Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - No Spin News - Weekend Edition - April 5, 2025

Episode Date: April 5, 2025

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And it's so dishonest. MSNBC is, I think, probably worse. And they're both doing horribly in the ratings. I think they're going to be turned off. Okay. Not only is Trump disparaging them, but he has ordered the FCC, Federal Communications Commission. Brandon Carr is the guy running it, Brendan Carr, to investigate Disney and Comcast, Comcast is NBC, for possible DEI violations. Remember, Trump signed the order against DEI. That is federal law.

And if a company violates that law, the government can punish them. Hard. So ABC at one time issued some kind of dictum that 50% of all its performers had to be minorities. Remember that? Now, I don't think they're doing that now because they're all afraid. But there is a big investigation against comments. cast, it runs NBC, and Trump hates them, and Disney, which runs ABC, and Trump hates them. Joining us now with some perspective is the purveyor of the very fine website, bernard goberg.com.

Never boring, I can say that. The website is never boring. It's got new stuff almost every day, and Goldberg is in Miami, living large right now as we speak. Okay, so do you all? oppose the FCC investigating Disney and Comcast? Okay, Donald Trump doesn't like DEI, neither do I. Donald Trump thinks DEI disseminates too many progressive ideas. So do why. So if Donald Trump wants, and he has, issued proclamations and executive orders, dealing with DEI within the federal government, I'm fine with that.

but not with private corporations, because private corporations like Disney have a right to do stupid things. They have a right to produce a remake of Snow White, which a lot of conservatives are calling Snow Woke, and the public weighs in by saying, I don't want to pay money to watch that kind of stuff. There's bombing. But both Disney and Comcasts, we should point out, do business with the government and fairly significant business. Go ahead. Shareholders have a right to weigh in and say, we don't want our company run. That's all fine with me.

But not in the private sector. All right. But if they have it, if he can find a loophole, who's going to find it? Donald Trump and conservatives want less intrusion by the federal government into our personal and business lives, and this is more intrusion. What about the cultural reform that Trump is very? It hasn't been reported much, but he wants to change the culture. Smithsonian Institution, that's big.

You're breaking up, Bill. I can't follow what you're saying, but I heard the Smithsonian Institution. If he wants to deal with things that fall under the federal government, I'm okay with that. But here's the problem when you go into the private sector. What happens if someday, and we will have another liberal president, maybe even a president, progressive president who says, I think the EI is great. I want it in all my federal agencies, all of them. But you know what?

That's not enough. That's not enough. I also want the EI in the private sector because it's such an important part of our culture. No, because I don't want the, I don't want the federal... But that's going to happen. It's inevitable. If we get a progressive president down the road, then they'll write their own executive orders, they'll knock out all Trump's executive orders, and there'll be DEI, hello, that's

inevitable. That's what happens. You know, voters have consequences. You know, I can't read lips, and I'm not hearing what you're saying. Okay, so we lost Mr. Goldberg, unfortunately, technical problems that could not be fixed. Tough world, but it didn't happen too much to us, but it is a hard world here, because we're dependent on other people. systems and then our system and all of that. Just Bernie's main point was that if it's a private company, the government can intrude on DEI or anything else. That's true.

So the DEI order only handles companies that do business with the federal government or run by the federal government, like the Kennedy Center, which Trump has taken over, and the Smithsonian Institution, okay, which the government. which the government runs, taxpayer many. Now, as far as the media is concerned, I'd do the same thing if I were Trump. So the media had beaten me to a pulp for almost 30 years. Lie every day about me.

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I told you about, you know, confronting the presidents, which is, you know, one of the most successful books of last year, couldn't get on any of the network shows because they don't like me. They knew the book was going to be huge, and that kind of censorship, that kind of mindset, and not only me, but the CBS Sunday morning program, which we zeroed in on, and have one non-liberal author on. the whole year. That's Jane Paulie. So if I'm in power, I go after him. Well, I don't think Trump's doing anything wrong at all. Yes, it's personal. Personal to me. I'm a little bit more restrained. I don't have the power, obviously, that Donald Trump has. And I'm not in the business to really hurt these people personally, I don't want to hurt them. I want them to be fired. I want them out of there. Anyway, that's my point of view. You're listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition.

When we try to book a Democratic senator or congressperson, it isn't easy. Not just for us, but now both parties don't want to go out of their comfort zone. So if you are a Republican, you run to Fox and Newsmax. And we get our share of Republican politicians here, and Marjorie, Tilly, Green, blew us off, Massey in Kentucky. They won't because they know they're going to be challenged. But I challenge everybody. But Democrat very hard to get them to sit for an interview

because they don't want that. They can go to CNN and MSNBC and just blather on, and they're not going to be challenged. But there's an exception. All right. Congressman Roe Kana, K. H-A-N-N-A, represents 17th District of California, Silicon Valley. He likes to talk to everybody.

