Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Punishing Putin For War Crimes, Mexican Drugs Inundate United States, and The GOP Wants Cheney Out!

Episode Date: March 25, 2022

Tonight’s rundown: The US government formally declares that members of the Russian armed forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine Russia tries to further isolate itself by banning citizens from using social media pages A Senator from Maine calls out the Biden administration for allowing drugs to flood the border Two Republican governors veto a bill that would ban transgender girls from playing on school sports teams House Republicans rally around a Wisconsin congressional candidate in hopes of booting out incumbent Liz Cheney This Day in History, 1999: NATO bombs Yugoslavia Final Thought: ‘Killing the Killers’ available May 3rd ! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Thursday, March 24th, 2022, stand up for your country. Very happy you're here. I think we have excellent Ukraine coverage and President Biden in Brussels. You know, what it's said and what is real are usually two different things. to tell you what's real. And we're going to lead off tonight with the punishment of Putin. So this didn't get a lot of coverage, but by designating Vladimir Putin a war criminal, you change his life. Now, that designation has not been officially made, and that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. I'm going to walk you through this because it's fairly big. So a war criminal is someone who essentially kills civilians, you know, or tortures POWs, something way, way out of bounds, and that the Geneva Convention condemns.

So there is an organization set up to monitor war criminals, and that organization is the International Criminal Court. It's based in the Netherlands in the Hague. Now, 123 countries have signed a treaty called the Rome Statute to participate in the ICC, 123 countries on the planet. But the United States is not, and neither has Russia. We are not in this group. but this is the group that the Biden administration is referring to when it says that Putin and the Russian military are war criminals. Are you with me so far? So even though we're not

in that group, because we didn't sign this Rome statute, the United States didn't, we can still refer war criminals to them. All right. So Secretary of State Blinken, he's the guy that came out earlier this week and they're all war criminals and we know what they're doing and we have proof to back it up and we're going to hand it over to the ICC. Fine. I hope they do. They should do it. If you don't know Vladimir Putin's not a war criminal, then you don't know anything. I mean, this guy is driving this war in Ukraine by himself. The Russian government doesn't particularly want it. The Russian people certainly don't. Doesn't benefit them. He's doing it by himself. So in the ICC, a little history before we get to Mr. Biden, who is interesting today in Brussels.

30 cases have been brought to the ICC as far as war crimes are concerned since 2002. So in 20 years, 30 cases. The biggest case was the Serbian leader Milosevic. You remember him. He was basically exterminating Kosovo, people who live in Kosovo, next to him. to Serbia, okay? It was a religious-based war, and Milosevic was a monster. And NATO got involved, and I'm going to tell you that at the end of the program in this day in history, and Milosevic got removed, and then he got arrested, okay? And he went to the Hague, he was imprisoned. He

died there before the trial in 2006. So that was the biggest war crime guy in the last 20 years. Now, there's not a number of Africans out of the Congo, a bunch of people like that that have been charged with genocide, his slaughtering people. Now, Putin doesn't care about this at all because he knows that who's going to arrest me? So what? I'm a war criminal. I don't care. So what? And he has a point. There is no. agency attached to the ICC that goes out and hunts down people and arrest them. Only individual countries can do it. And in Milosevic's case, that's what happened. They swore out a warrant. They picked him up in the Balkans and they sent him the hall. So if Putin were to vacation in Great Britain, if he went to London for the weekend, they could grab him. If he's designated, and he hasn't been designated,

thus far. It's important for everybody to know. There's a designation process that you hand over your information to the courts in the Hague. They make the determination. Are we all clear on this? Now, what you say to yourself, well, why did he bother? Why did Blinken and Biden bother designating or threatening Putin as a war criminal? Because it's just the shame of it. It's the shame. Look, Putin and Saddam Hussein are the same guy. There's no difference. Saddam Hussein ruined his country, invaded Kuwait. Well, what?

As soon as he did that, Saddam Hussein was a pariah throughout the world. He couldn't leave Iraq. Subsequently, we went in to remove him because of the weapons of mass destruction threat. Okay, he fled, they found him, they hanged him. The Iraqis hanged him. Now, it's not out of the question that the Russians all hang Putin. Certainly not out of the question. It's just a man how this thing unfolds.

Okay, so that's the memo. Here's a quick Ukraine update. These are the most important things that happened today and this week. So Putin's defense minister, a man named Sergei Chauvi, vanished. Gone. They say he's got some kind of medical problem, but I don't think so. I think the Russian military botch in Ukraine, and Putin got him out of them.

