Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - No Spin News - Weekend Edition - August 5, 2023

Episode Date: August 5, 2023

Listen to this week's No Spin News interview with Dr. Thomas Hogan on the Biden economy, Glenn Beck on the controversy over his new book and a report on George Soros. We also visit the No Spin News archives and Bill's conversation with Bernie & Sid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. Gas prices now, let me give you the stats here. Current average gallon gas, 376, week ago 360, that's a huge story. A month ago, 354, a year ago, 422. So gas prices have risen 16 cents in a week, and this is the annual summer gouge. It happens every summer. Okay, they gouge you and gouge you and gouge you until Liberty. That's what they do.

But in addition to gas prices, car insurance is up 17% in one year in this country. So you get your car insurance renewal and you got to have car insurance. You have to. It's not optional. 17% rise. And I'm going, I'm looking at my thing, I'm going, what? I got a clean record, no accidents, no tickets, whatever, and I'm paying more than 70%. And I'm going, why?

So we did some investigation, here's why. The increase has become because cars have become more advanced and features, all kinds of stuff that are expensive to repair. Well, I got a 2016 Cadillac. My car is the same. Not a new car. So why is my car insurance up 20%? Because they can.

Because the state of New York doesn't care how high. You know, remember, these rates are regulated. And home. How about I got guys coming in now because they cancel my homeowners because they want to like double it, my home insurance. And I'm not in a floodplain or any of that. We've got no claims. And again, that's up crazy.

So I'm getting new home insurance. And they're coming over to look at the house or something. I don't know. I'll give them some low calorie beverages, whatever they want. But home insurance is up about 5%. around a country, double-digit increases in home insurance, approved in 31 states. 31 states. Why? Well, climate change, because of the storms. That's why. Okay. I mean, so you, me, everybody else, the bills higher and higher and higher. That's Bidenomics, is it not?

Bidenomics. But Biden's telling us, yeah, economy is great. It's great. It's the greatest economy here. And I'm going, I don't know. I'm paying more for food, more for gas, more for insurance, more for everything. There isn't anything that's gone down. So I asked my producers, get me somebody who is very smart, smarter than me, and can explain all this. So Dr. Thomas Hogan comes to us from great. Barrington, Massachusetts, and the Berkshire is a lovely place. A little crazy left there, but if you can just walk around the woods and hike, you're fine. 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 up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't. So if you're a political junkie on a late lunch or getting ready for the drive home, new episodes of the Sean Spicer Show podcast drop at 2 p.m. East Coast every day.

Make sure you tune in. You can find us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. 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. Every week I'll sit down for candid conversations. with Washington's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, newsmakers, and even the president of the United States.

These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. Okay, so the Biden administration is, oh, the economy is great. It's the greatest thing. Great, great, great. And then the consumer, every time they turn around, they're paying more for everything. How does that stack, Doctor? Yeah, thanks for having me on. You're right. It is a tough time for American consumers right now.

They're seeing prices of everything that they buy going up. And that's, you know, gas prices, at food prices and home prices, everything across the board. And so they're facing higher prices. But then they've got all these things coming from the Biden administration, new regulation, new taxes, and a higher debt than ever that Biden's using to spend on all these pet projects for his, you know, political cronies. And so it seems like, you know, Americans are really getting hit from both sides by the higher prices and the terrible policies from the Biden administration. Okay. So when you hear Biden go out and go, oh, inflation's coming down, which it is on the board. I mean, it's coming down from, I think it was almost 10 percent. It's

down about five now, whatever it may be. Then I'm the greatest president, economic president. of all time because inflation is coming down. But correct me, if I'm wrong, Biden himself ignited all the inflation for the first 18 months of his administration, right? So it's funny because Biden wants to take all of the credit for things that he did not do and except none of the blame for the things that he did. And so it's a little bit strange. You know, he's saying that, oh, we've seen all this job growth, not even mentioning that we're in this huge recession because of COVID. And so all that job growth is really just. a recovery to get us back to normal, you know? And so it really has nothing to do with the Biden

