Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The Hijacking of American Culture, Corporation for Public Broadcasting Announces Shutdown, & Jenn Pellegrino on Left-Leaning Bias in U.S. Universities 

Episode Date: August 5, 2025

Tonight's rundown: Hey BillOReilly.com Premium and Concierge Members, welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, August, 4, 2025. Stand Up for Your Country.  Talking Points Memo: Bill explains how the power held by elected officials and the corporate media in the USA has shifted the culture. Why did the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announce its shutdown? Jenn Pellegrino, Chief Spokesperson for the America First Policy Institute, joins the No Spin News to give an assessment of the U.S. university system and its predominantly left-leaning viewpoints. Bill looks at the Wall Street Journal article asking why enough food isn’t getting into Gaza. Why Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)  should be sanctioned by the House Ethics Committee for her recent remarks about President Trump. Final Thought: Subscribe to Bill’s YouTube channel to watch his new bonus commentary on Kamala Harris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. Welcome to the No Spin News, Monday, August 4th, 2025. Stand up for your country. So my producer right before airtime says I look terrible. It's really good to hear right before the program goes on, right? Now that may be because I did my own makeup today. And I don't want to get into why, but I'm not real good at it. I'm not a makeup kind of guy.

So if you see anything that's out of the ordinary, number one, I want you to let me know. Bill at BillOReilly.com. And number two, you know, just put it like that. Just listen and you don't have to watch. Okay. We got a lot to tell you about today. We're going to start with hijacking American culture, which is the talking points memo this evening.

So American culture is divided into two areas. Okay. this evening. So American culture is divided into two areas, okay? You've got politicians that shape laws and carry out policies and they have a tremendous impact on how we all live. Now we the people have control over that. We can vote for whom we want to. But if we choose the wrong candidates, then we get hosed. Okay, it's as simple as that. But that's on us.

No outside forces. The second culture shaper is the corporate media, powerful corporations that control the communications industry. Nobody controls them. They do what they want. Now we the people do have input. So and we'll get to this a little bit later on. You don't have to watch or listen or read any of this stuff. And if you don't, that helps the independence of the country and hurts corporate profits. So again, two culture shapers, political, corporate, media. Because the media gets out the

information you depend on. You can't be running around all 50 states and 185 countries all over the world and know what happened. You have to depend on people like me, okay, to tell you what's happening. There are very few people like me, which is probably a good thing. I will never lie to you Many in a corporate media will outright lie to you for money Okay, so let's get specific since

2016 when Donald Trump entered politics the national media has Overwhelmingly supported the Democratic Party. Under Eisenhower in the 50s, Nixon landslide victory against McGovern, Reagan, the media didn't like those people, but they didn't outright support the Democratic Party. Okay? support the Democratic Party. Now they justify their support of the Democratic Party by saying Trump's the devil, Trump's this, Trump's that. That's number one.

Number two, all the surveys say the same thing, that if you want to work for a media corporation, you got to be left or at least fake it. You're not going to get promoted or even hired if they think you're MAGA or you're conservative. Just not. Not going to happen. So therefore, it is controlled, right? And the message is all left. Democrats good, Republicans bad, Trump the devil. Now you will remember on June 10th, just about two months ago, an ABC News correspondent named Terry Moran, I believe he worked for ABC for 28 years, was fired because he called President Trump and his top aide, Miller, Stephen Miller, haters. Now this is a correspondent, not a pundit like me, not an analyst. He's a reporter. You know, they're

haters. ABC had to fire him. Disney had to fire the guy. He segues into the media, social media. He's never going to work in the corporation again. And he put this up, and I want to read it to you, it's a quote, it is no secret there are hardly any people who supported Donald Trump at ABC News or the other corporate legacy mainstream media networks and this is bound to impact coverage not so much out of malevolent bias as a cartoon version peddled by Trump, Brenda Carr and online MAGA but more out of what kind of deafness. So yes, from my perspective the old news networks are biased but Brendan Carr, the head of the FCC, can go to hell. Oh that's nice, that's very nice.

