Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - No Spin News - Weekend Edition - December 28, 2024

Episode Date: December 28, 2024

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Welcome to the No Spin News Weekend Edition. All right, joining us now is Rebecca Koffler from New York City. She is the author of the book, Putin's Playbook, Russia's Secret Plan to Defeat America. She is a specialist in defense intelligence. All right, so am I unfair to Biden here? Am I overstating this Iran thing? You're 100% on target, Bill. It is absurd.

The type of policy that Team Biden is pursuing is not only absurd and incompetent, it severely undermines U.S. national security. How so? You correctly pointed out that Iran is running a nuclear program. Well, where does all this money go to, whether it's the six-sixth century? billion that Biden unfroze last year for them or this recent unfreezing, so to speak, it is financing Iran's war machine. And Iran's war machine is basically an asymmetric warfare type of machine. What do I mean by that?

Iran is running a broad network of proxy terrorist groups that includes Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iranians are training and equipping and funding these groups that eventually and even currently, they pose a threat both to the United States and to the world. Right. Hezbollah, Hamas and all that. Exactly. We combed to find some explanation from Secretary of St. Blinken or National Security Advisor Sullivan or Kamala Harris or Joe Biden, nothing. No explanation whatsoever. Have you in your research, did they ever explain why they're $100 billion?

They're handing it to the Mullins? Did they ever explain it? My intelligence analysis suggests that the Biden administration is compromised by Iranian operatives. Remember, there's such an initiative, the so-called Iranian expert initiative, that basically was working with high-level positions across the Biden administration. Robert Amali, who was Biden's special envoy for Iran, right? His security clearance was suspended along with security clearances of some other operatives. There's an individual still in the Department of Defense, and those, I would even call them assets. They're foreign intelligence assets because they are corresponding directly with the Iranian foreign

and foreign ministry officials. So that is my primary hypothesis. My secondary hypothesis is the 10% for the big guy. I just never trust. Yeah, but we don't want to make, unless you have some backup for that, that's, I don't want to do that. I mean, we're, we're fact-based, but there's something shady going on.

There's something shady going on. Right. Okay, let's go to Ukraine. So Biden basically, it took a, a while, but under pressure. He sent an enormous amount of U.S. money over there in military aid and humanitarian aid and got nowhere with Putin at all. Is that an accurate statement? Putin, nothing. You didn't get any kind of dialogue with him, no concessions. And it looks like Trump is going to get some kind of deal. But again, that's not a fact. I've talked to the president

myself about it so I can say with confidence that he believes he'll get a deal. Whether he does or not, I don't know. But Biden got nowhere. Am I right? Correct. Not only Biden hasn't gotten anywhere, it is on Biden's watch that half a million of Ukrainians are dead or gravely wounded. 50% of Ukrainians' infrastructure, critical infrastructure, is destroyed right now, which means that this winter, they're going to be freezing in darkness. And that is because this war was never winnable for Ukraine. How so? From the combat potential standpoint, combat potential is calculated by a combination of weapon systems armed forces, the defense industrial basis capacity to scale up in defense economics.

Russia just overmatches Ukraine hands down. It always has. I know, but we had to stop Putin and we inflicted tremendous pain on Putin. Not only us, but NATO and all. You just can't let him just

run rough shot over these countries. But I have one more question for you. If a stronger leader, I don't think Putin, Trump says this all the time and I think he's right. Putin would have not done that of Trump with the president? Because Trump would have really hurt Putin, much more so than Biden did. All right. So Sullivan is over in the Middle East, desperately trying to get the hostages

released from Hamas's control before Biden leaves office. That is priority number one. So Biden's going out a loser, but he wants to have one victory before he goes. You believe that that will happen, the release of the hostages? Well, we know that Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel's defense minister are working very, very hard on making that deal. The problem is that Hamas is like playing games as usual, and Hamas does not want to release nearly the number of hostages that they're holding. Right now, there's still about 100 hostages that they're holding. So it's going to depend. We need to let the Israelis do their job and not micromanage the war, you know, as Biden has been doing calling for ceasefire, this and that.

Well, that's not going to happen. But I understand from reliable sources that a lot of the hostages are dead. It's not numbers in close to 100 now. A lot of them have died. But again, it's Iran that could make it happen. So Iran tells Hamas, release those hostages, or we're cutting you off from everything. They're remas would have to do it. They're like gangs, last word.