Now, he's probably sitting somewhere, nobody knows where, but that's what I think. Sergei Chauvi blew it because the Russian military is performing so poorly in Ukraine. So Sergei is vapor. I don't know if you'll ever see him again. All right, that's Russia. Second, Putin has banned inside Russia,

Facebook and Instagram, and Twitter. Some people are still tweeting, but it's hard. So Putin doesn't want to know, doesn't want his own people to know what's happening. So they're not going to hear it on TV and radio in Russia because that's all state run. But on the Internet, that's international. This show is international in the NOSPN News. We go all over the world. So in order for Putin to block the NOSPN News, he's got to block YouTube, Facebook, and all of that.

Okay? However, the Ministry of Russia still has an open Twitter account around the world. Trump was canceled by Twitter. The Ministry of Russia still active. How about that? Unbelievable. NATO is reporting that 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in the four weeks of the war. How would NATO know?

How would they know? Maybe U.S. Intel is getting this information. I know U.S. Intel is good in Russia. We have a lot of agents over there. But when a Russian soldier is killed, they're whisked back to Russia. They're not left on a battlefield and they're not giving out stats. But that's what NATO is putting out. 15,000 Russian shoulders dead.

That may be why the defense minister, that's big. And finally, Mr. Biden announced today, and it was a fait compete before this, 100,000 Ukrainian refugees will be taken by the USA, as we should take them. And those will be most people who have relatives here, and we should do it. Okay, now, here's so stupid, you know, they say Putin's smart, Putin smart, I'm going to stop that now. Putin in the past was shrewd. He's not smart. Putin's excuse for invading Ukraine was he doesn't want a threat on his western flank. Now, NATO's moving twice as many troops and armaments into NATO's east, Russia's west, okay? The east in countries,

in NATO, Poland, the Baltic countries, Romania, Bulgaria, they're all going to amass of soldiers, battle groups, they call them, and armaments and rockets. So the exact thing that Putin didn't want and his excuse for being for invading Ukraine, oh, you're going to put hostile forces on my border? Well, you got them? Double now. How smart is that Putin? Okay.

So President Biden goes to the NATO conference. He called it in Brussels. And he pledges America will spend at least, it'll be far more than this, $3.3 billion military humanitarian aid to Ukraine. And you'll have to get Poland and the other countries billions too. In the end, it's going to cost up between $10 and $20 billion, the American taxpayer did, to do this. Then they had a press conference after he got through his meetings today. Now, there was a lot of stuff in the press conference. But I think the most important thing going forward is China.

The only country that can save Putin now is China. If China gives Putin stuff, whether it be food or, you can't give him fuel, China didn't have that, or other material support breaks the embargo, breaks the sanctions, Putin is stronger. If China backs away, all right, Putin's going to. to go down. It's a matter when, not if. So that's very important. And here's what Mr. Biden said. Go. China understands that its economic future is much more closely tied to the West than it is to Russia. And so I'm hopeful that he does not get engaged. We also did discuss today that there's a need for us to set up NATO to set up.

and the EU to set up a system whereby we have an organization looking at who has violated any of these sanctions and where and when and how they violated them. And then what are you going to do? So by implication, President Biden saying, if you violate the sanctions toward Russia, then we're going to sanction you. And that's what he said about Xi. He told Xi that if he helps Russia, then we'll slap sanctions on China. And China, as I said, That's tough for them because they're an export economy, all right? They need money coming in, dollars, not rubles. Rubles don't do China any good.

Okay? So that's what's holding China back, and it's an effective threat. Now, Biden says, I didn't threaten them. I didn't threaten them. Of course, she threatened them, you know? Now, will the world rally against sanctions against China? I think so. At this point, Putin's so horrendous, and I think they would.

If China wants to throw him with Putin, and I don't think she will do it, but I could be wrong on that. Now, overall, Biden was okay. I know the people who hate Biden will slaughter him today. He did stammer and stutter a bit. He has some problems with his short-term memory. There's no doubt about that. When fielding questions, he can only take one. He can't take two because he forgets what the second one is.

I'm not criticizing. I'm just reporting. But overall, he appeared in command today. He could appear, you know, he said one thing that was flat out untrue about Charlottesville and what Trump said there is completely false, but that's what these guys do. Biden doesn't know what's true and what isn't true. He just doesn't know. But now he's presenting a face to the world that at least today was affected.

