Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - No Spin News - Weekend Edition - August 29, 2026

Episode Date: August 29, 2026

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Welcome to the No Spin News Weekend Edition. We have a very important story to tell you about. And you're not going to get this, I don't think, anywhere else. But it's almost vital, that word vital. So we're going to vote in November, the midterms. Yet both parties are really not answering key questions. And what they are doing is falling back on maybe you use the word hatred, but they're basically masking what the real issue is by pointing bad behavior.

So let me give you an example. Affordability is the big deal right now. So Americans are having trouble paying their bills. They don't like the high prices. Okay. When you ask a Republican, what that party is going to do to make affordability better, usually the person you are asking will say, well, at least we're not communists. We're not socialists.

And maybe you'll get an answer. Maybe you won't. But they'll pivot right into the radical left, which is dominating the Democratic. Party. We all know that. You see it every day. On the other side, the same thing. So you ask a Democrat, and I have, what are you going to do about affordability? Well, Trump's the devil. Obama had it under control, some crazy stuff like that. Never, well, we're going to do this, this, this, and this. And I expect this to continue

until the November vote because the journalistic industry in this country doesn't care about getting answers from either party. They are

in the business of ideology, of rooting for either Republicans or Democrats. They're not interested in your situation, my situation, or solving anything, which is why nothing gets solved. I mean, you could have a Dreamer Act passed.

You might have even gotten the Save America Act passed. Maybe it makes sense that you would pass it. They don't even, nope, either side says, if the other side wants it, we're going to vote against it. That is the story. Okay. So, enter Senator John Assoff from Georgia. Now, Assoff is what I call a smear merchant.

He attacks people in very personal ways without any factual backup. You've seen this for decades on cable television. It's horrible. Most politicians kind of stay away from that. Gutter sniping. Not him. He loves it. So he goes off and he makes a statement about a woman named Natalie Harp, who I know pretty well.

Miss Harp is a chronicler. Every president has had it from George Washington on. She writes down what the president says and at his behest sends it out on social media. The other presidents didn't have social media. They chronicle, she chronicles, and it hits a button and it goes out. That is what she does for a living. She is a civil servant. Okay.

She doesn't make policy, not a congressperson, not running for everything. Here's what Assov says about her. Go. He golfs and trades stocks. See, he doesn't want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace, gifted by the Emir of Qatar. Cheap.

So the social media picks it up. And now Natalie Harp is being hammered. Okay? Innuendo. So it's disgusting. It's Asoff's fault. Period. No excuse.

All right. So I go on News Nation on Wednesday, ready to have a discussion with Chris Cuomo about how this has got to stop. Both sides. Got to stop. We should be having issue-oriented discussions. Okay, so this is what my thing is. And I criticize Assov. Whereupon Chris Cuomo says, well, what about Trump?

Well, we're not talking about Trump. Okay, we're talking about Assov. No, we're not. Now, it's Cuomo a show you can do what he wants. Nobody's forcing me to go on it. I like going on it. I like him. I know Cuomo pretty well.

But now it's not about what Asloff did. Roll the tape. Why would you impugn this woman's character in a cheap, gutter-snipe way? So Aslov is a gutter snipe. That's who he is. And the people of Georgia should know, because character counts. You know? Bill, you can't pretend to have a standard of decency that you don't employ on the president.

You can't do that. It's hypocritical. But for a minute. This is going to help your career. We're not talking about Trump and Trump's insults. Go ahead. We're talking about a senator from Georgia and his insults. Yeah.

You deflect into what aboutism. Yes. That's fifth grade. No, it's not. Fifth grade. If you're going to be upset about what he said, then you need to employ that standard against the president of the United States. because that is nothing compared what the president says for sport, and you say nothing. You say that's Trump being Trump.

I have never said that, ever. Okay? So Cuomo misquoted me. Don't say that. And we do criticize MAGA and the president. I've got, I don't know, 50 sound bites. and I'm going to play three of them in a minute. Okay, but the point of the matter is that Chris Cuomo, very skilled debater, he's a lawyer

and a successful program on News Nation, would not say that Ossoff was wrong. Would not say it. And only two Democrats, my poor staff over the weekend was assigned to find me Democrats, who condemn this. Two. And I'll play you there sound bites in a minute. Okay. So as for I have to criticize Trump and I don't, that's total BS. Roll it. Summing up, I think Donald Trump is now going to pivot to his legacy. He wants to be recognized one of the great presidents. In order to make that happen, got to do two things. Got to tamp down the controversial statements. Test him. I don't know if he can. I don't know if he can. Okay? And then he's got to tamp up and explain to

we the people why he do is what he's doing. I figure about 30% of MAGA people, no matter what Donald Trump does, they'll be fine with it. There was a great depression. They'll be fine with it. They just love them so much. It's a cult. I know for a fact that some very bad people are trying to exploit his campaign to disguise racial and social hatred. They're doing that. Donald Trump should loudly condemn those people and tone down some of his own inflammatory rhetoric. Just tell us what you want to do.

