Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - The O'Reilly Update, August 26, 2022

Episode Date: August 26, 2022

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Hey, this is Mike Slater in San Diego. Filling up for the Great Bill O'Reilly. It is Friday, August 26th, 2022. You're listening to the O'Reilly Update. Here's what's happening today in America. Republicans rally around Donald Trump. Cigarettes remain a leading cause of death. Most parents reject the COVID vaccine for young kids.

And a survey reveals the healthiest cities in the country. Also coming up the message of the day. But first, the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago giving Donald Trump a boost in the polls. A survey from Politico finds 57% want Trump to win the party's nomination in 2024. That's a four-point bump compared to last month. 17% support Florida governor Ron DeSantis. Wow, it's really Trump's for the taking. Mr. Trump issued a scathing statement on Biden's plan to cancel student loans,

said the former president, quote, This is just another election-enhancing money grab coming right out of the pockets of working-class Americans. Obviously, that's true. Despite a massive drop in popularity, smoking cigarettes remains a leading cause of preventable death in America. A hundred and twenty-five thousand Americans died from tobacco-related cancers in 2021. That's 30% of all cancer fatalities. Lighten up also slashing. $21 billion from the economy and lost earnings.

Just 12% of the population are regular smokers. That figures down from 45% back in 1965. Geez, do you remember going into a restaurant and being asked, smoking or non-smoking section? As if the smoke never traveled in the air. It's a smoke on airplanes. A majority of parents are refusing the COVID vaccine for their kids. Since the FDA approved the jabs for children,

under five, just four percent have received the injection. It sounds like four percent too high, but good. Polls show most families will wait one year to see whether the vaccine actually works. Like, how about look around and kids are fine? Like, whether it works or not, wait a year to see if kids even need it. And of course, they don't. A survey from Wallet Hub, revealing America's healthiest towns. The cities are ranked by exercise.

size rates of obesity, percentage of smokers, drug addiction, life expectancy, and the fittest place for the USA for the third year in a row, Salt Lake City, Utah, followed by San Diego, Miami Beach, Denver, Colorado, the unhealthiest town in the country is Brownsville, Texas, then Mobile, Alabama, and Jackson, Mississippi. All the Biscuits. Message of the day about the slippery slope, how it is real and it is undefeated. Coming up next. Let's face it, the U.S. economy is under stress. National debt rising, trade war, shaking the markets.

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and an A-plus from the Better Business Bureau, you can trust American Hartford Gold as I do. Please call 866-326, 5576, or text Bill to 9988-9-8-9. Again, that's 866-326-5576 or text bill to 998899. Hey, it's Mike Slater, Philner for Bill O'Reilly. Now it's time for the O'Reilly update message of the day. The slippery slope is not only real, it is undefeated. Never let anyone tell you that the slippery slope is a fallacy, and I will give you the worst example.

In Canada, in 2015, the highest court over there declared that physician-assisted suicide must be legal. And the next year, they passed a law saying that you can get a physician-assisted suicide. But we were all told it was only going to be under the most dramatic and dire of circumstances with the strictest and tightest of controls. Only people who were suffering, near-death, unbearable pain, and signed off by two independent doctors, maybe even a panel of doctors. That's what we were told. it was only six years ago

and a lot of people were like man i don't know that doesn't really sound like a great idea probably oh that's the slippery slope fallacy everything will be fine and already only six years later a man in canada got euthanasia and his application for euthanasia listed only one health condition as the reason for his request to die

hearing loss hearing loss not exactly a terminal illness the biggest problem with this issue is we have no language to even begin to discuss it properly there's other maybe bigger problems out there but we have the words for it we may not agree but at least we have words we can communicate with in this issue we got nothing

we live in a pagan death cult of a culture A culture that doesn't respect life in the womb Certainly won't respect life at the end of life. Life's a circle. Babies and old people have a lot in common. You start out pooping your pants, you end up pooping your pants. It's the way it is. Babies and old people, they're losing things all the time,

they're falling down, they're falling asleep everywhere, they do lots of crafts. And when we have a culture that doesn't value the life of babies in the womb, then we can't properly even think about end-of-life care. In Canada, two years ago, there were 7,000 people who died from euthanasia. 7,000? Last year, 10,000. And the slope gets slipperyer. It'll be a million before you know it. They're already going to open up eligibility to people with mental illness, and they're debating opening it up to minors. One patient said the director of ethics at his hospital came to his hospital bed and told him that it cost $1,500 per day to treat him.

