Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Nikki Haley Rises, Ron DeSantis Declines, Donald Trump's Lead Widens, Democrats New Strategy to Attack Trump, Young Americans See Jews as Oppressors, Bernie Goldberg on Antisemitism, Bishop Robert Barron on Christmas, & More

Episode Date: December 19, 2023

Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, December 18, 2023. Stand Up for Your Country. Tonight's rundown:  Talking Points Memo: Bill breaks down the latest polling that shows Nikki Haley ascending, Ron DeSantis dropping, and Donald Trump's lead growing.  Democrats have pivoted to tying Trump to dictators and Nazis. A new poll shows many of America's youth see Jews as oppressors. Bernie Goldberg and Bishop Robert Barron join the No Spin News to discuss antisemitism and Christmas. This Day in History: Prohibition. Final Thought: Christmas cards. In Case You Missed It: Read Bill's latest column, "Believe." Get into the holiday spirit with "The United States of Trump" and one "Merry Christmas America" ornament. The holiday's are here! Now's the time to give the gift if a Premium or Concierge Membership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News Monday, December 18th, 2023, stand up for your country. Last week for the No Spin News in 2023. It was a good year for us. It wasn't a good year for the country in particular, I don't think. A lot of people got hammered economically. We have problems that remain unsolved.

We have a lot of violence in the inner cities. We have a bad president. By bad, I mean incompetent. So in the greatest year there. But for us, we're doing really well. And it's because we are separating, vividly separating from the corporate media, which, as you know, is absolutely falling apart. And the propaganda that they put out every day is stunning.

really is. We're never going to do that. We're always going to give you a fact-based news analysis here. Anyway, next year 24, one of the most important years in American history because of the presidential race, and we will be on that and cover it responsibly. And that's the subject of this evening's talking points memo. So a new poll of CBS out on Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two votes coming right up. And the first question of the candidates who are considering if the 2024 Republican primary caucus in your state were held today, which one of the candidates would you vote for? Okay. Trump 58, DeSantis 22, Nikki Haley 13, Ramoswamy, and Christi really out of the running. Okay. I expect Trump to have little trouble in Iowa,

winning that caucus, which is on January 15th. Okay? Now, once that happens, DeSantis is gone. Can't continue because DeSantis put all his resources in Iowa. Unless there's a stunning surge, which I don't believe it will be, DeSantis will have to hang it up. It doesn't have the money to continue. Then it is on to New Hampshire, January 23rd.

This is, again, the CBS poll. New Hampshire, of the candidates you are considering, I consider, 224 Republican primary and your state were held today. Which one of those candidates would you vote for? Trump 44, Nikki Haley, 29, DeSantis 11. The 29 number for Nikki Haley is a good number. Now, the graded state, as I said in the message of the day, and I hope you read that every day. Just go to Bill O'Reilly.com. There's the message every morning for you. You don't have to be a member. You don't have to do anything. It just pops right up. Nikki Haley, getting 29 percent, at this point in the Granite states, good number. Now, New Hampshire is never really particularly like

Donald Trump, went for Biden. It is an independent state, and independents are allowed to vote in the primary in New Hampshire, which will skew the results a little bit. It's not just Republicans. Independents can vote as well. So I expect Nikki Hilley to do well, not beat Donald Trump in New Hampshire. I don't think that's going to happen, but she'll do well. She's got a lot of money. She can continue pretty much no matter what happens in Iowa or New Hampshire, and she will. So you would think then with a nice number like that for Nikki Haley, that she would then go on the network news and answer questions about her campaign, her vision for the country on and on. Well, half of that happened. So she was invited on ABC News, Jonathan Carl, who bills

himself as a correspondent, but he really isn't. He's a commentator. And he hates Trump. And he wrote a hate Trump book, okay? But ABC is still trying to peddle him as a correspondent. No. And I don't mind him hating Trump. I don't care whether he does or not. But Haley comes in and he's totally disrespectful to Nikki Haley, totally disrespectful to her. Roll the tape. I mean, he's running on retribution and he wants to go out and he talks about annihilating his enemies and using the criminal justice system to do so what what do you what do you think of that you guys are exhausting you're exhausting and your obsession with him the thing is the normal people aren't obsessed with trump like you guys are the normal people care about the fact that they can't afford things

they feel like their freedoms are being taken away they think government's too big i know y'all want to talk about every single word he says and every single tweet he does good for her i mean really. I'm starting to like her a little bit. You know, I know her a little, as I explained on this broadcast, and she always came across a little uppity to me. Imperious is the word. But that was really good. Just shut him down. And Carl was like, you know, because he's not in there to get the audience, the ABC News audience, any information about Nikki Haley, couldn't care less about that. He just wants to hammer Trump. That's all. Well, just have a hammer-trump hour.

