Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The Mistake Megan Rapinoe is Making; Plus, Bernie Goldberg Opines on USWNT World Cup Win

Episode Date: July 10, 2019

Megan Rapinoe has injected her own politics into the World Cup— Bill O’Reilly explains why this is a mistake. An overview of the Women’s soccer team’s parade in New York City today—Bernard Goldberg weighs in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the No Spin News, Wednesday, July 10th, 2019. Take your country back. We have a lot of new viewers tonight because I opened this no-spin newscast for everybody. Everybody can see it because it's an important newsday, particularly with the American women's soccer team being honored here in New York. And I got a lot to say about it. All right, so Megan Rapino, the captain of the Women's Gold Cup World Cup championship. champion, she won the gold, whatever it is, his most valuable player, has turned the entire process into a Megan Rapino show. All right? So the U.S. women's soccer team is being honored with a parade. But who's everybody talking about? Not the whole team. They're talking

about Megan. All right? Because Megan goes on CNN, and I think MSNBC last night, and smear's Trump. Now, we'll play a soundbite in a little while. Now, could not Megan have waited two days to do that? I mean, they'll take her any time. Did she have to do that? Right on the eve before the parade when the honor is being given to the whole team? Think about it. Now, this should be an occasion honoring the victory of the women's team for all Americans to celebrate everybody, including the 63 million people who voted for Donald Trump. Everybody should be happy, but everybody's not happy because of Megan. All right? So she has almost single-handedly destroyed what should have been a very positive time for the USA. If you looked at the parade entry today,

they played the Star-Spangled Banner. She didn't have her hand over her heart. The rest of the team did. of the team did. I think it was one guy to the right that didn't, but not her. No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay? Now, if she doesn't want to put her hand on her heart, that's her right. Okay? Her right as an American, but she's being an exhibitionist. If she doesn't want to go to the White House, that team's not going to be invited, but if she doesn't want to go, that's her right. I have any problem with that. I don't have any problem with Megan Rapino's descent. at all. She doesn't like America. She doesn't like Trump. That's fine. Okay? But she basically is using this great achievement by the women's soccer team to promote herself. This is narcissism.

That's what narcissism is. Now, 10 years ago, this could never happen. But now, narcissism is celebrated in this country. And to say, I'm not going to the F in White House, That's crude. That's just crude. And again, designed to bring attention to herself. Now, she apologized for something today. I don't know what it was. It wasn't specified, but it was insincere.

Megan Rapino wants to be a star, just like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Now, politics and sports. And this is what I'm going to ask Bernie Goldberg about because he covered sports for HBO. versus break. Here's something interesting. Glenn Beck launched real estate agents I trust.com for a very simple reason to help you sell your home quickly and for top dollar. Selling or buying a home is very complicated and difficult to navigate, so they chose agents with a long

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to get away from the daily barrage of politics. I grew up and forgive the cliche in the shadows of Yankee Stadium. I grew up in the Bronx. I didn't know Mickey Mantle's politics. I didn't know Yogi Berr's politics. I didn't know

Whitey Ford's politics. I don't think those guys knew their own politics. But that was a long time ago. That was then, and this is now. I don't approve of what she said. I don't approve of the way she said it or the place that she said it. I don't approve of any of that.

I was asked, my website has a weekly question and answer session, and I was asked by one of the people on my website, shouldn't she have been fired? And maybe this is the one place you and I may disagree. Shouldn't she have been fired or banned for life for what she said? And I said, no. No. That's not what we do. That's what the hard left does. If you say the wrong thing in the wrong place, they want to ban you for life. That's not what we do. So while I don't agree with anything that she said or how she said it or where she said it, and while I believe that sports is the place that we need to go to get away from all of this stuff, I don't want to see her ban for life. You made the point about Colin Kaepernick.

You're right about that. The owner of the team could have said, we're not tolerating this. That's a good point. That's a fair point. I just don't want to see Megan Rapino, again, who I disagree with. I don't want to see her banned for life because of what you said. No, I wouldn't have done that either, but I would have told her if I had been the overlord of the World Cup thing, to tone it down for the sake of your teammates. You know, let's just take a step back and you get plenty of time after.

You'll still be famous. CNN will still want you. The New York Times will still lionize you. Let's just play the game. Forget about the White House visit until after it's all over. I would try to appeal to her on an intellectual human basis, Bernie. And you know how good I am at doing that. No, no, but seriously, that's a very good way to do it.

Yeah. That's a very good way to do it. Let me say one other thing. that may sound contradictory to everything I've said so far. You remember the 1968 Olympics, right, Bill? John Carlos and Tommy Smith with the clenched fist. Blackfow. I was not against that.

And the reason I wasn't against that is that was at the height of the civil rights movement. Black people were still being treated miserably in this country. I think in rare, extreme cases, the connection between, between sports and politics is legitimate. I don't think it was legitimate with Megan Rapino in 2019. All right, bernard Goldberg.com, check it out. Always a pleasure, Bernie, we'll talk soon. Okay, concierge members, I am zeroed in on you and your concerns,

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