Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The Failure of Progressive Leadership, Dr. Owen Anderson on University Bias, Left-Wing Billionaire Oligarchs & Immigrants Exiting the U.S. Workforce

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Wednesday, September 3, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill explains why progressive leadership doesn't work anywhere in the world and never will. Dr. Owen Anderson, Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Arizona State University, joins the No Spin News to discuss the increase of reverse discrimination on college campuses and DEI narratives. A new poll shows that Americans are losing faith that hard work leads to economic gains. How many immigrants have left the U.S. labor force so far during Trump’s second term? The latest on the Trump administration’s strike against a vessel suspected of transporting drugs in the Caribbean Sea. Final Thought: Check out our new Not Woke item at BillOReilly.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the No Spin News Wednesday, September 3, 2025, stand up for your country. So September, it's going to be a very difficult month for President Trump. It's got to deal with Putin. That's number one. And Putin's kind of mocking President Trump right now by sending drones. hundreds of them, to kill innocent people in Ukraine. So remember, Putin doesn't target military, target civilians. And then President Trump's going to deal with Xi and China.

Big, massive trade deal on table. It's going to have sort all that. Then we come back home, and the Supreme Court's going to have to rule on National Guard to the cities, tariffs, block this, block that. So President Trump is really, I don't know, I'm looking at a September schedule and it's crazy. You should know that we are on all of this. We are ahead of it. And that is why you're watching, listen to me.

So we'll have the latest. We'll have it first. Talking about its memo this evening is on failure, political failure. So I'm a simple man. you know, that. And I don't know why people vote for politicians who screw up, who destroy their environment, cities, who raise their taxes, who hurt them, who won't prosecute criminals. I don't understand it. But I really do. I don't understand it emotionally, but intellectually, I do understand it, and I will explain it now. But first, some examples. State of California, largest in a nation,

beautiful place from top to bottom. In my opinion, I've been to everything. I've been to every county. All right. Since Gavin Newsom, the governor, has been in office six years, it has gone from a budget surplus to $32 billion in debt. That is just an abysmal record. And what did the state get for the $32 billion in debt? All of that massive spending. You tell me, because I don't know. But 1.2 million people agree with me because they've left California under Newsom. One point two million. billion people. Bye. And it's hard. It's hard to leave. I was discussing that today with Hannity on this radio program. We posted out on Bill O'Reilly.com. Hannity split from New York.

You should come down there to Florida. Well, I've run three corporations, and I've got family obligations, everything else up here in New York. Again, just say, hey, see you later. I don't like the politics, and I don't. But I'm going to fight it out here for a while. It's not forever for a while. But in California, $1.2 million? I mean, and now this guy wants to be president? So where are we going to move? Ireland, the Bahamas, San Francisco spent $25 billion in homeless drug addicts, $25 billion on these narrative wells, miscreants, running around the streets, ruining the city.

Has anything improved? after the $25 billion spent? No, failure, gross failure. Okay? Then we have Chicago. The past 10 years, almost 7,000 people have been murdered in Chicago. And it's the third largest city. And the carnage continues.

Look at the Labor Day stats we reported on yesterday. Yet, no accountability. They elect loon after loon after loon. Lori Lightfoot, we thought she was the worst. Johnson, Brandon Johnson, Mayor of Chicago's worse. No, we don't put anybody in jail. It's racist if you put anybody in jail. Yeah, no, no.

Let the gangbangers just mow down anybody they want. You don't think these black neighborhoods are terrorized by these drug gangs? They are. But do people keep voting for people like Brandon Johnson? Okay, one more. New York. So more than two million people. people have left the city and state of New York since 2015, 10 years.

Okay? And it'll be, that'll be more because we haven't added in 2025 yet. More than two million people, I'm out of here, Hannity is one of them, okay? And the reasons are highest taxes, social disorder, general chaos, terrible schools in the poor neighborhoods. In the wealthy neighborhoods, the schools are okay. But we are spending more than $35,000 per pupil in New York public schools. 35,000 a year on one kid.

Catholic schools maybe spend $13,000, $14,000, and you'll get a better education in Catholic school, and they'll take you even if you're Muslim. Now. So, failure, failure, failure, failure. Democratic Party props all this up. You don't hear Democrats criticizing any of these cities at all for anything. And that's why Democratic Party is so much trouble.