So these, and it was a reporter that went in plot. that, well, the sanctions aren't going to work. And one of the most important things that Putin said that Biden said today was that they will work and we're going to keep them on to the end of the year no matter what. Now, I didn't think that was very smart because you want to give a carrot to Putin to have a ceasefire. But Biden did it.

He goes, you know, don't think that these sanctions are just going to go away. We're going to put them on the end of the year at least. I would have given myself a little room there. Now, Putin's got to be punished. But there are other ways to do it. Let's stop this slaughter first, and then we'll figure out how to get this guy in the back end. Does that make sense to you? But Biden wanted to be a tough guy.

He wanted to say that, you know, all the NATO countries are united, which they are. You know, he said that Putin underestimated NATO, which he did. So it's all going bad for Putin. so just press the advantage press the advantage but in the meantime people are dying every day every day and suffering is off the chart but if you up the war and i've said this many times more people will die doesn't mean you're afraid it means you're smart all right um is that it and if you have any questions bill at bill o'reilly dot com bill at bill o'reilly dot com i think That's the most honest assessment you'll get of the Ukraine situation.

We are on it, and we will continue to be on it. So let's come back to the USA. One of the things that Joe Biden has no clue about is narcotic smuggling into the United States. So I remember a long time ago when Donald Trump first became president, I had a conversation with him about the drug cartels in Mexico. And I told or suggested, I shouldn't use the word told when I'm talking to a president. I suggested to President Trump that he might look into designating the Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups. And I said, if you do that, then you can drone them. And believe me, when you read Killing the Killers, my new book, what do you see, the weapons we have in space?

But anyway, I said, if you designate the Mexican cartels, terror groups, which they absolutely are because of killing hundreds of thousands of Americans, okay? You can go in and kill them. The United States can go in and kill them. We don't need Obrador in Mexico to do it. Anyway, the president, Trump, did that. He brought it to Obrador. He says, I'm going to do this unless you take much more aggressive action against the cartels and seal the border with your military, which Obrador did. That was the remain in Mexico policy. So Obrador sealed the southern border with Guatemala and the northern border with the USA by using his military. First time that ever happened to Mexican history. And it happened because Trump threatened to designate the

cartels as terror groups, and Obrador did not want that. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets. And meanwhile, China is dumping the dollar and stockpiling gold. That's why I protected my savings with physical gold and silver through the only dealer I trust, American Hartford Gold. And you can do this. Get precious metals delivered to your door or place in a tax advantage gold IRA. They'll even help you roll over your existing IRA or 401K, tax and penalty free.

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That was on inauguration night. That's how quick that happened. So now, Angus King, you know, Angus King? He's the independent senator from Maine. But he's not an independent. He's a liberal Democrat. He always votes with the liberal Democrats. Angus King.

Well, Angus King is really mad about all the narcotics flooding into not only Maine, but the United States. Roll it. Here's what's bothering me. If this were a terrorist cell in Latin America killing 100,000 Americans a year, we wouldn't be sitting here talking about not enough ASR and allocating it. I'm really absolutely sick of this. This is one of the drug trade is one of the primary threats to this country. It's killing two people a day in my state.

Who's in charge? What individual in the United States government is in charge of stopping drugs coming from Latin America? Biden's in charge. Biden. That's who's in charge. Not doing anything. It's an open border policy. Absolute open border policy. So Senator King shouldn't be directing his remarks to the subcommittee on emerging threats. That's what he was doing. He should be asking for a meeting with Biden. Now, on May 12, 2021, almost a year ago, here's what I said on this broadcast. So on my press tour for killing the mob, I tell many of the interviews who ask about contemporary mob

involvement that organized crime loves Joe Biden. Why would I say that? Well, since he has been president, there have been more than 450,000. Just think about this for a minute, 450,000 foreign nationals who have confronted border patrol or ICE agents on the Mexican border. 450,000. In 100 days. So, drug interdiction, which comes under Border Patrol ICE, stopping narcotics coming from Mexico, that is evaporated. The cartels are now smuggling more, methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, and the other pernicious drug, I'll think of it, the opioid that kills you, okay? Fast. More are coming in now than have ever before in U.S. history. Fentanol, fentanyl. Okay. More drugs, hard drugs in any other time in our history. Flooding in because of Joe Biden's crazy open border policy. And Biden has done absolutely nothing to stop narcotics from flowing into the United States. And it's a terror threat. I kind of wish in hindsight that President Trump did designate the cartels as terror groups