Don't bring somebody in like Ambassador or Governor Haley, whatever moniker you want to use. Okay. So there's another poll out, Fox News. And Fox News historically has been very unfriendly to Donald Trump, even when I was there. You know, I used to look at this poll, and a poll never matched. Never matched would really happen. I think the election of 2022, the Fox poll was a little bit better. But before that, it was like out there in the ozone.

Okay, so this is a 107 registered voters, Democrat 44, Republican 42, Fair poll. First question, how would you vote if candidates were Joe Biden, Donald Trump? Trump 50, Biden 46. Wouldn't vote one. Interesting. Okay. I'm going to read you a list. This is question number two. I'm going to read you a list of potential candidates, 24 Republican nomination.

So they're polling Republicans here. Please tell me which one you would like to see as the nominee. Donald Trump, 69 percent, up seven points since November. And that's because of all this legal stuff. That's exactly what this is. Okay, so he's 69%. The Santa's 12, Haley 9, and others. don't really rate. Next question, 24, would you like to see someone else as a Democratic nominee,

or would you like to keep Joe Biden? We'd like to see someone else 54, Joe Biden 43, so even among his own party, they don't want him. And that's been clear for a while. All right, last question. Some congressional Republicans are pushing for impeachment proceedings against President Biden. What is your view? It's legitimate, 49. Bogus, 48, don't know four. So countries evenly divided on the impeachment. Okay. That's the memo, by the way. So I incorporated all that into the talking points memo. Biden's schedule today nothing. I don't expect him to do anything for the next two weeks because he doesn't really do anything anyway. But they don't even fake it anymore. He figured they'd say, well, he has a meeting with somebody. No. He is,

He's in Delaware, I believe he's in Delaware, and he got nothing on the schedule. All right, the Democratic Party is desperate, you know, you know they are. And they are anticipating that Trump will be the nominee, the Democrats are. So this is a statement released two days ago by the Biden campaign spokesperson, Amar Musa, never heard of Amar. I have no idea who he is, but this is what he says. Quote, tonight Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted. Adolf Hitler, praise Kim Jong-un, quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy. Now, that would be something like you would see in Mad Magazine.

Remember Mad Magazine? That quote. That would be like that. Okay. So that's what the Biden campaign is going to be. Okay. Donald Trump is Adolf and anybody supports them or stormtroopers. That's the theme. And now the Biden acolytes are running out to CNN and MSNBC and the network shows, but not as much. They don't have enough time But MSNBC and CNN are pretty much the spear points for the Biden administration. So this happened December 16th on CNN.

Go. This is, you know, this is fascist rhetoric. The worries about polluting the blood of the superior race go as a standard of Nazism. It's not just the Nazis, it's also fascists in Italy. Mussolini literally talked about killing rats to go back to Trump's use of vermin in an earlier speech. He talked about killing rats who would bring infectious diseases and communism into Italy. So, you know, this is fascist rhetoric, and he's using it for a very precise purpose. So I'm glad Mussolini got a little airtime, you know, because the Hitler thing getting a little worn now.

But let's get Mussolini in there a little bit with the right. And we get Francisco Franco on that. He kind of kind of come on in pretty soon, I would have think. But this is what the message is. And I told you this before. This whole democratic machine is very well organized. Comes out of two or three political action committees on K Street in Washington. And they fax out their talking points of the day.

And you could see it even if you just watch Fox News. You could see Juan Williams reads almost to the word. If you really want to know what the Democratic talking points is, you listen to Juan. Okay? And then there's a few other people who do that on Fox News as well. They get every morning they get, this is what we want you to say on the media. And they say it. Republicans don't really have anything like that.

They're not nearly as organized as the Democratic propaganda machine. So you will see so much of this Hitler Mussolini stuff coming up, you won't believe it. All right, let's get to anti-Semitism, very important part of this program today. 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.

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First question. Do you think the recent attack on Israel was a terrorist attack or not? Total Americans, 84, no, 16. However, the age group 18 to 24, yes, it was a terror attack 73, no 27. So 27% of the 18 to 80s don't. think the Hamas attack was a terror attack. Okay, second question. Do you think that Jews as a class are oppressors, okay, and should be treated as oppressors, or is that a false ideology? False. This is total, 73. Oppressors, 27, 18 to 24. Oppressor is 67%. False ideology, 33.