The federal government has no business dictating the editorial content of news coverage. This isn't Viktor Orban hungry or law and justice party Poland and Putin's Russia where free voice is, the Kremlin could still be heard before he crushed them. Terry Moran, July 29th. This guy is a troubled guy. I mean, we're trying to track him down, and I'd love to talk to him, and maybe I am wrong about it.

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All right, talk about the fixes in, my God. And there are rules.. And there are rules, okay? There are rules. So the, and I'm going to get to those rules in a moment. The FCC has a responsibility. If it allows the networks to take up airspace, then it has to enforce some kind of standards. You can't lie, you can't defame, you can't be in bed with a political party promoting that party. And Brandon Carr is saying we're cracking down on it, because Trump is telling them to say that. Yes, that's true. But we're not going to let you guys run wild anymore.

Not going to happen. And that's why you're seeing changes. CBS News is about to change big time. Disney will have to follow. NBC, they'll stay where they are, I believe. I don't think we're going to see a lot of change there. Okay? And then Colbert is gone, you're going to see others gone, the viewer is going to be

shaken up on and on and on and on. Because the federal government does have say. Now not with cable. The federal government has no sway over cable. Cable will do whatever it wants. But the networks given air space by the federal government, licensing, they are licensed. And Trump is saying, hey, you got to stop this. You can't have all the corporations and the media supporting the Democratic Party. And so that's where it is. So the culture has shifted. People go to me, oh, it's not the way it used to be, you know, and that's true. It's not the way it used to be. I worked for CBS and ABC News. I'm going to write about

that, my experiences there, in my last book after confronting evil. But it wasn't crazy, Rather was very liberal, but he wasn't a nut. Jennings was liberal, but he was fair. Rather wasn't fair. Okay, but I'll just give a little taste of that. So, summing up, we are responsible for who we elect. Those people in Washington and in your state capitals shape the culture, okay, and the media also shapes the culture and it's all liberal with the exception of Fox News and Newsmax and it's overwhelming and that's a memo. Now as you know President Trump has rescinded 1.1 billion dollars in funding for the corporation for Public Broadcasting. So the CPB announces going

out of business and it'll go out of business in January but it's cutting back now. Now why does this matter? Because that body, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, took some of the money that, tax money that it got and funded little NPR and PBS stations across the country. Well that not gonna happen anymore. Now the big ones like channel 13 in New York and I think it's channel 13 in LA they'll stay but they're gonna have to raise their own money which they they should but the little ones are gonna to have trouble.

Not our fault. If you're going to be dishonest, then NPR and PBS are absolutely blatantly dishonest. I mean, they look like the Met, they look, make the networks look like Rush Limbaugh. That's how left-wing they are. So they're losing their money and that's that. Other media. CNN continues to be a ratings disaster. These are the July ratings. So this guy named Chris Chalisa used to work at CNN. He posts on X the following. These numbers to CNN are disastrously bad. The cable news network averaged only 497,000

viewers in prime time the month of July despite unrelenting waves of major news. Okay, but it's not just CNN. Fox News down big in July. Okay, 30% total viewers in primetime, 48% in the key 25 to 54 demo. Fox News. MSNBC almost as bad, down 27% in total viewers primetime, and 40% 25 to 54 demo. So what the deuce is going on?

It's boring. That's what's going on. Boring. Predictable, panels, 18 people, you don't know who they are. At the end of the day, how many times, go take a pad, watch cable news for two hours and just write down how many times the cliché at the end of the day is said. Or we'll see.

The anchors are scared almost across the board, frightened that they'll say something to get them in trouble with their corporate masters Very little debate member the factor More than 20 years I brought on the strongest opposition I could find because that was fun That was back and forth no more The most penetrating question is tell me more They bring on people who agree 100% with them. Boring!

