Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - No Spin News - TPM Edition - September 19, 2025

Episode Date: September 20, 2025

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Starting point is 00:01:06 Now, we begin tonight with the growing chasm. I love that word chasm, C-H-A-S-M, in the United States of America. Now, I'm going to do this unemotionally with no ideology whatsoever, which I hope you will find refreshing. But it is a major story. So we all know what happened immediately after the assassination. There was a flood into social media. Never a good thing. There is no policing of social media, no editors, no fact checking, nothing.
Starting point is 00:01:52 And many mentally disturbed human beings park themselves in these political websites. Okay. So I get a letter from Ken in New York City, obviously not going to tell you his last name because I don't want anything to happen to Ken. But here's what Ken writes to me, quote. What about the rhetoric from Trump and MAGA? Trump and MAGA are just as responsible for all the chaos we have in politics. Please tell Bill O'Reilly, if he is truly to be fair and express the opinion for both political parties, he should read my email. unquote. Okay. No problem reading your email, Ken. And whether I'm fair and I, it's up to you. But I'll tell you this. But what aboutism is ridiculous, Ken. It really is. You can do that for every story in the world. Well, what about the world? You can always find somebody worse, or something. Nothing comes of what aboutism. It is lazy. It is fifth grade. Oh, he did. Okay, let's knock that out. What about?
Starting point is 00:03:09 Let's deal with the problem in hand. Now, you believe, Ken, that the Trump administration and the people who support it are just as responsible for vitriolic rhetoric as the progressive left. Apparently, that's what you are believing. That's fine with me. you're an American, you believe what you want to believe. But I'm going to make a case to you now. That is, you cannot refute, all right, about how wrong you are as far as the spread of hatred, verbal hatred. Okay.
Starting point is 00:03:48 Now, surely can you know and every other person who owns a television set knows. There are five major corporate networks allied with the Democratic Party and progressive movement in America. Five. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MS. Five. Allied with the traditional conservative movement is Fox News Channel. And Newsmax, but Newsmax's audience isn't at the level yet to. come close to the others. Okay. So the messaging that the far left progressive movement puts
Starting point is 00:04:35 out, as well as the Democratic Party, gets vastly heard more than the traditional message, just by the nature of the communication through the television news agencies. And it's the same thing on social media. About five to one, liberal to conservative sites. So any kind of hatred is amplified in a much greater level on the progressive left. Again, you can't refute it. It's absolutely true. So to say, oh, oh, no, they both do it. Well, there are loons. in both parties or extremists, but on the right, you don't have nearly the megaphone.
Starting point is 00:05:36 Not even close. And the money factor that drives these social media operations from the progressive point of view is in the billions with a B, billions of dollars pouring into the media matters and all these other places. right doesn't have that okay that's number one number two the progressive movement in america wants to overhaul or overthrow in some cases the entire american system they don't like capitalism
Starting point is 00:06:16 they don't want laws enforced they don't like religion they want to overthrow throw it all. It's like the Revolutionary War. The rabid people, the loudest voices were the patriots who wanted to throw the king out. They got all the attention. They were the rabble rousers. Okay? Because the other people, 50% of them back then, wanted to stay with the king. are they be tarred and feathered. Now the progressive movement is the rebellion. So they're 10 times as loud as a so-called silent majority. And again, it's picked up and amplified by a very sympathetic national media.
Starting point is 00:07:15 You see? See where we're going here? So if you are an unstable, mentally ill person and you live in the progressive world, You are constantly agitated. That's what happened to Utah. This kid was in the dark precincts. Agitation, agitation, agitation. And boom.
