Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, April 10, 2024

Episode Date: April 10, 2024

The “party of science” strikes again, renaming Baltimore’s bridge, Americans ditch the 4 year degree, and Disney raises ticket prices…again Plus, the Message of the Day, Trump speaks out on abortion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the O'Reilly update. Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. Thank you, Bill. It's Wednesday, April 10th, 2024. Here's what's happening today in America. The Party of Science strikes again. Renaming Baltimore's racist bridge.

Americans ditch, a four-year degree. And Disney raises ticket prices again. That's all coming up. And we got the message of the day. But first, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, she went viral on the socials after the Democrat made some scientifically inaccurate remarks about the solar eclipse. According to Miss Lee, the moon is a planet, quote, made up mostly of gases. How can humans live on the moon?

Are the gases such that we can do that? Then she claimed that the sun is a mighty, powerful heat that is nearly impossible to visit. scholars, all of them. A group of activists in Baltimore are demanding lawmakers change the name of the recently destroyed Francis Scott Key Bridge.

The organization called the Caucus of African American leaders believed that the name promotes white supremacy because Francis Scott Key owns slaves. Of course, Francis Scott Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner during the Battle of Baltimore

in the War of 1812. A survey of TD Bank showing half of young Americans consider college unnecessary for their careers. Millions of teenagers across the U.S. are now considering alternatives to the standard four-year degree.

The biggest factor for the decline in higher education, high prices. The typical college student graduates from college with $50,000 in debt. This week, Joe Biden vowed to cancel that debt for another 30 million Americans, buying more votes. Families hoping to visit Disney this summer

are going to pay record prices. A new study. reveals the parks are too expensive for families earning less than $100,000 a year. A third of adults said they would like to visit the rides, but can't afford it. The average cost for a family vacation to Disney is $7,000. That doesn't include food, parking, or souvenirs, which you have to eat, I imagine. Doesn't include food parking or souvenirs. And things are getting worse next year.

All tickets are going to go up another $10 in 2025. When Disney land opened in California in 1955, tickets were $1. When Disney World opened in 1971, tickets were $3.50. Today, it's $35 just to park your car, $109 to get in the door. Coming up next to the message of the day, the Democrats are obviously trying to make this election about abortion. They think that's the winning ticket. So Donald Trump released his official statement on abortion. I'm curious what you think about this statement.

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Trump made his official campaign statement about abortion. Why? Biden's campaign manager since like the 80s said he was going to make this election about two things. Number one, saving democracy. which is a meaningless few words. It just means defeating Trump. But the only policy that they're going to make this election about is abortion. Now, I've noticed that a lot of conservatives or Republicans don't want to talk about abortion.

A lot of conservatives wish that this wasn't an issue and want people just to stop talking about it already. I would argue that it's important to talk about, first of all, because a million babies are aborted every year. But also, the Democrats will make this the biggest issue of the election. So if you ignore it and cede that ground, then the Democrats will take it and define it and have total control over it. And it's clearly enough of a problem that Trump noticed he could not ignore it and had to say something, hence this four-minute video statement. The calculus from the Democrats is that this is why Biden did so well in the 2022 midterm

elections. In every midterm election, the party opposite of the president does really well in the House. Obama lost 65 seats in his first midterm election. And everyone expected this huge massive red wave in 2022, and it didn't happen. And the after-action report says it didn't happen because Roe v. Wade is overturned in June and the election was in November. So this was still fresh in people's minds.

And there was a lot of fear-mongering. And it brought a lot of enthusiasm among Democrats out to vote and maybe a lot of moderates and independents voter for Democrats because of it as well. This is why the Democrats are putting abortion on the ballot in as many swing states as they can. in Florida, Republicans have a 900,000 voter registration advantage. It's unbelievable. Florida's not a swing state anymore, but they just got abortion on the ballot, which would increase the weeks you can get an abortion to 24 weeks.

And the idea is that some Democrats will now come out of the woodwork. It'll induce the base and some moderates and independents will vote for more abortion because I think Republicans are too extreme on this issue. They're doing this in many states across the country. So Trump came out and made his official campaign statement, and his statement is that this issue should be left to the states. He didn't talk at all about a nationwide ban at 13 or 15 weeks. None of that. He's just said it should be left up to the states.

Now, of course, the Democrats took it and spun it right away. And they said, oh, Trump supports the Texas ban. Well, I get sort of. He really supports the right of states to come to whatever determination they see fit. So by that same principle, he also supports California's right to have no abortion ban. I think Trump's plan is that whenever Democrats say Republicans are extreme on abortion, that only works if Republicans are extreme on abortion. And Trump is not extreme on abortion.

His statement is that the state should decide, and he keeps making the point over and over, that it's the Democrats who are the extremists on this issue. They're the ones who want to execute the baby. That's what he said, execute the baby after it's born. They're the extremist. He wants to put the spotlight over there. The pro-life part of me, which is all of me, laments that this is the state of our country right now,

that this is the temperature of the room. I wish we were more of a pro-life country. I wish we could elect a president who was unashamedly pro-life. Unfortunately, and I think Trump is right about this, we're not there yet. But either way, regardless of what Donald Trump does, regardless of whatever happens in the political realm,

let each of us, men especially, never stop fighting to save lives. 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, newsletters,

makers 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. Mike Slater, filming for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for something you might not know. Last week, Cardinal Gregory was on Face the Nation.

And he said that Joe Biden is a cafeteria Catholic, meaning he picks and chooses what he likes about Catholic doctrine, especially abortion and gay marriage. That criticism of Biden made some news, but what the news didn't pick up was sitting right next to the Cardinal, was an Episcopalian priestess who tried to justify Biden's inconsistencies by saying, or as Thomas Aquinas said, you allow your conscience to guide you.

Yeah, so Thomas Aquinas never said that. It sounds like something maybe Yoda would say, but Thomas Aquinas did. Thomas Aquinas' point was not, just do whatever you want, whatever your conscience tell. No, it was you have to work very hard to keep your conscience in line with objective moral truth. The conscience is a wonderful thing. It can warn you about danger and you can make you feel bad when you do the wrong thing, but your conscience can also be seared.

Everyone has a conscience But when we hear it We like to stuff it down That voice is telling us Something is wrong We can drink it away Use drugs to keep it quiet Eventually you may not hear it anymore

Maybe it's just a slight whisper And that's when that Episcopalian priestess Comes behind you and says Yes Let your conscience guide you Do whatever you want Do whatever feels good We stuff the conscience because it's a kill joy

I want to do what I want to do And this conscience is going to tell me I can't freedom. And then I go and I do a thing and then my conscience makes me feel bad and it's hurting my self-esteem. We've placed self-esteem higher than the conscience. We'd rather have a high self-esteem than a clear conscience. And a conscience is only as healthy as what you feed it. We don't think of the conscience as a muscle, but it's what you feed it. If you feed it filth, it will die. If you feed it righteousness, it will get sharper. John MacArthur puts it like this. He says the conscience functions

like a skylight, not a light bulb. It lets light into the soul. It does not produce its own. Its effectiveness is determined by the amount of pure light you exposed to it and by how clean you keep it. We need clear consciences. We need rightly informed consciences. And then and only then can you let it guide you.

And I'm pretty sure, who am I to say? It probably won't guide you into the loving arms of the Democrat Party's social policies. But, you know, as Thomas Aquinas said, Yolo, more coming up next. Hey, it's Sean Spicer from the Sean Spicer Show podcast, reminding you to tune into my show every day to get your daily dose inside the world of politics. President Trump and his team are shaking up Washington like never before, and we're here to cover it from all sides, especially on the topics the mainstream media won't.

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