Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Sifting Through the Media To Get the Truth, Lockout Disrupts America's Favorite Pastime and Dr. Seuss Rises From The Ashes of Cancel Culture

Episode Date: March 4, 2022

Tonight's rundown: How Ukraine is being covered by the press, in a time when propaganda rules all January 6th Committee concludes Donald Trump violated multiple laws in an effort to overturn the 2020 election The 2022 baseball season gets postponed after league owners and players can't come to an agreement Uncanceled: The White House includes Dr. Seuss in 'Read for America' Proclamation after blacklisting the author last year This Week in History, 1977: Jay Leno makes his first appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" Final Thought: Confronting evil dictators Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Thursday, March 3rd, 2022. Stand up for your country. Well, it has been a very busy week, obviously. I think I work harder this week than I've worked. I can't even remember. A lot of stuff. But I think the program is a big. sharp and I hope you have seen them all. We give you very accurate information. I'll give

you one example before I get to the talking points. We're the only news agency that I know of outside of Bloomberg. They're reported that the big Chinese bank in Singapore aren't putting oil transactions through that concern Russia. And that's big. Because the chikoms can say whatever they want, and they are. I mean, they're not helping in the United Nations. but when it comes right down to it, they don't want to alienate the Western powers, particularly America. They don't want a boycott of goods and things like that. They don't want that. Certainly don't want a nuclear war, and they may be a restraint against Putin, who may be mad at this point, MAD, mad.

So let's start the Talking Points memo about Ukraine and the press coverage of the entire disaster. Start with the stats as we like to do here. Russia says about 500 of their soldiers have been killed, 1,600 wounded. Ukraine says 6,000 Russian soldiers have been killed. That comes from Zelensky. Probably, you know, it's hard for me to estimate. It's not 6,000, but it's probably a little bit higher than 500. You just can't nail it down.

The country's too big and the reporting is too dishonest. by American carriers, but they don't know. So the Russian and Ukrainian military deaths, according to reportage in the New York Times, based on what senior Pentagon officials, always anonymous. I hate that. So the Pentagon says about 1,500 on each side have been killed military people. That's what they say. Okay. 1 million plus refugees. That comes to the United Nations. I believe that's true. That is 2% of the entire Ukraine population. This weekend, there'll be more people. So the borders aren't sealed. You can go from Ukraine to Moldova to the south, to Poland, to Hungary. You can cross.

Russians haven't sealed that border. And you get stuff in, too. Aid and weapons and things like that. Now on to the opinions. So the central force here is Putin. Wouldn't be any invasion without Putin. There's no reason for the Russian military to invade. Ukraine doesn't threaten them in any way. Ukraine, not a member of NATO, didn't want to be a member of NATO. As we reported, wanted to play it down the middle to anger Putin. Ukraine signed a treaty with Putin saying they would give up their nuclear weapons and research in return for security. guarantee, Putin, of course, violated that treaty. So there's no question. It's all about Vladimir Putin. He's the driver of this. According to Macron, the leader of France, Putin told

him on the phone he's going to take Ukraine. And yeah, I think Del He will try, and I think it'll be a disaster for Putin in the end. That's my opinion, but I was wrong about the invasions to keep that in mind. So about, I don't know, 80% of the coverage, the opinion coverage in America is anti-Pooten. Only about 20% is pro-Putin. But one guy has been very, very verbal about supporting Russia, and his name is Colonel Douglas McGregor, 69 years old, bronze star winner for the U.S. Army. was involved with some kind of Pentagon activity at the end of the Trump administration. I'm not quite sure what that was, but he was doing some kind of consulting. Anyway, he's popping up on cable news, and he is supporting Putin.

