a federal penitentiary, no wiggle room. Now, Senator Ted Cruz and others got behind case law. Mitch McConnell would not put it up for a stand-alone vote. Why? Because he's not going to let that punkle Riley tell him what to do.

One of the worst things I've ever seen a national politician do. I lost all respect for Mitch McConnell. Now, John Thune is the Senate Majority Leader. And I believe that this can be revived. And I talked about it with Sean Hannity on his radio program yesterday. And I said, O'Reilly and Hannity have to get this done. Go. This federal law would say if you are convicted of a crime and you're undocumented in America and we deport you.

You come back. You get a 10-year mandatory prison. term. Stand-alone bill. It would pass. Trump would sign it. We could get this done in 30 days after he's inaugurated. Does that make sense to you? Of course it does. I supported it back then. I also will support it again and I agree it should be reintroduced and you have my full backing and there's no selling point here, Bill. We're on the same page. All right. So Hannity and I are going to try to get some business done on this. Adon Chon told me personally he'd sign it.

And we'll see if we can get through the bureaucracy to get this done. And the importance of this is it would give the feds, the Homeland Security people, the FBI, everything. The power, if they suspect there's a migrant criminal to take that person in and look at there to see if they've been deported. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays. Every morning, I'll bring you the stories that matter, plus the news people actually talk about, the juicy details in the worlds of politics, business, pop culture, and everything in between. It's what you want from the New York Post wrapped up in one snappy show. Ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast podcast. Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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in El Salvador and Venezuela? It will. So this, I don't know who. And then if Democrats opposed it, then you would see who's opposing it, which would destroy them. So I'm, believe me, I'm on this. All right, Kamala Harris,

2006, going to run for Governor of California. I told you that. I'm not going to use the soundbite because I told you that and you can look to the transcripts. So now as a poll, UC Berkeley Institute of Government Studies says among Democrats,

72% would very likely or somewhat likely vote for Harris. So Harris is going to be the next governor in California after you do some steps down. If those of you were wondering, what you're going to do? Smart life. Express yourself. That is so smart, but you've got to do it the right way.

You've got to do it in an astute way. It can't be just raving. You know, you've got to do it. And more humor you can do it. But it's good for you to express yourself because it gets stuff out. It gets it out. Okay. And it's good for other people to hear a very logical, passionate point of view.

It's smart. Now, we have a poll on bill o'Reilly.com, and we asked, was I your humble correspondent, and it's still up, if you want to vote, fair to Donald Trump in the campaign? So, 92% of the 3,000 people who voted say yes. 8% said no, that I was unfair to Trump. Now, I say yesterday, I'll read some of those letters. And I will. And I'm not going to comment because that wouldn't be fair. I don't want to use my bully pulpit.

All right, I'm just going to read the letters that I got that say I was unfair. First one comes from Jim, who's a concierge member, and my team will help Jim know if he gets in any trouble or he needs any advice. All right. Jim says, I believe you were unfair to Donald Trump because you never skipped an opportunity to denigrate Mr. Trump whenever you critic. criticize Kamala Harris. Okay. Dan, Michigan. Your analysis of Trump Harris was unfair

simply because, according to you, Harris would lie while Trump exaggerated. Come on, Bill. All right. Gaylandino, Katie, Texas. I would like to confirm that you were unfair to Donald Trump during the majority of your campaign messages.

messages in that you were always harped on all the negative aspects of him, not so much positive ones. All right, that's Katie, Texas. Darren in Tennessee, do you really believe in your heart that Biden received 81 million votes in 2020? Thus, my opinion on why you were unfair to Trump, in your election coverage, I believe you should have had your staff dive in and least give him the benefit of the doubt. Okay, well, on this one, I have to analyze data, not opinion. I said more than one time, if you believe, lecture in 2020 was fixed, crooked, whatever, your entitled to belief. But no data has been put forth on a mass level. But I always say, Zuckerberg's money 300 million what happened to that if I are Trump I'd have my

attorney general look at that okay one more Dave in Indiana you were not fair to President Trump you failed to mention so many of the things he has able to get done in his first presidency while undergoing two impeachments and all and on okay so I didn't mention the things he got done I think it's a little bit emotional here. We don't root for anyone. We report accurately. And, you know, I think my staff and I did one of the best campaign jobs in media history.