because then, as I mentioned earlier, you're going to see the weapons when you read Killing the killers, which is out May 3rd, you'll see the weapons that we have. Nobody knows what we have, all right, and I had to put it in the book because that's how they're tracking down the jihadists, the ISIS and al-Qaeda's and Boko Harams with these weapons. do this with the cartels. I mean, it's, where do you see this? These weapons, what we have. So anyway, I thought that was very interesting. You'll never see this report it anywhere else, but it's entirely President Biden's fault that we're flooded with narcotics in this country. Okay. Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brown Jackson, April 4th is the vote. She will be confirmed.

I predict Lisa Murkowski, Republican Senator from Alaska, Susan Collins, from Maine, Mitt Romney, Utah, Roy Blunt, Missouri, and maybe Portman in Ohio that will all vote for Judge Brown Jackson, so she'll win handily. Remember, Kavanaugh won by one vote. Brown will one win by, well, she'll get in by five or six, maybe more. Now, there's a big controversy about her failing to answer, you know, what is a woman? She goes, I'm not a biologist. Look, she knows who her base is, all right? She knows being politically correct. Now we can't define men or women biologically. The far progressive left has rejected that.

It's fluid. You can be what you want to be, okay? Biology has nothing to do with it. she goes, oh, I'm not a biologist. So I would have followed up if I had been the senator asking that question, and I would have said, are you a woman? How do you know? This insanity, it's insanity. But that's not going to knock her out of the Supreme Court here.

All right, and on that subject, two states, Indiana and Utah, have passed bills in the legislature that ban, all right, biological men who have become girls or women from competing in women's and girls' sports. Two states have pandit, okay? Indiana and Utah. I guess there are more that have, but these recently banned it. But the governors both vetoed the bills. So in Indiana, it's Eric Holcomb.

and Holcomb says the bill was too broadly written, which is just BS. He doesn't want to sign it, so he vetoed it. In Utah, it's Spencer Cox, and he said he objects to an all-out ban on transgender children in school sports. Okay, but there isn't an all-out ban, Governor Cox. If the boy-turned-girl wants to compete in the boys' sports, he or she can't. Get it, Governor. We know what you're doing. Now, this isn't a major issue for me.

I want people to pursue happiness. They want to be girls? They want to be girls. They want to be boys. They can be boys. Right? I don't care. But it's not fair in sports, in school.

to have a guy who's biologically stronger, sorry, Judge Brown Jackson, than a girl, usually competing girls' sports. It's not fair. It's not right. That's all. This isn't complicated. It's not complicated. If you want to change genders, okay, but you've got to stay in the, gender to which you were born, what it says on your birth certificate. Simple man, simple solution.

Liz Cheney, my prediction is she is going to lose her re-election campaign for congressperson in Wyoming. Remember Wyoming, least populated state of union, only one congressperson and its list. A woman named Harriet Hagman, she's a Republican, too, is running against Liz Cheney in the primary and 100 House Republicans are holding a fundraiser for Ms. Hagamon. All right, it's going to be held on March 30th in Washington, D.C. And so far, Ms. Haggman has not really distinguished herself, in my opinion, but, you know, Liz Cheney, smart woman, but your hatred of Trump, a congresswoman, has really hurt your state.

It's hurt your state. You're not representing the folks in Wyoming. You're representing you and your family that hate Trump. So I wouldn't vote for him. Sunni Brockport, State University of New York, Brockport, upstate. So an anonymous donor gave the college money to bring in a speech. speaker who's going to have an event entitled History of Black Resistance, U.S. political prisoners, genocide, a conversation with Jalil Mantaquim. Okay. It's all right.