Okay? And finally, New York City is facing a communist mayor, as you know. Zaraan Mam Dani. I said to Hannity Day, this could be the biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. That's what this could be, that there's a theological, reason that an extremist who will destroy New York City. He will. You think we've got bad people now? This guy is off the chart. Maybe that has to happen. Maybe you have to blow it all up before people say, I'm not voting for failure any longer. Okay, summing up, progressive leadership doesn't work anywhere

in the world, never has, never will. I've been to Cuba. I recently returned from China, as you know, been to Russia, been to communist Eastern Europe when it was still controlled by the Soviet Union. I have seen it up close. Doesn't work. Progressive leadership. That is the memo. Okay. Now, among the progressives who dominate still the media, although that's falling apart, and who are funded in extraordinary ways by people like George Sorrows. They have trillions of dollars to spend, the progressive left. All right? They are now attacking white men.

Now, I hesitate to even do this segment, but there's an interesting component to it that you should know about. So I don't do much about the two joys, Joy Behar on the View, and Joy Reed, who was fired from MSNBC. would I enable them in any way? I don't do a lot about them. But what they put forth, and Reed is worse than Behar, is a racist view of the world. White men are bad. Now, if you had an American on the media to say black men are bad, that person be fired instantly, couldn't go out of his house or her house, but you can say white man are evil. And Joy Reed has.

tape. They can't fix the history they did. Their ancestors made this country into a slave, a slave hell. But they can clean it up now because they got the Smithsonian, they can get rid of all the slavery stuff. When you tell them, you don't have to be excellent. You just have to be white. You will get mediocrity. You will get mediocrity because they're not asking white people to be great. They're not asking them to be great. They're telling them you can be the opposite of great. and be defense secretary. Okay, I guess I'm in that category. I'm a white guy.

I don't know anything about the defense secretary and how that applies to me. And if you think there aren't incompetent African Americans in situations, then you're out of your blank in mind. There aren't incompetent people everywhere of every color. They're good people of every color.

So why am I running that soundbite? Because there was a response to, it that I found very interesting. It was written by Dr. Owen Anderson, who teaches philosophy and religion at Arizona State University. And he said this quote. Let me quote him. As one of many, as one of the few, and I mean very few, conservative professors at Arizona State University, I can testify firsthand that faculty meetings and mandatory trainings often turn into open mic nights for contemptuous remarks about white men. And if you raise the issue, cue the gaslighting chorus. We can't be racist. Only white men can be racist. So yes, laugh at the

absurdity if you like, but parents should know that joy reads public bile is not an isolated eccentricity. It is the distilled essence of a worldview taught in classrooms across the country. Dr. O. Anderson joins us now from Phoenix. Now, how can you know that's taught across the country if you just teach in Arizona's state? And I believe you, by the way, that it is endemic all over the place in carbon. But how do you know for sure what's going on in the other schools? Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets.

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The nuts and the loons have the loudest megaphone. I'm not sure it's accepted policy at the majority of American colleges. Do you believe it is? Well, in my case, I know Arizona State University, had a required employee training about, it was called inclusive communities. So you think to yourself, okay, that sounds good. We all want to be inclusive and encourage everybody. But when you got into the training, you found out quickly that the content was about anti-whiteness,

the problems with heteronormitivity, and the decolonizing movement, which is a philosophy that comes out of Marxist, a Marxist philosophy that comes out of South America. Who do you think is behind this whole thing? See, it has erupted now into a public spat, but for years it was fairly silent, you know, on campuses. But now with the lawsuits from the Trump administration against Columbia and Harvard and other schools, it's really in a public arena. Who's driving that anti-white stuff? I think it actually ties in perfectly with the question you were asking about places like California, Chicago, Chicago, New York, because I often ask the same question, why would someone want to ruin the place they live for themselves or their kids and grandkids? But it comes back to a philosophy that's been taught for some time, especially in the humanities departments of our universities, that has to do with the oppressed and the oppressor. All of history is divided up into those two categories.

And the oppressed can't really do anything wrong. Things are done to them. So when you hear the mayor of Chicago speak about guns. It sounds like guns just drive up there by themselves and walk around Chicago, shooting people. There's no personal responsibility taken. And so I think this philosophy really traces itself to the communist manifesto, right? The world is divided up into those who are oppressed and marginalized and those who have the capital and do the oppression. Okay. And because white men hold a lot of power in the United States and always have, then it just goes over there. What percentage of students at Arizona State buy this kind of stuff, do you think?

