Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - No Spin News - Weekend Edition - August 3, 2024

Episode Date: August 3, 2024

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Welcome to the No Spin News Weekend Edition. Joining us now from Blavout, New York, north of New York City, is John McLaughlin, who is President Trump's pollster. And we wanted to get his reaction to the narrowing of the polls, which Mr. McLaughlin, to his credit, says it's true. I mean, he's not trying to, you know, gin up the numbers in support of his candidate. So is my analysis correct that it's women of color, the primary movers here? I think it's not just women of color, but it's also Democrats. Because in those polls, there's only been eight polls in these eight days that have come out.

And that are on the real clear politics average. Those are the ones that the media looks at and says, okay, there's some credibility here. There's some little referee there. they still have Donald Trump up two points in the average. And for somebody like me who had to sit through the Hillary Locke in 2016 where we were always behind the national polls, the Biden blue wave in 2020 when they had us down like 10, 14 points in 2020 that, you know, the national polls have us up at two points

after they've been pronouncing Kamala Harris, like this great honeymoon, this unelected. I mean, she was given the nomination in this. deal with Joe Biden. She wasn't picked by anybody except the party bosses, in effect. And now the media is saying she's doing great. So you've seen these polls like that. Ipsos poll, you mentioned the ABC poll. I mean, they're the ones out of 22 polls after the debate. They had Biden up too. Every other national poll had Biden losing. That's on the real clear politics average. And then they already, this week, had Harris up too. So they're basically manufacturing numbers

like they did in 2016, that Hillary was going to win, 2020, that Biden was going to win. And they try to manipulate the election that way. That Ipsos ball, it comes off their own knowledge panel. There's only 29% of Republicans. We were 36. Do you think ABC News knows that that poll, as you put it, is not reflective of the American electorate?

Do you think ABC News is in on the game? Let me see, ABC News. You know ABC News. Oh, that's George Stephan. I know it very well. This probably was on his show on Sunday morning that George Stephanopoulos was touting these numbers. And, you know, but here's a question. Do Stepanopoulos and the brood over there at ABC, okay?

Do they know that Ipsos polls more African Americans out of proportion than the rest of the polls? Do they know that? Well, they don't, they say, they don't show you the numbers. They just say that it's weighted by whatever census data they have. But what I'm getting at is they basically manufactured this coup against Joe Biden. Because why? They're worried about his health. No, they're not worried about his health.

They're worried about he was losing in the polls to Donald Trump. Okay, but who manufactured the coup, in your opinion, John? Who manufactured it? the media and the Democrat elite bosses, where in effect, Hakeem Jeffries, who wants to be Speaker, is worried that he's not going to pick up enough congressional seats. Chuck Schumer, who's worried about losing his center majority, is, you know, basically. But that doesn't have anything to do with Ipsos, though.

And we reported that. It's funny because I reported the chieftains, that's my word, of the Democratic Party, arrived at the conclusion that you just stated that Biden couldn't beat Trump. And then on News Nation, when I debate Chris Cuomo every Wednesday, he pushed back and said, oh, no, there are no chieftains of the Democratic Party. And I'm just going, yeah, there are, you know. But look. But don't you think, Bill, seriously, don't you think the media organs, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC that are all left the line? They're working hand in hand.

I just don't know how active they are in knowing. I know they turn away, but to be fair, the Fox News poll has never been friendly to Donald Trump, ever. Right. Okay? So do the Fox News executives know that? Is the fix in? I don't know what I don't trust the Ipso's outfit, all right, because I know what they do. So I don't even report them most of the time.

I don't trust Marist, I don't trust Quinnipey Act, a whole bunch of them I don't trust, because I know how they do it, all right? But I don't know whether the executives at these news organizations, ABC Fox, are in on it. I don't know that. Well, all I'll say is I miss Roger Ayles. I mean, serious. Well, Ales would not have, he was a very thorough guy in making decisions about what would go on his air when Fox News. is my boss at Fox News. Okay, now going forward, the numbers are tight now. They say it's a honeymoon period. It's true. The media is behind Vice President Harris. That's true. Do you foresee anything

changing this that would help Donald Trump? Well, actually Donald Trump's going to be the one who changes it because he and his campaign need to get out the facts about camela harris's record just like they did saturday at the minnesota rally which probably didn't get that much coverage in the mainstream media but they were talking about the minnesota's freedom fund where she was helping them raise money where they were bailing out yeah we just ran the spot we just ran a commercial spot it was for the campaign and and in effect they bailed out people who later went on to commit murder and rape and other things. But look at her record. She cast the deciding vote for the $1.9 trillion that Biden spent that triggered the inflation. She was the deciding vote

in the Senate. She's responsible for inflation. She's the borders are. They're saying now she's not the border czar, and she's saying that she'll support Biden's asylum procedures. I mean, also she said she was against fracking, and now she's telling us that she's flip-flopping on fracking that she's going to be for it. I mean, they're trying to remake her image to get her apart. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford gold. And you can do this. Get precious metals delivered to your door or place in a tax

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to any of this. They don't pay attention. They're on their cell phones, they're pursuing whatever they want to pursue, and they hear dribs and drabs of stuff, but they don't know about inflation and who's the problem there. They don't know any of that. And when you get into skin color and you're going to then derive, you know, 70% of the people of color vote because Kamala Harris is a woman of color. I mean, then you're out, you're not even in the policy game anymore.