No need to incite. Now, does that sound like you, this is a quote from Cuomo. You say that's Trump being Trump? Does that sound like it? Again, I got 50 of them. But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. The deflection was,

we'll never, ever criticize our own, the Democrats, because Trump's worse. No matter what they do. I'm surprised Menendez didn't get it. The senator for New Jersey is in January. Okay. So we did a search, and this is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Two Democrats had a problem with Assov. Go. I thought Assoff was wrong to raise it in the way he did, because it was basically a sexual insinuation.

And I just don't think you should do that. For somebody running for office to make that an issue amongst all the other problems, to point that at, I can think of a lot more complaints about. Trump than him traveling with a young aide. So I think it was sort of below the bar. No elected officials in the Democratic Party would criticize Ossov for what he did. And remember, Natalie Harp is the one suffering. Her reputation is torn at pieces. Papparazzi following her around life upside down. Nobody on the left or in a Democratic Party has a problem with that, apparently. In fact, when this was reported my debate with Chris Cuomo on media eyed, here's

what the woman wrote. O'Reilly was among numerous conservative commentators who slammed the Georgia Senator for the remark claiming he implied an untoward relationship between the President's aid. Well, he replayed the dialogue between himself and O'Reilly and then proclaimed O'Reilly's take that off-souths for argument was gutter-snive as a real Hail Mary of MAGA arguments. So this woman, unbeknownst to her, and the website, mediated,

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It's really frightening. And I will be on News Nation tonight with Chris Cuomo, and Leland Vitterd is the master of ceremony. ceremonies. Sorry for Leland. Nine o'clock. Okay. And we'll continue this debate. Because it got to stop. And I'm calling out everybody. I mean, I'm not going to allow any of this. I mean, it's just really wrong. It's so wrong. And as for you, Senator Assov, I wouldn't vote for you. I said I would vote for Putin over you. And then I, you know, as a joke, I said, well, stay home. There's no way. There's no, Okay, because I know who you are.

I know who you are. And we don't need that in higher office. We don't need that in the Senate in Georgia. And you Georgians right in here? Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. How you're just crazy. Okay.

That's the memo. You're listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. Let's bring in a guest. he sees it the way he sees it. Dr. Christopher Ferguson teaches psychology at Stetson University. He used to teach at Texas A&M where I first started reading his stuff. He's very astute. So use a phrase, my side bias, my side bias.

That means that my side, whatever side that may be, can do anything. because the other side is worse, correct? Yeah, absolutely. So, yeah, thanks for having me on today. So, yeah, my side bias is basically this concept we have that says that in any kind of political dispute or personal dispute, we tend to view the actions of people we view

as being on our side much differently than the actions of people who we view as our enemies or our foes or whatever else. And we're much more lenient or sort of unjudgmental towards our... our behavior or our side's behavior, then towards those of our enemies, even if they do basically the same thing. So we talk about like racism or misogyny or these kind of personal attacks.

When the other side does it, it's absolutely immoral, and ethical, disgusting, degrading. But when our side does it, it's sort of understandable. They did it first. You talked about the what aboutism and that sort of phenomenon. So yeah, so we do, we have the sort of natural human tendency to view the actions of our opponents much more negatively than people that are on our side, even if the same behaviors are occurring. And this spans across both parties, right?

Both parties. Absolutely, yes. Absolutely. Everybody does it to some extent. It's really hard to get out of that, you know, even in like family disputes, for instance, you know, the Hatfields and McCoy is kind of thing. You know, it's just a very, very natural tendency to sort of be, you know, most more lenient towards our allies than our enemies.

So why do you think there isn't an outcry, again? against the personal stuff. As we said, why? You're a professor of psychology. You would think that a decent American, even if they didn't like Trump or his chronicler, she's what she did, they wouldn't want to put the young woman in danger, which she is, okay, nothing.