administration. And then trying to take credit for, you know, prices coming down. Prices were high because of huge inflation, mostly because of the U.S. Federal Reserve, which has finally started raising interest rates to try to get that under control. And again, Biden wants to take credit for this, even though really nothing to do with him at all. So my posture on this broadcast and others has been, when Biden came into office, the first thing he did was attack the American fuel industry, all right, the gas industry, the heating oil, everything, attack, attack of regulation after regulation after regulation, boom, boom, boom, boom. And that immediately raised the price of fuel, which immediately raised the price of food

because the truckers had to pay more for gas, and it's always passed on a consumer. And then there was all of these product delays to get the products to market and they'd stack them, stack them. If Biden had not, and I mean, you're a senior research guy at the American Institute for Economic Research. If Biden had just left it alone when he came in, left the American energy industry alone, as Trump did, would we have all of these higher prices? I know it's speculation, but what's your opinion? Yeah, you know, I think Biden is being a little bit not totally truthful about the way that he's describing the, you know, energy prices. You know, when he when he was running for president, he said he wanted to eliminate the fossil fuel industry altogether.

And so get rid of oil companies. And then once oil prices were high, he said, oh, we're going to do everything we can. I'm a friend of the energy industry and the oil industry. And, you know, obviously that wasn't true. But I'm, you know, I mostly put the high prices and partly high gas and oil prices on the Federal Reserve that's had two expansionary monetary policy that's driven up prices. You know, Biden called this high gas prices Putin's price hike. You remember that? Yeah.

Because of Russia's war with Ukraine that disrupted the oil industry. But if we look at the price of oil, even before that, it had largely gone up. I mean, at the start of 2021 and the beginning of the pandemic recovery, it was about $45. a barrel. And a year later, before Russia invaded Ukraine, it had already doubled to $90 a barrel. And that was a period when prices were going up around the economy because, you know, the Federal Reserve was keeping interest rates low and continuing to buy bonds and pushing up all prices. And so, you know, so I think a lot of that has to do with the bad Fed policy. But certainly Biden's policies of trying to pick on the energy and oil industry in particular,

talking about new regulations is certainly a problem. Okay, because harvesting of energy in this country under Biden, I think is about 70% of what it was under Trump. And whenever you don't have, whenever you have 30% less of a product, the product's going to go up. I mean, even I can understand that. Doctor, thanks very much for your expertise. We appreciate it. If you want to check out the doctor, you go to American Institute for Economic Research. You're listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition.

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Ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast podcast. Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcast, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. So, you know, Glenn Beck, he's been around since the war of 1812, and he's a big internet radio star, worked with me at Fox News for a while. He's the author of a brand new book called Dark Future, Uncovering the Great Resets, terrifying next phase. Big bestseller, this book. So it's about the great narrative when Beck says that very wealthy, powerful people around the world are trying to change. change the world, in North America and Europe particularly, and they want to run it. These elites want to run the economies of all these nations and fundamentally transform

how we live. That's what the book's about. Now, Beck refuses to send me a copy of the book, so I couldn't read the whole book. And even though I send him multiple copies of my book, I didn't get one. Never have you sent me a book. Never have you sent me one of your books. What you knows, what you know, like this. Wait, let me do one more setup.

One more setup. All right. So the book's a big bestseller. And Target won't cover it. Won't put it in his store. So Target CEO, this guy named Brian Cornell, lives outside of Minneapolis. And you look him up, and he's a successful business guy. But he is a liberal guy.

He gave $2,700 to Amy Klobuchar, the senator from Minnesota, in her presidential run and reelection run, all that. But it doesn't make any sense. Why would you not stock a bestseller? It doesn't matter who the author is, if it's a theory that people should read and consider. I don't know. We call Target. Of course, they didn't respond.