You're not even in it. Well, that's incumbent on our campaign. Donald Trump and his campaign, it's up to us to tell the voters the facts, inform them that she's way to the left, even to the left of Joe Biden. But also, she's incompetent. And when you ask her voters like Least about her, she's incompetent, she's unqualified, she's a phony. She's a fool, and a fool cannot be commander-in-chief. So Donald Trump, we knew was a successful commander-in-chief who got us out of endless wars, who beat ISIS, who stopped the Iranians when they were, you know, trying to take over our Baghdad embassy, et cetera.

So you have a successful commander-in-chief that is up against someone who, as of today, while we speak, She says we have to respect the election in Venezuela that Maduro stole from the opposition. I know. Look, and this is my final question. I don't think the polls are going to matter much in the month of August. Everybody's on vacation. Everybody just wants to get away from it. But after the debate, that's when it.

And Trump has got to show dominance in the debate. If he does that, then I think he's got a very good chance to win, and I think the polls will turn. Last word. I think you're exactly right. But it's more than just the debate, but it's also waking up America that we cannot have this radical and we cannot have a foolless commanding. I don't know if it's possible to wake up America. I really don't know anymore. People don't watch conventional TV anymore.

They're not listening to talk radio is the way they used to. They're on the internet. The internet is hard to reach these people. I don't know if that's going to be effective. But everyone will pay attention to the debate. That will be the decider, in my opinion. And John, let us know if anything breaks. We're very pleased to have you any time.

Thank you for taking the time tonight. You're listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. Enormous amount of money has gone into the Harris campaign since President Biden endorsed her. Not as much as the president's research. reporting. A lot of these are pledges that are never going to be realized. But there are four big names, billionaires, that are pumping money like crazy into the Democratic machine. They are. George and Alexander Soros. So there they are there, boys. Quinn Delaney and Reed Hastings.

So the Daily Caller website has done an investigation into this. And joining us now from Sanitas, California, is reporter Robert Schmead. So everybody has heard about George Soros and somehow about his son, Alexander, he's taken over the operation because George is 93. But they continue to pump tens of millions of dollars into progressive causes. They were the first to endorse Kamala Harris. So what are they up to now, Robert? So I think it's very telling that these major donors that have bankrolled, the massive transformation we saw in our criminal justice system following the death of George Floyd are now still throwing their support behind Kamala Harris. Because Kamala is maybe, you know, reading the Taly's right now and seeing that that approach hasn't been the most popular with voters. You even have voters in places as liberalist San Francisco ruling against these progressive progressive.

prosecutors. So as these donors pour money into Kamala's campaign, I think voters should kind of pause and reflect, you know, can they really trust Kamala when she says, hey, I'm going to be this hard-nosed, tough on crime, law and order president. I think there should be some skepticism there because these donors, when they put money into a campaign, they're expecting to get something out of it. George Soros, Alexander Soros, Gwendoly, all these people very involved in that effort to totally reshape our criminal justice system starting in 2020. And clearly, like Kamala so i think voters can maybe intuit from that that Kamala is aligned with these people on criminal justice and you know if you don't like what we've seen over the past four

years with prosecutors letting out criminals reducing sentences refusing to try people then maybe you should be a little bit skeptical of Kamala's claims that she's you know not going to um can you give us uh the extent of the sorrows infusion of money in the present presidential campaign. It is a staggering amount. The Soros is pretty consistently are some of the largest contributors to federal elections. They do this primarily through two PACs, Democracy Pack and Democracy Pack 2. And we're talking tens of millions of dollars right now. But we really are in the early stages of the presidential elections. You can expect to see that. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays. Every morning,

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Give us a few examples. Sure. So something to really watch out for these voter mobilization efforts. If you look at 2020, it was like 40,000 votes across a handful of states that decided it. Probably going to be a similar situation this year. So you'll see a lot of Storos money flowing into Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, seeking to get out voters who are likely to support the Democratic Party and get them to vote in droves. From what I've seen, Republicans don't really have a good answer to this. We haven't seen comparable voter mobilization efforts on the right.