Starting point is 00:07:41 He splits. He breaks. Same thing with the kid in Butler. Okay? We try to kill President Trump. All right. Now, everything I have said the last seven minutes and 49 seconds is true. No what about, none of this, none of that,
Starting point is 00:08:01 solid rock truth. So Ken, do you get it now? Are you getting it? That the hatred is driven. It's not unique to the progressive left. There is plenty of hatred on the crank right. But they don't have the ability to get it out there. You're listening to a special edition of the No Spin News. The right wing, some, the activist part of it, is embracing cancel culture now. And it's a little bit disturbing. Now, a number of people have been fired from their jaws, went over yesterday, and that list is mounting. we'll have an update tomorrow, state of Texas leading the league here. And they acted inappropriately
Starting point is 00:09:03 in the wake of Mr. Kirk's murder. So they lost their jobs, lost their livelihoods. And a number of conservatives are celebrating that. Not me. I think that it is absolutely atrocious that anyone would celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk or any other person, unless that person were Hitler or Stalin or, you know, somebody who's act of evil is murdering people. If Putin were assassinated tomorrow, I'm not going to be sad. But there's a degree. So Vice President Vance has gotten involved with all of this. Roll of tape. So when you see someone celebrating Charlie's murder, call them out. In hell, call their employer. We don't believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility.
Starting point is 00:09:57 And there is no civility in the celebration of political assassination. Get involved, get involved, get involved. It's the best way to honor Charlie's legacy. But be careful because dishonest people can use that cancel culture for revenge, for denial of due process, for rumor. So if you're going to follow the Vice President of the Vice, you have to have heard what happened or saw it yourself. 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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Starting point is 00:13:18 somebody in a position of authority, boom, but I have to see it. I can't just hear it because there are people who will use this kind of a volatile situation for revenge on a person he don't like. Okay. Now there was a website, the Charlie Kirk Data Foundation. They took it down, but it was trying to compile without checking because you couldn't check accusations that people were celebrating Mr. Kirk's murder. I'm glad it's down.
Starting point is 00:13:55 But before it went down, it raised a lot of money. It could have been a scam. Okay? And it was the worst. It was the worst. Now tell us on the website the name and address of these people who you think are acting inappropriately. Dangerous.
Starting point is 00:14:16 Dangerous, dangerous, dangerous, dangerous. Okay? But that one up and running, it's not there anymore. Could come back. Now, the far left knows it's in trouble. There's no doubt it does. And we're going to have an interview with Tim Graham who follows the media and talk about that. But they have to be very cautious now because Matthew Dow to MSN, B.C., whatever it is, got fired. Okay? And Washington, post, and I'll tell you about her in a moment, got fired. They have to be, they're really on the defensive. They don't like it. Here's leftist Brian Stelter on CNN. Go. So you have this now coordinated conservative campaign to try to get people fired for a wide range of opinions. And look, this is a new form of cancel culture, you know, something that the right complained about when, you know, they were saying the left was targeting people, those four, five, six years ago. The truth is, cancel culture never goes away. It just changes his shape.
Starting point is 00:15:19 But we didn't hear much objection about the cancel culture from CNN, did we? And how do I know that? Because I was a target of it. They tried to take me out. They failed. And I'm more powerful than ever before. But they took out a lot of other people. The left took them out. And they excluded people. They gave him excuse. All the networks, all of them, all three, have excluded traditional conservative voices for the past, what, 10 years since Trump entered the arena? Couldn't get on there. I did an interview yesterday with Major Garrett, an old Fox News colleague, who works to CBS, first time in 10 years. And the only reason that interview took place, and Garrett's a good guy, is they sold it. CBS was sold, the Skydance, which is apparently not going to
Starting point is 00:16:14 put up with this, blackballing, cancel culture stuff. Good. Now, I got to get a whole of that Garrett interviews so I can put it on a website. It was a good interview. First time of 10 years, okay, because they didn't want. All three of the networks, guilty, guilty, guilty. All right, we're not going to, nope, only progressive points of view are a lot. That's really bad. So, you know, stelter, you know who he is. I'm not even going to bother with him. The Washington Post is a left-wing newspaper. There's no doubt about it. It has been forever. I don't know. Last time I endorsed a Republican for president, I think it was 1920 or someplace like that. Um, and Boston Globe, New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, right down a list.
Starting point is 00:17:06 They're all, all progressive. Uh, they fired a, a, woman named Karen Attia, 38 years old, the Global Opinions columnist. They fired her, which is unbelievable. She had been there 10 years, 11 years. African-American woman, you fire her? Now, here's why she got fired. I'm going to put this up full screen. I'll read it to you guys listening on a radio. Quote, for everyone saying political violence has no place in this country, remember two Democrat legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year, and America shrub. and moved on. Well, I didn't shrug, lady. I thought it was appalling. Part of what keeps America so violent is the insistence that people perform care, empty goodness, and absolution
Starting point is 00:17:54 for white men who espoused hatred and violence, unquote. There you go. White men, the root of all evil. God. Washington Post sends her a letter, quote, Aaron, I am writing to a formula that post is terminating your employment effective immediately for gross misconduct. Your public comments on social media regarding death of Charlie Kirk. If I'd like to post social media policies, harm the integrity of our organization, potentially endanger the physical safety of our staff. That's from Wayne Connell, Chief H.R. officer, Washington Post.