That really is disturbing to me. Yeah, I mean, absolutely. So again, I think you have this sort of situation where there is this kind of, you know, Machiavellian calculus that goes on in these sort of situations. And, you know, one of the things that, you know, we observe with like political, you know, speech is that, you know, attention is very important. And you can get a lot of attention through negative comments, including personal attacks and such. So the strategy with these types of attacks, again, whether they come from the left or the right, seems to be, it's almost like a kamikaze attack to some extent, right? You're trying to do more damage to the other side than you do to yourself. You might do some damage to yourself as happening with, you know, John Ossoff here to some extent, but you're hoping to do more damage to, you know, President Trump, the Republicans, the conservatives, you know, whatever else. Yeah, and it is a risky strategy because, as you mentioned, you would hope that some people

will kind of point this out. It's misogynistic. It's very negative. This is a, you know, a woman who's, you know, not at the center of politics. necessarily. She's a chronicler for the president, but she's not a politician herself, as I understand. Yeah. So you would hope, but people kind of saying, right, well, if I criticize someone on my side, I'm giving ammunition to the other side. And therefore, I can't do that. And I have to engage in all these kinds of mental gymnastics. You pointed out the what aboutism,

you know, that kind of stuff in order to make it sound like, it's not really my side this bad. Your side did it first. And therefore, someone on my side does this thing. Well, you started it. So, like you said, it's kind of like a kindergarten kind of mentality, but it avoids us either taking stock of how some of our allies may be harming our cause, harming other people, doing damage to society, whatever else, which can be uncomfortable for us. Okay, but here's the big picture that has disturbed me. I don't think Americans care. See, I mean, I get a stack of mail every day, professor. And maybe I got two letters about it. Maybe two. All right. And they're so used to now, the smearing on social media, so used to it, they've accepted it. It's acceptable. The click baiting is acceptable.

And I don't know if we can reverse that in this country. I don't know. It can be very tricky. So there is this concept. We also have this called preference falsification, which basically means that oftentimes we say we want something, but in our behavior, we show we don't, basically. So people often, for decades have been talking about, like, the news media is so negative. I wish to have more positive news.

But then when news, you know, media try that, it doesn't work. People want the negative news. So I think you see a lot of that here, too, people are like, oh, that's gross, that's disgusting. I wish people would, you know, politicians would be more positive. I wish politicians would refrain from these personal attacks. But unfortunately, that's what gets attention, you know. And that's what is getting in. that they're happy. They're happy that this Natalie Harp is getting hurt. They like it.

Yeah. Yes, when we see the other side, you know, suffering damage, we can experience this kind of shade and Freud, that sort of sense of like pleasure, as you're talking about, about the other side getting hurt. And again, this is all very natural. It's not something that emerged in us in the last, you know, 10, 20, 30 years necessarily. But right now, we're in the sort of action economy where it is getting rewarded with attention in news media, and it is getting rewarded with votes. There's no doubt about that. There's a lot of money to be made. Final question. If neither party is going to answer any questions about affordability or anything, if they're always going to pivot to their worse, the American public then receives a

tremendous disservice. Because they don't know, I mean, affordability. Okay, what's your plan? No, Obama's plan. No, Trump, what's your plan? Okay, you're running in November. And the press won't ask the question based upon what party the reporter favors or the organization they work for favor.

They're never going to go out of that. So the American voter is caught with no information flow. None. Absolutely. Yeah, and I do think that's true. I mean, I do think that news media has, you know, in many ways, you know, been lazy or sloppy in many respects in covering a lot of these issues. And that does do a disservice to, you know, the American public. I think the honest truth that this is, you know, maybe not terribly optimistic, but I don't think politician's behavior is going to change unless it's incentivized to. So as long as they're still

getting news media attention for these kinds of personal attacks. As long as voters, as you mentioned, are responding, you know, in celebratory ways to these personal attacks, we're going to get more of that. So it really is going to come down to whether it's news media or the voting public are going to need to hold these folks accountable, and that's the only way this is going to change. All right, Professor, thanks very much, taking the time. We appreciate it.

And I'll mention to you that John Ossoff has now catapulted himself into the presidential sweepstakes. because the Trump haters loved what he did to Natalie Hart. And it's just very disturbing for me. This is the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. Now, we're spending more and more time on the media here because of the midterm elections. And the media is in a frenzy. It's collapsing.