That's what's going on. It's as simple as that. And the viewer, under the age of 70, knows how to get this. Social media on their computer or smartphone and social media I Criticized it like crazy is no standards at all. What it's not nearly as boring It's cable news and network news. I mean you want a nap forget Relaxium

Network. Oh my god. And that's why it's failing. And that is shocking because as the guy pointed out, a lot of news in July. Hey, Bill O'Reilly here. In my career, I have interviewed seven presidents, covered every major story of the last few decades. But I've never seen an opportunity like this one. President Trump's second term could mirror the economic boom in the 1920s. A time when unemployment hit 1.8 percent, stocks soared 265 percent. Ordinary Americans had their shot at real

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to watch our presentation now. Okay, American colleges getting hammered by the Trump administration. We all know this. Columbia University forced to pay 200 million dollars the federal government for its anti-Semitism. University of Pennsylvania had to pay something and has banned transgendered women from women's sports. Brown, 50 million to the state of Rhode Island has to pay. Harvard and Cornell, they're gonna have to pay big time

Big time if they settle and I think they both will so the Trump administration is after the corporate media and major liberal colleges Joining us now from Washington is Jen Pellegrino, the chief spokesperson for America First Policy Institute, AFPI. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays.

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She used to be an intern on The O'Reilly Factor. Look, another success story, Jen. You see? That's right, Bill. Listen, I was a college student watching your program thanks to my mom and dad who were loyal followers. And it was unusual back then to be of that. It still is now on some college campuses, but I think things are changing, especially with this president. So it's great to be back with you and to be able to talk about this today. Well, look, I always tell everybody, you get through me, whether you're an intern or producer

or whatever. It's like the Navy SEALs. I mean, you've got a wily factor on your resume or no spin news. People know that you can do the job because we don't fool around. All right, first of all, tell me exactly what America First Policy Institute is. Well, we stand for policies, very simply, Bill, that put the American people first. It's all getting back to common sense,

regardless of what side of the political aisle you're on. Looking at policies that are fair. When you speak about our college campuses, having diverse viewpoints, when you look at what's going on in sports, making sure men are men and women are women, and there aren't men in women's locker rooms. Things that I think a lot of people can understand and get on board with when it comes to securing our borders, issues that were top priority in our election.

Things of that nature are what the America First Policy Institute focuses on, and we're bringing on board a lot of people who may say you know what I am not maybe following a certain president or somebody but I can get on board with some of these policies and we find that overwhelmingly even a hundred days into this administration the majority of Americans are in support of those policies. Are you would you say you're conservative? I wouldn't say we're conservative or liberal I say we're in the

middle somewhere in the range of common sense. All right, so you got Kudlow, does economics for you, Brook Rollins, they're both conservatives. I don't see any liberals on a sheet yet. So I'm going to assume that AFPI leans right. Now, did you guys endorse Donald Trump? We do not endorse a candidate or a nonprofit C3 institution, so we don't endorse candidates. We're here to support those that advance America First policies.

Why don't you put out your donor list? Well, Bill, that's something that our development team holds secure. We don't put that out. We don't take money from corporations. I will tell you that. There are other institutions in this town that do. We only take from private donors, so we keep that secure and private to those individuals.

All right. But you might have a discussion about that. All right. Now, how would you assess the nation's colleges? Because I get tons of letters from very worried parents and grandparents are sending their high schoolers to college and they think they're gonna get indoctrinated and I have to say it's a legitimate concern my old college Marist and Poughkeepsie New York used to be a working-class, all right, that didn't have

an ideology. Then it went woke. And I'm going, what? What? How do you assess it? Is it 75% woke or 50-50? What is it? You know, I couldn't put a number on it, Bill, but I would say it's probably happening on

most college campuses around this country. I went to school in the South, University of South Carolina. Not as big of an issue as some universities like Cornell or Harvard when it comes to the balance of voices. But I think there's a level of it in just about every college campus right now. And I think it is something very concerning to parents,