Starting point is 00:18:32 So she's out of there. Okay? Again, extremely unusual. Now, you saw Joy Reed, Tiffany Cross, NBC, let that. them go. Same reason. White men, white men, white men, demonized, demonize, demonize. That's racism. No doubt about it. And I'm going to give Ms. Attia the last word here, to be fair. She replied to her termination this way. Quote, the post accused my measured blue sky post, that's an internet site, of being unacceptable gross misconduct, and of endangering the physical safety of
Starting point is 00:19:08 colleagues' charges without evidence, which I reject completely as false, unquote. Okay. So, summing up, the far left progressive movement is under fire. It is on notice to use a cliché, and they are being very cautious. You're listening to a special edition of the no-spin news. So we are all being misled by the First Amendment, not by the amendment itself, which is pristine, but by how it's being interpreted. And all of this has come to light in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination. So, old adage, anything you say can and will. be used against you on the poster boy for that um twisted turned you know out of context whatever it may be but the first amendment is our most important freedom and i hate to see it abuse the way it is
Starting point is 00:20:23 right now and that is the subject of this evening's talking about so let's define what we're talking about Here is the First Amendment, quote, Congress should make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or bridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, unquote. Brilliant. That's James Madison with an assist from Thomas Jefferson and a little advice from Benjamin Franklin. Brilliant. Holes up. But freedom of speech now is being used in a very political way. And it's getting to be dangerous. So let me run it down and back up what I say. We begin with Attorney General Pam Bondi,
Starting point is 00:21:16 who a couple of days ago was talking about the danger of hate speech. We'll take. We've been fighting these universities left and right and we're not going to stop. There's free speech. and then there's hate speech. And there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society. Do you see more law enforcement going after these groups
Starting point is 00:21:42 who are using hate speech and putting cuffs on people? So we show them that some action is better than no action. We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech, anything. And that's across the aisle. Okay, but it has to be a direct line before the Justice Department gets involved. So there has to be what they call a cause and effect. You say something, and that puts a person in danger or harms that person in some way.
Starting point is 00:22:18 The line has got to be direct. Can't be indirect, can't be theoretical, or any of that. So Ms. Bondi, under some pressure, how to clarify what she said, and here is the quote. Hate speech that crosses the line at the threats of violence is not protected by the First Amendment. It's a crime. Far too long, we've watched a radical left normalized threats, call for assassinations, cheer on political violence. That era is over. Under 18 U.S.C. 875C, it is a federal crime to transmit any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another.
Starting point is 00:22:57 Okay, and that's fine. And that's a law, and it should be upheld. But again, it is a direct line. Evidence has to be there. I am going to kill you, Mr. Brown. How would it is less time with the inkauf to bring and for your loved podcast to have?
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Starting point is 00:23:54 okay so So the leftist media, of which Ms. Bondi is referring, and President Trump does it all day long, too, wants to change the country. All right? They don't like the country the way it is, and they want fundamental changes. So they have glommed on to the progressive left. And the leftist media, the five major national networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, and NBC, CBS. MS and CNN, they torture President Trump.
Starting point is 00:24:32 And I use their word literally, they torture him. And he believes that this is a form of hate speech, which you could make an argument for that, but not a legal argument, can make a moral argument, that they hate him so much, the networks, that it is way out of proportion harming the nation. So one of the chief offenders in President Trump's mind
Starting point is 00:24:56 ABC News Correspondent, Carl, Jonathan Carl, all right? And Carl approached the president before he left for England. Roll it. And what do you make, Pam Bondi saying she's going to go after hate speech? Is that, I mean, a lot of people, a lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech. You probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. It's hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart.