Okay, that is his right to do. So we don't do that in America. We don't cancel people, you know, we the fair, honest commentators. you should know about Colonel McGregor that he has appeared on Russian TV, RT, multiple times. He is in association with them. RTB says he doesn't work for them, but this is a go-to guy. Now, when he's introduced on cable news, they don't say that. They don't say, hey, this McGregor, he is a close relationship with the Russian media.

okay and uh way back in 19 in 2014 when uh putin took crimea mcgregor appeared on russian government affiliated tv and uh backed it okay he backed Putin taking Crimea it was it was pretty shocking um and he said uh hey it's okay that he did that he did it, you know. So, usually they call a contrarian, a contrarian. Now, when you have a contrarian on your program, and I've had thousands of them on, you have to do your research. You have to know what you are talking about to challenge that point of view, particularly when people are dying. All right. So this is some theoretical speculation. People are dying right this minute because of Putin and Russia. So if you get, come on and somebody's going to say,

oh, Putin's okay, you got to be able to challenge. So I'm going to run you two soundbites from this McGregor guy. All right, the first one, February 23rd of this year. Go. And the first thing we've got to do is acknowledge that Putin's basic point, not just his point, the Russian government's point, which they've made for 25 years, is valid. They don't want U.S. forces and missiles and NATO troops immediately across the border in eastern Ukraine. Absolutely. We didn't want them in Cuba. He doesn't

want them in eastern Ukraine. We should acknowledge that. Stop pretending that's a non-issue. It is a major issue for them. Let's acknowledge it. Okay. That's not true what he just said. There were no

U.S. forces in Ukraine. Missiles, I don't know what he's talking about, with missiles, because as we just reported, Ukraine gave up all their nuclear capability, and there were no NATO troops in Ukraine. Ukraine's not a member of NATO. Now, there are NATO troops in the Balkans, in Poland, which border Russia. So why is Putin going down to a non-NATO country and invading it? Because he could. It's easier, because NATO has not declared war on Russia, because Ukraine's not involved.

That's why Putin did it. But to say that there was some kind of security threat to Russia from Ukraine and NATO and American forces, it's just not true. It's not. So, you know, I told you earlier this week how damaging propaganda is to this country. Well, that is a perfect example of it. That colonel is spewing out propaganda. What he's saying isn't true. Okay, second soundbite, this was back in December, okay, when Putin was beginning to saber-rattle.

Go. We're bent on some sort of revenge mission, which makes no sense to humiliate and harm Russia. Why is beyond me? This is not the Soviet Union. This is Russia, a Russian state that rests on the foundation of Orthodox Christianity. So Russia's a theocracy now? The Russian state rests on a foundation of Orthodox Christianity? Are you kidding?

That may be, Russia may be, the most atheistic country in the world because the Soviet Union wiped out all vestiges. Now, there is an Orthodox Christian church. You see Putin wearing a cross sometimes. There is, but certainly doesn't have anything to do with the way the government runs. nothing. Russia is a brutal country. The Orthodox aren't behind that. They have no power there. None. That is a fact. And the second thing is that we're bent, I guess he means the USA, we're bent on a revenge mission to humiliate and harm Russia. How? We're buying their oil.

How are we humiliating and harming Russia? Obama let Putin take the Crimea. Just let them do it. How on earth? Biden lifted the sanctions that Trump had on the Nordstrom 2 pipeline. Biden lifted him. Why? Was he, is that how you humiliate him?

You humiliate Putin and Russia by lifting sanctions? so their pipeline can flow into Germany? Do you see what I mean here? I hope you do. That guy, I don't object to him being on. I never put him on in a million years. Maybe I put him on once. Let me correct.

And then I would do what I do. I'd come in with a buzzsaw on him. But he'd never come back because he's stating falsehoods. And what he says is, you. news by Putin. They put it on the Russia media. 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. Tharu, the only dealer I trust, American Hartford gold. And you can do this. Get precious metal.

