Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - O'Reilly Update Morning Edition, February 9, 2022

Episode Date: February 9, 2022

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Bill O'Reilly here and I'm warming up from the NRA.R.I.A. Dot net studios in New York. Stand by for the O'Reilly Update Morning Edition. On this Wednesday, I watched an interesting piece of history last night in the form of the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. The classic star is Catherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy as liberal parents who are facing their daughter, wanting to marry a black man in the fast-changing 60s. Directed by Stanley Kramer, the film was nominated for Best Picture, but lost to another race-themed movie in the heat of the night. Incredibly, Sidney Poitier appeared in both films and was nominated for Best Actor for playing Detective Virgil Tibbs in heat. Portier lost to Rod Steiger,
Starting point is 00:00:47 who played the racist sheriff in that crime drama. Previously, Poitier had won the Best Actor Oscar for Lillies of the Field. Now, what strikes me 55 years after both heat and guests were made, is the anti-racist messages that were so finely crafted and I believed moved audiences all over the world. In guests, Spencer Tracy is phenomenal. He was dying during the shoot, and everybody knew it. Tracy passed away two weeks after the film wrapped.
Starting point is 00:01:18 His monologue at the end crushes bigotry in a way seldom seen. Sidney Portier was so enthralled with Tracy he couldn't remember his lines and had to reshoot his dialogue after the acting legend left the set. The point here is that most Americans are not racist and will respond to pleas for fairness and unity. But this country will never achieve racial harmony through violence or misguided favoritism that seeks to disadvantage others. Now this. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. national debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets.
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