So that could be a disadvantage for Republicans going into November. All right. But specifically, the Soros money goes to pay people in counties to physically go out and either help somebody fill out a mail-in ballot or get them on a bus to take them to the poll or if they're in a senior care to have them sign their ballot. That's what the money is going to pay people to do that, correct? 100%. Stuff like that, stuff like voter registration,

handing out pamphlets to people, all of these things. So these people are out physically in the neighborhoods, convincing people to vote for the Democrats and doing it. I don't think there's anything illegal about that, but certainly there's a potential for some people to do it illegal. right? Certainly. I think what you really have to look at, there are these 501c3s, which are like your typical charities, and they're not allowed to engage in partisan electioneering. However, often they'll run these voter mobilization campaigns targeted like students or voters of color. You know, demographics

that very clearly support the Democratic Party on average, but they label it as nonpartisan, so they're entitled to taking tax-exempt donations and a bunch of other privileges that charities get. So, again, is that illegal? Is it not a question for a lawyer? But it certainly is, you know, maybe not in the law. On the line. So there's going to be an aggressive movement in Pennsylvania and the states that you mentioned

to get the Democratic Party out. Now, the Republicans say they are doing, you know, kind of the same thing, but they're concentrating more on poll watching and watching the early ballots and things like that, the mail-in ballots. Tell me about Quindelaney. Most people never heard of Quindelaney.

Who is she? What is she doing? So she is kind of one of these silent operators, and there are a lot of these in the Democratic Party pouring a bunch of money into, you know, unsavory causes. Her big thing, she was part of this kind of group of four female donors in California that poured a bunch of money into the progressive prosecutors across the state around 2020, you know, and a lot of cases was successful, specifically in the cases of San Francisco and Los Angeles, Chesa Bowdoin, and George Gascon. and, you know, after these guys got in, they stopped prosecuting certain crimes, reduce the penalties for other crimes, and, you know, perhaps predictably. We assume that she's as far left as you, but who is she? How does she make her money?

Where does she live? Let's put a picture up there, please, of her, Quindelaney. Who is she? For sure. She heads this nonprofit that is focused on doing things like removing police officers from schools, countering efforts in Oakland to strengthen police. Someone who's, I think she's a very... Police person, and she puts a lot of money

into the progressive policing and defunding the police. How did she make her money? Do you know? I think she married Rich. I believe she married a hedge fund manager, Wayne something. The name is escaping me. They got divorced and she got a pile of dough. Is that how it went?

I think they're still married, actually, but they're both big libs. Okay, so the husband's given to the dough. Reed Hastings. Now, he's a CEO of something, right? Yeah, that's a bigger name. He co-founded Netflix, made a bunch of money doing that, and since then has been dumping money into a bunch of progressive causes.

Also another California-focused donors, a lot of the same things as Quindelani, progressive prosecutors, ballot measures to weaken law enforcement, you know, all of this. All right, so he's a Netflix mogul, billionaire, obviously, and he's very aggressive. Is he spent more money than the Soros Boys? Was he at that level? Not quite.

He's spent seven, so after Kamala announced, or rather after Joe Biden dropped out and Kamala became the presumptive nominee, he donated $7 million to a pro-Harris super PAC. And that was his biggest single donation to date. Got it. All right. Now, on the Republican side,

we hear about Musk giving money to Trump packs and a few others. Do they, is it a, you know, corresponding, do they do the same thing? Yeah, so a lot of the things that Republican super PACs on are the same as Democratic super PACs. Advertisements, get out the vote efforts, mailing, all of this. There's a bit of a, well, I'll have to see once the new financial campaign finance disclosures come out. But if reporting is accurate, it seems like Kamala, like you were saying earlier, has raised quite a bit. of money after Biden dropped out. So that could be a disadvantage for Republicans going into November.

I don't see. I think they'll both have about as much money as they'll need to do whatever they want to do. There's very wealthy people on both sides. Well, good reporting, Robert. We really appreciate it. Thanks for taking the time. And if you get anything interesting, let us know right away, okay? Appreciate it. Thank you for having me. This is the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. All right, let's go into some showbiz stuff. Now, don't Don't turn off the TV and radio. This is important to you. I don't just do frivolity on the NOSPN News.

So you may have heard about the Rolling Stones going around the United States, selling out concerts, and the two main stones have been around since the dinosaur era. In fact, they're Paleolithic stones. But they did very well. Okay? It's a Jagger and Richards, both 80 and up. At the same time, Jay Lowe was in her 50s, she had to cancel her tour.