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and Ukraine, but here in the United States, about very important issues to you. I don't know how many times I watched Rachel Maddow just spew nonsense. And everybody knew it was just garbage on the Russia collusion thing night after night after night. And NBC didn't do Jack. This allowed it. Remember Tokyo Rose, World War II propagandas, the American that broadcast out of Japan, try to demoralize the American troops? Well, you know, propaganda does demoralize.

And I get literally hundreds of letters from people who watch this stuff. I got one the other day. I don't use a lot because I don't want to humiliate people. I like my viewers. I don't want to make them feel that. But I got a letter from a woman and says, oh, it's just saying. is Cuba. We kicked out the Russian missiles from Cuba, JFK, and Khrushchev. Well, it's the same thing. No, it's not. Ukraine had no offensive capacity to harm Russia. It's a last thing on earth

it would do. And Putin knew it. He knew the United States was helping them. And he did it anyway. And you're telling you, we provoke this? It makes me angry, number one, that the state of television news, and again, all across, because when I do these commentaries, the dishonest websites pick out, oh, O'Reilly's attacking this person, I'm attacking anybody but the industry. I'm attacking any, you know, I mentioned Rachel Maddow just as a fact. And how much misinformation she reported about Russia inclusion turned out be totally false. That's NBC's fault. Okay, so I'm attacking the entire television news industry by telling you, they're put people on and just sit there going, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. And meanwhile, millions of Americans are misled, misled, totally, because they, they, because they,

don't know what happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis. They don't know. And I don't disparage people for not knowing. I'm a historian. I've devoted my life to the study of history, particularly American history. But that is my job. I get paid for it. I don't, if you don't know a lot about history, I don't look down on you. But if you don't know a lot, then don't be writing letters saying, And yeah, this is just like Cuba. Researcher, one of the few good things about the dopey phones is that you can punch up stuff pretty quick. And Wikipedia is fairly decent about giving you an outline of what's happened. They don't go beyond the surface, but you can find out the difference.

So this is a catastrophic problem for Americans, this propaganda on television news. And again, it's across the board, network morning shows, network late night shows, cable news, network news at 6.630, Sunday morning shows. It's just blud, blah, blah, blah, and very few of the anchors. And the commentators and the pundits that are involved in these kinds of discussions know what they're talking about. All right, polling. Data for progress poll. I have no idea what that is. But the Hill, I know that's an online news organization, they commissioned a poll about Ukraine.

And here's the question. Based on what you know, there you go, do you approve a disapproved President Biden's response? situation with Russia and Ukraine. Net approved 47, net disapproved 43. Okay. I don't, I guess that's accurate. I approve of the way Biden has been handling it with a giant caveat that his poor policies in America made it a lot easier for Putin to do this. A little complicated. But, But, all right. Then there is an Economist U.Gov poll ending March 1st, 1, 1, 1, 1,500 U.S. adults, Democrats 53, Republicans, 47, 6 split. Do you approve or disapprove of the U.S. government's economic sanctions on Russia?

Approved 64, disapproved 15, not sure, 21. That's an interesting poll. All right. Then the second question was U.S. government response to Russia, Ukraine, harshness. in terms of Russia's invasion, do you think the U.S. government's response should be tougher? 49%. Less tough? 9. About right? 19, not sure, 23. So the not sure numbers are high. It shouldn't be a tough one. Putin is evil. Putin invaded, a sovereign country violating international law. Innocent people are dying. Those are the facts. Now, it gets common.

complicated about how tough you want to get against the guy who could be MAD. And he's got news. So you've got to play it in a gradual stair step thing, which Biden has been doing. Okay. So let me just sum up. Part of the my problem here is that I've done this for too long, journalism on television. I have seen standards collapse across the board. They're not coming back. The people who are now in positions of responsibility, both in front of and behind the cameras, don't know very much, generally speaking. Their ideologues across the board and profits are the only thing that matters. When I was coming up, as a correspondent at CBS and ABC, they wanted to make money, but it wasn't like this. And I'm the, I'm the reason. I'm the reason this is happening because my program, the O'Reilly Factor, made so much money for more than 20