Yeah, there was a recent poll out that was really interesting because what it showed us was students in classes will tell their professor, almost all the students will tell the professor they agree with DEI or LGBTQ philosophy, but then they'll tell the pollster they don't really believe that. It was something like 60% don't really believe that material. And I thought that was important as an educator because it told me that what we're doing is we're teaching our students that they need to lie in order to get along and get good grades. And that, especially as a philosopher, that's the opposite of what I want to do with my students. I want to teach them to be able to ask whatever questions are on their mind and be involved in rigorous debates. And so I think that's really what's at stake here is that our universities have crumbled into these ideological factories. And that's not put forward on Meet the Professor Knight or the Parent Tour or the Donor Meal. You're not going to hear about this stuff there.

No, no. And the philosophy is dominant because the progressives who have power at the university hire other progressives. That's what happened at Harvard. So if you were a conservative. That's what's amazing is the college fits did two polls last winter, one in Arizona State University, one at U of A. and they had basically the same outcome, which is it's something like 2% of the faculty are Republicans. Now, if you look at any other profession and you were told 98% of the people in that profession are white men, well, then the professors would say, well, that's proof of

systematic bias. And we need to even that out. But it doesn't apply to faculty. Faculty can have these huge differences from the populations they serve. Another one is atheism. atheism is much higher among college professors than it is among the American population. And so what that tells you is there's been decades of hiring going on to get those skewed numbers. Yeah, there's no doubt about it. Now, I want you to do me a favor, professor, and you can say no. You're teaching a philosophy course this semester? Actually, yeah, I am.

I got a philosophy and a religion course. Okay, but this is a philosophy course. So I would like you to give the urchins an assignment. Very simple assignment. The assignment would be this. Why do you think American voters elect or reelect people who have failed in the past? And then you can cite an example of Chicago. The most violent city, we got 7,000 dead in 10 years, yet the voters of Chicago can continue to elect far left progressive mayors. Why do you think that is? And then when you get the essays, then you come back here and pick out five or six and tell us what the kids say. I think that would just be a great exercise. Yeah. And I think it actually overlaps with the

question I ask already. So that's good. And the question I ask is, why do people keep doing the same failed thing in life? Right. That's the definition of insanity. Yeah. I'll answer the question and don't tell your students. Number one is in ignorance. Though we have millions of Americans who live in bubbles, they just don't know what's happening and they don't care to know. And number two is dependence. You have more millions who have given up. They don't compete. They don't want to compete. They can't have a nice house. They believe. They won't apply themselves. They won't develop a skill. They won't work hard. Therefore, they need the progressive entitlements to survive.

And it doesn't matter. Go ahead. I'm sorry, but that's the essence of, right, the Marxist approach. And I want to be clear, when I use the word Marxist, I'm not using that as an insult. It's a descriptive term. No, it's a philosophy. It's a philosophy. Yeah, about this view.

Because the left will say fascists, and they mean an insult, and they're calling people fascists who aren't fascists. But here, these are professors who most of the time will say, yes, I am a Marxist. And the few times are the object to that when you ask them, tell me about history, they'll say, well, history is a conflict between the oppressed and the oppressors. Oh, okay, that's Marxism. So the Marxist view is about how most of us, or not us, because I'm not in the group, most people don't have responsibility. Right. Life is done to them. And these professors aren't moving to Vietnam or Cuba or China or any communist country anytime soon. All right,

Professor, let us know if you can drop that essay on the class. I think that would be just fascinating to see. And thank you very much. much, you open us out today. Thanks, talking to me. All right. So Americans, according to a Wall Street Journal poll, have lost faith that hard work leads to success in this country, 1,527 adults in the poll. It's a fair demographic breakdown.

First question, the way things are in America, people like you and your family have a good chance of improving your standard of living. Do you agree or disagree? Strongly someone agreed 25% low number. Neither agree nor disagree. That means they can't understand a question. 32. Somewhat strongly disagree, 42.

