Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, August 22, 2025

Episode Date: August 22, 2025

Penalty eliminated, planning an attack, not fast enough, and Cracker Barrel rebranded. Plus, Bill’s Message of the Day, how do you deal with madness? 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 is Friday, August 22nd, 2025. Here's this happening today in America. Penalty eliminated. Planning an attack? Not fast enough. And Cracker barrel rebrand. It's all coming up. Then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. But first, the New York Court of Appeals throughout the almost half a billion dollar fraud penalty. This is the Tish James Civil Fraud penalty. The five-judge panel found the punishment to be excessive. Back when this amount was first announced, Tish James, the Attorney General of New York, wrote just on Twitter, this is all she wrote, 464,000, $576,230.62.

Donald Trump Jr. just wrote back, I believe you mean $0. The panel wrote the court's disgorgement order, which directs that defendants pay nearly half a billion dollars to the state of New York, is an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution. That is the part that has cruel and unusual punishment in there. Amazing. Many articles have been written lately. New York Times included about the administration planning to attack inside Mexico against the cartels.

General Gio, he is the commander of Northcom, said in February that transnational criminal organizations based in Mexico continue to threaten U.S. sovereignty. and territorial integrity through the production and trafficking of fentanyl and other illicit drugs and the facilitation of unlawful mass migration towards the U.S. southern border. That's an important statement because Mexico, of course, is going to say, oh, our sovereignty, and there's our commander in Northcom saying, you don't have that anymore. Marco Rubio, our secretary of state, just two weeks ago, said we have to start treating them the cartels as armed terrorist organizations, not simply drug-dealing organization. Similar news, the Trump administration says that they are on pace to deport 400,000 illegal aliens this year.

Right now, they're averaging 1,500 deportations a day, 180,000 total so far. But this will be short, even at this pace of the 1 million in the first year that they said they wanted. That's at least forced deportations. Self-deportations are another story. The restaurant Cracker Barrel is in a bit of a pickle. They've gone through a big corporate rebrand. and the CEO is getting destroyed for 48 years. The logo has been exactly as you're imagining in your mind right now.

And it has been replaced with just corporate, bland slop with no barrel and no uncle Herschel. Even the inside of the restaurants. A restaurant that used to harken back to the old southern general store, nostalgia, real wood, giant fireplace. Now corporate, bland, sterile, and cold. She said on Good Morning America, the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Well, stock prices have gone down 12%. I'm Mike Slater from Politics by Faith. Bill O'Reilly has your message of the day.

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for a limited time, terms, conditions may apply. Time now for the O'Reilly Update, message of the day. On a Friday, how do you deal with madness? I hope in your life you never have to, but millions of people all over the world have family, friends that have psychological conditions. Very difficult to deal with that. And now we have a guy who could blow up the entire world, who I believe is mentally ill, and that would be bad Vlad Putin. So a couple of weeks, my new book, Confronting Evil, comes out. And Putin's on a cover along with Ayatollah Khomeini, Mao Hitler.

And we learned a lot about all that. He is one evil kind of guy. But he's not stable. He's not thinking rationally. He once did. In fact, about eight years ago, Donald Trump could reason with him. No longer. And Putin would, in my opinion, use nuclear weapons. He'd do it. Because I think he is certifiable. I can back it up a million different ways. When you read the book, you'll see how this guy operates. He doesn't care about human life at all. He's the richest man in the world.

made all his money through gangster activities, flat out stone killer. Again, he has nuclear weapons. And I understand there was a point early in the Ukrainian war where Putin was ready to use him. And he only backed away because China got wind of it and said, hey, Blad, you use nukes, you're done. And he withdrew. I can't say that 100%, but I believe it is true. I'm Bill O'Reilly. I approve the message by writing it. You can reach me. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Bill at Bill O'Reilly.com. Name in town if you wish to opine. Now let's go to the mail. Glenda, Ireland has always been anti-Israel. They've sided with the Arabs of World War II. I know you're historian, Bill. Correct me if I'm wrong. The Irish government and socialists in Ireland are anti-Israel. Not the folks. They actually sympathize with the

Jews because of the oppression from London on Ireland. No, it's a whole different cleat. Okay. Let's go to Michael from Central Florida. I'm loving my not woke bumper sticker. Looking forward to the arrival of confronting evil. Good. I'm glad you're preordered on bill o'Reilly.com.

It's important. Prices have not gone down significantly for me in Florida. gasoline vacillates between 270 and 320. A lot of it has to do with state taxes and things like that. But gas pressures are not on the rise. I think that's fair to say. Alan, I met people that hate Trump so much, they don't want to see the war end.

Yeah. And that's really disturbing. You know somebody you'd rather people die and give Trump credit. Careful. Martha Collins, Henderson, Nevada, confronting evil coming out September 9th, fitting it's my late father's birthday. Like your dad, Bill, he confronted evil in World War II, serving the Marines on Saipan and Evie GMA. Thank you for keeping your father's legacy alive, Martha. We need to do that with the World War II vets.

They did confront evil in both Pacific and Europe, and they defeated it. Carol, concierge member, congratulations, Bill, on obtaining a movie deal for confronting evil. As a person who loves films, I pray fifth season holds tight to the purity of your writing. They have to. I'm the executive producer, which is why the other four movies these guys did for me, with me, were great. We have a very good relationship. In a moment, something you might not know. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress.

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on a 600-acre field 100 miles northwest of Manhattan. It was not in Woodstock. It was in Bethel. The roster of the concert included Credence Clearwater, Jimmy Enrics, The Who, Grateful Dead, Janice Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, and others. Despite its pacifist origins, Woodstock was designed to make money.

Tickets cost $18 bucks in advance, $75 today, and $24 at the gate. $150,000 tickets were sold to the three-day event, but 500,000 folks showed up. The crush caused a 20-mile-long traffic jam. Artists like Joni Mitchell bail because she just couldn't reach the venue. Fences were torn down, cars abandoned, Woodstock quickly became a quote, free concert for anyone who could make the trek to upstate New York. The event featured one of the most prolific lineups in history.

The crowd sent a message to the world that Americans could come together to celebrate peace and music. On Monday morning, August 18th, Jimmy Hendricks performed the final song of the festival, his rendition of the national anthem. And here's something else you might not doubt. Though we're a long way from 1969, some of the acts that played Woodstock are still touring. Santana, John Fogarty, The Who, Neil Young, all on the road this summer. Back after this.

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