Well, there's Jahil. He's a militant. Militin guy. Doesn't like America. It thinks we're fascists here. Jahil. All right, so he's going to make some money. He's going to go up to Brockport, he's going to put forth what he believes. Okay with me. I don't care. He wants to go up there. They want to pay him. All right. So the city of Brockport says, we're going to have to put a lot of cops there because we don't want any problems. We don't want any brawl. So they put the cops there. That makes sense. Public safety, right? The school, Brockport, gives all the students a day off because the school says large numbers of police on campus would be traumatizing to many students so you don't have to come to class. Woke. All right. Woke. St. Louis. So this is unbelievable. Last Saturday,

3 a.m., a guy comes up to a car with a gun, tries a car jacket in St. Louis. Okay? sitting in the car are two plain clothes police officers who immediately jump out and you're under arrest the guy runs away he gets away but they know who he is they track him his name is alan lee robinson got a big record 27 years old okay so they're looking for him but they want a warrant for his arrest right try to carjack two cops he didn't know they were cops he just thought they were regular people. He had a gun. So the attorney, the DA, Kimberly Gardner, won't give them the cops a warrant. Meanwhile, St. Louis was one of the most violent cities in the country because of her. Finally, the public pressure, the outcry is so intense. Four days later,

they give a warrant out for the guy, and guess where he is? He's in jail on another crime. St. Louis, Heartland. Woman's name again is Kimberly Gardner, ruins the city. Oscars. They're on Sunday night. You're going to watch? No.

Not watch. So if you do watch, let me know how it is. So ABC covers it. every year. First Academy Awards, 1929. I think it was all silent movies said. The talkies as they did came in early thirds. So first Academy Awards, 1929, and every year's hence, they've had them. And they were big. When I was a kid, it was Bob Hope hosting, Johnny Carson after that, Billy Crystal, all right, the big names. They brought it in. Huge audience. Huge. Before the Super Bowl, that was the top-rated program of the year, the Oscar telecast.

So now the three hosts, and they couldn't find anybody to host the show, nobody would do it. Nunny's Hollywood pinheads would do it because they know it's not good. But they found three. Regina Hall, Wanda Sykes, and Amy Schumer. Okay. Um, Wanda Sykes is amusing. The other two, I'm not, I know who they are, but I don't know what they're going to bring, but I hope they, I hope they're good. But is that enough for having me watch the show? No.

No. So anyway, I'm looking at the best picture nominee. I used to be a huge movie fan. In fact, I did movie reviews in the early part of my career in Dallas and and in Denver on television. And I must say, some of them, my reviews are pretty funny. All right. And I love going in the movies. But now, last movie I went to in the theater was a James Bond movie, which was terrible. James Bond is now woke. No.

All right. I don't want to see a woke James Bond. I like Sean Connery. Let's go back there. Okay. So here are the Best Picture nominees. Throw them on up. Belfast. I am going to watch the movie Belfast. I will watch it. Cota. Don't Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard, Liquorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog, and West Side Story. Those are the nominees. So I tried to watch West Side Story because I liked the original. original. I couldn't get through it. I gave it 15 minutes and I'm going, see, I'm a member of the Screen Actors Guild after Union, so they send me all the movies. So I don't have to go to the theater. All I just pop it in. And I'm going, this is a Steven Spielberg movie. I couldn't get through it. Then I tried to watch Nightmare Alley.

It's pretty dark. I gave that about 20 minutes, and I'm going like this. And Holly, the Terra Dog, is like, why are you watching this? And I had no answer. So couldn't get through those two. I didn't see any of them. I will see Belfast because of Kenneth Brown and I heard this really good movie. Now, I don't have any huntingness.

I understand the power of the dog is about some cowboy who is woke or something. I don't even know. I don't want to see woke cowboys or woke James Bond's. I don't know. It's my. It's me. I know. It's me.

All right? I'm a barbarian. So I don't want to see it. Now, last year, the best picture of the year was Nomad Land. Didn't see it. Although Francis McDorma, the actress there? Brilliant. All right, so I'm not watching, and I don't think anybody else will watch.

So I'm predicting 7 million, maybe 8 million Americans will watch. At the height, it was like 50, 60 million Americans watching that show. In the last 20 years, the audience has fallen 75%, and it'll fall further this year. Stay in history, March 24th, 1999. NATO bombed Yugoslavia, which was breaking up. Okay, so Serbia was slaughtering people in Kosovoque and running wild and Milosevic was in charge of Serbia. And we discussed this early in a program and he was arrested in charges of war. Criminally died in jail.

But NATO bombers went in to destroy the Serbian forces. Two American pilots were killed. All right, this was under Bill Clinton. Again, March 24th, 1999, the bombing, been an anniversary today. Clinton basically ordered NATO to do it. Who's the Clinton play? Now, you say, well, why couldn't we do that to Putin? Well, Putin has nukes.