Starting point is 00:25:22 Maybe they'll come after ABC. Well, ABC paid me $16 million. recently for a form of hate speech, right? Your company paid me $16 million for a form of hate speech. So maybe they'll have to go after you. Now, the president is being facetious. He's just given Carl Jazz. But our liberal friend of mine who should know better,
Starting point is 00:25:45 texted me and said, oh, look at this. He's right there. He said, come on. President Trump does that stuff all the time. I said, justify it. You don't think it seriously. He's not going to go up to John. the 16 million of course was referring to stepanopoulos on a bc who uh called trump a rapist
Starting point is 00:26:03 and that wasn't backed up by anything so a bc had to pay all that money to the trump library all right now we go to wippy goldberg uh miss goldberg is a sincere individual it's not a phony like some of the others are um but she lives in a world of her own so she is now talking about speech as well go i always thought that this administration campaigned on ending the weaponization of free speech so i know there's a lot of stuff people say that i don't like i don't like it but as an american i have the right to say i don't like it and they have the right to say it but not on the view they don't have the right to say it on the view because the view has not booked one conservative this year. Not one. I used to go on there all the time. I'm not conservative, but I certainly
Starting point is 00:27:01 lean traditional when Barbara Walters is running the show. So Whoopi Goldberg is, yeah, oh, yeah, I can say, you can say that's all good. Well, why don't you have any other voices on your show? Every voice you have, every guest you have is a liberal. Everyone. So this is freedom of speech? No. It's not. Because you just censoring one whole part of the country refusing to allow them a forum to be heard. See that? Freedom of speech, if it's excluded, doesn't exist. If you can't say in a forum, which you'd like to say, you don't have freedom of speech. And that is what the five liberal networks have done. They worked it out. Totally. At least on Fox News, they don't have too many, but they have
Starting point is 00:27:57 some liberal voices. Not on the view, not one. Colbert, not one. The only non-liberal he brought on in the entire year is Liz Cheney, who hates Trump, and that's the only reason she was there, so she could hate him more on television. All right, and it goes down the line. You know, I'm doing a book tour for confronting evil. You're not going to see me on a Sunday morning CBS program, which sells books as a big author thing. They don't book anybody who's not liberal. Thank you, Jane Pauley. That's very, very nice of you.
Starting point is 00:28:34 Freedom of speech doesn't exist. That is the con, C-O-N. All the liberals, oh, yeah, I'm freedom of speech, yeah, yeah, but not on my show. no. I'm booking you. Oh, it really, you know, I'm sitting back here going, and I'm glad I'm being able to tell you this because I'm sure it never occurred to you because you can't monitor what's happening on these programs every day. I can. You can. But that's what's happening. It's been happening for 10 years ever since Trump got into the political arena. So just sum it up. You have to be realistic about this.
Starting point is 00:29:23 Pam Bondi wants to go after freedom of speech and say certain types of it are violent, lead to violence. She can do that. That is legitimate. But it's a very narrow window, very narrow. It can't be an opinion. It's got to be a threat, all right? But just a barman, as a power, if you threaten the President of the United States, you're going to get arrested.
Starting point is 00:29:53 Secret Service is going to come to your house. Or a senator or a Supreme Court person, any of that. If you threaten your neighbor and your neighbor can prove it that this person wants to do me harm, you're going to be in trouble. Now, there is a glimmer of hope. So yesterday I did an interview with Major Garrett. My old colleague at Fox News now worked for CBS, and he's a good reporter. And he called me and said, look, you want to talk about confronting evil in the state of the union? I said, sure.
Starting point is 00:30:21 So I did a long thing, which we posted on bill o'Reilly.com. You can see the whole thing. But I'm going to just give you a clip now. I was surprised to get that invitation because for 10 years, we didn't get any invitations for any network for anything. Roll of tape. In terms of phraseology and definition, Bill, is there a practical and important difference between the left in America and the radical left? Yeah, there's a difference, but you don't hear from the moderate left because all the money and all the amplification is on the radical left. So the big Soros money and the big dark money going in, they're not going to agencies that are traditionally liberal.