Okay. So, you know, we're getting a picture here of a tremendous shift. Next question, do you think Hamas killing 1,200 Israeli civilians kidnapping another 250 can be justified? Total can be justified 27%, not justified 73. That's all Americans polled. 18 to 24 can be justified 60%, not justified 40. Next one. Is this conflict? In this conflict? In this conflict, do you support more Israel or Hamas? Total, Israel 81, Hamas 19, 18 to 24, Israel 50, Hamas 50. And on a genocide question, should people be allowed to accuse Israel of genocide? Total, 26% yes, 74% no.

18 to 24, 53% yes, 47, no. Joining South of Florida, the purveyor of bernard goldberg.com, very fine website. I will be on that website being interviewed, grilled mercilessly by Mr. Goldberg. I believe I'm going to be on there Wednesday, right? You're putting me on Wednesday? I'm not correct. You'll be grilled by a white, straight, Jewish male who apparently, I didn't know this, is an oppressor. I'm an oppressor.

Does that mean you're bringing a guest host in? Okay, so I'm looking forward to that grilling, which will take place on Wednesday. Now, I just count 18 to 24 Americans, even though I've got two of them. I've got two of them, all right? but and one of them really is astute the other's a little shaky but they don't know anything back over when you were 18 to 24 I was horrifying I was just horror I should have been deported during the 18 to 24 group well the problem with the 18 to 24 group is that they're not going to be 18 to 24 forever and they're going to carry

this anti-Semitic garbage with them when they get older. Do you think so? You know, they don't evolve out of that as many in the Vietnam era did? Yeah, that's how it usually works. But who would have thought that, I forget the percentage you gave of young people who think the massacre, the slaughter on October 7th wasn't a terrorist attack and the percentage that thinks Jews are oppressors? who would have thought those numbers would exist.

So, yes, some will wise up, but a lot won't. Now, I think that most Americans are not anti-Semitic. Yeah, I agree. Totally agree. In your career, you've been everywhere, done everything, you rival me as far as, I've been to 85 countries. I think you're probably been close to that, right? I've been to a lot of places. Okay.

Not India and not in the Arab world. I've been to Israel, but yeah, I've been to a lot of places. Okay. In your experience at CBS News coming on up, working your way up to the correspondent position, and then through now, have you, Bernie Goldberg, experienced anti-Semitism? Can I begin earlier than CBS in high school? Sure. So I had one, I think America is a great place, and it's a great place for Jewish people.

So I may disappoint you in that. I don't have too many examples, but in high school, one kid, one kid confronted me in the cafeteria about something I wrote in the student newspaper that he didn't like, and he used an anti-Jewish slur at me. And it almost became a brawl like an animal house brawl in the cafeteria, but a Christian friend of mine intervened on my behalf and got between us before it got out of hand. But that was only one incident. But when I was at CBS, and it wasn't other CBS people, there was a guy named J.B. Stoner. I don't know if you know the name, Bill. Yeah, you're a Nazi.

A world-class bigot. I mean, he said things in public that I would. I wouldn't repeat on your show in public about black people. I know he is. Right. And he represented James Earl Ray and the FBI suspected J.B. Stoner of being involved in the murder of Martin King. So he's a lawyer and he's covering somebody who kidnapped the publisher of the big newspaper in Atlanta. So he go to his house and he meets us in the yard and the cameraman, a good old boy from Nashville, says,

I got I'll introduce everybody I don't want I don't want your name going out here so he introduces the sound man the light man he introduces himself as John Smith that was his real name and then he introduces me is and here's our correspondent Bernie going to Jay B. Stoner goes into his house you ready for this goes into his house and hands us bumper stickers this is during the Arab oil boycott the bumper sticker says oil yes Jews know. Well, yes, Jews, no.

And one of the people, one of my friends and the crew, I assume it was, without my knowledge, puts it on the bumper sticker, my rear bumper sticker, and I'm driving around Atlanta for three or four days. You should have gotten that guy, boy. I hope you got him.