And it's Target, of course. Weren't they selling Satan stuff back or something? What were they doing a few months ago? Yeah, I mean, so this is not new for anybody. Target has been selling, you know, tuck bathing suits during Pride Month for babies. So the babies could tuck because, God forbid, they're a boy. They were selling adult tuck bathing suits for transgender. They were selling Satan things.

I mean, it was, it's really out of control. And they took a huge hit. and so in certain states they pulled first they removed it put it in the back of the target instead of right in the front and it only happened in certain stores of certain states so people stop

going to Target well that doesn't really work because Target is a very unique store and sells everything and even my wife complains all the time I know I can get it at Target and so a lot of Americans like Target because it has

the best of everything and goes deeper than Walmart does. So it wasn't an easy thing for people to choose not to go to Target, but people had had enough. So our book comes out, let me back up. A few weeks ago, Mark Levine's book comes out. They decide not to carry it. That's fine. Mark points it out.

The listeners get upset. They call Target. Target starts to cover it and sell his. book. My book, however, is different because what my book is about is exactly what has happened to Target. I don't care if you're a Democrat and you voted for Amy Klobuchar. I think you're a dope for doing it, but I don't mind. I mean, we all disagree on things. The ESG movement and what I talk about in dark future, what is actually happening in our corporations, is something entirely different. This is a choice to abandon capitalism, really truly abandon your buyers, the people

that frequent your store, and instead sell the things that help you in the inner circle and helps you at the bank with ESG, helps the cause of completely transforming a capitalist society into a stakeholder society. Do you think Brian Cornell, the CEO of Target, is one of these elites that have gathered together in the great narrative to change the way America and Europe see the world, conduct economics, all that.

You believe that this guy is responsible because it would have to be him. At that level, he'd have to make no Beck or no Levin or we want Satan. He would have to do that, right? I don't, you know, I don't, I don't know anything about him. He has to be evolved in the top-level decisions. I don't think that goes down to the books, but maybe it does. I don't think so.

Oh, it's a big controversy. The top-level decisions are, what are- What are- Go ahead. Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe. I just know that the company and the stakeholders in the company, and that's him included, have decided that their stakeholders, not their shareholders and not their customers.

They're stakeholders, which include the federal government, the World Economic Forum, the banks, et cetera, et cetera, that those things that they are pushing for are more important than their customers. Well, what about Comcast? I mean, look, you've been in a news information business for a long time. I'm sitting there and I go, NBC Nightly News doesn't even mention that Devin Archer testimony. I mean, are they, Comcast, NBC in the middle of this thing?

I think all major corporations are in the middle of this. I hate to say it, but I think Fox, our former alma mater, has even gone down this road. They see no way out because it is truly the most powerful banks, and insurance companies and government officials. You want to cross them. Go ahead. Cross them.

But you will have a very tough time. The only one that is crossing them that has survived is Elon Musk. But look at what they're doing to Elon Musk. Now they're saying, because of EPA, you can't fire your rocket over Texas. Excuse me? Where did that come from? Who made that rule? Is Florida exempt? Or are you going to say that about Florida, too, and move the space center someplace else? They are directly trying to take Elon Musk down because he won't play their new world order game.

All right. Let's go to motivation. So most of us believe that you run a major corporation. You want to make as much money as you can. You've got a board of directors. And a lot of times those boards, that's what happened at Fox. The board of directors changed, management changed, and they go wherever they want to go. But when you're just talking profit center, money coming into the corporation, the great narrative goes against that because it restricts the freedom of people, all right, restricts their income, restricts all of that. So what is in it for these corporate chieftains that meet in Davos and recently in Idaho? What is in it for them to be forcing this stuff? Bill, there is a movement. It's all in the book Dark Future, and it explains it clearly.

There is a great change coming. We are in now what's called the Fourth Industrial Revolution. All of the change from the first Industrial Revolution to the third. So all the way from, you know, what was it, 1760 or 1770, all the way till about 2020, all of that change is going to happen now between 2020 and 2035. That kind of an impact just because of technology. So the governments through the World Economic Forum and the corporations have gotten together and said, okay, how do we protect what we have?