And 92% of you guys are great. It makes you very happy. Okay, the movies. The Hollywood was destroyed. I can't remember last time I went to a movie. And it's the woke, it's the far left, it's the terrible films, all of that, the combination. So we watch a lot of classic movies, right? And one of my favorites is Animal House.

And I think Baby Boomers in particular, this is an iconic film. I remember when I first saw it in a theater, and I've watched a couple of times since. It was such an outrageous satire, but it was just right. on. Roll the table. Ladies and gentlemen, I'll be briefed. I don't think he's up to. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules or took a few liberties with our female party guests.

We did. But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few sick, perverted individuals? For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole? whole fraternity system. And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg. Isn't this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do what you want to us, but we're not going to sit here

and listen to you, bad mouth, the United States of America. Gentlemen! You're not walking out on this one, mister. Now, that was Tim Matheson, the actor, played Otter. Brilliant. One of his first roles. Subsequently, when they were making Killing Reagan off my book, I was the executive producer, and I okayed Matheson to play at Reagan.

Go. You know, right there, right there, right there, the foreshoot. Run. How should I leave you be? No, I'm so happy you're here, Mommy. Standing alone,ly, out there. Well, everything hinges on this debate, but in all politics, it's just like show business. You give them a hell of an opening.

It goes for a little while, and you give them a big finale. And hopefully run for eight years. I'm going to go get to my seat. I think you are more nervous than I am. That's how it should be. Break a leg. Okay. So, Matheson's a good guy, and he's got a book just out.

And the book is named Damn Glad to Meet You, which is a line from Animal House. And I caught up with Matheson yesterday. Roll the tape. So, Matheson, I can't believe it. It's been eight years since killing Reagan. I came down to Georgia where they shot it. And I have to say, you were not a Hollywood pinhead. You were a regular guy, and I'm glad you wrote this book.

And the reason I'm glad you wrote it is because you made it on your own, and that's what I respect. So let's begin with Animal House. When you guys were shooting this, a lot of young talent in the movie, did you have any idea that was going to become iconic? No, I don't think so. I mean, we knew it was a new kind of comedy, and it was different. It was comedy for young people by young people.

But we had no hint other than the fact that John Volusia was in it, and that was a plus. But the studio hated it. They just, they didn't want to make it. They didn't want any part of it. And they kept penny pinching. And the producers, Ivan Reitman and director, John Landis, did everything they can and could to get around those blockades. and get the picture made. Now, in the age of woke, a little controversial.

And I think about the Otis, my man scene in the bar. That is why, that is why. My man. I don't know if you could make that now. You know what? You put your finger right on it. And the studio demanded that they cut that. the junior executives who believed in the movie got hold of Richard Pryor, who was under contract

to the studio at the time, and said, Richard, do us a favor. Let us know if this is offensive. If it is, we'll take it out. And Pryor looks at it. And they took him up to Ned Tann and the head of the studio. And he goes, let me just tell you, you white people are crazy. This is funny. Leave it in because it's making fun of the white privileged kids, thinking how cool they are. If you screen that movie at Harvard, you'd have to give the kids a day off to recover the next day. They couldn't go to class. They need to say. They'd be triggered.

But I think that's hurt the movie industry, that wokeism that has enveloped Hollywood. I think people, Mel Brooks, a good example, a lot of his movies. You could not make them today or be ostracized. Am I wrong? No, you're absolutely right. And I think that that was the way. the lampoon, they'd always go right up to the edge and then over it. And the bigger, the issue, they'd confront it and, and piss everybody off. Now, in your world out there, you're in West Wing,

and I'm a whole bunch of people, you were in 1941, which Spielberg directed that. Sure. It's a liberal culture, right? Right. I think all the arts, I mean, many of the, many, most parts of the arts are liberal-minded because it draws people from countercultures and people that are ostracized by mainstream society. And they hide out in the arts or they seek solace in the arts, you know. And that's, I think, one of the reasons why it tends to be more liberal. But, yeah, you know, not to the exclusion of all points of view, as you point out. I mean, look at the movie we made. I mean, it was a great movie. Rod Lurie, wonderful director, killing Reagan. And it was more about a love story and about a man who was, who was emotionally