So he didn't have anything. He's lucky he had a Jeep. So we go in there and blow him out and grab them and throw him in jail. Food's got nukes. That's the difference. Okay, I'm going to take a quick break. I'm going to come back with mail and a final thought of the day on how America's weaponry should be a little

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thing. The only reason in New York Times printed deep in the newspaper, by the way, that the Hunter Biden laptop story was legitimate is because the New York Times believes Hunter Biden may be indicted. So it had to get ahead of the story. The only reason. David, I've said it before. It bears repeating the only thing worse than Biden's president for the length of its constitutional term is the person who would replace him. Okay. I mean, The Biden-Harris team, obviously not in good shape. Eric, Bill, are you concerned that killing the killers will reveal damaging information on U.S. weaponry and hurt our country? I'll deal with that in a moment, Eric.

That's why I'm doing his final thought because Eric's letter. Christine Arrendas, Huntington Beach, California. Bill, since we have all its weaponry, why in a world do we do we do? We pay our servicemen and women in danger and put them in danger on the ground. We can just zap someone from space. Why use military forces? Because you use those weapons, boo coup civilians are going to die. They're very targeted weapons.

But you've got to know precisely where and when and circumstances surrounding. That's why. They didn't know, for example, that bin Laden was where bin Laden was. open with that in killing the killers. U.S. Intel didn't know they thought he was there. So they could have zapped it, but it could have been an innocent family, like what happened in Afghanistan. And the USA doesn't do that. Putin will do it. Not us. Ryan Gattani, Plymouth of Massachusetts, James Buchanan, and Joe Biden are not only the two worst presidential history, they also share the same initials. So poor performance must be linked to the initials J.B.

All right. Patty Kelly, Phoenix, Arizona, Mr. O'Reilly, could you explain the difference between a republic and a democracy? Well, Patty, it's not hard. In a direct democracy, the people vote on everything. So maybe if you were on an island with 30 people, you could have a direct democracy. All right? And whatever came up, you get the 30 people and they vote.

That would be pure democracy. a republic is when we vote for people to represent us each district has a congressperson and then each state has two senators those people represent us and they should be voting on our behalf for the good of us okay that's a republic but everybody votes for president Marsha, Bill, what is the Genesee Theater in Waukegon, Illinois on March 31st? All about. I put in a plug. Marcia just asked me what the show is going to be.

So I'm going to be in the Genesee Theater, Waukegan, Illinois, suburb of Chicago on March 3rd. It's to promote our radio station, WLS, Powerhouse Station in the Windy City, and we're on the radio there. but the show is going to be the inside stuff about me and Donald Trump, me and Barack Obama. I don't have a lot of inside stuff with Biden. I have one encounter that we certainly tell you in the show. And it's more me being a raconteur. Word of the day, rack contour, storyteller. I can't do that here.

I got a boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, we got stuff to deal with every day. That's important. This is important, too, but it's much funnier. I mean, I just basically take you to a journey about. out so if you never see or hear because it happens behind the scenes. But it's fascinating to me. So I go up there and I do that. And then we'll take Q&A from the audience too.

So we hope to see everybody in Waukegan. Come on in, see us. I guarantee you you'll like to show up. Jay McFarling and Kenny, Iowa. When I watched the notes of the news last night, I was reminded of your recent advice to look sharp. I must say you model your advice. The suit and tie were sharp.

Trying. You know, it doesn't take a lot. You know, I do a lot of white and blue shirts. Not too many stripes once in a while. You wear a striped shirt. You got to wear a solid tie. Okay? I don't wear, this is a lightly pinstripe suit here.

Don't wear a lot of check wild stuff because it's much easier to coordinate colors and look, you know, as Jay says, sharp by doing it this way. Roy Hughes, Torrance, California. Bill, I've watched you since middle school. I'm happy you are on bill o'Reilly.com. I recently started living with my sister, who's a teacher, and she has been watching the No Spin News with me. She has come to love it, and just the other night said, she would like the students to watch you. Well, you can't force the urchins to do it, but if the urchins do watch me, it'll be a lot smarter. Okay. What are we got that we want you to know about? I already went through. I'm going to go through the book in a moment. Mugs. So Father's Day and Mother's Day coming up. Everybody drinks coffee now. Give me some coffee. So we say in New York, these are the best mugs on the planet. Trump demanded a dozen of these, and I gave it to him, the nice guy I am. Made in America. Order them now because they will sell out. Word of the day, do not be a nimrod when writing to a. us. Bill at Bill o'Reilly.com.

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