And they've decided that capitalism is a thing of the past. They have decided that they know what's better. they just need to take control of how you spend your money, where you spend your money, the narrative, and silence those who disagree with them. All right, so it's a consolidation of economic power into the hands of what you call the elite because they don't believe that the capitalist system can survive under the new technological arrangements that we're going to have. Do you have it?

It's 21st century fascism. That's what it is. a public-private partnership. That's what it is. And there are no good guys back? You didn't find anybody who's pushing against this? Oh, Vivek Ramoswamy is probably one of the biggest guys pushing against it. He gets it 100%. He started a trading fund that went and was trading, you know, not on ESG scores. There are companies out there, but they are not major corporations. There are no major banks that are going against this. They are all in.

It is really the American people, the individual, Democrat, Republican, Independent. It's not just here. It is everywhere in the world, on the Western world. And it is a great reset. It is a great reshaping of everything in the world, as you know it. The scariest thing I heard today was that they're still talking and trying to push Biden into a climate emergency and have him issue an executive order which declares the climate a national emergency, which would give him all kinds of unrestrained power to do all the things he can't get through Congress. He's not going to do that because that would doom the left. All right, Beck, your book's certainly dark future on covering the great research terrifying next stage should be sold everywhere.

This is what a free society does. You can consider Beck's book and agree or disagree, and that's the way we've always had it. And I'm going to tell all the witches, Beck, killing the witches, my book coming out. We've sent you already two copies, September. The witches are going to be on your side. We're going to get all of those people on your side. They're going to help out because they don't want the new narrative there. I, no, no, I prefer they stay with you.

And they would probably prefer that as well, okay? All right, Beck, we'll see you on the radio. Here's a gem from the no-spin News Vault. This tabloid story about accusations now is taken on hysteria, as we discussed yesterday. I wanted to talk to two talk radio guys who have to deal with this, and here they are. Bernard McGurk and Sid Rosenberg, host of the Bernie and Sid Show. That makes sense.

Bernard McGirk and Sid Rosemary, Bernie and Sid Show. Creative. B.S. OK, 77 W.A.B.C. Radio here in New York City's, weekdays, 9, and new. So what I want to ask you guys, when you get calls on this subject, and this is just talk radio heaven, right?

Oh, yeah. It's crack talk radio. It's crack for talk radio. Right. You know, people, they want to vent. They want to talk about. But they don't really know anything as far as if a person like John Conyers says, hey, I didn't do it. They don't know whether John Conyers did it or not.

Right. Okay. So when you're fielding calls, Sid, what tone are you starting to hear time after time? It's a political thing, right? So if you're a conservative, if you're a Republican, it doesn't matter what you know or don't know about John Conyers. He's a bad guy. Same thing with Al Franken. On the other side, Roy Moore, he's the bad guy.

So without any information, even without a dialogue from me and Bernie, the callers call up, they're on a certain political side, and the guy on the other side, he's toast. Guilty. Guilty, done. And by the way, I'm no different. I'm the same exactly. That's my point of view. Don't you feel bad, no? I try to be impartial sometimes.

You don't have to be impartial, though. This is what I do on these things, all right? I take it as far as the facts. I said this morning on a Washington, D.C. radio station, I would not vote for Roy Moore. I wouldn't vote for him. Right. All right? Now, I don't know what Roy Moore did or did not do. I'm looking at the overall presentation of Judge Moore. Exactly. And to me, if I lived in Alabama, it's not good enough.

But this is my opinion, and this is where maybe I'm rationalizing a little because I take that side. it was a media hit job, a Washington Post hit job, and the voters are reacting to that, a backlash to that. In other words, had they released its information before the primary, the voters could have made an intelligent choice. They would have had Luther Strange, and they know that. Instead, they were manipulated, and they're going to have a Democrat, perhaps because of the Washington Post, and they're saying,

we're not going to have that. But the polls now say that more is ahead by five points. But I think there's a bigger issue here. If the Washington Post had a more stable reputation as being fair. Right. Had it been a Wall Street Journal that broke this story, for example, the voters may be a little bit more inclined. You're right. The Washington Post, the New York Times both have a bad reputation.