Well, if you want to put pressure on Hamas, unfreezing billions of dollars is not there out. No, that's not the way to do it, that's for sure. You need to gain leverage over them. It's just, I'm a historian, as you know, I have never seen stuff like this in my lifetime. And, you know, I go back to George Washington. As far as our research has never seen anything like this. Rebecca, thanks very much to Butch again is Putin's playbook. And if you're interested in foreign affairs, that's a good read.

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So now the San Diego County Board of Supervisors has blocked three to one, voted three to one, to block any cooperation with. Homeland Security in getting criminal migrants into the federal system. So if you are undocumented, you commit a crime in San Diego, they will not tell Homeland Security anything about you by a three-to-one vote. The sheriff of San Diego says she isn't going to obey that law. Kelly Martinez is her name, that she is going to cooperate with U.S. immigration and customs.

And we invited the sheriff on the program, but for some reason she doesn't want to come on. I don't know why you would reach millions of people, Sheriff, but she's not coming up. Instead, we have a guy who knows a lot about San Diego. His name is Mike Slater. I've heard of him. He's on the first. He does my hard news portion on radio, syndicated radio, all over the country, 300 stations. And he joins us now from Nashville, where, interestingly enough, Slater moved about a year ago from San Diego where he had lived for 12 years.

Why did you move, first of all, to Tennessee? I don't know, maybe reasons like this, Bill, maybe they let illegal alien rapists take sanctuary in the city that I called home, that among other reasons. My wife's also from Tennessee, but you don't have to live in these progressive bastions. So you moved out of... one of the nicest places, climate-wise, because you were fed up with the politics? Oh, yeah. Listen, the weather is only so nice and the beach is only worth it for so long. It's wonderful. Seasons are beautiful, wonderful things. We like snow. It's good. It's good for the soul. And Nashville's a wonderful, beautiful place. It's good to be here with people who share your values.

Okay. And a lot of people have done what you've done. It moved to red states from blue states. But San Diego historically has not been San Francisco. Because of the military bases, the Marines are down there, and navies down there. It was a conservative place up until recently. Is that true? Yeah. So when I moved there 12 years ago,

San Diego was a bastion of conservatism in crazy, wacky, California. They had a Republican mayor, largest city in the country with a Republican mayor. The city council was five to four Republican, the city council majority in the country and the county the board of supervisors which population-wise the county of san diego 3.3 million is bigger than like 23 or 24 states so it's you have five county supervisors who are in charge of a lot of people um that was five nothing Republican bill five nothing today nine nothing Democrat city council this just happened over a decade period nine nothing Democrat city council the wackiest mayor you can imagine if you have a minute I'll tell you

I think, is the craziest example of him. And the Board of Supervisors, which just passed this super, super sanctuary city bill you were speaking of, is now three to two Democrat, very soon to be four to one. So it is no longer a bastion of conservatism in any way. Why did that happen? Yeah, a couple of reasons. People go back and they blame the loss of the aerospace industry in the 80s, which lost a lot of its conservative influence. A lot of conservatives left for that reason. there's more people there.

So the military influence you spoke of is not as prominent as it was before. Price of housing has gone up so much that a lot of the military people who used to call San Diego home for years and decades after their retirement and leaving the military, they've left. So you don't have that legacy

of military experience anymore as well. Then I believe you have a lot of people coming from San Francisco and L.A., where, as you said, it's not nearly as nice as San Diego. Things are much cheaper, easier, more manageable, as you said, to come down to San Diego. So you've had an influx. You also had a lot of illegal immigration.

And there's two, I read an interesting analysis before him, that Texas attracts a certain type of immigrant, Hispanic immigrants specifically, and California is a magnet for a different type of Hispanic immigrant. Right now, a third of Californians are on some form of government welfare.

Everyone may remember a story from a couple months ago where the Assembly voted to give $150,000, of a down payment to a house to illegal aliens, things like that attract a certain type of immigrant versus maybe a Texas, which attracts a more entrepreneurial and conservative-minded illegal immigrant or immigrant as well. So over decades, I believe California is a bit of a lost cause. Much was made of the fact that 10 counties out of the 58 in California flipped from blue to red, and people saw that as very hopeful and exciting while I was in this grade, a new conservative Renaissance in California. Now, those were all inland California counties that have been historically

read for a long time. They should be read. And Tomola won California, 63 to 34. There is no conservative movement in California. Well, even if there were, the big cities are going to dominate. Now, Tom Holman, his job is basically to get tough on the border. He, this San Diego thing has caught his eye. According to reporting in the New York Post, Holman favors arresting the woman in charge of San Diego County, actually having federal authorities go there and put her in handcuffs. And maybe even the mayor, who you'll tell us about in a moment, what do you think that's possible that the feds could go in if they don't cooperate? The county doesn't cooperate in telling Homeland Security, hey, we just took into custody so-and-so is here illegally for the