Starting point is 00:31:08 They're going to, let's blow it up. and that's and then that's amplified on social media they want clicks well who's going to get the clicks the people that are saying the most outrageous stuff and it works on the right too but the right doesn't have the centrality that the progressive left has and plus you got five networks that are sympathetic to the progressive left and one network that's sympathetic to the traditional conservatives so you're heavily outnumbered there as well All right. So again, I was surprised to get the invitation. I was pleased to get it. We want to get the word out all over the place. But there's a lot of the censorship going on now, and I'm trying to break it down, almost single-handedly trying to break it down. And there's other things that I'm not ready to tell you about that are disturbing. But when I nail it all down, I will. And the reason that CBS did allow me to, to go on with Major Garris because they've had a management change.
Starting point is 00:32:14 Skydance bought it, as you know. And Skydance doesn't want to be exclusionary, which is great. And I'm hoping that CBS rises. You're listening to a special edition of the No Spin News. Now, the Talking Points memo this evening is about the dismissal of Jimmy Kimmel. I knew this was coming. I'm going to play a soundbite in a couple of minutes. where I mentioned it in July, because the late night comedians, particularly Colbert
Starting point is 00:32:49 and Kimmel, got sucked into a swamp of hate Trump. Hating Trump isn't funny. It's not entertaining. You can't make a song about it. There's nothing other than vitriolic politics involved with hating Trump. Nothing. So if you are on an entertainment program like the late nights and all you're doing is hating on the president and then hating the people who support the president, 77 million of them, you're not on the right road. You're not on the road to success. You don't have to pander, but you don't have to be obsessed. And Jimmy Kimmel became obsessed with Donald Trump.
Starting point is 00:33:37 Donald Trump destroyed Jimmy Kimmel's career. He may resurrect somewhere else, but to lose that purge, to lose that job is a big one. Now, it all happened because Kimmel said something tremendously inappropriate on Monday night. Nation is still very raw over the murder of Charlie Kirk, and here's what Kimmel said. We had some new lows over the weekend with the Maga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can
Starting point is 00:34:12 to score political points from it. Okay, the assassin of Charlie Kirk had nothing to do with Maga. Okay, and so do we say that that is in play which is untruth. All right. Now, why did he do it? The guy's got 10 writers, he's got producers,
Starting point is 00:34:34 and nobody said to him, hey, Jim, this might be inappropriate. And the reason maybe they did, I don't know, but he didn't listen. And he didn't listen because he's consumed with partisan politics. Jimmy Kimmel has not put on a conservative pundit or voice the whole year. He's like Colbert. The only voice that wasn't liberal on Colbert show this entire year was Liz Cheney, who hates Trump.
Starting point is 00:35:04 Same thing with the view. We went over that yesterday. No, it's a total blackout of traditional and conservative voices on ABC, NBC, CBS. Total blackout. That is the story. That's Putin stuff. That's China stuff. Totalitarian stuff.
Starting point is 00:35:24 You cannot be heard if you don't tow the liberal line. Now, I talked about this in July. Okay, and here's what I said. Go. Now, I think this is a bigger story than Stephen Colbert. And I predicted, as you know, that Colbert would go, and there are going to be some people on the View that are going to go. And Kimball, possible.
Starting point is 00:35:52 Now, nothing has happened on the view, but I suspect it will. So what really happened? So I got a call from a very powerful television executive yesterday afternoon, after we tape this program. And he said there's a revolt among the station groups. That means that ABC owns some of the affiliates, but the others are owned by other corporations, like NextStar, like Sinclair.
Starting point is 00:36:21 They own the stations outright, and they buy ABC's product. A number of them, led by NextStar, said to ABC in Burbank, California, Bob Iger, CEO, We're not taking Kimmel anymore. The outrage over what he'd said on Monday and all of the other censorship that he does, hate Trump stuff that he does, we're not taking it anymore. Disney panicked, okay? Absolute panic.
Starting point is 00:36:48 And it had to get out in front of it because they were going to lose 30, 40 affiliates were going to fire Kimmel themselves. So Disney says, we'll fire him too. That's corporate America. That's what corporate America. does, always folds, always, 100% of the time. And Kimmel then, by all accounts, was surprised. I don't know why it would be surprised. I mean, come on. You can't say on your program that MAGA people are somewhat responsible for the assassination of Charlie Kirk. That's defamatory.
