Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Reilly: Bernie Sanders Takes on Fox News

Episode Date: April 17, 2019

O'Reilly is on Newsmax TV giving a review of Bernie Sanders' Townhall hosted by Fox News. Reason behind this Townhall? FNC wants to get out of the conservative network niche and Bernie Sanders defies the Democratic party. Does this work on both ends? Bill breaks down the interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly, and this is the Talking Points memo. Bernie Sanders takes on Fox News. All right, so they had a little town hall meeting on FNC with Bernie Sanders, which was a smart move on both sides. So Fox News wants to get out of the Aware Conservative Network niche and try to expand its reach. Bernie Sanders defies the Democratic Party by saying, look, I'm going to go on and spread my message of socialism wherever I want. And you guys are afraid to do it, so I'll be considered courageous.

So you'll remember the Democratic National Committee said, well, we're not going to let Fox News have any debates. This is foolish. So Sanders shows up last night, and about two and a half million people watch, which is a little higher than the audience from 630 to 7.30 is on FNC every day. And he's there with two moderators, Martha McCallum and Brett Bear, and about, I don't know, look to 20 people, most of whom like Bernie Sanders. So you got to figure they made some kind of deal that they had his people in there, at least some. So the debate itself, you know, It wasn't really a debate, that's a wrong word, the interview on Bernie Sanders allowed the senator to basically say whatever he wanted to say unchallenged, because the moderators couldn't

be perceived to be hostile. Now, I'm watching this, and I'm going, boy, this is just great for Bernie Sanders. Because the man has been on the campaign trail now for four years. He's got his wrap down. And he's heard these questions before. And whatever you say to him, he's going to go, oh, the billionaires. And the new thing is that he's a millionaire, twice over, because he wrote a book and got a lot of money for the book. And the reason he wrote a book was because he ran for president. And he's a star because he ran for president, which tells you why 19 Democrats are running for president. They want to be millionaires too. They want to get books and lectures. They know most of them obviously know they're not going to win, and Bernie Sanders is not going to be the

president of the United States. He won't even get the Democratic nomination. Mark my words. Okay, so Sanders then is confronted with Ms. McCallum and Mr. Bear, both seasoned journalists, who ask him predictable questions that he knows are coming, and he knows the answer, too. He's got him rehearsed. So I'm sitting there going, what good is this? We've heard Bernie Sanders' rap for five years now. He's a socialist. He wants everybody to have a level playing field.

He wants Medicare for all. He doesn't really care how much it costs. He wants heavy taxation on the affluent. corporations. But here's how you handle Bernie Sanders. And he'd never come up against me in a million years because we gave him the opportunity. Never. Say, yes, Senator, can you explain to me, because I'm a simple man, not nearly as smart as you are, why the economy today in America under Donald Trump is so successful? So many people working and wages rising after eight years of Barack Obama not rising.

I wouldn't throw in the Barack Obama thing, but, you know, so many people working wages of rising. Why do you think that is, Senator? Now, there's a question that gets away from his rehearsed answers. See? And he's got, he can't say it's not good, that's

a lie. And if it is good, why is it good? What is propelling the economy? The answer, obviously, is the corporate tax cut. Corporations as predicted, have more money to invest and hire people and expand. That's why. But that's not what Bernie Sanders wants. He wants higher taxation so corporations wouldn't expand. See, that's where that question

leaves. Now, that's a worthy discussion. That's what should have happened. And it's simple. So why doesn't it happen? Well, I'm not going to disparage my peers on television news. The newspapers forget about it they're not going to give you an honest play no matter what but television news you can see with your own eyes and i'm not going to disparage them but i will tell you this very few people all right think anymore you don't see mike wallace the late mike wallace you don't see that anymore you see a bunch of people who asked the same questions most of them will have an ideology on display and they're not thinking That is the talking points. Memo. I'm Bill O'Reilly for Newsmax reminding you that

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