I was doing that. Well, I realize it, but I, you know, I'm actually glad to hear that you didn't run up against a lot of anti-Semitism in your life. I believe that Americans, most of them, I'd say 80% of them, are not anti-Semitic. But the media drives this anti-Semitic thing. You know it's driving it. It's concentrating on the nuts at Cornell and at Columbia, at Harvard, at Penn, at MIT. It zeroes in gives them all kinds of airtime. But the good college kids get zilch. They

get nothing. So it's skewed. Am I wrong? No, you're hitting on a very important point, actually, and that is those students you're talking about are, they're ingrained with DEI, diversity, inclusion, or equity and inclusion, which is a farce in and of itself. But DEI's philosophy basically comes down to this. It's as simple as there are two groups, the oppressed group and the oppressor group. If you're white and you're a straight white male or Jewish, even female, you're in the oppressor group. And the difference between the anti-Jewish bigots on the right, the white supremacist, the neo-Nazis, we know that they're idiots. These people are professors, their administrators at elite colleges, their students at elite colleges.

And they could say all they want that they're not anti-Jewish, they're anti-Israel. But when they say nothing, absolutely nothing about the atrocities that go on daily in the Arab world, where if you're gay, you can be thrown up a building. If you're a woman, you don't have rights. They say nothing about that. And the only time they go out and demonstrate is when it's Israel, the only Jewish state on the planet. So their contention that they're anti-Israel, not anti-Jewish, I don't think so. I think they're anti-Jewish.

And it's from the progressive elite left. No doubt about it, in my mind. From the very beginning, the progressive movement has been anti-Israel. All right, Bernie, I will see you on Wednesday on bernardgulberg.com. I'm ready for the, for the, whatever you throw at me. It should be a very interesting deal. Are you ready? Do I look not ready?

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You don't want to miss an episode. All right, let's now turn to the Christian view of anti-Semitism. And I'm going to bring in perhaps the most eloquent. a high-profile spokesperson for the Catholic faith in America. His name is Bishop Robert Barron. He's out of the Diocese of Winona, Rochester, Minnesota. He has founded a group called Word on Fire that Catholics read and pay attention to.

All right, Bishop, you just heard Bernie Goldberg. Now, when I was in Catholic school, sometimes in solitary confinement by punishment from the nuns. I was taught that anti-Semitism was a sin against the Catholic Church Christian religion against Jesus God. I was taught it was a fairly significant sin.

Is that a hold? Yeah, that's true. I mean, prejudice against any group would be a sin, but in a very special way, I'd say, prejudice against Jews. Pius XI-11 said that we Christians are all spiritually Semites, that we're all Jews by our spiritual inheritance. Jesus, we say, is the fulfillment of Israel.

Vatican II, in its statement, Nostreitatte, made a very strong statement against any form of anti-Semitism. So I think the nuns that taught you were right on target, and they've been confirmed by the church's teaching ever since. Now, there has been controversy between Israel and the Catholic Church, particularly Pope Francis, who doesn't want Israel to wage war against the Palestinians. He just came out yesterday because there were two Catholics who were killed, allegedly by Israeli forces, but it's so foggy in there.

It's very hard to tell. And then when Jewish people hear that, the Pope is saying, criticizing the Netanyahu government, some of them believe that Pope's not sympathetic to the Jewish religion at all. Yeah, I don't think that's fair. When he was in Argentina, he was very close to the Jewish community and counts a number of prominent rabbis among his friends. I mean, I don't think it's true at all of it. He's personally anti-Semitic. I think what he's saying, Bill, is Israel has a right to self-defense.

that's part of Catholic social teaching, but also, as you know, in the just war theory, in the waging of war, we have to be both discriminating and proportional. And so I think what he's urging is that those two principles be honored. You know, it's always a prudential judgment to what degree we're legitimately proportional and discriminating. But as I read him, I think he's just insisting upon that part of the church's social teaching.

Yeah, and there is a, in a Catholic church, a righteous defense that you're allowed to defend yourself against the evildoers. And I mean, look, there's nobody on earth that knows more about terrorism than I do because I wrote the book, Killing the Killers in Hamas, top of the chart. Top of the chart. Let's shift into Christmas, as you know, Bishop, and I expect to get to heaven because of this. I saved Christmas in America. I don't know where you were at that point, but it was a huge campaign in the,

early part of the century for retailers and towns and counties to banish the word Christmas. And we went on Fox News night after night and we just put up that this department store was ordering their employees not to say the word Christmas. This town was taking the crash out and all of that stuff. And we want because of money, because the people listening to me and I got a huge amount of attention. All right. Wouldn't go to the store. that I named that wouldn't say the word Christmas. So we want, and here in the Northeast, Christmas is back. Almost everywhere you go, it's Merry Christmas.