damaged, Hinkley, and a love story between Nancy and Ronnie. And politics was not the central theme of it. What I liked about it, and as the executive producer, I had to okay everything, and you were easy to okay. But I said, Cynthia Nixon, who played, number one, hates me. But that's all right. I don't, you know, if I were not to work with anybody who didn't hate me, I wouldn't have anybody to work with. So I said, yeah, Cynthia is a really good actor, sex in the city, and she hates me. But she played Nancy Reagan, who's no liberal, and Cynthia, of course, is, really down. I mean, you guys are so professional, and it worked great.

No, no angst at all, I don't think. No, we never discussed that. We never felt that. We just dealt with the humanity of Nancy and Ronnie, and that was our, that was the core thing that we went after and we did, you know. In the book, again, damn glad to meet you, which if you know anything about Animal House, a great line in it. You get into John Belushi, who everybody remembers.

Did anybody any developer rapport with him, or was he just kind of a ghost that went in and left? No, he was so open. He was very gracious and it was my first comedy and he was so supportive and giving to me. And I became friends with him and would go visit him in New York and when he was doing Saturday Night Live. And then we worked again on 1941, but I could see the ravages that the industry had taken on him. Why didn't you fall into that trap?

I mean, you did a little bit in the book you describe it, but you really didn't let it debilitate you. Why? You know, I was lucky enough to start as a kid actor. And so I worked with people that worked in vaudeville, which was tough. And it was you worked three to five shows a day, you know. And you had to bring it to every show and you had to prepare. And Lucille Ball taught me that.

And Jackie Gleason, you know, the great one, he taught me that. And, you know, really one of the big influences in my life that sort of got my head out of my butt was Kurt Russell, who is a wonderful actor. And it was a professional baseball player. And he taught me that acting and show business is more, it's like professional sports. You're going to hit a home run one day. You're going to strike out three times one day. Don't get your head too big about any one thing. Don't get it in your head about it and you're striking it out.

Just keep going. And discipline, discipline, discipline. It's good to see you again, Tim. And thanks a lot for being in killing Reagan. That was one of the highlights of my movie career. I love that part. I love playing him. Thank you.

Thank you. The book is damn glad to meet you. You can get anywhere, and I'll be out chasing Matheson around someday when he least expected. So we'll see you soon. Right. Okay. This ain't history. Ironically, another movie network.

Remember that? 48 years ago, it premiered in the theaters. Big film, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Robert DeVal, Patty Chiafsky wrote it. and it was an enormous hit, two Academy Awards, and this scene is still being played out. Go. I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad.

It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat.

We sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad, worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house and slowly the world we're living and is getting smaller and all we say is please at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-builted radios, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone. Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad. I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to ride. I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you've got to get mad. You've got to say, I'm a human being. God damn it.

My life has value. So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore. Finch died shortly after the film, but he won the best actor posthumously. And that movie debuted 48.

years ago today. Final thought, I wasn't supposed to be here today. I'll tell you where I was supposed to be in a moment. All right, final thought of the day, accepting bad stuff. I was supposed to be in Kamens today, right now, right this moment, seven mile beach, beautiful. My little snorkel, 85 degrees. I'm supposed to be there. I'm not. Why? Because there's a tropical storm, Sarah. And the Caymans is raining and windy and now I couldn't go. Couldn't get the plane in. And I had a big crew going with me. And we're all sitting there going, we work so hard, all we wanted to do is a few days.

No. You just have to accept it. have to accept it. You can't mope around. When things happen and you can't do anything about them, then you just have to say, okay. Now I kind of believe in an active deity and I don't want me to go to the Cayman's this week. So I'm here. And usually the reason stuff happens. If I figure out the reason I couldn't go to the Cayman, I'll tell you. But the final thought is you got accept negative things unless you can do something to improve the situation and I could not I couldn't even get there don't me but it was a good show right I

think so I enjoyed it I hope you did we got a Sunday column coming up we got all kinds of stuff going on on the weekend I'll be tweeting and we will see you again on Monday