charge of rape or a homicide, whatever it may be. They're not even going to tell Homeland Security that. And it seems to me that's interfering with the federal investigation because the Trump administration made quite clear these people have to be deported. Yeah, it's always been very frustrating to me when you hear even congressmen say we need to pass comprehensive immigration reform. Yeah. No, no, no. All the laws are on the books. You just need to enforce laws. And Tom Holman, I don't have it off the top of my head. I'm not the border czar. He rattles it off like U.S. Code, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I looked at we researched it. There's no doubt they don't have to pass new laws, but they should. Tighten

everything out. But anyway, what do you think the odds are that the head of the San Diego Board of Supervisors is going to be in cops and charged with interfering in a federal agents? That would send the message to everybody. Yeah, I think it's her and he's really focusing on the mayor of Chicago. I think that would be his first target, maybe a little less sympathetic. Brandon Johnson. Right.

Yeah, he's less sympathetic than Nora Vargas would be in California. But if I may one thing, Bill, I want to make sure that your listeners don't think that the new sheriff of San Diego, who was just elected two years ago, replaced a guy who was there for like 20 years, that she's some sort of hero in this. In California, there is no conservative influence. So you have crazy Democrats and radical Democrats. Kamala was a radical Democrat.

Nora Vargas, a radical Democrat. This sheriff is just a crazy Democrat. So while she's saying she's not going, she's against the county decision to tell ICE about illegal alien rapists and child rapists, that's radical. She's against that. She's no hero, though.

Okay, but maybe that's why she won't come on the program. Maybe that's why she won't face me. Of course not. She has no reason to. The right doesn't exist to her. There is no common sense. That's not good. I did not know that. I'm glad you defined that. Okay, last question. So the mayor of San Diego is what, a moon? Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to turn into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics.

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Okay. So there's a whole back story. Todd Glory is his name. He was my favorite Todd Glory story. When he was an assemblyman in California, he passed a bill that said, children in foster care will get free sex change surgeries, paid for by the taxpayer if you are in foster care.

This was the beginning, him and another state senator, Scott Weiner, another, which is total radical. This was the beginning of a system of a, of, encouraging children to talk to their school counselors to say lies to CPA to get their children into the foster care system in order to get sex change operations. This is a Todd Gloria movement. It has happened many times before. There are mothers who have told their story of how this has worked. That was Todd Glory in the Assembly. And the people of San Diego, what used to be this conservative bastion, Bill O'Reilly, beautiful place, like the pinnacle of just California

Lovin and California, everything's amazing. They voted him to be mayor, and they just voted for him to be re-elected. We've lost San Diego. That's too bad. It really is. Hey, Mike, Merry Christmas. Thanks for helping us, Sal. We'll talk soon, okay?

This is the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. All right, let's talk about the media this year and next year. Who better than our pal Bernie Goldberg, who runs Bernardgoberg.com. Bernie is a simple man. Not as simple as I am, but he's simple. Just look at him and you can tell. There's not enough makeup in the world that can hide the simpleness.

So his website, bernardgoburg.com, is easy to negotiate, to see, and it's fun. So I command you to go there today. All right, Bernie Goldberg comes from Miami. So I asked you to give me the three media highlights, three good things they did this year. Go. Let me first, very briefly. You said, what's going on at CNN? It's in their DNA. It isn't going to change. It's in their DNA. That's why they keep doing things like that.

All right, the three highlights. First highlight, the Wall Street Journal on June 4th ran a story on page one that talked about how President Biden behind closed doors was showing signs of slipping mentally. The New York Times didn't do this. The Washington Post didn't tell that story. Of all the major mainstream news organizations, the Wall Street Journal said it first. And they had, as a result of that,

they came under blistering attack not only from the White House, but from President Biden's allies in the media. Except three weeks after they ran the story, Joe Biden had a meltdown on national television during the presidential debate, vindicating the Wall Street Journal's story. So I give that number one on my list and hats off, tip of the hat to the Wall Street Journal. Number two on my list, Fox News Channel for its coverage of illegal immigration and the chaos in general on the southern border of the United States. Fox did what television news does best

didn't simply tell you what was going on it took you there and showed you people literally sneaking into the country on live television CNN wasn't doing that MSNBC sure as hell wasn't doing that Fox deserves credit because it did do that and by the way these highlights are a mirror image of the low lights

I'm going to tell you about in a minute or two. The third thing on my list of highlights, the rise of independent journalism in the United States. People like you, Bill, people like me, we can have conversations that are longer than sound bites where you can say just about anything you want as long as it makes sense. And the most important thing from my point of view,

you can say things where you don't have to worry about being canceled. because if you said the same things on NBC, ABC, CBS, or even the cable channels, some of the things I've said would get me canceled. But you can say it as an independent journalist, and I think that's very important. The rise of independent journalism is a major item of importance

as far as the media's concerned. Yeah, and it's taken on more momentum as well. Okay, now we only have time for three low lights, and there are about 3,000 of them. That's right. So which ones did you pick? All right. I said the mirror image of my highlights.