They say happy holidays, too, but Christmas dominates. Is that now over that controversy about not saving Christmas? Is that over? I hope so. I think you're right. It's changed in the course of my lifetime. I think of the last many years. We watched it move from a certain antipsychic.

toward a greater acceptance. And you're quite right. And the way you fought it years ago, that was a fight worth having because it was a stupid position, say that somehow Christians have to hide their Christianity in the public forum. As you well know,

there's nothing in the founding documents or in the ethos of our country that would dictate that we have to hide our religion in the public square, that we don't have an officially recognized religion in our country. Sure, that's one thing. But then say for a second

that we have to hide our, our religion publicly. So that was a good fight to have. I'm glad we had it. And I think one of the most important things today is that religious people can come together in the public square and have a real conversation, a real argument. There's a middle ground between religious violence and a kind of religious indifferenceism. And it's called religious engagement and argument in the public square. That's what I'm for. Okay. The Christian point of view is that we honor Jesus's birthday, and it wasn't on December 25th. You know, you read Killing Jesus, and we did the whole history there. But it's a nice day to have it. It's dark and cold in many places, particularly

where you are in Minnesota. It's a nice day to have in a season. But the worthiness of Christmas was picked up by U.S. Grant. The president of the United States said, I'm designating this day as a federal holiday, out of respect, not pushing religion, but out of respect for a theology that has helped the United States. And if everybody, I say to my non-Catholic friends and even the people who hate Catholics because of the scandals and other things, I say, look, if everybody followed what the Nazarene put forth, wouldn't have any wars. would have any strife, would we? And why shouldn't that be honored?

Why shouldn't that be honored? And that's what we're doing here in America. Well, I think, too, you know, the church fathers summed up Christianity with the phrase, God became man, that man might become God. And what they meant was, by this great act of the incarnation, God's inviting deification, that we can become sharers in God's nature. Well, there is a political implication of that, because that's where human dignity is grounded. Yes, in our intelligence and our will and our freedom and so on,

but ultimately in our destiny, that we're destined to be citizens in heaven. And from that destiny comes our dignity. And I would say that any healthy democracy has to rest finally upon a keen sense of human dignity, which is why I would link Christmas and the great claim that it makes to the ideals of our democracy. Well, that's what the founding fathers did. It was a brawl between Patrick Henry and his crew that wanted the United States to be designated a Christian country and Ben Franklin and Madison and Jefferson as I write about in killing the witches. I'm going to send you that book. You need to read that book, Bishop. I've never read that one yet. Yeah, that's a good one for you because it was a real tug in the beginning of this country

about how to handle the religious aspect. And it all stemmed from Salem. It all stemmed from that aura that went on there. So I'm going to give you the last word. your view Christmas in America, 2003. Go. Well, I think it's important for us as Americans, as Christians to celebrate Christmas for the reason I just articulated. There's no greater guarantee of our dignity than that God has reached out to us, has become small, that he might raise us up. That basic conviction, I mean, whether you're explicitly Christian or not, that basic conviction, I think, is essential to our democracy. When we lose a sense of God's embrace of us, in pretty short order, you move toward totalitarianism.

You move toward an indifference to human life. But I'm with Tom Holland here, the great English historian, that so many of our values, whether we know it or not, are grounded in these Christian claims. And one of them is the incarnation, which leads to deification. That's where our sense of human dignity, I think, ultimately comes from. All right, Bishop. Thank you very much for helping us out. And we once again thank Bernie Goldberg, one of our best discussions of the year, I think.

And Merry Christmas to you. Bishop, thank you very much. Okay. All right, now we have to go to the opposite spectrum. Yemen, Teotic country in the Gulf. It's run by Houthi terrorists and the terrorists are shooting its ships. Okay, just today.

A Norwegian-owned vessel. All right. The MBS Swan was fired on by missiles by the Houthis. The missiles came from Iran. So far, the United States has really done much. So not in the spirit of Christmas, and I'm sorry to say this, but if I were the president, number one, I'd be working today. Number two, I'd have a few airstrikes on the Houthis in Yemen.

I'd take out their command and control, all of their launchers. we know where they are. It's a desert. It's not like they're hiding in the woods, a level of place. And then I say to Iran, you continue this, your harbors are going and taking out all your harbors. That's what's going to happen to you. Sorry for the down, but that's what you've got to do if you want to maintain order on this planet. Billionaires Ken Griffin, conservative, David Geffen, very liberal, banned together to give $400 million to fight cancer. So Griffin's worth 36 billion, Geffen, about 10 billion, and they're going to give the money to Memorial Sloan Kittering, the Cancer Center in New York City, very fine, place,

$400 million, save a lot of lives, biggest single donation in the history of Kettering. So, Merry Christmas to you guys, happy Hanukkah, Mr. Geffen. Smart Life, Matthew Perry. Look, when he died, I knew it was drugs. You just don't die in your 50s in a hot tub, all right? It was drugs. And it was a drug called ketamine. And I don't know.