So 42% of the people say, look, no matter how hard we work, we're not going to improve. Tough. Second question, which of the best describes your personal financial situation? Comfortable with no major worries, 29%. Adequate, getting by, but not much else. 43. Stress can barely afford the basics, 19. falling behind can't keep up nine okay next question thinking about your financial

situation how confident are you that you could buy a home if you wanted to extremely very confident 23 somewhat confident 20 that's 43% of Americans believe a home is within reach 56 say can't can't get the home big number next question thinking about your financial situation how confident are you you have enough savings for your retirement extremely very confident 20 somewhat 28 not very not confident at all 52 final question you think the American dream that if you work hard you'll get ahead still holds true 31% say yes never held true 23% once held true but not anymore 46 now that poll is bad news for Donald Trump

because it reflects on political non-political people giving up hope somewhat And what Trump is trying to do is return prosperity, make it easier for people to get a home, a car with a comfortable life, by changing the way this country does business. That will take time. Okay, these tariffs and all that will take time to drive down oil prices, food prices, all that. Americans are impatient. They are giving up. So if things don't improve, I'd say within the next six months, midterms will be tough.

So you know. I think the oligarch tour is over. I haven't heard Bernie Sanders running around. He said it's Dhaka. And somebody wrote what's a DACA. DACA is a Russian luxury mansion, usually on the Black Sea or other water way. So Bernie has a DACA because he is a communist. on Lake Champlain in Vermont.

And it's beautiful. I went there. I didn't see Bernie, but I went to right where he is. Okay. Now, what about the progressive left oligarchs? There's only two examples. Jay-Z and Beyonce. You know them, right?

Now, they are worth an incredible amount of money. And they've earned the money. Now, I don't know about Jay-Z, but he's behind-the-scenes executive now, but she's very talented. They have five homes, total worth of their homes, $314 million. They've spent $314 million on homes. They got one in L.A., Bel Air.

They got one in New York City. They got one in New Orleans. They got one in East Hampton on Long Island. And they just bought two years ago something in Malibu worth almost $200 million. Why would you do that? You already have a Bel Air House. What do you want in Malibu? Anyway, there is no criticism at all.

None of the spending by Jay-Z and Beyoncé. None. Now, I'm going to use myself as an example here, and I hope you're not offended. I'm affluent. But I've set aside a big portion of my estate in a charitable foundation, the William and Winiford O'Reilly Foundation. which gives away money. And we have given away millions of dollars.

Now I got two houses. I could have five just like Beyonce and Jay-Z. Okay, I could have them. But I go, why, why? All right? I have one car. My car is nine years old. It's a really good car, not giving it up.

Okay, I could have 10 cars. But every time I go and look and think about that, I feel guilty. because I know the money I would spend on myself could be better used in the Charitable Foundation named after my parents. Now, that's just me. Okay? But if you're going to criticize Bernie Sanders

and Elizabeth Warren and all you other loons, if you're going to criticize the oligarchs, the people who make the money in Internet and things like that, okay, then you've got to turn it on your own people. Beyonce and Jay-Z are avid progressives. And look at these Hollywood nitwits. I mean, I didn't run them all down for you.

It's crazy what they spend on themselves. Okay. Now we go to Jeff Bezos. Spent about $75 million getting married earlier this year in Venice. $75 million. All right. Okay. I don't think that's a good look.

And I know Bezos made his money legitimate. as did Beyonce. I don't know about Jay-Z. But at least Bernie Sanders addressed the Bezos thing. This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% of paycheck to paycheck,

kids go hungry. Jeff Bezos worth $230 billion goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding and spends $5 million on a ring, while his real estate tax rate is just 1.1%. And this oligarchy, Bernie Sanders, All right, at least Sanders, you know, did something in that regard.

So there we go. More than a million immigrants have left the U.S. labor force, and this is causing problems on Long Island where I am right now. So contractors, landscapers, restaurants, hotels, they can't staff because so many people are going back to where they came from. This is a major problem for America. Here is the solution, and it is simple. Congress, which is cowardly, cowardly, needs to pass a new immigration law

and needs to allow service workers to come here legally so that American small operations in particular can prosper. That's what they need to do. These deportations and these tracking down on criminals, this is all okay. with me. But you can't sit there and do nothing in Congress. You have to pass new immigration law. Just thought you'd like to know. 92% of general contractors report they cannot fill their positions in America. 92%. U.S. attacks a Venezuelan vessel, okay, loaded with drugs, Caribbean Sea, the U.S. Navy blasted it out of the water, is what President Trump said.