to students that are looking at colleges saying, what am I gonna be dealing with if I'm of Jewish background, am I going to feel safe going to my classes? Is there going to be an issue if I wear a MAGA hat to one of my classes? So I think there needs to be more balance in viewpoints and conversations and allowing debate, which hasn't been going on for some time, much like we've seen as you outlined in the media. Do you, does your organization have a list of colleges that it likes, that if somebody calls you and says, gee, you know, what is the America First Policy Institute? Do they have schools that they, you know,

say are doing a good job in this area? I think there are some institutions that are doing better than others. I will say, you know, we've looked at universities like Cornell who have obviously had some, you know, DEI practices that continue to this day. We issued a formal complaint asking for the federal government to investigate some of the work that they've done illegally in terms of, you know, providing incentives for certain hiring. Give me one example about Cornell. What are they doing? Wrong. So Cornell, one example, $50,000 incentive for hiring of a certain racial background

with their medical degree. Who gets the 50K? So wanting to bring on faculty with a certain racial background, 50 grand. Who gets the 50K? The person who referred them. So if I refer Juan Williams to Cornell and he gets hired, I get 50,000? If you work for the university. Oh, you have to work for the university. Because I'd send Juan up there in a heartbeat for 50k. I mean, he could just get right on a train and go to Cornell. Okay, so that's pretty outrageous. And Harvard, my

alma mater, you know, have a master's degree. They have a 72% hiring of liberals, professors. I think it's even higher than that now, but it's outrageous. I mean, how they stack the deck against the student. Now last question for you. If anybody wants to help the America First Policy Institute, they can go to your website and they can see what's going on. Do you believe that your pressure has led to anything positive? I mean, or is it all Trump? See, Trump is the guy that's hammering these schools, particularly Harvard.

It's a blood feud. But you're not as quite as militant as Trump. But have you changed any minds? I think we have, Bill. I would say that we're very much in alignment with the president, again, being the America First Policy Institute. America First is something this president speaks about a lot.

A lot of that work that we did prior to the election and handed over to the campaign, a lot of that work has been implemented now in what the president has done. So we provide a lot of guidance, suggestion, research for the administration, and they take that into place. Okay, so you do have a relationship with them. So credit is due to this administration, not to us. We're just some of the brains and experts behind the scenes here. All right, Jen, very good.

I'm glad we could in a small way contribute to your success and I hope we can talk again soon. Thank you very much. Thanks, Bill. Okay, Wall Street Journal, they're in a lawsuit with Trump now, you know all they're in a lawsuit with Trump now, you know, about that. But I still read this paper every day because it has some very good things in it. So I had a lot of mail about Gaza, you know, is Israel the oppressor?

You know, all of this kind of stuff. It's impossible to really analyze what's going on over there, even with somebody like me. We have very good contacts, because there's no reporting out of Gaza. It's like Russia, very hard to get anything out of there. You can't, as a reporter, go into Gaza. It's too dangerous. So the only reporting you get is from the Hamas side, propaganda, and the Israeli side, propaganda. You don't get any objective situations.

Well, over the weekend, a Solomon—what's her name now?—Feliz Solomon woman writes an article that I thought was excellent and just give you a little portion of it. Quote, the World Food Program says almost 95% of its trucks entering the Gaza Strip are looted before they reach their destination. Says the only solution is to flood the enclave with food until scarcity no longer drives civilians to risk their lives for a bag of flour, or provides an opportunity for militants and criminals to exploit their desperation. So I believe that is true.

That food, as soon as it gets into Gaza, it's stolen. The people are overwhelmed because Hamas and the gangsters have the guns. And then as the article continues, they sell the food to criminals and terrorists at way inflated prices. Now, what is Israel supposed to do about that? What? I guess they could go in, and I think this has happened, and guard the trucks, but then when the people surge to try to get the food, then the Israeli army has to push them back violently.