The ratings are terrible. but it's actively rooting for the Democratic Party, which it shouldn't be. Stay neutral on it, okay? Okay, with me, if you point out that the Republicans are not doing what they should do, that's fine. But if you're just going to root, root, root for the home team

and the home team at Democratic Party, that's not fine. So we're zeroed in on that, and that is the subject of this evening talking point. memo. So when you book a guest, and we have guests every day here on the No Spin News, you get their point of view, POV. And so you know you, the anchor or the moderator, you know what they are likely to say. And there's other wrong with that. The 2026 Chevrolet tracks is the stylish SUV for those on the move. And with the standard

Chevy safety assist package, you have the backup to handle every turn with confidence. The 2026 tracks. Start your build at Chevrolet.ca. Because you have to frame the interview around what your guest is interested in. What CNN and a lot of the others do, and conservatives do as well, is they only book guests that agree with their editorial philosophy. Everybody else is blacked out. And we've documented that time and time and time again. When I go out to promote Confronting America, which comes out September 15th, we know what shows won't put us on. And it's not that I'm a bad guess. I bring ratings everywhere I go. Okay. They just don't want to joust. They don't want to hear an opposing point of view. They don't want their audience to hear

opposing point of view. I don't watch vehicles like that on liberal or conservative media. I just won't watch it because it's a waste of time. So last night on CNN, there was a guy on the Aaron Burnett show. Remember that's been around for a while. His name is Robert Kagan. And he apparently writes for the Atlantic Magazine. It's a far left magazine. And so Burnett knows that Kagan's going to come in and smash Trump. And that's what she wants. And she didn't book anybody after Kagan that's going to say good things about Trump. All she wants is Trump to smash, is Kagan to smash Trump.

Now Kagan himself says he's a neo-conservative. That's just not true. If you look at his resume, and of course we look at everybody's resumes, he calls the Republican Party and MAGA far right white Christian nationalist. I mean, the guy is just off the chart. Okay? And you know, again, what you are getting it. Trump's his threat to democracy, on and on and on and on.

You know, it's boring. Paul, it's boring. Even I couldn't make you exciting. You are boring. So he goes on, and I'm cruising around. watching the news shows. I don't usually do that, but I was coming up at 9 o'clock on News Nations, so I was cruising around. And I was stunned about what I heard, roll of tape. The Iranians know that really the United States does not have a military option right now,

and that is the reason why the Trump administration is now trumpeting their economic sanctions, but that's a major retreat, and the Iranians understand it. That means Iran is essentially now going to go forward in substantial control. of the Strait of Hormuz, which gives it incredible power to deal with not just the region and all the Gulf states are now going to have to make their deals with Iran, but also with the rest of the world. And that's simply not true. Iran is not going to control the Strait of Hormuz, not with Donald Trump as president,

Bibi Netanyahu as the leader of Israel, which is not true. I mean, and instead of being skeptical about what Kagan said, Ms. Burnett just sits there like a mummy. And is there anything. So it is inconceivable, and I will apologize if I'm wrong, that President Trump is going to allow Iran to dominate the oil flow out of the Middle East. It's inconceivable.

As far as U.S. military power is concerned, we have plenty of power. Okay, we can knock out their infrastructure today. But what offended me is not Kagan. You know what you're getting with him. Well, what is wrong with Aaron Burnett? Just sitting there, you don't have any follow-up questions? Iran's going to dominate the oil flow for the world, and you're not even going to be curious enough to ask about that?

It's preposterous. That happens all the time. Okay, so I'm sitting there and I just said, I got to show this to my audience. I mean, it's just unbelievable. And it shouldn't be happening. And not at all. If you are a journalist, you should be skeptical of everything. Okay, simple.

Not a complicated profession. All right, new poll by Reuters Ibs, not a great poll. They're not that accurate. But it's about Iran. Do you approve or disapprove of the USA attacking Iran? Prove 31, disapprove 63. That's a big repudiation. However, you break it down.

Republicans approve 69%, disapprove 29%. So, Republicans are backing Trump. Democrats approve 8%, disapprove 90%. I'd like to get, you know, a little more analysis of that. but I'll never get it. And Independence got approved 23, just approved 67. I guess this is all about gas prices and food prices, but I'm not exactly sure.

I will be. We'll do some research on it. So, according to this fall, most Americans think that this is foolish. What Trump did is foolish and not a good policy. All right, summing up, when you hear on the media, social media, is now dominating, linear media, that Trump's an idiot, that Iran is winning, that Iran's going to dominate the straight-of-hor moves, when you hear this over and over and over again, and you don't know much about how the government works, about anything like that, you tend to believe it. Because people believe it they want to believe,

right? If you're a die-high Democrat, whatever Trump does is wrong. So you're going to be in that category. But let's stay in the real world, okay? That's my job. And that's the memo. You're listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. Seattle. So on the Sophie Cunningham front, she is the basketball player professional, who says, you know, it's not really good for biological men to play basketball against women, even if they're transitioning. That's her opinion. Sophie Cunningham is entitled to her opinion.