We have a lot of drugs pouring into our country, coming in for a long time, and we just came out of Venezuela and coming out very heavily from Venezuela. A lot of things are coming out of Venezuela, so we took it out. Now, this should have happened a long time ago. And I discussed is President Trump during his first term at a dinner we had at Mar-a-Lago, that the U.S. military should be used to destroy the narcotics industry abroad. That's it. And it started. The reason it started is there is an accusation against Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela,

that he's the guy in charge of trans-shipping narcotics from that country into America. That's an accusation from the U.S. Justice Department. This is only the first time. This is going to accelerate. You wait. Okay, now this is not unprecedented. Honduras, the president, the previous president, he was indicted for using his country as a transshipment center for drugs. Okay?

Columbia goes back and forth. Ecuador now under siege, the cartels there have taken the country over. And Mexico continues. to be the absolute worst. And in a print interview, President Trump addressed the president, new president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, quote, the question from the reporter Reagan Rees of the Daily Caller was this, do you trust Mexico to secure their side of the border? Since the government is believed to be run by the cartels or the cartels are involved, President Trump. So I'd like the president very much. That's Claudia Scheinbaum.

I think she's a terrific woman. She's actually an amazing woman in some certain ways. Very elegant, beautiful. But Mexico is run by the cartels. It's run by the cartels. Now, again, I... When I found out my friend got a great deal on a wool coat from winners, I started wondering.

Is every fabulous item I see from winners? Like that woman over there with the designer jeans. Are those from winners? Ooh, are those beautiful gold earrings? Did she pay full price? Or that leather tote? Or that cashmere sweater? Or those knee-high boots?

That dress, that jacket, those shoes. Is anyone paying full price for anything? Stop wondering. Start winning. Winners find fabulous for less. Had a very detailed conversation with President Trump about this. It had to be six years ago. And I said, the only way to stop the hundreds of thousands of Americans being killed by narcotics,

and they are killing themselves, but they're destroying their families. families as well, I mean, the other intended cause it, is to use the military. And that's what's going to happen. Okay, smart life. Here we go. Drug dealers are evil. Okay, we have a couple of chapters on that in my book, which will be released on September 9th next Tuesday, confronting evil. Where do you see how evil people who sell drugs are? It's just staggering. And we will show you in vivid detail. about it. Anyway, News Nation, on September 10th, one day after Confronting Evil is in the marketplace, is doing an hour-long special. Okay, 10 p.m. Eastern Time, hour-long special, okay, about confronting evil. I thought you would like to see a clip about Putin, who is on the cover of the book. Go.

There's a famous moment with you confronting Donald Trump about Vladimir Putin. Will I get along with them? I have no idea. He's a killer, though. Putin's a killer. A lot of killers. We've got a lot of killers. Why you think our country's so innocent? I warned him. He dismissed it though. He did. Why? Because he wanted to believe. People believe what they want to believe, Lee. And he wanted to believe that he could deal with Putin. Is Trump changed since that interview? Definitely. Because Putin has disrespected Trump in Trump's mind. Now, when they talk on the phone, Putin is exceedingly polite, even deferential.

Old KGB training, manipulation. Whatever you want, Donald. East grade, I'm all in on negotiations. And then that night he's launching attacks on Ukrainian hospital. Right. That's who Putin is. It's been well established that confronting Vladimir Putin can be bad for your health, right? You'll die. Russian activist and Kremlin critic Alexi Navalny has died.

So Putin's enemies, businessmen, journalists, dissidents, defectors, all end up dead publicly. Why does Vladimir Putin do these things so publicly on the world stage? It sends a message that he's above all law. He's above America. He's above everybody. You can do what he wants, and he will. Again, that special is Wednesday, September 10th, 10th, 10 Eastern Time, News Nation.

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So it's a win-win. We have to make all that money. We went over that with Jay-Z and Beyonce. I don't need another house. Okay, we want you to be happy, but we want you to be smart. So, I want you to get the book, obviously, confronting evil, watch the special. You will like it. Leland did a great job, okay?

And come a premium or concierge member and get the book free, smart life. I'm just going to go over this quickly because it's all propaganda. So Putin, Xi, the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, met in public today. Nothing was accomplished other than celebrating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II for China. And, of course, America defeated Japan, and Japan was occupying China. So we actually freed the Chinese from the Japanese, but then Mao Zedun took over. He's on a cover of evil, too, and the Chinese have never had one. One day of freedom in the entire existence of China, going all the way back to pre-biblical times.

They have never had a day of freedom. But they were celebrating a day for communists, of course. Back with final thought a moment. Okay, so I was out east of Long Island over the weekend, and I had some visitors, and every one of them, Every one of them complimented me on my new outside doormat. Here it is. Not woke. Very simple.

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