years that it corrupted the system, everybody wanted to make factor money. Nobody did, but they tried. And they didn't understand that the factor concept as the no-spin news concept is based on facts. Not ideology, not party politics. Never has been that. It's always been facts. I do extensive research. The others obviously do not. You know that McGregor's lucky he didn't come up against me. You're lucky. Now, I respect the fact that he's a patriot. He got the bronze star. I do. But he would not have survived that interview very well. Okay, January 6th committee looking into the riot at the Capitol issued a statement, put it on the screen, quote, the select committee has a good faith basis for concluding that the president

and members of his campaign gauging criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States, unquote. Now ordinarily it's to be a big story, but it's not a big story. Why is it not a big story? because any person who has the ability to think knows this committee could have written that statement on day one of their so-called investigation. They are all Trump haters, every single one of them. Will Donald Trump get indicted or anything about this? No. He won't. I don't know what Trump did or did not do on January 6th inside the White House. Nobody knows. But what I saw him say in my conversations with him after the fact, he didn't break any laws.

He had an opinion. He had an opinion that the election was fixed. It was a fraud. That's his opinion. Still holds it. So you're going to say that his opinion. opinion is a criminal conspiracy. That's what these people are saying. Come on. Major League Baseball Lockout. I wish I could explain this to you, but I am not smart enough to explain

this to you. And I'm a baseball fan. Now, you may not care about baseball, okay, but millions of Americans do. And so now this season is not going to start on time because they're on strike. there have been like the players been locked out by management so it's all about money it's always about money all right and the players want more money now you can hit 210 and drive in 20 rbis runs batted in and make $750,000 a minimum yeah i don't know if i'm real sympathetic to this billionaires, most of them are anyway, and they don't want to raise the threshold of spending. So that's what it is. But there's a million luxury tax, this, threshold tax, that, I can't explain it. I just, I can't. But if you boil it all down, players want more

money. Okay, Bernie Sanders gets involved. You got to love them, right? Put it on the screen for Bernie. I love Bernie. All right. So Bernie, of course, he can't stand the owners because they're wealthy. So he says, quote, the 30 Major League Baseball owners are worth more than $100 billion. The value of their teams increased by more than $41 billion since they bought them. Mr. Manfred, he's the baseball commissioner, and the lockout. Negotiate in good faith. Don't let the greed of baseball owners take away our national pastime. I'm going to bet you that Bernie Sanders hasn't been to a Major Lake Baseball game in 15 years. So Vermont doesn't have any teams. Okay. So where Bernie lives up there on his, on Lake Champlain,

He's got a nice little lakehouse out there. I drove by it a couple of years ago. There's not a lot of baseball. You got to drive seven, eight hours to New York, to see the Yankees or the Mets, or to Boston, another five, six, see the Red Sox. I'd probably tell you, he had a middle of a game, maybe more than 15 years. Now, maybe I'm wrong. If I'm wrong, I want somebody on Bernie Sanders' State. have to correct me. So Bernie is worried about our national pastime. Don't worry about bashing rich

people. Our national pastime. It's looking out for us. Okay, cancel culture. Dr. Seuss. I got a couple of Dr. Seuss books here when my urchins were little. So according to NBC News, Dr. Seuss books were canceled or an attempt was made because of racist imagery in said Dr. Seuss books. When you asked NBC what they were talking about, the answer was the book centered on white children. Okay. So Dr. Seuss' real name, or was dead, Theodore Seuss-Giselle, born in Springfield. Springfield, Massachusetts, attended Dartmouth. He moved to San Diego after World War II.

He died of cancer in 1991. He was 87 when he died. He has sold 700 million books globally, more than the killing series. A lot more. But I've sold 19 million. You can't laugh at that number. But 700 million Dr. Seuss books all over the world. But because he centered on white kids, and he wrote these books, you know, in the early part of the 20th century, when there was de facto segregation all over the country.