Jonas Brothers had to cancel their European tour. Bad Bunny canceled a few shows because nobody bought tickets. The modern people aren't doing well. But the classic rockers is going to save it. Let's be nice. rockers. I'm a classic news guy, by the way, so I can do this. Now, on Sunday, I saw Chicago and Earth, Wind, and Fire at Jones Beach on Long Island. That was a great show. I got to tell you, boy, you got your money's worth on that one. And these are all old guys up there. Verdeen White,

73. And he bounced them around, you know, and it was very entertaining more than three hours. Okay, and these guys are huffing and puffing and a little, but boy, were they good. And it pays 15,000 live nation put in there. It was sold out. If Bad Bunny had showed up, it might have had 1,500. Now, they'd probably do a little bit better, but you get my drift. Now, one of the bands, classic bands, it's doing very well and has done very well for decades, the Beach Boys. Okay. And the two originals, Mike Love and Bruce Johnson, they're old guys. But they're, They've got a good band behind them, and people come out to see them. In fact, there is a documentary on Disney Plus.

Roll the tape. Let's hear it for The Beach Boy. Well, she got her daddy's car, and she cruised through the hamburger stand there. See, she forgot all about the library, like she told her old man there. The music business is so competitive. It always has been, always will be. You always hope the song's going to be number one, but there's too much competition. All right, joining us now from New York City is the legendary, 83-year-old lead singer of the Beach Boys, Mike Love.

And a caveat here, I've known Mr. Love for a long time, and I'm a big fan, of course. Okay, so how many dates are you doing this summer and how's it going? Well, we're doing a lot. We're doing, the month of August is jam-packed. We're flying back the end of this week to Boston and then drive up to Maine, go to Vermont, go to upstate New York, down to New Jersey. And as you know, on the 8th of, on the Thursday, the 8th of August will be at Jones Beach, which you just referred to.

And we're doing very well at Jones Beach, and there's still a few more tickets left. I think they've opened the upper reaches. But, yeah, as you can see, I'm on fully into the no-spin. Absolutely, absolutely. Well, you know, I'll be there, of course, on the 8th to see you guys. And I've seen you guys a dozen times. Has to be. And it never gets old.

It's easy because the energy that you put forth, and the memories that you conjure up are the people who see there. And by the way, if you go and buy tickets to the Beach Boys show, they have huge screens at Jones Beach. So even though you're up, you can see everything. It's a tremendous video that Live Nation has put on there. Now, you're, as I mentioned, now in your 80s, how do you summon up the energy?

I mean, how do you do that? Well, I think what we're doing is stuff we've done all our lives. There's never been a time in my life where there wasn't music. My mom and her generation, my mom came at five years old to California, and they didn't have any money. It was the Dust Bowl days preceding the Great Depression, and they camped on the beach. Well, a decade, well, a generation later,

we're singing about that very environment and becoming famous around the world. In fact, a psychologist in Sheffield, England, tested dozens of songs and found that good vibration, Our song Good Vibrations came in at number one for making people feel good. But what about you? I mean, you're doing dates or you're traveling on the road. You obviously love to do it because when I see you out there, you're having a good time.

You can't fake a good time. I saw a guy named Christopher Cross a couple of weeks ago. He was not having a good time, okay? And I'm not diminishing him. I'm just telling you he wasn't having a good time up there. You have a good time up there. But at your age, how do you summon the energy? Is it diet?

Is it, do you have a hypnotist go in and go, oh, we're going to sing, help me Ronda now? How do you do it? I learn meditation, transcendental meditation from Maharishi Maharashe Mesh Yogi in December of 1967. I was invited to go to India, and I did go. And George Harrison and I both had her birthdays in the spring of 1970. 68 and Rishi Keshe, a place where the Ganges River comes out of the Himalayas. So I've been meditating ever since. I even took off six months one time to go to a meditation course.

That meditation, you can drop your metabolism, in other words, your breath rate can go down to a level of rest twice as deep as sleep. So that's profoundly restful and relaxing. But your biochemistry of your blood changes. All the blood lactate, fatigue, that goes out the window. it's normalized. So that's my personal way of... So TM is partially responsible for your success.

That's very interesting. Very interesting. That and genetics. Yeah. Now, the final thing is that you have trained a back group. You know, you and Johnston are there, but the back group sounds just like, okay, the original group. So it's not a different thing.

You've managed to duplicate the sound of the Wilson brothers in Al Jardine. How hard was it to do that? Well, you need the right people, that's for sure. Our musical director, Brian Eichenberger, was 18 years with the recent incarnation of the four freshmen. He sings those high parts. He'll sing the lead on Don't Worry Baby, which my cousin Brian did so beautifully. the record that it's amazing how close we get to that sound we're we're obsessed to by to recreate those songs as close to the record as possible and you guys do it so i'm looking

forward to next thursday joan beach one of the greatest venues in the country you're out there by the beach they're like nice breeze and uh you know hopefully it doesn't rain so give my best to everybody and um you know keep on i'm gonna i'm gonna check that t ms stuff out. I'm a little bit younger than you, but you know, some days like, oh, I don't know how I'm going to do this today. Anyway, Mike, good to see you, man, and continue success. You guys are legends. You guys are American legends. 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.

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