For that stance, she's got smashed in the face. She's the object of vilification. She's this, she's that. So a columnist for the Seattle Times, a guy named Matt Kalkins, writes this, quote, Two things can be true at once. You can show compassion for people who feel trapped in the wrong body while acknowledging they have a biological advantage. After all, why do we separate males and females in sports in the first place? It's not due to the potential awkwardness of physical contact is because men have a higher testosterone level

and different skeletal and muscular frames, which together produce significant performance advantages. This isn't something I bring up at dinner parties, but it's undeniable. By every measure, metric in sports. Would it be to 100 meters, vertical leaps, weightlifting yards off the T, the top males substantially outperform the top females, unquote.

So this is Calgan's column for the Seattle Times. The newspaper spikes the column. We'll run it. We'll not run it. And Mr. Calcutt resigns his position. He joins us now from Brea, California. So first of all, were you surprised that the woke Seattle Times, everybody knows a far-left paper that's woke? A, spiked your column.

Were you surprised? Nope. I expected it. They'd spiked three columns of mine previously, and anytime I sort of went against the grain, the left wing grain, I guess you would say, you know, the prevailing ideology of the newsroom, my column would get spiked. But I still thought maybe there was a chance that I could get this in. It's a hot button topic. And I felt like I wrote it pretty diplomatically. It was basically through the eyes of two high school girls who were saying, listen, we're not transphobic.

we just don't think that biological males should compete against girls or women. And that was the thesis of my column. Just because you believe Sophie Cunningham rebacked her stance doesn't make you transphobic. Times wasn't feeling it. And they spiked it. And I said, I can't work here anymore. Did you confront the woke editors who did this? Did you ask them, listen, Yarmine is a columnist.

I write a responsible column because many millions of Americans, feel this way. I don't write it with any vitriol. I'm not calling people any names like the Washington Postwoman. I'm not doing any of that. I'm laying out the argument that Sophie Cunningham believes did you confront them with the facts of the matter? It was a very interesting situation because I submitted the column on a Friday morning and the editor said, we're going to look at this, but we might not put it in Sunday's papers to have some other ideas. And then on Monday, I got an email saying,

hey, you know, one of the assistant managing editors is going to talk to the top two people in the newsroom on Wednesday. And then on Thursday, I got back to me saying they weren't going to run it. And their justification was, well, I didn't tell them exactly what I was doing ahead of time, even though I said there's no rush to run this column. I just worked on it.

I want to see what you think. Is that the rule to Seattle Times because I'm a columnist? I don't tell anybody what I'm writing about. I just submit the column. If they got a beef with the column, then come to me and we'll discuss it. But I don't have to get permission to write on a certain subject. Is that what's going on at the Seattle Times?

Yeah, it was a BS excuse. There are all kinds of times where I've written a column and say, hey, what do you think about this? and, you know, it'll be edited and then it will run later. Or, you know, I can tell my boss an hour before, you know, I'm submitting my column what I'm doing if I was at a Seahawks practice or a Marys game or something like this. So, no, this was kind of their way out.

As far as confronting them on it, it sort of felt pointless because this has happened so many times to me before. I know where they stand. They weren't going to budge. I think a lot of it, you know, I was on with Glenn Beck yesterday, and he was asking me, are they true believers? or are they just cowards? Basically, is this just coming from a place of cowardice or ideology?

I think it's a combination of both, but I think at the very top, and I've had a lot of great times at the Seattle Times. As I said in my substack, there's no personal animosity towards them, but I think at the end of the day, they really fear the activists. They fear an uprising in the newsroom. They have a very monolithic environment in there, and I was someone who kind of broke that monolith, and they just didn't want to deal with it.