So, and some of the books you may know, green eggs and ham, oh, the places you go. You know, I mean, look, I wouldn't let my kid read anything racist. And this is all a bunch of hooey, in my opinion, woke garbage. So anyway, last year, President Biden did not endorse Dr. Seuss for Read Across America Day. So read across America Day was yesterday. I didn't even know it that it was, all right, March 2nd. So last year, Biden didn't endorse, but Trump and Obama had endorsed the, you know, Dr. Seuss books, but Biden didn't. This year he's back on track, and he actually mentioned it. Why? So the news agencies asked, well, what happened last year and why are you back?

Do you like Dr. Seuss better now? What's up? He wouldn't answer. No comment. Okay. I don't have a real dog in this hunt. I'd like every person who ever bought a Dr. Seuss book to buy a killing book. So yesterday was Read Across America Day. I hope you're reading killing a mob or killing Jesus for Lent or all of those. All right, Trump border wall. Never got it done, but he got some of it up, but not the whole thing. So the government would not tell the press how many breaches there have been of the border wall

since Trump put it up, 219 to 221. Okay, so reporters asked, Homeland Security, tell us, tell us, you know, how many people are wrecking the wall, pretty much? Wouldn't do it. So the Washington Post, to its credit, filed a freedom of information and got the interim. All right, this is to the Washington Post credit. All right. So it has cost $3 million to repair $3,200,000. 32 breaches in the wall where people on Mexican soil have taken the heavy equipment or saws or hammers and try to bang through the wall.

So that happened in two years, 3,272 times cost the American taxpayer $3 million. I thought that was interesting information. Okay. COVID. At its peak, the week of January 15th, not that long ago, a month and a half ago. There were more than 800,000 cases of COVID a day in America. Amicron, 800,000. Last week, a day, daily average, 70,000.

Wow. What a decline, huh? So, most places are dropping all kinds of mandates and things like that, but not San Francisco. No. In the public schools there, you still got to wear masks. Even though California, the state has dropped the mandate, the city of San Francisco goes, no. If you live in San Francisco, you're getting what you deserve because that place is just out of control. Boston, another very liberal city, all right, is lifting indoor mass mandates for businesses, but not for public schools. public transportation, the T, health care settings, you still got to wear masks. If you take any public transportation bus, it's got to be masked. All the kids, all the urchins have to be a mask.

And even though COVID is on the wing, don't you like to know that? I have the mask in my car. I can't remember the last time I put it on. on Long Island, New York? I don't have to wear it. Anyway now. Okay, this week in history, 1977,

Jay Leno made his first appearance on the Johnny Corson show. The young comedian, all right? Now he's an old comedian. And he did very well and became, you know, a very in-demand comedian. Fifteen years later, he took over for Johnny Carson.

Now, Johnny Carson's last show, about 50 million people watched Johnny Carson's last show in 1992. Now, the three combined, Kimmel and Colbert and Fallon, combined about $5 million a night. If you can believe that total destruction of late-night TV. Anyway, Leno got the gig, and he stayed there for 22 years. And he did well. He did do well. I was on Leno's program nine times, and I thought you might want to see one of my appearances. This was back in May 20th, 2002, when Hillary Clinton was just elected Senator from New York. Go. But the thing went right after she won, she didn't say, gee, New York, thank you for electing me, Senator, especially because I've never lived here and don't know anything about you. She said, you know what we have to do? we have to eliminate the electoral college. And you know why?

Because she's running for president in 2000. Now do you think she'll run? Yeah. She's going to run. There's no question. She's going to run. And you'll have a clear-cut choice, you know, because she's a big,

she voted for every spending bill last year, every single one. Why is she so popular? I think she's got a constituency among unions, among minorities, because that's who's going to get the money that she takes from you and I. And Freddie.