Starting point is 00:37:27 It's a lie. It's not even close to being funny. What the deuce are you doing? There is a responsibility. In addition, the government licenses ABC, CBS, and NBC. Let me explain this. When television was first invented in the late 1940s, the airwaves were public. And the three networks said, well, we have television. We want to broadcast over the airwaves. The government said, okay, but you have to get a license and you have to live up to some standards. You can't say the F word.
Starting point is 00:38:01 You can't have naked people running around. So we'll give you the license, but you've got to obey the rules because it's free. The airwaves are owned by the people, the American people. It's free. So the networks have to comply with the federal government. Not cable because you pay for cable. Not social media because you pay for social media. We don't have to comply with anything.
Starting point is 00:38:29 We can get in trouble and we can hold into court, but no government regulates, but they do regulate the networks. So the FCC now, controlled by the Trump administration, is horrified by the total blackout of any conservative voice. It's horrifying, and the hate Trump stuff. So the head of the FCC is Brendan Carr. Here's what he said. calls for Kim will be fired. I think, you know, you could certainly see a path forward for suspension over this. And again, you know, the FCC is going to have remedies that we could look at. And again, you know, we may ultimately be called to be a judge on that. And that message got
Starting point is 00:39:17 across to Disney. Okay. And Disney also already had to pay President Trump's $16 million because George Stepanopoulos, one of their correspondents, called Trump. Trump a rapist. And that's not true. So Disney could see that its whole franchise was going down a drain and government's coming after that. So Kimmel was the human sacrifice. He got thrown overboard. But there's plenty of reason. On September 2nd, I mean, Kimmel was unrelenting. He wouldn't stop. It was every night. I'll just give you. one example. Roll September 2nd. Here's the thing, Donald Trump will never die.
Starting point is 00:40:04 Forget it. He's like Dracula. He's going to keep sucking the life out of us forever. Here we no more trans in Transylvania when he is done. Okay, and that's harmless, but it was every single night competing with Colbert, who can bash Trump the most. And remember, there was no bashing of Biden for four years. So this was ranked partisanship. Now, it wasn't always so. So I was on the Kimmel program five times. I got along very well with him.
Starting point is 00:40:35 And he was very nice to me and my staff. We'd go in, his studio is in West Hollywood, we'd have some snacks, he'd come in, a few laughs, give me a sweatshirt, whatever it may be. So I'm at the Emmys, very cordial. I had a very, very good relationship with the man. This was before the rise of Donald Trump. And I'd just give you one taste of it.
Starting point is 00:40:59 So on February 10, 2015, Killing Patton was out, and I was promoting it on Kimmel. Roll it. One of the things that I have to say, knock me out, and I went crazy telling everyone with an earshot is that Hitler had a condition, I don't know if it's a disease or a condition called meteorism. Right.
Starting point is 00:41:19 And what is that? Flatulence. Yes. Hitler, as if we didn't have enough reasons to dislike this guy, was constantly letting gas. Well, he had every condition in the world. Evil feeds upon itself, and, you know, he was such an evil person that he just, like, consumed from within. But can you imagine in the bunker with Adolf? Can you imagine how that was? Because there were no windows to open.
Starting point is 00:41:42 You know, you go out and you get a fresher air, you get a bullet in the head. So it's either Hitler or the bullet. Maybe that's why he grew the mustache as like a filter kind of self-defense of some kind. Never thought of that, but that's possible. All right, so it was the normal interaction and I only may make one more point. I'm not happy Jim Kimmel got fired and I know a lot of people are including a president. We'll play your sound bite in a moment. I was very impressed with Mr. Kimmel because his young son had a very serious medical condition. Kimmel doesn't make a big deal of it, but Kimmel was a very heroic parent and I weighed things like that.
Starting point is 00:42:29 So I'm not happy about what has happened to him, but I'm confused. I really am. And I got a message to Kimmel, I would say about a year ago, through Adam Carolla, whose friend, he said, look, Jim, why don't you give me a call? Because this isn't going in the right direction for you and your family. Of course, he didn't call. But I would have told him. And he said, look, you're getting consumed by hatred.
Starting point is 00:42:55 And every human being who's consumed by hatred goes. down every one and that's what happened to Jimmy Kimmel thank you for listening remember to subscribe to the Bill O'Reilly podcast feed and consider becoming a premium or concierge member at bill o'Reilly.com

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