All right. So it's a far left personnel situation. Do I have it correct? Many, many people working there are far left. I don't like to put that kind of labels on that, but I would say at the top it is. There are a lot of really reasonable people, you know, on the ground, especially in sports. I love the sports department there. I have a lot of friends there. And I'll have people come to me and say, man, I'm with you, Matt. And I think that happens a lot in newsrooms. At the top, though, yeah, I would say it's very far left leading. Is it economic? This is what Beck was getting at. Is it economic? Because Seattle has just left the building. Or is it true believers we don't want to hear the other side? I think it's, you know, I'll make a football analogy. I think they kind of play the pre-event defense, which is they just don't want to make a mistake. Even if they're killing themselves in the long run, they're afraid of that big 80-yard pass, you know, burning them for a touch. And I think when it comes to these kinds of columns that go against the grain, I think they just think what's the worst thing that can happen? And they sort of apply that to their decision. I don't think it would have been a bad decision economically because the support I've gotten this, including from local people in Seattle, has been overwhelming.

People want these common sense perspectives. I think they're starving for it. I don't think they see it in mercenies. I think the Americans, fair-minded Americans, want to hear both sides so they can make up their own. mind about what the issue is, rather than banish someone who doesn't carry the far-left orthodoxy. What happened to Seattle? I used to, when I was a reporter racing around the country, I used to look forward to going to Seattle. You know, you go to the fishermen's place. They have a nice four seasons there. They've raised boathouse a little bit north of town.

Oh, yeah. I used to, and it wasn't crazy. It wasn't a crazy. town. What the deuce happened? I got there in 2015. I didn't grow up there. And this was kind of when wokeness was starting to take over the country, not to the full extent that we saw, you know, after Trump and in 2020. But I think Seattle's just always drawn a very liberal crowd. You know, I think it's young people, young idealists, you know, who may be in the 80s and 90s, they were kind of hippies, and now they're kind of the people that are, you know, marching in no Kings protests, and this is something that's really important to them. You can go across the water where I live, like in Bellevue or Kirkland, and you don't get any of that. But Seattle is just

a hotbed, and it just draws this type of people that will vote for a socialist mayor, that will, tune you out if you have any kind of opposing view. You know, you can certainly find pockets where people are normal, if you will, where people are common sense. But, and I, and I, I would even say that maybe most of the residents are like, they're like that. But, you know, the loudest people are intimidating. And there are a lot of really loud, unreasonable people in Seattle, and they drown out the reasonable voices. Well, well, you know, like the mayor who's a communist, not a socialist. I mean, she, and you have the highest, um, the highest amount of empty, uh, buildings, you know, for corporations, in the country.

Yeah. Okay, in the country. So, obviously, and I think Starbucks left. I mean, there it is. You can see it that most of the people working for a living or involved with corporations, they don't want any part of the culture of Seattle. So they're moving out. Okay.

They're going other places. And that hurts. the city of Seattle. But they never admit it. They never, you know, say, okay, maybe I'll moderate a little bit. They get more entrenched, the powers that be. I would agree with that. People dig their heels in, and I think the Seattle Times kind of does the same thing.

But they're going out of business to Seattle Times. I don't know, but, you know, it seems that there's no... Do they even publish every day? Is there a paper newspaper? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. You know, I'm going to give the family credit, you know, the Blethyn family, you know, you can disagree with a lot of their politics, but they are very adamant about keeping that paper going. So, you know, I'm going to give credit where credits do on that. So I don't know if they're going out of business anytime soon. This time next year, it'll be on the internet. Maybe. But, you know, it doesn't seem to matter how much negative feedback a lot of these articles get, or whether it's on Twitter or whether it's in the comments. They just don't really seem interested in changing their ways. And I don't see that happening anytime.

soon. Are you going to stay in journalism now? I am, Bill. I got some good things on the horizon. I wasn't sure what was going to happen when I resigned, but I put a tweet out there and I wrote a substack and I've just gotten overwhelming support. It's been really encouraging for me, not just for me personally, but to know that people want this diversity of thought and to see how people on both sides of the aisle were disappointed that this column was spiked because I do think people, even who disagree. You wouldn't consider yourself a conservative. though. Would you, for what I've written, no, no, I mean, I didn't see ideology in what, in your sports coverage. Yeah, no, I wouldn't consider myself a leftist. You know, I, I, I'm an independent.

It really is an issue by issue thing for me. I don't really get tribal like that. So, um, it kind of depends what it is. But I do reject kind of the far left ideology that's taken over Seattle, as I think a lot of people have, a lot of people do. And it was just, um, it was kind of a weird environment to walk into the office sometimes. And it was just, um, it was just, um, it was kind of a weird environment to walk into the office sometimes and it was just not conducive for someone who wanted to think independently. Well, that's for sure. It's totalitarian. All right, Matt, if we can help you out at all, you let me know. And I hope you say in a business. And I'm sorry you had to go through this. This is the NoSpin News Weekend Edition.

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