She's going to take our money. Freddie, trust me. She's taking your money. She's coming to your house. You're going to take your wallet right out of there. Can she win? She can't win. Okay, so that was Freddie Prince Jr.

And I always enjoyed my banter with Jay Leno. I was absolutely right. In 2008, she ran against Obama in the primary and lost. Obama won. Okay. But that was a pretty interesting clip. I'm going to do a little bit more of that in the upcoming weeks and give you a little flashbacks of the history of how we got here in the no-spin news. We did a lot of really interesting stuff. And Lennox's been always respectful to me. He's a good guy. I'm not friends with him or anything, but I appreciate to be on this program. I appreciate it being on Letterman and Kimmel and Fallon. And Colbert, Forget it, but John Stewart, you know, that history is phenomenal. In fact, next week I'm going to run you some of that historical footage of me and Stewart on the Internet, which crashed the worldwide Internet.

Let's put together three or four minutes of that for next week because that was really an amazing thing that happened there. All right, I got a good mail segment for you and a final thought about evil. Do you believe in evil? I'm going to put 10 people on the screen, 10, that I say are evil, and I want to know what you think. Okay, so that's coming up in a final thought. We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back.

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Ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast podcast. Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, let's go to the mail, Mary Claire Patterson, Durango, Colorado, beautiful town. How can European nations in the USA sit by and watch? Russians brutally attack Ukraine, it's inhumane. Well, we're not just sitting by. We're going to ruin the Russian economy, and hopefully the Russian people overturn Putin. Okay. And, you know, unless you want to start a nuclear war, Mary Claire, you know, you've got a stair-step it. Louis Critchio, Raleigh, North Carolina, Bill. We hear a lot about the 40-mile Russian convoy

heading to the capital city, Kyiv that is stalled. Why aren't they bombing it? Who do you want to bomb it? Okay. Ukraine doesn't have that capacity. They've been using some drones. I understand out of Turkey, interesting. But Ukraine doesn't have, you know, the Air Force to compete with Russian migs. They can't. And if NATO started to bomb Russian counterfeit, they're in World War III. Okay. It's got to be realistic here. Franklin, Ohio, how are needed weapons, Ukrainians are requesting entering a country. As I said, the top of program, the border is not sealed. You can get in, you can get out of Ukraine, and that's how the weapons arrive.

Jim Anthony Marblehead, Massachusetts, another beautiful town. Is it possible for U.S.-based mercenary teams to enter Ukraine and assist with training and operation of military equipment? There's CIA there, okay, but not uniforms. because that's not our battlefield right now. The CIA, probably special forces, doing things, but that's all covert operations, and, you know, we send troops. Again, it's another war. Now, they invade, Russia invades NATO, then you're going to have to.

Rusty is a concierge member. I'm going to talk a minute about concierge membership. explain the Russian Federation. Can Putin order nukes all by himself without approval? Russian Federation is like the United States. And since it's all the provinces united under Moscow, they just call it a federation, Putin's a dictator. But to launch nukes requires the military's cooperation. That's the only restraint. So if you're a politician in the Pala Bureau, whatever they call it, can, you know, I don't know, even what they call it. call it over there in Moscow now. But if you disagree with Putin, you're either in prison to

shot. So you're not going to disagree. But the military does have power. So Putin gave a nuke strike order. Nobody knows what would happen. Sandy Hyde Warren and St. Louis. Question Bill, what good does it do for the UN General Assembly to pass a resolution denouncing Putin if it holds no sway? It has no enforcement power. But in the Court of Public Opinion, And remember, around the world, people don't have the media that we have, Sandy. They don't know all we know. So a U.N. condemnation in the third world, it's a public opinion play. See that three times.