The number one on my list of low lights, the failure of the national news media to show any curiosity about President Biden's mental condition. I mean, there were video clips of him wandering off into the forest and not knowing where he was going. And the White House and again, their allies, in the media, said, well, you're taking it out of context. This was a major issue, and the media intentionally was asleep at the wheel.

The second one was the southern border again. The southern border was one of the two major issues that decided the presidential election. Yet if you watched CNN, MSNBC, read the New York Times, the Washington Post, you might not have any idea that there was a crisis on the southern border yet just the other day, page one of the New York Times, telling us that we've had the biggest influx of immigrants through the southern border ever in the history of the United States bigger than when they came from Eastern Europe and Europe in general into Ellis Island. This was a huge story, and the Biden administration didn't want it covered, and their friends in the media didn't cover it. My last one was how most news organizations failed to notice the shift to the right of the American electorate. I'm going to give you an example of a very good journalist. David Ignatius, columnist for The Washington Post.

He's a liberal, but he's not a crazy left winger. On election night, when it became clear that Donald Trump was going to win, David Ignatius said, this election makes me realize how little I understand the American character in 2024. I am mystified by the outcome. This is a smart guy, and he's mystified by the outcome, which prompted me to write on my website that David Ignatius, a bright guy, knows more about what's going on in, outer Mongolia and what's going on in middle America. Yeah, because they live in bubbles. All right, those are good, those are good.

Exactly. So my analysis is 2025 is going to be the worst year for corporate media in the history of media. You're already seeing changes, big changes. All of the anchors and pundits are going to get their salaries cut significantly. That's already begun. A lot of them have been furloughed, that's a polite word for fire, Chris Wallace, first one to go. And that's going to continue as is the decline in audience. Now, once the inaugurations happens, then Fox News, which is riding high because they rode the Trump wave, they'll start to decline again as well. Primarily because most of these network and cable news outfits are boring. They're repetitive. They've got to panel of five, six people. You don't know who the people are. You forget what they say

30 seconds after they say it. It's meaningless. Not only are they corrupt, rooting for Biden, covering for the liberals, all of that, but they're boring. And that's why this whole thing is going to collapse in 25. I think you're right. Now, I'm with Yogi Berra, who said predictions are hard, especially when they're about the future. But this one, I'll I'll go so far as to predict that the decline in mainstream media is going to continue in 2025. The three major TV networks, ABC, NBC and CBS, they've been in decline for decades, and they are an idea whose time has come and is gone. They're finished.

They are gone. Cable news isn't far behind. CNN, I'm with you. I don't know what's going to happen with CNN. MSNBC has been spun on. Yeah, they're gone. And they may turn out to be, who knows, I have no idea if they're going to exist next year. Fox is doing well and will continue to do relatively well.

But the future bill is in independent journalism. People, you know what the average age of the Fox viewer is, 69 years old. And network news is the same. People under 50 aren't watching cable. They're not watching network news. They're getting their news from TikTok, from Reddit, from places I never heard of. I'm not saying that's a good thing, but it does say... It's a reality.

That's why we're on YouTube. That's why the NoSpin News is on YouTube, and we've increased our audience 10thold. All right, so I hope you have a happy Hanukkah, and it will be happy for Mr. Goldberg. If everyone goes to bernardgoldberg.com. You'd appreciate that? Yeah, it brings Bernie Joy, all right? You know, it's a charitable thing that we're doing here to go to the website. And in this season of Christmas and Hanukkah, I mean, come on.

How about that? That's a pretty good pitch, right? You're killing me. We appreciate it. We're going to check in early in next year with you, Bernie, and you have a good one, best of the family, okay? I'll see you, Joe's. I'll see at Joe's, I hope. Yeah, Joe's is a crabbed.

place stone crabs in Miami that Bernie and I hang with and then we get ejected when we get rowdy. Thank you for listening to the NoSpin News Weekend Edition. To watch the full episodes of the No Spin 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.