In other words, geez, man, it's a lot cheaper just to kill you. Sign here. Euthanasia is now the sixth leading cause of death in Canada. And it'll get worse. A dear friend of mine was just diagnosed with ALS. And he'll die in a few years. A terrible dying process. You lose your body, but not your mind. It's torture in any ways.

And he's at peace. He said he's going to use his death to glorify God. Most people don't think like this. This is why most people were terrified during COVID, because they never contemplated death. Very few people ever contemplate their own mortality. so at the end of life it's scary and people think it's easier just to end it on my terms and you say slater what's the big deal someone doesn't want to live are you going to make them i don't know my point is it's

it's very bad to live in a society that has such a low value of life but this is what you get with nihilism and evolution it's all random we're all here by chance anyway so who cares from goo to you through the zoo so let's just end it whenever i want be careful of the progressives They progress at first, slowly, and they're very slippery. Coming up next, something you might not know. How far would you go to defend your freedom of speech? It's coming up next. 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, lawmakers, 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. Hey, Mike Slater, Philner for Bill O'Reilly.

Now, it's time for something you might not know. Salman Rushdie, I didn't know much about his story. In 1988, he wrote this book called The Satanic Verses. And in it, he called Mohamed, which is what I guess Muslims were called by Christians in the medieval period. And it's offensive. And the Ayatollah Khomeini, the first Supreme Leader of Iran in 1979, issued a fatwa, a decree for all brave Muslims of the world to kill Salman Rush. Without delay, to make sure that no one dare insult the sacred beliefs of Muslims henceforth. And this was in 1989.

And just the other day, he was stabbed in the neck while speaking in Western New York. But it was in 2015 when Salman Rushdie said, we are living in the darkest time I've ever known. Why 2015? After all he went through in the 80s and 90s and hiding, why 2015 was the darkest time? Because of the weakening of the Western value of freedom of speech. When the Ayatollah issued the Fatwa in 1989, almost everyone in the West defended him. Today, if he wrote that book, the left would have condemned him, said he was to blame. How dare you insult Muslims or whoever else?

The idea that the West doesn't believe in the concept of freedom of speech anymore. Freedom of speech is always going to be under attack. The question is, will it be defended? So what does defense look like? And this is the story I really want to share. Andy Ross, he owned a bookstore in Berkeley, California. And it was firebombed twice for simply selling the book. so he had to figure out what he was going to do what would you do would you keep selling it he said i had

some really hard decisions to make about balancing our commitment to freedom of speech against the real threat of the lives of our employees so he gathered all of his staff for a meeting he said i i told the staff that we got to figure out what we're going to do we had to decide are we're going to keep carrying this book and risk our lives for what we believe in or not we could take a more cautious approach sure and compromise our values so they took a vote and the staff voted unanimously to keep keep carrying the book. He said tears still come to my eyes when I think of this. It was the defining moment in my 35 years of bookselling.

It was the moment when I realized that book selling was a dangerous and subversive vocation because ideas are powerful weapons. He said, I didn't know at that moment whether this was an act of courage or foolhardiness, but from the clarity of hindsight, I would have to say it was the proudest day of my life. That was 1989. Would that happen today in 2022? or would most people compromise their values, what would you do? How far would you go to defend freedom of speech? Don't let them take an inch. We need to be freedom of speech extremists.

More coming up. Hey, I'm Caitlin Becker, the host of the New York Postcast, and I've got exactly what you need to start your weekdays. Every morning, I'll bring you the stories that matter, plus the news people actually talk about, the juicy details in the worlds of politics, business, pop culture, and everything in between. It's what you want from the New York Post wrapped up in one snappy show. Ask your smart speaker to play the NY Postcast podcast. Listen and subscribe on Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you, Bill, for letting me fill in again. Thank you for listening, Mike Slater.orgals.com and have a fantastic weekend.

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