So we accommodated him, rolling. So, Congressman, what are the two biggest problems right now facing the American people? Economic stagnation in factory towns. We took a bet on technology and finance. It did great, but we hollowed out manufacturing in this country and left a lot of people without economic security. And the second is the deep division we have in this country, the deep anger between people who represent bluer areas like mine and people who represent red areas.

Okay. Let's stay on the economy first. There are plenty of jobs. Anybody who wants to work can get a job in this country. Unemployment is about 3%. So why are you concerned about the workplace? People are in jobs, but they're not in high-paying jobs. They're not in stable jobs.

And a lot of communities don't have wealth generation. They're doing a lot of service jobs, but they don't have an industry that's bringing in wealth into their towns. The extreme people in the Democratic Party get all the attention. It doesn't seem to, you know, if you go out on a street congressman, you say, who are the moderate Democrats? Nobody knows. I mean, it's all the Ocasio Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren. These are the faces of your party. I think that hurts you.

Well, look, I identify as a progressive. I'll tell you where they tap into something, which is the massive income inequality in the country. We've gone from 53rd in the world in income inequality to 128. Now, the difference is, I think, to deal with that income inequality, you know, you and I'll probably disagree. I think, yes, you need to have higher taxes on the billionaires in my district, but you also need to have economic growth. You also need to build things. And my view is, let's argue with Donald Trump on who is going to be better at actually getting factories, who's going to be better at getting businesses there?

And let's give him credit for one thing. He was right about two fundamental things. He was right that we were getting too much of our business going to China and that we had had too soft a policy on China. And it was right that people in the Midwest, the heartline should be, were angry that their jobs had left. And I think the Democratic Party can say, you know, he was right about certain things. And we have a better vision of how we're going to build the future in these communities.

I don't believe the most Americans are jealous of billionaires, and they don't think they're oligarchs, and they don't think that they've made their money illegally, and they don't think Elon Musk is a terrorist who's trying to come and take their home. But the Democratic Party constantly overstates and sells this division between the rich and the poor. You say you're progressive. That's a progressive tenant. You are on board with that? Well, look, I represent probably the place that is the most billionaires in the world. I mean, it's the hardest Silicon Valley. I've got $13 trillion of a market cap. I was the one I said, look, don't vandalize Tesla and don't share for any American company's stock to go down.

One more question for you, though. You're an honest man. We're happy to have you here. The open border was really why the Democrats lost the election. Yes, the economy, but under Biden, the last two years, Stock market was good. He could never get the prices under control because he wasn't running the government anyway, as you may know. Biden was not running it.

But the open border was embraced by your party. Nobody came up and said, this is insane. And the American people said, no. And that is what killed you guys in the last election. Am I wrong? We made a mistake on the border. We let in 8 million people. A long mistake.

four years long. And look, I think that we've got to be for security, and then we've got to tell the story of people like my parents who came to this country to study. They were engineered teacher. I grew up in Bucks County, Petalya, was born in Philadelphia, 1976. Let me tell you the biggest thing,

Bill, that the party needs to make it clear. This country was founded in 1776, not 1619. This is the greatest country in the world. It gave the son of Indian immigrants like me, someone born of Hindu faith, and a 99% and white community in Bucks County, every chance possible. Today, I represent Silicon Valley.

It's an amazing country. We need to celebrate it and have more people have the opportunities I do. And if people believe you're a true patriot, and they can tell that. They can tell that, you know, it's not rhetoric. If they believe you believe in this country, they'll give you a lot of latitude on whether they agree on this policy or that policy. I agree with that. You should run for president, Congressman.

Thank you very much for taking the time. This is the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. We reported yesterday that Disney is under investigation by the FCC Federal Communications Commission because the Trump administration doesn't like Disney because ABC News, in particular the view, has pounded Trump for almost 10 years. And so it's payback time. And the pathway to that is DEI. Diversity, equity, and inclusion. As you know, President Trump wrote an executive order, which is federal law, that DEI is out if you are doing business with the federal government to any extent. Power, politics, and the people behind the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine, New York Post columnist, and the host of the brand new podcast, Podforce One.

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All right. We've got about 235,000 people working for them. 74% of the workforce here in the USA, the rest obviously abroad. $91 billion a total revenue in 2024 from the Disney Company, $94 billion, $91 billion, $91 billion. That's big. The CEO of Robert Eiger, known as Bob. Hey, Bob, 74 years old. 41 million last year in salary.