So this is a really, really terrible, terrible situation. As long as you have Hamas, terrorists will do anything controlling that area, you're going to have stuff like this. That's it. Jasmine Crockett, congresswoman from Texas, another outrageous display. I usually don't bother with this woman. I mean she's a far far out leftist who wants attention but... Searchlight Pictures presents The Roses

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He is. But, in a functioning democracy, he still would not be able to get away with this. But he's been able to get away with this because the House Republicans are complicit. Okay so I don't care about her opinion but calling the President of the United States a piece of s, where is the House Ethics Committee? This is the second time this summer. The first time was Ocasio-Cortez calling for the impeachment of Trump while US pilots were engaged in bombing Iran. Where is the House Ethics Committee on this? You have a sitting Congresswoman calling the president that name? So the guy is named Michael Guest from

Mississippi, Republican. He's the chair of the House Ethics Committee. And he doesn't care. We contacted him, doesn't care, not cooperating with us. We invite him on again today. When you have this kind of terrible leadership in the Republican Party, that woman, Crockett, should be, her butt should be right in front of that ethics committee when they come back in September. On two, and Ocasio-Tortes as well. So what does this guy guess think is going on?

What exactly is your job, Congressman? If this isn't a violation of house ethics, then nothing is. Okay, quick break, and we have a crazy YouTube thing to tell you about back in a moment. Okay, final photo of the day of Kamala Harris. I was wrong, I thought she'd run for governor of California. I think she would've won if she had done that.

And I was surprised, I said, I think she would have won if she had done that. And I was surprised. I said, well, you know, she's a younger, fairly young woman. Why do you not, you know, if you believe in yourself and you believe that your ideas are good for the folks, why do you want to sit it out? It's like nothing, nothing else there. I mean, maybe she'll be appointed something if there's a Democrat wins next time around but Anyway, I was wrong. She says she's not gonna run for governor of California

Now Why not? If you watch the YouTube analysis, okay that I'm gonna do on Colbert and Kamala It is clear That this woman has no self-confidence at all That's why she can't speak. She's not Means that that's not it She just doesn't have any and she doesn't want to be in a situation where she is under

scrutiny. She doesn't want that. And I think that overrides her political ambitions. I'm playing amateur psychiatrist here, I know, but I'm looking at the landscape and she got 76 million votes, something like that. Trump got 80. You hang it up? It's got to be personal.

That's my assessment. And then she was asked about who the leader of the Democratic Party was by Colbert. Now, there is no leader. We all know that. I mean if there was then everybody would be covering that person. A bunch of people who want to be the leader of the Democratic Party. You've got Westmoreland in Maryland, he's the governor there. The governor of Kentucky, Shapiro the Governor of Pennsylvania, Gavin Newsom, who's the most ambitious of all of them.

You got the Governor of Illinois, you know, you got a lot of these guys and they're all going to kind of figure it out. You got to raise a lot of money and, you know, there is going to be a change in the Democratic Party. And the party can't continue to be radical left. It can't. The American people have basically sent a message that we don't want this madness. We don't. Unless the party, and everybody goes back into the middle, it's just going to lose

every election. Now, people are worried about their midterms. Republicans are worried about their midterms. And I know the Trump administration is worried about it too because Democrats control either the Senate or the House. And Trump's going to have a lot of trouble getting his agenda passed. And that's not going to be ideology. That's going to be the economy.

Okay? And that will settle in in December. So we're not going to know. I don't know whether the tariffs are going to work, whether employment, we had a bad employment report. Now Trump wants to replace the people who read the Labor Department. Okay, I don't know. I don't. How can I possibly know? But there's a good chance that all of this investment from the tariffs and all these companies coming back will ignite a stronger economy. There's a good chance. If you bet against that, I mean, I don't know. But that is going to tell the tale in the midterms. Not going to be ideology. It's going to be economy. And because Americans are worried. You know, as I said, we got millions of people, senior citizens who don't have enough money to pay for one hour with an attorney. My god. So these people

are like this. But from my vantage point, I'm seeing a potential for a real economic run by the USA. China is the key and I'm all over that. Watching that every day. Okay so I hope the makeup and hair wasn't too bad today. If it was you let me know. I'm good I have to do something about it. You know it's always something. As Roseanne, Roseanna Danno once said, thank you for watching The Notes. It's been news and listening on our radio stations across the country. See you tomorrow.