Pam Wyatt, Longview, Texas, your opinion, O'Reilly, what did the president mean when he said, go get him at the end of the state of the union? It was go get him. Go get him. right and he was talking to the military i assume he means go get bad guys so maybe he got an advanced copy of killing the killers because the u.s. military is getting bad guys and nobody knows about it maybe that's what it was but i think he just said was talking about the military go get it or whatever it wasn't him it was in field soyer yours wainsborough virginia bill why is

the president through executive order able to completely dismantle the country's energy policies because that's the way the federal government works. So the Keystone Pipeline coming down from Canada is on federal land. Not all of it, but some of it. And so the federal government can stop it. It's on federal land. Federal government can have restrictions, EPA, Department of Commerce, Department of Transportation. They can put restrictions. You have to do this. this, you have to fill out 80 forms, you got to do this, you got to do that, and it slows everything down, and it makes the cost of doing business and energy go up. So all that can happen without any congressional stuff. It's the way the government works. The executive branch is in charge of the

departments, and they are in charge of commerce. James Wheat, Aurora, Indiana, each Lenton Season, I begin by rereading, killing Jesus, starting on Ashton. Wednesday. A great reader every year. Thank you, Bill. Great book. I told more than 3 million copies worldwide. And if you really want to get the Spirit of Lent, killing Jesus, I don't know. Any book, because it tells you about the history of Jesus, not a religious book. You can read the Bible in conjunction with killing Jesus. Liz Miller, Tacoma, Washington. Love the coffee mugs, bought one for myself, one for my brother. Very well made. Look great. I just ordered six more, two of each color I'm giving them the family and friends.

Well, Liz, you're helping us out, and we really appreciate it. You know, I got to pay salaries, and I got to pay overhead expenses, and, you know, we keep the price of all of our stuff low. You know, we're not gouging anybody, but these mugs, yay, right? Made in America to last forever. I'll be in the ground, and this mug will still be sitting on this table. Okay. Thank you, Liz. Concierge membership, you get direct access to me, and I hope you check it out. I really do hope to check it out. Word of the day, no clinch poop, C-L-I-N-C-H-P-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-P. New word, great word. No clinch poop in writing to me. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Right back to the final thought. Power, politics, and the people behind the headlines. I'm Miranda Devine. New York Post columnist and the host of the brand new podcast, Podforce One.

Every week, I'll sit down for candid conversations with Washington's most powerful disruptors, lawmakers, and even the president of the United States. These are the leaders shaping the future of America and the world. Listen to Podforce One with me, Miranda Devine, every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcast. You don't want to miss an episode. Okay, there is evil in a world. And for you secular progressives, I'm sorry, but that is true.

And with evil, you can look away, all right? But if you do, there'll be more evil. Though evil has to be confronted. So I've selected 10 people who I know are evil. Putin's evil, no doubt in my mind. I'm going to put them on the screen. I want to see how many you can identify. Put those evildoers on the screen. Here are the first five. Okay? Look at their faces. Do you know them? Well, there's Stalin. There's Mao. There's Adolf. There's Pol Pot, the killing fields in Cambodia.

And Jenghis Khan, who arrived in your town, cut off your head, and put it on a stake. next evil doer. There we go. There's bin Laden, I take care of him in killing the killers out May 3rd. There's Saddam. Now Putin and Saddam, the same guy. There's Henry the 8th. Ooh, huh? And Nero. I bet you didn't know that was Nero, huh? And the last guy is John C. Calhoun, vice president in the United States, a big slavery. guy. John C. Calhoun loves slavery. Evil, evil, evil. So, in our country, we're supposed to have a criminal justice system that takes care of evil. That's on the verge of collapse. Thank you, progressives. Okay? I think that'll come back to some extent. It has to.

Throughout the world, now we have nuclear weapons in the hands of evil people like the Chinese communists like the North Korea guy and Putin that changes the equation because evil can literally destroy the world now couldn't in the past can now so you got to be careful but we can't look away we've got to be smart about how we confront evil on the grand scale and in your life don't look away from evil thank you for watching us i'll have a new column Sunday noon. Check out all we have every week all weekend because we will be updating and we will see you again on Monday.