I don't take drugs. But it's around. People sell it. Push you, sell it. He was taking a lot of it. And it killed him. Now, he was drug involved with other substances before, so his entire immune system was compromised. So this is a smart life segment to look.

I can't tell you enough. If you're getting intoxicated on a regular basis, whether it's drugs or alcohol, you're killing yourself. You may get away with it, but odds are you won't. All right? Just stop it. Make a New Year's resolution, whatever it is. You don't need to be intoxicated.

You don't need ketamine. You don't need crack. You don't need fentanyl. You don't need to drink a gin all day long of vodka. Okay, I'm sorry to lecture, but you're killing yourself. The only guy I know survived this is Keith Richards. It's his 80th birthday today, the Rolling Stone guy. One of the worst drug abusers in history.

He admits it. He's 80. He got through. I don't know how. They ought to study his body. Smart life. This day in history, December 8th, 1917. Congress passes the 18th Amendment.

What's the 18th Amendment? Come on, come on, come on. Prohibition, no booze. Okay, out of here, the temperance movement run by American women mounted a campaign from about 1910 to 1917, no liquor in America, and Congress passed it. And then two years later, Congress passes the Volstead Act, which sets up the Treasury Department to put you in jail if you're peddling booze, which people were all over the place. The speakeasies, the bootleggers, Al Capone, because for the first year after prohibition

was legalized today, 106 years ago today, first year, drinking went down about 40% America. But then it surged up because of the gangsters. And you're re-killing the mob. That's the basis for organized crime today. Woodrow Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act to a appoint the Treasury Department to enforce it, but they Congress overwrote his veto. Net. In December 5th, 1933, under Franklin Roosevelt, the prohibition was repealed by the 21st Amendment. That was it. But that's a long time. No booze. Back with mail and a final thought on Christmas cards in a moment. Okay, let's go to the mail. Bill it, Bill it. O'Reilly.com, bill at bill o'Reilly.com. Name and town. We're getting a lot of mail with no

names in towns. And I can't consider it. It might be brilliant. Name and town. Larry, concierge member, I bet you think that was an excellent decision to make, Larry, come in a concierge member. I hope you do. I don't think Hunter Biden had anything to lose by not showing up for the deposition. He shows up and lies. He's more trouble. I worry about following the laws when your father will pardon you. Yes, Hunter Biden will be pardoned. But the embarrassment he's bringing on his father? Incalculable.

Just remember that. Stephen, still waiting for an answer from my Democrat congressman, Golden of Maine, who voted to impeach Trump twice, but voted against the impeachment inquiry of Biden. Keep on them, Stephen. if Congressman Golden replies to you, let me know right away. Keep on them. Trisha, concierge member, difference between Steve Bannon and Hunter Biden is Bannon did not commit a crime. Well, okay, but he defied a congressional subpoena to talk about a potential crime.

There's no difference. They both defied the subpoenas. Biden got four months in prison. We'll see what happens to Hunter. Dana Crane, Scarsdale, New York. Why isn't anyone making a connection between the Biden's corruption and Obama's eight years in office? I mean, how could he give any kind of favors, this is Joe Biden, without the help of Obama? No, Dana.

The vice president doesn't have much to do with the president. Okay? separate office, not even in the same building. Vice President is the old executive office building. Naval observatories where the VP lives. There's not a lot of interaction. I don't believe that Barack Obama had any clue about all this grifting to the extent that it was.

I'm sure he knew that Hunter Biden was troubled. I'm sure Barack Obama knew that. But I'm not, he wasn't sitting there going, oh, yeah, take the money. Jeff Von Malt, Seamy Valley, California, with the incredibly small amount of readership of newspapers that continue to fall, why do they still have as much influence on the country as a whole? Excellent question, Jeff. Because the local television news and the national news get their storylines from the newspapers. Still, to what you see on TV comes from print, even though nobody's reading print. Vin Bickler, Beachwood, New Jersey.

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I wish I could, but thank you. It means a lot to me to hear from you. Now, there are three types of Christmas cards. The traditional card, which I do, where you put the name on a gun on and you write dear, so-and-so, have a great Christmas, miss you, hope we can get together, whatever. I'm going to do that tonight. Now it takes time, it's a burden, but I'm doing it.

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