He can afford that tucks, huh? Those new teeth, he can get anything he wants. And Disney is based in Burbank, California, which isn't a problem because California is unbelievably left wing. But Disney has interest in Florida, and you remember when Disney asserted itself in Governor DeSantis' dictum, Don't Say Gay in public school, that was a massive brawl.

that worked against a Disney corporation. But they injected themselves in liberal politics, and that's what they did. But I contend that this is personal between President Trump and Disney. And a lot of it is because of the view go. I'm worried about mass deportation and internment camps, and I'm also worried about Elon Musk warning

Americans to prepare for temporary hardship. I'm surprised at the result, But I'm not surprised. As a woman of color, I was so hopeful that a mixed-race woman married to a Jewish guy could be elected president of this country. I think a lot of us are still apoplectic that America voted against a qualified woman again and put in, you know, this racist, misogynist, and they don't care. And so it's like, so it's tiring. It is exhausting. It is disappointed.

The guy was not born in this country, who was born under apartheid in South Africa. So has that mentality going on. He was pro-apartheid, as I understand it. And she had to correct that. But to call the President of the United States a racist misogynist, ABC is going to pay a price to that. And they know these women are going to do it. And they've been doing it for years. So that's what is going on.

Joining us now from Atlanta is David Johnson. He is the CEO of Strategic Vision. That's a public relations group. And he follows this kind of stuff, obviously. So a few years ago, it came out an Axios report that the ABC executives in Burbank would not greenlight any project, entertainment project, unless there was a 50% part of the project that was devoted to minority

personnel. Do you remember that? I do. And look, they're paying a price with that. We're seeing the movies are flopping all over. People aren't going there. Look at Snow White that was just released. And it was released with the DEI controversy. And it's going to be one of the biggest losses for Disney. I saw just a few moments ago that it's reported it's going to lose at least one point one and a half million dollars or more it's a flop for it but couldn't that be because the movie is just terrible does it have to do with its DEI policies a lot of it is that's what people think and they refocused Disney did

snow white into a DEI story we saw some of the Star Wars shows as well on Disney plus viewers are running from it because they don't like their old classics now made politically correct with all these DEI policies. And that's one of Disney's problems. Disney's facing a lot of problems financially. Their shows are flopping, consumers are boycotting. Disney Plus, they've lost a lot of subscribers. They're even not going to the theme parks anymore.

And a lot of it is because families don't feel comfortable with Disney brand any longer because of its DEI policies. Well, I'm going to disagree with you on the theme parks. It's a lot of it's because it costs $1,000 a day to go there. Well, that too, I agree. But it's that combination. Wiped out. And talking about DEI, what's the I?

Inclusion. Well, you're not including working class and poor families when you charge you $1,000 a day. So I said, look, the hypocrisy is just staggering. Now, we had Bernie Goldberg on a program yesterday, and Goldberg asserts, and he put this on his website, bernardg, goldberg.com, that a government, powerful Washington, D.C., doesn't really have any right to go into a private company and tell them how to run their operation. You believe that? Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking

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I believe consumers decide the marketplace. And if they don't like it, the company can go under. We're definitely seeing Donald Trump with this FCC investigation go away after the view. But ultimately, it's going to be the consumer that decides. And right now, Disney has numerous problems. because the consumers don't like them at this point. And you believe that problems creatively from Disney are stemming from their insistence

that they have a quota system for minorities. I'll tell you an interesting story. I've said this once before on his program. I know both Kelsey Grammer and Alec Baldwin. They shot a pilot for Disney. I guess it was six or seven years ago. And a pilot was very funny. It was about two talk show hosts, but they reversed it.

Grammar was the liberal, and Baldwin was the conservative. And they didn't pick it up, Disney, according to my sources, which are pretty good, because there was no minority in the starring roles. Now, if I had a bet, I would say it was true. I can't say with 100% certainty that's true, but that's what happened. I know that's what happened. They didn't pick it up. Now, if what you're asserting is that that has stemmed right across the line in their products,

because entertainment is supposed to be entertaining, not woke. I don't know of any woke projects that are really making it come to think of it. Do you? Do you know any woke stuff that's making it in the entertainment? No, I don't. In fact, too, Disney tried to do a woke Star Wars, and they asked it instantly because Star Wars, Star War fans rebelled against it, especially when the so-called Jedi's used the pronouns.

Okay. But no, it's not making it, and Disney's suffering from it. I'm trying to think of one woke project that has been successful. Final question is, I think a lot of this is personal, Donald Trump. He's got a list, payback list. I think that's true. Do you? Oh, I definitely do.

And the problem for Disney is they're already weak, payback list might be the final nail in their coffin. I don't see him going out of business. The structure's too big. You're not going to go to business, but they're going to be diminished. Yeah, they'll lose. Your kids still want to go, the kids don't know, and to the theme parks and all of that.

Mr. Johnson, thanks very much. Really appreciate your expertise. Thank you. Thank you for listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. To watch the full episodes of the NoSpin News, Visit Bill O'Reilly.com and sign up to become a premium or concierge member. That's Bill O'Reilly.com. Sign up and start watching today.