Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Reilly Update Morning Edition, February 16, 2026

Episode Date: February 16, 2026

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Bill O'Reilly here, and I'm warming up. Stand by for the O'Reilly Update Morning Edition. On this Monday, it is President's Day. The urchins are off. And let's take a look at Washington and Lincoln, the two men we honor. So George Washington, brilliant commander, very brave man, deserves the title, Father of our country. Not perfect.

Could get very, very angry, held slaves when he knew that was not the right. right thing to do, but it was convenient. Martha wanted them on the estate in Mount Vernon, Virginia. George went along, but he knew in his heart that wasn't the right thing to do. But George Washington was the guy who enabled all of us to have our freedoms today. Then there's Abraham Lincoln, the best president in our history. So I wrote a book, Killing Leg in the first of the killing series, enormous bestseller. Lincoln was, an extraordinary individual, I believe, put here for a reason by God. And he held the nation together when very few men could have done that. He was not a happy man, had melancholia,

they used to call it, depression today, but very brave. And he kind of knew that he was going to get assassinated because so many people hated him in the South. But Lincoln commanded respect, unbelievably honest, and kept this country intact. That's who we're honoring back in a moment. That is the morning O'Reilly update. More analysis later on.