I'll tell you the one guy bill, that it doesn't matter whether you're a Republican or a Democrat. They were doing the macaroni on the streets. We were. We were doing the worm naked on the floor in the studio. Matt Lauer. We had Republicans and Democrats. So why the disdainee? So why the disdain for Mr. Lauer? Why? Because we're bad guys.

No, no, tell me. Seriously, look, he's one of these liberal icons who's morally superior. He's a moral conscience. He's a champion of women's rights, all this nonsense that he puts forth. He looks down his nose at people, and he's very judgmental. So your perception of him is he's a hypocrite. He's judgmental, yes, and that's exactly why we're like, you know. The callers, though, in New York.

City. And you don't do, you know, W.A.B.C. isn't known for it to be a right wing or left wing station. No, I would say that it is, and it's mostly right wing. It leads the right. Yes. It does? Yes. Okay. Well, you have Savage in the afternoon. Right. I miss I miss will bash anybody in the morning, right. And you guys are all over the place. That's right. So the, the conservative callers, they don't like Lauer because they perceive him to be a champion of the liberal cause. That's right. But let me point this out, Hillary Clinton's people hate Lauer, hate him, and celebrated his demise, Hillary Clinton's people, because she, they thought, gave Trump a pass and was too tough on Hillary. But the bigger picture is these people were the ones who, when it was the Clintons, they dismissed, for example, NBC, they were the same people who sat on the Juanita Broderick interview back in 19th and during the impeachment hearings.

and they remember that sort of stuff. They're all of the faro stuff, right? All this stuff about Harvey Weinstein. NBC had that. NBC is now in the eye of the storm. That's right. Not just Lauer, the whole structure. I would go from Andy Lack to Phil Griffin.

These are executives at NBC. The overall, though, is that we're living in a country where you can be convicted by a headline. That's right. You guys both understand. And by the way, and our monologue, if we come on in the afternoon or morning, and we lean one way or the other

because our bands tend to like us, we change minds. We may very well take a guy who thinks that this guy's not a bad guy, and by 9.30, he's a horrible guy. Well, that's good. At least people are listening with an open mind. Because people have to understand now that what the press is doing is whipping

this into a frenzy, and there's really nobody safe. There really isn't any. And next year, in the congressional races and everything like that, as they just said with Donald Trump, he better get ready. All right, they're coming for him. But in the congressional races next year, the Senate and the House, this stuff's going to be, every week, every day, he did this, he did

that, this candidate did this, this candidate did that. You wait and see. This is the big gun. It's a witch hunt. You're right about that. And yes, Trump will be in the cross as well. But then again, he always has been. Since he won the nomination. This is going to be epic, as the kids say. Okay, but the question then becomes, Bill, if everybody else kind of begs out, Conyers, you say, is going to be done. Franken is going to be done. Everybody gets done. Trump's not going to be done.

So when all this comes flying at him, what does it really mean? He's not going to be done. It depends how Trump himself handles it, all right? Because you say that he's not going to be done, but in the court of public opinion, he's got the press lined up against him. It's 80-20.

But people see through it now. I think I believe they do. I think that it's going to be like Roy Moore. I'm going to predict soon. that I think Moore is going to win in Alabama. I think he's going to win. And then if the Senate removes him, the Alabama governor gets to appoint a Republican.

So Trump wins on that. And Trump knows that. All right, Bernie and Sid, 77 W.ABC Radio. It's fantastic. We hope you guys will come back and we really appreciate you going on. Now, we're going to take a commercial 30 seconds only because these guys have to be wheeled out.

They're older than they look. They're little chairs over there. You've got to get them out. All right. 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.